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    A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    wow, i've heard of Genesis II, but never seen it, nor have i even heard of Planet Earth. looking forward to these.

    you said that these aired but were not picked up for series, so are these DVD releases just the pilots? some of the comments seem to suggest that they did make some episodes??

    now, where's Man From Atlantis!?
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    Klebert L. Hall promoted this comment Bootknife-Jackson was starred Bootknife-Jackson was unstarred
    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    10/03/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: "nor have i even heard of Planet Earth."

    You're living on it.
    Cue Palmolive ad.
    -Kle.
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    Klebert L. Hall was starred Klebert L. Hall was unstarred
    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/03/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: heh, i thought about putting a liitle (series, not planet) tag in there, but than i thought, 'nah...don't be rediculous...'
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    Image of ArthurByronCover ArthurByronCover
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    I was once at a small gathering of actors in a friend's house and Mariette Hartley was there. She did a hilarious impersonation of William Shatner hitting on her. She said he looked like a dinosaur, and she held her hands like a Tryanosaurus Rex during the impersonation.
    Earlier she had done a reading at UCLA as Mary Shelley. I also remember Vic Tayback doing an awesome reading as Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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    Alessar promoted this comment ArthurByronCover was starred ArthurByronCover was unstarred
    Image of Alessar Alessar
    10/05/09

    @ArthurByronCover: Why, WHY was that scene not preserved for all posterity??
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    Image of Soupytwist Soupytwist
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    I saw this on the *gasp* SciFi Channel when I was a teen. I remember seeing the two navels and thinking "Two umbilical cords? WHY?"

    I was clearly not the target audience for two navels.
     Reply
    Soupytwist was starred Soupytwist was unstarred
    Image of SLL1065 SLL1065
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    What about "Spectre" with Robert Culp and Gig Young as a supernatural Holmes & Watson type team.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment SLL1065 was starred SLL1065 was unstarred
    Image of tudza tudza
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    Did they all have two navels? I thought it was just this one's particular mutation. "I'm a babe, but see I have a mutation."
     Reply
    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment tudza was starred tudza was unstarred
    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    10/02/09

    @tudza: And hence must be considered "babe squared".
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    Image of lucky_you lucky_you
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    "He is to be placed.. in training school"

    A fate worse than death.. returning to school.
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment lucky_you was starred lucky_you was unstarred
    Image of John Hazard John Hazard
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    I much prefer Planet Earth to Genesis II. John Saxon is a way more fun and charismatic Dylan Hunt than that mustache guy. It's got Ted "Lurch" Cassidy (shirtless ladies!) as the Native American Spock stand-in, an Empath named Balok, and an intriguing androgynous girl who is supposed to be sexless but turns pretty quickly in the pilot episode.

    Interesting note- in Genesis II (and Planet Earth?) they use sex to revive Dylan Hunt from cryo- sleep- it's the only thing that activates the needed survival instinct.

    If you're a Next Gen fan and you haven't seen Planet Earth, you have to- it's a very interesting bridge between Original Trek and TNG.

    [www.dailymotion.com]
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment John Hazard was starred John Hazard was unstarred
    Image of gorehound gorehound
    10/02/09

    @John Hazard: I have owned both of these for y ears.and i watched at least one if not both i think when they aired in the 70's.
    both are fun entertaining examples of 70's scifi tv.
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    Image of Jes St.Lawrence Jes St.Lawrence
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    Poor John Saxon. He was in, like, 20 of these dead-end pilots for Roddenberry.
     Reply
    Jes St.Lawrence was starred Jes St.Lawrence was unstarred
    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer

    Hey, you never mentioned that John Saxon was in 'Planet Earth'. He deserves respect.
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    10/02/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid:
    Anyone in Enter the Dragon deserves respect.
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    Belabras was starred Belabras was unstarred
    Image of edosan edosan
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    "...and an alluring mutant (Mariette Hartley) with two navels…and one ice-cold heart."

    This line would be perfect delivered like an old thirties noir film.
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment edosan was starred edosan was unstarred
    Image of tvscifi.com tvscifi.com
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    One of the scripts for this series was rewritten for "Star Trek The Motion Sickeness", Err I mean "Start Trek The Motion Picture."
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment tvscifi.com was starred tvscifi.com was unstarred
    Image of ClauClauClaudia ClauClauClaudia
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer

    Man, Gene Roddenberry really did have a type. I remember confusing Bibi Besch (Carol Marcus) with Majel Barrett, and either of them could substitute for Mariette Hartley pretty easily.
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment ClauClauClaudia was starred ClauClauClaudia was unstarred
    Image of Jes St.Lawrence Jes St.Lawrence
    10/02/09

    @ClauClauClaudia: Actually, if Shatner is to be believed, there are virtually no women who appear onscreen in Roddenberry productions with whom he did not sleep.
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    Jes St.Lawrence was starred Jes St.Lawrence was unstarred
    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    10/02/09

    @ClauClauClaudia: Actually, I doubt that Roddenberry had anything to do with casting Bibi Besch as Carol Marcus. He had no saying over the making of THE WRATH OF KHAN. Harve Bennett and Nicholas Meyer made that movie.
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    ClauClauClaudia promoted this comment Edited by MinervaAlpaca at 10/02/09 4:57 PM MinervaAlpaca was starred MinervaAlpaca was unstarred
    Image of ClauClauClaudia ClauClauClaudia
    10/04/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: Bah, why do you plague me with facts?

    (There were others, those are just the three I can easily bring to mind.)
     Reply
    ClauClauClaudia was starred ClauClauClaudia was unstarred
    Image of Belabras Belabras
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    That agonizer looks like it could keep a lady company on a lonely night, with the appropriate batteries of course.
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    Belabras was starred Belabras was unstarred
    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    10/02/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: I'm guessing I'm not the only one then.
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    Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. was starred Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. was unstarred
    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    I can't be the only one who thinks an all-female group of priestesses(?) bearing a device shaped like that with a catchy name like "The Agonizer" aren't exactly using it to punish other people, can I?
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    Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. was starred Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. was unstarred
    Image of leicester leicester
    10/02/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.:
    Dingo: You must spank her well, and after you are done with her, you may deal with her as you like... and then... spank me.
    All: And me. And me too. And me.
    Dingo: Yes. Yes, you must give us all a good spanking.
     Reply
    Belabras ate my dingo! promoted this comment leicester was starred leicester was unstarred
    Image of Belabras Belabras
    10/02/09

    @leicester:
    Naughty Zut.
     Reply
    Belabras was starred Belabras was unstarred
    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    10/02/09

    In reply to A Sexy Lady With Two Navels Shows Dylan Hunt Her Agonizer
    I've read interviews with Gene Roddenberry in which he admits the only reason he gave the Tyranians two navels was petty revenge. In the 1960s, female navels were taboo so when the standards were relaxed in the 70s he decided to have an alien woman with two navels. I dunno, is the female bellybutton inherently sexual?
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    Bill-Lee was starred Bill-Lee was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/02/09

    @Bill-Lee: Yep. No story-related reason whatsoever, he just wanted to make up for all the navels he couldn't show on Star Trek. I think he said that at the time, even.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
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