Short-lived animated series based on the 1966 film of the same name about scientists who are miniaturized and injected in humans

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Total Runtime: 0:21:37

Fantastic Voyage is an American animated science fiction TV series based on the famous 1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer. The series consists of 17 episodes each running 30 minutes. It was run on ABC-TV from September 14, 1968 through January 4, 1969. The series was produced by Filmation Associates in association with 20th Century Fox.

Fantastic Voyage is the story of the C.M.D.F. (Combined Miniature Defense Force), a secret United States government organization which possessed the ability to reduce people to microscopic size.

The main characters were Commander Jonathan Kidd; biologist Erica Lane; scientist Busby Birdwell; and a "master of mysterious powers" known as Guru. The team was reduced in size—for 12 hours only—and traveled around in a microscopic flying submarine, the Voyager, doing battle against the unseen, unsuspecting enemies of the free world (both criminal and germinal matter). The series featured the voices of Marvin Miller, Jane Webb, and Ted Knight. The producers were Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott, the director was Hal Sutherland, and the music was provided by Gordon Zahler.

Changes from the film, aside from the ship's crew, include the duration of miniaturization (60 minutes in the film) and the acronym (here D is "Defense", there it is "Deterrent").

Movie - The Wild Angels (Roger Corman, 1966)

"And we want to get loaded. And we want to have a good time! And that’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna have a good time. We’re gonna have a party!"

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 1:25:55

The Wild Angels is a 1966 Roger Corman film, made on location in Southern California. The Wild Angels was made three years before Easy Rider and was the first film to associate actor Peter Fonda with Harley-Davidson motorcycles and 1960s counterculture. It was also the film that inspired the outlaw biker film genre that continued into the early 1970s.

The Wild Angels, released by American International Pictures (AIP), stars Fonda as the fictitious Hells Angels San Pedro, California chapter president "Heavenly Blues" (or "Blues"), Nancy Sinatra as his girlfriend "Mike", Bruce Dern as doomed fellow outlaw "the Loser", and Dern's real-life wife Diane Ladd as the Loser's onscreen wife, "Gaysh."

Small supporting roles are played by Michael J. Pollard and Gayle Hunnicutt, and according to literature promoting the film, members of the Hells Angels from Venice, California. Members of the Coffin Cheaters motorcycle club also appeared.

In 1967 AIP followed this film with Devil's Angels, The Glory Stompers with Dennis Hopper, and The Born Losers.

Film critic Leonard Maltin called The Wild Angels "OK after about 24 beers." It opened the Venice Film Festival in 1966, to tepid response. Corman took chances with this subject matter and the Charles B. Griffith-authored screenplay, without being overly graphic, which paid dividends commercially: The Wild Angels was the twelfth largest-grossing film of 1966, earning US$ 5,500,000.00 in domestic (U.S. and Canada) rentals.

While promoting another of his 1960s counterculture movies, The Trip, and autographing a movie still from The Wild Angels depicting Bruce Dern and him sharing one motorcycle, Fonda conceived the film Easy Rider. Easy Rider was also about two men, but with each riding his own motorcycle.

The Wild Angels made a small but lasting impact on several indie rock bands and club acts. Davie Allan and the Arrows scored a hit with the fuzz guitar-laden instrumental "Blues Theme", which opens this film. The punk band Cheerleader 666 featured a still of Fonda on his bike on the cover of their Gutter Days EP.

Primal Scream's Loaded, Mudhoney's In 'N' Out of Grace, Evil's Toy's Dear God,and several club acts such as Peran in Good time and Ultra in Free have all sampled parts of the "eulogy" spoken by Heavenly Blues at Loser’s funeral:

“

We want to be free! We want to be free to do what we want to do! We want to be free to ride. And we want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man. And we want to get loaded. And we want to have a good time! And that’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna have a good time. We’re gonna have a party!

”

The Magnetic Fields song Papa Was a Rodeo from the album 69 Love Songs features a character called 'Mike' whose female gender is only revealed at the end of the song. This is an oblique homage to Nancy Sinatra.

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Fantastic Voyage (1968) Ep. 2

Short-lived animated series based on the 1966 film of the same name about scientists who are miniaturized and injected in humans

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