This subject came up over the holiday. My mom and I were trying to remember this god-awful, soul-searingly bad science fiction movie starring (we’re 99.999% sure) Gary Collins. It was on late at night during the late 80’s. I was out of commission during much of the viewing due to a bout of stomach flu, but between us we could remember the following:
Gary Collins was in it.
Looked like it was filmed during the 60’s or 70’s.
We can vaguely recall there was some kind of plot involving Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle, alternate worlds, that sort of thing.
Some kind of brain in a jar.
I’m pretty sure I recall some kind of time-space anomaly, as well. I remember blue special effects. [sub]gimme a break, I had the flu[/sub]
Man, that’s not a lot to go on. We checked his IMDB entry, but nothing listed looked like the movie we remembered. Considering how bad the movie was, he might have killed any witnesses to his shame and bribed the IMDB to delete the entry.
Maybe it was a repackaged “movie” made up of episodes of his series The Sixth Sense. It’s been done with other series on occasion such as The Time Tunnel.
Check out some of the titles of those Sixth Sense episodes. Coffin, Coffin, In the Sky, for example.
Y’know, I recall riffing on the title quite a bit…Incredible Voyage, Fantastic Voyage, Incredible Journey, etc. It must be this one. Funny it doesn’t mention Collins at all–I recall him quite vividly. Unless they picked up some no-name lookalike…
I’ve read through some summaries of Sixth Sense and it didn’t quite sound like the same theme. More like an X-Files sorta thing rather than Quantum Leap cum Zardoz…
It appears to me that Jared Martin, the star of The Fantastic Journey, looks a lot like Gary Collins. You can find pictures of each of them using the IMDb. Is it possible that you’ve confused the two of them?
I took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDB board, and someone posited that your movie might be the Doug McClure classic Warlords of Atlantis.
Is that closer? Still no sign of Gary Collins. However, he (along with a plane load of other misfits) was lost on an island in a different movie from that era, “The Night They Took Miss Beautiful.” However, that was not a Bermuda Triangle movie. The plane was just hijacked to an island in the same area.
Actually, that movie sounds like a heck of a lot of fun. I’m pretty sure that’s not it, though.
Once I pointed out the tv series to my mother, she did more digging and said she found a cite that mentioned that Gary Collins might have been in the first 2 epsides (only). Unfortunately, she’s not big on documenting research…hopefully I can squeeze a link or something out of her…
> Once I pointed out the tv series to my mother . . .
Pointed out what TV series? You said in your OP that you and your mother agreed that it was a movie, not a TV series, that you’d watched. Have you both decided now that it was a TV series, not a movie?
