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[VIDEO] Wish List: Watchmen Episode of Prisoners Of Gravity with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

By brenden ⋅ July 19, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

I grew up in Ontario, Canada. We had our own kind of PBS television station called TVO (TV Ontario). Still do, in fact. Outside of the excellent Magic Shadows and Saturday Night at the Movies, both hosted by Elwy Yost (father of Graham Yost, screenwriter of Speed) I didn’t really pay much attention to TVO, growing up until I discovered Prisoners of Gravity.

Prisoners of Gravity ran five season from 1989 and was the brainchild of Mark Askwith (founding producer of Canada’s answer to The Sci-Fi Channel, SPACE), Daniel Richler (pop culture broadcaster and writer) and comedian Rick Green, who also hosted the program. Despite a lame premise that imagined “Commander” Rick stranded on an orbiting space station, conducting interviews with speculative fiction authors, comic book creators, filmmakers and futurists, PoG provided my young mind with juicy genre ideas and a list of must-read/must-see material. In the pre-internet age, this program was integral to my discovery of neat stuff.

You can’t really find Prisoners of Gravity on the air too much anymore but thankfully some fine folks have seen fit to upload some episodes to YouTube! Stumbling across a few of them today, I was reminded how great the Watchmen episode was and how amazing it would have been for Warner to be able to include it on one of their Blu-ray sets. I mean, I guess it’s not too late to fit it on the upcoming Watchmen: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray but I wouldn’t count on seeing it. I imagine that even if Warner could clear the rights with TVO, Watchmen creator and writer, Alan Moore would nix it’s inclusion in the set. After all, it would suggest to viewers that he may have had something to do with the Watchmen. And since the author has gone to great pains to remove any evidence that the film was spawned from his work, we wouldn’t want that now, would we?

The Watchmen: Director’s Cut Blu-ray disc hits the shops this coming Tuesday, July 21st!

Tags: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, Warner, Warner Home Video, Watchmen, Zack Snyder