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Season 2 Wonder Woman

The Man Who Could Move The World

Wonder WomanA telekinesis researcher and a promising test subject go missing, which gets the IADC’s attention. Steve Trevor is assigned to follow the clues, and her tracks them down to an abandoned internment camp, where the United States government imprisoned Japanese citizens living withing the U.S. during World War II. The missing test subject, a survivor of this camp, tried to use is latent powers to escape it as a boy, but lost his brother in the process, for which he blames not just the United States, but Wonder Woman, who witnessed the incident first-hand. Wonder Woman has followed Steve to the camp to help, unaware that her presence is very much wanted by a man who has the power to stop her in her tracks with his mind.

Download this episode via Amazonwritten by Judy Burns
directed by Bob Kelljan
music by Artie Kane

Wonder WomanCast: Lynda Carter (Diana Prince / Wonder Woman), Lyle Waggoner (Steve Trevor), Normann Burton (Joe Atkinson), Yuki Shimoda (Ishida), Lew Ayres (Dr. Theodore Wilson), James Hong (Oshima), Alan McRae (Security Officer), J. Kenneth Campbell (Taft), Steven Ken Suehiro (Ishida, as a boy), Peter Kwong (Masaaki, as a boy), Arthur Song (Masaaki)

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Logan's Run

Capture

Logan's RunLogan, Jessica and Rem take up temporary residence at an abandoned cabin near a lake, until they’re cornered and disarmed by Francis and another Sandman. Their orders are simple – Francis will take Logan and Jessica back to the City of Domes, while Rem is to be dismantled. During an overnight stop, Jessica disappears from the hovercraft while Francis has Logan tied up outside. When they go looking for her, they meet a man named James Borden, who warns them that Jessica has probably been kidnapped by mutants who hunt in packs nearby. But he’s not quite being truthful – Borden and his ruthless wife are holding Jessica prisoner to use her as bait for a hunt of their own, and Logan and Francis are the prey. Rem gives his captor the slip and locks him up, and then follows Logan’s trail to Borden’s compound. To survive this most dangerous game, Logan and Francis will have to trust each other, and Logan will have to rediscover the killer instinct he left behind in the City of Domes.

Download this episodewritten by Michael Richards
directed by Irving J. Moore
music by Jeff Alexander

Guest Cast: Horst Bucholz (James Borden), Mary Woronov (Irene Borden), Stan Stratton (Benjamin)

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Space Academy

Countdown

Space AcademyWhen the Seeker is assigned to a routine mission to clear floating debris from a long-forgotten war from the spacelanes, the crew makes an amazing discovery: part of one of the wrecked ships is intact, and its life support system is still working. Chris, Laura and Loki go aboard to see if there are survivors after all this time, finding a Vegan warrior frozen in a cryogenic container. A thump from outside brings bad news: the Seeker’s movement through the debris zone has reawakened a space mine left intact from the war, and that mine has attached itself to the outer hull and started counting down to destruction. Worse yet, when he is revived, the frozen warrior sets out to neutralize the visitors from Space Academy, since he doesn’t know the war ended centuries ago.

written by Tom Swale
directed by George Tyne
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael and Horta-Mahana

Cast: Jonathan Harris (Commander Gampu), Pamelyn Ferdin (Laura), Ric Carrott (Chris), Ty Henderson (Paul), Maggie Space AcademyCooper (Adrian), Brian Tochi (Tee Gar), Eric Greene (Loki), George di Cenzo (Roarg), Peepo (himself)

Notes: The war between Earth and the Vegan colony took place 200 years before this episode. Apparently Commander Gampu remembers them well because he’s revealed to be 300 years old. Not nearly as old is the set piece of the cryogenic containers: it was last seen barely a year before this episode, serving an almost identical plot function, in the Ark II episode The Cryogenic Man.

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Classic Season 15 Doctor Who

The Invisible Enemy

Doctor WhoThe TARDIS encounters a huge, fibrous mass in space, and as it attempts to pass through the obstruction, a violent discharge from the central console knocks the Doctor out. He manages to set a course for a medical outpost, the Bi-Al Foundation. Barely able to explain the Doctor’s predicament, Leela leaves the Time Lord in the capable hands of Dr. Marius, a brilliant but eccentric pathologist (he has fashioned his portable computer in the shape of a dog and christened it K-9). But whatever affected the Doctor soon spreads to others at Bi-Al, and the Doctor is now clearly the center of a hive mind directing the actions of the infected. The fight to save the doctors and nurses at Bi-Al is a losing battle; the Doctor and Leela must take the fight to the source of the problem: inside the Doctor’s own body!

Order the DVDDownload this episodewritten by Bob Baker & Dave Martin
directed by Derrick Goodwin
music by Dudley Simpson

Guest Cast: Michael Sheard (Lowe), Frederick Jaeger (Professor Marius), Brian Grellis (Safran), Jay Neill (Silvey), Edmund Pegge (Meeker), Anthony Rowlands (Crewman), John Leeson (Nucleus voice), John Scott Martin (Nucleus operator), Neil Curran (Nurse), Jim McManus (Opthalmologist), Roderick Smith (Cruikshank), Kenneth Waller (Hedges), Elizabeth Norman (Marius’s Nurse), Roy Herrick (Parsons), Pat Gorman (Medic)

Broadcast from October 1 through 22, 1977

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Raven

Episode Three

RavenThe mystery of what happened to Raven in the caves – and left a visible mark, the astrological symbol of the planet Pluto, on his forehead – attracts the attention of Naomi Grant, who comes to the Youngs’ house to interview Raven for the newspaper. She ventures into the caves with Raven, and is alarmed that the activities underground are an astrological portent of disaster. Raven isn’t quite convinced…until he watches helplessly as a man walks into his doom in a rockfall.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeremy Burnham and Trevor Ray
directed by Michael Hart
music not credited

RavenCast: Michael Aldridge (Professor Young), Patsy Rowlands (Mrs. Young), Phil Daniels (Raven), Shirley Cheriton (Naomi Grant), James Kerry (Bill Telford), Tenniel Evans (Editor), Ellis Jones (Vicar), Blake Butler (Stone)

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Space Academy

There’s No Place Like Home

Space AcademySpace Academy is put on high alert when an alien presence is detected trying to get inside. Unknown to Commander Gampu and his students, the alien is capable of changing its shape, and ultimately assumes the guise of a man who claims to be from Loki’s home planet. He claims to know of Loki’s purpose and his destiny, but won’t divulge that information unless Loki obtains a container of a highly volatile chemical for him. Loki remembers his Space Academy training and refuses to steal, but then the stranger who promises to tell the boy where he comes from turns his demands into threats.

written by Martin Roth
directed by George Tyne
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael and Horta-Mahana

Space AcademyCast: Jonathan Harris (Commander Gampu), Pamelyn Ferdin (Laura), Ric Carrott (Chris), Ty Henderson (Paul), Maggie Cooper (Adrian), Brian Tochi (Tee Gar), Eric Greene (Loki), Larry Dobkin (Vicron), Peepo (himself)

Notes: Martin Roth created the previous Filmaction live-action SF-for-kids effort, Ark II, and wrote many of its episodes. Guest star Larry Dobkin (1919-2002) – whose character is named Kane in dialogue but Vicron on screen – appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation as a Klingon, and directed the much-loved Charlie X episode of the original series. He also had an uncredited part in the seminal SF film The Day The Earth Stood Still, and played numerous roles in one of TV’s first-ever science fiction series, Space Patrol.

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Raven

Episode Four

RavenRaven escapes the worst part of the rockfall and raises the alarm; the rest of the dig workers and emergency services arrive to dig out the buried man, who may still have enough air for a few minutes, though the effort to reach him is expected to take hours. Arriving on the heels of the people who can help is television reporter Clive Castle, who sees nothing but a story, and is particularly fascinated by Raven’s role in the unfolding drama.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeremy Burnham and Trevor Ray
directed by Michael Hart
music not credited

RavenCast: Michael Aldridge (Professor Young), Patsy Rowlands (Mrs. Young), Phil Daniels (Raven), Shirley Cheriton (Naomi Grant), James Kerry (Bill Telford), Tenniel Evans (Editor), Ellis Jones (Vicar), Blake Butler (Stone), Hugh Thomas (Castle)

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Logan's Run

The Innocent

Logan's RunFrancis and the other Sandmen, now armed with their own vehicles, close in on Logan and his friends. Even though Logan is able to shake off his pursuers, his flight comes to a sudden stop when he finds that his hovercraft is in a minefield surrounding an underground bunker. Rem manages to neutralize the bunker’s various defense systems, and inside the bunker, they find rather antisocial robots watching over an adolescent girl who has apparently never seen another human being since her parents died. She develops a strong attachment to Logan, but doesn’t understand the feelings she’s experiencing. But she quickly picks up on Logan’s affection for Jessica, and her envy leads her to reveal a terrifying telekinetic power. After she uses her power to “remove” Rem and Jessica, Logan still rejects her advances…so she decides to betray him to the Sandmen.

Logan's RunDownload this episodeteleplay by Ray Brenner and D.C. Fontana
story by Ray Brenner
directed by Michael Preece
music by Jerrold Immel

Guest Cast: Lisa Eilbacher (Lisa), Lou Richards (Strong), Barney McFadden (Jeremy), Brian Kerwin (Patrick), Gene Tyburn (Friend)

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Man From Atlantis Season 1

The Mudworm

Man From AtlantisMark and the Cetacean crew receive word of an unusual shipwreck on the ocean floor, and set out to investigate. What awaits them is an underwater robot created by Mr. Schubert, who is more than happen for the Cetacean to find it: it descended to a depth at which it no longer obeyed his remote commands, and only the Cetacean has the abiity to retrieve it…if Mark can disarm the robot, which fires an underwater laser at anything that moves. But what was the robot looking for on the ocean floor, and why is Schubert so certain that he’ll be able to get it back?

written by Alan Caillou
directed by Virgil Vogel
music by Fred Karlin

Man From AtlantisCast: Patrick Duffy (Mark Harris), Belinda J. Montgomery (Dr. Elizabeth Merrill), Alan Fudge (C.W. Crawford), Victor Buono (Mr. Schubert), Robert Lussier (Brent), Jack Somack (Encyclopedia Salesman), Duncan Gamble (Cetacean Crewmember), Richard Laurance Williams (Jomo), J. Victor Lopez (Chuey), Jean Marie Hon (Jane), Brandyn Artise (Cetacean Crewmember)

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Space Academy

The Rocks Of Janus

Space AcademySpace Academy is put on full alert. Studying a comet with two nuclei, the Academy students must now find a way to keep the comet fragments from colliding with and destroying the Academy. Chris, Paul, Adrian and Laura are sent to land on one of the fragments to sample its surface and find a way to divert or destroy it. But the task becomes much more difficult once on the surface: Adrian’s attempt to cut off a rock sample makes an outcropping of rock “bleed,” and Peepo claims that the comet is communicating with him. Gampu teaches all of his students to respect life, and now they have to choose between the Academy and everyone living there, or the life of a unique, newly-discovered life form – a living planetoid.

written by Samuel A. Peeples
directed by George Tyne
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael and Horta-Mahana

Space AcademyCast: Jonathan Harris (Commander Gampu), Pamelyn Ferdin (Laura), Ric Carrott (Chris), Ty Henderson (Paul), Maggie Cooper (Adrian), Brian Tochi (Tee Gar), Eric Greene (Loki), Peepo (himself)

Notes: Space Academy is a very mobile asteroid: this episode shows, for the first time, that the asteroid upon with the Academy is built can be moved to different locations in space, though it may simply have an irregular orbit through the solar system containing the planet seen at the beginning of the episode (which would explain why, upon learning that the Academy is in imminent danger, our heroes don’t simply move it out of harm’s way.).

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Raven

Episode Five

RavenFollowing the miraculous rescue of Bill Telford, interest in Raven increases, both from the media and from those around him, though he’s crushed to learn that this doesn’t include any romantic interest from Naomi. Raven overhears a conversation between Naomi and Professor Young in which they believe that Raven may be the reincarnation of King Arthur, and when he confronts them about this, Professor Young tells Raven that his own natural authority in leading the rescue was the proof he needed. The Professor invites Raven to a meeting…set to take place at a stone circle near the dig site.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeremy Burnham and Trevor Ray
directed by Michael Hart
music not credited

RavenCast: Michael Aldridge (Professor Young), Patsy Rowlands (Mrs. Young), Phil Daniels (Raven), Shirley Cheriton (Naomi Grant), James Kerry (Bill Telford), Tenniel Evans (Editor), Harold Innocent (Minister), Ellis Jones (Vicar), Blake Butler (Stone), Hugh Thomas (Castle)

Notes: A stone circle figured prominently in Burnham & Ray’s previous series, Children Of The Stones.

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Logan's Run

Man Out of Time

Logan's RunLogan, Jessica and Rem investigate unusual energy readings near a junkyard, and they watch in amazement as a large cylinder appears in front of them, containing a live rabbit, which Logan removes. The cylinder then vanishes again, and returns a while later with a man inside, claiming that he too seeks Sanctuary and knows the way. But when the travelers’ new friend brings them to Sanctuary, it’s not what any of them expect. There are no wayward runners from the City of Domes, there are no computers, and there is no modern knowledge. Devastated, the man from the cylinder reveals who he is at last: he is from the past, on the eve of the nuclear war which almost killed all life on Earth, and he’s seeking hints from the future that will allow him to prevent that future – and he needs Logan’s help. But if Logan does assist him, history as Logan knows it – and even Logan himself – might never happen.

Download this episodewritten by Noah Ward (pseudonym for David Gerrold)
directed by Nicholas Colasanto
music by Laurence Rosenthal

Guest Cast: Paul Shenar (David Eakins), Mel Ferrer (Analog), Woodrow Chambliss (Lab Tech One), Gene Tyburn (Comp Logan's RunTech Four), Hank Brandt (Gold), Betty Bridges (Fontaine), Wallace Chadwell (White), Kenneth Martinez (Martinez), Jeff Reese (Handley), Jeff Cotler (Binary), Sherril Lynn Katzman (Katie)

Notes: This episode seems to peg the date of the holocaust that wiped out most human life as Christmas Day, 2112. Mark your calendars and get your shopping done early. Director Nicholas Colasanto later found greater prime-time fame as Coach, the original owner of Cheers.

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Man From Atlantis Season 1

Hawk Of Mu

Man From AtlantisWhen all electrical power fails in an 80 mile radius near the Foundation for Oceanic Research, Mark and the Cetacean crew investigate, hoping to discover whether or not the phenomenon has a natural cause. Mark stumbles across an ancient artifact known as the Hawk of Mu, supposedly a link to the lost Lemurian civilization of the vanished island of Mu. But the Hawk’s power is already being harnessed for less than peaceful purposes by Mr. Schubert, whose own daughter becomes Mark’s unlikely ally in the fight to stop him.

teleplay by Luther Murdoch
story by David Balkan
directed by Harry Harris
music by Fred Karlin

Man From AtlantisCast: Patrick Duffy (Mark Harris), Belinda J. Montgomery (Dr. Elizabeth Merrill), Alan Fudge (C.W. Crawford), Victor Buono (Mr. Schubert), Robert Lussier (Brent), Sydney Lassick (Constable), Vicky Huxtable (Juliette Schubert), Carole Mallory (Woman), Richard Laurance Williams (Jomo), J. Victor Lopez (Chuey), Jean Marie Hon (Jane), Anson Downes (Allen)

Notes: The makers of Man From Atlantis employed cutting edge computer graphics for the scenes in Schubert’s lab: the computer screen displayed actual graphics from the then-brand-new Apple II computer, which had just been released in June 1977.

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Space Academy

Monkey Business

Space AcademyAn asteroid-based array of mirrors has been knocked out of alignment, depriving an laboratory complex on a neighboring asteroid of heat and energy. Chris is sent to realign the mirrors, but en route he discovers two stowaways: Loki and Jake, a chimpanzee with whom Adrian has been conducting telepathy experiments. When Chris is injured during the intricate repair procedure, there’s no way Loki can safely finish the operation, leaving only Jake – but Adrian’s success in telling the chimp what to do via telepathy hasn’t been encouraging.

Space Academyteleplay by Jack Paritz
story by Marianne Mosner
directed by Jeffrey Hayden
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael and Horta-Mahana

Cast: Jonathan Harris (Commander Gampu), Pamelyn Ferdin (Laura), Ric Carrott (Chris), Ty Henderson (Paul), Maggie Cooper (Adrian), Brian Tochi (Tee Gar), Eric Greene (Loki), Arnold S. Soboloff (Prof. Jasper Bolt), Peepo (himself)

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Raven

Episode Six

RavenAfter the meeting in the stone circle, Raven emerges as the voice of a movement against the dumping of nuclear waste in the caves. But Raven suddenly bolts out of a meeting at the county hall, overcome by a feeling that something “big” is still needed to change the minds of government ministers in favor of the nuclear dump. He and Naomi return to the caves to find a chamber that they’re sure is there, but appears nowhere on the maps. In that chamber lies the answer Raven seeks, but it seems his story will parallel King Arthur’s in one tragic way: the loss of a friend and mentor in a time of need.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeremy Burnham and Trevor Ray
directed by Michael Hart
music not credited

RavenCast: Michael Aldridge (Professor Young), Patsy Rowlands (Mrs. Young), Phil Daniels (Raven), Shirley Cheriton (Naomi Grant), James Kerry (Bill Telford), Tenniel Evans (Editor), Harold Innocent (Minister), Ellis Jones (Vicar), Blake Butler (Stone), Hugh Thomas (Castle), Geoffrey Lumsden (Sir Lewis Gurney)

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