Thursday, March 21, 2024

Turn Back the Clock (VTTBOTS)

From IMDb: A lone survivor of a doomed Antarctic expedition is rescued. The Seaview takes him and a women photographer to see if there really is a dinosaur laden tropical paradise somewhere in the Antarctic.  (Me again) Guess what?  They find it, though it is not laden with dinosaurs, no matter what the script says, these are gigantic lizards, which if presented as such, would work just fine.  Eventually our heroes escape, and the lost world goes boom, like they almost always do.

 It is a good thing Irwin Allen hired David Hedison to work on both his adaptation of The Lost World and his first television series.  This way, he could dress Hedison in the same clothes and make use of footage from his previous movie.  He even hired Vitina Marcus to reprise her role as native girl for this episode.  It is a good episode despite all this stock footage, and is mercifully shorter than the movie.  Nick Adams and Yvonne Craig are the guest stars in this episode.  Glenn and Barbara do a great job underwater as well.  The wonderful Les Tremayne appears, though you may miss him if you don't pay attention.
 

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