This TV special aimed for kids was never picked up to be broadcast on television. Instead it languished on the shelf unseen for several decades before it was finally unleashed on the unsuspecting public as an extra featured on both the DVD and Blu-ray releases of "The Alien Dead" by Retromedia Entertainment.
It's easy to figure out why this show was shelved: The frequently squabbling kid protagonists are pretty annoying and unappealing, the bland and uneventful story unfolds at a painfully plodding pace, the cornball jokes fall flat, the acting by the lame no-name cast is really insipid, and the blah script suffers from a crippling lack of conflict. On the plus side, Kirk Alyn of Superman fame adds a much-appreciated smidgen of professionalism as the mysterious watcher figure who narrates the story, the stop-motion animation dinosaur is super cool, and the whole thing clocks in at a mercifully brief 25 minutes. But overall this rates as an instantly forgettable clunker.
It's easy to figure out why this show was shelved: The frequently squabbling kid protagonists are pretty annoying and unappealing, the bland and uneventful story unfolds at a painfully plodding pace, the cornball jokes fall flat, the acting by the lame no-name cast is really insipid, and the blah script suffers from a crippling lack of conflict. On the plus side, Kirk Alyn of Superman fame adds a much-appreciated smidgen of professionalism as the mysterious watcher figure who narrates the story, the stop-motion animation dinosaur is super cool, and the whole thing clocks in at a mercifully brief 25 minutes. But overall this rates as an instantly forgettable clunker.
