Well, I watched it for the first time this days. May say mostly because that sci-fi what is produced this days is pretty much poor, mostly even not real sci-fi, rather some gore crap, some new age agenda disguised in sci-fi .
I remember well movie - watched it in theater, just before joining army in 1977 :-) Serial is done only 1 year later than movie, and yes, intro seq. showing city is same as in movie. That was smart move, because making it was not cheap for sure. Only flaw I seen is water - magnitude and speed of waves clearly show that it is small scale model. If only effects in serial would be on that level ! Yes, they were pretty much poor, especially arm fire, those force field 'fences' - looked very cheap.
It was good that it took very soon different path than movie. Rem was nice addition. There were some really interesting episodes in middle of serial, like 7,8,9,10,11 . But then. latest 3 were really with bad idea - like some ghosts. Unlike many here, I see that cancelling it was good choice.
Surely, it was heavily inspired with Star Trek TOS, and that's good thing. Interesting is that year is same as year of first Star Wars movie. Just few months later :-)
All in all, it was good fun most time. With some more investment could be real classic.
I remember well movie - watched it in theater, just before joining army in 1977 :-) Serial is done only 1 year later than movie, and yes, intro seq. showing city is same as in movie. That was smart move, because making it was not cheap for sure. Only flaw I seen is water - magnitude and speed of waves clearly show that it is small scale model. If only effects in serial would be on that level ! Yes, they were pretty much poor, especially arm fire, those force field 'fences' - looked very cheap.
It was good that it took very soon different path than movie. Rem was nice addition. There were some really interesting episodes in middle of serial, like 7,8,9,10,11 . But then. latest 3 were really with bad idea - like some ghosts. Unlike many here, I see that cancelling it was good choice.
Surely, it was heavily inspired with Star Trek TOS, and that's good thing. Interesting is that year is same as year of first Star Wars movie. Just few months later :-)
All in all, it was good fun most time. With some more investment could be real classic.