The Stranger (1973 film)
The Stranger is a 1973 made-for-television film pilot for a new television series, but it was never picked up by a network. It was directed by Lee H. Katzin. Film Ventures International, an independent film production and distribution company, re-issued The Stranger to syndication under the title Stranded in Space. As with other films re-released under the FVI banner, The Stranger'''s new opening credits featured footage from an entirely unrelated film, in this case the 1983 low-budget science fiction film Prisoners of the Lost Universe. Plot While on a space mission, NASA astronaut Neil Stryker (Glenn Corbett) crashes and is hospitalized in quarantine for a long period of time. He is uninjured, although his two fellow astronauts were apparently killed in the crash. Stryker becomes suspicious when he tries to ask why he is being held for so long and can’t seem to get any reasonable explanation. It turns out that he is being closely observed by Dr. Revere (Tim O'Connor) and government agent Benedict (Cameron Mitchell), while being interrogated in his sleep after being given powerful drugs. The drugs reveal that Stryker is from another planet (Earth), and his society is one where there is freedom of thought and