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Science Fiction Aliens - Text
Science Fiction Aliens - Text
If
these
human
make concrete
some
that
we
will
be ready
meeting and
more
shown
of the creations
will
for
face
it
our
in this
first
book
real alien
and
intellect.
That
is
our
hope
and our
dedication.
KOQ
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Compiled and
Editors:
written
Contributors:
Howard Cruse
Sillifant,
Scot Holton,
Produced under
witl-i
Naha
Art Director:
Art Staff:
by Ed
and David
INDEX:
MOTION
PICTURES
Go To
Mars
Aelito
Algol
AlphQville
Andromeda
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Strain, Ttie
Atom Man
Vs.
Superman
From Mars
Monster
Die!
Escape
From Mars.
Full-Color
Fire
First
First
First
Photo Section
Man
Into
Space
STARLOG Magazine
O'Quinn Studios, Inc.
Norman Jacobs/ Kerry O'Quinn
475 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
Entire contents of Science Fiction Aliens is copyrighted 1977 by O'Quinn
Studios, Inc. Reprinting or reproduction in part or in whole, without written
permission of the publishers, is strictly forbidden.
Flight
Mars
To Mars
Flying Disc
Forbidden Planet
Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster
From Mars To Munich
Giant Claw, The
Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster
Godzilla Tai
Godzilla Vs.
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Devil Girl
10-
Space
Of The Worlds
Beast With
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Megalon
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Green
Slime,
The
Gulliver's Travels
Have Rocket
Travel
Will
Human
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Duplicators, The
Married
Immediate Disaster
Incredible Invasion, The
Invaders From Mars
Invasion
Invasion Of The Animal People
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
Invasion Of The Body Stealers
Invasion Of The Neptune Men
Invasion Of The Saucer Men
Invasion Of The Star Creatures
Invisible Invoders, The
,
Came
It!
King Dinosaur
Kronos
Laserblast
The
Love War, The
Man From Planet X, The
Man In The Moon
Little
Prince,
Monster Zero
Moon Man
Moon Pilot
Moonstruck
Krone
In Outer Space
Mr.
Mutiny
Mysterlans, The
Mysterious Island
Night Slaves
Not Of This Earth
Night Of The Big Heat
Night Of The Blood Beast
People, The
Queen Of Blood
Queen Of Outer Space
Radar Men From The Moon
Robinson Crusoe On Mars
Red Planet Mars
Rocketship X-M
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Shirley
Thompson
Vs.
The Aliens
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Sky Ship
Space Children, The
Wars
Storship Invasions
Superman
Superman
Superman And The Mole Men
Target Earth!
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UFO
UFO
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Wizard Of Mars
X From Outer Space, The
Yog-Monster From Spoce
Zombies of The Stratosphere
TELEVISION
SHOWS
Buck Rogers
Captain Video
Fantastic Journey
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Flash Gordon
Invaders, The
My
Stalker
Space
Lost In
Photo Section
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Favorite Martian
Outer
Limits,
The
Space: 1999
Starlost, The
Star Maidens
Star Trek
Superman
Time Tunnel, The
Tom
Corbett,
Twilight Zone,
Space Cadet
The
UFO
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
KidVid
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INTRODUCTION
The
alien.
stars,
it's
in
only
and meeting
of
it
forms to
were a
examples
flicker
pretty
of outer
across the
tame
lot.
space
silver
life
screen
When Georges
Melies embarked on his turn-of-thecentury Trip To The Moon, the first alien
he met was the roly-poly Man In The
Moon himself. After landing his rocket in
the Man's eye, explorer Georges went
on
to
Moonmen.
.
fists.
spawned a
movie adventures, many
Melies' trip
westerns
Flash
In
both
pictures.
for
[1913)
alien
featured a similarly
Earth
to perform
on
planet,
from the red
a good deed. The alien invasion had
love.
humanoid
The
host of SF
starring the
rotund Man in The Moon. A few years
FIRST
the
later, the Man became
legitimate alien invader in When The
Man In The Moon Seeks A Wife (1908)
citizens of
space
revert
human
forms, sans monster henchmen
(monster henchmen being too
back
to their disappointingly
expensive
for
serials of this
70's
Body Snatchers,
Aliens were the
productions
(It
big-budgeted
From Outer
stars in
Came
of every size
sophisticated
humans, giant chickens, big busted
Moongirls in leotards, floating eyes,
Metalunan mutants, walking rocks,
vegetable men, cucumber creatures,
evolved: intelligent
forms, super
computers, virulent virus armies.
life
Later,
back
human race
Mr. Spock.
Maya.
THE ALIENS.
Ed Naha
Motion Pictures
A
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO GO TO
MARS
Universal International (1953), BrW, 77
Orville
in a
rocketship.
It
and
crash-
where the
MARS
entries
AELITA
(1929K
Beauchamp and
Mezharabpom
Musical Director:
Joseph Gerschenson. Special Effects: David
Horseley.
Supporting players: Robert Paige, Martha
Hyer, Jack Kruschen, Joe Kirk, Horace
Christie.
B&W,
(U.S.S.R.. 7924),
Amkino
45 min.
ALGOL
them
in a revolution.
ALPHAVILLE
VS. IBM.
Also known as:
Pathe Contemporary / Chaumaine-Film
(19^),
>
I
S
B&W,
VUlldfire at an underground
government installation in Nevada in order to
combat the space virus before it can
overwhelm Earth. The scientists learn that
the space bug causes a particularly painful
charge of Project
a different substance.
TARZAN
Karina as
leads
Anna
falls in
McMahon.
100 min.
Special Effects:
Shourt.
open window.
Columbia
reels.
Bakaleinikoff.
Kirk Alyn as Superman.
Tommy Boyd as
Watkin as Perry White,
Supporting players:
Jimmy Olson,
Noel
Neill
Pierre
as Lois Lane.
APRIL 1,2000
Wein-Film
(19S3).
BaW,
110 min.
Wolfgang
Libeneiner.
Marboe.
Cast: Curt Jurgens, Peter Gerhard,
Elizabeth Stemberger, Waltraut Mass.
Columbia
11966). BStVJ.
INVADER.
American-lnternBtionaKHollYWOOd
B&W, 60 min.
meteor-space vehicle crashon Earth. Local
International) 11958).
A strange,
lands
in
a forest area
The
culprit turns
no
logical reason.
sequins. As well as
raising the blood pressure of her victims, she
female, clad
in skin-tight
Kauer.
by
flying super-hero.
the
infiltrate
the Earth's
Cast:
Seto,
The unmanned
is controlled by the
planet-home on the far
Seeking scrumptious
specimens, they kidnap two Japanese boys.
women
from
craft
their
Camera
alien
rescues the
boys.
out
its
Sexy
military
ATOMIC SUBMARINE
Allied Artists (1959), B&W, 72min.
A mysterious ship from outer space settles
on the ocean floor. The American atomic
Wendover
saucer
is
a living organism.
Supporting players:
Tom Conway,
Joi
Michaels.
WOMAN
Allied Artists (1958), B&W, 66min.
A classic of screen schlock. An alien giant
(a bald, human sort with an exceedingly hairy
chest) lands his spaceship on planet Earth
and cavorts around the great American
desert.
An
husband Harry
search.
is
a cheatin', she
in
goes
off in
a local saloon
where
of fifty foot
woman.
BARBARELLA
Paramount (1968),
Color, 98min.
comes
to screen
life
when
the
Barbarella burns
She discovers an
movement and,
fuses, however.
underground
ATOMIC SUBMARINE
and
his ray.
BARBARELLA
Palmer.
Powell,
in
the brains of
Earth
An
is
Moon's Sea
of Tranquility.
monster films).
Supporting players: Minoru Takada,
Harold Conway.
(1963), Color,
An Americanized
film
//
84 min.
A valiant
John
Blaisdell.
Umberto
Bill
Also
Orsini.
Color, 85 min.
Created during the fad-oriented fifties, this
Vassily Petrov.
Carter,
THE BLOB
as:
way through a wooded area, absorbing slowmoving humans and growing with each kill.
As swells to elephantine size, a group of
it
eventually dispatched.
that
S.
A.R.C.
A fascinating
concept
Corman production;
in this early
Roger
in this
strictly for
laughs.
trip
Effects:
Tim
Barr.
Berman.
Supporting players;
Earl
Rowe,
Olin
Howlin.
11
BUCK ROGERS
Also known,
in
Roy
Jory,
serial.
suspended animation to
find
friend
themselves
in
in their fight
against
the
council.
Directors: Ford
Screenplay:
Norman
S. Hall
and Ray
Trampe.
Supporting players: Henry Brandon, Jack
Mullhall,
BUCK ROGERS
OUTER SPACE.
NTA-Harris
version:
(1968).
BW,84m/n.
Original
CAPTAIN VIDEO
Columbia (1951). A 15-episode serial. 30
480 min.
Judd Holdren was space saviour Captain
Video (a holdover from the popular TV
reels, tinted.
1965).
A disfigured,
of Jupiter's
moons comes to
beautiful Earthgirls
who will
one
Earth to kidnap
replenish his
them.
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
OF THE THIRD KIND
officials, led
down the
Ann Barlow
alien culprit.
her.
and a
lot
of
(1977).
Color
home
in
SF hardware.
year later
PLANET (Columbia, 1953), another 15episode opus. Video again outwits gangsters
from space in their attempt to take over
to reappear
John Gregory.
Earth.
final
and
Gilling.
71
Erickson.
min.
space finds
a
body
in
that,
good
and nastiness.
Producer: Jacques Marquette. Director:
Nathan Hertz. Screenplay: Ray Buffum.
Music: Walter Greene.
Supporting players: Joyce Meadows,
Robert Fuller, Ken Terrell.
12
Taylor,
Astor
civilization of beautiful
women,
lost
clad In tights.
The
method
and learning a
clues as to a
a
number of sighters,
government
international
scientists
officials
and
take part in
sensory apparatus.
Producers: Julia Phillips and Michael
Phillips. Director- Screenplay: Steven
Spielberg. Music: John Williams. Director of
Bob Westmoreland.
Special
as Barry Guiler.
Sorenson
(Bruce Bennett) and Angela Green (Kathy
Grant) know the truth about the mysterious
invisible at will. Scientist Karl
stranger,
who
health.
(1958),
BaW,85min.
Jimmy
his
hand
The hand
alien life-force.
It
and right.
The killings continue until the hand is
swallowed by a roving cat. The hand is
played by a real human hand as well as a
the Earth, murdering people
left
with electronic music by Barry Gray. Makeup: Bunty Phillips. Special Effects: Ted
Samuels.
DARK STAR
Bryanston (1975), Metrocolor, 83min.
Aboard the scoutship Dark Star is its crew:
Dolittle (Brian Narelle),
Amicus (1967),
the
Talby (Andreijah
Color, 84min.
sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks,
"unstable" suns that are about to "supernova." The film spotlights the relationship
escapes from
alien
core.
It
Southern
its
California.
Title Paintings;
Effects;
DAYOFTHETRIFFIDS
Allied Artists (1963), Color, 94min.
The late John Wyndham was considered
one of England's foremost science-fiction
writers of his day, penning Midwich Cuckoos
(Village of the Damned), Chocky and Day of
the Triffids.
In this
spectacularly-filmed
show.
They grow
so effectively, must
Hero
Bill
w/hich
is
how they
hunt
down
their victims.
additional music by
BBW,
70min.
and taking
their place.
Beall,
DAY OF THE
TRIFFIDS
15
Roger George.
Supporting players: Gary
Mike Road.
Effects:
Merrill,
Roy
Barcroft,
cities.
Manda,
The take-over is short-lived, however,
and the Japanese monsters turn on the
squad
etc.).
aliens.
Arikawa.
Andrew Hughs,
Cast:
Daleks from DR.
WHO AND
THE DALEKS
is
that could
will
primitive
ways.
Kyoko
Tazaki,
Color,
83min.
may be.
in.
Once
STILL
Jun
Akira Kubo,
Ai.
in
on
aliens.
in
a kind of
"body-meld" and form a gigantic, starshaped monster. Camera rescues the boys
after making mincemeat of the spaceship.
This is an American version of Daiei's
Camera
tai Viras.
Fujii
and Yuzo
Kaneko.
Cast: Kajiro
Williams.
DEVIL GIRLS
Danninger
FROM MARS
(1955).
B&W,
76min.
A woman
Jack Whitehead.
Hugh
Corri,
Sophie Stewart.
in
monster. She
Magee.
series, Dr.
Who,
in
the
The Daleks
city.
neutron
bomb
in
plan to explode a
countdown
is
halted
city
Thais
comrades
return
home
in
Who's Tardis
his
radiation.
The Daleks
drugs
in
IVIax
village. Jeff
Ted Samuels.
Supporting players: Michael Coles,
Geoffrey Toone.
DIE,
MONSTER,
DIE!
Above:
above
right:
EARTH
Maniey 11964),
(1957),
Makeup: Harold
film features
have the
creature.
Price, Thorley
Director:
Teno
(1956),
BBW, 83 mm.
no memory
The
girl
of their origin.
things at
pursued by a power-mad
capitalist
who
dumb
are.
They
are rescued
by
flying saucer.
revolutionary
Key.
that the
doomed One
.
of the creatures
When
he is
from space dies, however.
examined, the scientists conclude that the
aliens are sensitive to high-frequency sound
which is used to destroy them. By the film's
finale, the saucers are dropping like flies from
a host of shrill weapons.
Producer: Charles Schneer. Director: Fred
Sears. Screenplay: George Worthing Yates
and Raymond Marcus, from a story by Curt
18
Earth
in a
his
movement. Most
A seldom-seen
Saucer Men.
SF
film Invasion
low-budget
effort,
it
It is
oi
Of The
who,
attempt to f ram
of the rebel
alien
who arrive on
SF
knowledge from
72min.
(Ray
FANTASTIC PLANET
New World (1973), Metrocolor,
An
will,
friend's camper-trailer.
is
Screenplay: Ichiro
the world
Ishii.
Miyagawa.
Herbert.
Buena
Marlowe)
The
aliens
Walters.
invaders.
Dokugo Okuku
Fletcher.
Columbia
in this film,
Color, 86min.
re-editing of a
BBW, 85min.
is
parallel orbit
is
named
called Terra.
25
wreal<s havoc in
moon calf is driven off by a blast from a passweapon in Ray Harryhausen's spectacular First Men
The Moon. Based upon the tale by H.G. Wells, the film depicts
a race of insectmen dwelling beneath the surface of the Moon.
Above: The gigantic
ing Selenite's
In
Below: Beneath the Moon's surface, heroine Kate (Martha Hyer) encounters an ant-like Selenite in one of the countless underground
caverns used by the Moonmen. The Selenite was a stop motion creation, animated by master craftsman Ray Harryhausen in Panavision.
Photo:
Paramount Pictures
Above: The one and only and utterly original Blob nnakes an Impromptu
exit from a movie theater after terrorizing the audience for a few
moments. The Blob was a jelly-like substance brought to Earth on
a meteor, in order to survive, it inundated and absorbed human
tissue. With each successive kill, the Blob grew in stature.
along
Right:
It
Conquered
the
the
human
henchmen
of
Right:
themselves
science-fiction
3D
thriller. It
Came
Krell
race gave
Man
the chance to
mind
Metro Goldwyn-Maver
Inc.
FIRE
FIRST
FIRST
11956), Criterion
(England, 1955),
B&W,80min.
An astronaut (Anthony
the thirteenth
moon
where he
female enclave
descendant of the
Earth, Atlantis.
Dexter) lands on
of J upiter
The only
is
finds
lost continent of
hitch
in
the lovely
aliens' lifestyle
is a not-so-friendly creature
runs around butchering citizens.
Producer: George Fowler. DirectorScreenplay: Cy Roth. Music: Borodin. Make-
who
up:
RoyAshton.
FIRST
Vetter. Director:
John
a story
Jaffe,
MOON
MEN
INI
THE
MOON
Columbia
Panavision and
Technicolor, 107 min.
Ray Harryhausen effectively recreates
(1964),
H.G. Wells' race of Moon Selenites, antlive beneath the satellite's surface.
Professor Cavor (Lionel Jefferies), inventor
men who
outside a cavern.
Cavor and Bedford trek through subsurface caverns and find Kate, as well as an
entire civilization, the Selenites. The humans
are introduced to the Grand Lunar, the brain
that rules the substrata people. Cavor takes a
Hugh McDermott,
Miles Malleson.
A group of
109
Machowski as
Orloff,
Tang-Hua-Ta as
liking to
intelligent
that
War
J. Felthke,
will
rest of their
behind.
are
is left
found
in
life,
which
Producer:
Hugo
W.
Kohlaase, K. Matzig, G.
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story
FLASH GORDON
Also known as: Space Soldiers, Atomic
Rocketship and Spaceship To The
Unlinown.
Universal (1936), a 13-episode
BBW. 416 min.
serial,
26
reels.
The
planet Earth
destruction as the
by
a trio of
fanged
is
is
(James
Gocko
its
When
did
it
arrive?
Why?
itself is alive
it,
finally,
Ming
shark-men,
invisibly ray, a
himself.
and Lee
O'Neill,
strip
Outer Space.
Universal (1940), a 12-episode serial, 24
BtW, 384 min.
Ming (Charles Middleton) plans a
comeback in his quest to become Emperor of
reels,
When a
that
FIVE MILLION
YEARS TO EARTH
by
Alex Raymond.
the Universe
battle
Tigron and,
Outnumbered by Flash
and his friends, Ming runs into the chamber
of the Great God Tao where he is apparently
a fire
Earth's atmosphere.
known
as:
Space
Soldiers' Trip To
Mars
Universal <1939K a 15-episode serial. 30
reels, BSfW, 480 min.
In the second of the Flash trilogy, Ming
(Charles Middleton intends to take over
Mars. He does so by promoting civil unrest
and throwing his power behind the wicked
)
Martian, Queen
Azura
(Beatrice Roberts).
sapphire.
Whyndham Gittensand
Norman
S. Hall,
Herbert Dolmas.
FLESH GORDON
Mammoth Films 11974),
Metrocolor, 78
effects
By the time
their return
Producers:
Bill
Osco.
Jim Danforth
FLESH
GORDON
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FORBIDDEN PLANET
The
98 min.
were
They developed a
a brain-oriented race.
abilities in
in this
beneficial invention
was
the
all
deep recesses
of their minds.
They forgot
Years
Morbius
(Walter Pidgeon)
team
of space explorers.
machine, uses
it,
cook).
amorphous being
the product of a
genius' jealousies.
Morbius
is
He
too
late to
sacifices himself
Warren Newcombe,
Irving G. Ries
GHIDRAH
FLYING DISC
FLIGHT TO MARS
Monogram (1951), Cinecolor,
fantasy
(Cameron
humans
return to Earth.
Litel,
38
in 1 958 as a 75 min.
The Missile Monsters.
Also released
72min.
feature.
Republic
reels,
(1950),
a 12-episode serial, 24
BaW,384min.
around
fistfights.
SF
Lydecker.
Van
Sickel,
Tom
Steele.
them
young
The
lovelies,
at
Princess' ship
from
a story
R.H.W.
Dillard.
one on.
76min.
ammo,
MONSTER
Also l<nown as: The Greatest Battle On
Earth
Continental ( 1965), Eastmancolor and
Tohoscope, 85 min.
Two plots form the storyline for this
Japanese film; one earthbound, the other
space-sent. While gangsters plan to kidnap a
Japanese princess, a monster is hatched
from a meteor that is hurtling toward Earth.
Born of fire, the monster evolves into
Ghidrah, a three-headed fire-breathing
dragon. The world watches as Ghidrah levels
Tokyo. Government officials dispatch
Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra to combat the
creature from space. By the film's finale,
both the dragon and the kidnappers are
halted.
Above:
Tomoko Umeda,
Hiroshi Ishikawa.
known
as: Gojira
Cast:
At top:
1968,
TaiMegaro
77 min.)
(Toho, 1973)
headed for
Tohoscope. 81 min.
The Seato plans want to take over the
Earth. They call upon monster Gigan (who
originally surfaced a few years ago as Giagan
and space creature Megalon to destroy the
existing Earth civilization. Godzilla defends
the planet as best he can. Adding to his
predicament is the theft of the colossal
cyborg. Jet Jaguar, a good-guy invention
stolen from its Japanese inventor by the
Seatopians and turned against Godzilla. (It is
never really explained just how Jet can grow
and shrink in size at will. He's just made that
way.) A young boy has faith in hero Jet
Jaguar and rescues him from the grip of the
Seatopians. Godzilla and the cyborg fend off
the alien attack.
Katsuhiko Sasaki.
returns to
ship
Watanabe.
Supporting players: Ted Gunther, Bud
Widom.
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MOON
THE MOON
MEN
1965)
Jonathan Swift's
an
in this
DeLugg.
for help.
A scientist (George
Kolos (Richard
Kiel)
Macready) plans to
An
alien android,
beam
blasts.
Producers:
Pierce. Music:
Gordon
Zahler.
Makeup: John
Chambers.
Supporting players: George Nader,
Barbara Nichols, Richard Arlen, Hugh
Beaumont.
Franci. Special
UgoAmadoro.
Clair,
Ando
Tamberlani.
MONSTERS
Larry
and a
lot of
space slapstick.
Lisa,
Theodore.
to breed. Their
to saucer central
Marge has
a brainstorm.
If
reproduce
can\
the
town
PI
yet,
She
still
hospital,
die.
Allen.
IMMEDIATE DISASTER
Stranger From Venus, The
Venus/an, Stranger From The Stars.
British titles:
and Rich
stranger from
(INVASION SINITESTRA)
Azteca/ Columbia
(1971),
Color
last
scenes
men
into half-crazed
zombies.
Producer: Luis Enrique Vergara. Director:
Juan Ibanez and Jack Hill. Screenplay: Karl
Schanzer and Vergara.
Cast: Enrique Guzman, Maura Monti, Tene
Valez.
MARRIED A MONSTER
FROfl
CHjU
ii
.SPACE
The stranger
ill
George MacLean
(Leif
local
and
his
days.
Luckham.
Cyril
Mary
invaders:
The
British version
disposed of the
INVASION
American-International (1966), B&W, 82
min.
Two humanoid aliens a police official and
his prisoner (Yoko Tani and Eric Young)
crash-land on Earth. Brought to a hospital,
they continue their conflict and create a
forcefield around the building.
Producer: Jack Greenwood. Director: Alan
Bridges. Screenplay: Roger Marshall. Music:
Bernard Ebbinghouse. Special Effects:
Ronnie Whitehouse, Jack Kine and Stan
Shields.
(Hillary
Brooke).
made the
ADPtEngland.
is
was
narrated by
41
Producer:
Tony Tenser.
Director: Gerry
Mihsue Komiya,
Shanjiro Ebara.
MEN
American- lnternationani957),
B&W,
68
min.
One of
the
more infamous
of the teen-SF
the 50's, this movie was a seriocomic adventure, and the lead invaders were
a pair of oriental midgets dressed in
oversized, bug-eyed face masks and taloned
flicks of
them Steve
I
one of the
Terrell
and
The
kids run
by taciturn Larkin
SNATCHERS
Allied Artists t1956), BBW, 80min.
This classic SF film of the fifties begins as
Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) returns
to his hometown of Santa MIra, California,
after a brief vacation and notices that during
the past week husbands have insisted that
their wives are not their wives; that mothers
don't recognize their own children; that
children are terrified of their parents.
Bennell renews a romance with Becky
Driscoll (Dana Wynter), but is interrupted on
a date with her by a frantic
call
from
their
sorts, that
away
in
a straightjacket
is
about to be
when a
police call
Could
be
true?
take over.
human
it
is
slated to
42
1969), Color,
90 min. Allied
Artists 11970)
A dapper alien
in
a state of suspended
ai
story,
Stein.
B&W, 81
min.
two
(1959),
BaW,
67 min.
dead
state.
Edward
Newman. Makeup:
Effects:
IT
them with
alien doubles.
The
cavernous
invasion from space? No. The
borrowing human forms because
their spaceship is in need of repair. Putnam
stumbles over the plot vvhen his girlfriend,
Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) is replaced by an
original Earthlings are kept in a
hide-out.
B&W,
71 min.
A fantastic exercise in
replacing
WORLD
CONQUERED
IT
THE
American-International (1956),
An
aliens are
alien substitute.
fanged,
Makeup: Paul
IT!
bodies of
humans
winged
whose mission
alien in a
own
is
throttled
unknown.
Producer: William Alland. Director: Jack
Arnold. Screenplay: Harry Essex from a
treatment, "The Meteor," by Bradbury.
is
As more
villagers
Paul Sawtell.
Is
assisted
in
blow torch
Executive Producer: James Nicholson.
thing with a
Makeup: Lane
Britton. Special
Blaisdell.
the
known
as:
Doppelganger
Wymark.
The
104m in.)
the
a planet. Col.
return?
Dr. Hassler (Herbert
Hendry)
suspect Ross of
sabotage. Then the astronaut notices
something strange. Everything around him is
reversed, as in a mirror image. What was left
(Ian
initially
men encounter
beautiful
Cast:
Heinrich,
before his
now
HE INVISIBLE RAY
Baw,82min.;75min.
Scientist Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) is
tracking light rays with his telescope when he
sees a meteor crash-land on Earth. He
jungles
discovery,
Rukh goes on
a killing spree,
dives out a
mass, to the
Prdducer:
street.
Edmund
Grainger. Director:
John
P. Fulton.
left.
The
women, phantom
KILLERS
FROM SPACE
RKO (19S4),
BB-W, 71 min.
A group of pajama-wearing,
aliens bring a
human
revealing to him
bug-eyed
to take
over the world. The aliens intend to allow
their gigantic atomic-bred insect brigade to
quick-thinking
hero
go on a rampage. But the
overloads their circuitry and sets off a miniatomic explosion, thus ending both the threat
of the pop-eyed invaders and their hopping
life,
pets.
Producer-Director:
W. Lee Wilder.
John Merrick.
KING DINOSAUR
Lippert (1955). BaW, 63 min.
Producer-Director Bert I. Gordon {The
this
SF
potboiler.
The
star of
reality,
Howard
Miller.
KRONOS
20th Century- Fox (1957),
A gigantic,
on Earth
in a
BBW,
78 min.
The
vehicle attracts
employees Les
(Jeff
(George O'Hanlon),
Morrow), Culver
(John Emery) and
Eliot
JUST IMAGINE
20th Century Fox (1930),
This sprawling
attempt to
BaW,
113 min.
SF musical comedy
really
petition the
46
make J
a hero.
to Mars in an
They find a couple
trip
Charles Koff. Special Effects: Andy Anderson and Howard Weeks. Art Direction:
Angelo Scibetti. Cinematography: John L.
Russel.
Charles Davis.
LASERBLAST
Yablans
(1977),
THE
Technicolor
by David
kill
non-human
alien investigating
An egg-headed
Ray
transformed
Perilli.
Makeup: Steve
Neill.
Effects
this planet.
X lands
his spacecraft in a
BtW.
five
planets
An
(1964),
B&W,
95min.
of humanoid
Martians who land on Earth. They like it so
much, they decide to stay and settle down.
Directors: Pipolo and Franco Castellano.
Screenplay: Castellano, G. Mocciaand
life in
Pilot
tot
his
life.
Thomas Howard.
TV-film, 90min.
time
Bill
THE
stars,
MAN
A selfish,
modern-day man
is
B&W, 85
rocketed to a
and Zdenek
Zdenek
Liska.
and
a balloon
IN OUTER SPACE
American- International (1964),
min. (Czech, 1961, 96min.)
Effects:
EpocaJDario
feet,
Vit
Olmer.
Radovan Lukavsky,
Panavision, 117min.
feet
An
alien
comes
Thomas
The
Jerome Newton
alien,
He
delivers
Earth.
brilliance,
48
Ramiel
home
(E.
Holman
THE MAN
4000
11913), Silent,
Clark)
is
an
angel.
Producer:Nicholson Ormsby-Scott.
Director-Screenplay: J. Wellett Waller.
Bell,
Frank
WHO
FELL TO EARTH
MISSILE TO THE
MOON
After
Moon
isn't
men
such an awful
place after
METEOR MONSTER
all.
Ira
Anderson
Anne Gwynne,
Gloria Costello,
THE MAN
WHO
FELL TO EARTH
MISSION
MARS
group of
MISSION STARDUST
Times Films
(1968), Color,
95 min.
crew on the
Frederico d'Urrutia.
is
Dave
Miller
grow to skyscraper
size.
mushroom
into ever-
moving
avalanches. (The folks were turned to stone
because these rocks need moisture to live,
and when there's no rain, a liquid-filled body
will do in a pinch.) The moving wall of rock
descends upon the town. As one section
topples from the tallest rocks, another new
monolith springs from below. Miller and
splitting,
ever-multiplying
will
Ti
MISSILE TO THE
MOON.
turn
the
Maron (1970),
MOON MAN
Short (1905), BStW
The moon looks down on Earth. The Man
The Moon comes alive and makes faces
British Silent
In
MOON PILOT
Buena
flight.
(Deny Saval)
of
The
madness. One
ship
Moon
sails
Why,
the alien
Vanneman.
MOONSTRUCK
Pathe (1909), French Silent Short, HandColored
MONSTER ZERO
As the ship
girl
at the controls
transported to the
battle with a
and dreams he
is
horde of tiny
Moonmen,
MR. KRANE
NBC (1957), BaW, 54min.
In
mysterious
out,
creatures,
story
Inside his
is
Earth.
Producers:
Hugo
Gordon
Zahler.
NIGHT SLAVES
Warners
THE PEOPLE
90min.
humans to work nights
repair the aliens' damaged
(1970). Color, TV-film.
Aliens hypnotize
in
order to
spaceship.
James M.
powers and
a bat-like
released by
Toho
as: Earth
Defense
manages
An
air
war
of the
known
as: Island
of the Burning
women.
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka. Director:
Inoshiro Honda. Screenplay: Takeshi
Morgan Jones,
Dick Miller.
a rainstorm
which
Eiji
Tsuburaya.
Cast; Kenji Sahara as Joji Atsumi, Jumi
Shirakawa as Etsuki Shirasishi, Momoko
Kochi, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko HIrata.
(1950),
15-episode
serial,
30
B&W.480min.
first
Carter)
his
corpse
roaming
is
with a
host of electronic aids, including super-
He
50
machine that
also
Chapman
barely
unmanned.
Producer: Fred Gebhart. Director: William
Marshall. Screenplay: William Telaak, Fred
in
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
Columbia
reels.
Paul Blalsdell.
Eastmancolor, 89min.
Forces
Music:
First
Miller.
Carmen Coppola.
Cast: William Shatner,
THE MYSTERIANS
Color. TV-
it
turns
from
a story
Anderson.
Cast:
PLANET OF STORMS
PLANETA BURG
Leningrad 11962), Color
Never shown
this
demons
They
occasion.
arrive in a makeshift
one
in
and inserted
into this
a result, he
through a
cape.
Producer-Director-Screenplay: Edward D.
Jr. Music: Gordon Zahler.
Supporting Players: Lyie Talbot,
Wood,
Mono
(1945),
Mars
(1965), Color,
85
A spaceship lands on a
good
PLANETS AGAINST US
Also known as: The Man With
The
Yellow Eyes and The Hands Of A Killer
Manley (1961), B&W, 85min.
This Italian-French co-production presents
aimed death
ray.
Romano
Ferrera.
Clair.
in
in
feature a
craft
known today as a
TV.
Spencer Bennett and Fred
closed-circuit
Directors:
Below;
a 15-episode serial, 31
SaW.
Later released
QUEEN OF BLOOD
QUEEN OF BLOOD
American-International (1966), Color, 81
Eventually, the
Queen
accidentally does
she bleeds
Above:
Above: ROCKETSHIP X
ROCKETSHIP X-M
Cinemascope. 80min.
Also
Fleming), land on
into a
Amazons (aliens
who
109 min.
(1952),
a 12-episode serial, 24
in
1966
hanger pitted
Lydecker.
Retik
Tom
BW,
makes
79 min.
little
friendly
for
some
complications
in
the boy's
life.
F. Slavin.
Music: Lionel
Newman.
Supporting players: Charles Coburn,
Spring Byington, Anne Francis, John Agar,
Beverly Garland, Stanley Clements, Emory
Parnell,
the boy.
known
Uppert
Moon
BBWwith tinted
as: Expedition
(1950).
X-M
Moon
fuel
attacked by
ruins of a
once
They are
The
aliens
THE ROCKET
Patrick
Dr. Fleming.
MAN
Ahern
SHOW
Dams as
Professor Scott.
A series of
Rocky Jones
scientists
Color, 82 min.
Martians kidnap Santa Claus to placate
Martian kids.
Producer: Paul Jacobson. Director:
Nicholas Webster. Screenplay: Glenville
Mareth.
Cast: John Call as Santa Claus, Leonard
Hicks as the Martian, Vincent Beck, Leila
Martin,
Donna
were
Shirley
Earth.
Thompson (Jane
The
Harders) learns
communicate through a
the Duke of Edinburgh. No one will
aliens
statue of
believe Shirley.
Screenplay:
gallavanting of
Conforti.
films
others.
message
of non-
Eliott,
June
Collis,
SKY SHIP
Great Northern (1920) I Nordisk
(Denmark. 1917), B&W, Silent feature.
A modest adventure that seems to have
been the forerunner of numerous mid-fifties
SF potboilers. Astronauts land on Mars and
discover a Utopian society,
composed
cruelly
by the
film's villain,
who
is
Effects:
Cast: Jackie
Bill
Ellis,
Moe Howard.
SPACE MONSTER
Bakaitsi.
hydrogen-bomb warhead.
ultimately
struck by lightning.
Director: Holger-Madsen. Screenplay: Die
Olsen and Sphus Michaelis.
Cinematography: Louis Larsen.
Cast: Zanny Petersen, Gunnar Tolnaes.
STAR WARS
20th Century-Fox (1977), Panavision and
Technicolor
Captured by the malevolent Dark Lord of
the Sith, Darth Vader (David Prowse), and
threatened by the power-mad Governor of
the Imperial Outland regions. Grand Moff
Tarkin (Peter Gushing), rebel Princess Leia
SPACE MASTER
X-7.
C-3P0
Empire Obi-Wan
Kenobi Sir Alec Guinness The robots, ith
the help of farmboy Luke Skywaiker (Mark
against the
evil
Galactic
fi
his
Wookie
co-
Knights.
ship.
tail.
vtfith
Jawas
Wookles
Leia.
John
Stears.
Makeup and
Alien
STARSHIP INVASIONS
Warners
i1977>. Color.
Captain Rameses
(Chris Lee)
and
his
Ross),
in
Races
is
an
alien
guard patrol
LOR
The
alien villain
U.S.
the
The
wrong
sides' saucer.
LOR
battle,
of
Dennis Pike.
Supporting players; Doreen Lipson, Kate
special effects:
Parr,
Ted Turner.
SUPERMAN (animated)
Paramount (1940-1943), Technicolor.
Bud
Dave
Fleischer), Destruction
Showdown
(1942, Director:
On The Midway
WorW (1943,
Kneitel).
SUPERMAN
Columbia
reels,
(1948),
a IS-episode serial, 30
BaW,480min.
The first
"real" appearance of
on the screen,
this film
Superman
newspaper
in
is
Metropolis as Clark
the Spider Lady, who
destruction ray.
The
Carol
Forman
screen appearance as
him defending a race of
first
surface after an
oil drill
hole-homes.
The cast included Phyllis Coates as Lois
Lane, Bill Curtis, Jack Branbury, Jerry
Marvin and Tony Baris as the mole men, Jeff
Corey as Luke Benson, Walter Reed as Bill
Corrigan and Stanley Andrews as the sheriff.
Producers: Robert Maxwell, Barney
Sarecky. Director: LeeSholem. Music:
Darrel Calker. Screenplay by Richard
Fielding. Special Effects: Ray Mercer.
The feature proved enormously successful
and other screen presentations were patched
together from the hit TV show: Superman
citizens return to their
Again
(
(1954),
Peril (1954);
all
released by
Twentieth Century-Fox.
Koehler.
Color. 85min.
A meteor shower brings a horde of
bodiless aliens to Earth. The aliens take over
the bodies of factory workers in Cornwall,
England. One human, however, has a plate in
his
later
TV as Unknown People.
land
falls in
Effects:
But
Morgan
traitor by guiding
saucers into the side of
mountain. Unfortunately, he also destroys
Bowie films.
Mohyeddin.
himself.
Producer-Director-Screenplay:
Tom
THETERRORNAUTS
An
Color, 75
complex is transported
The space rock was once a
entire scientific
machines.
Below:
fleet of
murderous
Bowie films.
Cast:
his
girlfriend
to an asteroid.
TARGET EARTHI
from
He and
aliens
Superman's
Marshall as
Above:
Metalunan
is
scientist
sent to Earth.
He
Exeter
(Jeff
Morrow)
secret project
who are,
human
the ruler.
^
THE THING
RKO I19S2), B&W. 86 mm.
invader
in
the film
is
THE THING
a door
still
alive
Music:
hall.
men
lure the
The juice
is
The
monster
turned on.
into a dimly-
A flood of large
eight-foot-tall invader
a crisp.
Producer:
Howard Hawks.
Director:
Herman
Special Effects:
Two
BaW. 87min.
Og and Zog, come to
(19621,
Martians,
Earth
submarine vessel.
(Larry Fine,
new source
world.
Larry, Moeand
Moe Howard and Joe
Curly Joe
DeRita)
John Chambers.
Supporting players: Carol Christensen,
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO
United Artists (1967) Color, 94miri.
After a Mars rocket launch is fouled by the
deeds of master-criminal, The
Hood, the puppet Tracy family and their
Thunderbird squad insure a successful
second liftoff. Astronaut Alan Tracy makes a
successful visit to Mars where he encounters
a horde of living, Martian rock-serpents.
villainous
A TRIP TO MARS
Edison
An
11910),
inventor goes to
Martian
men and
Mars where he
tree creatures.
He
an invention of his an
gravity powder.
to Earth via
nneets
returns
anti-
MOON
12 TO THE
Columbia (1960), BhW. 74 min.
Narrated by Francis X. Bushman, this film
recounts the exploits of Commander
Anderson (Ken
Clark), Dr.
Vargas (Tony
Earth
Orloff,
has
sf
specimen of Venusian
life.
No one
nit.
A local boy,
^ TRIP TO THE
Producer: Charles Schneer. Director;
Nathan Juran. Screenplay: Bob Williams and
Christopher Knopf, from a story by Charlotte
Knight and Ray Harryhausen. Special
Effects: Harryhausen. Music: Mischa
Bakaleinikoff.
Vuolo,
(1957),
B&W,
75 min.
MOON
If
human
race.
59
20O1:
2001:
A SPACE ODYSSEY
A SPACE ODYSSEY
effects of alien
development.
A large
The ship
as
nears
it
its
is
Bowman dismantles
goal.
life-giving force.
THETWONKY
United Artists (1953). BaW. 72 min.
Terry Hans Conried) is in a tizzy with
(
his
and
Tom
Effects:
THE
U(-0
INCIDENT
BBW,
74
A man
UFO
United Artist
Narrator
(1965),
Tom
clips of
factual
known
Columbia
11961),
BftW. 79min.
Million B. C.
Gregg
Martell.
portrays alien
arrives
on Earth
DAMNED
powers capriciously to
capabilities, realizing
same features
(fair hair
and
fair skin)
and
commentator (Fred
Stephens).
pull
abilities.
John
P. Fulton.
kill
and destroy.
what he must do
in
their
fiery finale.
Screenplay:
Rilla,
Sterling Silliphant
(1968). Color,
98
half-breeds.
The
children,
aware of Zellaby's
Photo:
MGM
Crosby.
Cast: Dick Miller,
Fox.
Above:
THE
WAR
OF THE
WORLDS
VOYAGE TO A PREHISTORIC
PLANET
In the year 2020, cosmonaut Marcia (Faith
Domergue) orbits the planet Venus while two
astronauts and a robot journey to the
surface. The explorers are beset by plague
off
as the world
is
UNIVERSE
XB- 1,
this is an alien film with a twist. The crew of
the spaceship /caws Anthony Hopkins
Originally released
alien prehistoric
were
ll<aria
really
human
beings
who destroyed
The crewmembers
fortheirnewhome-a
Nejedlyand
62
Jirl
Hilupy.
large, tendrilled
In
every case,
The Martians
site area
the world, the Martian ships wobble in midair and plummet to the streets below.
life.
James
to
are lost.
and
Pastor
landing
Lee.
Van
PREHISTORIC WOMEN
American-International (1968), Color, 78
Martian
Color.
Tony
is
dead.
All
it
gingerly.
The
Earth germs,
Sound
Effects:
Gene
Garvin.
11908), Silent,
The Moon
vanilla ice
Man
cream-colored
suit)
in a
space.
Producers: Joseph Fryd and Antonio
Margheriti. Director: Margheriti (Anthony
Tony
Russell,
WIZARD OF MARS
American General (1964),
Color, 81 min.
Producer-Director-Screenplay: David
Hewitt. Technical Advisor: Forrest J.
Ackerman.
Cast:
Gentry.
Cast:
Gruber.
Eiji
Tsuchiya.
who comes to
MGM(1967).
An unmanned
into the
Effects:
B&W
Below.
and
demented
Earth scientist
his
robot
serials of the
Special Effects:
Lydecker.
Television Sliows
BUCK ROGERS
ABC (1950)
A fairly tame adaptation
FANTASTIC JOURNEY
NBC (1977)
comic book
strip, with Ken Dibbs as Bucl<, Harry Sothern
as Huer and Harry Kingston as Blacl< Barney
(replacing Killer Kane as the lead villain). The
action was pretty routine. Buck encountered
humanold aliens as he hopped from planet to
planet.
of the
CAPTAIN VIDEO
DuMont 11949)
TV's first traveler of space was Captain
Video, master of time and space and ace
inventor. Played by Richard Coogan and later
by Al Hodge, the good captain was aided in
his battle against alien gangsterism by Video
Ranger (Don Hastings) and a mostly
stationary robot pal, Tobor (who later in the
show's career had a TV monitor stationed in
Michaelian.
Gwenith, an
making
all
in
travelers with
live in pastoral
their
Ladd.
Series credits Producer; Leonard
Jr.
FLASH GORDON
Dumont (1951}
Steve Holland was Flash, Joe Nash was
Zarkov and Irene Champlin was Dale. The
aliens featured
tame. The
THE INVADERS
unwary humans with their space guns. They
want to gradually worm their way into Earthly
society, taking over every position of power.
THE INVADERS
ABC (1967-1968)
a space-
have David
infiltrate
CAPTAIN VIDEO
64
telling
the Earth.
come from a
The humanold
aliens
tiiis
McGavin as
Writer:
Baron.
Rudolph Borchert.)
into a
LOST
IN
SPACE
InA^in Allen.
Music:
LOST IN SPACE
CBS (1965-1968)
Irwin Allen's controversial
viewers praised
debut
in
1965
in
SF
series
(some
it;
entitled
John Robinson,
Billy
playmate
is, in
reality,
an
alien life-force.
Jackson
Gillis.
makeup)
fall
lonely alien
humanoid
circuited
Writer:
Star: Ted
Lehmann.
"The Keeper"- A two-parter starring
Michael RennieasThe Keeper. The alien
runs an intergalactic managerie and would
very much like to add Will and Penny to the
show. The Robinsons are not too keen on the
idea. Dr. Smith accidentally sets the entire
entourage.
The robot
(the voice of
"The
Derelict"
- In
a vast spacecraft, a
-A
now
has a
A
"The Space Croppers" Alien
hillbillies
on the Robinsons'
planet and begin growing a plant crop that
claim squatters' rights
Jackson.
"Lost Civilization"
An
underground
Slater.
Wilbur.
is
Director:
Stone.
its
its
c'utches by
"Two Weeks
Jupiter 2 into a
IN
SPACE
SPACE
Howard Johnson
of space.
"Hunter's
Moon" Megazor,
turns
it
own.
Don
Richardson. Writer;
Dan Travanty.
humanoid
claiming
alien
their
LOST
In
IN
LOST
Smith and
Sobey
dancing. Director:
Packer.
E.
for a
subjects. Director:
Don Richardson.
Writer:
Farnum
Judy
contest. Director;
Gillis.
Guest
Star;
disgruntled
Don
Left;
tfie
Wells' classic.
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invaders,
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Mars
its
rockets
full blast.
toria
Right:
The
Interrupted Journey. In
aliens
book
it,
tiny
Parsons
is
greeted by
creatures.
human
The
in
Land Of The
Irwin Allen
Giants.
TV series pitted
laden
In
is
Albin Pahennik.
"salt
Left:
of worlds
Left:
The deadly
The Horta, in
The Dark" episode turned
silicon-based beast.
this installment,
the aliens
demand
that
80
dustball of
vacuum
Smith.
Dern.
first
a citizen
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
CBS (1963-1965)
Lovable Uncle Martin is really a Martian
who's stranded on Earth. Martin (Ray
Walston) takes up residence in the home of
hapless newspaperman Tim O'Hara (Bill
Bixby and a Topper situation ensues with
Tim being the only one that knows Martin is
from
out there. Of course, Martin has
problems behaving himself and it's quite a
chore for him to keep his antennae down and
)
When
he's feeling
Andromeda
and Director:
Cliff
Townes.
"Nightmare" Aliens from the planet
Ebon declare war on Earth and take a group
of Earthlingsas P.O.W.s. Director: John
Erman. Writer: Joseph Stefano. Guest Stars:
Ed Nelson, Martin Sheen.
human
to participate
"Don't Open
Until
Doomsday"
story,
amusement on
via
mushroom
beings threaten
humans on a
84
human
captives
in
exist for
Xenon government.
Writer:
Mark.
"A
Feasibility
Wanamaker.
"The Chameleon" - An
intelligence agent
appearance to spy on
Gerd Oswald. Writers:
Robert Towne and Joseph Stefano.
Alien Episodes: Second Season.
"The Demon With The Glass Hand" -An
alien and a human, the last survivors of a war
of the worlds, stalk each other in an
abandoned building shortly after the ultimate
holocaust. Director: Byron Haskin. Writer:
Harlan Ellison. Guest Star: Robert Gulp.
"Cold Hands, Warm Heart" -After
contacting Vonusians, an astronaut returns
from Earth
alters his
aliens. Director:
Shatner.
"Cry of Silence" Aliens take the form of
basis in fact).
a revamping that
the show in. Fred
Freiberger replaced Sylvia Anderson as
producer second time around. Freiberger was
the man responsible for Star Trek's last
season (many Trek fans see a definite cause
who could
Stevens.
down a
interplay
Magasoid.
Duvall.
in their
one-stage
humanoid
bit
more
The
series
Omega
Hall),
fought
SPACE: 1999
JTC (1975-79771
with
its
advance
alien
it
publicity
futuristic
stimulating. Unfortunately,
SPACE: 1999
Writer:
Anthony
Terpiloff
McShane, Gay
Mailton.
first
Alpha woman to
is possessed
by an
alien life-form
those of
its
(in
her pre-Maya
the
to get a
Star:
Roy
Dotrice.
Ray
Joan
Collins,
"War Games" An
llsa Blair.
by a murderous
spirit.
Director:
Rimmer.
planet Zenno.
DILorenzo.
Writer:
Mortimer.
"The
Infernal
Anthony
is
introduced
Guest Star:
Writer: Charles
"The
Patricl< IVlower.
Exiles"
begins to spread
among
the
Moonbase crew.
Woodgrove.
"The Chrysalis A-B-C" - Beneath
a planet
protected by a horrendously effective forceare a host of dormant, chlorinebreathing monsters. Director: Val Guest.
Writer: Tony Barwick. Guest Stars: Ina
Skriver, Sarah Douglas.
field
al
The
Guy Rolfe.
"A Matter Of Balance" On
a desolate
who need
on the Moon to
still
left
Stuart
alien planet,
civilization that
creature
Director:
that
Psychon. Director:
a race of
group of
SPACE; 1999
Tom
Clegg. Writer;
Johnny Byrne.
"Dorzak" Maya accidentally frees
Psychon prisoner Dorzak from his cell
aboard alien Sahala's spaceship. Learning
the art of molecular transformation, Dorzak
begins to slip in and out of Moonbase Alpha
different forms, with the intention of
running the entire base into the ground.
Director: Charles Crichton. Writers: Pip and
Jane Baker.
"Devil's Planet" A race of cat women
in
87
STAR TREK
NBC (1966-1969)
Probably the most famous of all televised
shows. Star Trek was (and is)
science-fiction
Gene
down
in
a late night
ads?
Still, the show continued undaunted for
full seasons (with Roddenberry
producing two). The exploits of the U. S. S.
Enterprise became legendary with Captain
Kirk (William Shatner), Mr. Spock (Leonard
Nimoy), Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Lt.
Uhuru (Nichelle Nichols), Scotty (Jimmy
Doohan), Lt. Sulu (George Takei) and
Chekov (Walter Koenig) meeting different
aliens from week to week; encountering
different adventures and leaving their
audiences with different philosophical
messages to ponder. Most of Trek's aliens
were spectacular both in form and content.
Nimoy as Spock, however, usually stole
the thunder in terms of an alien popularity
poll. The dour, pointed-eared, half-breed
(Vulcan and Terran) was nearly unflappable
three
STAR MAIDENS
STAR MAIDENS
(Syndicated) 1977
THE STARLOST
Syndicated (1973)
Another short-lived SF series that probably
looked exceedingly good on paper, but lost
in the translation to video. The
only survivors of a ravaged Earth roam the
galaxy in their spaceship looking for a home.
What they find, however, is alien menace
and alleged adventure week after week.
Harlan Ellison created the show, then aborted
the mission upon seeing its maturation. He
received a credit line as Cordwainer Bird. Not
so lucky was star Keir Dullea who used his
real moniker.
something
Sham
Quadflieg).
Producer:
STAR TREK
88
Teleworld.
For
in
the pursuit of
STAR TREK
is
the
crippled, original
Hunter).
The
commander, Pike
(Jeffrey
Malachi Throne.
Howard.
II
Robert
J.
Pollard.
Gist.
human victims.
Writer:
flame,
The
all
salt
from her
"Charlie
planet,
Lawrence
them to do wrong.
to
Torin Thatcher.
"A
Opatoshu.
Jr.
Goldstone. Writer:
Stars:
Star:
and
strange force
Enterprise's
powers
James
STAR TREK
their
forcibly
Jill
want no
Kirk's brother
on the Denevan
John
Ken Lynch.
IV, the
an abberated version of
America's colonial times. Director; Vincent
McEveety. Writer: Gene Roddenberry. Guest
"A
Private Little
Marc
try
by gun-running.
Daniels. Writer:
Gene
emerges and
two-thirds of
Writer:
Ireland.
"Operation Annihilate"
it.
Kirk
Director: Ralph
John Kingsbridge.
planet
and
Gamma
McCoy
the Enterprise's
Director:
tail.
Joseph
STAR TREK
Alien Episodes: Second Season.
returns to Vulcan
finds
Stars:
Aden
crew run
the planet
into a
Writer:
a story by Gilbert
Scotty,
life.
alternate universe
into
an
is a way of
show up on
where violence
Marc Daniels.
Jerome Bixby.
"Metamorphosis" Trapped on a barren
"The Apple" - A
planet
has
made
on the
governed by
child-like race,
Gamma Trianguli
the sinister
VI, are
in his
wisdom
Enterprise'^
Writer:
Max
Ehrlich
Writer:
STAR TREK
of Federation
John
Fiedler.
Adams.
"The Gamesters Of Triskelion"-The
Providers
the
like
to
games they
playgames. Unfortunately,
human pawns.
play include
pieces: Kirk,
left
Now,
behind a
of gangsters in
a century later,
the planet
one-celled
Sabaroff.
J.
Belli.
a primitive planet
an
Kirk maries
American
woman (a variation of an
and becomes a warrior of
alien
Indian)
Judd
Taylor. Writer:
can happen
including a re-enactment of
"All
Enterprise'^
its
history. Director:
picture, the
rebel. Director:
Flint
well.
them
reveal his
real Enterprise,
Daly.
"The
the
Lights Of Zetar"
Scotty's dreams
-The girl
Enterprise as a battlefield.
of
possessed by several
nasty alien life-forces. Director: Herb
Kenwith. Writers: Jeremy Tarcher and Shari
is
On a
teams with Abe
phantasmagoric
Lincoln in an attempt to defeat the
planet, Kirk
evil
really a
hollow spaceship on a
into
John Meredyth
Joanne
Linville.
STAR TREK
collision
in
Meyer
John Hoyt.
"Raiders From Outer Space" The ancient
Khartoum takes place with the aid of
alien beast. Director: Nathan Juran.
an
Writers:
Star:
Tom
in
jumpsuit and
and motion
picture
SUPERMAN
SUPERMAN
SUPERMAN
Superman's
infant
his feats of
stuck
fairly
warning the
son
sent to Earth
planet explodes.
is
in a
doom. His
rocket as the
right
of
CBS was
finally
Emmys during
its
five
seasons. TheTwilight
series.
in
their glory:
all
first
his
As
in
somehow
the alien
them
terrain
is
giving
Director: Daniel
Martin.
Elegy' A spaceship filled with
astronauts lands on an alien world where all
the residents seem to be in a deep trance.
'
pulley systems.
'
'
was
ABC (1966)
This Irwin Allen production featured James
Darren as Dr. Tony Newman, Whit Bissell as
Lt.
Dr.
Doug
Phillips.
From Beyond The Stars" A group of silvercoated aliens turn up in the year 1885 in, of
all
Writers:
Sobey
Martin.
utensils.
god to the
become
a sort of
he
bookworm
Meredith.
Street"
small
disaster
invaders
who
Out" -When
male
space
traveler, similarly
Eve.
Writer:
Over" A space
on Mars and
All
human
Martians.
One
of the
tale
UFO
-SHADO
ITC(1972)
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's
first live-
The
is
put into a
Writer:
Myers.
Phillip
Control,
Moonbaseand
Gabrielle
as
Drake as
Lt.
Gay
Ellis,
Lake,
Antonia
Ellis
Nina Barry.
Episodes included:
"Identified"
capture a
years
UFO
Basil
Dignam, Gary
is
Star:
Gary
tested to see
if
she
Madoc.
clairvoyant,
SHADO agents.
Ken Turner.
Guest Stars: John
Director:
Commander.
Director:
Ken Turner.
Writer:
by
aliens. Director:
Wyatt.
"The Man
Who Came
Back" - SID
is
Writer:
Nesbitt.
planet. Director:
home
Tony
Director:
BanA'ick.
David Collings.
"A Question Of Priorities" Straker's son
injured in a car accident and the
Pratt,
is
triangle
and
is
killed
caught in a murder
by a woman attempting
to
Fennell.
alien.
awake. The Commander wards off a fullscale alien attack on the slumbering
headquarters. Director: RonAppleton.
Writer: Dennis Spooner.
following episodes:
Kid Vid
Vollaerts.
Ward Hawkins.
Humanoid
Venusians kidnap the Seaview command
and threaten to destroy the Earth.
staff
Guest Star:
Eric
Matthews.
tentacled
alien intelligence
Bushman.
"Terror" A group of alien plant monsters
command the minds of several Seaviewers in
an attempt to take over the Earth. Director:
Jerry Hopper. Writer: Sidney Ellis. Guest
Star:
Damian G'Flynn.
STAR TREK
fight the
Mysterons on
equal terms, possessing the power of retrometabolism himself (he was once captured
STAR TREK
underground green-man of Venus, maneating plants on the planet Floran, Zoonle the
Lazoon (an alien companion), icemen of the
planet Arctan, Graff the Snaff the giants of
Triad, the space pirates of the planet Aridan
and the space monster of Monotane.
The Herculoids (CBS, 1967) A group of
,
Zender and
his family
1964)
A young
folks
family
prehistoric land.
week
after
life
week
on
I
different alien
nvisible aliens,
Interplanetary
Space Force.
Michelle
aliens every
stories
writers.