Friday, August 5, 2011

Strange New World (1975)

Warner Bros.
Directed by Robert Butler
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Three survivors from the past wake up 180 years later to find civilization on Earth has been destroyed by comets. They drive around in a souped-up mini-van looking for their old headquarters where supposedly their colleagues are still in the deep freeze. This provides the framework for a proposed TV series, of which this pilot is two episodes strung together. In the first, they find an advanced human outpost where death and old age have been conquered, but not Alzheimer's. They need the blood of the newcomers to save their society. In the second episode, the humans have devolved into caveman-like forest hunters and a similar group that lives at an old zoo. They fight each other for vague reasons, taking one of the crew as a hostage. For Gene Roddenberry completists only.

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