The Stranger (TV 1973)
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- When his spacecraft passes through a vortex and he is forced to crash-land, astronaut (Glenn Corbett) is captured and led to believe he is on earth. After being harshly interrogated, he escapes and learns he is on Earth's twin planet, Terra. One family helps him find a way back home. This was a pilot for a new television series, but was never picked up by a network.
For entertainment purposes only.
handsome Glenn Corbett. X rip
I remember seeing this movie before I went Nam 73 .
This film has a soothing warm colour palate. The orange, yellow-orange and yellowy shades in low contrast lighting remind us of evening sunsets that hypnotize us with calming emotions. The ambience is captured through shades of magic hour sunsets, minimalist interiors and costumes. The mood compliments the utopian calmness of a perfect society described in the film as the perfect order. It is like the calmness felt during the pandemic when society locked down from the usual hustle and bustle. As part of the sci-fi theme it keeps our focus on the sky. Sometimes we need to focus more on living in the present and slowing things down. This film expresses that mood.
Thanks for that a.i.
I was 11 years old when this movie premiered. I was sent to stay at a familys home for the summer it was a really neat old farm house set way back off the main road near Polsbo, Washington and still sits there today I think. As a city boy from Seattle they were like the waltons to me complete with watering hole. I happened to stay up and watch this movie and I never forgot the ending where the man looks up into the night sky and see's 3 moons!! best part of the movie.
Neat memory.
I'm the same age as you but that came on after my bedtime on the east coast .I remember that night wanting to stay up but John Boy said goodnight and that's all she wrote .😊good night Grandpa
me too
LOVE this movie! Thank you for posting it!
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS MOVIE! I saw it over 40 years ago and STILL remember much of it. It was so refreshing to watch it again. :)
Yeah, it's actually very good.
Many thanks indeed! I've always loved this movie!
Love that Chrysler Newport. When I was a kid 8 years old we took a trip from Montreal to Vancouver it was 1969. We rented a 1969 Newport and drove around the west. It was a huge car long as hell bench seats you could sit 4 in the front and the hood was as wide as a Mini Cooper is long. I think it had a 440 engine. It was a beast probably got 10 miles to the gallon. Lol. Now we use litres so that would be about 15 kilometres to 3.75 litres
I watched this on TV when I was a boy. (Turning 57 in two days.) I remember being very frightened by the three moons because it was then that I really realized that he was far from home. Interesting that they keep saying "Earth" and "Terra"; in Spanish, "Earth" is known as "Tierra." Of course, this makes sense because "Terra" is Latin for "Earth." For some reason, this film remained in my head as a nostalgic favorite. I had no idea it was a pilot for a potential series. I don't struggle too much with the way they depicted life on Terra. Yes, the American culture stands out, as well as the very American English that is spoken on Terra; but I simply believe that Earth and Terra are practically mirror planets with very similar developments. It's not the best example of sci-fi, but it's fun in a very kitschy, retro way-and it reminds me of my childhood.
I hope you had a happy birthday! I was 11 when this movie came out, I miss the 70s.
Dystopian nightmare!
Seems familiar🤔
Great pilot, loved it!
The first time I found this movie, it was on a $1 VHS tape in a dollar store. It was made on extremely cheap tape recorded at EP speed and the tracking wouldn't ever straighten up, but I finally got through it. Glad to see it was later released on those cheapo DVD movie compilations in digital format.
This was a great tv movie.
This was a great pilot episode! What a shame the show never went further than that.
Uhhhhhh…🧐
It had potential, but it wasn't on MST3K for nothing
I was impressed with Neal's driving skills dodging the bullets from the security helicopter. Also his almost 100% rate of hitting the enemy with his borrowed weapon, whilst again dodging plenty.
A shoutout to the kind bookstore owner, they don't make them like that anymore!
It was great to watch this movie after so many years. It would have been a great TV show, the plot was very promising. A sort of "fugitive" in another planet, truying to get back to Earth. I am a fan o Glenn Corbett, it is a pity that he died young.
VI ESTA PELICULA CUANDO TENIA 12 AÑOS DE EDAD,EN ESE ENTONCES HIZO VOLAR MI IMAGINACION,ERA 1,976'-48 AÑOS MAS TARDE LA VEO NUEVAMENTE,REALMENTE FUE UNA MUY BUENA PELICULA Y CON MUY BUEN ARGUMENTO...
Thank you. It's a great movie and I enjoy it.
Great to see this TV movie - many thanks for the upload!
I enjoyed this movie quite a bit. Thx for posting!
I also was 11 when this premiered. I never knew the name of the movie, all I could remember was there was 3 moons, and everyone was a southpaw. Which is ok with me since I am a southpaw. So Glad I found this movie, shows my memory is still good. Now I need to make a DVD of this movie.
Too bad that CBS Video won't consider putting it on DVD.
That was good, thank you for sharing with us!
Good movie! Haven't seen this in over 40 years
Poor Glenn Corbett Stuck on another planet this movie and on episode of Startrek in 1960s
terrific 70s flick thanks
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun to The Village. It could have used a touch of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and a weather balloon that smothers people, but all in all an enjoyable flick.
So terrible it's brilliant. Thank you!
i love this movie thanks for uploading it , you are cool
I saw this movie as a child in the 70s and I spent decades asking everyone what movie was it. Searching in google about the ending with the 3 moons I was able to find it. I love the chase with the huge 70s Chrysler.
You'd think Zephram Cochrane could get himself home.
LOL.
Norm Nopper, No need. He found a new home for himself on whichever of the planets circling Alpha Centauri was colonized.
Fascinating. A totally parochial attitude.
That was James Cromwell, with Babe.
@@unowen-nh9ov Glenn Corbett portrayed Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek (TOS): Metamorphosis, S2, EP9, 10-Nov-1967. James Cromwell portrayed him in Star Trek: First Contact (1996). Sadly, Corbett passed away in 1993.
I really liked this from the first when Glenn tested Tim O'Connor by saying the phrase in Russian and mentioning Paul Revere. Clever. "I see no Florida listed" Lew Ayres :)
It's "The Fugitive", but on a different planet!! Right down to the jumping into the river escape scene!! Also, a little "Capricorn 1" action with a GREAT helicopter chase scene - VERY well staged and filmed.
I was a young girl when I saw this premier. I was so disappointed when it wasn’t picked up for a series.
Now everyone can see why God gave people time & free will. The so-called 'perfect order' has removed all freedom of thought & movement, &, as imperfect as this world is, it is better to have perfect imperfection rather than imperfect perfection. This is George Orwell's '1984' writ large.
47:42 The propeller blade tips of that chopper just sliced off some leaves from those trees.
Whoever was flying that chopper must've been an expert stunt pilot to be able to have flown so close to those trees.
I took notice of that too. Viet Nam vet pilot for sure. A lot of them do stunt flying in the movie/TV business. They pushed their machines to the edge because they had to. They also built up an awful lot of hours very quickly.
I noticed that too. I was sitting here thinking those pilots were real daredevils getting that close in and the way they were weaving around those trees was amazing.
This was amazingly high quality and considering it was from the early 70s very thought provoking. I bet that is why the US media execs refused to create a series based on this movie, heck probably why they never thought of doing one all these years later. How did this gem make it to the US small screen, it must have been luck or an accident.
The concept of a parallel universe isn't that far fetched.
Am living in one past 10 years.....still trying to escape.
This was an NBC movie of the week,durring the 1972-73 TV season. pretty intresting
TV pilot from Bing Crosby Prods,who are best known for CBS's "HOGAN'S HEROES"
and ABC's "BEN CASEY" TV series in the 60s. the Space Capsule used in this pilot,
was from "IN LIKE FLINT",and the "Journey With Fear" episode of "VOYAGE TO THE
BOTTOM OF THE SEA" at 20th Century Fox. in the 70s,a lot of made for TV stuff had
used lots of stock footage effects,since it was cheaper. Corbett's daughter is Laurie
Holden
Cameron Mitchell has a nice wig too. That wig Joseph Paris NYC.
This NBC-TV movie from early 1973 was intended as a series pilot that the network never picked up. the TV movie was by no means an original concept because it dabbles with the theory of two alternate earths, a concept that was explored in Universal Pictures and Century 21's "JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN" (1969) so in the case of "THE STRANGER", this wasn't an original concept. but it had one great luxury- it was produced by Alan A Armer, who produced Quinn Martin's "THE INVADERS" (1967-68) and "THE UNTOUCHABLES" (1959) and also produced by Bing Crosby Productions, the company responsible for "BEN CASEY" (1961-66) and "HOGAN'S HEROES" (1965-71) and the Cinerama Motion picture release, "WILLARD" (1971) and "BEN" (1972) Glenn Corbett, who co-starred on CBS's old "ROUTE 66" series, plays the title role in this TV movie as an Earth astronaut who crashes on a planet that he thinks is Earth, but is its twin, Terra, and hunted down by a police state of an Orwellian society-and since Alan A Armer also worked on QM's "THE FUGITIVE", this at least gave this pilot a familiar pattern, but the executives at NBC didn't seem very interested, but this was the same TV network that canceled "STAR TREK" in 1969 and look what happened after that mistake! the space capsule footage used on this TV pilot was originally used by Twentieth Century Fox's "IN LIKE FLINT" (1967) and was also used in the "Journey With Fear" episode of "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA" that same year, and by a remarkable coincidence, some of the computer footage used in this 1973 TV movie also came from The Seaview's Armac computer system-stock footage was heavily used on TV back in those days as it was cheaper for the budgets
Great tv-movie!
First time watching this interesting film, definitely one of the better movies. Suspenseful.
"Benedict. Get me security." From 12:50 to 16:05 - StateSec to the rescue!!! Grab your loved ones, and run for your life!!! Yep, I remember seeing this on 70s-era TV, also; made back in the day when a "Movie for Television" was actually an event. The thing that I remember most about this one was the trick ending, when Corbett's character looks up into the sky and sees three moons. The Twilight Zone was also famous for those kinds of "trick endings."
Sorries if I misunderstand, I think I know what your getting at, but Styker clocked the three moons way before the ending.
Loved the movie ! it was one of "ABC"s, movie of the week , series.. wen ever they "black-out", a spot, these movies wer a great show to fill in the time slot. "games" got blocked, then.
Tom Hatfield, NBC, not ABC.
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I remember seeing this on NBC's Movie of the Week back in 1973. It was the pilot for a series that never got picked up, a mashup of "1984", "The Fugitive" and Gerry Anderson's "Doppelganger". Interesting idea for a show, though I can see now why the network passed on it -- it would be Stryker making new friends and sowing seeds of discontent against the Perfect Order every week, the guy in the turtleneck ineffectually chasing him every week, and every week he'd almost find a way home but never quite make it. Would have gotten stale pretty fast. But they did okay with it on what was clearly a low budget.
Michael Popham
I wasn't even born.
Still would have been better than some of the drek we did see. We probably would have also gotten an episode where he found a lost Russian Cosmonaut.
Yep. It was going to be a re-make of "The Fugitive" dressed with an undercurrent of Soviet Union activity. "Perfect Order", one-world government, "Ward E" = Siberian prison camp and readjustment facilities. An aside: the security or lack thereof of a private individual entering pre-launch was unrealistic even for the '70s. All said, I actually like this flick, and watch it to kill 90 minutes a few times a year.
I was 12 when this came out. Lol.
Oooh, one of my favorites.
Corbett was really a good looking guy, always made an impression even when in small roles. Chisum for instance. He just never was offered THE role or I believe he could have been a big male star. Died way too young too.
The astronaut who lands on Terra is Neil Stryker. Note that all the cars on Terra are built by Chrysler Corporation. Wonder if they have their own version of Lee Iacocca up there...;)
He didn't join Chrysler until '78.
Foooooo
Remember catching this I think sometime in the early 90’s on TBS superstation as an afternoon movie. Kind of fun to watch again and actually find it quite interesting. Corbett actually is quite good and even liked Cameron Mitchell in his role. Maybe on our opposite world on the other side of the sun this went to series and ran for four to five seasons and was a big hit, something to think about… 😏
The premise for this movies sounds a lot like _Land of The Giants_ in that the society on this world is an authoritarian one.
Remember: Out in space, EVERYONE speaks perfect 20th century American English.
Duh
Laminate! We are all descends.
only in Hollywood,right?laughing out grandiosely!
Almost all scientific conferences in the world are held in English. In practically every country in the world people learn English. No other language is this done in. Don't worry, soon EVERYONE will be speaking English.
A duplicate Earth on the other side of the sun must have been trending during this time period. The big budget British movie JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SON made in 1969 which I enjoyed had the astronaut crashing on a mirrored earth on the exact opposite side of the sun. Everything was a duplicated but in reverse...i.e. he can read the blackboard behind him in a mirror (located in his hospital recovery room), ppl drive on the wrong side of the road, his body organs that should be on his right side are on his left side, etc etc. Preposterous yes.
Now, we'd just have our protagonist finding himself in another multiverse where there is an Earth but the history has a major difference. I think THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE would be an example of that.
Oh yeah...remember seeing this decades ok.Thanks.
Anyone notice the old man helping Neal, was the teacher in Salems Lot. He wasn't long for the world in that either!
Did anyone else notice that the televisions could watch you while you watch it? They could even monitor you when they are off. Sounds kind of like what's going on now, doesn't it?
Donovan Sullivan EXACTLY.
Whoa!!! That's a scary thought!!!
i used to thinnk that was possible
Oh! My stupid phone listens to me all the time especially when it's off. You pay for the service while it tracks and evesdrops on you.If your in public other peoples phones watch you to.
@@warrenbienz6607 The real danger though starts when your own and other peoples phones and televisions start to leer you and film you nude and upload it to youporn.
This was pretty good! Cam Mitchell good too.
There were several Star Trek TOS and Outer Limits alumni in this film.
Many thanks to the person who uploaded this classic old sci fi suspense telemovie. I haven’t seen this in over 40 years, and have been trying to see it for at least the last 20. Does anyone know if this became an actual series ? It’s looks like a pilot for a series ( hence the ending ) that didn’t get made for one reason or another. Pity really, a series of this guys adventures would have beeen good. Milo
No, it didn't become one.
Interesting concept, An Earth twin in the same orbit but on the opposite side of the Sun. We would never know it.
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun ripped this tv movie off.
This would be a great TV series.
No seatbelts for saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety!
Did anyone notice Jerry Douglas? He played John Abbott on The Young and the Restless.
Yeah he pops up in some things in the 70s.
This aired on Monday, Feb. 26, 1973, on NBC right after Laugh-In. It repeated six months later on Aug. 28, 1973.
Lew Ayres has a nice wig
Wikipedia: "...a television movie made in 1973 as a pilot for a new television series, but was never picked up by a network. The series would have had a feel of "The Fugitive", with Neil as the fugitive on the run, trying to find people who would sympathize and help him, but wary of anyone finding out his true nature and turning him in to the authorities..."
Great movie
I saw this movie, so long ago. Just found it looking for a different movie.
LOL 😆
Terra is the latin word for Earth!
+Arthur O'Duffy I just looked this word up, on Wikipedia, and you're right! It is the latin word for Earth. Wonder if the writers, of this movie knew this?
+MrMaxismybaby Probably not. judging by the script!!
as others have suggested, a weekly series would have been too similar to "The Fugitive"
This was one I hadn’t seen before. He could of at least got back to earth! I wonder if this was going to be a series back then but never made it. They left it open for that possibility.
It was a pilot for a series. It states this in the description.
I saw this movie when i was 7 y.o
A Bing Crosby Production.
Cool movie.
Was this going be some kind of series?
+Drake Blackwolf - Yes. It was not picked up. My sense (like a few folks mention): it would have been a SCI-Fi "The Fugitive" battling the Cold War / communism.
wonderful just wonderful
The Stranger (1973) this made-for-television movie is essentially a remake of a twilight zone episode that aired 10 years earlier.:"The Parallel" The Twilight Zone,(1963) season 4, episode 11, season 4, hour long episode.An astronaut (SteveForrest) arrives in a world much like his own -- except for a few small differences. With Frank Aletter.
Show: The Twilight Zone
Air date: March 14, 1963
Previous episode: No Time Like the Past
Next episode: I Dream of Genie
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Written by: Rod Serling
He was in a space-ship, wearing a space-suit, yet he left the hospital wearing gear that were a perfect fit?? I guess the actor is to proud to wear just anything.."
Good movie.
I remember the short black haired nurse from an episode of The Twilight Zone , she played Martin Balsam wife in The New Exhibit , an 1hour long Twilight Zone episode
The actress in the car with Glenn corbett was on StarTrek. It was the episode about an overcrowded planet who needed a disease and she caught it from James t Kirk. anyone remember that one?
The actress in question is Sharon Acker, and the episode of _Star Trek_ she was on is *The Mark Of Gideon* .
I kind of remember seeing this on TV; however, I used to confuse this with Journey To The Far Side of The Sun.
It's the same concept, but crossed with _Land of the Giants_ (the society in on the Giant's planet is slightly authoritarian.)
Neville 6000, Much more than slightly.
So Neil got trapped in the Perfect Order forever now. It's a VERY GOOD old movie, but the ending shouldn't have been like this. Bad luck Neil Stricker. The only good thing for him is, atleast the inhabitants of this planet are 100% similar to the human beings of Earth. The planet is like Earth but not Earth.
This thin movie vaguely imitates the excellent Gerry Anderson film "Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun". Watch that movie to see a more in-depth version of the concept of a parallel Earth that exactly mirrors our own crappy planet.
The new Blu Ray is excellent - colour a lot better. I always took the duplicate Earth as being created by quantum entanglement between atoms so that when an event happens on Earth One - it's exactly replicated on Earth 2
What kind of idiot climbs to the outside of a railing to precariously perch there, during a shootout?? I guess there is a first time for everything!
Thanks for the movie.
1:33:36 Watch out for the V of Doom!
Last time I saw this film on television it was on an episode of MST3K...
Heck of a place for the guy who invented warp drive to end up.
Nice
Great afternoon film 🎥🍿 the strangest idea is what if in the future this actually happened, just a thought 👽 A bit like the Frank E strange book " A stranger at the Pentagon" Val Thor, although just a hoax,, this film is along those lines 👍😊
These were TV movies,not like the garbage that's on TV today
Considering all of the great sci-if TV that's come on the air in the past few decades, I never would've guessed how knowledagble you are about the quality of current TV shows vs. older ones.🙄
And who better,then Alan A Armer,who produced this TV movie,since he's had expirience
with men on the run,like "Richard Kimble" from "THE FUGITIVE",or his space-age
counterpart "David Vincent",from "THE INVADERS" NBC could've had great success,had they followed through with this TV pilot!
One other detail i left out,is some of the electronic equipment used in this TV movie
was also used in NBC's "SEARCH" TV series,which was still running durring this same
TV season. Corbett's daughter Laurie Holden is best known for her work on AMC's
"THE WALKING DEAD" TV series
Need more movies of the week back on TV real bad .enought of reality TV already.
Are long sideburns a requirement of The Perfect Order?
Tony
TonyBoyIsHere Yeah it's 1973's really. Shhh!!!
TonyBoyIsHere YES.... yes, they are :):)
That was the style back then. It's the 70's.
Along with those great jackets and the black turtlenecks. Surely everyone around in those days remembers that. 🙄🙄🙄
Too bad shows like this never got picked up. Instead we got populist drivel like The Brady Bunch and Starsky and Hutch.
Those shows were very refreshing and wholesome.
Y, tienes algun problemo with that?. Yu eres de los que like ahuevazons like sense and sendibility and all putrid tihs.
handsome who played john abbott in the young and the restless
This could have been a good TV series. Kinda like the Fugitive. He would be running from the government officials/police on this strange planet trying to find people that would help him while he avoided the police.
The television They can see as well as been seen. Did you know some people out there (not myself, I don't go that far in conspiracies) Believe that the new flat screen t.v's do that ? But notice that the movie shows a flat screen t.v mounted on the wall !! Talk about seeing the future.
dude, vizio and samsung admitted to it!
Ye gads! They didn't wear seat belts with shoulder harnesses. That was really a foreign world!
In 1973 that was not standard equipment
They, unlike us, were free not to.
Clayton Walker, 🤣🤣🤣
TRUTH IR WHAT ??