Word: spaceships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAND OF THE GIANTS (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). Sugar Ray Robinson is a trumpet-playing giant who promises freedom to the crew of a wrecked spaceship if Copilot Don Marshall will agree to give him jazz lessons on the horn...
...create intelligent animals to serve his fellow academicians on the distant planet that was their home. But the servants rebelled, got into the Yawa Eloem's private laboratory, and learned how to do evil. His colleagues decided to punish Dr. Eloem by sending him off in a spaceship to a far corner of the universe, accompanied by his creations-Adam and Eve. The late author and Anglican theologian C. S. Lewis used space to expound traditional Christian theology in his trilogy Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength. His Perelandrans, for instance, were creatures...
...gentler encounter, when two Episcopal missionaries on Mars discover spheres of blue fire that are intelligent beings-free spirits, as it turns out, long liberated from the pains, and the sins, of the body. And in a recent, surprisingly touching Star Trek TV script, the crew of the spaceship Enterprise stumble upon the Greek God Apollo on a distant planet, only to tell him that they can no longer worship him, as they did when he and his race of supermen lived on earth...
...planet where the inhabitants are only dimly aware that they have souls at all. He then prcceeds to instruct them, in one breathtaking passage, in the basic principles of the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, and the ritual of the Last Supper. As Carmody's spaceship moves away from the planet, the agnostic ship commander chides him. What the priest has done in his effort to instruct, says the captain, is to lay the foundations for a mythology in which the missionary himself may well become...
...Australian who left the Adelaide Advertiser for the Denver Post in 1964, Oliphant, 34, won a 1967 Pulitzer Prize for the excellence of his cartoons. One he likes best is a prophetic drawing done in 1958, which shows a crew of Russian cosmonauts marching out of a spaceship that has just landed on the moon. There to greet them stands a moon man-already brainwashed and thoroughly Americanized, as anyone can tell by his loud clothing, empty Coke bottle and breezy...