Re: Buck Rogers and the Commodore PET

From: smf <smf_at_null.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 12:35:39 +0100
Message-ID: <21a77a11-4329-e9c2-0c16-2c7f982fcb0c@null.net>
On 01/04/2019 02:40, William Levak wrote:
>
> The first PETs were delivered in the fall of 1977. The episode was
> aired in Feb. 1981, which means it was filmed in 1980. Therefore it
> was a maximum of 3 years old.
>
Maybe, there was a strike between the first and second series and
filming would certainly have been late 1980. There is plenty of time to
have shoot live action in 1981 though. I haven't found anything about
dates, but the effects shooting seems to have been done right at the
last minute.

http://www.universalhartland.com/code/hart00hs.shtml#behndscn

"Another way that I learned at Universal Hartland was the quick
turn-around once we started working on television. I literally might
finish a model Thursday a few hours before we would gather in the
screening room to watch that week's episode of Buck Rogers. The painter
would paint the model on Friday and I would help finish any striping and
paneling and aging Friday after the painter was ready to hand it back.
The stage crew would shoot a test shot on Friday before leaving and shot
the moves over the weekend and Monday. Optical would comp it on Tuesday
and we would see it on TV Thursday night just after finishing models for
next week's episode."

It's a great site for anyone interested in models etc

http://www.universalhartland.com/code/buck000m.shtml
Received on 2019-04-01 14:00:03

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