Episode guide revision date: July 3, 2023
Compiled by Loren Heisey
https://innermind.com/myguides/
Series notes
A scientific expedition sets out on a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean and encounter a strange green cloud in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. They end up stranded on an uncharted land mass and find themselves in an alternate dimension where past, present, and future are all intertwined. Soon a group of five people is formed who travel through different vortex portals to try to find a way home.
This narration was added to the opening credits starting with episode 5.
Lost in the Devils Triangle, trapped in a dimension with beings from the future and from other worlds, a party of adventurers journey through zones of time back to their own time. Varian a man from the 23rd century possessing awesome powers. From 1977, Fred a young doctor just out of medical school. Scott Jordan a 13 year old son of a famous scientist. Liana, daughter of a Atlantean father and an extraterrestrial mother. And Jonathan Willaway rebel scientist from the 1960s. Together they face the frightening unknown on The Fantastic Journey.
The Fantastic Journey TV series did not do well and was canceled with only 10 episodes. The complete series was released on DVD in Australia on June 28, 2019 by Via Vision. It is NTSC format and the region code is such that it plays on U.S. DVD players. .
Guide notes
Synopses are adapted from Donna R. Lemaster's Fantastic Journey episode guide version August 1, 1996. Credits are as listed in the DVD release. Things not in the on screen credits are in brackets.
Principle production credits
Executive Producer: Bruce Landsbury
Produced by: Leonard Katzman
Created by: Bruce Landsbury
Story Editor: D.C. Fontana
Story Consultant: Calvin Clements, Jr.
Associate Producer: William O. Cairncross
Unit Production Manager: William A. Porter
Music Theme by: Robert Prince
Music by: Robert Prince, Dick DeBenedictis
Director of Photography: Sam Leavitt A.S.C., Irving Lippman
Main Title Narration by: Mike Road
Filmed at The Burbank Studios
A Bruce Lansbury Productions, Ltd. in association with Columbia Pictures Television and NBC.
Cast
Jared Martin: Varian
Carl Franklin: Dr. Fred Walters
Ike Eisenmann: Scott Jordan
Katie Saylor: Liana
Roddy McDowall: Dr. Jonathan Willaway
Episodes
1. Vortex
Airdate: February 3, 1977
Teleplay by: Michael Michaelian, Katharyn Michaelian Powers, Merwin Gerard
Story by: Merwin Gerard
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring:
Scott Thomas [as Professor Paul Jordan]
Susan Howard [as Eve Costigan]
Karen Somerville [as Jill Sands]
Guest Starring:
Leif Erickson [as Ben Wallace]
Scott Brady [as Carl Johanson]
Don Knight as Paget
Lynn Borden as Enid [Jordan]
Special Guest Stars:
Ian McShane [as Sir James Camden]
Gary Collins as Dar-L
Mary Ann Mobley as Rhea
Jason Evers as Atar
Co-Starring:
Jack Stauffer as Andy
Byron Chung as George
Tom McCorrey as Scar
Mike Road as the Voice of the Source
Synopsis: A group of people sailing the Caribbean are shipwrecked on a mysterious island that defies identification. They meet Varian, an individual from the 23rd century, who had been passing himself off as a primitive Indian. Then they find themselves captured by what appear to be sixteenth century privateers.
Notes: This episode was 90 minutes and was continued in the next episode.
2. Atlantium
Airdate: February 10, 1977
Teleplay by: Katharyn Michaelian Powers
Story by: Michael Michaelian, Katharyn Michaelian Powers
Directed by: Barry Crane
Guest Starring:
Gary Collins [as Dar-L]
Albert Stratton [as IL-tar]
Jason Evers as Atar
Special Guest Star:
Mary Ann Mobley [as Rhea]
Co-Starring:
Ian John Tanza as Under
Lawrence Bame as Maron
Mike Road as the Voice of the Source
Synopsis: The travellers find an advanced city called Atlantium, whose citizens promise them a way home via a time machine. But first they must contend with the Source that is a master brain which controls all around it. The Source is in need of energy and Scott is singled out as the supply. While there they meet a beautiful half alien/half human woman named Liana.
3. Beyond the Mountain
Airdate: February 17, 1977
Written by: Harold Livingston
Directed by: Irving J. Moore
Guest Starring:
John David Carson [as Cyrus]
Special Guest Star:
Marj Dusay [as Rachel]
Co-Starring:
Lester Fletcher as Chef
Frank Corsentino as Toren
Joseph Della Sorte as Aren
Ron Burke as Robert
Brian Patrick Clarke as Daniel
Bud Kenneally as Veteran
Crofton Hardester as Michael
Synopsis: The party becomes involved in a dispute between Jonathan Willoway, a scientist from Earth, and green-skinned aliens, both of whom claim the loyalty of a village of beautiful people.
4. Children of the Gods
Airdate: February 24, 1977
Written by: Leonard Katzman
Directed by: Alf Kjellin
Guest Starring:
Mark Lambert [as Alpha]
Bobby Eilbacher [as Sigma]
Cosie Costa [as Delta]
Stanley Clay [as Beta]
Co-Starring:
Riccardo Natoli as Gamma
Al A. Eisenmann as Omega
Michael Baldwin as Rho
Synopsis: Scott is made to join a colony inhabited solely by children led by the bullying teenager Alpha. Their forebears lived in a society decimated by war and the group inherited a deadly weapon used to keep any elders from over taking their leader.
5. A Dream of Conquest
Airdate: March 10, 1977
Teleplay by: Michael Michaelian
Story by: Bruce Lansbury
Directed by: Vincent McEveety
Guest Starring:
John Saxon [as Consul Tarant]
Morgan Paull [as Argon]
Lenore Stevens [as Lara]
Robert Patten [as Luther]
Special Guest Star:
Johnny Doran [as Nikki]
Co-Starring:
Bobby Porter as the Neffring
Synopsis: The travellers learn of a plan by a military commander to invade the other time zones on the island.
6. An Act of Love
Airdate: March 24, 1977
Written by: Richard Fielder
Directed by: Virgil W. Vogel
Guest Starring:
Ellen Weston [as Maera]
Christina Hart [as Gwenith]
Jonathan Goldsmith [as Zaros]
Vic Mohica [as Baras]
Co-Starring:
Belinda Balaski as Arla
Jeffrey Byron as Heras
Jerry Daniels as the Guard
Synopsis: Varian becomes infatuated with a woman after the inadvertent injection of a love serum, unaware that the woman's people intend to sacrifice him to appease their gods.
7. Funhouse
Airdate: March 31, 1977
Written by: Michael Michaelian
Directed by: Art Fisher
Guest Starring:
Mel Ferrer [as Appolonius]
Mary Frann [as Roxanne]
Richard Lawson [as Barker]
Christina Hart [as Gwenith]
Synopsis: The group comes upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park where a sorceror entertains them before revealing his desire to steal Willoway's body.
8. Turnabout
Airdate: April 7, 1977
Written by: D.C. Fontana, Ken Kolb
Directed by: Victor French
Guest Starring:
Joan Collins [as Queen Halyana]
Paul Mantee [as Morgan]
Julie Cobb [as Adrea]
Beverly Todd [as Connell]
Co-Starring:
Charles Walker, II as Obril
Amy Joyce as Masel
Synopsis: When Liana is captured by a society that treats women as slaves, the party becomes involved in a revolution that completely eliminates the problem.
9. Riddles
Airdate: April 21, 1977
Written by: Katharyn Michaelian Powers
Directed by: David Moessinger
Guest Starring:
Dale Robinette [as Kedryn]
Carole Demas [as Krysta]
Co-Starring:
William O'Connell as Simkin
Dax Xanos as the Rider
Lynn Borden as Enid [Jordan]
Synopsis: The travellers - minus Liana - receive information that could be a way back to their own times on a stone from a mysterious horseman. They meet a strange couple who are not exactly what they seem to be.
10. The Innocent Prey
Airdate: June 16, 1977
Written by: Robert Hamilton
Directed by: Vincent McEveety
Guest Starring:
Richard Jaeckel [as York]
Nicholas Hammond [as Tye]
Cheryl Ladd [as Natica]
Special Guest Star:
Lew Ayres [as Rayat]
Co-Starring:
Gerald McRaney as the Co-Pilot
Burt Douglas as the Pilot
Jim Poyner as Roland
Synopsis: Varian and Willoway meet the survivors of a space shuttle crash who take them to a colony of peaceful aliens possessed of the ability to alter molecular structures, unaware that the men are convicts attempting to escape punishment.
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