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Interview  |  Ricky Manning
Naming names

Picture Farscape has the most wonderful episode titles. Was there ever a competition to come up with the best ones?

Funny you should mention that, because when we started the series there was no thought to titles at all, because we weren"t running titles on the screen. So the scripts would have titles of just whatever it was to remind us what the episode was.

PK Tech Girl is not one of our finer titles I don't think, and if you look at some of the first season titles they're pretty hopeless because there was never a thought that they would go anywhere.

What we didn't realise in this age of the internet and so forth, was that the Sci Fi Channel would run a schedule box listing the episodes, and they would have the titles there. So the titles would immediately get on the internet and everybody would say, "Okay next week's is called such and such," even though the title didn't appear on screen. So it became clear to us that we'd better start putting some thought into our titles, which we did. Usually, oftentimes in the rough cut stage if not before, we'd all look at each other and say, "Okay, twenty bucks to the guy who comes up with the best title," and we'd bat things around.

Sometimes we knew what the title was fairly early on � the writer would have one he or she felt strongly about. Other times we'd be literally in the rough cut, and the thing would still be untitled and then we'd have a little bit of friendly competition among us to come up with it. Sometimes Andrew [Prowse] would pop one out or David would pop one out or Justin would pop one out and we'd say, "That's it."

It was kind of a freewheeling process. "Okay, please title this episode for us somebody".



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