Maya, Space: 1999, Jon Pertwee, Doctor Who, Boneyard, Gordo, Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, Kronblom.

Quite a few key birthdays from my past watching of sci-fi. For one Catherine Schell from Space:1999 is having a birthday along with the third Doctor Who, John Pertwee, and finally J. Michael Straczynski who created Babylon 5. I met J. Michael in Chicago along time ago while Babylon 5 was in it's infancy and ended up offending him about his age. He was nice enough to make a comment on the photo I had him sign. Oops !!


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Catherine Schell 1944, actress, Maya-Space:1999, Countess Scarlioni-Doctor Who :City of Death (1979), of note she appeared in one episode in the first season of Space:1999 "Guardian of Piri", playing the guardian's robotic servant. Her role as Maya began in season 2.

Jon Pertwee 1919, actor, best known for his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, where he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974, Spottyman - SuperTed (10 episodes, 1982-1986), Gen. Von Kramer - The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen (1995) (TV).

Richard Moore 1966, writer and artist of comic books. His published titles include Far West, Boneyard and Deja Vu.

Gustavo "Gus" Arriola 1917, comic strip cartoonist and animator, primarily known for the comic strip Gordo, which ran from 1941 through 1985. Gordo was initially designed to be a Mexican version of Li'l Abner, with a highly caricatured style and a lazy overweight title character who spoke in heavily accented English and took naps under a tree wearing a sombrero. The character reflected popular conceptions of Mexicans at the time, particularly Leo Carrillo's portrayal of the Cisco Kid's sidekick, Pancho, on television and film. The strip introduced America to such now-popular words and phrases as "hasta la vista," "amigo," "piñata," "compadre," "muchacho" and "hasta mañana," as well as Mayan, Aztec, and Mexican customs, history, and folklore.

J. Michael Straczynski 1954, writer and television producer. He works in films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is a playwright, a former journalist, and author of The Complete Book of Scriptwriting. He was the creator and showrunner for the science fiction TV series Babylon 5, and its spin-off Crusade, and Jeremiah. Straczynski wrote 92 out of the 110 Babylon 5 episodes, notably including an unbroken 59-episode run through the third and fourth seasons, and all but one episode of the fifth season. He wrote the four Babylon 5 TV movies produced alongside the series. Straczynski has long been a comic fan, and began writing comics in the late 1980s.

Events

1927, Kronblom comic strip was published in the weekly magazine Allt för Alla in Sweden.

1989, Star Trek:TNG, "Shades of Gray" airs.