Fun and Games (30 Mar. 1964)

A distant planet teleports a young man and woman from an apartment building to compete in a gladiatorial contest. For the aliens it's just an amusing jungle reality show, but if the humans ... See full summary »

Director:

Gerd Oswald

Writers:

Robert Specht (teleplay), Joseph Stefano (teleplay),

Stars:

Nick Adams, Nancy Malone, Bill Hart

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
Nick Adams	...	Mike Benson
Nancy Malone	...	Laura Hanley
Bill Hart	...	Creature
Ray Kellogg	...	Detective
Bob Johnson	...	The Senator (voice) (as Robert Johnson)

Storyline

A distant planet teleports a young man and woman from an apartment building to compete in a gladiatorial contest. For the aliens it's just an amusing jungle reality show, but if the humans fail, Earth will be destroyed. The woman is desperate to save Earth, but the man is a vicious, petty crook on the run, who has little to lose, but doesn't care about humanity's fate.

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Plot Keywords:

frame up | claustrophobia | fight to the death | teleportation | boomerang | 

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Genres:

Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 March 1964 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Daystar Productions, Villa Di Stefano, United Artists Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

52 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

In the last two shots of the final scene, the white towel jumps from Laura Hanley's right hand to her left hand.

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Connections

Version of Star Trek: Arena (1967)

User Reviews

Episode 27 "Fun and Games" stars Nick Adams

This episode stars Nick Adams and Nancy Malone,as two combatants forced to defend the Earth in a battle to the death with two creatures from another world.Not as much fun as it sounds,and things do not end in predictable fashion.Nancy Malone starred on the series NAKED CITY,and had starred in a forgotten thriller in 1956,"Fright"(not to be confused with the 1971 babysitter played by Susan George).This was the first brush with sci-fi for Nick Adams,former friend of the late James Dean,and star of the fine Western series THE REBEL.Following an appearance on "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," he would journey to England to co-star with the great Boris Karloff in "Die,Monster,Die!"(1965).From the star of the 1931 "Frankenstein," he then rushed off to Japan to star in "Frankenstein Conquers the World," "Monster Zero"(a Godzilla epic released in the US two years after his tragic death),and "The Killing Bottle," a very obscure spy thriller never released in the US.He even fell in love with his beautiful Japanese co-star,Kumi Mizuno,a much-loved,long-time veteran of numerous creature features,who unfortunately was already married to someone else.Back in the US,Adams completed one more sci-fi adventure,"Mission Mars"(1967),joining Darren McGavin in Miami for a quick shoot,and made his last film in Mexico,"Los Asesinos," shortly before he was found dead in his apartment by his manager,victim of an accidental overdose of prescribed medications.He was the first American actor to actually travel to Japan to shoot his scenes,followed by Russ Tamblyn,Rhodes Reason,Joseph Cotten,Cesar Romero,Robert Horton,and Richard Jaeckel,not to mention Luciana Paluzzi,all of whom lent international credibility to the increasingly silly Japanese monsters.