The BEST episodes written by William Welch
#1 - Wild Journey
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 24
Using a device stolen from time-travelling researchers, Steve and Dan return to the day of the Spindrift's launch and try to alter history and stop the ill-fated flight.
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#2 - The Sky's On Fire
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 18
Cruising for days under the ice, Seaview surfaces to find the sky is ablaze thanks to the Van Allen belt catching fire. Nelson races to Washington to confer with fellow scientists and hatches a plan to detonate a nuclear device into the atmosphere and extinguish the fire. Weber, a Fellow scientist, feels they should do nothing and allow the fire to burn out. Nelson disagrees and takes Weber and two others aboard Seaview to decide the course of action as the sub races to the firing point. However, Weber is determined to stop Nelson and is willing to kill to do it!
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#3 - The Phantom Strikes
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 17
Seaview encounters a sunken WWI sub...with someone still left aboard.
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#4 - Terror on Dinosaur Island
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 14
A submerged domed island is forced to the surface by its volcano and exposes a Jurassic-style world.
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#5 - Home Sweet Home
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 14
Fitzhugh and Steve accidentally return to Earth in a space-time pod but end up in 1900 and must deal with hostile villagers.
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#6 - The Boy from the C.C.C.
The Waltons - Season 1 - Episode 8
Gino, a boy from the slums of New York City runs away from a CCC Camp and learns about trust and love from the Waltons.
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#7 - Space Creature
Lost in Space - Season 3 - Episode 10
A blue mist causes the travelers to disappear one by one until only Will is left.
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#8 - The Hungry Sea
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 5
An earthquake threatens to seal the cave where Don, Judy, Will, and Penny are trapped.
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#9 - The Chase
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 26
Inspector Kobick of the SID involves the Earthlings in a plan to track down counterfeiters.
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#10 - One of Our Dogs is Missing
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 13
Dr. Smith and the women discover that their spaceship has been looted.
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#11 - Brainwash
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 14
The Giants have invented a chemical that forces those exposed to it to tell the truth, and plan to test it on the Earthlings.
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#12 - The Mermaid
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 19
As the Seaview conducts a marine census, Captain Crane spots a mermaid. He brings her aboard and falls under her spell. A sea creature follows the mermaid and proceeds to cause big trouble on the sub. The problems are compounded when the Seaview is ordered to disarm a nuclear device that has been planted off the coast of California.
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#13 - The X Factor
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 11
A toy manufacturer is involved with kidnapping and shipping politicians and scientists to foreign powers.
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#14 - The Left-Handed Man
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 6
Nelson works on finding an assassin before he can kill the new Secretary of State.
#15 - The Shape of Doom
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 20
Dr. Alex Holden is hunting a gigantic whale in which he has injected an experimental growth serum. It turns on the doctor and destroys his boat, killing his crew. He is rescued by Seaview, which was on route to plant a nuclear device to blast an undersea channel. Dr. Holden obsesses over getting his swallowed equipment from the whale when it turns and comes at the sub, swallowing the bomb as it is being lowered! Nelson cannot detonate the bomb, as the president's carrier is in the area. The nearly insane Dr.Holden steals Nelson's remote detonating device and threatens to blow up the whale if he's not permitted to get samples of the whale.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 11
A ghostly ancestor of Admiral Nelson visits him aboard Seaview.
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#17 - Merlin the Magician
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 27
Tony and Doug are frozen in time, then a rather fey Merlin appears in the Project base. He takes the guys out of time and freezes them, commands them to do his bidding, then sends them on to 544 A.D., Cornwall England. They meet a young pre-King Arthur while fighting Vikings and on Merlin's behest team up with Arthur. The Vikings apparently kill Doug and capture Tony and Arthur. Tony escapes with Arthur and Doug is rescued by Merlin and Guienvere. When the Project staff are ready to recover Doug and Tony, Merlin intervenes because he needs them where they are. Tony and Arthur get recaptured and so does Doug when he goes to help. Guinevere gets captured too. One of the Vikings kills Arthur and a "detained" Merlin shows up and reverses time to save him. The guys escape again and Doug gets reinforcements which Merlin disguises as Vikings while Arthur and Tony rescue Guinevere. Everything works out and Arthur and Guinevere are to be married.
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#18 - Fatal Cargo
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 7
Doctor Blanchard has created a device to control the actions of a white gorilla. Unfortunately, his assistant Leo Brock wants the fame that the inventor of such a device would gain. As a result he uses the device to enrage the gorilla and kill Blanchard. Nelson gets there too late to save Blanchard, but the gorilla is taken on board. Brock sets the gorilla free and he runs amock until both Brock and the gorilla are killed.
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#19 - The Return of the Phantom
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 2 - Episode 26
Captain Krueger returns to compel Nelson to shoot Crane. Once that is done, Krueger takes over Crane's body and searches out a host for Lani, Krueger's dead lover, so the two can be reunited. Can Admiral Nelson save his friend and end the plans of the evil Captain forever?
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#20 - The Brand of the Beast
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 14
While racing to help a foundering research vessel, the Seaview's nuclear reactor goes critical. Admiral Nelson's right hand is exposed to intense radiation as he fixes the problem, causing a flare-up of the "werewolf" virus that he carries.
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#21 - A Place Called Earth
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 12
Two time travellers from 5477 come to the Land of the Giants to conquer Earth.
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#22 - The Kidnappers
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 28
The guys' signal is intercepted and a silver-skinned alien shows up and kidnaps Anne. He leaves behind a data card which the rest of the Project staff use to send Tony and Doug to. The guys end up in a futuristic complex and meet a zombiefied ancients from different time periods and locales. A mysterious voice provides historical detail. According to the Project staff they're on a distant planet in the Canopis system in 8433 A.D. The guys meet the Curator then escape. They get hold of Ann before being captured and the Project staff try a recovery but grab a OTT (Official Time Traveller) instead. He grabs the Time Tunnel's time/space converter and leaves. The guys and Ann stage an escape but mess that up as well. The Canopians go dormant during night, and the guys avoid being drugged to take advantage of the situation. They get nowhere for a while, and the OTT is not vulnerable to lack of sunlight. The three Earthlings manage to overcome it long enough to send Ann back with the convert
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#23 - The Lost Civilization
Lost in Space - Season 1 - Episode 27
The Robinson men discover an underground civilization while exploring a huge cave.
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#24 - No Way Back
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 26
Seaview experiences a sudden power overload and blows up, killing all hands aboard. When Admiral Nelson (who was at the Nelson Institute at the time of the accident) hears of the destruction of the Seaview, he gets an impossible to refuse offer from Mr. Pem (who survived from A Time To Die): in exchange for the use of the sub's nuclear reactor, Pem will transport Nelson back in time to before the explosion which destroyed Seaview. Once back in time, Pem renergizes his time travel device and brings the sub back even further in time to the American Civil War. Before the crew has time to absorb this, the ship is boarded by Major General Benedict Arnold! Now Nelson has to stop Pem's far-reaching plan to take over the world and avoid the explosive disentergration of Seaview.
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#25 - Time Lock
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 8
A man from the future sends two androids back in time to kidnap Nelson from Seaview in order to add him to a collection of other famous military figures abducted from various eras of the past. The plot of this episode is virtually identical to the plot of the ""Time Tunnel"" episode entitled ""The Kidnappers"".
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#26 - Reign of Terror
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 10
The guys arrive in Paris, 1793, and Doug is arrested by the Committee for Public Safety. Tony rescues him with the aid of a shopkeeper, who is a royalist and friend of Marie Antoinette. Meanwhile, Kirk has the Project send back an irradiated personal ring to the guys which they hope will act as a focal point to home in on. Doug and Tony get the ring, but then reveal themselves to a man who is a splitting image of General Kirk! This General, Querque, is with the Revolution and has them arrested, along with the shopkeeper. Querque has the ring and believes it is the evidence he needs to have Antoinette executed. Kirk brings his ancestor into the present and tries to convince him to change his mind. Querque escapes back into the Tunnel when they send the ring back, and tries to thwart Doug and Tony. They escape, and with forged passports get to Marie Antoinette and then help the Dauphin to escape. The shopkeeper and the Dauphin get on board a departing ship: Tony recognizes the Corsican g
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#27 - The Day the World Ended
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 3
As Admiral Nelson demonstrates a new tracking device for a visiting U.S. senator, it seems to show that Seaview is the only life left on earth.
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#28 - Crack of Doom
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 6
On the island of Krakatoa in 1883, time travelers Doug and Tony try to convince a British scientist that the volcano is about to erupt in one of history's biggest explosions.
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#29 - One Way to the Moon
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 2
Doug and Tony land 10 years in the future on the Mars Excursion Module during liftoff. Their extra 335 pounds of weight endanger the mission by putting it over the weight allowance. Everyone believes the time travellers are spies except one man, Harlow. They are forced to land on the moon for a refueling stop, but the ship crashes. One of the other men, Beard, kills Harlow. Beard is a spy. To further confuse matters, ten years in the past at Project TicToc, Beard and another spy, Brandon, are visiting the complex. Brandon sabotages the tunnel and then tries to escape, but Beard shoots his superior to bolster his own cover and his own role remains undiscovered. In the future, Doug and Tony manage to blow up the "future" Beard, but the MEM takes off without them. As they are stranded on the moon, their air running out, the Tunnel scoops them up and sends them on their way. (Copyright 2003 Steve Crow)
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#30 - End of the World
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 3
Tony and Doug arrive in 1910, where a local town is in a panic over the arrival of Halley's Comet. Tony is caught in a cave-in near two hundred miners, while Doug is unable to get help from the superintendent, Henderson, who believes they're all doomed because of the comet. Doug digs out Tony on his own, and tries to convince the local astronomer, Ainsley, who has everyone in a panic. While Tony tries to set up a rescue, the Project team try to send Doug a radioscope through the Tunnel. That plan fails, but Doug makes a primitive radioscope and shows Ainsley the gravitational forces that will cause Halley's Comet to deviate. Ainsley convinces the townspeople they are not doomed, and everyone teams up to rescue the miners. Meanwhile the Tunnel sucks in Halley's Comet and the power flow almost sucks Jerry into the Tunnel before they can cut pull the plug.
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#31 - Nightmare
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 16
While working with a helpful Giant scientist, the Earthlings are subjected to radiation which causes strange hallucinations.
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#32 - Thing From Inner Space
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 8
Bainbridge Wells is filming a segment of his "Science On The Move" television series on a small island off the coast of Chile. A sea creature comes ashore and kills his crew. Wells convinces Admiral Nelson to return to the island because he wants to prove that the creature really exists. Crewman Patterson has a special interest in the mission.
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#33 - The Wax Men
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 24
The Seaview is carrying Atlantanean statues in its missile room as a favor for the State Department. As they wait for Captain Crane to return, a midget clown emerges from one of the crates and begins sending forth his animated waxwork duplicates of the crew. Crane's only hope is to try to revive Admiral Nelson and retake the ship. But, can they?
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#34 - Billy the Kid
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 22
Doug and Tony arrive in Lincoln in late April in the 1860s, and run afoul of Billy the Kid. Doug shoots Billy and apparently kills him, then he and Tony escapes. It turns out Billy took the bullet in the belt buckle, and he goes after the two. They manage to capture him thanks to a voice-transmitted distraction provided by Kirk, but Tony goes back into town and is mistaken for Billy. Pat Garrett arrives and eventually convinces the sheriff that Tony isn't Billy, but the mob isn't hearing it. Billy catches up to Doug and challenges him to a gunfight. Pat and Tony get involved, with Tony knocking out one of Billy's men planning to backshoot Doug and Pat intervening when Doug blows it. The two men are whisked off again.
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#35 - Blow Up
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 12
The Seaview is en route to rendezvous with the fleet when Sharkey reports a missle fuel leak. Crane and Morton believe it's worth returing to port to repair, however Nelson knows how to handle it. Taking a small breathing device with him, the Admiral locks himself in the compartment in question to effect repairs. However, he drops a wrench, the circuts blow and Nelson is knocked out. When he comes to, he's gripped by paranoia which worsens with each passing minute. Trusting no one, Nelson loses his grip on reality, arresting Doc, fighting with Sharkey and finally launching a nuclear missle at the fleet!
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#36 - Edge of Doom
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 24
"Idiots!!!" Admiral Nelson to himself. There is an imposter on Seaview. Lee Crane is the main suspect. Admiral Nelson takes Morton and Sharkey into his confidence. They must put Crane to the test to find out whether or not he's the man they know. Captain Crane is really put through the ringer in this episode! Admiral Nelson hurts his feelings on purpose, the Captain practically chokes to death from a fire in the Circuitry Room that he gets blamed for, he gets locked in a storage room, and he's driven half out of his mind by the Admiral, Morton and Sharkey. Through it all, Crane maintains his inner belief in himself. But he must have needed a vacation after this mission was over!
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#37 - Night of the Long Knives
The Time Tunnel - Season 1 - Episode 14
Tony is shot by Afghani tribesmen and left for dead, and they then take Doug prisoner. Doug is taken before Singh, the head of the Afghanis fighting against the British in 1876, while Rudyard Kipling rescues Tony and takes him to the English fort. The Afghanis are preparing for a massive attack on the English, the 'Night of the Long Knives'. With the aid of a blind slave, Doug escapes and gets back to the fort, while Kipling is captured. The general in charge has been ordered to only defend himself, so he has the head of the Afghani forces under English command launch an "unofficial" attack. Doug and Tony accompany them and rescue Kipling, and Singh is killed in the attack.
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#38 - Rescue
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 9
Seaview is on the lookout for an enemy sub and its underwater sub-pen. Sonar picks up a contact. The rogue sub fires at Seaview, which is saved only by virtue of her new electronic hull shield. Not so fortunate is Captain Crane, who has just located the sub-pen while on patrol in the FS-1. A powerful laser fires a beam at the Flying Sub, crippling the ship. Running out of air, moving in and out of consciousness, Crane is unable to give the pen's coordinates to Nelson. Thanks to the hard work of some enemy agents aboard, Seaview seems unable to rescue the Captain. Worried about Crane trapped in the Flying Sub, Admiral Nelson is particularly impatient in this episode. He constantly barks at Morton and the Chief. One of the enemy agents, Marco, a crewman we have seen in many other episodes, is never found out, and apparently keeps his job on Seaview!
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#39 - Sealed Orders
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 5
"There's nothing to do here but to keep from disappearing." Lt. Commander Morton Seaview is carrying a new missile, and Nelson has orders to deliver it to its launch site at all costs. Unfortunately, the missile malfunctions, and Nelson can't get into the sealed silo to fix it. Soon, the crew starts to disappear, and bizarre phenomena plague the ones who remain. * This episode features a brief uncredited cameo by Richard Basehart's son, John, as a young crewman in the Missile Room: the Admiral asks him, "What's your name, son?"
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 - Episode 13
In blizzard-wracked Florida, Nelson contacts a meteorologist who may be able to help explain the strange weather conditions. That night, however, the scientist is abducted, and "programmed" to kill Nelson. When his first attempt fails, he comes aboard Seaview when she sails to investigate the source of the problem, and continues his efforts.
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#41 - No Escape from Death
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 22
While searching the deep for an enemy complex, the Seaview is rammed by another sub. The crew rushes to make repairs before the air runs out and a lurking monster swallows a diving party led by Crane.
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#42 - The Mummy
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 20
The Seaview is on a top secret mission to transport a 3,000 year old sarcophagus from New York to a country in the Middle East. The United States hopes that by returning a national treasure, war will be prevented. The inhabitant of the sarcophagus has other ideas, and attempts to prevent the Seaview from reaching her destinaton.
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#43 - Man of Many Faces
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 6
In an attempt to control the planet's tides, Dr. Randolph Mason (a nut if ever there was one -- he is part scientist, part make-up artist!) has invented a powerful electromagnet and established a magnetic field around the moon. The only person who seems to recognize the obvious danger in this silly plan is Harriman Nelson. At first glance, it would appear that Nelson has killed Dr. Randolph. At second glance, it would appear that Captain Crane has betrayed the Admiral. On third glance, the moon is getting closer and closer to Earth, and will soon collide with our beautiful blue orb -- unless the Seaview can save the world. Again. * In this episode, we learn that Chief Sharkey attended Lincoln High in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. (There actually is a Lincoln High in Coney Island.) The Chief admits he got an 'A' in only one subject: Home Economics!
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#44 - Day of Evil
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3 - Episode 6
A UFO crashes and an alien assumes the form of Admiral Nelson.
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#45 - The Marionettes
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 23
The Earthlings aid an injured puppeteer by pretending to be his dancing puppets, but the owner soon suspects they are involved and prepares to capture them for the reward.
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#46 - Ghost Town
Land of the Giants - Season 1 - Episode 2
The Earthlings find themselves trapped in an Earth-sized town run by a giant eccentric and his sadistic daughter.
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#47 - Land of the Lost
Land of the Giants - Season 2 - Episode 13
Barry and Valerie are carried off in a balloon to a distant land ruled by a malevolent dictator.
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#48 - A Time to Die
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 11
While on a mission, the Seaview appears to pass through an odd magnetic field. However, a dinosaur and alterations in the star patterns indicate that they have been thrown back in time one million years. Nelson encounters the mysterious Mr. Pem, a man who has learned how to control time, and wants to use the Seaview as a powerful source of energy for his time device. Nelson must try to outwit a man who can simply back up time and alter anything they attempt to do.
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#49 - Man-Beast
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 20
"You had no right -- no right to make that second dive without orders from me!" Nelson to Crane Another scientist with another artificial atmosphere (see Season 1's "The Condemned") that will revolutionize deep-sea diving. When will Admiral Nelson learn! Naturally, Captain Crane is used as a guinea pig for these dangerous experiments. And there are fatal side-effects. * A great Nelson/Crane argument takes place in the Admiral's cabin after the Captain has made his unauthorized second dive. * In this episode it is not Nelson who shoots Crane, but rather, Chip Morton. * Notice the tears of gratitude and relief in Crane's eyes after Nelson gives him the antidote at the very end of the episode. * Crane also shed a tear (from pain) in Season 3's "Day of Evil". Years later, David Hedison would appear in a Fantasy Island episode entitled: "Man-Beast"!
#50 - Attack!
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 4 - Episode 23
Aliens are at it again. They're planning to destroy the Earth. However, one of the aliens claims to be a good guy. Can he be believed? Will mankind survive yet another close encounter with space visitors? * Skip Homeier also appears in "The Amphibians" and "The Day the World Ended" * Kevin Hagen guest-starred in "The Shape of Doom".
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