Steven Spielberg's "Taken." Where was I at?

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Steven Spielberg's made for TV miniseries"Taken" has been playing on the SciFi Channel here and I've been watching it every chance I get, missed some because of Drs' appointments and what not.:( I checked it on Google and the information I saw was that it came out in 2002 and what I'd like to know is.... Where indahell was I at when it first aired? :eek: :o :confused: It's not like me to miss something like this and especially since it was directed by Spielberg.... The show has dayumed near enthralled me, but then almost anything that Spielberg has done has pretty much has had the same effect on me as I think he rates right up there with Cecil B. DeMille!:thumbup: :)
I didn't look to see if the film was based on a book or whether it was written as a screen play to begin with but I'm gonna look because if it's based on a book I'd dearly love to read it!
Anyone know?
How many of you have seen it or at least heard of the series? And if you have seen it what did you think about the series?
I'm understanding there are 10 episodes? :confused: :) If so I'm hoping to be able to see the rest of them in their entirety....:thumbup: :D
 
Thanks for the head's up, brother.
I have never seen nor heard of it but I will surely check it out now,:thumbup:.
 
wildmanh said:
Never seen it, but I found something about it online that you might like. Check out this link on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289830/ if you have not already seen it.

Heber
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Thanks Heber, I've already been there though.;) :D Episode 6 I believe it was just finished here at 3:00 p.m. CDT. I'll have to check my local TV Guide to check to see when the rest are airing. So far they have been starting here at 11:00 a.m. CDT and finishing at 3:00 p.m. with two episodes being shown. Methinks it may finish up on Friday and I hope I'm outta my Drs' appointment Friday morning before it starts.:rolleyes: :grumpy: But if not I'll be sure to catch the rest of it.
There's a couple of copies for sale on Amazon new/used from $50.00+ to $98.00+ shipping, I could maybe swing the used copy later on but not this month, damned car insurance and scripts.:grumpy: ;) Oh well, I'll get a copy when and if I'm supposed too, things happen that way for me.:D
 
I watched it with Walosi back in 2003 when I spent the summer in Kentucky. Sci-Fi was running it again. It was an EXCELLENT miniseries. It is on my list of DVDs to get. I haven't checked, but Netflix might have it.
 
I just jumped over to Netflix and they do have it available... all 6 disks. So it'd take at least two weeks to watch them all. I just added them to my list :)

Thanks for mentioning this Yvsa. I had forgotten all about it. It really is one of the best done TV productions in this genre. Of course... it's Speilberg!
 
The series was filmed in and around the Vancouver, B.C. area.
I have a buddy who was on the film crew.

Cheers.
Dave
 
Mr. Spielberg has made several excellent based-on-fact productions on this subject.
Granted, some of the details in "Taken" were a little fanciful. (Like the psychic-power drive for the saucers)
It is an excellent and accurate show in many respects.
I think one ought to watch the director's cut of "Close Encounters" and "Taken" together.

The scuttlebutt about Spielberg is very interesting. According to a recently retired Disney executive, the Gov. asked them to produce a "sweet" documentary about aliens but changed their minds and gave the project to Spielberg. He was shown military photos and films before production of Close Encounters in 1977.
That movie was very realistic.
His second "sweet" alien movie "E.T." came in 1982 and also had many factual-based details.

(Disney did make an alien movie anyway, "The Cat from Outer Space" in 1978. Obviously, the cat wasn't very alien-like, but there were some references to interesting ideas in that movie, including zero-point energy.)
 
According to the trivia section at IMDB for Taken, a lot of the abductee's stories are based on actual accounts (from people who claim to have been abducted). It is very interesting.

The whole topic always brings me back to when I was an investigator in the Air Force and asked about Project Bluebook (my agency was responsible for the project). I was told NEVER to ask about it... EVER. The boss was very clear on that one. Odd. Kind of makes you think the govt knows more than it is saying :rolleyes:
 
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