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Oh, yeah - they change it to reflect the geopolitical concerns of the outside world, so it feels like it has a bit more realism despite all the superheroes hanging around and James Bond type gadgetry. The original title was meant to reflect the then-popular THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (“United Network Command for Law and

From the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
“Acronym (ac·ro·nym, /ˈakrəˌnim/, noun)

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Heard of FAR OUT SPACE NUTS but never saw it, WaldoJeffersII.

Y’know, dirtside - I think most of us went through our “Omygod, the whole Story of Jesus is a metaphor! It’s not The Revealed Word of God like my folks and the preacher kept telling me it is! It’s a FAKKKEEE!

I’d say it’s closer to failing to limbo under that bar, Pgoodso.

Oh, yah, it’s in the Bible, CineCraft! Jesus invested Pot Luck - so the ancient Children of Israel would all bring a covered dish, or maybe some homemade bread or a cake or pie, and they’d all sit down at a long table to eat.

These days, dirtside?

Oh, my Mom’s going to want a word with you, dirtside!

You know, where they keep all those records the Romans insist on! Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces, who got stuck with being Prefect of Judea this time - all that kind of stuff. (Apparently, for all their foment and unrest, Judea was considered sufficiently unimportant that Rome didn’t even bother to send a

As I said above, he was an ex-Marine and heavyweight boxer - and looked it.

But that iteration of Captain Marvel always looked like some dude stuffed into a bad muscle suit - even in the early comics.

You mean “Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage and Law-Enforcement Division”? That name was the one they came up with in the Nineties, and only lasted until the movies which call it “Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division” - to tie it in neatly to Der Reichsprotektorate Homeland

Given he’s one of the Great Kings of Israel?

What is that from, anyway?

HOLMES & YOYO was a Prime Time show - as was the very short-lived FUTURE COP series, which garnered more attention for Harlan Ellison & Ben Bova suing the producers because Ellison claimed the producers had ripped off a short story they’d written, “Brillo” (Metal Fuzz - get it? Get It?) and had developed as a on-spec

There’s a long-standing rumor that Sid and Marty Kroft were high most of the time they worked on their shows - or maybe it was wishful thinking from its large and admiring audience of stoners.

Yes, but do you remember SPACE ACADEMY, starring Jonathan Harris as the Headmaster, Commander Gampu (the guys at Filmation had a real knack for hiring aging villain actors in Wise Old Mentor roles!), and my mid-Seventies crush Pamelyn Ferdin?

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I confess, even in the Seventies I thought it was cheesy (I was in film school for the second half of its run, and I was working on short Regular-8 movies shot on a second-handed “high-end” camera with multiple speeds and reflex viewing, which I often handed in as class assignments) - though you hadn’t lived until

That’s an acronym - like FBI standing for “Federal Bureau of Investigation”, or ASCII “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”.

They got rid of Lorca, and Jason Isaacs