Jared Martin as Varian

Night Gallery 1970 (Tony Bolt in the episode Tell David), The Six Million Dollar Man 1974 (as Torg in The Lost Island), Wonder Woman (along with Ike) 1976 (as David Gurney in part 1 and 2 of Phantom of the Roller Coaster), Tales of the Gold Monkey 1982, (as Ted Harroson in Trunk From The Past). He also had a guest staring roll in the Logan's Run episode Fear Factor.

In 1988 and 1989 he had the lead roll then the War of the Worlds TV series as Dr. Harrison Blackwood. He also made appearances on Knight Rider and Airwolf. He now (2002) lives in Philidelphia where he co-founded a organization to help young people get into making films and hosts a weekly local talk show. Say... if anyone in PA is reading this how about taping an episode for me! I would love to see it!

Carl Franklin as Fred Walters

He has worked in a variety of projects but most recently he has been directing movies and TV episodes. In 1983 he was a regular on The A-Team where he played Captain Crane. He also appeared in the ALF Christmas Special as Dr. Wiloughby. He also had a guest spot playing a doctor in The Incredible Hulk in one episode
Currently he is directing a movie starring Denzel Washington called Out of Time (2002)

Ike Eisenmann as Scott Jordan

Ike was one of the few cast members who was into science fiction at the time. His favorite author was Asimov (according to an inderview done during production).
Other appearances (aside from the Witch Mountain movies) Wonder Woman 1976(Phantom of the Roller Coaster part II as Randy), Revenge of the Savage Bees TVM 1978 ( as Eric), Voyagers 1982 (Playing Bill Cody in the episode Sneak Attack), and the young crewman (and relative of Mr. Scott) who was killed in Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn 1982. He has also done a lot of voice work in various cartoons like Go Bots, Ring Raiders, and Dino RIders. He is NOT the kid from Star Wars! Honest!

Katie Saylor as Liana (episodes 2-8)

During her roll on this series Katie became very ill and was hospitalized for a while. Her character was written out of the last two episodes and se was explained away as having stayed behind to help set up a the new government at the end of Turnabout. The cat evidently stayed in that zone with her.

Her career never seemed to recover after her illness during the filming of this series. Perahps she just found something else to do? She was also in the cult moive Invasion of the Bee Girls 1973 where she played Gretchen Grasowsky. If you ever see this Katie write in and let us know what happened and where you are now!

Roddy McDowall as Dr. Jonathan Willaway (episodes 3-10)
Died October 3, 1998

He has been America's favorite ape for as long as I can remeber. He was in so many things I can't even list the sci-fi related ones here. Starting with apearances in The Twilight Zone 1959. he played the arch villian The Bookworm on Batman in 1966. He made an appearance on The Invaders in the episode The Experiment. He was also in episodes of Wonder Woman, Fantasy Island, and Mork and Mindy. He even took a ride on Supertrain in the episode The Green Girl and he played the governer in the Buck Rogers episode Planet of the Slave Girls. He was on a Quantum Leap episode "A Leap For Lisa". In 1992 he voiced the Mad Hatter in the animated Batman series and shortly after that was the voice of the Breadmaster on the first season of The Tick. He also made an apearance in the mini series The Martian Chronicles and was a regular in Tales of the Gold Monkey in which he worked again with Jared Martin. You can also hear him in A Bug's Life as Mr. Soil.

Mike Road as the Narrator Voice (heard in the opening credits)

Mike has done a ton of voice work over the years. Probably best known as the voice of Rayce Bannon on the series Jonny Quest. He also did voices on Space Ghost and The Herculiods. He also was the voice of John Buttler (the father) on Valley of the Dinosaurs. He also played in a lot of Westerns including Wild Wild West and Alais Smith and Jones.

???? as S-lil the cat

Pilot 1-A Written by Merwin Gerard This was shown (evidently) the season before as a TV movie. Included footage of WWII airplanes which had crashed in the jungle and a longer cave sequence. Most of the cast would not survive the pilot. A throw away line in Atlantium had some of the characters 'sent home' however due to the nature of the people in Atlantium they were most likely absorbed by that giant brain!

Merwin Gerard (writer)
"The government, I'm sure, has as much informaiton on the Bermuda Triangle as it has on UFO's and dosen't want to release information which will only upset people and acomplish nothing. At least thats the theory. There have been people who were almost captured in the Bermuda Triangle and got out. People who saw strange weather fronts, unexplainable visions,and some how came through it quickly and got out. So it just supports the evidence that something is there, but since it dosent fit any of our scientific theories, nobody in authroutiy will come out and say this is what it is. But it is I suppose, like flying saucers and UFO's. There is a great deal of informaiton which is unexplanable. I believe it was Einstien who said the past the present and the future exist together. It is a theory that is very pouplar agian with top scientists. "

1-B Feb 1977 Vortex Written by Merwin Gerard, Katharyn Michaelian Powers and Michael Michaelian This version was shown when the series started. Loosing most of the odd footage from the original pilot, but kepping the pirate bit ,it added in connecting footage to the second episode Atlantium as a way to get the audience to tune in. Most of this consisted of one person scanning the group as they are in the priviteer's camp and then him later walking through a portal to a matte shot of Atlantium. After they escape from the English camp more of Atlantium has been added where they talk about the group heading their way. Shown to the right is the scene where the group first meets Varian (dressed as a native). In this scene Fred tries to stop Varian not know his tuning fork could be used for healing. Jared Martin was woried about being typecast by the series if it was a sucess.

Bruce Lansbury
"Coming out of the pilot we dropped two characters and acquired two more. We aquired a girl from Atlantium and we aquired Dr. Willaway. They were to balalnce a cast with Eke Iesman's character and the black doctor and it worked out in Varian who was a musician who healed with music. And he was a very popular character incidentlay. But basicaly it was looking for a ballance that would give us stories that went in every direction. We always had a villian so that you saw the darker side of human nature and the better side of human nature hopefully alwasy previaled. We overcame that dark side and looked to a future which was brighter."

2 Atlantium In this episode we visit Atlantium.. the last surviving city of Atlantis. Most of the cast leaves before this episode starts. Only Fred, Varian and Scott continue from the pilot. In this episde they are joined by the Atlantian princess, Liana. Her father was an alien and her mother was an Atlantium. She also brings her cat with her. The brain does indeed use something called the 'transfer generator' to send the father and the two women to their own home. The brain is called 'the source' for some reason. Upon arriving in this second episode Scott is confused by the dissapearance of his Father, Jill and Eve. Shown below Ike reads the letter left from his father explaining why he left. In this episode Liana joins the cast as well as does her cat. Her mother was an alien and her father was an Atlantian. She never gets tired while running due to the high gravity of her mother's home planet. Shown in the background of the creidts is the outside of the locaiton. This was also used in the next episode.

This hotel was also used in the pilot for the Buck Rogers TV series.

Bruce Lansbury (Executive Producer)
"A fascinating subject, the Bermuda Triangle is like the open sesame. It was there as a doorway into an infinate number of stories that had to do with the imigination more than anything."

3 Beyond the Mountain Written by Harold Livingston Roddy McDowell joines the cast as Jonathan Willoway. A genius from the 1960's. It also shares the same location shooting as the Collectors episode of Logan's Run.

Oh the pain.. the pain...

Roddy McDowell
"I do think that continnualy , eternaly, and it will always be the case, that there is a an overwhelming interest in both science fiction and in horror material because it all triggers memories of our childhood and also of great fears like fiarly tailes, you know the great dark fears. It is like being on a roller coaster. Its ' I don't want to be here (woosh) lets go again.' I think it has a tremendous appeal and alos appeals to the child in us even if we are children or grown up, it's fascinating. And certialy in film.. way back to the beginning of film when you think of the the French... Millie's trip to the moon and all of those films, right from there beginning there has been an interest in science fiction. "

4 Children of the Gods Air Date : Feb 24, 1977 Directed by Alf Kjellin Written by Leonard Katzman (the producer of the series) Youths in a zone 'liberate' Scott from the 'elders' in his group. The youths are not powerless as Varian and the others discover then they try to rescue Scott. Meanwhile Willoway explored an ancient temple and is then sentenced to death for defiling a holy place. Scott agrees to fight the leader of the gorup of youth. If he wins then Willoway will be set free. Odd how unprepared all the regulars are for unexpected things in this episode. Later Varain proclamins that they won't be caught off guard agian, however at the final confrontation he just stands around. The credits stick with a matte shot of the ruined city from the beginning of this episode and stay that way until the end of the series. Whats not to like. Romanesque society with future weapons! Love those plexiglass spears and swords!

Guest Cast Cosie Costa, Mark Lambert, Bobby Eilbacher, Stanley Clay, Richard Natoli, Al Eisenmann, Michael Baldwin

Bruce Lansbury (Exceutive Producer)
"When I first brought it to the network they kept trying to hammer it into a science fiction mold. It was originaly called 'The Incredible Island' where all things could happen and did, you know, and it was a place where you could tell all kinds of stories, just as Serling did in Twilight Zone. And basically we ended up doing that. We didn't do sci-fi at all. I leaned towards Science Fantasy which permits you to a broader range of story and it pushes the imigination a little more than pure science ficiton. Science Ficiton tends to become the victim of rules and regulations and what has been done before and a catagorization process. That happenes in scince fiction. Science fantasy allows you to express yourself in any way you want to as long as it opens the mind."

5 A Dream of Conquest Written by Michael Michaelian For some unknown reason a lot of stations decided not to show this episode. This episode freature mmore gold lamae than you can shake a stick at. Not only that but the gold lame outgits have bell bottom legs!

Merwin Gerard (writer)
There is a , I think, an abiding public interest in psyching phenomena. We have a whish to belive and there is enough evidence to support the conclusion that there is something there. "

6 An Act of Love Written by RIchard Fielder My favorie episode. The exteriors feature the front of the Grifith Observatory. It should be open agian soon so you can stand in the same place as cast members! I had forgottn about this location when I visited there a few years ago otherwise I would have snapped a few pictures of the location and added myself into a few frame grabs. One of the best episode of the show and one of the saddest. This is very much a Varian episode. It centers around him falling in love and a dark secret kept by the queen of the island. Also featured is a vengeful volcano god who likes his sacrafices!

7 Funhouse Written by Katharyn Michaelian Powers and Michael Michaelian This episode was not shown in England during the shows brief run in the 70's No one seems to knwo why. Exteriors filmed at an ammusment park. It probably would have been the same location for the unfilmed episode of Logan's Run called the Funhouse. Varian uses his tuning fork to drive the spirit form Willaway at the end. I guess it was Ok for him to use the tool to drive out evil spirits ; )

Bruce Lansbury (Executive Producer)
"We created a show basicaly that was futuristic but dealt with ideas rather than hardware. We couldn't afford hardware on $300,000 an episode, so it had to deal with ideas."

8 Turnabout Written by Ken Klob or D.C. Fontana? This is a rather strange episode. The location was also used in Logan's Run briefly in the episode Judas Goat. Also in this episode are some robots who can not help but look cute and harmless. They later ended up on a lot of Quark episodes running around the Perma 1 space station. In the opening of the shot Fred kisks one of the robots over and you can see the plywood base!

9 Riddles Written by Katharyn Michaelian Powers Interesting the last two episodes did not have Katie in the cast. Evidently she developed a very serious illness which took her a year to recover from (accoding to her secretary in March of 1979). At that time she was busy auditining for other parts. A small throw away line at the beginning of the show stated that she stayed in the previous zone to help set up the new government. At the beginning of this episode the gamg meets up with a Mongol hordesman. Well he could just be a plain barbarian as he speaks perfect English. I think the moral of the story is to take what Mongols hordesmen say with a grain of salt. Evidently riders (of which he is one) help people find their way back to their own time. The groups investigates a house whos inhabitants are protecting a mysterious stone. The same stone the rider told they group which they need to find their way home. Unlike Funhouse this story is compelling and interesting. The inhabitants of the house are not quite evil and the group' motives do not come into question until the last act, and only then Scott is the only one who feels they are doing something wrong. Some parts of this episode are rather creepy especially at the end where the stone tests each of the gang with a nightmare. At the end of the episode the creidts have a different picture than earlier episodes. Instead of the matte shot of the city, this episode had a group picture of our cast. This was also used in the final episode.

Bruce Lansbury
"Getting to the moon is not a problem anymore. Thats not something for the imigination. You got to find stories which go beyond that now. Thats probably in here, in our hearts and in our minds, in another dimension."

10 The Innocent Prey This show was almost entirely shot inside on what looked a lot like a set from Fantasy Island. Only a very few shots were filmed on location. When the character of Tye is injured Varian was not able to heal him with this 'tuning fork' as NBC practices and standards had decided that only God could heal. This also effected quite a few other of the later episodes. Also the footage of the spaceship was from The Invaders TV series, however the spaceship built for this episode looks nothing like the one in the stock footage! Judging by the budget they must have known they were canceled by this time. The gang rushes to help after seeing a space ship crash. The space ship is evidently transporting criminals who take advantage of the situation, kill the pilot and wear uniforms. I am not sure how they do this as they vaporized the one guy clothes and all. They did not seem to do anything to the co-pilot. They travel to a nice place where the inhabitants can not contemplate murder. They are all 'children of nature' and have the ability to transform simple objects into precious gems. The criminals are incredibly interested in the 'orb' which gives the people this power. The orb is show in the picture to the right. Willoway is suspicious of the pilot. He wants to know more about the space shuttles. He almost sees the criminal kill the co-pilot. Peter Parker is feeling better upstairs. People start to get suspicious as the pilot knows less about his space craft than Varian does. Upon investigating the space craft they find out that a distress message was sent after they all left the space ship. They find pictures of the criminals. Meanwhile the criminal pilot leaves with the leaders son and a few minutes later a group return with his body. After the funeral the group tries to talk the leader about how the pilot is actually murderer. Fred is very upset. Peter Parker talks York into leaving. Fred reveals a lot about his personal past and how his mother was mugged and too scared to report it to the cops. Scott is kidnapped by York and taken back to the space ship. Varian and the others go to rescue him. York sets up a bomb in one of the panels then ducks out the back door. Varian realizes it is a trap and that it is rigged to explode. They have to go around the ceiling of the space craft to avoid a gravity plate linked to the bomb. After the rescue they set off the bomb so that York thinks they are dead. York comes back for the secret of the orb. York holds Cheryl Ladd hostage as the leader realizes that the York is a murderer. When he gives the orb to York Fred grabs a gun. York stares into the orb and it turns red. he falls to the ground and is changed into a child and then into a baby. The group leaves. As they walk through the portal Fred stumbles. This episode is sort of a bittersweet ending to the series.

Guest starring Richard Jaeckel, Nicholas Hammond, Cheryl Ladd as Natica, and Lew Ayres

Jared Martin
"Science fiction is a great stage. It has that kind of rythm and intensity and thay, you kow, insane drame. It filled my head and populated my nivers, and as a kid I was happyt to go into my room and shut the door and 'Woosh' go to Mars."

11? Romulus (unfilmed script) Written by Calvin Clements Jr. Dated March 1, 1977 In this script our group comes to a land inhabited by a purple boy with a large head. As they arrive he cries out in pain and the tranquil day turns inot a raging storm. The cat is frightened by the storm and only shows back up agian at the very end of the episode. As Scott emerges from the portal he is sucked up by the storm. The rest of the group looks for Scott in a nearby town. Unfortunately the town in inhabited by the undead who have the ability to electricute anyone they touch. The group are herded undergound where they encounter the survivors. Aliens with wild mental powers! Unstopable undead zombies! Good ol' fashoned backstabing by a guy named Brock! This script had it all. Unfortunatley it was never filmed. It was writtn with Liana as a character. Read the complete script here! New 1-1-03

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