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Fantastic Journey (1977)
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FANTASTIC JOURNEY
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 Bruce Lansbury Productions, Ltd.
Columbia Pictures Television
for
NBC Thursdays
Executive Producer Bruce Lansbury

US Sci-Fi series 1977 90 min pilot + 9 episodes x 60 min color

starring
Jared Martin as Varian
Roddy McDowall as Dr. Jonathan Willoway
Carl Franklin as Dr. Fred Walters
Katie Saylor as Liana
Ike Eisenmann as Scott Jordan

Premise:
An expedition investigating the Bermuda Triangle finds itself mysteriously transported to
what appears to be another world.

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NBC Thursdays (3Feb77-16Jun77)

1.1 [--] Fantastic Journey: VORTEX (90 min)
03Feb77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
Scott Thomas .................. Dr. Paul Jordan
Susan Howard .................. Eve
Leif Erickson ................. Ben Wallace
Scott Brady ................... Carl Johanson
Ian McShane ................... Sir James Camden
Don Knight .................... Paget
Karen Somerville .............. Jill
Lynn Borden ................... Enid Jordan
Gary Collins .................. Darl
Mary Ann Mobley ............... Rhea
Jason Evers ................... Atar
Mike Road ..................... Source voice
Byron Chung ................... George
Jack Stauffer ................. Andy
Tom McCorry ................... Star
A group of scientists sailing the Caribbean are shpwrecked after entering a strange green cloud.
The mysterious island they are stranded on defies identification and they find themselves captured
by what appear to be sixteenth century privateers.

1.2 [--] Fantastic Journey: ATLANTIUM
10Feb77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
Gary Collins .................. Dar-L
Mary Ann Mobley ............... Rhea
Jason Evers ................... Atar
Mike Road ..................... Source
Albert Stratton ............... Iltar
Ian Jon Tanza ................. Under
Lawrence Bame ................. Maron
The travellers find an advanced city called Atlantium, whose citizens promise them a way home via a
time machine. But first they meet a beautiful half alien/half human woman named Liana.

1.3 [--] Fantastic Journey: BEYOND THE MOUNTAIN
17Feb77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
Marj Dusay .................... Rachel
John David Carson ............. Cyrus
Joseph Della Sorte ............ Aren
Lester Fletcher ............... Chef
Frank Corsentino .............. Toren
Ron Burke ..................... Robert
Brian Patrick Clarke .......... Daniel
Bud Kenneally ................. Veteran
Crofton Hardester ............. Michael
The party becomes involved in a dispute between Jonathan Willoway, a noted scientist from Earth in the 1960s
and green-skinned aliens, both of whom claim the loyalty of a village of beautiful people.

1.4 [--] Fantastic Journey: CHILDREN OF THE GODS
24Feb77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
Mark Lambert .................. Alpha
Bobby Eilbacher ............... Sigma
Cosie Costa ................... Delta
Stanley Clay .................. Beta
Richard Natoli ................ Gamma
Al A. Eisenmann ............... Omega
Michael Baldwin ............... Rho
Scott is made to join a colony of boys with a deadly weapon inherited from their forebears in
a society decimated by war.

[--] 03Mar77 - no details

1.5 [--] Fantastic Journey: A DREAM OF CONQUEST
10Mar77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
John Saxon .................... Tarant
Lenore Stevens ................ Lara
Morgan Paull .................. Argon
Johnny Doran .................. Nikki
Bobby Porter .................. Neffring
Robert Patten ................. Luther
The travellers learn of a plan by an alien military commander to invade the other time zones.

[--]  17Mar77 - no details

1.6 [--] Fantastic Journey: AN ACT OF LOVE
24Mar77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
Christina Hart ................ Gwenith
Ellen Weston .................. Maera
Jonathan Goldsmith ............ Zaros
Vic Mohica .................... Baras
Belinda Balaski ............... Aria
Jerry Daniels ................. Guard
Jeffrey Byron ................. Heras
Varian marries after the inadvertent injection of a love serum, unaware that his wife's people intend
to sacrifice him to appease their gods.

1.7 [--] Fantastic Journey: FUNHOUSE
31Mar77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
Mel Ferrer .................... Apollonius
Mary Frann .................... Roxanne
Richard Lawson ................ Barker
Christina Hart ................ Gwenith
A sorceror entertains the party in a deserted carnival before revealing his desire to steal Willoway's body.

1.8 [--] Fantastic Journey: TURNABOUT
07Apr77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
Joan Collins .................. Halyana
Paul Mantee ................... Morgan
Julie Cobb .................... Adrea
Beverly Todd .................. Connell
Charles Walker III ............ Obril
Amy Joyce ..................... Masel
When Liana is captured by a society that treats women as slaves, the party becomes involved in a revolution
that completely eliminates the problem.

[--]  14Apr77 - no details

1.9 [--] Fantastic Journey: RIDDLES
21Apr77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
Dale Robinette ................ Kedryn
Carole Demas .................. Krysta
William O'Connell ............. Simkin
Lynn Borden ................... Enid Jordan
Dax Xenos ..................... Rider
The group receives information that could be a way back to their own times on a stone from a mysterious horseman,
and meet a couple who are not exactly what they seem to be.

1.10 [--] Fantastic Journey: THE INNOCENT PREY (final episode)
16Jun77 NBC Thur
Guest Cast:
Richard Jaeckel ............... York
Lew Ayres ..................... Rayat
Nicholas Hammond .............. Tye
Cheryl Ladd ................... Natica
Burt Douglas .................. Raddison
Gerald McRaney ................ Thomas
Jim Payner .................... Roland
Varian and Willoway meet the survivors of a space shuttle crash and take them to a colony of peaceful aliens possessed
of the ability to alter molecular structures, unaware that the men are convicts attempting to escape punishment.

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