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Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away. He abandoned her and a sailor on a mysterious island and has come back after all these years to see if she is still alive and if the nightmares he has will stop. The daughter has been found by five survivors of a Union Army Balloon that crashed near the island. At sea, Professor Aronnax was aboard the ship 'Abraham Lincoln' when Nemo rammed it and threw the Professor, his daughter and two others into the water. Prisoners at first, they are now treated as guests to view the underwater world and to hunt under the waves. Nemo also tells them about the Nautilus and the revenge that has driven him for all these years.

Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer

When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

Stars: Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark

The European Space Exploration Council sends two astronauts to explore a planet similar to the Earth but located on the opposite side of the sun.

Stars: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee

Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American mercenary fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.

Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro (The Spy Who Loved Me, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad), Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff (Knight Rider, BayWatch)

Series 1 Episode 1 "A Village in England: July, 2089 AD"
Episode aired 15 September 1984

Will meets a strange vagrant that tells him the truth about capping, and a place in The White Mountains for free men. Will and Henry decide to leave their village to find it.

Stars: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaak Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau

In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
Trivia
In an interview, John Carpenter said the story was inspired by the science fiction novel "Planet of the Damned" by Harry Harrison, which was about a man with no choice, but to do a job for the government.
The line "I thought you were dead" was probably borrowed from Big Jake (1971). Every time John Wayne tells someone his name, the standard response is "I thought you were dead." Which would mean that parts of this film were inspired by two legendary western stars, or their films; John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, the latter, on whom Kurt Russell based his performance.

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Burgess Meredith, Ursula Andress

Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.
Trivia
This was the only movie by Ray Harryhausen to get a "PG" rating. In the past, all of his films were "Approved" and, as of 1969, rated "G" (especially the 1970s re-releases of some of his older movies).
The sea monster, seen at the start of the movie, that destroys the city of Argos was derived from Norwegian mythology. In Greek mythology, the sea monster that threatened Andromeda's people was called Cetus (whale). The Norwegian/Swedish name Kraken is now used as a synonym for the giant squid.
Harry Hamlin and Ursula Andress began a relationship during the production of this movie, which produced a son, Dimitri Hamlin, born in 1980 after completion of principal photography.
According to mythology, after Medusa's head was severed from her neck, two offspring sprang forth: the winged horse Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor.
Despite being listed on posters and having main title billing, Ursula Andress only says one line in the entire movie.
Bubo, the mechanical owl of Athena, was introduced to capitalize on the popularity of R2-D2 from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). The name "Bubo" is a scientific term for the genus of eagle owls and horned owls, which is interesting, because the robot Bubo was modelled on a barn owl, which is the genus Tyto, and not a Bubo at all. Bubo made a cameo appearance in Clash of the Titans (2010).
The character Calibos, Lord of the Marsh, and son of Thetis, does not appear in Greek mythology, and is based on Caliban, an antagonist created by William Shakespeare in 1611 for his play "The Tempest". In Greek mythology, the son of Thetis was Achilles, Greece's best warrior in the fight against Troy.
Before Harry Hamlin was considered for the role of Perseus, other runner-ups for the role were Malcolm McDowell, Michael York, and Richard Chamberlain. Arnold Schwarzenegger (who was fairly unknown at the time, but would find greater success with Conan the Barbarian (1982)) was briefly considered for the role, but Producer Charles H. Schneer felt that, with the exception of Hercules, Greek heroes were athletic, but not overly muscular, and relied more on cunning than strength. He also felt that casting a very muscular actor was a cliché, hearkening back to the cheesy Italian sword and sandal movies made in the 1950s and 1960s.
A novelization of this movie was written by Alan Dean Foster, and was published in 1981. It elaborates on certain characters a lot more than the film itself. For example, all of Thallo's soldiers who accompany Perseus have names and dialogue, whereas in the film their faces are never really seen and have no lines or names.

Season 1 Episode 1 "The Night of the Inferno" RIP Robert Conrad (March 1, 1935-February 08, 2020)

President Grant, beset by problems, recalls his top troubleshooter James West to service. West and his partner Artemus Gordon must discover why Juan Manolo has staged a series of raids in the southwest territories. Sending the army might cause a war, but a pair of low key troubleshooters might be able to solve the problem.
Trivia
This is the only episode that has five drawings during the breaks instead of the four the rest have.
The pool table seen in James West's train car was made smaller than regulation size in order to better fit into its surroundings.

Stars: Ron Ely, Paul Gleason, William Lucking

Doc and the Amazing Five battle Captain Seas and "the green death" for control of a fabulous resource.
Trivia
Near the start of the movie there is a scene which features a Broadway Ticket Agency which is promoting a boxing match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. There were two matches between them in 1936. Schmeling won the 1st match and Louis won the 2nd.
It was reported in contemporary news accounts that a sequel had been filmed in the Lake Tahoe area simultaneously with the principal photography for the first Doc Savage, but the sequel was never completed because of the poor box office for that first film.
This was to be the first in a series of films based on a popular series of pulp novels. The poor box office returns cancelled plans for any further film productions.
To put out the fire in Doc's residence, "extinguisher globes" are used. In reality, such globes were marketed in the nineteenth century. They were made of glass and filled with carbon tetrachloride or some other fire suppressant. Though they have a long shelf life and are now collectibles, they were only minimally effective against fires.
Ron Ely also directed some of the second unit sequences.
Near the end of the film, Doc drives by a theatre marquee that shows Captain Blood (1935) is playing.
Steve Reeves was originally contracted to play Doc Savage but had to drop out due to a long-running writers' strike in Hollywood.
Popular "sci-fi" author and pulp fiction fan Philip Jose Farmer wrote a book entitled "Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life", a biography of "the man of bronze". In it, he theorized that Clark Savage, Sr. (the father of Doc Savage) was James Clarke Wildman, who appeared in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Priory School". This was an element of the "Wold Newton" theory, a work of fan genealogy that organized characters from many popular works of fiction into interrelated family trees.
Except for the campy tone of the film, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze was fairly faithful to the novels and characters, which included such elements as: Doc's trilling (although it sounded like bells tinkling rather than a more lifelike trilling (such as a cat purring). Bickering between Monk and Ham. Renny's signature expletive "Holy Cow!" Renny's love of slamming his fists through solidly constructed doors or door-panels. Monk's pet pig, Habeas Corpus. Doc's Fortress of Solitude The penthouse headquarters on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. The Crime College and Doc's brain surgery techniques to remove the criminal element from crooks he'd captured, making them incapable of committing further crimes. Doc's dramatic descent down a skyscraper elevator shaft. Doc's daily two-hour exercise regime. Doc standing on an automobile's running board in hot pursuit. Johnny's use of long, obscure words when simple words would suffice. Johnny's signature expletive "I'll be superamalgamated!" A plethora of retro gadgetry such as heat detector, globes of fire-fighting chemicals (extinguisher globes), phonograph-based recording machine, remote-controlled aircraft, a ray gun disguised as a cigarette lighter, lightweight bullet-proof vests, miniaturized SCUBA-type underwater breathing gear, and the Whizzer, a prototype helicopter--all his inventions and designs.
Michael Berryman's film debut.

Series 1 Episode 0 "Arrival"
Episode aired 1 June 1968

After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison known only as The Village.

Stars: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy

A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on the run while in possession of a top-secret spy gadget.
Trivia
The movie takes place in San Antonio, Texas which is also the birthplace of actor Henry Thomas who plays Davey.
The video game which is central to the movie had already been in development as production of the film began (the game then named "Agent X"); when Atari was consulted to provide a game as an element of the movie, they tweaked "Agent X" and renamed it Cloak & Dagger (1983). Dabney Coleman's character was then renamed "Agent X" in the movie. The game saw limited arcade release.
There is a poster in the game shop for the Atari 2600 video game console's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Henry Thomas, who played Davey in the film, also had a starring role in the feature film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
When Davey is buying his ticket for the riverboat ride, the cash register ringing and the sound of coins are the same ones used in the Pink Floyd song Pink Floyd: Money (1973).
The "Invisible Bomber" project plans contained within the secret game cartridge strongly resembles the United States Air Force's SR-71 Blackbird. Not known to the general public at the time of the film's release, the SR-71 was designed to be a stealth aircraft, and had indeed sprung from a secret Air Force project to produce a supersonic stealth bomber. As it was fielded, the SR-71 ended up as a stealth reconnaissance platform. The "Invisible Bomber" plans in the film include a reference to a "Forward Looking Infrared Pod," (FLIR) which now is well known as a component of military attack craft; at the time of the filming however, it would have been futuristic.
In the USA, the movie was launched in a limited release on a double-bill with The Last Starfighter (1984) on 13th July 1984. About a month later, on 10th August 1984, Cloak & Dagger (1984) then re-opened separately for its own season.

Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Lee Majors II, Sandra Bullock, Geraint Wyn Davies (Forever Knight)

The Bionic Woman and the Six Million Dollar Man reunite, with a few younger bionic assistants, and try to catch a bionic spy.

Season 1 Episode 1 "Log 1: The Impossible Mission"
Episode aired 21 September 1968

Malloy plans to resign at the end of shift due to the death of his previous partner but is assigned a rookie partner Reed. Malloy decides the green Reed is worthy of Malloy's effort to train him leading Malloy to stay on the job.
Trivia
When Malloy and Reed stop at the altercation involving the woman who believes she has a lizard in her dress, a line of cars is parked along the street. The car at the front of the line is the same Ford Fairlane 500 used throughout the Dragnet series.

Stars: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Jack Elam

Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.
Trivia
James Stewart stated that of all the westerns he made this one was his personal favorite.
When the film was released there was criticism that it was much inferior to the novel.
In the novel by T.T. Flynn, the foreman Vic Hansboro is a much more overtly villainous character, while Barbara Waggoman is a much stronger and more independent character.
The film has been described as a western version of King Lear.
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
One of the first Westerns to be shot in CinemaScope.
This film has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 9 critic reviews.

Season 1 Episode 0 "Flying Misfits"
Episode aired 21 September 1976

Maverick WW2 Marine aviator forms his own fighter squadron.
Trivia
Boyington says he learned techniques to shoot down Japanese zeros while with the Flying Tigers. The Flying Tigers were taught the techniques to defeat Japanese fighters and bombers by Claire Lee Chennault who is generally considered the father of modern aviation warfare.
The film begins showing Pappy Boyington recovering from a leg wound after "shooting 6 Jap planes" in one day while flying for the Flying Tigers in 1941-42. His days as a Flying Tiger would be mentioned throughout the series, although the year is usually mistakenly mentioned as 1939 or 1940, not 1941 or 1942.
The Flying Tigers were actually paid a bonus of $500 for every Japanese plane shot down. This is about $10,000 in 2018 dollars. However, payment was usually delayed until the end of the month due to the shortage of cash.

Season 5 Episode 1 "Sharks: Part 1"
Episode aired 11 September 1977

Steve Austin is aboard a sabotaged nuclear submarine when a court-martialed admiral and his daughter (Pamela Hensley aka Queen Ardala from "Buck Rogers") use sharks - trained and controlled by technology - to attempt to steal the sub. Jon de Lancie also makes a cameo (Q from ST:TNG)
Trivia
In "Sharks: Part 1" (1977) Steve Austin (Lee Majors) is aboard a nuclear submarine USS Stingray (SSN-501). "SSN 501" can be seen in a stock footage external shot of the submarine under water. Though fictional for this period in time, the last real USS Stingray was decommissioned following WWII. This same submarine was used previously in the Bionic Woman "Kill Oscar: Part III" (1976) - A shot while Jaime and Steve are on the submarine has a plaque showing that the boat it is "SSN 501". If Steve Austin were to be on any submarine, it would only be appropriate that it were a nuclear submarine, seeing as how the show title's Spanish translation is "El Hombre Nuclear."
Somebody in the production staff must have liked the number "509", since it is used for the submarine number in both this and The Six Million Dollar Man: U-509 (1977).
The small yellow plane that drops the canister to the diver is the same Ryan Navion used in The Six Million Dollar Man: Pilot Error (1974).

Series 13 Episode 1 "Terror of the Zygons: Part One"
Episode aired 30 August 1975

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry return to Earth in response to an emergency space-time telegraph from the Brigadier, who asks them to investigate the destruction of a series of North Sea oil rigs.
Trivia
According to the documentary Scotch Mist in Sussex (2013), Tom Baker was in a bit of a mood during the making of the serial as he did not want to make another UNIT story, believing such stories belonged in the Jon Pertwee era and the series was supposed to have changed since Baker had joined.
First appearance of the shape-shifting Zygons, who will appear in Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013) and Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion (2015)/Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion (2015).
Nicholas Courtney suggested to Philip Hinchcliffe that the Brigadier be killed off in this story, as he had become aware that he would no longer be required in the series' new format. Hinchcliffe turned down the idea, feeling that it would be an inappropriate fate for a character that had been so popular.
The script originally placed a far greater emphasis on the Skarasen and the loch. Robert Holmes felt that the Zygons were more interesting characters, especially since they could interact with the main cast.
This serial features the last appearance of Tom Baker in his original costume and coat from Doctor Who: Robot: Part One (1974).
This was originally written as a six-parter but was cut to four parts. It is believed that the majority of the cuts were location scenes.
Fans voted this number 24 in a countdown of the 163 Doctor Who (1963) stories in Outpost Gallifrey's 40th anniversary poll in 2003.
This story was originally planned to end Season 12, but was pushed back to the start of Season 13 to allow the series to shift its broadcast schedule from a January start (its routine since 1970) to September.

Season 1 Episode 1 "Johnny Yuma"
Special Guest Star: Dan Blocker (Hoss from Bonanza), John Carradine (Father of David Carradine and frequent guest star on "Kung-Fu"), Strother Martin (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot, True Grit (1969), The Wild Bunch)

Johnny Yuma returns home one year after the Civil War's end to find a gang of thugs have extorted a local mine and murdered his father while his father's deputy and the rest of the town live in fear and despair.
Trivia
When Johnny visits his father's grave at the town cemetery, the inscription reads, 'Ned Yuma, 1820-1867.'
John Carradine's newspaper editor provides the inspiration for Johnny Yuma to make notes wandering the west, but makes only one return appearance, in The Rebel: The Bequest (1960).
Nick Adams was good friends with James Dean and Elvis Presley, roomies and friends with Dennis Hopper, and his best friend was Robert Conrad. Both Nick and James died tragically young. Nick died in 1968 due to an overdose of drugs he was taking for a nervous disorder.

The Phantom is a 1943 Columbia Pictures 15 chapter black-and-white cliffhanger superhero serial, produced by Rudolph C. Flothow, directed B. Reeves Eason, and starring Tom Tyler in the title role. It is based on Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom, first syndicated to newspapers in 1936 by King Features Syndicate. The serial also features Jeanne Bates as the Phantom's girlfriend Diana Palmer, and Ace the Wonder Dog as the Phantom's trusty German shepherd Devil (who is a wolf in the original comic strip).
Chapter 1: "The Sign of the Skull"

Season 1 Episode 0 "Pilot"
Episode aired 16 September 1972
Guest Stars: Robert Wagner, Mako, Tom Bosley, Kim Darby

Gritty crime drama set in San Francisco, featuring an older, veteran cop and his younger, less experienced partner.
Trivia
When Stone opens the torn television guide sharp-eyed viewers will notice that his thumb rests on a capsule description of Young Man with a Horn (1950), a film that starred Kirk Douglas, father of Streets of San Francisco's co-star Michael Douglas.
On Robert Wagner's Jaguar the license plate reads "235 PCE". It is not a real California license plate as the lettering and texture look different. The "PCE" letters are seen on many TV and movie car licenses and appear to be as generic as the "555" phone prefix.

Season 3 Episode 1 "The Contest"

Glen steals the answer to a contest in which the winner gets a new motorcycle. Now the person who convinced him to cheat needs a big favour: the keys to a van which contains an experimental solar-powered gyroscope.
Trivia
When superhero comics became popular again in the mid-1960s in what is now called the "Silver Age of Comic Books", Fawcett was unable to revive Captain Marvel, having agreed to never publish the character again as part of their 1953 settlement. Looking for new properties to introduce to the DC Comics line, DC publisher Carmine Infantino decided to bring the Captain Marvel property back into print, and in 1972 he licensed the characters from Fawcett. Because Marvel Comics had by this time established Captain Marvel as a comic book trademark for their own character, created and first published in 1967, DC published their book under the name Shazam! Infantino attempted to give the Shazam! book the subtitle The Original Captain Marvel, but a cease and desist letter from Marvel Comics forced them to change the subtitle to The World's Mightiest Mortal, starting with Shazam! As all subsequent toys and other merchandise featuring the character have also been required to use the "Shazam!" label with little to no mention of the name "Captain Marvel", the title became so linked to Captain Marvel that many people took to identifying the character as "Shazam" instead of "Captain Marvel". The Shazam! comic series began with Shazam! #1 It contained both new stories and reprints from the 1940s and 1950s. Dennis O'Neil was the primary writer of the book. His role was later taken over by writers Elliot S. Maggin and E. Nelson Bridwell. C. C. Beck drew stories for the first ten issues of the book before quitting due to creative differences. Bob Oksner and Fawcett alumnus Kurt Schaffenberger were among the later artists of the title. All of this set the stage for the Shazam TV series to happen the next year and to run until 1977, which it did, as a successful Saturday morning cartoon serial.

Season 1 Episode 0 "Pilot"
Episode aired 22 February 1972

After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
Trivia
According to Bruce Lee's wife Linda Lee Cadwell, the concept of the series was conceived by Bruce, and he met with the producers for countless hours to shape the show. However, the producers did not offer him the role since they did not feel that the American audience (at that time) would accept a Chinese actor as a lead, and eventually went with the Caucasian actor David Carradine.
Keith Carradine appears unbilled as the Middle Caine, a role he would reprise only once, also unbilled, in the episode Kung Fu: Chains (1973) during the first season. All other entries in which he can be seen utilize archive footage shot for this feature.
Fifteen different actors from the original pilot would go on to appear in the subsequent series.
Richard Loo here plays Shaolin Master Sun, a character he would reprise in two episodes, Kung Fu: Blood Brother (1973) during the first season, and Kung Fu: Besieged: Cannon at the Gates (1974) during the third. He would also feature in three other entries, playing three different characters: Kung Fu: The Tong (1973), Kung Fu: Arrogant Dragon (1974) and Kung Fu: The Devil's Champion (1974).
Benson Fong and Keye Luke both played as the #1 son in many of the popular Charlie Chan mysteries in the 1930's & '40's.

Season 1 Episode 0 "The Wedsworth-Townsend Act"
Episode aired 15 January 1972

The new LACFD paramedics struggle to prove themselves to a doubtful Dr. Brackett as a pending state bill authorizing their field duties comes to a vote.
Trivia
From the beginning, Dr. Brackett objects to the Firefighter-Paramedic training course. When he is approached to train some paramedics himself, he suggests that they go to Harbor General instead. Harbor General Hospital (now Harbor-UCLA Medical Center) was used in this series for the establishing shots of Rampart General Hospital.
The title of the pilot episode is a reference to the law signed by then-governor Ronald Reagan authorizing the creation of emergency medical services in California.
The fire engine used for most of the series run has an interesting history. It was donated new by the manufacturer, Ward LaFrance, with the condition that the engine be put in active service after the show. Universal turned it over to the LA Country Fire Department (which runs the fire station on Universal's lot). The LA County Fire Department traded the engine to the Yosemite Fire Department for their 1930 vintage engine that went to the LA Country Fire Museum. Yosemite Fire Department still uses the engine to this day. The Yosemite Fire Department had to raise the ceiling of their firehouse by 3 inches to accommodate the new engine.
The dispatch controller who calls in the alarms to the Station 51 intercom was played by Sam Lanier. Lanier was not an actor, but was actually a real-life emergency dispatcher. Jack Webb wanted a real dispatcher's voice to lend authenticity to the role, and show the professionalism of the actual LA dispatchers.
The fire station seen in the opening credits is actually Station 127 and is located in Carson, California at 2049 223rd Street (off Wilmington, and across from the Arco Refinery). Station 127 was renamed "R.A. Cinader Memorial Fire Station 127" after the death of "Emergency!" producer R. A. Cinader.
One of the three squads (the 1972 Dodge Ram D250 rescue vehicles driven by the paramedics) has been fully restored and is now located at the Los Angeles Fire Museum in SouthGate, California.
The fire station where John Gage was stationed at the beginning (Station 10) is L.A. County Fire Station 8, located at 7643 Santa Monica Blvd., in West Hollywood.
Roy DeSoto had a wife named JoAnn that was often mentioned but rarely seen. However, she is seen during a party scene in this pilot.
Martin Milner (Officer Pete Malloy) and Kent McCord (Officer Jim Reed), from another Jack Webb series, Adam-12 (1968), occasionally showed up in cameos at Rampart Hospital. After appearing in the series premiere on January 15, 1972, they later appeared in Emergency!: Hang-Up (1972), another first-season episode that aired on April 8, 1972. However, this second appearance is in an installment of their own TV show "Adam-12", which the Station 51 crew watch on the firehouse TV. After being established as "real" people in the pilot, no explanation is given for their subsequent appearance in a fictional TV show. To add even more confusion, after the second appearance, the main cast of Emergency! appeared in Adam-12: Lost and Found (1972), which aired on October 4, 1972.
Universal Studios renumbered their fire station to 51 in honor of the show.
Ron Pinkard appears in the pilot episode as "Tom Gray, M.D. " instead of as "Dr. Morton", as he did throughout the seven year run of the series.
Bobby Troup (Joe Early, M.D.) was born in 1918 and was 53, when Emergency! began; his 2nd wife, Julie London (Dixie McCall, R.N.) was born in 1926 and was 45, when the show began. Robert Fuller (Kelly Brackett, M.D.) was born in 1933 and was 38, when the show began. Dixie was described as 30 years old in the pilot episode as was Joe, as one of Brackett's former interns. Baby faced Fuller was the only one who managed to look like he was in his early 30s: the age of the three show characters.
When Dr. Brackett receives the notice to come to Sacramento to testify, the address listed for Rampart Hospital is shown as 1000 W Carson Street. That is in fact the actual address in Torrance for Harbor/UCLA Medical Center, upon which Rampart is based.
For syndication purposes, this movie is often edited down to fit in a one-hour time slot.