| come our way but were not as exciting, so we were take with it. ��"Science Fiction was new turf for me. I'd read quite a bit of it, but I certainly wasn't a buff. The thing I loved about the concept was that we were not there be- cause we wanted to be. The accident that thrust us out into Space was unexpected and whatever we encountered we had no way to cope with. We were ultimately homeless, looking for a place that would accommodate us, and there was some- thing quite romantice about that. The best scripts were the ones that kept to that." ��An individual who was involved in the early planning for the show was Rudi Gernreich, an American fashion designer who would create the distinctive Moon City Costumes. "When we spoke about whoe should design the clothes for the series, Sylvia said the only American designer she would be interested in ap- proaching was Rudi. I said that he was a very dear, close friend, who at that time |
was on a sort of sabbatical. He was as much a philosopher as a dress designer. His thinking was reflected in the first meetings we had. There were were in 1972 talking about what people would be wear- ing in 1999, and Rudi said that people would be wearing armour and face masks. He thought that the world would become such a hostile place that we will encase ourselves in metal and cover our vul- nerable parts. We thought about that, but we coudln't do that for the show, because we wouldn't have been able to move, and we couldn't wrap our faces. But the smack of that now rings in my ears, as I live in this strife-torn city." Culture Shock��How did the Landaus feel about movingto England? "It was an adventure. I'd only been there as a visitor and had nothing but good feelings about it. We boarded a jumbo jet with our kids, left the dogs be- |
hind, and embarked on an adventure. ��"I found the English people wonderful, and had fun noticing the minor differen- ces between us. It was a glorious ex- perience for our kids, and we got to travel a great deal on our weekends. It was also good for me because I'm not sure I would have done another TV series at that time. In America we shoot fifteen hour days and if I'd committed myself to that I wouldn't have seen my kids at that par- ticular time of their lives. In England the work finished at 5.20 every night, except for every couple of weeks we might agree to work until 8.20, so I was home for din- ner. I had it both ways, working on some- thing that I cared about while keeping in touch with my family." ��Barbara smiles as she remembers the first culture shock that she encountered in London. "The first day we started shoot- ing, we were in the middle of a scene and everybody left. Martin and I wondered if we'd done something wrong; they were |
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