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Unidentified Flying Oddball

Unidentified Flying Oddball

Chaos in the Cosmos!

19795.61h 33m

Overview

A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.

Directed by Russ Mayberry
Written by Don Tait
Produced by Ron Miller
Box OfficeBudget: $5.3M0

Top Cast

Jim Dale

Jim Dale

Sir Mordred

Kenneth More

Kenneth More

King Arthur

Ron Moody

Ron Moody

Merlin

John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier

Sir Gawain

Rodney Bewes

Rodney Bewes

Clarence

Dennis Dugan

Dennis Dugan

Tom Trimble

Pat Roach

Pat Roach

Oaf

Sheila White

Sheila White

Alisande

Robert Beatty

Robert Beatty

Cyril Shaps

Cyril Shaps

Themes & Keywords

prisonbased on novel or booknasatime travelcamelotcornwall, englandking arthurfish out of watertorturerobotastronautgoosejoustingdoubleknights of the round tablemagnetismmedieval englandgawain6th century

About Unidentified Flying Oddball

Unidentified Flying Oddball is a comedy, science fiction, family film released in 1979 exploring themes of prison, based on novel or book, nasa, time travel, camelot, cornwall, england. Directed by Russ Mayberry, it stars Jim Dale, Kenneth More, Ron Moody. A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.

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