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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,

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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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