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"Doc" Martin Russ Bender , the elder scientist aboard and who is going to subject us to more lame footwear jokes, just like the scientist in.

P's own closet, being used in their earlier 1965 film War Gods of the Deep.

The introductory crisis involving a dangerous gas is completely forgotten, as is the spaceship's first meeting with a humanoid alien in space who resembles the highly evolved human of the episode "The Sixth Finger" 1963 ; the decision to kill the alien is ultimately and bizarrely justified because the alien is "ugly" and hence could never get along with humans.

is only too happy to tell the news media about the innovations of Hope I, the best being that the various chambers aboard the ship are spherical and will rotate to accommodate the ship's orientation: doors are available for when the craft is horizontal while in flight, and ladders for when it lands and is vertical.

The force field is employed to stun the crabs so Andros can safely get away; unfortunately, they miss the gill man on loan from War Gods of the Deep, who waylays Andros on his return trip what is it about this guy and aliens? By the time the crew regain control, they've flown "millions of miles" off course.

Lisa's tests prove that the water is drinkable, the air is breathable, and Andros puts on his scuba gear to go get some samples from the land.

Black and White sci-fi spook show with three dudes and a chick on an outer space rocket with a mission to search space for an inhabitable planet, except some of these guys are on a mission to inhabit the only female crew member's pants with their rockets.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered it was a made for TV movie.

Lisa moans, "What a horrible looking creature! John Andros Baynes Barron , who is his own PR man, constantly reminding us how the book he writes about this mission is going to make him rich.

In particular, the scene where Lisa reveals her fears about their predicament after splashing into the ocean is much better handled than similar scenes in any number of movies.

I watch them through the eyes of my 10-year-old self, for whom imagination, spaceships, and monsters were paramount, logic and realism be damned.