Their names are WHAT and WHY and WHEN/and HOW and WHERE and WHO.

JHarris — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:37:40 -0800

Read all about it! Discover all the news! Read all about it! Track down all the clues!
With interesting people there's a mystery to be solved! An adventure is unfolding, so why not get involved? Come on and READ ALL ABOUT IT.
Young Chris is left an old coach house by his missing uncle. As he and his two friends fuddle with the lock, a strange figure watches. The kids do not yet know the building is the entrance to a mystery that spans time and space! Aided by Otto the IBM Selectric robot typewriter and Theta the spooky as hell talking viewscreen, they will find that the concerns of an alien tyrant reach into the government of their own town. (24 of 40 15-minute episodes, including the entire first season, of this early-80s TV Ontario-produced "educational" show are on YouTube.) Far from being mindless entertainment, Read All About It taught reading and critical thinking skills. But neither was it dry viewing; the story was weird and interesting, sometimes frightening, sci-fi in the tradition of Dr. Who. It was produced by TV Ontario public television and spread to various public TV outlets. It was written by Chris Endersby. I like to think of this show as a vaccine against stupid kids TV like Goosebumps. /notelitist My own memories of the show was that it was genuinely mysterious, filled with creepy atmosphere and unanswered questions. They do not make them like this any more. For various reasons, however, it looks like the show will never get released on DVD.

Han shoots first.

Robot Johnny — Thu, 04 May 2006 13:37:10 -0800

~~Hoth~~ Hell Freezes Over. The madness of King George subsides.

Makes Keanu look like Olivier

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:10:45 -0800

Straight outta Belgium, it's "The Matrix: The Beginning". This is a see-it-to-believe-it occasion. [20m WMV; Trailer for those with a lower tolerance for this sort of nonsense; Main site]

Make it so, for fuck's sake.

Pretty_Generic — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:43:19 -0800

Juvenile NSFW Star Trek video [Windows Media via B3ta]

eeeeeeek! They came to attack us

madamjujujive — Sun, 06 Jul 2003 20:26:27 -0800

They came to attack us - a cool little must-see independent sci-fi flick.
(Warning - bandwidth hog & quicktime plug in required.)

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Their names are WHAT and WHY and WHEN/and HOW and WHERE and WHO.

Han shoots first.

Makes Keanu look like Olivier

Make it so, for fuck's sake.

eeeeeeek! They came to attack us