Cave Movies

Okay, this was the first time I've watched an episode of Sherwood Schwartz' short lived series "It's About Time" about a couple of astronauts who travel back to the Stone Age and get stuck there. In this one, those spacemen attempt to film the cavemen (and cavewomen) before attempting to go back to present time to prove their journey's existence. Even with such expert comics like Joe E. Ross and Imogene Coca playing the prehistoric humans, this sitcom-well, at least this episode so far-is lame from beginning to end. I mean, the kind of stuff that I probably would have thought amusing if I was under-12 was just so ineptly handled here that I was wondering when it was going to just end. The site I watched this on was called Guba and had a few more eps there. So on that note, I'll reserve judgment of whether this was a truly bad series but what I just saw certainly didn't help...

Stranded astronauts Mac (Frank Aletter) and Hector (Jack Mullaney) successfully lift off in their space capsule and deem it ready to leave the next morning. (Why wouldn't they leave right then and there?) They feel no one will believe that they flew back in time to the prehistoric age. They use their motion camera to film a dinosaur and the cave people, then return to their cave to review it. Boss (Cliff Norton) and Clon (Mike Mazurki) see "they've captured their spirits" and imprison them. Shad (Imogene Coca) easily pokes through the back of the rock wall (really?) and knocks out Clon, allowing the men to escape. They forget the film and are captured again while returning for it. Can the video be the answer when "the painted people" attack? The dialogue, especially from Hector, is putrid in this episode, even allowing for the absurdity of the series. The plot is equally uninspiring, and any attempt at comedy is lost as a result. This is certainly the worst episode in the series to this point in my evaluation.