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A STARLOG PRESS PUBLICATIONPresented by Norman Jacobs & Kerry O 'Quinn
FIRST EDITION
Written and Compiled byDavid Hirsch and Barbara Krasnoff
Design Director: Robert P. Ericksen
Designer: Dianne AtheyAssistant Designer: Laura O'Brien
Blueprints by Anthony R. Fredrickson(Space: 1999 Laser Cannon blueprint by Geoffrey Mandel)
0-931064-13-9
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ANDROMEDA STRAIN
AlgolGermany, 1920, silent, B&W
Mephisto, an alien from the star Algol,
tries to dominate Earth with his death
machine. It backfires.
WEAPONSDeafn Machine: Meant to destroy
Earth's population, it actually destroys
both Mephisto and his family.
Director. Hans Werkemeister. Screen-
play: Hans Brenert
The Andromeda StrainUniversal, 1971, Panavision/ 131 min.
Four scientists try to find the cure for
an outer space virus in an undergroundgovernment installation in Nevada Theylearn that the virus eventually mutates
into harmless form, but then have to
prevent the laboratory from blowing up
BARBARELLA
when its fail-safe device is activated.
WEAPONSAndromeda Strain: A virus brought to
Earth aboard an American satellite, it
causes almost immediate death by
clotting the blood of its victims. It even-
tually mutates into a form that eats
away plastic and rubber before becom-ing completely harmless.
Underground Installation: The labora-
tory where the scientists conduct their
research is equipped with a "fail-safe"
system to prevent any diseases from
escaping and harming the surrounding
areas. If the system is activated it will
set off a nuclear explosion, and only the
person holding a special key can
prevent it from going off. There are also
various protection devices—tranquilizerdarts, laser beams, gases, etc.—to stop
intruders and escaped laboratory
animals. Finally, during the film, two of
the scientists come to suspect that the
lab was built to develop germ warfare.
Producer-Director: Robert Wise.
Screenplay: Nelson Gidding, based
upon the novel by Michael Crichton.
Music: Gil Melle. Special Effects: DougTrumbull and James Shourt.
Cast: Arthur Hill, James Olson, Paula
Kelley, David Wayne. Kermit Murdock,
Peter Hobbs, Richard O'Brien.
Atom Man vs. SupermanColumbia, 1950, B&W, a 15-episode serial,
30 reels, 480 min.
Superman battles his arch-enemy, Lex
Luthor.
WEAPONSSynthetic Kryptonite: If you can't get the
real thing . . . Lex Luthor creates a syn-
thetic form of Kryptonite, the only sub-
stance deadly to Superman.
Flying Saucers: Another of Luthor's
fiendish weapons. Naturally, they are no
match for the Man of Steel
Producer: Sam Katzman. Director:
Spencer Bennett. Screenplay: GeorgePlympton, Joseph Poland and David
Mathews. Music Director: MischaBakaleinikoff.
Cast: Kirk Alyn, Lyle Talbot, TommyBoyd, Pierre Watkin, Noel Neill
BarbarellaParamount, 1968, Color, 98 min.
Swashbuckler Barbarella goes in
search of a scientist and his death ray.
WEAPONSRay Gun: Our heroine uses a flashy ray
gun which is capable of blowing up
spaceships, among other things. It looks
something like a toy submarine, and has
the disconcerting habit of running out
of power at crucial points in the plot.
Positronic Ray: This is the death ray
with which evil scientist Durand-Durandthreatens civilization.
Emotional Stimulator: An orgasm-induc-
ing machine.Producer: Dino DeLaurentiis. Director:
Roger Vadim. Screenplay: Terry South-
ern, Jean Claude Forest, Roger Vadim
and five others. Production Design:
Mario Garbuglia. Special Effects: Augie
Lohman. Cinematography: Claude
Renoir. Music: Maurice Jarre. BobCrewe and Charles Fox.
Cast: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law,
Ugo Tognazzi. Marcel Marceau, David
Hemmings.
Battle in Outer SpaceToho, 1960, Color/Tohoscope, 93 min.
Exploratory Earthships discover a
futuristic citadel on trie dark side of the
Moon which was built by aliens called
Natalians The Natalians are finally
vanquished by the combined resources
of Earth.
WEAPONSNatalian Spacecraft: Flying saucers
which emit powerful rays capable of
cracking spaceships in two.
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka. Director:
Onoshiro Honda. Screenplay: Sinicki
Sekizawa. Special Effects: Eiji Tsuburaya.
Music: Akira Ifukube.
Cast: Ryo Ikebe. Minoru Takada. Kyoko
The Beast With a Million EyesA.R.C, 1955, B&W, 78 min.
An alien with telepathic abilities
enters the bodies of everyday Earth
animals to further its plans of conquer-ing Earth.
WEAPONSTelepathy: By taking control of birds,
cows, dogs, etc. the alien attacks the
resident humans.Producer: Roger Corman. Director:
David Ktamarsky. Screenplay. Torn
Filer. Music: John Bickford Special
Effects: Paul Blaisdell
Cast: Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer. DonaCole, Chester Conklin. Leonard Tarver.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes20th Century-Fox, 1970, Color, 95 min.
In this, the second of the Ape series,
an astronaut comes to the futuristic
planet of the apes looking for his con-
temporary predecessor and is captured
by a race of mutated humans living
underground and worshipping a
Doomsday Weapon. He finds his friend
there, the apes attack and the weapon is
set off, thus blowing up the Earth andeffectively ending the film.
WEAPONSAlpha-Omega Bomb: An advanced andvery large nuclear device built as a
"peacekeeping" weapon which is
capable of destroying the Earth -and
does.
Telepathy: The underground humanmutants have developed powers of tele-
pathy, with which they can create
powerful illusions (such as fire) andforce the iwo astronauts to fight eachother.
Producer: Arthur P. Jacobs Director:
Ted Post.
Cast: Charlton Heston, James Fran-
ciscus, Linda Harrison. Kim Hunter.
David Watson. Maurice Evans. JamesGregory. Victor Buono.
The Brain From Planet ArousHowco International, 1958, B&W, 71 min.
Two super brains, one good and oneevil, battle it out in the bodies of a
human and his dog.
WEAPONSTelepathy: Using their mind transfer-
ence powers, the aliens take over the
human and a dog. and try to destroy
each other.
Producer: Jacques Marquette. Di-
rector: Nathan Hertz. Screenplay: RayBuffum. Music: Walter Greene.
Cast: John Agar, Joyce Meadows,Robert Fuller, Ken Terrell.
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES
Buck Rogersfeatui forn Plat
Outlaws (1953) and Destination Saturr
(1965).
Universal, 1939, B&W, a 12-episode
serial, 24 reels, 384 min.
Buck Rogers and cohort Buddyawaken from suspended animation in
the 25th century just in time to help Dr.
Huer and Wilma Deering in their fight
against Earth tyrant Killer Kane. They
go to Saturn, where the good guys get
support from the Saturnians while the
bad guys make trouble with the
primitive Zugs. who are subdued.
WEAPONSRay Guns: A classic example of the
basic weapon used by most SF screen
heros. In Buck's case, it resembles a
round tinkertoy assembly, while the
Saturnians are equipped with sawhandles mounted with several test
tubes. They zap people with a beam of
light.
Mind Control Helmets: Used by Killer
Kane, they sap the will and allow him to
control people's minds. At one point, he
manages to use one on Buck. Theywere apparently fashioned out of
inverted tin buckets with fins.
Associate Producer: Barney Sarecky.
Directors: Ford Beebe and Saul Good-kind. Screenplay: Norman S. Hall and
Ray Trampe.Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jackie
Moran, Constance Moore, HenryBrandon. Jack Mulhall, WheelerOakman, Keene Duncan.
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BUCK ROGERS
BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY
Buck Rogers in the 25thCenturyUniversal, 1979, Color
Buck Rogers is a 20th century Earth
astronaut who is frozen in space and
wakes to find himself in the 25th
century. He allies himself with the Earth
forces in the persons of Colonel Wilma
Deering, and robots Twiki and Theo—against the treacherous Draconian
forces, represented by sultry princess
Ardala and her sidekick Kane.
WEAPONSStarfighters: Used by Earth forces and
by the pirate marauders who are
actually disguised Draconians. The
Earth ships are similar in design to
those appearing in T.V. show Battlestar
Galactica, and use the same laser-type
weapons. They are controller by com-puter, but can be put on manual.
Freeze Gun: Freezes the victim in his or
her tracks. It is used by Buck to tempo-
rarily stop Princess Ardala's hulking
bodyguard.Bombs: Intended by the Draconians to
be used against Earth, but are instead
used by Buck to blow up the enemyspacecraft.
Rayguns: Carried by all concerned, they
cause instant unconsciousness.
Executive Producer: Glen A. Larson.
Producer: Richard Caffey. Director:
Daniel Haller. Writers: Larson and Leslie
Stevens. Special Effects: Bud Esing and
Jack Faggard. Matte Artist: Syd Dutton.
Cast: Gil Gerard, Pamela Hensley, Erin
Gray, Henry Silva, Tim O'Connor, JosephWiseman, Duke Butler. Felix Silla
Colossus, the Forbin ProjectUniversal, 1970, Color, 100 min.
In the immediate future, Colossus is
the ultimate computer, meant to control
the country's defense systems. It makescontact with the Russians' computersystem and ultimately takes over the work
WEAPONSColossus: Originally meant as a defen-sive weapon, the computer has control
of all the world's nuclear devices, and is
willing to blow up the world if humansrefuse to follow its leadership
Producer: Stanley Chase. Director:
Joseph Sargent. Screenplay: JamesBridges, based on the novel Colossusby D.F. Jones. Art Director: AlexanderGolitzen. Music: Michael Colombier.
Cast: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark,
Gordon Pinsent. William Schallert,
Leonid Rostoff.
Daleks-lnvasion Earth2150 A.D.Amicus, 1967, Color, 84 min.
In this feature film adaptation of the
'•Daleks Invasion of Earth" serial fromBBC-TV series Doctor Who, the Doctorand his companions land in 22ndcentury England. The Earth has beenravaged by the alien Daleks. evil, slime-
like creatures that live in mobile protec-
tive shells. The Daleks plan to turn the
Earth into a giant spaceship by hollow-
ing out the planet.
WEAPONSMind Control: Their protective shells
restricting certain work, the Dalekscapture suitable humans and place hel-
mets upon their heads that can put
human minds under Dalek control. Theybecome Robomen, a police force usedto control the humans.Gun Sticks: Every Dalek has a gun stick
mounted on the front of its protective
shell. The gun stick fires a gas that caneither paralyze or kill a human.
Producers: Milton Subotsky and MaxJ. Rosenberg. Director: Gordon Flem-ing. Screenplay: Milton Subotsky, fromthe BBC-TV serial by Terry Nation.
Makeup: Bunty Phillips. Special Effects:
Ted Samuels. Music: Bill McGuffie with
Electronic Music by Barry GrayCast: Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribins,
j
Jill Curzon, Roberta Tovey.
Damnation Alley20th Century-Fox, 1977, Color, 91 min.
Two years after Earth has been devas-
tated by nuclear war, four survivors
travel around in a giant land crawler
named "Landmaster."
WEAPONSLandmaster: A formidable-looking com-bination of tank and amphibious vehicle,
the Landmaster can travel on land or
sea. It is equipped with a full comple-ment of deadly weaponry, including
laser cannons.Producers: Jerome Zeitman, Paul
Maslansky. Director: Jack Smight.
Special Effects: Lin Dunn, Milt Rice,
Don Weed. Screenplay: Alan Sharp,
based on the novel by Roger Zelazny.
Music: Jerry Goldsmith.
Cast: Jan-Michael Vincent, Dominique I
Sand, Jackie Earle Haley, GeorgePeppard.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
20th Century-Fox, 1951, B&W, 92 min. I
Klaatu, a humanoid representative
DAMNATION ALLEY
from outer space, and his policeman/
robot companion Gort visit Washington.
D.C. to enlist the violence-prone Earth-
lings in the cause of intergalactic peace.
After visiting some typical humans,Klaatu is shot and killed by the miltia.
Gort rescues and revives him. uponwhich Klaatu delivers a speech urging
the humans to mend their ways or else!
WEAPONSGort: The 12-foot-high robot acts as an
impartial police force, punishing any act
of violence. It is extremely strong, and
has a disintegration ray which comesfrom its "eye", which is used against
various unfortunate soldiers.
Producer: Julian Blaustein. Director:
Robert Wise. Screenplay; Edmund H.
North, based on Harry Bates' story,
"Farewell to the Master." Music:Bernard Herrmann. Special Effects: FredSersen.
Cast: Michael Rennie. Patricia Neal,
Billy Gray, Sam Jaffe. Hugh Marlowe,James Seay, Drew Pearson, Francis
Bavier.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Death Race 2000New World, 1975, Color, 80 min.
Futuristic sportscars compete in a
Transcontinental Race, the only sport
left that will excite a catastrophe-dulled
population. Points are scored by both
timing and body count.
WEAPONSRacing Car: Our hero's car has been
customized to cause the most damage
to unwary pedestrians, and resembles a
marauding animal with a dorsal plate
and protruding "teeth."
Producer: Roger Corman. Director;
Paul Bartel Story: lb Melchior Screen-
play: Robert Thorn and Charles Griffith
Optical Special Effects: Jack Rabin.
Cars constructed by Dean Jeffries.
Cast: David Carradine, Simone Grif-
fith, Sylvester Stallone, Louisa Moritz.
Joyce Jameson, Mary Woronov, Sandy
McCallum.
DeathsportNew World, 1978, Metrocolor
In a post-nuclear holocaust world,
civilization is divided into three camps,
the unaffected City States, the cannibal
Mutants, and the positively mutated
Range Guides. Two of the Range
Guides are captured by a corrupt City
State leader, escape during a contest
called Deathsport. and finally face their
captor in a climactic battle.
WEAPONSDeath Machines: Powerful combat
motorcycles equipped with highly
sophisticated anti-matter weaponry The
cycles' equipment includes a missile
launcher, a computer-type control panel
over the handlebars and a blaster.
Diamond-Bladed Swords: A shiny, if
traditionally-styled, weapon used by the
Range Guides. In the film's finale, the
hero uses one of these to lop off the
head of his enemy.Producer: Roger Corman. Directors:
Henry Suso and Allan Arkush. Screen-
play: Henry Suso and Donald Stewart.
Director of Photography: Gary Graver.
Special Effects Photography: Philip
Huff.
Cast: David Carradine, Claudia Jen-
nings, Richard Lynch, William Smithers.
Will Walker, David McLean
DESTROY ALL PLANETS
I, Color,
75 min.
Alien invaders use their telepathic
powers to kidnap two young boys and
make dinner out of them. To their
rescue comes Gamera, the flying turtle.
WEAPONSFlame Breath: Gamera, the thousand-
foot turtle, can belch out a shower of
flame.
Alien Death Ray: The alien kidnappers
attempt to fend off Gamera with a
strange wavy ray beamed from their
candy-striped spaceship.
Producer: Hidemas Nagata. Director:
Noriaki Yusa. Writer: Fumi Takahashi.
Special Effects: Kazafumi Fujii and Yuzo
Kaneko.Cast: Kajiro Hongo, Toru Takatsuka,
Diamonds are ForeverUnited Artists, 1971, Color
James Bond's arch-foe Ernst Blofeld
blackmails the world with a computer
controlled satellite which can be pro-
grammed to take out an entire city.
WEAPONSLaser Death Ray: An improbably power-
ful high-energy laser beamed from
Blofeld's satellite.
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli and
Harry Saltzman. Director: Guy Hamilton.
Screenplay: Richard Maibaum and TomMankiewicz. Music: John Barry. Produc-
tion Designer: Ken Adam. Visual Effects:
Albert vVhitlock and Wally Veevers.
Cast: Sean Connery, Jill St. John,
Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Bernard Lee,
Lois Maxwell. Bruce Cabot.
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS
Doctor NoUnited Artists, 1962, Color, 105 min.
The first James Bond film based on the
Ian Fleming novels. British agent 007 is
sent to Jamaica to stop the evil scientist
Dr. No from destroying Americanmissiles.
WEAPONSDragon Tank: Fearsome looking tank
dressed up as a dragon to scare the
curious away from Dr No's island
headquarters. Equipped with a flame-
thrower.
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli andHarry Saltzman. Director: TerenceYoung. Writers: Richard Maibaum.Johanna Harwood. and Berkley Mather.
Based on the novel by Ian Fleming.
Music: Monty Norman. Production
Designer: Ken Adam.Cast: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress.
Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord. Lois
Maxwell. Bernard Lee.
Doctor Who and the DaleksAmicus, 1965, Color, 83 min.
Doctor Who and his companionsmake their first journey to the planet
Skaro, destroyed years before by a
nuclear war. There they encounter the
Daleks. slime-like creatures encased in
mobile protective shells. Totally evil andbent on conquering every race they
come in contact with, the Daleks plan to
set off a massive neutron bomb that will
destroy the resident Thai race unless
the Doctor can prevent it.
WEAPONSNeutron Bomb: Used in the great war
between the Daleks and Thais, the
neutron bomb almost completely
destroyed all life on Skaro. Now the
Daleks plan to finish off the Thais with
one more.
Gun Slicks: Weapons attached to the
Dalek protective shells. They emit a gas
that can either paralyze or kill.
Executive Producer: Joe Vegoda.
Producers: Milton Subotsky and Max J
Rosenberg. Director: Gordon Fleming.
Art Director: Bill Constable. Writer:
Milton Subotsky. From the BBC-TVserial "The Dead Planet" by Terry
Nation for the Doctor Who series.
Special Effects: Ted Samuels. Electronic
Music: Barry Gray, with additional score
by Malcolm Lockyer
Cast: Peter Cushing, Roberta Tovey,
Jeannie Linden, Roy Castle, Geoffrey
Toone, Michael Coles. Barrie Ingham,
Yvonne Antrobus.
Dr. CyclopsParamount. 1939, Color.
A mad scientist who had sequestered
himself in the Amazon jungle is
interrupted in his work by visitors.
Peeved by the intrusion, he shrinks
them down to doll size in preparation to
destroying them entirely.
WEAPONSShrinking Machines: One of the good
doctor's experiments, it miniaturizes
people down to doll size. The effects
wear off after ten days.
Director: Earnest Shoedsack.Cast: Albert Dekker, Charles Hatton,
Janice Logan, Thomas Colley.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Columbia, 1956, B&W, 83 min.
Earth is visited by flying saucers whichcarry metal-encased aliens who want to
move into the neighborhood. WhenEarth objects, the aliens move in for the
kill, and are defeated when it is dis-
covered that they are sensitive to high
frequency sound.WEAPONSDisintegration Rays: Both the flying
saucers and the arms of the aliens'
metal shells are capable of dissolving
people and objects into nothingness.
High Frequency Weapons: Developedby Earth scientists to knock the saucers
out of the sky, these weapons, mountedon the roofs of vans, destroy the aliens
with concentrated sound. The finished
weapon looks like a small radar
antenna.
Producer: Charles Schneer. Director:
Fred Sears. Screenplay: GeorgeWorthing Yates and Raymond Marcus,
from a story by Curt Siodmak. Musical
Director: Mischa Bakaleinikoff. Special
Effects: Ray Harryhausen.
Cast: Hugh Marlowe, Donald Curtis,
Joan Taylor. Morris Ankrum.
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FIRST MEN ON THE MOON
FANTASTIC VOYAGE
Fantastic Voyage20th Century-Fox, 1966, Colorscope,
100 min.
Five people become miniaturized in
order to travel through the bloodstream
of a scientist in a proportionally
miniaturized submarine. Although
hindered by a saboteur in their midst,
they finally reach the brain, dissolve the
blood clot and exit via a tear drop,
leaving the spy to be devoured by white
blood corpuscles.
WEAPONSLaser: The sub is equipped with a spe-
cially built laser to be used to operate
on the scientist's brain. When the
saboteur strikes, it is used to cripple the
sub.
Producer: Saul David. Director:
Richard Fleisher. Screenplay: Harry
Kleiner, based on a story bv Otto
Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, adapted
by David Duncan. Music: LeonardRosenman. Art Directors: Dale Hennesy,
Jack Smith. Special Effects: LB. Abbott,
Art Cruickshank, Emil Kosa, Jr.
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch,
Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence,
Arthur O'Connell, Arthur Kennedy,Barry Coe.
First Men in the MoonColumbia, 1964, Panavision/Technicolor,
107 min.
H.G. Wells' classic story about three
19th century people who visit the Moon
Selenites. Two, a young man and his
fiancee, escape, but the elderly
professor remains behind, thus trans-
mitting his germs to the Selenite
population and wiping them out.
WEAPONSSelenite Ray Gun: In order to protect
themselves from roving moon-calves,
the Selenites have developed a long,
branchlike tubular structure to which
are attached energy giving minerals.
The weapons emit lightning bolt-like rays
which drive away the creatures.
Producer: Charles Schneer. Associate
Producer and Special Effects: RayHarryhausen. Director: Nathan Juran.
Screenplay: Nigel Kneale and Jan Read.
Music: Laurie Johnson.Cast: Lionel Jefferies, Edward Judd,
Martha Hyer.
Five Million Years to EarthAlso known as: Quatermass and the Pit
20th Century-Fox/Hammer, 1968, Color,
97 min.
An ancient Martian spacecraft,
populated by long dead crew-members,
is uncovered in a London subwayexcavation. When humans explore the
ship, a force embedded into the very
being of the ship is released and
threatens to destroy London.
WEAPONSMartian Spaceship: Equipped with a
still-active autoinatic system, the
spaceship electrocutes an intruder,
dissolves the flesh of an army officer via
a heat ray, and releases a force that
takes command of humans who are
descended from past interbreeding with
the Martians. The human/Martians then
turn on the Earth humans.Telepathic Powers: Used by the
human/Martians to destroy the Earth
humans.
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Producer: Anthony Nelson-Keys.Director: Roy Ward Baker. Screenplay:
Nigel Kneale from his BBC-TV teleplay.
Music: Tristram Cary. Special Effects:
Bowie Films.
Cast: Andrew Keir, James Donald,Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, BryanMarshall.
Flash GordonAlso known as: Space Soldiers, Atomic
Rocketship and Spaceship to the
Unknown.Universal, 1936, a 13-episode serial,
26 reels, B&W, 416 min.
Flash Gordon. Dale Arden and Dr.
Alexis Zarkov land on Mongo and dobattle with the forces of evil as repre-
sented by Ming the Merciless.
WEAPONSGocko: Ming's protective pet is an ugly
combination of dragon and lobster.
While Flash manages to escape its
claws, Ming himself is not so lucky, andis vanquished by his own device.
Ray Guns: As is usual in these serials,
nobody is without one: Flash's
handweapon looks like a small thermos
with a handle attached: Ming's forces
bear elaborate hunting rifles. Theyknock people down with a lightning bolt
effect which was created by scratching
a pin directly on the film.
Director: Frederick Staphani. Screen-play: Stepham, George Plympton, Basil
Dickey and Lee O'Neill, based on the
comic strip by Alex Raymond.Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean
Robers, Frank Shannon, CharlesMiddleton, Priscilla Lang.
Flash Gordon Conquers theUniverseAlso known as: Peril From the Planet
Mongo, Space Soldiers Conquer the
Universe and The Purple Death FromOuter Space.
Universal, 1940, a 12-episode serial,
24 reels, B&W, 384 min.
FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE
WEAPONSDeath Dust: A lethal space virus that
causes the Purple Death, injected into
the Earth's atmosphere by the forces of
Polante: An antidote which fights off the
effects of the Purple Death.
Rocket Rays: Both Flash's and Ming's
cigar-shaped ships are equipped with a
space-age torpedo ray which is fired
with a sudden "blam." The rays, resem-bling fireballs, look fairly harmless onthe screen but are capable of knocking
ships from the sky.
Ray Guns: Nearly everyone involved in
the film is equipped with various styles
of rayguns. They emit a static, electrical
sound and a beam of light which kills
instantly.
Directors: Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor.
Screenplay: George Plympton, Basil
Dickey and Barry Shipman.Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carol
Hughes, Frank Shannon, CharlesMiddleton, Roland Drew.
Flash Gordon's Trip to MarsAlso known as: Space Soldiers' Trip to
MarsUniversal, 1938Ming tries to subjugate the Earth once
again, this time using a nitrogen-
stealing space beam. Flash journeys to
Mars and wreaks havoc with Ming'sminions, enlisting the aid of the clay
men and the tree men in the battle.
WEAPONSMing's Ray: A gigantic beam aimed at
the Earth from the planet Mars, the ray
steals nitrogen from the Earth's
atmosphere.White Sapphire: Worn by the Queen of the
Martians, this amulet gives the Queen the
power to change ordinary Martian malesinto the disfigured clay men.Disintegration Chamber: A large, tunnel-
like device filled with a powerful (but
unnamed) light source. Ming meets his
end during the film's final moments bytaking a stroll beyond its deadlydoorway.
Director: Ford Beebe and Robert F.
Hill. Screenplay: Ray Trampe, NormanS. Hall, Whyndham Gittens and HerbertDolman.
Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, BeatriceRoberts, Frank Shannon, Jean Rogers,Charles Middleton.
FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS
FORBIDDEN PLANET
Flesh GordonMammoth Films, 1974, Metrocolor,
78 min.
In this parody of the Flash Gordonserials, Flesh Gordon, his girlfriend Dale
Ardor and Dr. Flexi Jerkoff travel to the
planet Porno in order to track downEmperor Wang and his deadly sex ray.
WEAPONSSex Ray: Just what it sounds like
Forces people to succumb to certain
interesting and distracting urges.
Producers: Howard Ziehm and Bill
Osco. Director: Michael Benvenieste
and Ziehm. Screenplay: Benvenieste
and William Hunt. Music and Makeup:Ralph Farraro. Special Effects: Jim
Danforth (uncredited) and David Allen.
FORBIDDEN PLANET
Miniatures: Greg Jein. Special Effects
Crew: Rick Baker, Russ Turner. DougBeswick, Craig Neuswanger.
Cast: Jason William. Suzanne Fields,
Joseph Hudgins, William Hunt.
Forbidden PlanetMGM, 1956, Cinemascope/EastmanColor, 98 min.
The crew of United Planets Cruiser
C57D discovers marooned scientist
Morbius, his daughter Altaira and his
robot Robby on Altair-IV. Morbius has
been experimenting with the thought-
machine left by the Krells. the planet's
native race, and the destructive force
unleased by the machine threatens them
all until Morbius sacrifices himself for
the others.
WEAPONSKrell Thought Machine: Developed bythe Krell to convert thought waves into
matter, the machine was meant as a
benefit to the species. They did not
realize that the machine would also
cause even inadvertently evil thoughts to
materialize into reality, and thus wiped
themselves out. When Morbius uses the
machine, his jealousies are eventually
materialized into an Id creature whichthreatens both his small settlement and
the crew of the cruiser.
Blasters: Hand-held energy weapons.
Also in rifle and cannon form.
Force Field: To protect themselves from
the Id creature, the astronauts set up an
invisible force field around their ship
capable of disintegrating any solid
matter. The field consists of a large
number of glowing, metal "fence posts"
which link together via the chain of
unseen force
Producer: Nicholas Nayfack. Director:
Fred M. Wilcox. Screenplay: Cyril Hume,from a story by Irving Block and F.
Wilcox, loosely based on Shakespeare's
"The Tempest." Art Directors: Arthur
Lonergan and Cederic Gibbons,
Electronic Tonalities: Bebe and Louis
Barron. Special Effects: A. Arnold
Gillespie, Warren Newcombe, Irving G.
Ries and Joshua Meador.
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis,
Leslie Neilsen. Richard Anderson, Jack
Kelly. Earl Holliman.
FORBIDDEN PLANET
FutureworldAIP, 1977, Color, 104 min.
In the futuristic amusement park
Delos, two reporters try to find the
secrets hidden there, and discover a
plot to take over the world via
humanlike robots.
WEAPONSRobots: By replacing existing humanswith exact, new-improved copies, the
robots' makers plan to take over the
Producers: Paul Lazarus and James T.
Aubrey. Director: Richard T. Heffron.
Writer: Mayo Simon. Music: Fred Karlin.
Cast: Peter Fonda. Blythe Donner,
Stuart Margolin. Arthur Hill. Yul
Brynner.
GogUnited Artists, 1954, Color (originally in
3-D)A saboteur at a government research
plant fouls up the works of a computerand its robots Gog and Magog.WEAPONSGog and Magog: Under the radio
command of orbiting aliens, the robots
Gog and Magog run amok.Director: Herbert Strock. Producer:
Cast: Richard Egan. ConstanceDowling, Herbert Marshall.
GoldffingerUnited Artists, 1964, Color, 109 min.
James Bond 007 is sent into action to
stop Auric Goldfinger from stealing the
gold in Fort Knox.WEAPONSLaser Gun: Goldfinger threatens Bondwith a laser gun in an attempt to makehim talk. The gun is later used to cut
into the gold vault
Aston-Martin DB5: Bond's secret
weapon. A car equipped with machineguns, tire slashers, oil slick ejectors, andpassenger ejector seat
Producer: Albert R. Broccoli andHarry Saltzman. Director: Guy HamiltonScreenplay: Richard Maibaum and Paul
Dehn, from the novel by Ian Fleming.
Music: John Barry. Production
Designer: Ken Adam. Special Effects:
John Stears, assisted by Frank George.
Cast: Sean Connery, Honor Black-
man, Gert Frobe, Harold Sakata,
GOLDFINGER
Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, DesmondLlewelyn
The Green SlimeAlso known as Battle Beyond the Stars
Southern Cross/MGM, US-Japaneseco-production, 1968, Color, 77 min.
A team of astronauts, assigned to
destroy an asteroid that is on a collision
course with Earth, brings back a micro-scopic life form to space station GammaOne. In the atmosphere, these GreenSlime creatures grow to man-size andattack the crew of Gamma One.WEAPONSLaser Rifles: The crew of Gamma One
THE GREEN SLIME
n Slimemenace with guns that tire beams of
high-energy laser light.
Producer: Ivan Reiner and Walter
Manley. Director: Kmji Fukasaku.Screenplay: Charles Sinclair. William
Finger and Tom Rowe from a story byIvan Reiner. Music: Toshiaki Tsushima,Charles Fox. Makeup: Takeshi Ugai.
Special Effects: Akira WatanabeCast: Robert Horton. Richard Jaeckel.
Luciana Paluzzi, Ted Gunther, BudWidom.
Invaders From Mars20th Century-Fox, 1953, Color, 78 min.A young boy tries to convince
authorities that Martians have invadedEarth and are taking over the minds of
Earthlings. including the boy's parentsWEAPONSImplants: Radio-controlled devices
placed behind the ears of humans sothat they may be controlled like robots
Heat Gun: Weapon Martian workerscarry to melt rock to build their
underground headquarters.
Producer: Edward L. Alperson.Director: William Cameron Menzies.Writer: Richard Blake. Designer: WilliamCameron Menzies. Music: RaoulKraushaar. Makeup: Gene Hibbs andAnatole Robbins. Special Effects: JackCosgrove.
Cast: Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson,Hillary Brooke. Helena Carter, ArthurFran;
INVADERS FROM MARS
INVISIBLE BOY
Invasion of the Saucer MenAlso known as Spacemen Saturday Night
and The Hell Creatures
American International, 1957, B&W,68 min.
A group of teenagers attempts to
warn their small town about a couple of
bug-eyed midget monsters who have
invaded from space.
WEAPONSHands: The hand of an alien, run over
by a car, moves about on its own. Whenit attacks its victims, needle-like claws
inject alcohol into the bloodstreamcausing either death or the DTs.
Headlights: In the finale, the teenagehotrodders conquer the aliens by
surrounding them with cars and turning
on the headlights. Believe it or not, the~
headlights dissolve them.
Producer: James H. Nicholson andRobert Gurney, Jr. Director: EdwardCahn. Writers: Robert Gurney and Al
Martin, from the story "The CosmicFrame" by Paul Fairmen. Makeup: Carli
Taylor and Paul Blaisdell. Special
Effects: Paul Blaisdell and Howard
Anderson Music: Ronald Stein.
Cast: Frank Gorshin, Lyn Osborn,
Steve Terrell, Gloria Costello, RaymondHatton.
The Invisible BoyMGM, 1957
Robby the Robot, who first appeared
in Forbidden Planet, is taken over by a
deranged computer which is planning to
conquer the Earth. His companion, a
scientist's young son, becomes invisible
and tries to get Robbie back.
WEAPONSComputer: Sophisticated (for 1957)
machine which attempts to take control
by using mobile mechanical devices
such as Robby.Director: Herman Hoffman.
Cast: Richard Eyer, Diane Brewster,
Phillip Abbott, Howard J. Stone.
The Invisible RayUniversal, British 1935, American 1936,
B&W, 82 & 75 min.
Scientist Janos Rukh discovers a
strange meteor, touches it, and finds
that his hands have become glowing
and lethal. After concocting an antidote,
he works to make the discovery a
benefit to humanity, but eventually
becomes deranged and wanders about
the countryside killing people with his
deadly hands. After murdering his
colleague he falls out a window to his
death.
WEAPONSBadium X: The element contained within
the meteor which contaminates Rukh's
hands. Once deranged, he uses that
contamination to kill people simply by
touching them.
Radium X Ray: A ray device empoweredby Radium X.
Producer: Edmund Grainger. Director:
Lambert Hillyer. Screenplay: JohnColton, from a story by Howard Higgmsand Douglas Hodges. Musical Director:
Franz Waxman. Special Effects: John P.
Fulton.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Violet
Kemble Cooper, Francis Drake, Frank
Lawton, Walter Kingsford, Frank Reicher,
Beulah Bondi.
It Came From Outer SpaceUniversal, 1953, B&W, 80 min.
Aliens crash-land on Earth andreplace local townspeople with doubles
in order to find materials with which to
repair their spacecraft.
WEAPONSLaser Beam: A large, cone-shaped laser
beam used to defend the alien
spaceship.
Mind Takeover: The aliens take over the
minds of several unsuspecting humans,
but intend to return the minds to their
owners as soon as they're finished.
Producer: William Alland. Director:
Jack Arnold. Screenplay: Harry Essex,
from "The Meteor" by Ray Bradbury.
Makeup: Bud Westmore. Music: HermanStein. Musical Director: JosephGershenson.
Cast: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush.
Charles Drake. Kathleen Hughes, JoeSawyer, Morey Amsterdam.
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
It Conquered the WorldAmerican-International. 1956, B&W,71 min.
Fanged cucumber creature from
Venus plans to take over the humanrace. So what else is new?WEAPONSWinged Messengers: Tiny, electronic,
batlike creatures used by the Venusiansto control humans. Once bitten, the
person becomes a zombie.Executive Producer: James Nicholson.
Producer-Director: Roger Gorman.Screenplay: Lou Rusoff. Musrc: RonaldStein. Special Effects: Paul Blaisdell.
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Paul Blaisdell,
Peter Graves, Sally Eraser, Beverly
Garland.
Journey to the Seventh PlanetAmerican-International, 1962, Cinemagic,
83 min.
Five astronauts battle a huge, cellular
brain which uses the humans' ownimaginations against them.
WEAPONSBrain: This alien protects itself by trans-
forming things of the imagination into
Producer-Director: Sidney Pink.
Screenplay: Pink and lb Melchior, from a
story by Pink. Music: lb Glindeman.Special Effects: Bent Barfod Films.
Cast: John Agar, Greta Thyssen, MimiHeinrich, Ove Sprogoe, Carl Ottosen.
Kronos20th Century Fox, 1957, B&W, 78 min.
A gigantic machine lands on Earth in
a spaceship and proceeds to tear up the
countryside.
WEAPONSKronos: A huge robot creature whichabsorbs and feeds upon energy. Themore destructive the energy used on it,
the more powerful it becomes, thus
making conventional weapons morethan useless. It is finally stopped when
IT CONQUERED THE WORLD
a feedback and result-
Producer-Director: Kurt Neumann.Associate Producers and Special Effects;
Jack Rabin, Irving Block and LouisDevVitt. Screenplay: Block. Music. Paul
Sawtell.
Cast: Jeff Morrow, George O Hanlon,
ager Billy finds himself in
alien necklace andhis turn, possessed.
rather strange piece of
i turns human Billy into a
killer.
^ large, very powerful
a Law
LaserblastYablans, 1977, Technicolor
i, Morr
Typical
possession of
apon and is
WEAPONSNecklace: A njewelry whiccrazed alien
Laser Rifle: t
weapon which fits over one arm. It
seems to be constructed of quite amedley of metallic bits and pieces,
including a "control panel" whichresembles a calculator set on top of a
turntable, and a handgrip which protects
out of the side.
Alien Blaster: Two lizard-like "police-
men" gun down troublemakers usingweapons made up of a long narrow tubewith a handgrip on one end and a cup-like nozzle at the other. These weaponsemit a destructive beam of light.
Producer. Charles Band. Director:
Michael Rae. Screenplay: Franne Schactand Frank Ray Perillr. Makeup: SteveNeil I. Effects Supervision: David Allen.
Animation: David Allen.
Cast: Kim Milford. Cheryl Smith,Roddy McDowell.
LASERBLAST
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Logan's RunMGM, 1976, Color, 118 min.
Loosely based on the novel by William
F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson,
the film depicts a world of tomorrow
where no1 one is permitted to live over
the age of 30. Logan 5 is a Sandman,whose job it is to track down and kill
the over- 30 Runners who have refused
to submit to the fatal "life-renewal"
ceremony of Carousel. He is ordered by
the central computer to track down a
mysterious refuge known as Sanctuary,
is joined in his quest by a rebel namedJessica, and eventually destroys the
computer and its artificial society
WEAPONSSandman Gun: A hand weapon which
causes an extremely painful death by
disrupting the cells of the human body
Producer; Saul David. Director:
Michael Anderson Screenplay: David
Zelag Goodman. Music: Jerry Gold-
smith. Production Designer: Dale
Hennessy. Special Effects: L.G. Abbott
Cast: Michael York, Jenny Agutter.
Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Brown.
Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Peter Ustinov.
The Man With the Golden GunUnited Artists, 1974, Color
In the ninth James Bond opus, agent
007 battles Francisco Scaramanga, a S1-
million-a-hit assassin.
WEAPONSGolden Gun: Bond's nemesis, the film's
title character, packs a golden gun
assembled from a cigarette case, ciga-
rette lighter, pen, and cuff link
Laser Gun: When Bond invades Scara-
manga's headquarters off the coast of
Red China. Scaramanga shows off the
pride of his gun collection, a solar
powered laser gun, with which hepromptly destroys Bond's airplane.
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli and Harry
Saltzman Director: Guy Hamilton.
Screenplay: Richard Maibaum and TomMankiewicz. Music: John Barry. Produc-
tion Designer: Peter Murton Special
Effects: Derek Meddings.
Cast: Roger Moore, Britt Ekland.
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
METROPOLIS
Christopher Lee. Maud Adams. Herve
Villechaize. Clifton James, Bernard Lee,
Lois Maxwell
The Man From Planet XUnited Artists, 1950, B&W, 70 min.
A peaceful alien is captured and
tortured by humans, and eventually re-
taliates
WEAPONSMind-Control Ray: Used by the alien to
take control of several humans in
retaliation for his capture. The ray
emerges as a beam of light from the top
of his spacecraft
Producer-Screenplay: Aubrey Wisberg
and Jack Pollefen. Director: Edgar
Ulmer. Music: Charles Koff. Special
Effects Andy Anderson and HowardWeeks. Ait Direction: Angelo Scibetti.
Cinematography: John L. Russell
Cast Robert Clark. William Schallert.
Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, Roy
Engel. Charles Davis.
MetropolisUniversum Film, A.C., 1926, B&W, silent.
8 reels
In this classic silent film detailing the
future as imagined in 1926.
underground workers revolt against the
ruling class, spurred on by a robot
duplicate of their leader.
WEAPONSRobot: Professor Rotwang, who is the
epitome of the mad scientist, invents a
feminine robot which, once endowedwith the physical attributes ol the rebel
leader Maria, urges the workers on to
their own destruction.
Director: Fritz Lang. Screenplay: Fritz
Lang and Thea Von Harbou. Cinemato-grapher: Karl Freund. Music: Gottfried
Huppertz. Special Effects: EugeneSchufftan.
Cast: Brigette Helm, Alfred Abel,
Gustave Frolich. Rudolph Klein-Rogge,
Heinrich George. Fritz Rasp.
Planet of the VampiresAlso known as Demon Planet
AlP/ltalian-Spanish co-production, 1965,
Color, 85 min.
On a misty alien planet, an Earth
spacecraft encounters the Aurans, a
race of bodiless creatures who intend to
take over the minds of the Earth people
and fly their ship back to Earth, where
the Aurans can take over the bodies of
the entire human race
WEAPONSTelepathy: The Auran brand of vampir-
ism. The aliens take control of humanminds and force the Earth people to kill
one another. Once the humans are
dead, they can take control of the
bodies.
Laser Rifles: Energy weapons carried by
the humans.Producer: Fulvio Lucisano. Director and
Designer: Mario Bava. Writers: lb Mel-
chior and Louis Heyward, with Mario
Bava Music: Gino Marinuzzi.
Cast: Barry Sullivan. Norma Bengell.
Angel Aranda. Evi Morandi.
Planets Against UsAlso known as: The Man With the Yellow
Eyes and The Hands ol a Killer.
Manley, 1961, B&W, 85 min.
Humanoid robots from outer spacecause general mayhem until the mother
ship appears and destroys them all.
WEAPONSRobots: Endowed with various destruc-
tive powers, these identical robots have
shining eyes with which they hypnotize
humans, and can disintegrate people by
simply touching them,
Producers: Alberto Chimenz and Vico
Pavoni. Director: Romano Ferrera.
Screenplay: Ferrera and Piero Pierotti.
Music: Armando Tovajoli.
Cast: Michel Lemoine, Jany Clair.
STARCRASH
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES
Robinson Crusoe on MarsParamount, 1964, Color, 109 min.
An astronaut is stranded on Marswhen his spacecraft crashes. He dis-
covers that aliens from another worldare mining Mars with slave labor. Theastronaut rescues one of the slaves andthe two fight to survive against the alien
Masters and the terrible climate of the
Red Planet.
WEAPONSLaser Gun: The Masters carry long,
tubular laser weapons to control the
humanoid slaves.
Gunships: When the astronaut and the
slave escape, the Masters track themdown with gunships equipped with
multi-barreled laser cannons that canfire hundreds of laser pulses in a
second (The gunships were actually
reconstructed Martian war machinesfrom Paramount's earlier production of
The War of the Worlds).
Slave Bracelets: Worn by the Martians'
slaves, these bracelets prevent the
underlings from escaping their masters'
hold The bracelets can be located bythe Martians electronically and lead the
masters to their slaves' whereabouts.Producer: Aubrey Schenck. Director:
Byron Haskin Writers: lb Melchior andJohn C. Higgens. Music: Nathan VanCleave. Makeup: Wally Westmoreand BudBashaw. Special Effects: Lawrence W.Butler.
Cast: Paul Mantee. Adam West. Victor
Lundin.
The Spy Who Loved MeUnited Artists, 1977, Color.
Ian Fleming's indestructible hero,
James Bond/007, returns to his tenth
adventure to battle the evil Karl Strom-berg, a mad scientist who has capturedRussian, American, and English nuclear
submarines and plans to use two of
them to launch missiles on the two giant
superpowers and start World War III
WEAPONSLotus Esperit: New James Bond car
equipped with oil slick guns, missile
launcher and torpedos The highlight
feature: The ability to convert into a
submarine.Producer: Albert R. Broccoli. Director:
Lewis Gilbert. Screenplay: ChristopherWood and Richard Maibaum. ProductionDesigner: Ken Adam. Music: Marvin Ham-lisch. Special Effects: Derek Meddings
Cast: Roger Moore. Barbara Bach, CurtJurgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro,Bernard Lee. Lois Maxwell. DesmondLlewelyn. Shane Rimmer, Michael Bil-
lington.
StarcrashNew World, 1979, Color, 92 min.Akton and Stella Star, respectively the
best navigator and pilot in the galaxy,
are recruited to battle the evil CountZarth Am.
WEAPONSLaser Rods: Used to destroy two largemetal men.
Producers Nat and Patrick Wachs-berger. Director: Lewis Coates (Luigi
Cozzi). Screenplay: Coates and Wachs-berger. Special Effects: Armando Velcudaand Germano Natali. Electronic Visual
Effects Supervisor: Ron Hays.Cast: Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro,
Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff.Robert Tessier, Joe Spinnell. NadiaCassini. Judd Hamilton.
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Star Wars20th Century-Fox, 1977, Panavision/
Technicolor, 121 Min.
Farmboy Luke Skywalker helps rescue
rebel leader Princess Leia from the Em-pire's Death Star with the help of wise
Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, mercenarypirate Han Solo and his Wookie co-pilot
Chewbacca, and two droids (robots), C-
3PO and R2-D2. In the end, the Princess
is rescued, Obi-Wan is (perhaps) killed
by the evil Darth Vader, and the Death
Star is blown to smithereens.
WEAPONSLight Sabres: Obi-Wan Kenobi andDarth Vader duel to the death with their
light sabres, sword-like weapons con-
sisting of short jeweled handgrips from
which emerge powerful rays of light. For
the finished film, the light and sound of
the activated sabres were added in by
special effects after the scene was shot.
Luke Skywalker also carries a light
sabre, but never actually uses it in
combat,Blasters: A variety are used by charac-
ters in the film. Han Solo's weapon is a
slightly modified Model C-96 Mauserpistol. Princess Leia uses what seems to
be a target model of a .22 Stoeger
Luger.
Stormtrooper Weapons: The weaponsused by the Death Star's stormtroopoers
were also fashioned from various types
of rifles, such as a British Sterling L2A3,
a prototype BSA 9mm submachine gun,
and a German 7.92 mm MG 34
Wookie Weapons: Chewbacca carries a
device which is something of a compo-site between a crossbow and a rifle.
Jaws Stun Guns: The Jawas. tiny sand-
people who steal droids for a living, usespecial stun guns for the purpose.
These guns apparently emit some type
of electrical energy, surrounding the
droid and eventually "shorting" it out.
The film makers used for their model
the British Enfield No. 1 Mark VI, cutting
down the stock and barrel and adding a
few modifications.
Tuskan Gaffe Stick: The Tuskan raiders
who nearly kill Luke at the beginning of
the film sport evil-looking gaffe sticks.
These fearsome weapons were actually
constructed of pipes to which wereattached such odds and ends as small
missiles, tires, and what resembles a
very oversized gum-stimulator.
Death Star: The Death Star is Sfar Wars'
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SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE MEN
THE 10TH VICTIM
LiTARGET EARTH!
SupermanColumbia, 1948, B&W, a 15-episode
serial, 30 reels, 480 min.
Superman is kept busy rescuing Lois
Lane and the rest of the world from the
clutches of the Spider Lady.
WEAPONSKryptonite: A green meteor, the remainsof the destroyed planet Krypton, it is the
only substance harmful to Superman.The Spider Lady plans to fire it at himfrom a guided missile, but is foiled just
Reducer Ray: This heavy duty device,
capable of reducing people down to
nothingness, looks pretty much like a
slightly modified machine gun.
Producer: Sain Katzrnan. Directors:
Spencer Bennett and Thomas Carr.
Screenplay: Arthur Hoerl, Lewis Clayand Royal Colo. Music: MischaBakaleimkoff.
Cast: Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, TommyBoyd, Carol Forman, Pierre Watkin.
Superman and the Mole MenLippert, 1951, B&W, 67 min.
Superman comes to the aid of the
radioactive but peaceful Mole Men, whohave appeared from a too-deeply-dugoil well. They are attacked by the
frightened townspeople and finally blowup the oil rig to prevent any further
contact between the species.
WEAPONSRay Gun: The Mole Men employ a para-
lyzing ray against their human enemies.(The weapon is actually a vacuumcleaner.)
Producers: Robert Maxwell, BarneySarecky. Director: Lee Sholem. Music:
Darrell Calker. Screenplay: RichardFielding. Special Effects: Ray Mercer.
Cast: George Reeves, Phyllis Coates,Bill Curtis, Jack Branbury, Jerry Marvin,
Tony Baris.
MARTIAN WAR MACHINE FROM WAR OF THE WORLDS
PUBLIC WARNING!
Superman—The MovieWarner Brothers, 1978, Panavision/
Technicolor
In this modern version of the Super-man story, the child from Krypton is
adopted by the rural Rents, becomesSuperman after an education by his
dead father Jor-El, rescues Lois Lanefrom several perils, battles arch-enemyLex Luthor and saves California frombeing separated from the continental U.S.
WEAPONSKryptonite: Since this is still the only
substance fatal to Superman, it is only
logical that it should turn up in the evil
hands of Lex Luthor.
Executive Producer: llya Salkind.
Producer: Pierre Spengler. Director:
Richard Donner. Screenplay: Mario
Puzo. David Newman, Leslie Newmanand Robert Benton. Music: JohnWilliams Photography: Geoffrey Uns-
worth. Creative Supervisor and Director
of Special Effects: Colin Chilvers.
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Marlon
Brando. Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder,
Ned Beatty. Jackie Cooper. Glenn Ford.
Target Earth!Allied Artists, 1954, B&W, 76 min.
Earth is invaded by killer robots from
Venus.WEAPONSDeath Rays: The robots, rather clumsy
looking tin cans, come equipped with
death rays which fire from an "eye" in the
center of their headsProducer: Herman Cohen Director
Sherman Rose. Screenplay: William
Raynor. Music: Paul Dunlap. Special
Effects: Dave Koehler.
Cast: Kathleen Crowley. Richard
Denning, Richard Reeves, Whit Bissell,
House Peters, Virginia Grey.
The 10th VictimEmbassy Pictures Corp., 1965, Color.
In a future society, people are legally
allowed to hunt each other for large
sums of money. A "Hunter" who can kill
ten victims is set for life, winning a
fantastic cash price. A man and a
woman who both qualify for the chanceto bag victim #10, begin a worldwide
hunt for each other.
WEAPONSKiller Brassiere: When Ursula Andresstracks her victim to a nightclub, Shelures him toward her by pretending to
be a masked dancer and shoots himwith her double-barreled killer bra.
Cast: Ursula Andress. Marcello
Mastroianni.
The TerrornautsEmbassy, 1966. Color, 75 min.
Five humans are kidnapped to anautomated base on the Moon wherethey are trained to operate the defense
systems. With the Moonbase at their
command, the humans battle an invad-
ing alien armada.-
WEAPONSDisrupter Beam: When the Moonbaselaunches its rockets against the
invading army, the Terrornauts retaliate
by attempting to stop the defensive
attack with a red light beam that creates
havoc with the Moon base's control
system.Laser Gun: Hand weapon given to the
humans to test their reaction to alien life
forms.
Producers: Milton Subotsky and MaxJ. Rosenberg. Director: MontgomeryTully. Screenplay: John Brunner. Spe-cial Effects: Bowie Films
Cast: Simon Oates, Zena Marshall, MaxAdrian. Stanley Meadows, Charles Haw-trey, Patricia Hayes.
This Island EarthUniversal, 1955, Technicolor, 87 min.
The planet Metaluna, which is in-
volved in a war with another planet,
needs uranium to power their protective
energy field. They abduct several Earth
scientists to help out. Two of the scien-
tists are taken to Metaluna, attacked by
mutants and eventually escape back to
Earth with the help of Exeter, a com-passionate Metalunan.
WEAPONSAtomic Weapons: The Metalunans andtheir enemies, the Zahgons, destroy
each other with powerful atomic ray
weaponry.Thought- Transference Machines: Usedby the Monitor, supreme ruler of Meta-luna, to control the minds of the humans.Interrositer: A telecommunicationsdevice which also features a tri-lens
Producer: William Alland. Directors:
Joseph Newman and Jack Arnold.
Writers: Franklin Coen and Edward G.
O'Callaghan. Makeup: Jack Devan,Chris Mueller, and Robert Hickman.Special Effects: Clifford Stme, Charlie
Baker. Stanley Horsley. Music: HermanStein.
Cast: Jeff Morrow. Faith Domergue,Rex Reason, Lance Fuller. Russell John-son, Douglas Spencer, Reg Parton.
The 3 Stooges in OrbitColumbia, 1962, B&W, 87 min.
Moe. Larry and Curly Joe vs. the Martians
WEAPONSTank Helicopter Submarine: Exactly
what it sounds like. This is an invention
that the Martians, for some reason knownonly to them, want to steal from the Earth.
Produced and conceived by NormanMaurer. Director: Edward Bernds.
Screenplay: Elwood Ulman Music. Paul
Dunlap. Art Director: Don Ament.Makeup: John Chambers.
Cast: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, JoeDeRita. Carol Christensen, Don Lamond.Nestor Paiva, Emil Sitka
THIS ISLAND EARTH
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED
The 27th DayColumbia, 1957, B&W, 75 min.
An alien race from a dying planet
wishes to colonize the Earth, but ethics
prevent them from simply taking over.
They give each of five humans a small
capsule which is capable of great
destruction if opened by its owner, but
becomes inoperable after 27 days or the
death of the person. Only the evil
Russian commissars open their capsule
within the deadline, and are destroyed.
WEAPONSCapsule: An advanced form of weapon-ry which destroys human life within a
large area range, once opened and
given the proper coordinates (longitude
and latitude). It does not harm other
animal or vegetable life.
Producer: Helen Ainsworth. Director:
William Asher Screenplay: John Mart-
ley. Music: Mischa Bakaleinikoff.
Cast: Arnold Moss, Marie Tsien,
WAR OF THE WORLDS
Village off the DamnedMGM, 1960, B&W, 77 min.
After being invaded by a strange
space mist, the women of a small British
village become pregnant and bear
blond, blue-eyed children Thesechildren are exceptionally intelligent,
and possess powerful telepathic powers,
which they use to control the town until
a local physicist manages to destroy
both them and himself with a hidden
bomb.WEAPONSTelepathy: The children, who are alien
in origin, use their fantastic telepathic
powers to communicate with oneanother and to strike out at those
humans they feel are a threat by forcing
them to drive into brick walls, wiping
their minds clean, etc. This sort of tele-
pathic terror is also featured in Children
of the Damned, a sequel film released
by MGM in 1964.
Producer: Ronald Kinnoch. Director:
Wilf Rilla. Screenplay: Rilla, Sterling
Siliphant and George Barclay. Music:
Ron Goodwin Special Effects: TomHoward. Based on the novel The Mid-
wich Cuckoos by John Wyndhom.Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley.
Martin Stephens. Michael Gwynne. JohnPhilips, Richard Vernon.
War of the WorldsParamount, 1953, Technicolor, 85 min.
Classic retelling of the H.G. Wells
novel about Martian invaders who nearly
succeed in conquering the Earth, and
are finally stopped by germs to which
they have no natural immunities.
WEAPONSMartian War Machines: The manta-
shaped Martian vehicles are reddish-
brown with outstretched "wings" and
bright green lit areas. A cobra-neck heat
weapon protrudes from the top. It emits
a death-ray, instantly disintegrating
anything in its path. This death ray is
portrayed as an extremely bright light.
When a victim is hit, he seems para-
lyzed for an instant, there is an x-ray
effect where the audience can see his
"bones", and he is then dissolved, leav-
ing nothing but a pile of ashes.
Producer: George Pal. Director: Byron
Haskin. Screenplay: Barre Lyndon.
Music: Leith Stevens. Special Effects:
Gordon Jennings, Wallace Kelly, Jan
Domela. Paul Lepae, Ivyl Burkes, Irmin
Roberts. Sound Effects: Gene Garvin.
Astronomical Art: Chesley Bonestell.
Martian Costumes: Charles Gemora,
ZARDOZ
from a design by Albert Nozaki. Minia-
tures: Marcel Delgado. Makeup: Wally
Westmore.Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Lewis
Martin. Les Tremayne. Charles Gernora,
Bob Cornthwaite. Sandro Gigilo, Edgar
Barrier, Alex Fraser, Anne Codee.
Wild, Wild, PlanetMGM, 1967, Color, 93 min.
A mad scientist creates a race of four-
armed cyborgs that kidnap and shrink
scientists to doll size.
WEAPONSLaser Guns: Flame-throwing hand guns
carried by the members of the United
Democracies, a planet-wide defense
organization.
Producers: Joseph Fryd and Antonio
Margheriti. Director: Antonio Margheriti
(under the name of Anthony Dawson).
Screenplay: Ivan Reiner and Renato
Moretti. Music: Francesco Lavagnino
Cast: Tony Russell, Umberto Raho,
Franco Nero.
The X From Outer SpaceAmerican International, 1967, Color,
89 min.
A space egg is brought back to Earth
and hatches into Guilala, a giant
chicken monster, which proceeds to
destroy Tokyo.WEAPONSLaser Seam Eyes. The space chicken's
ocular means of defense and offense.
Director: Kazui Nihomatsu. Screen-
play: Eibi Montomochi, Moriyoshi Ishida
and Nihomatsu. Music: Taku Izumi.
Special Effects: Hiroshi Ikeda
Cast: Eiji Okada, Peggy Neal, Franz
Gruber.
You Only Live TwiceUnited Artist, 1967, Color, 116 min.
James Bond attempts to avert World
War III when Spectre captures U.S. andRussian spacecraft in orbit in an attempt
to put each country at the other's throat.
WEAPONSSpectre Spacecraft: A reusable craft
with an alligator mouth large enough to
swallow space capsules launched by the
U.S. and Russia.
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli andHarry Saltzman. Director: Lewis Gilbert.
Screenplay: Ronald Dahl, from the novel
by Ian Fleming. Production Designer:
Ken Adam. Music: John Barry. Special
Effects: John Stears.
Cast: Sean Connery, Akiko Waka-
Zardoz20th Century-Fox, 1974, Color, 102 min.
In a rather complicated plot, Zed, an
Exterminator who preys on the over-
populated Barbarians, discovers the
existence of the immortal, emotionless
Eternals who have been supplying the
Exterminators with weapons. He teachesthem to feel, slaughters the entire
Eternal settlement (at their request) andfrees the captive Renegades, thus
setting Earth on an even keel again.
WEAPONSZardoz: A mysterious, floating gargoyle
head which supplies the Exterminators
with 20th century weapons such as
pistols and rifles.
Aging: Renegade Eternals, because they
cannot be killed by other Eternals, are
aged to senility, and are forced to spendeternity in this semi-mindless state.
Producer, Writer, Director: JohnBoorman. Music: David Munrow. Special
Effects: Jerry Johnston. Cinematogra-phy: Geoffrey Unsworth.
Cast: Sean Connery, Charlotte Ramp-ling, Sarah Kestleman, Sally Anne New-man, John Alderton.
DR. SHRINKER
Dr. ShrinkerABC-TV, 1977, Color, 15 min.
A segment of the Krofft Supershow,each episode had the mad Dr. Shrinker
chasing three young people aroundhis tropical island. The Doctor hadminiaturized the kids and needed them
as proof that his Shrinking Machineworked.WEAPONSShrinking Machine: A large, four-foot-
long barrel attached to a control unit. It
is not mobile, so the subject must bepresent in the Doctor's lab. The Shrinking
Machine can also reverse the process
and return a miniaturized subject to his
or her normal size.
Producer and Director: Jack Regas.
Story Consultant. Donald Boyle. Writers:
Donald Boyle, Ed Jurist, Bernie Kahn,
Leo Rifkin, Si Rose, Greg Strangis.
Cast: Jay Robinson, Bill Barty, SusanLawrence, Ted Eccles, Jeff Mackay.
Doctor WhoBBC-TV/Syndicated, 1963-. B&W andColor, 30 min.
Without a doubt, Doctor Who is the
longest running SF series in the history of
televison. Each half hour episode is a
chapter in a story that runs for an average
of about 4 to 6 programs. The Doctor, a
rebel Time Lord, has the ability to travel
through time and space aboard his
machine TARDIS (Time and Relative
Dimensions in Space). He often finds
himself on Earth (past, present, or future)
or some other planet fighting someoneelse's battle. In the last 16 years, four
actors have played the Doctor, andhundreds others have appeared as his
companions, friends and enemies.
The Doctor himself does not carry a
weapon and avoids violence whenever
he can.
Created by Sydney Newman, DonaldWilson Producers: Verity Lambert,
Phillip Hinchcliffe, Malcolm Hulke, Barry
Letts, others. Story Editors: DavidWhitaker, Terrance Dicks, Robert
Holmes, others. Visual Effects: JackKline, others. Doctor Who Theme: RonGrainier.
Cast:William Hartnell (Doctor 1),
Patrick Troughton (Doctor 2), JonPertwee (Doctor 3), Tom Baker (Doctor
4), Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, RogerDelgado, others.
WEAPONS EPISODES"The Dead Planet"-The Doctor's first
encounter with the evil Daleks—mutatedbrains encased in mobile metal shells.
The Daleks are so mad for total powerthat they intend to wipe out all other
life on the planet Skaro with a neutronic
bomb. Writer: Terry Nation.
"Dalek Invasion of Earth "-The Daleks
attempt to take over the Earth and usethe planet as a giant spacecraft byremoving the Earth's magnetic core. Toaid them in their plan, the Daleks capturehumans and convert them into Robomen,servants without will. Writer: Terry Nation.
"The War Machines"-A computer with
the ability to take over the minds of
humans has a force of war machinesconstructed as part of its plan to sub-
jugate humanity. Writer: Ian Stuart Black.
"The Moonbase"-The Cybermen,robots who were once men, use the
weather-controlling Gravitron on a lunar
weather station to create havoc onEarth by disrupting normal weatherpatterns and creating tornados andtidal waves. Writer: Kit Pedler
"The Abominable Snowmen"-An evil
alien intelligence uses a group of robot
Yeti to pave the way for its takeover of
the Earth. Writers: Mervyn Haisman andHenry Lincoln.
The Web of Fear"-The above-men-tioned alien intelligence makes a secondattempt to take over Earth with its
robot Yeti, this time attacking London.Writers: Mervyn Haisman and HenryLincoln.
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FIREBALL XL5
"The Seeds of Death"-lce Warriors
use Martian Seed Pods, which emit a
lethal fungus, to create chaos on Earth
prior to their invasion. Writer: Brian
Hayles.
"Spearhead from Space"-The Nestenes
launch an attack on Earth by using their
power to control plastic figures called
Autons. The Nestenes build their
Auton army by taking over a plastics
factory. Writer: Robert Holmes."Terror of the Autons"-The Doctor's
arch enemy, the Master, teams up with the
Nestenes in the second attempt on Earth.
Writer: Robert Holmes."Colony in Space"-The Doctor travels
to a bleak. Earth-like planet to stop the
Master from gaining control of the
Doomsday Machine, a weapon so power-
ful it could destroy the universe. Writer:
Malcolm Hulke.
"Robot"-A group of renegade scientists
use a giant robot to steal the parts for a
Disintegrator Gun as part of their plan to
steal the Destructor Codes that will enable
them to start World War III. Writer: Ter-
rance Dicks.
"Genesis of the Daleks '-The Doctor
goes back to the planet Skaro at the time
of the creation of the dreaded Daleks in
the hope of stopping their creation.
The Dalek scientists, under the direction
of the disfigured Davros, are creating the
Daleks as a weapon against their enemiesthe Thais. However, Davros intends
on turning the Daleks into the ultimate
rulers of the universe, without emotion
or conscience, who will destroy all
others in the universe. Writer: Terry
Nation.
"Terror of the Zygons '-Marooned on
Earth for centuries, the Zygons plot to
destroy Parliament with the help of the
Skarasen. a half-machine, half-animal
creation of the Zygons which has resided
in Loch Ness for many years. Writer:
Robert Banks Stewart.
Fireball XL5NBC-TV, 1961, ITC, B&W, 30 min.
To guard against alien attack and pro-
tect space exploration teams, the WorldSpace Patrol continually polices the
galaxy in the 21st Century.
WEAPONSFireball XL5: An advanced spacecraft
equipped with remote controlled nu-
tromic missiles.
Coma Gun: Powerful handgun which has
the ability to place its victim into a
temporary coma-like state.
Creators: Gerry & Sylvia Anderson.Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson.Cameraman: John Read. Art Director: RegHill. Special Effects: Derek Meddings.
Music: Barry Gray.Voice Artists: Paul Maxwell, Sylvia
Anderson, David Graham, John Bluthal,
Gerry Anderson.WEAPONS EPISODES
"Plant Man from Space "-The mad Dr.
Rootes attempts to conquer Earth with anincredibly prolific weed.
"XL5 to H20 '-A weird alien attacks Fire-
ball XL5 with a gun that can shatter glass
and inject poisonous gas through the
hole.
"Wings of Danger"-A robot bird is sent
by the Subterrains equipped with radiumcapsules to destroy Steve Zodiac.
"The Day the Earth Froze"-Aliens fromthe ice planet Zavia intend to destroy
Earth by deflecting the sun's rays awayfrom Earth by a giant sun reflector.
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Logan's RunCBS-TV, 1977, Color, 60 min.
Spin-off from the MGM feature film of
the same name. Logan and Jessica,
refugees from the Pleasure Dome,search for the elusive place called
Sanctuary.
WEAPONSSandman Gun: In a major change from
the movie version (and in keeping with
television anti-violence rules), the
weapon can be set to stun or paralyze.
Producer: Leonard Katzman. Execu-
tive Producers: Ivan Goff and BenRoberts. Production Designer: Mort
Rabinowitz. Story Editor: D C Fontana.
Cast: Gregory Harrison, HeatherMenzies. Donald Moffat, Randy Powell.
WEAPONS EPISODES"The Collectors' -Aliens use their
telepathic powers to create illusions to
convince Logan and Jessica that they
have found Sanctuary when, in fact,
they are aboard a spacecraft with other
captive life forms. Writer: JamesSchmere. Director: Alexander Singer.
Guest Cast: Leslie Parrish, AngelaCartwright, Linden Chiles.
"Man Out of Time '-A time traveler
arrives in the 23rd century to discover
the cause of civilization's downfall. Tohis horror, he learns it was the creation
of his own time machine. Writer: NoahWard (David Gerrold). Director:
Nicholas Colastino. Guest Cast: Paul
Shenar, Mel Farrar.
"Carousel"-A memory-erasing dart is
used on Logan to return him to the
city. Jessica and Rem attempt to rescuehim. Writer: D.C. Fontana and Richard
L. Bree, Jr. Director: Irving J. Moore.Guest Cast: Rosanne Katon, RossBickell.
Lost in SpaceCBS-TV, 1965-68, 20th Century-Fox,B&W and Color, 60 min.
Space fantasy about a family of spacecolonists who, as a result of sabotage,
become lost in uncharted space.WEAPONSLaser Guns: Hand guns used for
defense purposes.Laser Rifles: Defense weapons with a
greater range and power.Force Field: Electromagnetic barrier
designed to protect the space colonists'
camp site. Contact with the barrier
results in the destruction of the object.
Robot: The space travelers' robot is
equipped with the ability to discharge
bolts of electricity.
Creator and Executive Producer: Irwin
Allen. Story Consultant: AnthonyWilson. Special Effects: LB. Abbott,
Howard Lydecker. Makeup: Ben Nye.
Cast: Guy Williams, June Lockhart,
Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, AngelaCartwright, Billy Mumy, Bob May,Jonathan Harris.
WEAPONS EPISODES"Invaders from the Fifth Dimension"-
Alien space creatures use a glowing
necklace that inflicts pain to control Dr.
Smith. Writer: Shimon Wincelberg.
Director: Leonard Horn. Guest Cast:
Ted Lehmann, Joe Ryan.
Lehmann, Joe Ryan.
"Hunter's Moon"-Professor Robinson
attacked by a sinister alien with a fantastic
array of weapons. Writer: Jack Turley.
Director: J. Richardson. Guest Cast:
Vincent Beck"The Space Destructors"-Smith dis-
covers an android-making machine anddreams of conquest by creating anarmy. Writer: Robert Hamner. Director:
LOST IN SPACE
Don Richardson. Guest Cast: TommyFarrell.
"Flight into the Future"-Will and Smith
face death when they land on a planet
where a crazed computer manufactures
illusions to destroy them. Writer: Peter
Packer. Director: Sobey Martin. GuestCast: Don Eitner. Lew Gallo.
The Man From AtlantisNBC-TV, 1977, Color, 60 min.
After a severe storm, a young manfound lying on the beach and barely
alive is rushed to the Naval Hospital
Emergency Room where it is discovered
that he has gill-like tissue where his
lungs should be. Named Mark Harris, he
is sent to the Foundation for Oceanic
Research for treatment and observation.
Grateful, Harris joins the underwater
research team and aids their work.
WEAPONS EPISODES"The Death Scouts '-Water-breathmg
aliens from another planet have the
ability to kill a person on touch when
they link hands and deliver a lethal high
voltage shock. Writer: Robert Lewin.
Director: Marc Daniels. Guest Cast:
Tiffany Boiling, Burr DeBenning.
Annette Cardona."Killer Spores"-A space probe brings
back hundreds of blue ectoplasmic
spores which invade the human bodyand create madness. Writer: John D.F.
Black. Director Reza Badiyi. Guest Cast:
Kenneth Tigar, Ivan Bonar.
"The Disappearances"^ mad scientist
kidnaps Mark's associate Dr. Elizabeth
Merrill. She takes her to an underwater lab
where she is creating a potion that would
help her to rule the world's greatest minds.
Writer: Jerry Sohl and Luther Murdoch.
Director: Charles Dubin.
"Melt Down' -Mark's old nemesis, Mr.
Schubert, threatens to melt the arctic
ice with a heat weapon unless Markturns himself over to Schubert. Writer:
Tom Greene. Director: Virgil Vogel.
Guest Cast: Victor Buono, Robert Lussier.
"Mudworm"-Mark tries to reason with
an underwater device that threatens to
wipe out undersea life. Writer: Alan
Caillou. Director: Virgil Vogel. Guest
Cast: Victor Buono, Robert Lussier.
"Scavenger Hunt"-Con man Muldoonuses a rather friendly two-headed sea
monster to control the natives on his
island. Writer: Peter Allan Fields.
Director: David Moessinger. Guest Cast:
Ted Neeley, Richard Williams.
"The Siren"-Two kidnappers force a
sea nymph to sing her siren song in a
ploy to capture the man responsible for
America's defense system. Writer:
Michael Wagner. Director: Ed Abroms.
Guest Cast: Carol Miyaoka, Laurette
Spang, Neville Brand.
Executive Producer: Herbert F. Solow.
Producer: Herman Miller. Story Editor:
Larry Alexander. Music: Fred Karlin. Art
Director: Tracy Bousman. Special
Effects: Tom Fisher. Photographic
Effects: Gene Warren.
Cast: Patrick Duffy, Belinda J. Mont-
gomery, Alan Fudge.
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MOONBASE ALPHA LASER CANNON FROM SPACE: 1999
Space: 1999Syndicated, 1975-77, ITC, Color, 60 min.
September 13. 1999: A series of
massive thermonuclear explosions hurl
the Moon out of Earth's orbit into deepspace. The 311 men and women of
Moonbase Alpha struggle to survive
against the unknown dangers of space.
WEAPONSStun Gun: An energy-projecting hand
gun. Moonbase Alpha is equipped with
two types. The standard model is
carried by all personnel and can stun
people into unconsciousness. A special
model, which is carried by all security
personnel and planet survey parties, has
a stronger setting which can kill.
Laser Rifles: Powerful bazooka-like gunswhich can damage a fair-sized
spacecraft.
Laser Cannon: Remote controlleddefense weapon with an effective rangeof 100 miles. Moonbase Alpha has five
laser cannons located around the base.
Laser Equipped Eagles: Defense craft
equipped with two types of lasers. Thefirst is located beneath the commandmodule and is used for battle in flight.
The second unit is located above andbehind the command module. Thisremote controlled turret is used whenthe Eagle is on the ground.
Laser Tanks: Mobile lunar land vehiclesfor defense outside the perimeter of
Moonbase Alpha.
Creators: Gerry & Sylvia Anderson.Producers: Sylvia Anderson (1st
Season) and Fred Freiberger (2ndSeason). Executive Producer: GerryAnderson. Production Design: Keith
Wilson. Special Effects: Brian Johnson.Music: Barry Gray (1st Season) andDerek Wadsworth (2nd Season).
Cast: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain,
Barry Morse (1st Season), CatherineSchell (2nd Season), Tony Anholt (2ndSeason), Nick Tate, Zienia Merton.WEAPONS EPISODE—FIRST SEASON
"Voyager's Return'-Alpha is the target
of a race with a grudge against the
Earth for launching a faulty Voyagerprobe. The probe's fast neutron drive is
used to stop the alien armada. Writer:
Johnny Byrne. Director: Bob Kellett.
Guest Cast: Jeremy Kemp, BarryStokes. Alex Scott.
"End of Eternity "-A psychopathic
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alien uses his fantastic strength and
mind control powers to take control of
the moonbase. Writer: Johnny Byne.
Director: Ray Austin. Guest Cast: Peter
Bowles. Jim Stnilie.
' War Games "-An alien race uses their
powers of mind control to make the
Alphans believe they are being attacked
by fighter craft. Having no warmachines of their own. the aliens hope
this mock battle will keep the Alphans
away. Writer: Christopher Penfold.
Director: Charles Chricton. Guest Cast:
Anthony Valentine, Isla Blair.
"The Last Enemy"-Alpha becomes a
gun platform when two worlds, directly
on the opposite sides of their sun, use
the Moon to fire missiles at each other's
planet. After one gunship is destroyed,
Alpha uses a decoy Moonbuggy loaded
with explosives to destroy the remaining
battlecruiser. Writer and Director: BobKellett. Guest Cast: Caroline Mortimer.
Maxine Audley, Kevin Stoney.
"Space Brain"-Ari Eagle is crushed
into a six-foot diameter mass by the
antibodies of a gigantic "brain." Alpha
itself is threatened when it's discovered
that the Moon is on a collision course
with the bodiless intelligence. Writer:
Christopher Penfold. Director: Charles
Crichton. Guest Cast: Shane Rimmer,
Carla Romanelli.
"The Infernal Machine "-Alpha
engages in battle with Gwent—a mobile
computer. In order to blackmail the
commander of Alpha into giving it
supplies, Gwent uses a beam of light
which inflicts great pain on the humanbrain. Writers: Anthony Terpiloff and
Elizabeth Barrows. Director: David
Tomblin. Guest Cast: Leo McKem.
SECOND SEASONThe Metamorph"-An alien uses his
biological computer to lure the Alphans
down to his planet for the psychic power
he needs to rebuild his planet. Writer:
Johnny Byrne. Director: Charles
Crichton, Guest Cast: Brian Blessed.
Anouska Hempel.
"A B Chrysalis "-While their masters
are in a state of chrysalis, the computer
guardians of an alien world set off
powerful explosions that destroy
satellites of the green planet and
threaten Alpha with tremendous shock
waves. Writer: Tony Barwick. Director:
Val Guest. Guest Cast: Ina Skriver.
Sarah Douglas.
"Seed of Destruction" -The Heart of
Kalthon takes Commander Koenig
prisoner and sends his doppelganger
back to Alpha to release the seed ol
Kalthon that could destroy the universe.
Writer: John Goldsmith. Director: Kevin
Conner. Guest Cast: Jack Klaff, JamesLeith, Martha Nairn.
"The Beta Cloud"-Aliens send a
powerful robot to Alpha to steal the
base's life support core. If removed, the
moonbase will be destroyed and the
Alphans will die without light and heat.
Writer: Charles Woodgrove. Director:
Robert Lynn. Guest Cast: Dave Prowse,
Albin Pahernik.
"A Matter of Balance'-Vindrus, an
alien from the anti-matter world, uses
Alphan Shermeen Williams to bring his
people into the matter world. In order to
get Shermeen in to the landing party, he
helps her create a mutated flower that
ejects a gas which can cause people to
become sick. Writers: Pip and Jane
Baker. Director: Charles Crichton. Guest
Cast: Lynne Frederick, Stuart Wilson.
"The Bringers of Wonder "-Aliens whofeed on raw energy get the Alphans to
believe that people from Earth have
come to rescue them when in fact they
want the Alphans to set off the nuclear
waste domes that will destroy MoonbaseAlpha when the raw energy is released.
Writer: Terence Feely. Director: TomClegg. Guest Cast: Stuart Damon.Patrick Westwood."Dorzak"-A renegade Psychon uses
his powers of mind control to take over
Alpha. Writers: Pip and Jane Baker.
Director: Charles Crichton. Guest Cast:
Lee Montague, Jill Townsend."The Lambda Factor "-A strange cloud
gives an Alpha woman the telepathic
powers she needs to kill all those she
hates. Writer: Terrence Dicks. Director.
Charles Crichton. Guest Cast: DeborahFallander, Jess Conrad. Gregory de
Polnay.
"Devil's Planet"-Commander Keonig's
Eagle crashes on a prison planet. There,
he is forced to participate in a life or
death struggle in which the unarmedAlphan is chased by prison guards
armed with electrically charged whips.
Writer: Michael Winder. Director: TomClegg. Guest Cast: Hildegard Nail, RoyMarsden, Dora Reisser, Casandra
Harris.
"The Dorcons"-The most powerful
race in the known galaxy arrives to take
Maya. Alpha's defenses are useless
against the Dorcon's energy beams and
pain rays. Writer: Johnny Byrne.
Director: Tom Clegg. Guest Cast: AnnFirbank, Patrick Troughton, Gerry Sun-
quist, Alibe Parsons, LaurenceHarrington.
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STAR TREK
Star TrekNBC-TV, 1966-69, Color, 60 min.
Legendary in the annals of SF televi-
sion, Star Trek still remains popular in
syndication over 10 years after its
cancellation by NBC. Featuring the
exploits of the crew of the starship
U.S.S. Enterprise, the action centers
around the efforts of the United Federa-
tion of Planets, a galaxy-wide peace-
keeping and scientific research
organization. All weapons carried by the
U.S.S Enterprise and other Federation
vessels are defensive, not offensive.
Federation members are bound not to
interfere in the wars ot planets
WEAPONSPhaser: Principal weapon of the Federa-
HAND PHASER FROM STAR TREK
tion. The phaser is an adjustable light
beam that has the power to stun a manor blow up a spacecraft depending on
phaser beam is incorporated into
various forms: a Hand Phaser for
personnel on planetary exploration, a
Phaser Pistol when a stronger weaponis required, ttie Phaser Rifle for use
during a military action, a Phaser
Cannon which is used for large scale
II Fedor
e Phaser Banksfor defensive use.
Photon Torpedos: Defensive
weapon launched by Federa
ships. More accurate than a
Executive Producer and Creator:
Gene Roddenberry. Story Editor: D.C.
Fontana. Costumes: William Theiss.
Theme: Alexander Courage Producers:
Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry, John
Meredyth Lucas, Fred Freiberger
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard
Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle
Nichols, James Doohan, George Takei,
Walter Koenig.
WEAPONS EPISODES-FIRST SEASON"The Man Trap"-An alien creature has
the ability to change its shape and
fascinate its victims in order to suck the
salt out of human bodies. Writer:
George Clayton Johnson. Director:
Marc Daniels. Guest Cast: Jeanne Bal,
Alfred Ryder
"Charlie X"-After spending a great
many years alone. Charlie does not
understand how to relate to other
people. In fits of anger he uses his
psychic power against the crew of the
Enterprise. Writer: D C. Fontana, from a
story by Gene Roddenberry. Director:
Lawrence Dobkiri. Guest Cast: Robert
Walker. Jr., Abraham Sofaer.
"Where No Man Has Gone Before"-
Transformed by an energy field in
space, Gary Mitchell uses his super-
charged ESP powers against the Enter-
prise, forcing Kirk to kill Mitchell before
he kills them. Writer: Samuel Peeples.
Director: James Goldstone. Guest Cast:
Gary Lockwood, Sally Kellerman.
"Dagger of the Mind'-Developed to
aid those with psychiatric problems, the
power-mad Dr. Tristen Adams uses the
brain wiping Neural Neutralizer against
Captain Kirk. Writer: Shimon Wincel-
berg. Director: Vince McEveety. Guest
Cast: James Gregory, Marianna Hill,
Morgan Woodward."The Corbomite Maneuver"-Faced
with destruction from a powerful enemy,
Kirk bluffs the alien commander by
telling him about a non-existent weaponcalled the Corbomite Device. Writer:
Jerry Sohl. Director: Joseph Sargent.
Guest Cast: Anthony Hall, Clint Howard.
"Balance of Terror"-The Enterprise's
first encounter with the Romulans and
their new energy weapon which could
blow the starship apart. Writer: Paul
Schneider. Director: Vincent McEveety.
Guest Cast: Mark Lenard, Paul Comi,
John Warburton,
"A Taste of Armageddon"-The planets
Eminar II and Vendikar have found a
neat and clean way to fight a centuries-
old war. The battle is fought by
computers and when a strike is
registered in an area of a city, all the
people there must step into disintegra-
tion booths. Writers: Robert Hamner and
Gene L. Coon. Director: Joseph Pevny.
Guest Cast: David Opatoshu, Gene
SECOND SEASON"Amok Time"-ln a visit to his home
planet Vulcan, Spock fights Kirk using
ancient Vulcan weapons such as the
Lirpa. a long staff with a weight at one
end and a sharp razor at the other, and
the Ahn Woon. a sling. Writer: Theodore
Sturgeon. Director: Joseph Peevney.
Guest Cast: Arlene Martel, Celia Lovsky.
"Who Mourns For Adonis?"-Kirk and
Co. battle the alien Apollo, who claims
to be the last of the Greek Gods. Hepossesses incredible matter manipula-
tion powers and Kirk must find the
source of his power to stop the destruc-
tion of the Enterprise. Writers: Gilbert
Ralston and Gene L. Coon. Director:
Marc Daniels. Guest Cast: Michael
Forrest, Leslie Parrish.
"The Doomsday Machine '-The Enter-
prise battles a machine that devours
planets. Originally created in another
galaxy as a Doomsday Weapon in an
intergalactic war. it made its way into
our galaxy on a course that would take
it through the most densely populated
sector. Writer: Norman Spinrad.
Director: Marc Daniels. Guest Cast:
William Windom.
THIRD SEASON"The Enterprise Incident '-Kirk under-
STINGRAY
goes cosmetic surgery to disguise
himself as a Romulan in order to steal
their new secret weapon, a Cloaking
Device, which makes a spacecraft totally
invisible. Writer: D.C. Fontana. Director:
John Meredyth Lucas. Guest Cast:
Joanne Linville.
"And the Children Shall Lead"-An evil
Gorgon uses some children to take over
the Enterprise through mind control.
Writer: Edward J Lasko. Director:
Marvin Chomsky. Guest Cast: Melvin
Belli, Pamela Ferdin, Brian Tochi.
"Day of the Dove"-A creature that
feeds off hate starts a battle between
Kirk's crew and the crew of a Klingon
vessel. To obtain information from
Chekov, the Klingons use a torture
device called an Agonizer. Writer:
Jerome Bixby. Director: Marvin
Chomsky. Guest Cast: Michael Ansara,
Susan Howard."The Tholian Web"-While Kirk is
trapped in another universe by a shift in
space, the Enterprise is taken captive by
the Tholians. who surround the ship
with a web. Writers: Judy Burns and
Chet Richards. Director: Ralph Senesky.
"Plato's Stepchildren "-Kirk and crew
come upon a civilization where the
locals have super-human psychokinetic
powers which they use to entertain
themselves by controlling others whodon't have such powers. Writer: MeyerDolinsky. Director: David Alexander.
Guest Cast: Michael Dunn, Liam
Sullivan, Barbara Babcock."That Which Survives"-On a barren
planet, Kirk and his men are threatened
by a mysterious woman whose touch
means death by cellular disruption.
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas, from a
story by D.C. Fontana. Director: Herb
Wallerstein. Guest Cast: Lee Meriwether.
Naomi Pollack. Arthur Batanides.
StingraySyndicated, 1963, ITC, Color, 30 min.
In this underwater fantasy, Titan, the
230-year-old ruler of the underseakingdom of Titanica. launches an attack
on the surface world in his quest for
world domination. His most powerful
foes are the World Aquanaut Security
Patrol, who are determined to stop him
WEAPONSStingray: The W.A.S.P.'s most effective
patrol/combat vessel. This revolutionary
underwater craft has a top speed of 600knots and the power to dive safely to
depths never before attained.
Sting Missiles: With an explosive powerof 1,000 tons of T.N.T., sting missiles
are atomic powered and guided by a
special remote control device operated
from Stingray. The W.A.S.P. vessel
carries 16 missiles.
Titan Terror Fish: Titan's main line of
attack, the Terror Fish is constructed of
fused Coral Titanum, an undersea
material manufactured from Titan's ownformula. The craft is capable of great
speed and equipped with torpedos. It
uses its fish-like appearance as
camouflage.Terror Fish Torpedos: Eight hundred
tons of coralamic explosives pack the
deadly torpedo. These projectiles are
not remote controlled but their speed
makes success almost certain.
Hydromic Missiles: These vital defense
rockets are installed underground, but
when the alarm is sounded, the
launchers rise up into position and the
great remote controlled missiles are
ready for lift-off.
Underwater Interceptors: Concealed
beneath the seabed, very close to
Marineville's approaches from the sea,
as many as a dozen powerful missiles
can be launched at a moment's notice.
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Created by Gerry and Sylvia
Anderson. Executive Producer: Gerry
Anderson. Lighting Cameraman: JohnRead. Special Effects: Derek Meddings.
Puppet Supervision: Sylvia AndersonMusic: Barry Gray.
Voice Artists: Don Mason. Lois
Maxwell. Ray Barrett, Robert Easton.
WEAPONS EPISODES"Plant of Doom'-Titan orders Surface
Agent X-20 to give Marina a beautiful
flower covered by a glass jar. When the
cover is removed and one inhales the
exotic perfume, the person falls uncon-scious. Writer: Alan Fennell. Director:
David Elliot.
"The lnvaders"-ln order to attack
W.A.S.P. HQ, an underwater race uses a
mind reading machine to extract vital
secrets from the Stingray crew. Writer:
Dennis Spooner. Director: David Elliott.
"Pink lce"-An enemy craft deposits a
deadly substance into the sea that
rapidly freezes the water into pink
colored ice. Writer: Alan Fennell.
Director: David Elliott.
"A Nut for Marineville"-A professor
must race against time to develop a
more powerful missile to destroy analien craft attacking Marineville. Writers:
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Director:
David Elliott.
UFO
SupermanABC-TV, 1 953-57, B&W and Color, 30 min.
The commercial for this series pro-
claimed that Superman's only weaponwas his 'super body' which could deflect
bullets, and was strong enough to bendmost steel or smash through concrete.
Creators: Jerome Siegal and Joe Shu-ster. Producers^ Robert Maxwell & Ber-
nard Lubar (1st Season), Whitney Ells-
worth (2nd Season). Directors of
Photography: Harold Stine, Harold Well-
man, Joseph Biroc. Special Effects: Thol
Simonson.Cast: George Reeves, Phyllis Coates
(1st season), Noel Neill (from the 2ndseason on). Jack La*rsen, JohnHamilton, Robert Shayne
WEAPONS EPISODES-FIRST SEASON"The Mind Machine"-A gangster
lorces a scientist to use his newmachine to stop people from giving
damaging testimony at his trial. Writers:
Dennis Cooper, Lee Backman. Director:
Lee Sholem. Guest Cast: Dan Seymour.Ben Weldon, Griff Bennett, EdmundCoff.
"The Runaway Robot"-A kindly scien-tist's robot is used by crooks to commitcrimes. Writer: Dick Hamilton. Director:
Thomas Carr. Guest Cast: DanSeymour, John Harmon. Russell
Johnson."The Unknown People '-Two-part epi-
sode edited from feature Supermanvs. The Mole Men. (See listing in film
section for details)
SECOND SEASON"The Defeat of Superman "-Criminals
hold Superman at bay when they comeupon some Kryptonite, a substancefrom his home planet which is deadly to
the Man of Steel. Writer: Jackson Gills.
Director: Thomas Carr. Guest Cast:
Maurice Cass, Peter Mamakos"The Machine That Could Plot
Crimes "-A computer is used to devise
perfect crimes. Writer: Jackson Gills.
Director: Thomas Carr. Guest Cast:
Sterling Holloway, Billy Nelson. BenWei den.THIRD SEASON"Superman Week"-Kryptonite is again
used in an attempt to kill Superman.This time it's hidden in a bust of Super-man's head. Writer: Peggy Chantler.
Director: Harry Gerstad. Guest Cast:
Herburt Vigran, Tamar CooperFOURTH SEASON"The Big Freeze"-Superman is tricked
into entering a 2000 D below zero freezer
unit, specially built to sap his super-
strength. Writer: David Chantler.
Director: Harry Gerstad. Guest Cast:
Richard Reeves, George E. Stone.
"Topsy Turvey"-A scientist's invention
that can make things appear upside
down is used by criminals. Writer: DavidChantler. Director: Harry Gerstad. GuestCast: Phillips Tead, Ben Welden."The Deadly Rock'-Kryptonite re-
turns. A friend of Clark Kent is mistakenfor Superman when he becomessusceptible to the substance. Writer:
Jackson Gillis. Director: Harry Gerstad.
Guest Cast. Robert Lowery, StevenGeray, Lyn Thomas."The Phantom Ring"-A gang of
criminals uses a machine to make them-selves invisible. Writer: David Chantler.
Director: Phil Ford. Guest Cast: Paul
Burke, Peter Brocco.FIFTH SEASON
"Mr. Zero "-A pint-sized alien with the
power to paralyze with his touch is
forced to work for some gangsters.
Writer: Peggy Chantler. Director: HarryGerstad. Guest Cast: Billy Curtis,
Herburt Vigran.
"Whatever Goes Up"-Jimmy Olsen's
experimental formula defies gravity andbecomes a criminal weapon. Writer:
Wilton Schiller. Director: Harry Gerstad.Guest Cast: Tris Coffin, Milton Frome.SIXTH SEASON"The Magic Secret"-A new twist for
deadly Kryptonite. This time a scientist
invents a Kryptonite ray. Writers: RobertLeslie Bellem and Whitney Ellsworth.
Director. Phil Ford. Guest Cast:
Freeman Lusk, Buddy Lewis.
"The Big Forget"-Antimemory gas is
used by criminals to cover their crimes.
Writer: David Chantler. Director: GeorgeBlair. Guest Cast: Phillips Tead. HerburtVigran.
"The Gentle Monster"-Superman can't
get near a robot because it's poweredby Kryptonite. .Writer: David Chantler.
Director: Howard Bretherton. GuestCast: Phillips Tead, Ben Welden.
UFOSyndicated, 1969, ITC, Color, 60 min.
It is the 1980s and Earth is underattack by an unknown alien race whoare bent on plundering the Earth for
their own survival. Only SHADO(Supreme Headquarters Alien DefenseOrganization) can save the Earth fromthe blood-thirsty invaders.
ALIEN INVASION WEAPONSLaser Cannons: Each UFO craft is
equipped with a directional laser
cannon for defense and attack use.
Rapid-Fire Rifles: Used as a side-arm,
this weapon can be fired in bothatmosphere and vacuum. The weaponcan discharge about 200 rounds perminute of small explosive capsules.
SHADO DEFENSE WEAPONSUFO Interceptors: In the event of anattack from space, these three swift
one-man fighter craft can be launchedinstantly from Moonbase. Each craft
carries a very powerful space-to-spacemissile.
Skydiver: A fleet of these submarinescruise the oceans of the world onconstant alert. Mounted on the nose of
each sub is a supersonic fighter planewhich can be launched from under-water. The submarine is equipped withtorpedos and missiles and the fighter
plane has air-to-air rockets.
Mobiles: For ground-to-air or ground-to-ground attack, these tank-like vehicles
are equipped with rocket launchers.
Lunar Rocket Launchers: For its owndefense, SHADO's Moonbase has its
own Mobiles. These limited movementvehicles (they cannot go far from thebase) can shoot down approachingUFOs above the Moonbase.Molly: A portable hand-held rocket
launcher capable of destroying a UFO.Can only fire one rocket per loading.
Format: Gerry and Sylvia Andersonwith Reg Hill. Producer: Reg Hill.
Executive Producer: Gerry Anderson.Music: Barry Gray. Story Editor: TonyBarwick. Photography: Brendan Staf-
ford. Art Director: Bob Bell. SpecialEffects: Derek Meddings.
Cast: Ed Bishop, George Sewell,
Michael Billington, Peter Gordeno,Gabrielle Drake, Harry Baird. GaryMeyers, Keith Alexander, VladekSheybal, Grant Taylor, Wanda Venthem.WEAPONS EPISODES
"Conflict "-The Aliens use a computer-controlled limpet satellite to disrupt
Moonship re-entries. The device
attaches itself to the bottom of a Moon-ship and then proceeds to jam its
controls and send the spacecraft into a
re-entry angle that will burn the ship up.
Writer: Ruric Powell. Director: KenTurner. Guest Cast: Grant Taylor.
"E.S.P."-A man with the ability to
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predict people's moves before theymake them, is taken over by the Aliensand used to kill SHADO's two topofficers, Straker and Freeman. Writer:
Alan Fennell. Director: Ken Turner.Guest Cast: John Stratton, DouglasWilmer, Deborah Stranford.
"Killer Straker!"-Two SHADO astro-
nauts are hypnotically programmed to
kill Commander Straker. Writer: DonaldJames. Director: Alan Perry. Guest Cast:
David Sumner."The Dalotek Affair"-The Aliens plant
a device on the Moon that jams all
Moonbase radio signals. Communica-tion with Earth is impossible and Moon-ships cannot land because they cannotreceive computer guidance. Writer:
Ruric Powell. Director: Alan Perry.
Guest Cast: Tracy Reed."Flight Path"-When a UFO attacks
Moonbase during a period of heavysunspot activity which knocks out all
scanners, the base's only hope is onelone astronaut on the lunar surface witha rocket launcher. Writer: Ian ScottStewart. Director: Ken Turner. GuestCast: George Cole, Sonia Fox.
"The Psychobombs "-Three ordinarypeople are given superhuman ability
and programmed to destroy variousSHADO installations. Each time theytouch power lines, their bodies becomelive bombs. Writer: Tony Barwick.
Director: Jeremy Summers. Guest Cast:Deborah Grant, Mike Pratt, DavidCollings.
"Mindbender"-A strange moonrockrecovered from the wreckage of a UFOcauses three people to go berserk. Theybelieve they are fighting their enemieswhen in fact they are fighting
colleagues. Writer: Tony Barwick.Director: Ken Turner. Guest Cast: Al
Mancini, Stuart Damon, CharlesTingwell.
"Reflections in the Water"-A newmeans of attack: the Aliens launchunderwater remote controlled laser
equipped missiles at ships. Writer andDirector: David Tomblin. Guest Cast:James Cosmo.
"Timelash' -The Aliens have found away to stop time when a single UFOattempts to destroy SHADO HQ.However, Straker and Col. Lake, whowere not at headquarters when the forcefield hit, attempt to shoot down the UFOwith a rocket gun. Writer: TerenceFeely. Director: Cyril Frankel. GuestCast: Patrick Allen.
"The Long Sleep"-A girl who hasawakened from a 10-year coma is
SHADO's only clue to the whereaboutsof a bomb that could start an earth-
quake and destroy London. She is also
the Alien's only lead to the armingdevice which she hid 10 years earlier.
Writer: David Tomblin. Director: JeremySummers. Guest Cast: Tessa Wyatt,
Christian Roberts.
Voyage to the Bottom of the SeaABC-TV, 1964-68, 20th Century-Fox,B&W and Color, 60 min.Undersea Irwin Allen adventure based
on his 1961 feature film by the samename. Each episode featured the crewof the futuristic submarine Seaview asthey battled monsters, enemy agents,and aliens trom space.
WEAPONSSeaview: Although generally used as aresearch submarine, the Seaview is themightiest weapon afloat. She carries
atomic missiles and torpedos and is
armed with a forward laser cannon in
the nose of the ship.
£.aser Guns: For defense use. the crewcarries laser guns as well as ordinaryrevolvers.
Creator and Executive Producer: Irwin
Allen. Story Consultant: SidneyMarshall. Director of Photography: Carl
Guthrie. Special Effects: L B. Abbott.Makeup. Ben Nye.
Cast: Richard Basehart, DavidHedison, Bob Dowdell, Terry Becker,Del Munroe.WEAPONS EPISODES-FIRST SEASON
"The Fear Makers"-A strange gas that
causes people to be afraid is used to
slow an investigation. Writer: AnthonyWilson, Director: Leonard Horn. GuestCast: Edgar Bergan, Lloyd Bochner,Mark Slade.
"The Sky is Falling "-An alien space-craft fires upon the Seaview with abeam of light that knocks out all power.Writer: Don Brinkley. Director: LeonardHorn. Guest Cast: Charles McGraw,Joseph di Reda, Frank Ferguson."The Village of Guilt"-A deranged
scientist uses a giant octopus to control
a seaside village. Writer: Berne Giler.
Director: Irwin Allen. Guest Cast:
Richard Calson, Anna-Lisa, Steven Geray."The Magnus Beam "-Enemy agents
are destroying U.S. aircraft with a
Magnus beam. Writer: Alan Caillou.
Director: Leonard Horn. Guest Cast:Monique Lemaire, Malachi Throne."The Blizzard Makers"-Enemy agents
turn a scientist into a robot to stop theSeaview from finding out how they arechanging the Gulf Stream. Writer: Wil-
liam Welch. Director: Joseph Leytes.Guest Cast: Werner Klemperer, Milton
Seltzer.
"The Indestructible Man "-An Astro-robot is loose aboard Seaview, repro-grammed to kill, Writer: Richard Landau,Director: Felix Feist.
"The Enemies"-Dnvgs are used to turnNelson and Crane into bitter enemies.Writer: William Reed Woodfield.
Director: Felix Feist. Guest Cast: HenrySilva, Malachi Throne.
"Secret of the Loch"-The Seaview dis-
covers that a monster-shaped sub hasbeen used to scare the people awayfrom Loch Ness. Writer: CharlesBennett. Director: Sobey Martin. GuestCast: Torin Thatcher, Hedley Mattingly.
SECOND SEASON"The Cyborg "-Mad scientist Victor
Buono creates a duplicate of Nelsonwhich is programmed to launchSeaview's missiles at strategic targets.
Writer: William Reed Woodfield.Director: Leo Penn. Guest Cast: Victor
Buono, Brooke Bundy, Nancy Hsueh,Fred Crane.
"The Peacemaker "-A scientist threa-
tens the world with a super bomb that
could destroy the Earth. Writers: William
Reed Woodfield, Allan Baiter. Director:
Sobey Martin. Guest Cast: JohnCassavetes, Irene Tsu.
"The Machines Strike Back "-Enemyagents find a way to take control of
automated U.S. Defense equipment andturn it on the United States. Writers:
John and Ward Hawkins. Director: JerryJuran. Guest Cast: Roger C. Carmel,Francoise Ruggieri. Bert Remsen."The Menfish '-A scientist creates an
army of amphibious menfish. Writers:
William Reed Woodfield, Allan baiter.
Director: Tom Giles. Guest Cast: GaryMerrill, John Dehner, Victor LundinTHIRD SEASON"The Terrible Toys '-An alien intelli-
gence takes command of six toys anduses them to take control of Seaview.Writer: Robert Vincent Wright. Director:
J. Addiss. Guest Cast: Paul Fix, FrancisX. Bushman, Jim Mills.
FOURTH SEASON"Fires of Death"-ln order to obtain the
life-prolonging elixir he needs so badly,a scientist turns Morton into a goldenrobot and uses him and another goldenman on the Seaview crew. Writer: ArthurWeiss. Director: Bruce Fowler. GuestCast: Victor Jory.
"A Time to Die "-A bizarre little manwho has a machine that can hurl peopleabout in time attacks the Seaview.Writer: William Welch. Director: R.
Sparr. Guest Cast: Henry Jones.
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