It's been a while since we took a look at Filmation's adaptation of Jules Verne's Journey to The Center of The Earth.
We should note that the series has more in common with the feature film that starred Pat Boone, released 8 years earlier, than the book itself, and the movie is where we get the duck, Gertrude.
Anyway, our party encounters the "Creatures of The Swamp" in this installment.
Note that the design for Alec McEwen (Pat Harrington, Jr.) was copied from another role Harrington had that same year, Professor Ray Palmer, aka The Atom. Go figure.
Rating: B.
2 comments:
I used to enjoy this series as a kid (it was a while before I got to the the big screen version of the story), and I wish they had a proper ending for it - I hated that we never saw the group find their way back (or how Filmation would have done it compared to the book or film), or the Count get his final comeuppance.
I'm sure this version of Gertrude would have made it though!
Well, of course it would've. But, then, back then, they never thought of selling toys based on the show.....
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