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Life is like a choc a boxlets. You never get what you wanna know!

Sci-fi is like that, too. Take the three movies below.

Irwin Allen took left overs from other movies and cobbled them together into a hodgepodge that supposed to be about time travel.

Conversely, NBC struck gold with the first "The Man from U.N.C.L.E” episode and shot more footage to make it longer, then they put it into theaters to milk the spy craze of the 1960s.

And finally, in 1951 we were treated to James Arness as a swashbuckling pirate who leads a group of people into a “lost world” filled with dinosaurs from One Million B.C. who made guest appearances and tried to eat the explorers!

If you don't think of something to add to these threads just to keep them alive, Santa Claus is not going to put a damn thing under your Christmas tree!
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Time Travelers (1975 TV movie)



Producer Irwin Allen served up this batch of left-overs: a rehashed concept from his series, "The Time Tunnel", lots of stock footage from "In Old Chicago" (1938), and co-star Richard Basehart from Allen's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".

The screenplay by Jackson Gillis (from an unpublished short story by Rod Serling) concerns two scientists (Sam Groom and Tom Hallick) who travel back in time to find a cure for a strange disease.

In the best tradition of the "The Time Tunnel", they find themselves in Chicago on the eve of the infamous 1871 fire. Alex Singer directed this made-for-TV movie. Also starring Trish Steward, Booth Coleman, and Francine York.
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To Trap a Spy (1964 TV movie)

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[Also released as: "The Vulcan Affair"]

This is it! The first "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." episode, a pilot that was expanded after it's 1964 TV premiere so that it could be exhibited theatrically.

Series regulars Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, and Leo G. Carroll all seem less comfortable with their roles than they were later on in the series, but it's still good fun.

The villain is Fritz Weaver, head of the Vulcan Chemical Company, who has good capitalistic reasons for doing bad things to the president of a young African nation (William Marshall).

Lovely Patricia Crowley is the fetching heroine. Also starring Luciana Paluzzi ("Thunderball", "The Green Slime") and Ivan Dixon. Directed by Don Medford.
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Two Lost Worlds (1951)



James Arness (The Thing from Another World) is a swashbuckling hero, Laura Elliot is the heroine who's been kidnapped by Australian pirates. They all end up shipwrecked on an uncharted island populated by dinosaurs.

Unfortunately the monsters are borrowed from every filmmaker's stock-footage-grab-bag, One Million B.C., and the movie is three-quarters over before it even gets to the island. Even then, the stock footage is used sparingly.



The rest of he film is padded out with scenes from Captain Fury (1939) and Captain Caution (1940). Later during the same year he made Two Lost Worlds (1951), Arness starred in a real science fiction film, The Thing from Another World.

Directed by Norman Dawn.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)