tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45268669321910718402024-02-21T03:37:12.322-08:00The Worlds of Jerome BixbyPAGETURNER EDITIONShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01937144714690212539noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4526866932191071840.post-47796098242658432352014-12-17T11:31:00.002-08:002014-12-17T11:31:32.344-08:00GALLERY OF RARE "MEN INTO SPACE" PUBLICITY PHOTOS AND MORE <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wikipedia on Men into Space: </h3>
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Men Into Space is an American science-fiction television series
broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which
depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and
develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William
Lundigan as Col. Edward McCauley.<br />The series was not set in a
specific era, but clues throughout the scripts indicated that it took
place in the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, with the first moon landing
somewhere around 1975. Props were occasionally futuristic (such as a
forerunner of today's real-life LCD TVs) but the show's earthly clothing
and environs, including automobiles, telephones and other machines,
were decidedly 1950s. However, a line of dialogue in "Christmas on the
Moon," suggests that the events of that episode take place 2,000 years
after the birth of Christ.</h3>
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Men Into Space was somewhat unusual for a TV action series in that it
had numerous recurring characters, but only one --- the protagonist,
Col. Edward McCauley (William Lundigan) --- who was in each of the 38
episodes in the series. Tyler McVey appeared in seven episodes as Major
General Norgath. Ron Foster appeared five times as Lieutenant Neil
Templeton.</h3>
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McCauley was a sort of "everyman" character who was viewed in the show
as the most experienced and illustrious astronaut. As depicted in the
scripts, the low-key but decisive McCauley was ubiquitous, assigned to
every important space mission over at least a decade, including the
earliest manned flights, the first flight to the moon, many additional
moon landings and moon base construction missions, construction of a
space station, and two flights to Mars (neither succeeded, and folklore
has it that plans for a never-aired second season would have focused on
further missions to Mars and beyond).</h3>
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In many episodes, the astronauts were faced with accidents or technical
problems that required innovation. The program was not idealistic;
missions sometimes failed and astronauts sometimes died. For example, a
scientist-astronaut stricken with a coronary thrombosis while exploring
the moon was not expected to survive the G-forces of the return flight,
so his comrades stowed the space-suited patient in a steel drum filled
with water, to cushion him during launch. A "Space Race" episode
involved spacecraft from the USA and USSR starting out almost
simultaneously on the first Mars mission, with one of the craft aborting
its effort to rescue the other craft and crew after it experienced
problems.</h3>
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The series included an episode whose plot essentially paralleled the
ill-fated Apollo 13 mission's explosion in space more than a decade
later, and another that was an uncanny foretelling of the accident that
befell the real Gemini VIII mission in 1966.</h3>
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Scripts often considered the human factor, and while action was the
show's forte, humor and romance were part of the mix. Men Into Space
predicted women astronauts and scientists, and married couples in space.</h3>
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Accuracy</h3>
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The series was advertised as being for its era an extremely accurate
preview of manned spaceflight, based on scientific studies and
buttressed by technical assistance from the USAF's ballistic missile and
space medicine offices. The spacecraft designs, however, veered
inconsistently between early 1950s Wernher Von Braun concepts, and
later, totally scaled-down proposals.[clarification needed] Visual
backdrops and conceptual designs of spacecraft, space stations and a
moon base depended somewhat on contributions from notable astronautics
artist Chesley Bonestell. The series also availed itself of extensive
documentary footage of early missile launches. It evoked the earlier
Disney space exploration documentaries, which in turn owed their look
and feel to a widely read, early 1950s series on the subject in the old
Collier's Weekly magazine, where Bonestell's art also held sway.</h3>
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Prediction of technologies in use today</h3>
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Men Into Space, later syndicated as Space Challenge, used for its plots
many technical and human problems anticipated by engineers and planners.
For example, the show depicted attempts to refuel spacecraft by tanker
in orbit, construction of a space telescope, an experiment to dispose of
high level atomic waste by launching it into the sun, the search for
life-sustaining frozen water on the moon, exploration and destruction of
an asteroid whose orbit threatened Earth, and exo-fossil evidence of
extraterrestrial life.</h3>
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Although the series was modestly budgeted, it was cleverly mounted with
what, for its era, were good special effects helmed by Louis DeWitt.
Even decades later, the series can still be appreciated for its
attention to detail and accurate physics.</h3>
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Scientific accuracy</h3>
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A narrator explained in nearly every episode why the astronauts needed
magnetic boots to walk in or upon their free-falling spacecraft, how a
jet thruster backpack could propel an astronaut through the vacuum of
space, why a wrong angle of attack could doom a spacecraft upon
atmospheric re-entry, and so forth. The spacecraft in the program were
shown gliding to a powerless landing on a dry lake bed, just like the
real Space Shuttle nearly 25 years later.</h3>
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On the other hand, the show repeatedly depicted sound in the vacuum of
space. Airlocks hummed, rockets roared, explosions boomed, and footsteps
on the moon's surface could be heard.</h3>
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Production notes</h3>
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The program was produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc., whose other
notable series included Sea Hunt. The theme and recurring background
music were written and conducted by David Rose. The series was produced
by Lewis J. Rachmil.</h3>
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Among the guest stars was Keith Larsen of the CBS series Brave Eagle and
The Aquanauts. Joyce Taylor played the role of Mary McCauley in the
series, but Angie Dickinson played the role in the pilot episode. Other
guest stars include Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Joe Maross, Gavin
MacLeod, Donald May, Harry Townes, Whit Bissell, Simon Oakland, Warren
Stevens, Murray Hamilton, Brett King, Robert Reed, William Schallert,
James Drury, James Best, Nancy Gates, Allison Hayes, Werner Klemperer,
Paul Burke and Marshall Thompson.</h3>
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Spacesuit costumes and special-effects footage of space vehicles (shot
with miniature models) were later re-used in The Outer Limits. The pilot
episode used real, high-altitude pressure suits developed by the United
States Navy but most of the space suits used in the show were US Air
Force designs.</h3>
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24 Is There Another Civilization? (story)</h3>
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<span class="zg_hrsr_rank"> Before he wrote four fan-favorite<em> Star Trek</em> episodes, and the screen story for the movie <em>Fantastic Voyage, </em>Jerome Bixby (1923-1998) was a highly regarded professional science fiction magazine editor. But Bixby deserted magazine editing for Hollywood. Bixby is best remembered for episodes he wrote for the original <em>Star Trek</em> television series, and is much revered by series fans for introducing, in "Mirror, Mirror," the concept of the "mirror universe" where The Federation and Kirk, Spock, et al, are all their evil exact opposites in character and deed. </span></div>
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Stories used by writer Jerome Bixby to create two "Star Trek: The Original Series" episodes are featured in a new book compiling his science fiction work. </blockquote>
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Titled "Mirror, Mirror Classic SF by the Famed Star Trek and Fantastic Voyage Writer," the book from Digital Parchment Services includes the never-before-reprinted novelettes "One-Way Street," "Mirror, Mirror" and "Cargo to Callisto." Bixby molded the first two novelettes into a script for his famous 1967 Season 2 episode "Mirror, Mirror" -- which went on to earn a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation -- and the last for the 1968 Season 2 episode "By Any Other Name." </blockquote>
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where he wrote a number of low-budget, late-1950s monster movies including It<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: The Terror from Beyond Space</i> (the
acknowledged inspiration for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alien</i>),
and landed scripting chores on the documentaryesque early science fiction
television series, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Men Into Space</i>,
before striking it big when he sold <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fantastic
Voyage</i> to a studio.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jerome Bixby is best remembered, however, for the
four episodes he wrote for the original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star
Trek</i> television series, and is much revered by series fans for introducing,
in "Mirror, Mirror," the concept of the "mirror universe"
where The Federation and Kirk, Spock, et al, are all their evil exact opposites
in character and deed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bixby also wrote three other episodes, "By Any
Other Name," "Day of the Dove," and, "Requiem for
Methuselah," all of which critics and fans rank among the best in the
series. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fans of all types will thrill to learn that this
first-ever collection focusing on Jerome Bixby's science fiction will showcase
a trior of never-before-reprinted novelettes containing ideas that Bixby would
later mine and transmogrify in two of his highly regarded <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Star Trek</i> episodes, "One-Way Street" and "Mirror,
Mirror" (both used in the ST script "Mirror, Mirror") and
"Cargo to Callisto" (used in "By Any Other Name"). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The collection will also contain Bixby's most famous
short story, "It's a Good Life," memorably dramatized first on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Twilight Zone</i>, then in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twilight Zone Movie</i>, and finally
reinterpreted for the twenty-first century on the series 2002-3 incarnation, in
"It's Still a Good Life." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Other Bixby classics include his first SF story for
a pulp magazine, "Tubemonkey" (1949), and his very last, "The
God Plllnk" (1964). You will also find a half-dozen other "lost"
stories and novelettes reprinted for the first time since their original
magazine publication in the 1950 and '60s. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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personal Introduction by his son, screenwriter and producer, Emerson Bixby.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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mchristianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4526866932191071840.post-44254626227673008472014-11-21T12:18:00.001-08:002014-11-25T14:39:04.900-08:00Emerson Bixby on His Father, Jerome Bixby's Early Years In Hollywood<h1 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">INTRODUCTION</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;"></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;">Jerome
Bixby: It Was a Good Life</span><span style="font-size: x-small; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt;"></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>By EMERSON BIXBY</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> (excerpted from the Introduction to the new Jerome Bixby collection, <i>Mirror, Mirror: Classic SF by the Legendary Star Trek and Fantastic Voyage Writer</i>)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After writing several thousand short stories —
science fiction, action, horror, western, comedy, etc. — and working for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Planet Stories, Thrilling Wonder, Galaxy</i>
and other popular pulp magazines, Dad turned his attention to the screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He continued writing short stories, often
adapting them later for television or film, as with “One-Way Street,” which was
part of his inspiration for Trek’s “Mirror, Mirror.” He took the theme from
"One-Way Street" and a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">story titled "Mirror, Mirror,"
story, from which he also lifted the title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dad’s first screenplay was a Western titled
"The Body at Miller's Creek", which sadly never got filmed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similar to "The Man From Earth", it
took place in one location and was mostly dialogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cowboy steps into a saloon during a fierce
blizzard, orders a bottle of whisky, and mentions in passing that there's a
body beneath the ice at Miller's Creek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Others in the saloon, also trapped by the blizzard, begin to speculate
as to whose body it is, and some fear they are responsible for his death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sheriff who ran a drifter out of town,
the bar-girl who harshly rebuffed an advance, the bartender who threw out a
drunk, the rancher who argued with his son, and so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These people spend most of the film baring
their souls, confessing their sins and regrets, while the cowboy just sits and
listens, drinking his whiskey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then next
morning, he rides out of town, pausing to look at the body beneath the ice, and
realizes it's a scarecrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A year or two
later, “Miller’s Creek” almost became an episode of “Have Gun Will Travel”,
with Paladin playing an almost silent role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dad felt the producers passed on the script because there was no
bloodshed, no conflict, and Paladin doesn’t kill anyone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dad always loved Westerns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wrote a few more, none of which saw the
light of day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In retrospect, he assumed
he was trying too hard, almost attempting to re-write the genre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He never bothered with the familiar plots
like railroads coming through, so-and-so's out for revenge, and Indian
attacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, he kept attempting to
write a new Western, something other than the run-of-the-mill stories Hollywood
kept turning out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't get me wrong,
Dad loved the good ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Red River"
was his favorite, followed closely by "The Ox-Bow Incident."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1957, after the fourth or fifth rejected
Western, Dad decided to try writing science fiction films.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next year, "It! The Terror From
Beyond Space", "Curse of the Faceless Man", and "The Lost
Missile" hit theaters pretty much back-to-back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Lost Missile" was Dad's first
film, which he scripted with John McPartland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the first day of filming, the director dropped dead of a heart
attack, and his son took over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film
was well-received, but it suffered from an overuse of stock footage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was easily fifteen minutes of it: jets
taking off, jets landing, soldiers running, jets taking off, jets landing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then came "It! The Terror from Beyond
Space", which was Dad's answer to "The Thing."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad went to his grave praising Kenny Peach,
the film's cinematographer, and Paul Blasdel, who designed the creature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was on the set for much of the filming,
and struck up friendships with both Marshal Thompson and Dabbs Grier, who
turned out to be an okay chess player.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It!” was followed by "Curse of the
Faceless Man." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, if anyone out
there ever wants to torture me for information, just play Rap music and force
me to drink Decaf, and I'll sing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
Dad, just mention "Faceless Man" and he'd beg for mercy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His original script was a love story,
essentially "Titanic" with a volcano.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Set against the eruption of Vesuvius, a beautiful Princess falls for a
lowly Slave, but their undying love can never be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first half of the script dealt with our
star-crossed love-birds hiding their passion in shadow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the Volcano erupts, and our hero spends
the rest of the script attempting to get his love out of harm's way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jumping from one building to the next over
rivers of lava, outrunning landslides of molten rock, always one step ahead of
the villain who wanted the Princess's hand for himself and who now vows that
both shall die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Faceless Man" was a good script,
but the producers were amused that Dad actually thought they had money to spend
on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone, Robert Kent, I believe,
came up with the bright idea of losing the love story, and hey, let's make our
hero a mummy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad never visited the set,
and had no idea that his volcanic love story had become a third-rate mummy
rip-off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the premiere, I
understand he shared some colorful expletives with Kent and put it all behind
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late '50's, Dad wrote for "Men Into
Space", a sci-fi adventure series that attempted to depict the coolness of
space travel, minus a budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wrote a
script titled "Eye in the Sky", about a military satellite that spots
the lone survivor of a shipwreck in a lifeboat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Men Into Space" refused to do the episode; something about
Department of Defense not wanting anyone to think we had satellites pointing
down at Russians, or, goodness knows, Americans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad left the show shortly after.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dad met a girl in, I believe, late 1958; an
interesting precursor of the impending '60s drug-culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the divorce a few years later, Dad
raised me and my two brothers single-handedly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In case I haven't already said this, my father wasn’t just a
multi-talented writer, he was an excellent parent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Dad's story "It's a Good Life"
was used as an episode of "The Twilight Zone," Dad had originally
wanted to do the script himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
turned out Rod Serling had written the script before purchasing the
rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad was so impressed with
Serling's script that he didn't change one word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1966, a new show about space travel caught
Dad's eye: "Star Trek."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
the third episode, Dad sat and wrote a script on spec, "Mother
Tiger."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In it, the Enterprise
encounters </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a derelict ship with an alien in suspended animation; an exiled
criminal from its home world and now the sole survivor of its race, which
begins laying hundreds of eggs. </span><br />
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been far too expensive to film, so Dad promptly wrote "Mirror,
Mirror," which was by far his best Trek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I'm sure everyone has heard stories of a certain actor on Trek taking
lines from other characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This almost
happened in "Mirror, Mirror," where so-and-so wanted this line, that
line, and Dad threw a fit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the
director, Marc Daniels, suggests to so-and-so that they call the head of
Paramount, and have them call the head of Desilu Productions, and have them
call Daniels in the next "two minutes", at which point he'll be happy
to alter the script.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daniels then said
action and the scene was shot, with no changes to Dad's dialogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad was forever grateful to Daniels for that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Read more about the making of "Mirror Mirror" and Jerome Bixby's other celebrated Star Trek episodes "By any Other Name," "Requiem for Methuselah" and "Day of the Dove," as well as the saga of Fantastic Voyage, and more, in Emerson Bixby's fascinating account of his father's adventures in Hollywood - and beyond. Plus 9 more great novelettes and short stories for the new Jerome Bixby collection </b><b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mirror-Classic-Stories-Fantastic-Voyage-ebook/dp/B00PUKJ5TC/" target="_blank">Mirror, Mirror: Classic SF by the Legendary Star Trek and Fantastic Voyage Writer $3.99 for Kindle.</a></i></b></span></div>
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<i>Emerson Bixby is a screenwriter and director whose credits include Together in Heaven, On a Dark and Stormy Night (as by Bix Smithee), INRI, Deception,Last Dance, Bikini Island, and Disturbed.</i></span>PAGETURNER EDITIONShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01937144714690212539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4526866932191071840.post-34481514345291035502014-11-21T11:01:00.000-08:002014-11-21T11:01:29.088-08:00Story Contents for New Bixby Collection "Mirror, Mirror"<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Mirror, Mirror</i>, the first collection of Jerome Bixby's science fiction in nearly fifty years, showcases two forgotten pulp magazine stories by that Bixby adapted for the acclaimed Star Trek episode of the same name.<br /><br />Before he wrote four fan-favorite Star Trek episodes (receiving a nomination for the coveted Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation) and the screen story for the movie Fantastic Voyage, Jerome Bixby (1923-1998) was a highly regarded professional science fiction magazine editor and writer remembered for his "yeoman work in raising the standards of the science fiction action story […] whose own stories, though few, are much sought after by discriminating readers." (Science Fiction Stories 1953) <br /><br />Bixby soon deserted magazine editing for Hollywood, where he wrote a number of low-budget, late-1950s monster movies including It: The Terror from Beyond Space (the acknowledged inspiration for Alien), and landed scripting chores on the documentary-esque early science fiction television series Men Into Space, before striking it big when he sold Fantastic Voyage to a studio.<br /><br />Jerome Bixby is best remembered, however, for the four episodes he wrote for the original Star Trek television series, and is much revered by series fans for introducing, in "Mirror, Mirror", the concept of the "mirror universe" populated by sinister facsimiles of Kirk, Spock, et al. Bixby also wrote three other episodes, "By Any Other Name," "Day of the Dove," and, "Requiem for Methuselah," all of which critics and fans rank among the best in the series. <br /><br />Fans of all types will thrill to learn that this first-ever collection focusing on Jerome Bixby's science fiction will showcase novelettes containing ideas that Bixby would later mine and transmogrify in two of his highly regarded Star Trek episodes, "One-Way Street" and "Mirror, Mirror" (used in "Mirror, Mirror" and "Cargo to Callisto" (used in "By Any Other Name"). <br /><br />The collection will also contain Bixby's most famous short story, "It's a Good Life," memorably dramatized first on The Twilight Zone, then in Twilight Zone: The Movie, and finally reinterpreted for the twenty-first century on the series' 2002–3 incarnation, in "It's Still a Good Life." <br /><br />Other Bixby classics include "his first SF story for a pulp magazine, "Tubemonkey" (1949), and his very last, "The God Plllnk" (1964). You will also find a half-dozen other "lost" stories and novelettes reprinted for the first time since their original magazine publication in the 1950 and '60s. <br /><br /><i>Mirror, Mirror</i> was edited, and is personally introduced, by his son, screenwriter and producer Emerson Bixby.<br /><br /><i> Mirror, Mirror: Classic SF by the Famed Star Trek and Fantastic Voyage Writer</i> is a collection with something for everyone; it's for fans of pulp magazines, for fans of good science fiction writing, and for every fan who has ever journeyed along the space lanes with Kirk, Spock and McCoy</span>.</div>
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