# Identify this bad late-1970s TV show. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087 "2005-01-04T21:37:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/1 "2005-01-04T21:37:24Z")
I saw the thread title about WIll Eisner. That reminded me of a name, which I remember as ‘Ike Eisenberg’. I wondered what he’d been up to since the late-1970s, so I checked IMDB. Not there. Apparently I’ve mis-remembered the name. Anyway, the show was about people who flew a space ship. When they returned to Earth, it was 200 (or 2,000 or whatever) years later. One of the laughable things was that their ship was just a Space Shuttle. I think it had a diagonal red or orange stripe. Of course, they had the typical ‘strangers from a different time’ adventures. Anyone remember what this show was? (It wasn’t _Quark_, which I actually found rather funny.) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/2 "2005-01-04T21:48:00Z")
I think the person you’re thinking of is [Ike Eisenmann](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252055/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9aWtlIGVpc2VufGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1), but I don’t see anything in his IMDB entry that rings a bell about a space ship series in the late '70s. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/3 "2005-01-04T21:48:49Z")
It wouldn’t have been Buck Rogers, would it? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/4 "2005-01-04T21:56:34Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > I think the person you’re thinking of is [Ike Eisenmann](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252055/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9aWtlIGVpc2VufGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1), but I don’t see anything in his IMDB entry that rings a bell about a space ship series in the late '70s. Neither do I. I guess some shows are best forgotten. **Quartz** : No, it was worse than that. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/5 "2005-01-04T22:16:44Z")
This is a long shot, but it wouldn’t be **Fantastic Journey** , would it? I seem to recall an Ike Eisen-something-or-other in that show… it didn’t last very long, I don’t think… I’m pretty sure it was in the 70s. I think, I _think_, they got lost in the Bermuda Triangle, though, and each episode had them stuck in a different dimension. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/6 "2005-01-04T22:18:51Z")
It could have been _Fantastic Journey_ but from the looks of the plot summary, the space ship might have appeared in only one episode. > **[The Fantastic Journey (TV Series 1977) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075503/)** > > The Fantastic Journey: With Jared Martin, Carl Franklin, Ike Eisenmann, Katie Saylor. Travelers are stranded in the Bermuda Triangle. On an island, they meet Varian, a man from the future, and Liana, an Atlantean. Together, they journey through... ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/7 "2005-01-04T22:21:42Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > This is a long shot, but it wouldn’t be **Fantastic Journey** , would it? I seem to recall an Ike Eisen-something-or-other in that show… it didn’t last very long, I don’t think… I’m pretty sure it was in the 70s. > > I think, I _think_, they got lost in the Bermuda Triangle, though, and each episode had them stuck in a different dimension. Hm. I _know_ I saw a show where the Space Shuttle, masquerading as an interstellar craft, crashed on future-Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Crunchy\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Captain\_Crunchy\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Crunchy_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/8 "2005-01-04T22:58:30Z")
[Salvage I](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-3650/)? [Ark II](http://www.tvtome.com/ArkII/)? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/9 "2005-01-04T23:37:08Z")
“The Far Out Space Nuts”? ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/10 "2005-01-04T23:48:08Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > “The Far Out Space Nuts”? I said “LUNCH” not “LAUNCH!” As I recall, the featured spaceship in that show was something more like the lunar module, not the space shuttle. Whatever you are remember sounds like a ripoff of Buck Rodgers, if it wasn’t Buck Rodgers. The spaceship in Rodgers was a space shuttle like vehicle. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-bad-late-1970s-tv-show/283087/11 "2005-01-05T00:37:32Z")
Ike was in an episode of a show called [Voyagers!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083500/). It was from 1982. Could that be it?