ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

richard.fuller1 One, I thought I already had a review of this program posted.Two, the episodes were all uploaded to youtube, last time I looked. Watched over them and enjoyed them again.Yes, they are rather dated.Did not know about the illness and loss of the female, Liana, but do recall she disappeared for several of the last episodes.This magnificent show aired during the summer and was spellbounding, truly captivating.Without a doubt, the best attraction for a kid was Ike Eisenmann, staple of many a after-school specials.I had seen the pilot movie with Ian McShane as a late movie about twenty years ago. Before that, I had not seen any of these shows or programs since back when they first aired.Did not recall Joan Collins appearance in one episode, but as I wouldn't have known who she was, no reason I would remember it.Nevertheless, they were an intriguing group, especially with the addition of McDowell (in essence, merely resembling Jonathan Harris as Dr. Smith on Lost In Space).But even without the female LIana, the foursome made for a pretty effective quartet, as I recall.Once more, in rewatching the episodes on youtube, I couldn't help but notice clearly there was a 'performance' sought with Carl Franklin, recollecting some bad childhood experience or something.Nevertheless, for that summer, this show ruled and was a masterpiece.Not enough stars to cover it.

StuOz A group of boat castaways get lost in time or lost in vortex on a mysterious island. Strong shades of Irwin Allen's Time Tunnel (1966), Irwin Allen's Lost In Space (1965) and classic Star Trek (1966) in this production.The theme music gets 10 out of 10. The pilot is well done. Note the music when the boat is sucked into the mysterious sea cloud. Note the photography in this opening scene. If only this level of film-like production remained for the whole ten episodes. This series shined in the episode titled, Beyond The Mountain, this is the one where Roddy McDowall was introduced and he was a horrible guy at the start. He became nicer after this hour. Too bad the writers did not spend more time "beyond the mountain" as this setting was just so powerful, all thanks to the acting talents of McDowall.Another episode about children making trouble for adults was well done as well.Go on this journey for McDowall's acting and shades of 1960s Irwin Allen.

zillabob THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY found some after-life as an edited and syndicated TV film called LOST IN TIME,dated (1980). I saw this once, on a UHF channel in the early to mid-90's on a Sunday afternoon. What they did was edit the first 90 minute pilot, and second hour long show into something like an hour and 45 minute movie to play in two-hour time slots in syndication and thus have a complete movie. It also had a narration of sort at the end, as the group walked off to the usual "time zone" beam-out effect, and as I recall that said something like "And so their quest to find their rightful place in time, is just beginning" or something like that. It was a terrific show in it's day and for the fact we had almost no SF shows at all on TV aside from the re-runs of STAR TREK and SPACE:1999.

Bill Davis Fantastic Journey was an exceptional fantasy about a group of disparate characters who were trying to return to their own dimension after being lost in the Bermuda Triangle. They encountered a new dimension in nearly every episode. In one of the earliest episodes they picked up an ill-tempered scientist, wonderfully played by Roddy McDowell, who walked a line between villain and hero. School teachers and television critics hailed the show, and Roddy McDowell appeared on talk shows trying to get people interested, but the show was cancelled for poor ratings.