 104 - WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET
Genre: Low Budget Sci-Fi (1965,
Color)
Synopsis: Who came up
with this title?!?? Okay, there is a prehistoric
planet, I’ll give them that, but where were the
women???? I was expecting Amazon tribes or
something – instead, nothing!!! Anyway, this
sci-fi flick actually comes across as a low-rent version
of an episode of the old Star Trek show, except
this time with a spaceship commanded by a mumbling
captain and a Mr. Scott who is not Scottish. The
story is about this spaceship traveling on a rescue
mission to a prehistoric planet where another spaceship
crash landed. Due to relativity (something you don’t see too often in sci-fi films), the trip only
takes 3 months aboard the rescue ship, but 18 years have
passed on the planet since the crash. So when they
get there, most of the passengers are dead, but one
Centaurian (i.e. Asian) woman named Linda from the rescue
ship is soon saved from a snake (hint, hint) by a young
Centaurian (i.e. Asian) man named Tang who was born to
now-frozen survivors from the crash and who now lives on
his own in a cave. So Linda and Tang next have to
fight off some primitive men (still no women) while a
volcano starts erupting which causes the rescue ship to
take off without them and leads to a very predictable
twist ending.
Host Segments:
- Prologue: Joel outlines the show
(while sitting on a couch)
- Segment One (Invention Exchange): The
Mads invent Clay & Lar’s Flesh Barn, a
fast-food chain that specializes in uncooked
meat; Joel invents toilet paper in a bottle
- Segment Two: Tom & Joel are
playing “This Is Your Life” when a death
satellite shows up, so Joel brings the Doomsday
Device inside the SOL
- Segment Three: J&tBs work at
disarming the Isaac Asimov Doomsday Device
- Segment Four: J&tBs still work at
disarming the Doomsday Device, but fail and are
turned into Isaac Asimov clones
- Segment Five (End): J&tBs
discover that they can simply remove their fake
Asimov sideburns; 3 letters (including the
winning entry for the Avocado Man Contest);
Larry is singing to Dr. F.
(No Stinger)
Don’s Review: This
movie is a dated bit of ’60s-era sci-fi. The riffing
by J&tBs in
this was okay – slow at times, funny at other times
– but the Isaac Asimov “Doomsday” host segments
are kinda dumb. Still, this is one of the better
Season One episodes, so it is well-worth a look.
Trivia Notes:
(1) This was
actually the final episode shot during Season One, but
because it was written earlier while rights issues with
the movie were worked out, it was broadcast as the
fourth episode of the season (it’s kind of funny when a
winner of a contest from a later episode is announced,
plus a reader letter is read that also mentions a later
episode).
(2) This is also the film that gave us the
immortal “Hi-keeba” riff. It’s from a scene
where the not-funny-at-all comedy relief character tells
a long-winded story with a lame punch line and
demonstrates his karate skills (or lack there of) as a
part of his pointless story.
Don’s Rating: 
Related Link:
(1) Mighty Jack’s MST3K Review (Episode Review)
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