Unidentified Flying Oddball
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Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) is Walt Disney's movie adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Subsequently re-released in the US under the titles The Spaceman and King Arthur and A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court, and directed by Russ Mayberry, the film starred Dennis Dugan as astronaut Tom Trimble who unintentionally travels back in time with his look-alike android Hermes. Trimble's NASA spacecraft travels faster than the speed of light, landing him and the android near King Arthur's Camelot, where – with the aid of their 20th century technology – they must defeat a plot by the evil Sir Mordred and Merlin to oust King Arthur from the throne.
Taglines:
- (As The Spaceman and King Arthur) A Sixth Century Space Adventure
- (As Unidentified Flying Oddball) Chaos in the Cosmos!
[edit] Cast
- Dennis Dugan* ... Tom Trimble/Hermes
- Jim Dale ... Sir Mordred
- Ron Moody ... Merlin
- Kenneth More ... King Arthur
- John Le Mesurier ... Sir Gawain
- Rodney Bewes ... Clarence
- Sheila White ... Alisande
- Robert Beatty ... Senator Milburn
- Cyril Shaps ... Dr. Zimmerman
- Kevin Brennan ... Winston
- Ewen Solon ... Watkins
- Pat Roach ... Oaf
- Reg Lye ... Prisoner
* Credited on-screen only as Tom Trimble.
[edit] Trivia
- Those who have seen this movie may also enjoy Walt Disney's A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995), which features the same concept: a person from the 20th century travels back in time to King Arthur's Camelot and impresses the inhabitants with technology from the distant future.