Saturday morning kid's show of the 1970s.
Just watched about 70% of the episodes on YouTube.
The first short season of just eight 25 minute adventures is highly entertaining...in a crazy science fiction sort of way. Very repetitive in general presentation (music cues, stock footage, filming locations, zero characterisation) but one hell of a lot of fun to watch! The kid playing Wildboy does not say much but who cares.
The first season episode titled - UFO - is probably my favourite as this has elements of Lost In Space (1965), The Time Tunnel (1966) and QM's The Invaders (1967).
Only seen some of season two (Invasion, Space Prisoner, Titan, Mummy, Vampire, Outlaw Bigfoot).
Season two attempted to address the above mentioned repetitive issues but things never quiet worked out. Yes it added different music cues but the new music was not so good. Yes it had more variety in locations but somehow season one just looked better in every way.
In a nutshell, do what ever you can to catch season one but don't expect the same fireworks from season two. Despite a bumpy second season, this series still stands as a style over substance gem and perhaps better than the previous Krofft series Land of the Lost.
Just watched about 70% of the episodes on YouTube.
The first short season of just eight 25 minute adventures is highly entertaining...in a crazy science fiction sort of way. Very repetitive in general presentation (music cues, stock footage, filming locations, zero characterisation) but one hell of a lot of fun to watch! The kid playing Wildboy does not say much but who cares.
The first season episode titled - UFO - is probably my favourite as this has elements of Lost In Space (1965), The Time Tunnel (1966) and QM's The Invaders (1967).
Only seen some of season two (Invasion, Space Prisoner, Titan, Mummy, Vampire, Outlaw Bigfoot).
Season two attempted to address the above mentioned repetitive issues but things never quiet worked out. Yes it added different music cues but the new music was not so good. Yes it had more variety in locations but somehow season one just looked better in every way.
In a nutshell, do what ever you can to catch season one but don't expect the same fireworks from season two. Despite a bumpy second season, this series still stands as a style over substance gem and perhaps better than the previous Krofft series Land of the Lost.