It's actually identified in the episode as Hermes 20
iTunes must use the same guy as IMDB.
the top-secret Venus probe will be next.
Why is the Venus probe top secret? What do they know about Venus? What are they keeping from us?!
While interviewing a mission control operative with a pad and paper (no camera crew in sight)
Clark is still adjusting from print to broadcasting. Makes me wonder if the Daily Planet is a streaming service or something now.
Back at Rebos's lab, it's revealed that the Hermes astronauts were really androids
To avoid fatalities?
Once inside, he enters a top secret room and presses the "famous 'Don't press' button" to sabotage the mission.
Wasn't that a
Far Side cartoon?
Wilcox plays another message in which Rebos threatens a manned launch to Mars--where there's already a base under construction in the SF universe--before being interrupted by an operator wanting him to put in more change. While Wilcox is briefing the Super Friends about the base, the recorder comes back on, Rebos having gotten more change to continue his call...!
He can afford an android factory, but he has to use a pay phone to contact the Super Friends?
Rebos explains his motivation to see that the billions spent on the space program are redirected to helping the sick and poor on Earth
At least he's not an eco-terrorist, but every villain on this show is trying to save the world.
then quickly build an android female poodle
Their super power is mastering obscure, complex technology in seconds.
On Earth, Batman lectures Rebos about effecting change through lawful means, and he the scientist expresses an interest in turning over a new leaf.
Sure, now that he's in custody. These guys are all alike.
the big question is, if Rebos could create an android with Superman's powers, why did he have to wait until he could make it in Superman's likeness, and why not make his other androids that powerful?
Mad Scientists seldom make good use of their technology. Why not put his androids to work helping people, or license the technology and use the profits to support charities?
It must have taken a lot of extra resources to get one to fly to Mars and still be able to destroy the base when it got there.
It would have been funny if it arrived all beat up, like Elon's Roadster, and just fell apart.
For years scientist have theorized that if our galaxy was created from a great explosion, then the center of the galaxy might still be creating new matter.
Apparently all scientific knowledge was lost in WWIII.
The space outside the ship gets a little Yellow Submarine, and the crew find that they're outside of normal space and time, where the laws of physics don't operate the same.
In a deleted scene, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy sample Orion Hurricanes before reporting to the bridge.
Asmodeus (uncredited Ed Bishop)
Commander Straker?
The crew depart from the galaxy's center, reflecting on how they saved Lucifer from being cast out for a second time.
That was a rather amazing re-interpretation of Christian mythology for a Saturday morning cartoon. And, like previous episodes, it drew on TOS tropes, such as the witchy time period in "All Our Yesterdays" and the acquiring of the antagonist's superpowers in "Plato's Stepchildren."
The paramedics and Chet are returning from a four-day camping/fishing trip
That's either an indication that Chet and the guys are better friends than it would seem, or else an awkward way to get Chet involved in the plot.
the boy (uncredited Jack Paar)
What?!
highly flustered nurse, Ozella Peterson (Reta Shaw), who's resistant to all the irregular activity.
"This is an urgent care center! You can't just walk right in!"
At Rampart, while Brackett, Early, and Dix are all tied up at the base station...
Those lights over Early's head look kind of Sick Bay-ish.
Then the local physician, Dr. Frick (Tony Haig), arrives, and we get a punchline for all of Nurse Peterson's stuffy uptightness...
Backdoor pilot:
Hippie Doc and the Square Nurse.
When asked, he explains to the paramedics that he chose to work where he felt he was most needed.
In reality, he never completed his residency because of the drug charges and had to settle for where they were too desperate to care (sadly, a joke based on a true story).
the three victims--one male, two female
Do we ever find out what happened to this bunch?
and instructs the firefighters in assisting in his treatment, which include setting up an IV.
No cutting open the wound and sucking out the venom?
This one was a nice change of pace, focusing on a couple of situations that played out longer rather than jumping between scattered vignettes. And Johnny was pretty badass.
Indeed, this seems like a pretty exciting episode all around.
Wes runs an idea by Lou that they broadcast the news in a more "natural" fashion from the newsroom as it happens.
This kind of triggers a vague memory that this approach was a thing at the time.
Jerry seems casually familiar with the butterfly, however. The Hartleys have Carol stay over the night before...and it turns out that Howard's acquainted with the butterfly as well.
I remember this. Word gets around.
(I wonder if Dr. Rivers removed her butterfly with...THE RAYS! *CLAP!*)
Sigh. I'm not Capping this either.
Carol: Bob, do you know what it's like dating men your own age?
[Bob shakes head.]
At the end of the informal session, Carol tells Bob that Scott's taking her home to meet his parents! In the coda, Carol and Scott are still seeing each other, describing how they and the elder Riverses went figure skating.
And yet he will never be seen again, as far as I know. Which is too bad. It would have been an interesting ongoing plot.
It's Retro and futuristic.
My two favorite things.
I remember a short story back in the 80s, which I'm 99% sure was in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, about a guy who orchestrated a Beatles reunion, using an AI hologram of John to fill out the quartet. Once again, real life catches up to fiction.
