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Jared Martin, Carl Franklin, Ike Eisenmann, Roddy McDowall. A group of scientists are on an expedition in the Atlantic Ocean when they become lost in the Bermuda Triangle. When they wash up onto the shore of an uncharted island, they encounter others from the past, from the future, from different planets and other dimensions. They immediately begin their search for the one portal that will lead them home. 10 episodes on 3 DVDs. 1977/color/7 hrs/NR/fullscreen.

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Director ‏ : ‎ Alf Kjellin, Andrew V. McLaglen, Art Fisher, Barry Crane, David Moessinger
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Run time ‏ : ‎ 508 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ June 28, 2019
Actors ‏ : ‎ Cheryl Ladd, Lew Ayres, John Saxon, Joan Collins, Jared Martin
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Producers ‏ : ‎ The Fantastic Journey (Complete Series)
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The Fantastic Journey

A scientific expedition in the Atlantic Ocean headed by Dr Paul Jordan becomes lost in the Bermuda Triangle and washes up on an uncharted island. In the pilot episode they meet Varian, a man from the 23rd century who tells them about a place to the East called Evailand where they can find a door way back to there own time. Most of the group either died or made it home leaving Varian, Fred Walters and Paul's 13 yr. old son Scott to make there way east. Along the way they meet up with travelers from other times, planets and dimensions who have also become trapped. Liana, a woman with an alien mother and an Atlantium father with her cat Sil-l, is the first to join them. Then Jonathan Willoway, a scientist from the 60s is invited to join. Together they travel through portals from one dimension to the next hoping to find the one that leads home.

Le Voyage extraordinaire (The Fantastic Journey) est une série télévisée américaine en dix épisodes de 50 minutes, créée par Bruce Lansbury et diffusée entre le 3 février et le 17 juin 1977 sur le réseau NBC. Cette série met en scène une équipe composée de gens issus d'époques différentes, perdus dans le triangle des Bermudes, et qui tentent de découvrir un moyen de retourner dans leurs mondes respectifs.

Una expedición científica se pierde en el Triángulo de las Bermudas, que resulta ser una misteriosa tierra compuesta por múltiples "zonas de tiempo" a las que se puede llegar a través de portales Inter dimensionales. Varios sobrevivientes de la expedición se unen a un viajero del futuro y a una joven atlante, y juntos emprenden la búsqueda del portal que los devuelva a sus respectivas líneas de tiempo.

Bei der Durchquerung des Bermuda-Dreiecks wird das Expeditionsschiff „Yonder“ von einem grünen Nebel eingehüllt und verschwindet. Die Besatzung findet sich auf einer Insel wieder, die eine Art Zeitschleuse ist.

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The Fantastic Journey (1977) – Review

In 1977, producer Bruce Lansbury brought to the small screen a show called The Fantastic Journey , a startling tale about a small group of people trapped on a mysterious island — decades before J.J. Abrams would conjure up his series Lost — and though this particular series didn’t even manage a full season, thanks to the evil machinations of NBC network’s executives, it was quite a remarkable little adventure show, and deserved more than to become “One of the Forgotten.”

In the pilot episode “Vortex,” a small but diverse group of “eggheads” take a boat cruise into the Bermuda Triangle — to what end is never exactly addressed — with a party consisting of Professor Paul Jordan ( Scott Thomas ), his thirteen year-old son Scott ( Ike Eisenmann ), young African American Dr. Fred Walters ( Carl Franklin ), university students Jill Sands ( Karen Somerville ) and Eve Costigan ( Susan Howard ), marine biologists Andy ( Jack Stauffer ) and George ( Byron Chung ), with the boat itself being operated by Captain Ben Wallace ( Leif Erickson ) and his First Mate Carl Johanson ( Scott Brady ). Don’t worry about remembering all those names and characters because most of them won’t make it past the pilot episode.

Entering the Bermuda Triangle.

When night falls, the boat loses power as well as the use of its radio, as it’s drawn towards a mysterious glowing green cloud. The first casualty is poor Carl, who during the stormy passage into the cloud falls overboard, and when the rest of them find themselves washed ashore the following morning, Carl is nowhere to be found. Professor Jordan and his son do a quick reconnoiter, where they soon discover that they are on a massive island, one with mountains in the distance and no sign of indigenous people. So it’s clear that they are on some strange and uncharted island , which has Andy and George eager to try and take the ship’s surviving dingy back out to sea in an attempt to make it into the shipping lanes. This does not go well for the two marine biologists, as they are both found washed ashore, dead, the very next day.

Enter Varian, man from another time.

The group soon encounters a man dressed like a member of an extinct indigenous tribe — standard loin cloth and long hair style — but the man is clearly not too primitive as he carries a device that instantly heals Captain Wallace’s broken arm, and when Scott follows this strange individual into the jungle (Scott does this wandering off thing quite a bit on this show), he discovers that the man is not a primitive tribesman at all, but a man from the 23rd Century named Varian ( Jared Martin ) who, like our intrepid group of castaways, was also marooned on this strange island. He later tells the group that, “In Earth year 2230, I was a musician, and my work was very important to me because in my century, musicians do nearly all the healing.” From this, Professor Jordan deduces that, “We’re in some sort of time lock, a space time continuum. Past, present and future exist together, each on its own terms.” Unfortunately, running into musicians from the future is far from their only concern, as also located nearby is a group of 16th Century privateers, led by Sir James Camden ( Ian McShane ), and Jill, Fred and Captain Wallace are soon captured by these English ruffians.

Pirates of the Bermuda Triangle.

The trio are rescued, with the reluctant help of Varian, who is opposed to violence and destruction of any kind, but Captain Wallace succumbs to greed and runs back to grab some Spanish treasure, which leads to his demise at the end of the poisoned fangs of Camden’s pet cobra. Thus, another member of the original party exits the series, and the show isn’t finished yet, as only three of the original nine will make it to the second episode. This is easily the highest attrition right I’ve ever seen in a television series. This would be like if the second episode of Lost only included Jack, Hurley, and Walt, and it’s this kind of shake-up in casting that would have been a key reason for the show’s failing, as a certain amount continuity of cast members is something audience members of the time were more used to, but for me, the bigger issue came along with how the show ditched the next three cast mates.

Enter the evil Atlanteans.

Varian explains to the travellers that, “Here on this island, even as the first man walked upright out of his Neanderthal cave, man was also taking his first step on the moon, and that there is only a thin tissue of consciousness separating one event from the other.” He further explains that the island is honeycombed with many different “time zones,” all separated by invisible fields, and that one step through these “invisible gateways” can take you from the 23rd Century to the 16th Century in an instant. They also learn that the only way home is to head towards the Eastern Shore, to a mythical terrain called Evoland, where a device purportedly exists that could send any person back to his appropriate home in time. At the end of the pilot, Professor Jordan, Jill and Eve step through one of these invisible gateways, but when Varian, Fred and Scott step through, they find no sign of Scott’s dad or the two girls, but they are met by an Atlantean named Rhea ( Mary Ann Mobley ) who tells them that Professor Jordan and the two girls had gone on ahead to the city of Atlantium.

She certainly doesn’t look like the lying type, I’d trust her.

Yet when they enter the city, they are quickly informed that Scott’s dad and the two girls have gone back to their own time. Needless to say, that rather upsets Scott. Dar-L ( Gary Collins ), one of Atlantium triumvirate, gives Scott a letter written by his dad, explaining that he knew that Scott would be fine while in the capable hands of Varian and Fred, and that he needed to get home as soon as possible so as to relieve the pain that Scott’s mother must be going through. Now the level of bullshit here is just staggering, and at first I’d assumed this was some duplicitous scheme of the Atlanteans, but turns out the letter was genuine, and that Scott’s dad is just such an asshole that he couldn’t wait five damn minutes for his son to show up. If the showrunners were so eager to get rid of these three characters — which seems a like strange thing to do after just one episode — why not have it be revealed that the Atlanteans murdered them, and that the letter was a fake? We quickly learn that the city is run by a giant brain in a jar, simply called The Source, and that it needs a new body for rejuvenation, and that it had chosen Scott to serve that purpose, so having them kill off Professor Jordan, and those with him, would certainly be in keeping with their evil plan.

Never trust a brain in a jar.

Lucky for our trio, the Atlanteans were about to have a rebellion, led by an Atlantean named Liana ( Katie Saylor ), who is the daughter of an Atlantean father but with an extraterrestrial mother, and with her help Scott is saved and The Source is defeated. When all is said and done, she decides to leave Atlantium with our heroes. Now, Liana is quite an interesting character; she has some psychic abilities, such as telepathically communicating with animals — which comes in handy when she uses her cat as a spy — and she also has greater than normal human strength due to her mother being from a planet with a higher gravity than that of Earth’s. Sadly, her “super strength” is rarely used, so instead of having a show featuring a woman kicking serious ass, which would have been awesome, we often see Liana captured and in need of rescue by the boys. This is such a criminal waste of potential, especially when you consider that over on ABC they had Lynda Carter tossing around Nazis as Wonder Woman , so why not make Liana the action hero of this show? With pacifist Varian in charge of our trio, it would have been natural to have her as a physical back-up, but instead, fisticuffs and flying dropkicks were left to George.

This is just embarrassing.

In episode three, “Beyond the Mountain,” the group were separated after being engulfed by a mysterious red cloud, so while Varian, Fred and Scott end up in a dreary swamp, Liana finds herself in a small little utopia run by a man named Willoway ( Roddy McDowall ), who we later learn is the only human inhabitant, as all the other “citizens” are robots. Willoway is very happy to see Liana, but she is less than thrilled when he announces the fact that they are to be married — even his robot “son” seems a tad jealous — and it’s only with the arrival of Varian, Fred and Scott, along with the little green men who original lived in this utopia before Willoway betrayed them and had them ousted, that she is saved from an awkward matrimonial situation. What is quite surprising is that after the little green men reclaim their homeland, and exile their usurper, Varian offers Willoway the opportunity to travel with them, stating that the Dr. Jonathan Willoway he knew was a man who treasured life over death, and whose achievements became the building blocks of the future that Varian comes from.

It’s not every show where an episode’s villain ends up becoming a regular cast member, and he’s not even given the cowardly aspect we got with such charactera like Dr. Smith from Lost in Space — he becomes a valued member of the team, whose somewhat “flexible moral compass” serves them well, from time to time.

The rest of the season finds our group running into various science fiction clichés, with only the excellent work by science fiction legend (and this show’s story editor), Dorothy Fontana, preventing The Fantastic Journey from becoming a running joke. The network wasn’t too keen on having our heroes running across figures from the past, maybe it cost too much to find period sets and clothing for those kinds of episodes, and thus the 16th Century privateers were the only historical encounter our heroes would have. Instead, they ran into a post-apocalyptic city run by children — think “Miri” from the original Star Trek series — then there was a military dictator ( John Saxon ) who wanted to march across and conquer the various time zones, a society that practiced human sacrifices, who wanted to chuck Varian into a volcano, Willoway is briefly possessed by an ancient Greek magician ( Mel Ferrer ) in a “Funhouse” of horror, then in the episode “Turnabout” we find a society where sexist men have enslaved women, but the slave queen ( Joan Collins ) leads a rebellion, and our heroes are captured so as to be used as breeding stock. We even have an episode where space convicts ( Richard Jaeckel and Nicholas Hammond ) make things tough for an alien colony of pacifists ( Cheryl Ladd and Lew Ayres ).

Take note, there are lot of aliens in this show, but mostly of the humanoid variety.

In the ten episodes that make up this brief run, our heroes come across a helluva lot of aliens, for every dystopian future society they come across they encounter two made up of aliens who got sucked in by the Bermuda Triangle, making this show more Lost in Space than Time Tunnel . Sure, we are told these aliens races are from the future, but they’re aliens, does it really matter what time zone they came from? The repetitive nature of these encounters was probably key in the show’s cancellation, as one could easily imagine how “old hat” our heroes stumbling from one alien society to another would get, until eventually reaching the fabled Evoland. The show’s formula became quickly apparent.

• Our heroes would step through a gateway. • They would encounter a strange society. • Varian would not want to interfere. • Willoway would want to get the hell out. • Scott would befriend one of the residents. • Varian would change his mind about interfering. • Ben would then get to punch or dropkick somebody. • Our heroes would then step through another gateway.

You can see how that could get tiresome after a while, but with the addition of Roddy McDowall to the cast they really had an ace up their sleeves, as any scene where Willoway had to debate the bizarre aspects of whatever Topsy-turvy society they’d wandered into was a true joy to behold. McDowall was simply brilliant, and I would have happily listened to him read the phone book for fifty minutes, but even his valiant efforts could not save the show from being flushed by the network executives.

The Fantastic Journey certainly had an interesting concept, and the cast were uniformly excellent — that is, once they settled down to our four main heroes — and the show allowed time to develop some great comradely moments between them, but the network’s decision to no longer have our characters encounter people from the past was a huge mistake, as a show about time travel kind of needs that aspect or it’s just becomes another generic space opera, only without the cool spaceships. Since its cancellation, we’ve had several shows with similar themes, but I for one would love to see a complete reboot of the series, for with a proper budget, and writers given free reign, you could really give modern audiences a real Fantastic Journey .

I’d love HBO to take a crack at a show like this.

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If The Fantastic Journey had been given another season could they have course corrected, and turned this show into Must See TV? Sadly that will go down as one of the great answerable questions, but of the ten episodes we got there was some solid writing to found, as well great acting, all adding up to a lot of fun.

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THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY Cast And Crew - Where Are They Now?

“Time is changed here. Your present is their future. And it’s my past.”

That line of dialogue, delivered by twenty-third century healer Varian ( Jared Martin) to an assembled group of time travelers, sums up the concept of The Fantastic Journey . Sadly, it would be one the last lines spoken on the inventive sci-fi series, which was cancelled after that broadcast on June 16, 1977.

Like its lead characters, The Fantastic Journey traveled on a wild ride of its own, from big-budget pilot film in November of 1976, to highly promoted mid-season replacement in February, to quickly canceled series in June. Ultimately, it was The Waltons who killed our heroes, with an assist from Welcome Back, Kotter , Barney Miller and What’s Happening . How could any show have survived against those primetime powerhouses, let alone one as delightfully odd and quirky as The Fantastic Journey ?

Happily, time has transformed The Fantastic Journey from a forgotten failure into a cult classic. And you can travel back to 1977 to see how the Journey ended, when the final five episodes air Sunday, March 18 in an overnight binge starting at midnight ET on getTV!

Here’s a look at the cast and crew of The Fantastic Journey – and their past and future endeavors:

1. Roddy McDowall as Dr. Jonathan Willaway

Willaway is introduced as a megalomaniacal former NASA engineer living in exile amongst a society of androids he created. He joins our heroes, becoming the pragmatic brain of the group, much like Spock to Carl Franklin’s Dr. McCoy-esque Fred. At age 48, the former child star was Journey ’s senior cast member, with four decades of acting credits stretching back to 1938. He’s best known to genre fans for the Planet Of The Apes franchise, where he played apes Cornelius, Caesar, and Galen (the latter on the 1974-75 TV spin-off). McDowall’s career continued for two decades after Journey , in films like Fright Night (1985) and TV shows like The New Lassie . (As a child he had starred in 1943’s Lassie Come Home .) His later years included frequent voice acting roles in animated TV shows and movies, including the Mad Hatter on Batman The Animated Series . He died at age 70 in 1998.

2. Ike Eisenmann as Scott Jordan

The “Will Robinson” of The Fantastic Journey , 14-year-old Scott is the moral center of the series. He’s mature enough to understand the adult world, but young enough to still be relatable for a kid audience. Viewers of a certain vintage will recognize Ike as Tony, the harmonica-playing, extra-terrestrial sibling in Escape To Witch Mountain (1975) and Return From Witch Mountain (1978). Ike was a frequent face (and voice) on TV and film throughout the ‘80s, most notably as Scotty’s nephew in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) and in numerous voice acting roles. He has continued to work in the entertainment business in mostly behind-the-scenes roles, directing, producing, and working in post-production and dialogue replacement. He also made a cameo appearance in Disney’s Race To Witch Mountain (with former co-star Kim Richards) in 2009.

3. Carl Franklin as Dr. Fred Walters

At age 27, Fred (a “young doctor just out of medical school”) is the action hero of the team. He’s quick to throw a punch – and a funky dresser, despite the lack of any discernable laundry facilities. Fred is the only adult survivor from the boat that brought the team to the island, and extremely protective of Scott (whom he calls “Scotty”). Fred grew up in a tough, inner-city neighborhood where he watched his mother victimized (as he recalls in the finale). After Journey ended, Franklin went on to roles in McClain’s Law and The A-Team before moving to a career behind the camera in the ‘90s. He directed the critically acclaimed neo-noir thriller One False Move (1992) and directed and wrote Devil In A Blue Dress (1995). More recently he’s directed premium cable dramas like House Of Cards , Homeland , and Bloodline .

4. Katie Saylor as Liana

When NBC decided to pick up The Fantastic Journey pilot to series, they made some immediate changes. Most of the cast was not retained, a sub-plot about a stranded WW II pilot ( Desi Arnaz Jr .) was cut, and new cast members were added. Liana (“the daughter of an Atlantean father and an extra-terrestrial mother”) is not seen in the expanded pilot, but her black cat is. Sil-El (played by a collection of kitties known as The Felix Team ) communicates telepathically with Liana, who is clad in an assortment of stylish capes (again, where is the ironing board?). At age 25, Saylor was a veteran of drive-in-oriented B-movies, including Dirty O’Neill (1974), The Swinging Barmaids (1975), and Supervan (1977). Saylor also appeared with Journey co-star Jared Martin in Men Of The Dragon (1974), an ABC TV movie that was a pilot for a martial arts action series. Saylor stepped away from The Fantastic Journey after episode eight due to an illness and did not return before the cancellation. As of this writing, she has not acted again.

5. Jared Martin as Varian

Already marooned on the island when the castaways arrive in the pilot, Varian befriends and, later, joins forces with Scott and Fred. He explains that he is a musician and healer from the year 2230, a time when there are “no more countries and no more war.” Despite being six-foot-three and athletic, Martin was cast against type as the super-chill pacifist of the group. His biggest role before The Fantastic Journey was in Men Of The Dragon with Saylor. His most significant role after the series was as Dusty Farlow on Dallas , a role he played on and off for 12 years. He was also a lead on War Of The Worlds , a 1988-90 syndicated sci-fi series. He died in 2017 at age 75.

6. Bruce Lansbury (Creator)

The British-born younger brother of Angela Lansbury produced and/or wrote sci-fi and fantasy TV classics like The Wild Wild West , The Magician , Wonder Woman , The Powers Of Matthew Starr , and Knight Rider . Lansbury also produced Buck Rogers In The 25 th Century (1979-81), where he cast Roddy McDowall and employed three producers, two directors, a composer and a writer from The Fantastic Journey ! He died in 2017.

7. Leonard Katzman (Producer)

Katzman did some of his earliest work for his uncle Sam Katzman on Saturday morning adventure serials, a format that would provide inspiration for The Fantastic Journey thirty years later. Leonard had a prolific four-decade career, but he’s best known as the mastermind behind Dallas . On that long-running nighttime soap he employed more than twenty people associated with The Fantastic Journey – including an actress ( Susan Howard ) he fired after the Journey pilot. Katzman died in 1996.

8. D.C. Fontana (Story Editor)

Dorothy “D.C.” Fontana is perhaps best known as a writer and story editor on the original Star Trek . She also contributed scripts to genre classics like The Six Million Dollar Man , Babylon 5 , Star Trek: The Next Generation , Buck Rogers (for Bruce Lansbury), and Dallas (for Leonard Katzman). And, proving that everything in Hollywood comes full circle, she was also a writer for War Of The Worlds starring Jared Martin!

Catch the final five episodes of The Fantastic Journey Sunday night March 18 beginning at 12am ET. For more information, visit the getTV schedule .

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Marvel’s The Fantastic Four Casts Paul Walter Hauser

By Brandon Schreur

Paul Walter Hauser has been cast in Marvel ’s The Fantastic Four movie.

Per Deadline , Hauser has been cast in an undisclosed role in the forthcoming Fantastic Four movie that is being directed by Matt Shakman .

He’ll join Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer.

Hauser is known for starring in movies such as 2017’s I, Tonya, 2018’s Super Troopers 2, 2018’s BlacKkKlansman, 2019’s Richard Jewell, 2020’s Da 5 Bloods, 2021’s Cruella, and 2024’s Orion and the Dark.

He is also voicing Embarrassment in Pixar’s Inside Out 2, which releases in United States theaters this June, and stars alongside Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, and Hong Chau in The Instigators, which hits Apple TV+ in August.

Hauser was recently cast as Captain Ed in the forthcoming Naked Gun reboot that arrives in 2025. He additionally plays Raymond “Stingray” Porter in Netflix’s Cobra Kai series.

What else do we know about Marvel’s The Fantastic Four?

The Fantastic Four’s script was written by Eric Pearson, Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan, Ian Springer, and Peter Cameron. Production on the film is expected to begin this summer.

Plot details for The Fantastic Four remain under wraps at this time; although, it’s been speculated that the movie may be set sometime in the past, potentially the 1960s, given a promotional image Marvel Studios released when the main cast was announced.

There’s also been speculation that Galactus will serve as the main antagonist in the movie, while Doctor Doom is reportedly expected to have minimal screen time.

The Fantastic Four is currently scheduled to release in United States theaters on July 25, 2025, as part of Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe .

Brandon Schreur has been writing about comics, movies, television shows, and all things pop culture for roughly five years. He's a lifelong cinephile who spends way, way too much money buying Blu-rays and trade paperbacks. You can find him on twitter at @brandonschreur.

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The life and music of Amy Winehouse, through the journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time. The life and music of Amy Winehouse, through the journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time. The life and music of Amy Winehouse, through the journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time.