I specifically recall getting the Escape book & record at our local K-Mart one Summer afternoon and being really anxious to get home to read it and listen to the accompanying audio dramatization on its 45 RPM record. I remember that the Escape adaptation opened with a drawing of Taylor's spaceship in orbit over the Earth as the Alpha/Omega detonation turned it into a huge ball of fire. When I finally saw the actual movie, I was disappointed that it opened with the capsule already having splashed down.
I really need to post more about Power Records - their Star Trek, Space: 1999, POTA and Bionic book & record sets were so much a part of being a 70s Star Kid. There are several sites on the web where you can find MP3s of the records and pdfs of the comics. I like The Power Records Plaza, myself.
Great site. I had all the POTA (except 'Escape') plus some Trek and Marvel ones.
ReplyDeleteI grew up on these records as well. I loved them. Interestingly enough, they did film the Apes in orbit around the destructing world, but cut it out. I have these Apes stories on CD now.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff! I love any POTA news.
ReplyDeleteI had the first Planet of the Apes record shown and one from the Six Million Dollar Man.To the best of my knowledge I still have them though they're both in storage.
ReplyDeleteWhen these came out in 1974 I was Seven years old and begged, actually cried, to my parents to buy them at the local TG&Y. I wore out the records playing them over and over again. Now I have them on my laptop. Somehow listening to an mp3 format, reading from a jpg file and drinking a beer is just not the same as the scratchy 45rpm, holding the comic book in your hands and drinking a coca-cola made with real sugar. Man I am getting old...
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