included · Mechanical

Unidentified Flying Oddball

Russ Mayberry · 93 minutes

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.

Comedy, Science Fiction, Family

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

The opening accident sends Tom to Camelot, and the climax resolves Mordred's power struggle through modern effects and technology rather than further timeline changes.

Faster-than-light spacecraft flight carries its passengers into Arthurian England.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan22.8

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance6/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.6/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 46.75 base × 48.8% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Jim Dale, Kenneth More, Ron Moody, John Le Mesurier, Rodney Bewes

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

6 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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Digital