1 9 7 7 (USA)
1 x 90 minute episode
9 x 60 minute episodes
“Lost in the Devil’s Triangle, trapped in a dimension with beings from the future and from other worlds, a party of adventurers journeys through zones of time back to their own time.”
A scientific expedition aboard the ship Yonda in the Atlantic Ocean is engulfed by a billowing green cloud and becomes lost in the Bermuda Triangle, washing up on an uncharted island.
The passengers of the Yonda meet Varian, a man from the 23rd century, who tells them they have passed through a time warp and are in a seemingly endless land where the past, present, and future coexist.
They encounter travellers from other times, planets and dimensions who have also become trapped, and together they “slide” through portals from one dimension to the next, hoping to find the one that leads home, in the province of Evoland.
Dr Fred Walter (Carl Franklin) – a young doctor just out of medical school – is from the present day (1977), as is 13-year-old Scott Jordan (Ike Eisenmann), the son of a famous scientist, while the manipulative Jonathan Willaway (Roddy McDowall) is from the 1960s and Liana (Katie Saylor) is the daughter of an Atlantean father and an extraterrestrial mother who can communicate with her telepathic black cat, Sil-El.
Subsequent episodes found the team encountering a Lord of the Flies-style colony of feral kids; alien dictator Tarant (John Saxon), who attempted to conquer the island; a religious community who worshiped a volcano god; an eerie 20th century funfair run by ancient Greek sorcerer Apollonius; a violently patriarchal city where the women – including Joan Collins – rose up against their enslavers; and a pack of murderous criminals from the far future whose prison ship crash landed on the island (starring a pre-Charlie’s Angels Cheryl Ladd).
Fantastic Journey did not rate well and lasted only ten episodes. NBC officially announced the show’s cancellation on 15 April 1977.
Varian Jared Martin Dr Fred Walter
Carl Franklin Scott Jordan
Ike Eisenmann Liana
Katie Saylor Dr Jonathan Willaway
Roddy McDowall
Episodes
Vortex | Atlantium | Beyond the Mountain | Children of the Gods | A Dream of Conquest | An Act of Love | Funhouse | Turnabout | Riddles | The Innocent Prey
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A scientific expedition aboard the ship Yonda in the Atlantic Ocean is engulfed by a billowing green cloud and becomes lost in the Bermuda Triangle, washing up on an uncharted island.
Subsequent episodes found the team encountering a Lord of the Flies-style colony of feral kids; alien dictator Tarant (John Saxon), who attempted to conquer the island; a religious community who worshiped a volcano god; an eerie 20th century funfair run by ancient Greek sorcerer Apollonius; a violently patriarchal city where the women – including Joan Collins – rose up against their enslavers; and a pack of murderous criminals from the far future whose prison ship crash landed on the island (starring a pre-Charlie’s Angels Cheryl Ladd).
