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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-29 (Saturday)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:24:37 -0700
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On 3/31/25 4:06 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 3/31/2025 1:52 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> On 3/31/25 8:01 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>>>> On 3/30/2025 8:38 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>>> On 3/30/25 1:17 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 3/30/25 10:28 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 3/30/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I watched:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (Tubi) 1983
>>>>>>>> sci-fi movie starring Peter Strauss as a bounty hunter who
>>>>>>>> travels to a hostile planet run by Michael Ironside to save
>>>>>>>> three women from Earth who crash landed there.  Strauss
>>>>>>>> teams up with a young Molly Ringwald and Ernie Hudson so
>>>>>>>> save the day.  I haven't watched this since the 80s.  I was
>>>>>>>> shocked by how much of it came back to me as I watched, and
>>>>>>>> how surprisingly watchable it turned out to be.  I watched
>>>>>>>> "Cherry 2000" on Friday and the two movies have very similar
>>>>>>>> plot lines of man being guided through wasteland by woman or
>>>>>>>> in this case a teenage girl.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK, I've never even heard of this movie, and knowing it's on
>>>>>>> Tubi may get me to watch it!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The other thing there was a lot of in the 1980s was low-
>>>>>>> budge[t] sword and sorcery flicks - there was one I saw on TV
>>>>>>> back in the early 80s while I was babysitting that I still
>>>>>>> have never tracked down!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, give us some clues
>>>>>
>>>>> I literally can't. I do not remember who was in it (it was likely
>>>>> nobody well-known). It had really low budget EFX (things like
>>>>> turning the screen green-tinted to show magic), and may have been
>>>>> a TV movie. I think there might have been a magic bow involved?...
>>>>> I literally have no other info, and what I just told you about the
>>>>> magic bow may be wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> The year would have been likely c.1983-1984.
>>>>
>>>> I've never see or heard of either of these two movies until now,
>>>> but apparently they exist:
>>>>
>>>> Conquest (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPcEnsSfltM
>>>>
>>>> The Archer: Fugitive From the Empire (1981) https://www.youtube.com/
>>>> watch?v=XN6YP8LvTCc
>>>
>>> It was neither of these. I am quite sure it was an American (or possibly
>>> Canadian) production, so it's not "Conquest". And nothing about the
>>> second one looks familiar.
>>>
>>>> There was a movie I saw, I'm guessing when I was about 5 or 6 years
>>>> old around 1983ish.  I remember there was a scientist from Earth who
>>>> entered a portal and was transported to a another world.  That's
>>>> about all I remember.  But I've never seen it again since.  It just
>>>> dropped off the face of the Earth, and I've watched a *lot* of low
>>>> budget sci-fi/fantasy types and that one just disappeared.
>>>
>>> I want to say I had a very similar case to this. In the one I saw, it
>>> was a family that go through some kind of portal. I want to say a
>>> pyramid was involved.
>>>
>>> Google says it was the TV series "Otherworld", but I don't think this is
>>> right because, 1) I want to say I saw it much earlier than 1985 (maybe
>>> late 70s or early 80s), and 2) I think it was movie, not a TV series.
>>>
>>> But, whatever...
>>
>> "Otherworld" would be my first guess.  I watched reruns of it on The
>> Sci-Fi Channel back when the channel debuted.  Hey, I haven't thought of
>> the sci-fi channel in a *long* time!  Is it airing any actual sci-fi
>> programs? Or just wrestling?
>>
>> My second guess would be "The Fantastic Journey." I don't think I've
>> ever watched it before, but for some random reason it popped up in my
>> social media feed the other day.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqKEENAGSBo
> 
> It doesn’t involve a family, but another possibility is The Stranger
> 
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070742/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

What kind of TV movie has "guest stars"?!!  ;p