From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mclure Newsgroups: net.games.triv Title: Re: Old Shows - (nf) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5040 Posted: Fri Jan 14 10:36:24 1983 Received: Mon Jan 17 03:03:21 1983 #R:ariel:-19900:sri-unix:3800004:000:1090 sri-unix!mclure Jan 14 09:25:00 1983 The book by James Gunn you're referring to is THE IMMORTALS. This is an entertaining tale about a man and his family who have a special chemical in their blood that greatly slows down cell degeneration and speeds up healing of wounds. An old wealthy recluse gets a transfusion from the immortal (who didn't know he was immortal at the time of the blood donation) and is temporarily rejuvenated. Naturally he goes after the immortal, hoping to breed him, his family, and their descendents like cattle. The book was filmed in considerably different form first as a TV-pilot movie and then as a series called THE IMMORTAL, with Christopher George as the immortal. I seem to recall watching a few episodes back in the early 1970's when it was out. The show considerably trivialized the medical slant Gunn wrote the novel in. In the movie/series there is no family, just the immortal, and it was essentially a simple chase and adventure potboiler. While I'd recommend the book, I don't recommend the series or movie. The last few pages of the book are an excellent denouement. Stuart