Any aliens in this series?
I've only seen a few of these episodes. Did they ever feature any space aliens or creatures from space? How wild did it get?
shareThe first season was pretty serious, but there was one alien episode and another about a being from the distant past who seemed like an alien. The first half of the second season was more espionage-type stories, but there was "The Monster from Outer Space" about halfway through the season, and a few more creature type episodes. The third and fourth seasons got wilder, with more creatures including apace aliens. Other episodes included a mummy, werewolves and even leprechauns. Most fans seemed to hate the leprechaun episode, but I enjoyed it. It was done in good fun - more like a spoof.
shareCome to think of it, seems like I once saw a black & white episode where a very young Robert Duvall played a space alien. Am I right?
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............There was a first season UFO episode that used the saucer from the first (and the best) version of "The Day The Earth Stood Still". They also used many out takes from the classic early fifties science fiction movie, crowds running in terror, terrified people listing to car radios, the saucer buzzing Washington DC, which seemed too dated for a series run during the mid sixties to say nothing of one set in the then future. Ok, maybe they were having a classic car show on the Mall in Washington.............The episode had something to do with a UFO ditching in the Pacific and the Seaview's crew having to supply the aliens with nuclear fuel so they could take off before the the Navy and Air Force distroyed their space craft and set off extrateresstial retaliation...................Gort, from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" also "guest stared" on the first season of "Voyage to The Bottom of the Sea" as an earthly robot on a deep space mission. It had its electronic brain scrambled by magnetic forces in space. After splashing down and being recovered by the Seaview it attempted to kill off the crew, before it was deep sixed...............Aside from the above examples, the for mentioned man from Atlantis story and the mandatory giant squid stories most of the episodes, during the first two seasons, concerned military and espionage stories that could happen in a possible future. It was during the last two seasons things got weird and everything went.
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The killer robot wasn't Gort, it was a guy in a robot suit created for that episode. To my knowledge, Gort never appeared in anything but The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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...................If the killer space probe robot wasn't Gort it was his evil twin. They even used the same background music which wasn't difficult since both "The Day The Earth Stood Still and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" were both produced by Twentyth Century Fox.....................In any case Gort was a robot suit and Lock Martin, a seven foot plus LA area waiter and some time actor, was hired to wear it. Martin's other credit's include a Martian in "Invaders from Mars", a Yeti in "The Snow Creature" and various "giant" roles. He's not listed as appearing in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" so someone else was wearing the metal suite.
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