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Terror from the Year 5000

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807 - Terror from the Year 5000
Air Date March 15, 1997
AKA Cage of Doom
Movie Director Robert J. Gurney Jr.
Year 1958
Cast Ward Costello
Joyce Holden
John Stratton
Frederic Downs
Preceded by 806 - The Undead
Followed by 808 - The She-Creature


Contents

The Movie

Synopsis

On a remote island near Florida, scientist Howard Erling (Downs) uses an elaborate time-travel device to trade various artifacts with denizens of the past and future. A woman from the future, the mutated victim of atomic radiation, "trades" her body with that of a nurse (Salome Jens), whom she murders. It is the future woman's intention to repopulate the post-apocalyptic world of 5000 AD with uncontaminated children, and to do this she must forcibly take Erling's assistant Victor (Stratton) "back to the future." [1]

Information

  • Curiously, well-known Broadway actress Salome Jens, who plays the title character, wasn't listed in either the advertising or the official resumés of the film. [2]

The Episode

Host Segments

The Observers Sing
Mike and the time machine
  • Prologue Tom Servo orders a coat from a catalog that is comfort-rated. He proceeds to comfort-rate everything on the ship...everything.
  • Segment 1 Pearl and Bobo have worn out their welcome, and The Observers make them fight each other to the death before they dissect them. The Satellite of Love crew is too dense to be susceptible to the Observers' mental commands, so they are forced to resort to Charades to communicate.
  • Segment 2 The Observers reveal that they no longer eat food, but pills. However, the pills have extremely limited nutritional value. Mike makes the pills into a nice parmesan-encrusted pill cakes.
  • Segment 3 Mike has the Nanites whip up a time machine and uses Crow to test it by sending him to see his family in Wisconsin. Crow spends eleven years there and has a hell of a time, yet forgets to tell the Nelsons anything about Mike's fate.
  • Segment 4 The crew debates yodeling-styles, which is enough to drive the Observers crazy. The Observers respond with music of their own, a sweet little ditty called When I Held Your Brain in My Arms. The SOL crew is impressed.
  • Final Segment Crow brags some more about his exploits with Mike's girlfriend. Mike sets Crow up with a date courtesy of the time machine...the Terror herself. Meanwhile, Pearl defeats Bobo, but refuses to kill him. Her impassioned speech touches the Observers, until Bobo comes back and starts the fight again.
  • Stinger The Observers offer you their brains...yet again.

Other Notes

Guest Stars

Obscure References

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