******TANKER-FUELED SPOILERS!****** When I was a little kid growing up in the 1970s, most made-for-TV movies (with a few notable exceptions) were usually talky police procedurals, murder mysteries, courtroom dramas or thrillers. 1970s television wasn’t the typical venue for balls-to-the-wall, high-octane action flicks. However, the medium of television is where future cinematic legend Steven Spielberg…
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Retro-Musings: 1971’s “Earth II” sees Gary Lockwood taking a very different kind of space odyssey…
*****SPACE STATION-SIZED SPOILERS!***** I remember reading about the little-known 1971 TV movie “Earth II” years ago in the pages of Starlog magazine. Back then, it was very easy to confuse the film with several failed Gene Roddenberry pilots made around the same time, such as “Genesis II” (1973) and “Planet Earth” (1974) or even the…
Retro-Musings: “The UFO Incident” (1975) is an impeccable account of an implausible tale…
The Interrupted Journey. When I was about eight or so, I remember watching a TV-movie that truly creeped me out; it was called “The UFO Incident,” based on a 1966 book called “The Interrupted Journey,” and it told the story of the alleged alien abduction of Betty (Estelle Parsons) and Barney Hill (James Earl Jones)….