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A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD HATCH AND FOR THOSE WHO STILL BELIEVE… TERRY CARTER • LAURETTE SPANG • JACK STAUFFER NOAH HATHAWAY • ANNE LOCKHART • SARAH RUSH FEATURINGFEATURING POSTHUMOUSPOSTHUMOUS APPEARANCESAPPEARANCES BYBY LORNE GREENE • JOHN COLICOS • RICHARD HATCH ANDAND SPECIALSPECIAL GUESTGUEST APPEARANCESAPPEARANCES BYBY ExM013CD © 2020 Explore Rights Management Ltd. ROBYN DOUGLASS • SONJA KRISTINA • KEN BONES The rights in the sound recordings are owned and controlled by Explore Rights Management Ltd. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending and public performance strictly prohibited. Made in the EU. JOHN GUILOR • JOHN CLEGG • ALISTAIR LOCK I was really pleased that his cast mates came on I also made contact with Gillian Greene, who board, because of a conversation I’d seen during wanted to meet Richard again and I was pleased the recording sessions for Richard’s memoirs, my re-introduction gave them the opportunity to when he and I visited a sandwich shop in the have lunch and become re-acquainted. Although English market town of Leighton Buzzard. As she declined appearing in the audio dramas a young shop assistant was making Richard’s herself, we spoke about using a small part of her sandwich, in between adding ingredients, he late father Lorne’s voice, which I cleared with a kept glancing at Richard until he plucked up the third-party rights owner. The excerpts of his voice courage to lean over the counter and ask: come from an audio drama he recorded in 1976 called The Colonial Keystone. Thankfully the “Are you an American?” original studio had kept the multi-track master “I am” tapes in an attic, including the isolated vocal parts. “Are you an actor?” It became another part of the jigsaw puzzle that “I am” we’d use to construct something special. “Are you Tom Zarek?” “I am” The plan for the first episode was to have everyone Producer’s Notes “Please can I have a photo with you? No-one’s involved, before the series would then continue Richard Hatch and I had worked together on a 2 As he and I discussed my ideas further, it led to gonna believe me when I say I made you a focussing on two characters per episode, building CD audio book of his memoirs “From Apollo to Tom Richard and I agreeing to co-produce and co-write sandwich!” up to the final scene for Richard’s decision. I Zarek” and we kept in touch via the occasional an audio drama series, with framing stories I’d write showed Richard the trailer of a 1988 B-Movie evening Skype chat exchanging ideas for future and moral dilemmas he’d write. The fleet’s vote was Richard happily obliged and as I stood to one called Space Mutiny, which uses very familiar projects. In one of those conversations, I suggested the first subplot I suggested and I thought it very side, I remembered Richard’s very diplomatic special effects. Although he chuckled at seeing it, the idea of a fictional audio drama of Richard playing important that Richard would tell the listener he’d question to me “Do you think of me as Captain Richard agreed a remake had merit, so I tracked a pilot, who’d crash landed on a world where he made his decision, as a conclusion to the ‘vote Apollo or Tom Zarek?” and I’d answered Apollo. I down David Winters, the producer, writer (under encounters someone who shouldn’t be there. subplot’, but not what his decision was… The idea felt the audio drama would be a lovely opportunity a pen name) and rights holder of the movie, to being it should be left up to the listener to decide for the original cast members to record together, license the audio drama rights. The first story now The idea appealed to him if he could write a moral the outcome of the vote, with a star chart showing for the first time in decades, so everyone could brings what had always been a novelty into the dilemma, which really challenges the character, the two possible paths the fleet might take, so it’s experience those interactions again. family so to speak. within a framing story that I’d write. This would be up to what YOU to decide happened next? my first endeavour in creative writing, but Richard I wanted Robyn Douglass to play the character The subsequent stories are originals and I’d couldn’t have been more encouraging that I should As plans developed, Richard introduced me to Richard encounters on the planet in Convergence decided, when writing them, not to become have “creative imaginings”, as he called them, to his cast mates via email and phone calls. Terry, and Divergence (re-named Quarantine World), paranoid that they had to somehow revolutionise see what happened. Laurette, Jack, Sarah, Herb, Noah and Anne but when I made contact with her, she was science fiction. It’s how the sub-plots interweave all welcomed my ideas with encouragement, unsure. Richard got on the phone with her that holds my interest, not the generic sci-fi stories The first script of a story I sent him, with a little clearly supporting a project that would do and talked through her concerns to secure her they appear to be on the surface. trepidation, was eight pages long and formed the something for their long neglected fan base. It interest in coming on board. The impossibility of framework of a story called Convergence and was Richard’s idea that we got the series up and her being on the planet made the story deeper Fail Safe is a story where the ladies save the day, Divergence. Richard liked the story and approved running before later approaching Dirk Benedict than just encountering a damsel in distress. The breaking with how often science fiction is male it becoming a prequel to The Second Coming, with for future CDs. Richard also introduced me to the scenes of her character confronting the beast dominated going back to the beginning of the the concluding scene explaining how he’d reached head of licensing at UniversalNBC and she and also meant she was the one person who defeats genre. It was inspired by the scare stories of what the decision to prepare the fleet, as we see at the I discussed how to ensure we didn’t cause any evil in that story. might happen when the CERN Hadron Collider in beginning of the trailer. concerns for them. Switzerland was activated for the first time? Paradise Void sees Jack’s character as a mentor no longer with us, so the project came to an end and I acknowledge the premise might be seen for about a year. as similar to Skynet destroying humankind in Terminator. The storyline is intended to be what However, the warmth of the ongoing happens if another race passes by a planet after correspondence with the other cast members, a machine vs human war has finished? Jaxson some of whom said that Richard’s introduction to (an intentional play of words of Jack’s character me was the last contact they’d had with him, along mentoring younger people) is intentionally of an with a lunch I had with Laurette in LA, meant the age that’s left not quite defined. project kept coming back into my mind. At some point it became equally inconceivable to me By this time, I’d sent a few framing story ideas that it should be left half written. I found myself to Richard and he was about to begin writing the writing more to complete it, along with deciding to moral dilemmas into the stories, however, I knew discreetly describe it as a tribute to Richard. he was clockwatching for an operation that he’d wanted to get out the way first. I also sent an Somewhere along the way the project lost Herb’s overview to all the cast members, so everyone interest, but I was very grateful to him for the sage knew where we were up to and how the project advice he’d given me. Compared to what Richard was taking shape. and I had envisaged, the project only changed in one way: I decided that since Richard hadn’t sent me the A couple of weeks later, I was working on a moral dilemmas, I wouldn’t presume to know what cruise ship where rock bands play to fans on he’d been thinking, so I focussed on intertwining the a specially arranged trip in the Caribbean. For subplots instead. some reason, the Wi-Fi wasn’t working for many of us so, as we sailed into Cozumel port, phones Noah Hathaway graciously agreed to take on started to beep repeatedly with the last few Richard’s role, of a crashed pilot, in a modified version days’ messages arriving all at once. One of my of Quarantine World. The story was also adapted so messages was from Laurette, checking if I knew he’d seek advice from Terry, instead of Richard talking Richard had just died? it through with Herb, along with bringing it forward to be the third story. That Noah must take his moral s Noah Hathaway and Robyn Douglass I hadn’t known of his death and I couldn’t dilemma to his father, rather than consider it himself, imagine how someone who was loving life as is a nod to Richard’s intended creative input being much as Richard, giving so much energy and irreplaceable and it avoids me trying emulate what The first actor to record was Terry Carter who, A few months later, I headed over to the US and I encouragement to other people, could be gone Richard might have added.

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