Bringing the Ruby forward
Apr. 23rd, 2002 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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zorkfox's LJ and adding it to mine.]
genebreshears guestimated that "Ruby, the Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe", a radio play by ZBS/NPR, came out in the 70's. I had to do some research, and this is what I find:
The first Ruby came out in 1980 and in 1982 it won the Mark Time Award for Best Science Fiction of the Year.
To quote
Thrilling Detective Website!
"RUBY TUESDAY is a tough, sexy and sassy female P.I., not above using her considerable charms to get what she wants, and not above a little blasting, either.
Some dialog:
Suspect: "The answer to all your questions are philosophical, Ruby. Are you a philosopher?"
Ruby: "Is that a pig?"
Suspect: "Yes, a pig."
Sound of blaster fire,
Ruby: "Hmm ... are those parrots?"
Imagine Star Trek performed as a detective drama by the Marx Brothers...
To unquote.
In the process of doing my research I've discovered that, not only are Rubys 1, 2, 3 [part 1] and 3 [part 2] available on CD but so is Ruby 4, a Ruby that I did not know existed.
Boy oboy my toast is burning now. The eggs are about to explode! Stand back!
zorkfox's LJ and adding it to mine.]genebreshears guestimated that "Ruby, the Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe", a radio play by ZBS/NPR, came out in the 70's. I had to do some research, and this is what I find:The first Ruby came out in 1980 and in 1982 it won the Mark Time Award for Best Science Fiction of the Year.
To quote
Thrilling Detective Website!
"RUBY TUESDAY is a tough, sexy and sassy female P.I., not above using her considerable charms to get what she wants, and not above a little blasting, either.
Some dialog:
Suspect: "The answer to all your questions are philosophical, Ruby. Are you a philosopher?"
Ruby: "Is that a pig?"
Suspect: "Yes, a pig."
Sound of blaster fire,
Ruby: "Hmm ... are those parrots?"
Imagine Star Trek performed as a detective drama by the Marx Brothers...
To unquote.
In the process of doing my research I've discovered that, not only are Rubys 1, 2, 3 [part 1] and 3 [part 2] available on CD but so is Ruby 4, a Ruby that I did not know existed.
Boy oboy my toast is burning now. The eggs are about to explode! Stand back!
