Another World

 

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STRANDED IN SPACE-1973-3 astronauts encounter some trouble flying back to Earth. Neil Stryker (Glen Corbett) winds up in a hospital where his doctor Revere (Tim O'Connor) acts strange and evasive. He feels like a prisoner. Unbeknownst to him, he's being monitored. After he escapes, it seems he's on another planet with 2 moons. Government agent Benedict (Cameron Mitchell) and his assistant Henry (Steven Franken) are after him. The planet is Terra ruled by The Perfect Order. A kindly book seller (George Coulouris) asks a doctor Bettina Cook (Sharon Acker) to check him out. Of course, she winds up helping him evade capture. She takes him to see Prof. MacAuley (Lew Ayres) who explains that Terra is a sister planet of Earth. Later, Mac and Neil devise a plan to get him on a spaceship so he can go back to Earth. To say it doesn't work out is an understatement. 

This made for TV movie directed by Lee H. Katzin is a slow moving alternate Earth sci-fi drama. It was originally called THE STRANGER but when Film Ventures bought it, they retitled it and showed scenes from a different movie during the opening credits (they did this with other films they bought). By the way it ends, this TV movie was obviously a pilot for a proposed series (or at least a sequel). Also with Dean Jagger as Benedict's boss, Virginia Gregg, H.M. Wynant, Arch Whiting and William Bryant. Director Lee H. Katzin worked mostly in TV but occasionally stepped out into feature films like WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AUNT ALICE? (1969), THE PHYNX (1970) and LE MANS (1971). 

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