{"id":714,"date":"2011-02-17T19:28:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-25T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T01:23:22","slug":"uglor-conquers-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/television\/uglor-conquers-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Uglor Conquers the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say timing is everything in life, and when it comes to the work I did for Hanna-Barbera, that was certainly true. It was timing that allowed me to write an episode of<em> Space Stars<\/em> &#8230; and it was also  timing that meant I wrote only that single episode of<em> Space Stars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It was during a trip to California that I met the prolific animation scripter J. Michael Reaves. It was near the end of the season&#8212;all scripts are done within a period of only a few months&#8212;and he invited me to try my hand at pitching a story for one of the series he was working on. Which I did, in the time-consuming way all such scripts were commissioned. <\/p>\n<p>First you&#8217;d submit a paragraph-long synopsis to Hanna-Barbera which, once approved, would be sent to the network, which would then give feedback to Hanna-Barbera, which would then give feedback to the writer. At which point you&#8217;d write a page-long synopsis, which would go through the same approval process.  Only then would you write an actual script. (Though there might have even been another step with a  longer synopsis in there, too. It&#8217;s been awhile, so I&#8217;m no longer sure.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, about the timing&#8212;my script was one of the last few purchased that year, and no more would be bought until the season opened again nine months later &#8230; by which point, the allure of moving to California and trying to make a go out the animation business had faded. So my freshman effort for  Hanna-Barbera was my only effort for  Hanna-Barbera.<\/p>\n<p>My only regret was that though my episode starred The Herculoids and the Teen Force, it did <em>not<\/em> star one of my childhood favorites, Space Ghost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uglor Conquers the Universe,&#8221; first Aired on November 14, 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say timing is everything in life, and when it comes to the work I did for Hanna-Barbera, that was certainly true. It was timing that allowed me to write an episode of Space Stars &#8230; and it was also timing that meant I wrote only that single episode of Space Stars. It was during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715,"parent":32,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-714","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}