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Old May 31st 08, 11:40 AM posted to sci.space.history
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Default OT Forget rocket engines...and also walls and wounded animals

On Sat, 31 May 2008 03:31:48 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Whatever it was, it was completely unforgettable when I saw the show as
a kid...particularly the way it suffocated people by sitting on their
faces and sucking them inside of it:
http://www.acbm.com/concours/prisone...ver/etouff.jpg


...."Rover" could suffocate, incapacitate, or envelop and carry. One
draft script called for Number 6 to be retrieved from sea by four of
them suspending him between them - as if he was about to be drawn and
quartered - but this got dropped way in advance of filming.

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