The Fantastic Journey

The Fantastic Journey

1977
The Fantastic Journey
The Fantastic Journey

The Fantastic Journey

The Fantastic Journey was an American science fiction television series that was originally aired on NBC from February 3 through June 17, 1977.

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EP10  The Innocent Prey
Jun. 16,1977
The Innocent Prey

A prison craft from Earth's future crash lands in the area where the travelers are resting, releasing two prisoners, a convicted murderer and a thief, into a community of stranded humanoid aliens that does not comprehend violence or the concept of doors and locks. With a killer on the loose scheming to abscond with an orb that gives the aliens psychokinetic powers, Varian and the others must deal with him and protect the pacifists.

EP9  Riddles
Apr. 21,1977
Riddles

A mysterious rider guides the group to an old house. The travelers – minus Liana – quest for an object that will assist their search for Evoland, and a strange couple conjures illusions drawn from their deepest fears.

EP8  Turnabout
Apr. 07,1977
Turnabout

The travelers encounter a city where the women are subservient to brutish male authority. The women reprogram the AI controlling the society. Using the now unbalanced computer they imprison the males in a strange black void, and Liana pretends to join their cause.

EP7  Funhouse
Mar. 31,1977
Funhouse

Arriving at a seemingly abandoned 20th century carnival, the travelers become part of a game played by an ancient Greek sorcerer named Apollonius who, with the help of two assistants, plans to possess Willoway's body so that he can escape his imprisonment.

EP6  An Act of Love
Mar. 24,1977
An Act of Love

Varian, under the influence of a love drug, meets a woman named Gwenith from a religious community in a geologically unstable zone. When the others arrive Varian reveals he's about to get married. They soon discover that the community fanatically worships a volcano god called Vatticus, who demands human sacrifices.

EP5  A Dream of Conquest
Feb. 24,1977
A Dream of Conquest

An alien dictator, Tarant, is planning to invade other time zones and conquer the island. Willoway pretends to agree with him so that he can learn Tarant's secrets. Meanwhile, Liana takes pity on an abused furry creature called the Nefring.

EP4  Children of the Gods
Feb. 24,1977
Children of the Gods

The travelers arrive in a new zone with Greek ruins and meet a young boy who has escaped from a community inhabited solely by children led by the bullying teenager Alpha.

EP3  Beyond the Mountain
Feb. 17,1977
Beyond the Mountain

The travelers are separated by a red cloud which leaves Liana as the 'guest' of Jonathan Willoway, who is the master of a utopian community of golden-garbed androids, and the others trapped in a dark swamp surrounded by green-skinned humanoids. Willoway tries to convince Liana to marry him while Fred's medical skills prove invaluable in discovering the truth.

EP2  Atlantium
Feb. 10,1977
Atlantium

With many of the original party returned to their own time, Varian, Scott and Fred find themselves caught up in the machinations of a being called The Source, which has enslaved the inhabitants of the city of Atlantium, built by the survivors of the original Atlantis. The Source plans to us Scott's life force to regenerate itself. The trio are aided by Liana, who reveals that she is half alien.

EP1  Vortex
Feb. 03,1977
Vortex

A group of scientists sailing the Caribbean are shipwrecked after entering a strange green mist in the Bermuda Triangle. They do not know the island they are stranded on but it seems past, present and future co-exist. After meeting 23rd century healer Varian and encountering 16th century privateers, the survivors begin their quest to return to their own time.

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Released: 1977-02-03 | Released Producted By: Columbia Pictures Television , Bruce Lansbury Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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The Fantastic Journey was an American science fiction television series that was originally aired on NBC from February 3 through June 17, 1977.

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Cast

Jared Martin , Ike Eisenmann , Roddy McDowall

Director

Leonard Katzman

Producted By

Columbia Pictures Television , Bruce Lansbury Productions

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jefffisher65-708-541158 Fantastic Journey was another of the sci-fi TV series which were quickly developed in the wake of the success of Satr Wars in the mid-to late 1970s, and one of the more unusual. I believe it was the only (U,S.) TV series to be in the Triangle, which was such a popular subject at that time.Others here have pretty well summed up my own feelings about the series, which I tried to catch every week - th network(NBC?) may have contributed to its demise by changing the time slot very often, my memory is a little fuzzy on that point by now. I did find the concept intriguing, and wish the show had been given more of a chance to catch on with the public. The notion of walking from one world literally to another each week was a nifty one for certain! True enough, by today's standards the effects are a little cheesy, and it no doubt looks very 1970-ish, but what the heck. Still a good effort, I feel, and one which featured a number of fine guest stars. Christina Hart and Ellen Weston were two more lovely ladies who often showed up on 1970s sci=fi/horror television who deserve mention.I also recall that cobbled-together TV "Movie," which was my only chance until the early years of the Sci Fi Channel to see FJ, better than nothing. I'm not sure if the show has yet been issued on DVD - I think it has not been - but hope somebody will do so fairly soon.
bard-32 A previous reviewer compared The Fantastic Journey to shows like Stargate SG-1 and Sliders. He listed 8 similarities between the shows. He should have listed a 9th. Which show, you ask? What about Lost? You have a doctor, (Fred in TFJ, Jack in Lost), a psychic, (Liana in TFJ, Desmond in Lost,) a man of faith, (Varian in TFJ, and Locke, in Lost,) see the similarities? If you don't, I do. In TFJ, you have a scientific expedition lost in the Bermuda Triangle. In Lost, you have 48 survivors from a plane crash on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. In TFJ, our little group of travelers is trying to get back to their times. In Lost, that's not so clear. Jack wants to go home in the first three seasons. Locke doesn't. When you consider the similarities between the two shows, you can't help but recognize the fact that this '70s show was an influence on Lost. J.J. Abrams and Co., say that the game Myst, was one of the influences. Did I leave someone out? I did? Well, my bad. You also have another man of science, in Jonathan Willaway. Did I leave anyone else out? I don't think so. If I did, too late to change it now.
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.
bcolquho This was the only series set in the Bermuda Triangle. Interesting concept really. The Fantastic Journey was about a scientific expedition that was lost in the Bermuda Triangle. It consisted of two scientists, their son, and a doctor. They have to take a trip across Atlantis in order to get home. The scientists are sent home in the second episode. It's then the doctor, Varian, a man from the year 2230, he can read minds, Liana, the daughter of an Atlantean princess and alien, she can also read minds. She always carried a cat, and Jonathan Willaway, a renegade scientist from the 1960s, played superbly by the late Roddy McDowell. After a few episodes, Liana stayed in a city run by women to help them treat men as equals. In the last episode, a prison transport became trapped and crashed two dangerous convicts escaped. They killed the pilot played by Gerald McRaney of Simon & Simon and Promised Land, was killed. One of the convicts killed the son of peaceful aliens and was turned into a baby to get a second chance.