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I watched this PBS show a ton in the 80's on KCPT PBS Kansas City,Missouri. I have it on VHS tapes. One of the best parts was the ABM base in ND and shots of Nike Hercules missiles launch ready. The cold war was a war that is hard to explain to today's youth and no one seems to have learned anything (in my opinion) other than the fact that no nuclear exchange of any sort happened. Living with a huge amount of Nuclear weapons pointed at the 48 states is something today's youth does not have to live with. We did back in the day. Some think the ABM and ICBM were a waste of money & I disagree; we are all alive to this day as an example of why they are wrong. The show is kind of a hodge podge of cold war information. You see shots of the nuclear cannon, ICBM bases, ABM and SAM bases. If you are into the cold war this is a must see -- no doubt about it.

I remember seeing this anti-drug film reel short along with a bunch of others. This was the only one that in 5-6th grade we all laughed a bit and made fun of it during the showing, LOL. --- our teacher didn't even give us a hard time about it since it was obvious this was anti-drug propaganda at its worse. the kid falling trying to take cookies from a jar was so stupid, and then they said 'drugs are like that'. At lunch that day everyone was bashing the film, throwing food on the floor and then saying "drugs are like that" etc. very dumb but some other anti-drug movies were dumb also, nothing like this one -- it takes the cake (or cookies). Thought of this since a friend that made a movie used some stock clips from it, person water skiing etc.

I was lucky enough to live in an area on the United States that had a station that aired Ultraman and Johnny Sokko & His Flying Robot in the 70's. I was a big Speed Racer fan(now on the SPEED Channel), but was more into the live action tv shows like Jason of Star Command, Ark II, Space Academy, Land of the Lost, Six Million Dollar Man, etc. I've seen many different Ultraman series but this is my favorite and the one I saw in the 70's. The silver praying mantis looking face, the crossing of the arms to shoot an electric charge, it was just great entertainment. Iota was a great character to turn into Ultraman with a great team to fight monsters. TBS aired Ultra 7 for a while, I guess Ted Turner owns the rights, it's similar to this Ultraman series but the production and voice over quality isn't nearly as good. Don't miss it!!!

This show was a great kids show. Sure it maybe wasn't the most original serial type show, but look at how well the classic movie 'Star Wars' did by copying the standard serial action adventure theme. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century continued the concept and even used names like 'Twiki' for a robot, where JOSC had already used the name WIKKI as a flying mini robot gadget. Like most posts this show was a fun show, Dragos was one of the greatest bad guys in any kids show.

I watched this cartoon as a kid and it was one of my favorites. It was aired right after Johnny Sokko & his Flying Robot 4:00pm after school on channel 41 in 1969-79(Kansas City local tv market). Great opening credits and great show A to Z. I like the Alpine Race and the Challenge race with the skull head driver. Snake Oiler is my favorite bad driver & racer X is the coolest of the bunch, even over Speed to a degree, Enjoy....

This movie has more comments on it than most on IMDb.... MST3000 has made this into a cult favorite. I wish they didn't because it makes the e-bay stuff so expensive and I collect the campy one sheets and lobby cards. It even has a magazine that was made as part of the film hype. The sea monster is real cool, the film has more entertainment value than some of the posts I've read. Sure the acting and directing was second or third rate, but the whole film was probably made with under 50,000 dollars total, like the Roger Corman films. They hired an unknown band to have a musical backdrop. ----- If you like this one try the B&W movie Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster, It had a cool one sheet combo too. Horror movies in the 60's were fun, sure they were campy and stupid, kind of like how Lost in Space got in the third season but they're classic in their own way. A bit different than the heavy duty Hellraiser and Silence of the Lambs type horror movies of today. So my point is that many are missing the fact the this production was made to be a fun Horror movie for teenagers & the drive-in crowd. Not trying to win a award for plot or directing etc.

I saw this movie in Cedar Rapids, IA in about 1969. It had a lasting impact remembering it since I was three. Since posting I have found that the Xerox company made it and you can find it at some libraries in the USA ---- ----Spoiler Warning ------- what I remember about TWM is two kids that are friends climb into a tall rocket type capsule that is the wishing machine. They have great voyages and fantastic adventures and leave it to a normal life only to return back to it for more adventures later. Perfect for kids about my age at the time (three/four). Check it out if you find it, I think it is a masterpiece and very relevant to the cold war.

You have to admit The Man With The Power was a unique property. ---SPOILER

WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-------------------------------------------------The show starts out with a guy (Eric Smith) walking along a train track, he saves a turtle that is stuck on the tracks and gets his foot stuck between the tracks. As a huge train car is about to run over him(and the turtle in his hand) -- he uses special powers to stop the train car. This tv pilot & Eric Smith reminds me a lot of Matthew Barton's "Powers Of Matthew Star", they're both telekinetic teenagers of the 70's. I guess the man with the power didn't have the huge teen appeal that Matthew Barton had. It had great actors like Vic Morrow but it just didn't make it as a series. The Trio Network just aired a segment on it 12/30/02. It was on Trio's "The Greatest Shows You Never Saw" -- that special was excellent -- Eric Smith saves the turtle!!!! Agent Walter Bloom his mentor helps show him he can move a wagon (with terrible special effects) -- he was supposed to end up being a special agent with special powers kind of like Steve Austin in the Six Million Dollar Man but the concept was canned.

The Fuzz Brothers movie was a pilot for a proposed tv series called "Fuzz Brothers", Lou Gossett Jr. was the sidekick in the series. It was a cop show that never was. Good acting and action -- but short lived. I saw a recent highlight of it on the Trio Network on Digital Cable. -- Anyone else ever seen this? --

I am lucky enough to be able to say I've seen this rare tv series. It was a great series, Quaid was always up to no good with the Delos robots as Moore tried to keep them at bay. The hot looking Connie Selleca was added to the show after the pilot but that couldn't even save this show from the corporate axe and the annals of obscurity. They made six episodes of 'Beyond Westworld' but only four were actually shown on tv. A guy on e-bay was selling this show complete with the two unaired episodes included and was raking people over the coals per copy(some over 30.00 USA). The late Art Sholl did the aircraft/chopper flying stunts for the show. He worked on hundreds of tv shows, films and advertising projects before crashing into the ocean filming a action sequence for the popular 80's movie 'Top Gun'. Thumbs up for this rare show.

This series was much like the T-Zone:had a host and a 20 min segment of something weird happening to someone. The episodes I have on S-VHS are a little slow and don't have very interesting plots compared to the Twilight Zone or Outer Limits tv series episodes. One thing is that it didn't have the science fiction elements that the Outer Limits and Twilight Zone used every ninth or tenth episode.

It's hard to find good things to say about Starlost, even the popular guest stars didn't do much for it's appeal. It shows you how hard it is to make a decent Sci-Fi tv series. The writing by Ellison was terrible, the sets were weak, it made Dr Who look like Star Wars.... Oro go home...

I watched the first run of Quark and later saw a couple episodes on The Comedy Channel. Richard Benjamin was great and the twin gals were babes. I hope it'll be aired again or released on Rhino Video or something. Other Sci-Fi to watch: Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Red Dwarf.

This film has to be one of the weirdest of all time. It's so cheap it's scarry, the peg leg to the skinny dude. Grinding dead bodies in the corpse grinder. Anyone for cat food? Kaleb a real schlock actor. Makes you wonder if these people weren't really up to something strange.

This has gotta be the best Horror movie ever made. It really moves and gives you the BEEF!!!!! I'm not going to write ten paragraphs like the others but I'd have to say as a Midnight Movie at Oak Park Mall in Kansas it ruled!!! You'd hear a big liquor bottle drop in the theatre and everyone would laugh. Everyone's so trash they'd have to comment on everything on the big screen -- even the scene where the cups fall off a table, everyone said 'ZOMBIE CUPS' in a baked sense. I've seen it on the big screen at least five times, on video plenty. The guts really get torn up later in the film and the conflict with the bikers/looters at the mall really add to an already excellent plot line. I've got my chopper waiting if the end comes -- headin' out to the Great Mall of America to call it my own. If I turn into a Zombie be sure to blow my brains out!!

Although to find this film your best bet is to search under the 'Messiah of Evil' title, I saw it in it's 'Dead People' format at the drive in many times, one of our favorites. I recently bought it on E-bay as Messiah of Evil and it's a Drive In Classic in my opinion(which isn't saying much but it's great to watch). I don't compare it to 'Night or Dawn of the Dead' but this film has some interesting scenes. I like the meandering plot -- makes no sense at times or all the time, classic voiceover: "I walked along the beach thinking about my fathers diary".... Her father Royal Dano(Planet of the Apes tv series) got a bit burned up in the flick... She had to to make things right. The part where the zombie truck driver bites the head off a mouse is truly awsome(for real): "YOU DON'T LIKE THEM?, I EAT THEM". Weird movie!!!

Fantastic Journey was a great show and was one of the original 'Sci-Fi Collection' tv shows aired during the Sci-Fi Channel's(USA) original beginning. Jared Martin did a great job in this show. Roddy McDowell was a nice addition after his introduction episode. It paved the way for shows like 'The Otherworld' and 'The Bermuda Triangle'. Fantastic Journey was an entertaining show. They had a great looking female actress too.

Gemini Man was a fun Harve Bennett tv series about a guy that could go invisible for 15 seconds after clicking a watch. Half of it's twelve episode was never aired. The best episode was 'Minotaur' that had a huge killer robot patrolling a vast complex. It was the creation of a mad scientist upset about something. Much like a few of the episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man. It was last shown on the Sci-Fi Channel (USA).

After reading the comments on the IMBb site related to the 70's tv series 'Project UFO', I'd wonder if they saw the same show. The Project UFO characters were US Air Force officers investigating UFO sightings. Much like a Project Blue Book tv series(they just didn't want to use the name). X-Files is something completly different, it's a show about two FBI agents that investigate real wierd cases, and once in a while you'll see a captured UFO/alien or a UFO/alien related plot. But nothing right to the point about UFO sightings like 'Project UFO'. A typical X-File episode is about a strange monster/person living in the ducts of a building with slime and newpapers all around him -- sewer monsters -- bad government medical experiments -- strange government experiments that look like their aliens but turn out to be mutations or something of that nature. Mulder is a huge UFO fan and believer but X-Files is a modern Kolchak:The Night Stalker. I'm not putting down religion, but the entertaining Project UFO is a Harve Bennett Project Blue Book tv series and has nothing (other than a Nun sighting episode) to do with religion or UFO cults. It has to do with the US Air Force investigating UFO sightings -- It was just aired 11/01 on the TV Land Network (USA), it was a great episode called 'Sighting 4011:The Doll House Incident'. It starred David Hedison (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), Marta Kristen (Lost in Space) and had an excellent plot with a full scale UFO! It (Project UFO) was no 'flag waving' government sponsered show;some cases were classified 'unexplained', not all explained hoaxes, it was a try at making money by Harve Bennett the king of 70's schlock tv. I guess TV1 in Australia has been airing the series and people sell VHS tapes of it on e-bay.

I didn't watch the Logan's Run tv series during it's original run, I actually watched it after I saw the 'Logan's Run' movie (feature film) on the TNT Network (USA): One of Ted Turner's networks. Luckily I taped them on HiFi-VHS SP tape speed and cherish them. I was aired on TNT less than five years ago but I bet never again. I remember hearing about the tv series it being cancelled due to too much Violence according to the 70's censors. I think Gregory Harrison and Heather Menzies was a great pair and the show was great. The beautiful Melody Anderson was in a episode(Manimal tv series star). REM was a great character and a cool idea. One of Heather Menzies relatives was in the classic 'Things to Come' movie. --- Great tv series: A++++++++++++

Spencer's Pilots was a great CBS air adventure series that paved the way for the popular 80's CBS series Airwolf. I watched the show in 1976 and was impressed by the phototage of the air stunt and the acting -- one stunt in the 'Drone' episode was a near disaster. Ken Rand piloting a home built aircraft was flying as the Drone and tried to make an emergency landing crashing into trees --luckily he survived. You can see a promo photo of the series on the National Helicopter site. They did the chopper stunts for the show. Christopher Stone was my favorite pilot in the show and in the drone episode (SPOILER)** he used his WWII experience of tiping the wings of German V-1 rocket planes over England to tip the wing of the drone and save the day. You can buy the German release of the show now (2013)on e-bay - not cheap and is region 2 but I bought a region 2 player for 30.00 usd. Great show!!!!!!