![]() “Andromeda” was directed by the great Robert Wise from an adaptation by pet screenwriter Nelson Gidding. In a lot of ways, it’s the godfather of the “outbreak” disaster movie subgenre - “28 Days Later,” “Contagion,” etc. A crack team of scientists discovers that an alien lifeform fell to Earth with it, threatening all human life on the planet. The story involves an American satellite that has crash-landed in the desert, killing nearly everyone in the tiny town of Piedmont, Ariz. Michael Crichton’s novel was a huge hit for the doctor-turned-best-selling-author, launching a long run of film adaptations. Then after Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” in 1968, audiences were again willing to watch serious stories involving lasers, space aliens and the like. Science fiction had been generally regarded as the plaything of young people - at least since the early silent film era of “Metropolis” and the like. I’m guessing in 1971 it seemed like a fairly tense, purposeful sci-fi drama at a time when such things were still fairly novel. ![]() “The Andromeda Strain” was a procedural show before they had a name for such a thing. ![]()
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