FVI WEEK: Stranded In Space (1973)

Another of the movies that Film Ventures International redid for TV, this uses footage from Prisoners of the Lost Universe as its opening credits and renamed The Stranger to become Stranded In Space.

Astronaut Neil Stryker (Glenn Corbett) is the only survivor of his mission. He is held in quarantine for such a length that he starts to suspect the government. It turns out that Dr. Revere (Tim O’Connor) and a operative by the name of Benedict (Cameron Mitchell) are pumping him full of drugs and interrogating him. It turns out that Stryker has landed on another version of our world named Terra and is being studied.

On this other world, a war destroyed most of the population and those that remain follow the Perfect Order, a one world government that keeps individual thought out of peoples’ minds. With the help of Dr. Bettina Cooke (Sharon Acker) and Professor Dylan MacAuley (Lew Ayres), Stryker is trying to get on a spaceship and fly it back to our reality.

This aired as the NBC Monday Night Movie on February 26, 1973.

You can watch this on YouTube.

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