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Director : Ted Post TX : 5th March 1980 Notes : Lou Shaw is probably best known for co-creating Quincy with Glen A. Larson. Other series he has written for include Mission: Impossible, Columbo and The Fall Guy. Ted Post also directed episodes of The Twilight Zone (A World of Difference / Prove 7 - Over and Out / Mr Garrity and the Graves / The Fear), Thriller (Papa Benjamin / The Specialists) and Future Cop. Feature films he has directed include Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Magnum Force (1973), arguably the only worthwhile sequel to Dirty Harry (1970). Notable Events · A tannoy announcement at DELOS headquarters that warns the employees not to panic about the atomic missile pointed at them. Needless to say, several dozen extras are seen hurtling down corridors and out of the exits at world-record speeds! · The gunslinger that's immobilised by getting its hand slightly wet! · A number of shots from the original movie are used in this episode and also in the opening credits to the remaining episodes, although the large number of robots out in the open is in complete contrast to the deserted scenes near the end of the movie.
Director : Rod Holcomb TX : 12th March 1980 Notes : Producer Fred Freiberger is probably best know for overseeing the final seasons of both Star Trek and Space: 1999. He has gone down in television history as being the only producer to believe Luton to be a suitably exotic name for an alien planet (Space: 1999 - The Rules of Luton)! Jim McMullan's television genre appearance have, in general, been in series that are less than spectacular, with guest roles in The Time Tunnel (King Arthur in Merlin the Magician), The Sixth Sense (I Do Not Belong to the Human World), The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman and MacGyver (The Wasteland). His movie roles are equally unimpressive with the highlights being a part in The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) and an appearance in the first Austin Powers movie. Notable Events · Pam Williams as a cheerleader!
Director : Paul Stanley TX : 19th March 1980 Notes : Guest star Rene Auberjonois is now best known playing the shape-shifting Constable Odo in all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Other series he has appeared in include Night Gallery (Camera Obscura), Eerie Indiana (Zombies in PJ's), Stargate SG-1 (The Other Side) and, more recently, an episode of Enterprise (Oasis). In the 1980s he had a regular role in Benson, the spin-off from Soap, as Clayton Endicott III. James Wainright's appearances in action series are limited to episodes of The Incredible Hulk, The Fall Guy and CHiPS. In 1974 he appeared in Killdozer, a TV movie about a possessed bulldozer. William Jordan had previously starred in the first season of Project: UFO as Major Jake Gatlin.
Director : Jack Starrett TX : Unaired Notes : Connie Sellecca went on to play Pam Davidson in the telefantasy series The Greatest American Hero. In the late 70s she appeared in two TV movies based on the Captain America comic strip. John Meredyth Lucas, one of the producers on Beyond Westworld, also directed for a number of high profile sci-fi series including Star Trek, The Invaders and Planet of the Apes. Notable Events · A thrilling car race with speeds of up to thirty miles an hour! · A car crash where the car quite clearly blows up before it actually crashes!
Director : Don Weis TX : Unaired Notes : Monte Markham, who plays Captain Nicholson, appeared in several episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man as the Seven Million Dollar Man, aka Barney Miller. He is probably most recognisable for playing Captain Don Thorpe in the first two seasons of Baywatch. Guest star George Takei is best known for playing Mr Sulu in the sixties sci-fi series Star Trek and its film spin-offs. Other series in which he has appeared include The Twilight Zone (The Encounter), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (The Silent Saboteurs), The Six Million Dollar Man (The Coward) and MacGyver (The Wish Child). More recently he has made guest appearances in Star Trek: Voyager (Flashback, as Captain Sulu), 3rd Rock From the Sun and The Chronicle. Don Weis directed on numerous cult shows in the 60s and 70s. Amongst the most notable were The Twilight Zone (Steel), Batman (The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled / Hot off the Griddle / The Cat and the Fiddle), Kolchak: The Night Stalker (The Vampire / Fire Fall / The Trevi Collection / Demon in Lace) and Planet of the Apes (Escape From Tomorrow / The Good Seeds). Series further down his CV include The Man From Atlantis, Freddy's Nightmares and The Highwayman. Notable Events · Governor Harper turns out to be a robot. This means that, in all probability, he was substituted for the real Harper after a car crash which had occurred some two years earlier. Quaid was therefore obviously planning well in advance of the destruction of Westworld. · Connie Sellecca in a swimsuit for a scene which, in all honesty, is just an excuse to get Connie Sellecca in a swimsuit! The elimination of one of the police officers as a robot suspect at the side of a swimming pool is completely redundant as they don't bother to check out the others… |
OPENING NARRATION
(Not on Westworld Destroyed) Based on Westworld, the 1973 movie written and directed by Michael Crichton, Beyond Westworld was a rather belated and unsuccessful television spin-off for CBS in 1980. The basic premise of the series was that Simon Quaid, the assistant to Professor Oppenheimer and the real brains behind the robots, had stolen two-hundred of the machines in order to take over the world. Enter John Moore, an employee of the DELOS Corporation, who had set up the security for Westworld and was given the task of locating Quaid and the stolen robots. Developed for television by Lou Shaw, the series is a direct continuation of the original film with the action taking place just a few hours later. Futureworld, the 1976 film sequel, is completely ignored. Unfortunately, the series got off to a truly terrible start with a mind-numbingly awful pilot episode that saw several of the 'deadly' robots dispatched by some of the most unimaginative means ever seen on television - one blew a fuse when its hand got wet, the other was blinded by a fire extinguisher! By the time the first second episode of the series was filmed, Judith Chapman had been replaced by Connie Sellecca and the part of Foley was recast with Severn Darden instead of Stewart Moss. The following episodes saw the producers mining the TV producers book of clichés for all it was worth, with a robot duplicate of Pam Williams appearing in My Brother's Keeper and that 80s US adventure series staple, the car race, in The Lion. In
the end, the dreadful scripts and poor acting saw the series disappear
from television after a mere three episodes had been screened. Takeover
and The Lion, the fourth and fifth episodes, remained unscreened
at the time of the series original transmission. In the UK the
series was shown in various ITV regions during the early 1980s
and has since been seen on the cable and satellite station, Sci-Fi. |