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Move over, Xena New crop of characters woos fantasy fans

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19991021
Author:AVIS L. WEATHERSBEE

Hercules and Xena blazed the trail, and now a new batch of syndicated series is making sure that television fantasy/adventure, the terra firma of childhood bliss, won't become (with apologies to Edgar Rice Burroughs ) "The Land That Time Forgot."

Overlapping sci-fi and horror, the genre characteristically transports us to mythic lands where danger lurks at every turn, where exotic creatures abide, where nature can be friend or foe, where one survives by her wits, where magic exists and where right ultimately triumphs.

When reminiscing on the TV flights of fantasy that captured our imagination ...

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