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« on: May 02, 2008, 12:50:36 AM »
The parallel universe idea, where alternate characters live another life in the same space at the same time, had been bouncing around television for a few years. Star Trek used it of course, and even Lost in Space had used it before 1970.
"Journey to the Far Side of the Sun" is great, and I haven't seen it since the 70s, I guess. I hope to see it again. It was made by Gerry Anderson who did UFO and Space:1999. In this case, it's a sort of parallel existence idea, but technically it's a physical (mirror-image) duplicate of Earth Roy Thinnes ends up on, which physically exists in our universe, on the opposite side of the Earth's orbit, so that's why we never saw it in our sky-- the Sun was in the way.