It’s ironic that this sequel to the blockbuster that initiated the disaster movie cycle should effectively finish off the genre and the career of its…
Browsing: Irwin Allen
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 7 0 (USA) 51 x 60 minute episodes This was the last of Irwin Allen’s 1960s fantasy quartet, following Voyage…
1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 83 x 50 minute episodes Lost in Space was a show about the Robinson Family: John…
This 1960 version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s story starred Michael Rennie as an aristocratic playboy and big game hunter named Lord John Roxton and Claude…
Before Titanic (1997), there was Shelley Winters, who was the largest of the notable names on the manifest of the luxury liner SS Poseidon that is capsized by…
“I am Captain Nemo. I have been asleep for 100 years aboard my submarine, Nautilus. I would probably still be left encapsulated had it not…
Future disaster-movie king Irwin Allen, whose blockbusters include The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974), made this portentous rubbish in which the question of whether…
African killer bees are moving west and threatening to engulf Houston, Texas. Quick, call on entomologist Brad Crane (Michael Caine) and a hive of Hollywood…
1 9 7 5 – 1 9 7 6 (USA) 24 x 60 minute episodes Irwin Allen’s adaptation of the 1812 novel by Johann David Wyss…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 7 (USA) 30 x 50 minute episodes Two young scientists, Tony Newman (James Darren, who had starred as…
This is junk, but it’s star-studded junk, with some of Hollywood’s greatest actors forced to team up with some of its worst to rescue trapped…
Real-life human crash test dummy Evel Knievel plays himself in a ridiculous PG-rated fictional adventure movie. Some drug dealers in Mexico try to kill Knievel…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 8 (USA) 110 x 50 minute episodes Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea related the story of…
With the earth threatened by a blazing radiation belt and the global temperature rising by two degrees each day, the inventor of a new nuclear…