Reviews

This series has to be one of the best science fiction program ever to air on TV. My dad always watched this program when I was a kid and I got caught up in the stories just as my dad. We would sit down after dinner, all huddled around the old black and white TV waiting for that familiar theme song. It was at least one thing the whole family participated in. After 50 yrs of total obscurity, it has resurfaced on DVD and I bought all 76 episodes off Ebay. The science behind the stories,for the most part, still hold up to this day. Some of the stories were pretty far fetched and hard to believe. Even though most of the predictions of things to come have not materialized, it's a kick to see how they thought about the future and what it would bring. His demonstrations were very well done and I felt like we were in a physics class. It is a delight to revisit those days even though the copies vary wildly in quality, they are still very watchable. I wish they would have made all the episodes in color but that didn't happen in the second season due to budget restraints.

Gilmore has not lost his skills in this video. Wright has lost a little of his voice to age but still holds a decent tune. No clunkers here. The blue ray copy is stunning. The Dolby TrueHD soundtrack is awesome. The only critique I can make is that during many scenes, the back lighting on the stage was so intense, it just saturated the video signal to the point where the band was blotted out. This happened too many times during Gilmore's solos for my taste. But to the producers credit, he didn't jump around visually at breakneck speed as done in the Pulse and Delicate sound of Thunder discs. Overall a great disc. True Gilmore fans will not be disappointed.