LG:

Good evening, I'm Lisa Getto, and we are very happy to have a special guest this evening: Norman Winstock, one of the original writers for "Rory Rammer, Space Marshal"!

NW:

Thank you, thank you. Very happy to be here. Happy to be anywhere, to tell the truth.

LG:

And how about giving us that famous tag-line?

NW:

Hmm? Oh -- yeah. "Up, up, and away!"

LG:

Uh -- no. Not that one.

NW:

"Quick, old chum, to the Batmobile?"

LG:

No.

NW:

Oh! I've got it: "Ow! I've been bitten by a radioactive spider!"

LG:

Nope.

NW:

"Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy Unite?"

LG:

I've always found that one a little -- suspect. No, I mean the tag-line for "Rory Rammer."

NW:

Oh, that one! Ahem... "From the skies of Earth, to the orbit of the Moon!" (Coughing fit)

LG:

Easy, Norman. Can you go on?

NW:

I think so. I'll give ya' a sign if I can't.

LG:

And that will be?

NW:

I'll fall down and stop breathing.

LG:

I'll watch for that. Now -- "Rory Rammer" had a remarkable string of predictions about the world of 1985 A.D. Space travel, of course. Telescopes in orbit. The fall of the Soviet Union. Don't you feel a certain pride, when you reflect back on your status as a prophet of the future?

NW:

Actually, I am haunted by two particular predictions I made. One successful, the other completely off the mark. And they were both in that one episode, "Luna Shall Be Dry!"

LG:

And those were -- ?

NW:

The first was the prediction of disco music.

LG:

Certainly a major cultural trend --

NW:

More like a crime against humanity! All through the later 1970's, I had nightmares about being hauled up in front of a war crimes tribunal for that 'un!

LG:

And the prediction that didn't work out?

NW:

Heh! I actually predicted that -- one day -- the State of Massachusetts would have a senior United States Senator who didn't drink like a fish! (Cackles) What was I thinking of?

LG:

I can't imagine. Now, if we could talk a moment about Mary-Jane Talbot, who played "Kryssa Feynman" during the second season --

NW:

Lovely, sweet girl.

LG:

Yes, she was.

NW:

Liked that costume she wore.

LG:

Yes, the skirts were very short, especially for 1949.

NW:

Devil between the sheets.

LG:

I -- uh, wouldn't know.

NW:

I would. Not too bright, though.

LG:

And why do you say that?

NW:

Silly girl! Tried to get ahead by sleeping with the writer! (Cackles wildly, then goes into Cheyne-Stokes breathing)

LG:

Is this that "sign" you were telling me about?

NW:

(Gasping) Oh,yeah.

LG:

Harry? Could we get some oxygen up here?