This Week: In Memoriam
By David Neiwert Sunday Jan 25, 2009 7:01pm
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This week on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous, we note the passing of Boxing Hall of Famer Jose Torres, Bob May ("Robot" of Lost In Space), and women's basketball legend Kay Yow. We also note the passing of six American servicemen this past week in Iraq, according to DoD reports.
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Danger, Will Robinson!
That was Bob May. The show was too trite for me, already an affirmed Trekkie.
June Lockhart, who played Maureen Robinson in the series, said that May had insisted he got the job because he fit in the robot suit. Irwin Allen, the creator of the Lost in Space television series, selected May to fill the role of the robot, the sidekick of the Robinson family, after the May was sent to see him about the part; Allen promised May, "If you can fit in the suit, you've got the job".
The voice of the robot was performed by the show's announcer Dick Tufeld, including the show's catch phrase, "Danger, Will Robinson". May enjoyed playing the part inside the robot, describing the suit as his "home away from home". It was so difficult to get inside the suit, that he would stay inside even during breaks in filming. Because he couldn't respond to external cues, he would learn the lines of all of the actors in each show so that he would know when it was his line. During breaks, he would puff on a cigarette inside the suit, with the smoke coming out of the suit amusing other members of the cast.
was not bad. The rest went downhill and almost reached the point of Batman campy. I never got into Star Trek while it ran, because the networks always put it on Friday evenings. I learned to love it when it went into syndication. Thank you Gene Roddenberry. You and Rod Serling really nailed it.
Six US Troops dead and only three posters who are more interested in discussing the deaths of notables who lived full lives.
No one caring about our Kids proves that they have truly died in vain.
Well they did volunteer and 18 is kinda old.
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