# Can you id this early eighties movie? (Disney maybe?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 18, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564 "2021-06-18T19:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564/1 "2021-06-18T19:17:52Z")
I remember very little about this movie. It was a family type movie: Two guys go up in the space shuttle. Somehow they get hurled back in time to medieval England. Through the course of the movie, the two guys meet and fall in love with these two ladies. At the end of the movie when they figure out how to get back to their own time in the space shuttle, they have to say good bye to their fair maidens bc for some reason they think the ladies will die on the way back if they do. As they’re heading back in their space shuttle, they notice a duck has stowed away in the cabin. This let’s the two protagonist know that their loves could have come along unharmed. So they do a U-turn to head back for their ladies. [Roll credits] (I’m cracking up at the absurdity of all this) Anybody have any clue as to what movie I’m thinking of? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564/2 "2021-06-18T19:19:46Z")
Unidentified Flying Oddball? > **[Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080062/)** > > Unidentified Flying Oddball: Directed by Russ Mayberry. With Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, Kenneth More. An astronaut and his android double travel back to the time of King Arthur. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564/3 "2021-06-18T19:34:16Z")
Yep, that’s it! Thanks @IvoryTowerDenizen ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564/4 "2021-06-18T19:35:26Z")
That’s, um, quite the movie! I’d never heard of it but now I’m intrigued! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564/5 "2021-06-18T19:37:54Z")
Lol, yeah, way cheesier than I remembered. (I was watching clips of it on YT) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564/6 "2021-06-18T19:41:30Z")
Very, very, very, very loosely based on _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court._ The trailer had a silly, but catchy theme song. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JPt4bGQDe8w/maxresdefault.jpg "Unidentified Flying Oddball 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPt4bGQDe8w) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564/7 "2021-06-19T16:04:51Z")
Now that you mention it, I can still sing most of that theme. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564/8 "2021-06-20T11:38:22Z")
It’s available on Disney+. (You probably know this, @Grrr , since you just said it was cheesier than you remembered). ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-early-eighties-movie-disney-maybe/944564/9 "2021-06-20T15:55:45Z")
This movie was the party outing for my tenth birthday. It was really fun. When I was ten. It, uh, doesn’t hold up.