Ready 2 Watch - "The Lost Saucer (Pilot Episode)"

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The Lost Saucer was about two friendly androids from the year 2369 named Fi (Ruth Buzzi) and Fum (Jim Nabors) who land their flying saucer on present day Earth. They invite Alice and Jerry on a ride.

The Lost Saucer (Pilot)

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The Lost Saucer was about two friendly time-travelling androids from the year 2369 named Fi (Ruth Buzzi) and Fum (Jim Nabors) who land their flying saucer on present day Earth. They good-naturedly invite a young boy named Jerry (Jarrod Johnson) and his babysitter Alice (Alice Playten) to check out the interior of their craft.

As onlookers begin to gather though, the two androids become nervous about attracting attention and abruptly take off with Jerry and Alice. The flying saucer has the ability to travel through time, but the controls which allow the androids to specify an exact date becomes damaged, thus preventing the androids from returning Jerry and Alice to their rightful time and place.

The series follows the foursome as the two androids (who bicker and argue incessantly with each other, neither seeming competent with the ship's controls) encounter various adventures while trying to get Jerry and Alice back home or return to their own home on ZR-3 (where they hoped to make repairs).

The adventures are usually set on Earth (or an Earth colony) either in the distant past or in the distant future hundreds (or even thousands) of years hence. Typically, episodes were blatant social commentaries dealing with extremes such as a world where names (and faces) were replaced with numbers, where machines were outlawed due to a global energy shortage, or a city where the population had grown lazy and obese because robots do all the physical work.

Accompanying them on their adventures was a creature known as the Dorse. A dorse (played by Larry Larsen) was a half-dog, half-horse hybrid. It had the body of a large, shaggy dog, and the head of a small horse.

There were 16 original episodes produced for the 1975-76 season.

David's Dibs: This show made such an impact on me as a kid when I was growing up. Despite watching nearly every episode I somehow never had a chance to see the pilot episode EVER and I always wondered what it would be like to tie in with the other episodes.

I guess the mind eventually tries to work things out and one night over 20-years ago, I had this incredible dream, the opening to the pilot episode to this series I liked so much, but it was incomplete. Outside of the dream where I played Jerry and getting launched into space with Fi, Fum, Alice, and Dorse, there wasn't any more to it as I woke up to the alarm.

Yet the dream to that point was so neatly detailed and precise that I wrote it down on notebook paper, even though it wasn't a whole story.

Later it was transferred to a computer printout, then later retyped and saved as a .TXT file for the early IBM-pc in a folder I made for my other dreams. It then changed storage media from a 5 & 1/4 inch floppy to a 3 & 1/2 inch disk to a 100mb Zipdrive and ultimately to a data CD where it lay dormant for years undisturbed ...

Not too long ago (this year) I had another dream, this time an actual story of Lost Saucer - full and complete, and the plot - having to do with dreams oddly enough. In this I hunted down the original dream and merged the two together to make a full story from beginning to end, 14-written chapters in all !

And only recently did I find the TRUE video pilot episode to the series Online, I wanted to share now both of these with you.

So what you have here in video is the true pilot and the story I wrote and fixed up so you can compare the two. My dream and short-story can be found for reading in Writer's Cafe right HERE, and the video pilot can be watched RIGHT NOW and directly below. Just click the PLAY button.

Enjoi !

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