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| 3 | ->''"Imagine a world where the future as we know it never happened. Plagued by crime, terrorism, pollution, racial conflict, religious fundamentalism, public apathy, failure of government, an increasing gap between rich and poor, and science fiction produced by Irwin Allen."'' |
| 4 | -->-- '''[=TuMok=] of Mars''', ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace'' |
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| 6 | Irwin Allen (June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991) was an American film and television producer and director. |
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| 8 | In television, he produced a string of [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] "classics" including ''Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'' (1964–68), ''Series/LostInSpace'' (1965–68), ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' (1966–67), and ''Series/LandOfTheGiants'' (1968–70). |
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| 10 | On the big screen, he's best known for his 1970s {{disaster movie}}s with [[AllStarCast all-star casts]]--including ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'' (1972), ''Film/TheToweringInferno'' (1974), ''Film/TheSwarm1978'', and ''Film/WhenTimeRanOut'' (1980)--which earned him the nickname "The Master of Disaster". He carried that reputation into his last TV series, ''Series/CodeRed'' (1981–82), which depicts the adventures of a family of firefighters and the various fire disasters they have to deal with. |
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| 12 | Music/JohnWilliams scored many of Allen's productions, but the success of ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' completely bewildered him. |
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