30/06/2020
Everyone loves a good mystery, and the genres of UFOs, hauntings, the strange landscape, ancient aliens and the like have been fodder for newspapers, magazines, TV and radio programmes since – well, we reckon since at least the middle nineteenth century, when specialist spiritualist periodicals came into being. In the late nineteen seventies, the late great Leonard Nimoy, Mr Spock himself, hosted a programme for American television called “In Search Of”. The show had its origins in a one off 1973 documentary based on the theories of Erich Von Daniken, the writer who popularised the idea in the sixties counterculture that extraterrestrials had had a hand in humankind's distant past. From 1977 to 1982, the “In Search of” series explored ideas such as “The Curse of the Mummy” and “The Mystery of Amelia Earhart” among many others. The programme was a great success, and a revived series was brought to the air by the History Channel in 2018 this time presented by gay actor Zachary Quinto. It wasn't the first time that Quinto had followed in Leonard Nimoy's footsteps, having already found fame as a younger version of Mr Spock in the rebooted “Star Trek” movies. The latest series of “In Search of” is being advertised as going out in the UK on Blaze TV during the summer to come. Mr Quinto released a message to all his LGBTQ+ brethren for the fifty first anniversary of Stonewall. It reads: “i am PROUD to be part of a community that has evolved from a place of courage. time and time again. we have risen up in the face of adversity. we have stood our ground in the face of those who would see us stomped. we have shined. we have twirled. we have thrived. now - more than ever - we need each other... and we need endless courage for the road ahead. we have come so far and we have so far to go. HAPPY PRIDE to all my LGBTQIA+ brothers and sisters and siblings. i am so deeply grateful to be counted among you!”
