It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

A malfunction in space sends astronaut Neil Stryker (Glenn Corbett) off course and headed to something of a parallel world, called Terra, circling the sun exactly opposite Earth. As a being from space would pose a threat to this world's order, Stryker is held until a determination can be made as to exactly what to do with him. Stryker, however, gets suspicious of his surroundings and escapes. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a old scientist who opposes the government, Stryker will try to board a spaceship and head back to Earth.Stranded in Space (or The Stranger if you prefer) is another of those 70s made-for-TV movies that was to be turned into a regular, weekly show. In this case, it's easy to see why it didn't make it. First off, there's nothing new about the show's set-up. It was undoubtedly designed to follow the same formula used by The Fugitive or The Incredible Hulk or Planet of the Apes. You know, a stranger constantly on the move going from one town to the next taking whatever odd job he can all the while being pursued by a government agency or newspaper reporter. It's a formula that's been done to death. The second strike against Stranded in Space is its lead, Glenn Corbett. Could this guy come across any less likable? I was rooting for him to get caught. Without sympathy for the main character, this kind of show would never work. Finally, this is supposed to be science fiction. Just because everyone is left-handed and someone has hung three fake looking moons on the horizon I'm supposed to jump to the conclusion that this is some distant planet? So it's a mere coincidence that they all speak English, dress just like people on Earth, and drive Plymouth Furies? Yeah, right.The lone highlight for me was the inclusion of Cameron Mitchell in the cast. Sure, it's difficult to watch him in something this dreadful, but you know the old saying - any Cameron is better than no Cameron (yeah, I've never heard it either).As with a lot of these 70s made-for-TV movies, I watched Stranded in Space courtesy of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I wouldn't call it a great episode by any stretch of the imagination, but there are a few good jokes along the way. So in the end, while I rate the movie a 2/10, it gets a 3/5 on my MST3K rating scale.

Cameron, Cameron, Cameron. Here is yet another example of the spiral downward of your career, which ended with the fantastic horror that is Space Mutiny. Here you play an overacting chief of a quasi-Nazi state on a parallel Earth. This made for t.v. movie(which is simply the pilot shows of a never got made t.v. show-gee, I wonder why this one never went into production?)highlights your mediocre acting skills perfectly.The plot, such as it is, is that some astronauts from Earth crash land on an identical world that circles the sun parallel to ours. The other two astronauts are killed, and the 'perfect order' that runs the world in a 1984-esque fashion tries to find out all the info they can from the remaining astronaut, Neal Stryker. He escapes from the special hospital where he's being kept so easily that it made you wonder if all the hospital staff had been lobotomized or something. Then he wanders around trying to find out where he is and what happened, nearly giving himself away over and over again. One of the things that almost gets him is that everyone on the planet is left-handed(the opposite of Earth, nudge nudge, wink, wink). He meets up with a female doctor who already betrayed him in the hospital, and forces her to take him to a weird old guy who thinks his pigs are spies for the Perfect Order. Now that's a quality guerrilla fighter, to be sure. This old guy tries to help him steal a spaceship so that he can get back to Earth, but for some strange reason the plan doesn't work. Can't imagine why not, really, especially since their most dangerous enemy is Cameron Mitchell. It should have been a cake walk. At the end of the pilot...errr...movie, Stryker is stranded on the planet with nowhere to go. Much like the t.v. series itself, in my opinion.

The whole plot goes like this: An astronaut gets caught in a freak accident and lands up on some alternate earth where a Big Brother type government rules everything and controls everyone. The government, known as the Perfect Order, sends anyone who steps out of line to a place called Ward E, where they are treated pretty badly. Bad acting, predictable plotline and little to endear you to the cast makes this one a turkey.1984 does the same thing, only a lot better.

HERE WE GO... Featuring several actors from an amazing array of b-movies and made-for-tv flics, this turkey might appeal to the die-hard fan of velveeta cheese, spam and/or atari 2600, but not to the masses (except perhaps those watching a uhf channel at 3 in the morning after a binge at the local pub). Seemingly a failed pilot for a pre-doomed series, the only thing going for this movie is the sheer ability to crack jokes about the plot. Come on...An astronaut, adrift in space, wakes up to find himself in a hospital bed surrounded by slightly-paranoid medical staff. Later he finds out (through the silliest of methods) that he's actually on a twin planet to earth (on the other side of the sun where we can never see). He wanders off (actually, it's supposed to be an escape, but my grandmother's escape from the nursing home would be more exciting to watch, not to mention more challenging), and the government wants him back (of course), to pry from him certain details (I won't spoil it). Later we find out that their space technology is slightly better than ours, as he manages to steal a shuttle for the trip back home (anyone doped up on sleeping pills could have been more sneaky, and why would they have to pry in the first place. Didn't they get his ship too?). And to top it all off, he crashes into the ocean, only to find himself....(sorry, not allowed to spoil it. Too bad, because the truly pathetic"twist, climax," whatever you'd prefer to call it, proves just how much of a groaner this film is). the end.And thank heaven they didn't make the series! Great flick for drunkenbouts, cheese-fests and late-night viewing, but nothing I'd want to suffer through again.I can't even believe I went on about this turkey for more than a few sentences.Watch it on one of those mondo, make it funny shows late at night, but please don't watch it alone. 'Tis not proper to be a closet cheese-aholic!