I have a suspicion some of it is a reflection of the anti-war feeling of the time. Particularly in those early episodes where you see them trying to work out how to fight the enemy with no weapons and dealing with idiotic leadership.

Mainwaring: Stupid Boy.
Show writes itself really.

Walker: Well I thought I was on to a sure thing with 2 aces up my sleeve turned out he had 3
Pike: My mum says Holodecks are naughty & I mustn't visit them.
Mainwaring: Surely she will make exceptions for training?
Pike: Oh no, she heard Uncle Arthur had been on 1 last week & yelled the cabin down

Mainwaring: Pepare Phaser-Drill, Wilson
Wilson: If you could be so kind as to form up neatly for phaser drill red shirts, that would be appreciated.
Mainwaring: Walker, where is your phaser?
Walker: Lost it in a card game on the holodeck.
Mainwaring: How did you lose to a hologram?

Can't wait!

It definitely had potential but given the way SF shows were treated by the US networks I imagine it probably wouldn't have lasted long.

Weirdest was one time I thought I was having really bad mental health but actually just turned out to be trapped wind.

Can recite it by heart.

Best movie of the 1980s!

Okay they really are going as far as they can with this, without actually giving us two women making out!

Then I concur that is my line. As long as it is a cage rather than leaving one side completely open it is a pie. If it keeps the filling a prisoner that is the key component.

This was one of the years when I was trying to read all of them. One of the Clarke Awards' better years.

What % are we talking? Are you allowed hole for the heat to escape? What about lattice work?

😂😂😂

Good morning, dark Lord of fluff. Are your preparations for spreading chaos underground and Overground going well?
A couple of books reading for review, The Snow-White Soliloquies by Sheila MacLeod and Quark/1 Ed. Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker.