The Stowaway

Episode aired Apr 2, 1967

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7.1/10

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Comedy Sci-Fi

While blasting off, Mac and Hector discover cave-girl Mlor hiding behind an instrument panel in the spaceship.While blasting off, Mac and Hector discover cave-girl Mlor hiding behind an instrument panel in the spaceship.While blasting off, Mac and Hector discover cave-girl Mlor hiding behind an instrument panel in the spaceship.

Director
- Dick Darley
Writers
- Sherwood Schwartz
- Burt Styler
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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

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Director
- Dick Darley
Writers
- Sherwood Schwartz
- Burt Styler
Stars

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View this as Episode #19

When watching the series in chronological order, this is the 19th episode produced. It was preempted by the Super Bowl, however, and simply placed at the end of the series- after the finale.

Stranded astronauts Mac (Frank Aletter) and Hector (Jack Mullaney) are having problems blasting off to break through the time barrier to the modern-day they know. They find it is added weight from a stowaway- Mlor (Mary Grace). She is very upset and they bring her back to her family who has been worried about her. Mlor tells the astronauts that she ran away because she didn't want to marry Brak (Edson Stroll, Virgil Edwards of "McHale's Navy"), son of Boss (Cliff Norton). Hector claims to be promised to be married to Mlor to save her from the marriage. Boss says the matter will be settled by a duel with clubs, the winner getting the rights to marry Mlor. Mac brings gravity pills to slip to Brak to make him react slowly in a fight. Gronk (Joe E. Ross) and Shad (Imogene Coca) end up taking them instead. Hector takes a different set of pills to make him speed his actions up. But, Boss starts the fight early.

Trivia
Although this was the last episode broadcast, it was not the actual finale. It was in fact the 19th episode produced, but had been pre-empted by the Super Bowl. By then, the format had been changed to send the astronauts back to the "present." However, instead of airing it the following week, CBS opted to jump to episode #20--the one which returned them to the 20th Century. And so this episode was burned off the week after the actual final episode, with no explanation given as to why the astronauts were still back in prehistoric times. Interestingly, when AntennaTV began rerunning the series in the fall of 2015, they aired the episodes in production order; thus, this episode was correctly shown between #18 and #20.