Episode
The Fantastic Four: Behold a Distant Star
Overview
On the Skrull homeworld, Warlord Morat is out hunting game when he decides to capture the Fantastic Four in order to impress Princess Anelle's father, the emperor of the Skrulls.
Details
- Series
- The Fantastic Four
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1967-11-04
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Behold a Distant Star is Episode 10 in Season 1 of The Fantastic Four. It aired on 1967-11-04. The runtime is 21 min.
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Dr. Doom appears on the Fantastic Four's TV, and challenges them to a duel to the finish. He predicts that he will remove the heart of the team, remove the team's greatest strength and finally, that the strongest power will conquer all.
Episode 11: Demon of the Deep
Reed has been elected to ask the villainous Professor Gamma to surrender himself and to destroy his Island X base in order to answer for his crimes against the world.
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Episode 8: It Started on Yancy Street
As the Fantastic Four answer the Yancy Street Gang's challenge to Ben, they quickly discover that it was a trap, and are attacked by three mutant apes.
Episode 12: Danger in the Depths
Johnny is testing his ability to throw flares when he notices a strange object emerging from the sea. A blue-skinned woman emerges and introduces herself as Lady Dorma of Pacifica. She asks the Fantastic Four for help in fighting the tyrant Attuma, whom she inadvertently allowed to defeat the kingdom's rightful ruler, Prince Triton.
Episode 7: Prisoners of Planet X
A U.F.O. appears over the Earth, and after the air force attempt to intercept it, the craft's robot pilot abducts the Fantastic Four from an awards ceremony.
Episode 13: Return of the Moleman
An earthquake rocks New York, and Johnny spots that the whole city block has disappeared into the Earth's surface. Reed quickly deduces that this was the work of the Mole Man. The villain himself sinks Science Hall where Sue was giving a speech to a group of leading scientists, and tells the rest of the team not to interfere with his plans.
Episode 6: The Red Ghost
Reed experiments on a meteor for use as a new super fuel, an idea he got from a scientist named Professor Ivan Kragoff, a.k.a. The Red Ghost, and so the Four endeavour to use the fuel to get to the Moon, winning the space race before Kragoff, and to explore a mysterious blue area on the Moon's surface.
Episode 14: Rama-Tut
Ben is insulted by the Yancy Street Gang and becomes depressed over his appearance. The rest of the team visit an Egyptian museum and find an ancient tablet apparently depicting Ben returning to his human form. Reed tells him about the tablet, and the Four travel to Dr. Doom's castle to use time machine to travel back to 10th Century B.C. Egypt.
Episode 5: Klaws
Reed is exploring sub-space with his equipment while Johnny takes a vacation. Soon however, Klaws, the master of sound, arrives at the Baxter Building and attacks the remainder of the team with sonic booms.
Episode 15: Galactus
Another Sun suddenly appears in the sky, which soon disappears and gives way to millions of floating rocks in the sky. A being known as the Watcher appears to the team and tells them that he caused the illusions, trying to hide the Earth from the Silver Surfer, a being who serves Galactus, who drains planets of their energy.
Episode 4: Invasion of the Super Skrulls
On the Skrull homeworld, the Skrull emperor attempts to destroy the Fantastic Four, but Sue protects them with her invisible shield. Marshall Drom then shows the emperor a new weapon that will not fail: the Super Skrull, who has all the powers of the Fantastic Four.
Episode 16: The Micro World of Dr. Doom
Whilst Ben is delivering a piano across town, he starts shrinking until only a couple of inches tall. The same thing happens to Sue while out shopping, Reed while testing a new aircraft and Johnny while fixing his car.