Award-winning costume designer Ingrid Price has been dressing for prime-time since the early ’80’s. Chances are you’ve seen her work on many of the most popular and enduring shows on television, with no less than eight seasons of Law & Order: Criminal Intent to her credit alongside such contemporary fare as Nurse Jackie and The Mysteries Of Laura.
Delve deeper into Ms. Price resume, however, and you’ll discover that after Wardrobe Supervisor duties for the big screen on such notable projects as Single White Female, Mississippi Burning and The Godfather Pt. III, one of her first big, solo assignments was for a little science-fiction show forging ahead with its second season after a problematic first.
So it is with considerable delight that, for the first time anywhere, the seaQuest VAULT presents an exclusive conversation with the lady herself, where the full extent of her vision and contribution to the series can finally be revealed, illustrated by way of original Continuity Polaroids from the SQV Collection…
The evolution of seaQuest through vintage print media continues with the candid insights of show creator Rockne S. O’Bannon, who infamously jumped ship after submitting the pilot script. While the SQV will feature several of O’Bannon’s accounts in future posts, this cover story from Starburst #187 is as good a place as any to chart the show’s troubled course with a great interview by Joe Nazzaro.
At the time of publishing (March 1994) seaQuest had been inexplicably pulled from the schedules in the UK, only serving to further alienate its audience . Thankfully, the coverage here meant the show didn’t disappear off the radar completely and those wishing to catch upon episodes would benefit from the thin critique of David Bassom’s episode guide until the remainder of the first season aired…
Continuing the story of the show through print media brings us to the first of many features found in the pages of ‘Britain’s Premier Science Fiction Magazine’, Starburst.
Its evident in this double-page spread by Joe Nazzaro and Alan Jones from Issue #182 that although some of finer points (like character names and the ‘UEOO’) were inaccurate, the troubles behind the scenes were clear even at this early stage (The response to the UK Premiere on Oct 23rd can be found in the last post).
We find out exactly how and why the show started its downward spiral in subsequent interviews with both show creator and producers and it makes for enlightening reading. Stay salty…!
