Farscape - March 19, 1999
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English - March 19, 2021 07:00 - 5 minutes - 6.35 MB - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsTV & Film Society & Culture literature entertainment film history sciencefiction Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It was perfect timing for the Jim Henson Company, looking to expand beyond muppets, and the new Sci-Fi Channel which needed, well, some new sci-fi. Enter "Farscape" which premiered on March 19, 1999 and succeeded for four season with the mandate to "make it as weird as you possibly can."
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