This cheesy Doctor Who ripoff would air Sunday nights. When I heard the characters were going to appear on the Titanic, I made sure I watched it.
No idea why. Up to this time, about all I had seen of the Titanic was the 1979 movie, SOS Titanic, with David Janssen and Cloris Leachman.
So I watched the episode. Really hadn't watched much of the show itself.
One problem I immediately saw was Meeno Peluce's horrible way of using history to his advantage. And he would give Bogg (Jon Hexum) this annoying little lectures about where they were.
Suddenly a Peluce closeup.
"The Titanic will hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and sink, taking approximately 1500 people to their deaths." "Voyagers" would venture to two different times. The other one in this episode was Louis Pasteur.
At the Titanic, we would get Sam Chews as J. Bruce Ismay and Finnoula Flanagan as Molly Brown.
Hey, she's really Irish! Someone did something right.
Unfortunately the show goes with the myth that Ismay was the man who wore a dress to enter a lifeboat, and they had him in full garb.
It was not Ismay who did this, it was steerage passenger Daniel Buckley, as portrayed in SOS Titanic, and he only wrapped a shawl over his head.
Ismay, depending on how you wish to look at it, entered a lifeboat as a passenger, which he was entitled to do.
As the Titanic board ruled, had Ismay gone down with the ship, the accusation would have been that he did so to escape any investigation. So it was a no-win situation for him.
But I guess the worst part for me, aside from the Ismay inaccuracy, was Peluce calling Captain Smith a fool for not stopping or slowing down the ship. They had no reason to believe him.
Later, after the ship is doomed, the Captain apologizes to Peluce.
How nauseating.
Given the chance, definitely check out the first episode of the mid-1960s Time Tunnel show with James Darrin and Robert Colbert, and starring a wonderful Michael Rennie as The Captain.
Rennie definitely gives about the best turn to a tragic figure in history dealing with his fate.
No idea why. Up to this time, about all I had seen of the Titanic was the 1979 movie, SOS Titanic, with David Janssen and Cloris Leachman.
So I watched the episode. Really hadn't watched much of the show itself.
One problem I immediately saw was Meeno Peluce's horrible way of using history to his advantage. And he would give Bogg (Jon Hexum) this annoying little lectures about where they were.
Suddenly a Peluce closeup.
"The Titanic will hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and sink, taking approximately 1500 people to their deaths." "Voyagers" would venture to two different times. The other one in this episode was Louis Pasteur.
At the Titanic, we would get Sam Chews as J. Bruce Ismay and Finnoula Flanagan as Molly Brown.
Hey, she's really Irish! Someone did something right.
Unfortunately the show goes with the myth that Ismay was the man who wore a dress to enter a lifeboat, and they had him in full garb.
It was not Ismay who did this, it was steerage passenger Daniel Buckley, as portrayed in SOS Titanic, and he only wrapped a shawl over his head.
Ismay, depending on how you wish to look at it, entered a lifeboat as a passenger, which he was entitled to do.
As the Titanic board ruled, had Ismay gone down with the ship, the accusation would have been that he did so to escape any investigation. So it was a no-win situation for him.
But I guess the worst part for me, aside from the Ismay inaccuracy, was Peluce calling Captain Smith a fool for not stopping or slowing down the ship. They had no reason to believe him.
Later, after the ship is doomed, the Captain apologizes to Peluce.
How nauseating.
Given the chance, definitely check out the first episode of the mid-1960s Time Tunnel show with James Darrin and Robert Colbert, and starring a wonderful Michael Rennie as The Captain.
Rennie definitely gives about the best turn to a tragic figure in history dealing with his fate.