Whatever Happened to SATURN 3?

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[@kinseybarnes4237]

Literally thought that was a liver spot on Kurt’s temple. What a cradle robber! lolol

[@kpowers]

I think we all are missing an important part in the movie Dan did not mention. We got to Farrah Fawcett naked

[@albaniahenry-franklin2829]

@5:33 "Who I think, at the time, was about 106."🤣🤣 You had me f*cked up at that one🤣🤣🤣

[@PyroRob69]

The thing is, Saturn 3 was better than most $100 million movies made in the past decade

[@joelefebvre740]

@@PyroRob69 I agree with that

[@docsavage8640]

So are my home movies.

[@nigelcarren]

Jaws left me with a fear of the ocean. The Thing left me with a fear of Antarctica. Saturn 3 left me with a fear of the Ikea lighting department!

[@Waltham1892]

This was the last movie I went to with my parents. I talked them into it. Never lived it down.

[@evanwardwell4611]

Not the first time my father took us to a movie that he did not know what it was about and ignored the rating code. FRENZY, Watership Down, The Farmer to name a few. We did not ask-he just thought it was a good idea.

[@JoseyWales44s]

@@evanwardwell4611 Try taking a six-year old to "The Exorcist".

[@tango22ah]

Dan just so you know your videos bring a lot of joy.

[@mikeuk666]

I loved this film, but Hector terrified me back in the 80's 😂 (Thanks for covering it Dan)

[@jeffyoung60]

Me too. I kept wondering why Hector didn't have a head, at least a nominal one.

[@mikeuk666]

​@@jeffyoung60 that whistle whine that Hector made 😮 😱 🏃‍♂️

[@CowboyRobot2000]

​@@jeffyoung60Big hulking body and creepy eyestalks. Eeech! Really gave me the booboo-jeebies as a kid.

[@jeffyoung60]

@@mikeuk666 Saturn 3 proved gorier than I expected. Maybe that's why Saturn 3 did not become one of my fave sci-fi flicks. Yet I still consider Saturn 3 a very good sci-fi/horror movie.

[@gordm3527]

Can you do a bit on WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS? I absolutely loved that show as a kid!

[@jesusknight1]

That was a GREAT show to watch every week!

[@davidtaflan941]

Most futuristic part of this movie is when Hector, having been torn apart, communicates with the lab robots, to put him back together, so he can function again.

[@dustyherring1964]

I very much enjoy your vids, Dan! Brings back a lot of great memories. If I may be so bold to request: Please do a "Deep Dive" into Heavy Metal (1981).

[@SharreIWright]

Oh man I love that movie, if people want to see where The Fifth Element came from then they should watch this movie

[@flashgordon6238]

Loved it when I saw it in the theater. Big fan of Kirk Douglas, but was really there to see Farrah Fawcett's topless scene.

[@marsoelflaco5722]

👀

[@larrydavis3645]

I saw this film and the robot scenes gave me bad dreams for years.

[@skylx0812]

Even as a kid I picked up on the mature jist of the story. What stood out for me was the end when Fawcett's character leaves to strike out on her own. I didn't see it as discarding of Douglas' character just the realization that this avenue went where it did, time to try another path.

[@adambusenlehner3689]

Composer Elmer Bernstein's love theme went unused in this film but was so good Bernstein re-used it as Taarna's theme in his great score for HEAVY METAL the next year.

[@Phalanx11]

Dan! Much respect (I'm only 6'3') I thought for sure you would mention when the robot took something out of Farrah's Eye. She was really scared!!

[@glazdarklee1683]

I was born in 1962, so most of the things that are discussed on this channel inject happiness directly into my brain. And that includes Saturn 3. I went to see it because I was eager to see this dramatic interpretation of classic --- oh who are we kidding. I went to see it because it had Farrah in it. The cool robot was just a bonus.

[@c.l.7525]

I was seven when I saw this movie and Harvey Keitels robot Hector freaked me out. Also, all of that ductwork reminds me of the movie "Brazil".

[@rklein]

Surely this movie deserves some kind of reboot? It could even be anime or purely CGI. How cool is that?

[@michaelschramm1064]

@@rklein I would risk it…provided we don’t see a similar chasm in age groups where the female is 20 and the male is some creepy geriatric like Tom Hanks.

[@Strato777]

She was like 30, he was like. Oh I dunno 106. Nearly choked on that one. Thanks, Dan

[@kerravon4159]

My most enduring memory of this movie was of how utterly terrifying Hector the robot was. Most terrifying robot ever!

[@KiwiExpressCream]

As a 12 year old when this came out, Hector scared the crap out of me!

[@SevenDaysToNoon]

@@kerravon4159 You’ve obviously never played Alien Isolation. The Working Joes were scary as hell!

[@kerravon4159]

@@SevenDaysToNoon I did play Alien Isolation, but I was very much a jaded adult. Nothing is quite as scary as what terrifies you as a young child AKA Hector.

[@SevenDaysToNoon]

@@kerravon4159 Good point. I remember not being able to sleep because of The Wicked Witch of the West. 🙄

[@philipsharpe6905]

I have several of the miniatures from this movie as we filmed the Harvey-Keitel spacecraft flying to Saturn 3 base. We shot a load of stuff at Oxford Scientific Films in Oxfordshire. Also shot the ship passing through the rings of Saturn. The big model of the ship was at our studio but got taken away again. (However I have a few of the Flash Gordon miniatures we also worked on). I also got to visit the sets at Shepparton . Kirk was a bit of a wanker but Farrah and Harvey were easy going.

[@dougadams9419]

Every time he says "How cool is that?" take another drink.

[@bryanboatwright1671]

Older man, younger woman, mad scientist and horny robot combined for a terrible movie.

[@timetraveler2518]

@bryanboatwright1671 No, they could be a better plot twisting story. I like an older man sleeping with a younger woman, who makes a mad scientist driving into his robot to violently jealous outrages.

[@kevinmello9149]

glad I wasn't the only kid who thought Kirk Douglas was way too old for the part

[@bradparnell614]

The idea was that he was supposed to be much older than her. It was used as a plot point to to get him jealous of and angry at Harvey's character. He egged him on about his being too old for her and that's what got them finally fighting. It wouldn't have worked with a younger actor.

[@michaelschramm1064]

@@bradparnell614 True what you say…even if the entire plot device was poorly conceived to begin with. Better to have personal dramatic conflict owing to a clash of ideals as opposed to one where conflict arises because one is a young buck and the other a senior patient as it were…

[@RadioSilence-r8x]

@@kevinmello9149 old? Look at Rodger Moore in a View to a kill ewwwwww

[@kevinmello9149]

@@RadioSilence-r8x I know, right? But at least he's funny ;-)

[@WookieeMonster1]

Hector freaked me the EFF OUT when I was a kid. Up until that point, the "mechanical" characters I had seen portrayed had some semblance of humanity that I could connect to. C-3PO, Twiki, even R2-D2 had a personality that you could relate with. Hector was my first experience with a character that had no face to see, had no voice to hear, and whose motivations were unknowable. He could go from standing still to murderous rampage in an instant, and it was a whole new experience for me as a kid (7-10 years old, approximately). He was both humanoid and distinctly alien simultaneously, and I really didn't know how to deal with that back then.

[@jons.105]

Saturn 3 got a full-color cover and article in Starlog! No other magazine would touch it!

[@battlezordfalcon4776]

5:37 Harvey Keitel's character even addresses this point by asking why she going to bed with that old man 😂

[@OneColdMonkey]

...Now I really want to see a Jim Henson directed Exorcist.

[@Taldaran]

Fozzie Bear's head spinning around..."Wocka Wocka"!

[@OneColdMonkey]

@@Taldaran Statler and Waldorf standing in the corner making jokes about the exorcism

[@kenjones2455]

Love your content and would really love to see a deep dive into Capricorn One. I mean this movie had everything from O.J. Simpson to Telly Salavas with a side of Elliot Gould! What could be better!?

[@prozacchiwawa]

seconding capricorn one. it seems pretty high budget for being as unremembered as it turned out, especially with the resurgence of conspiracy theory discourse.

[@tankman7711]

Saw Capricorn One in Chicago at The Palmer House Hotel ( when it was a very posh Hotel) ...it played for 24 hours on the TV in our room, then an adult movie started playing called ' Cheerleader know how to cheer you up'! '. I was Eleven years old....and as an Eleven year old....I seemed to like the second movie better! LMAO!!!!

[@parkpunk2]

The look and effects reminded me of Barbarella.

[@scottmackenzie62]

Kirk Douglas was actually 64 at the time, a whopping 31 year age difference to Farrah Fawcett. Considering his son Michael Douglas is 25 years older than his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, it runs in the family! 😎

[@user-qi8kk4sz7k]

@scottmackenzie62 and he got to see farah naked lucky git

[@skylx0812]

I can't think of Zeta-Jones' name without saying in the voice of Calisto in the Pirates film whenever she said Davey Jone's name with her creol emphasis.

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

This is one of my all time favorite movies! I remember at that time critics were saying Kirk Douglas was too old, i laughed because he was perfect the soundtrack was pure fantastic too!❤❤❤❤😂

[@michaelschramm1064]

Many people commenting here are saying the same thing about his then age just so you know.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

It was basically "Demon Seed" on legs...

[@PaulA-sy1xl]

I saw Hector the robot a bits of the set, as they were part of a exhibition at the London Palladium cellars back around 1980 / 81

[@SharreIWright]

Cool

[@jasonlambo7896]

"hurry along please" Great stuff, loved that movie. Hard to believe michail caine turned down a roll, ANY roll!

[@rpgarchaeology6049]

Kirk Douglas seems to be the kind of guy who likes to be in control. Check out what he tried to do when he was originally cast as Col. Trautman in First Blood. He rewrote the script on his own initiative so it focused on the colonel instead of Rambo, and at the end Trautman would kill John Rambo. Thankfully he didn't get his way.

[@jpotter2086]

Outland is a solid gem, doesn't belong on that list!

[@gregmoss5644]

Love your review, Dan. Very fair and balanced. And thanks for the shout-out! Love your work.

[@carlbieler9039]

I will admit that I have not been a fan of everything you have reviewed Dan… but I HAVE been a fan of all your reviews. They’re Great!

[@battlezordfalcon4776]

Kirk Douglas made the movie feel older than it was

[@battlezordfalcon4776]

It was made Britain for a start, and ew look at them clothes 😂 1:34

[@stephenchappell7512]

​@@battlezordfalcon4776 as was Star Wars + 2001 + Alien & Aliens

[@glennhann938]

Was part of the 70s sci-fi trifecta with numbers Saturn 3 Hanger18 and Capricorn 1. Oh those days sad to say I saw all of them in the theaters

[@worldtraveler930]

I've only ever seen bits and pieces of the movie but it's sparked my curiosity enough and with your video I think I want to see All the way through!!! 🤠👍

[@rbrachmann]

Can't hardly wait for you to cover "Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai". That was a trippy movie. As to Saturn 3, I had no interest in the actors, but the story and sets, props, and special effects I really enjoyed.

[@thelj3279]

Not much of a commenter but simply have to say what a super channel this is!! We loved this movie and have wonderful childhood memories surrounding it!! We saw it projected and following the movie were taken to the newly opened London Palladium Cellars which was the latest attraction at the time!! Kind of cashing in on the popularity of Madame Tussauds and The London Dungeon but movie related they opened to rave reviews featuring an interactive Saturn 3 experience using the original set components including Hector!! We were young enough to really appreciate this and consequently have a soft spot for this refreshingly different little movie!!!💚!

[@markbanash921]

Sir Lew Grade, the guy who ran ITC, also stopped production on "Space:1999" in order to save funding for "Raise The Titanic." He later said "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic."

[@skylx0812]

Funny that this film ended the production company that churned out epic miniseries such as Jesus of Nazareth.

[@markbanash921]

@@skylx0812 I think it was also their final science fiction product. This was a company that had bankrolled SF series from Gerry Anderson and Patrick McGoohan. With this film it's like they forgot how to do it.

[@mattdaugherty7865]

Farrah gave me two reasons to love this movie!

[@jerrymail]

I was a kid the first time I watched this movie and was totally terrified by Hector. Even now, I can't watch it without remembering this terror of my childhood.

[@bigkahuna6277]

Well done Dan. Someone here mentioned OUTLAND, that may be a good one for the future?

[@jamesstevens9394]

Hector joined the Cylon Empire. THAT'S where he went.....

[@RustyShock]

Hold it, Dan. Lynch's "Dune" and "The Twilight Zone" are films that I DON'T Love to Hate. I Love to Love them !

[@RC-Deathsqaudron-zv1iq]

I watched this movie as a kid and that robot sure was scary....

[@jameslandry5604]

Hector scared the hell out of me as a kid

[@notorious8361]

Hell yes he did. I was 4-5 when we rented this Beta tape.

[@5argetech56]

This flick is in my collection! Time for another view!

[@zepmarq]

This was awesome! Thank you, Dan👍

[@JoseyWales44s]

My favorite line from the movie, "No taction contact!". I use it whenever possible.😋

[@Waltham1892]

My ex-wife used it whenever possible too.

[@Chilly_Billy]

The music score really struck me. Weird in the extreme. And let's be honest, Douglas did this movie in hopes of "partaking" in Farah Fawcett.

[@xxpeppermintzxx]

I saw this movie at the theatre and it scared me so much I had nightmares for months. What about the sound effects, they helped sell the terror. I thought the movie was great and full of atmosphere.

[@timfankell4242]

SATURN 3 was the first R-rated movie I ever saw. My best friend and I watched it on Showtime on Halloween night in 1981. Of course, being 10/11, we were hoping to see some skin, but all we got was a gratuitous shot of Kirk Douglas' wrinkled old butt!

[@Lazerrus]

HECTOR to this day is still my favorite Sci-Fi Robot. AS a major ALIEN fan this film's monster haunted my dreams as much as the Giger Xeno. The Saturn 3 soundtrack/score is incredible as well. Very unique just like Jerry Goldsmith's score for ALIEN.

[@BRIANONEALSINGLETON]

I found Saturn 3 entertaining.

[@yewtoob2007]

Elmer Bernstein, not Leonard. Pretty sure that's a photo of Leonard at 13:24 don't worry, love your videos, this one too!

[@printface4935]

Her outfit looks like a local production of The Rocky Horror Show

[@MichaelMoore-nx5ue]

In these divisive polarizing times I really enjoy your videos especially your enthusiastic demeanor.

[@MattNolanCustom]

The "photo in the shop window" robot does not look like the robot from the film. There is usually more than one version of certain props - the shop-window one may have been the person-in-a-suit version, rather than the remote control / puppet version.

[@gregmoss5644]

That is most likely the case. :)

[@wretchedexcess1654]

Loved this one when it came out and still do. Just the right amount of suspense, action and terror!

[@johnmcdougald1238]

I had that Farah poster right next to my Adrienne Barbeau on my wall. And I had plenty of room for all the others that came along the 70s and 80s. My father was so proud.

[@Mrmoviemax05]

Dan, once again you hit a home run with this episode! Now, let wait for The Six Million Dollar Man episode.

[@ruhafla8326]

But a specific episode for Bionic Bigfoot. He deserves his own Monroe treatment! lol

[@andrewfischer8564]

put ROLLERBALL on your list

[@michaelhokenson3216]

Anytime you want to talk about Farrah Fawcett is fine with me🙂

[@SidlyBoDidly222]

You have a hit series! Enjoy the run. You deserve it. Top notch media quality.

[@RandomTChance]

The best thing about Saturn 3 is your review of it. Thanks Dan 🖖👽

[@pwnUgood]

Saturn-3 is awful. It's funny that they dubbed Harvey Kittel's voice. Interesting to see Kirk Douglas nude at age 64.

[@forteanmobius3272]

Now I wanna see The Muppets version of The Exorcist.

[@raydunn8262]

Thanks for the deep dive. Farrah finally won an Emmy for Lead Actree in a TV movie, Small Sacrifices in 1989. 1. Farrah received an earlier Emmy nomination in the same category for The Burning Bed. Her acting and the movie receive enormous acclaim. 2. Farrah was nominated for Razzies in back to back yearl

[@richardmark9161]

Kirk Douglas was actually 64 at this time. Relationships between older people and younger is nothing new. Michael Caine would’ve been 47 at that time and Sean Connery would’ve been 50. I’ve never seen this movie so I don’t know if the age difference is ever addressed but these kind of relationships exist. I think of Katherine McPhee who was 34 when she married 70 year old David Foster back in 2019. They are still married today.

[@marcwolf60]

Having read the book it add some valusble insights. Hector - realising that the major was a murderer - it decided not to talk. Sadly a lot of the major was mapped onto Hector. Eventually Hector fought back and got rid of the major - eventually using Kirk to map a better moral/personality. After Hector and Kirk were destroyed Alex found that both Hector and Kirk ( via Hector) had been mapped to the bases computer. The last scene was Alex going to Earth to become a Demigod trainer... thus being able to map herself onto the new Demigod so eventually she (via the Demigod chassie) would be with Kirk forever.

[@MoviesMusicMonsters]

That's a very in-depth analysis that I never considered, but certainly interesting :-) thanks for reaching out

[@Guitcad1]

I saw this a few years ago and sat there thinking "What's the deal with Keitel's voice?"

[@jonqualey2204]

I do remember this movie. I saw it in the early '80s. I remember thinking it was bizarre but I liked it. ITC did Space:1999 too.

[@Pedal2Metal_on_YouTube]

The stories of Kirk Douglas "helping" during casting events are beyond creepy....

[@rumbleinthebumble8180]

I always got a kick out of Saturn 3. It was the 70's. That should explain everything. Kirk Douglas was 61/62/63, and Farah Fawcet was a hot piece of *ss

[@Vince_Tasciotti]

Galaxina was meant as a spoof of the sci-fi space movie genre, the problem was its shoestring budget. It tries to pay homage to earlier movies but the writing, acting, and direction just falls flat at those critical moments. And to tell the full truth, I never saw Saturn 3. I don't remember it being in the theaters in my area in the early 80s.

[@bartlester591]

Always thought it would be an interesting fight between Hector and Maximilian from the black hole

[@palladen1933]

Please do the movie DARK STAR, that was really good, had the talking bomb 💣 👌 🤔

[@glabifrons]

I second this suggestion!

[@craigcain4445]

Dan the Man can you do Outland someday?

[@Laszlo34]

Dan, while the subject matter of your videos is _awesome_ , what really makes your content special is your style of delightful cadence and perfectly expressive intonation. The information and the genre is super cool, and the way you deliver just totally puts it over the top. Looking forward to even more awesome videos. Keep it up, and thank you so much!!

[@robertsrobots6531]

Whatever the shortcomings of this film it came out at a time when the idea of living in Space in the future was exciting, and it did that convincingly. I think there's a bit of overlap between Saturn 3 and Demon Seed, in which a computer wants to mate with Julie Christie.

[@mrwoodandmrtin]

Yes.. Farah needed a younger leading man. Some of the props are cool. Maybe more characters were needed too. Felt a bit empty.

[@gilbert1975nf]

1:57 - That should be Thetys, right? Which means ice, a lot of ice, almost no rock at all.

[@Gunwitch666]

That Hector robot gave me nightmares as a kid! Especially when it made that warning sound. 😬

[@georgiahoosier]

I don't want to take anything away from Kirk Douglas, he was a brilliant actor and a true Hollywood icon, but even when this came out my first thought was "What? Albert Finney was busy that weekend?". Being a huge Ed Bishop fan, that he was killed off in the first reel without so much as a credit, took me out of the picture and relegated it to some of the other glitzy but pedestrian science fiction movies of the time like "Black Hole" and "Doppelganger". Entertaining but nothing special. Your summation at the end was spot on.

[@stingray69691]

Whatever happened to the movie Outland with Sean Connery?

[@michaelschramm1064]

@@stingray69691 That’s one I’d like to see. Saw it on initial release. Even if not an original story concept, at least audiences were finally treated to a science fiction film without all the silly space opera hardware and anthropomorphic English speaking aliens.

[@cmeade82]

Saturn 3 is one of my favorites. Sen it as a kid and it has Farrah in it. And Hector is right up there with Max as creepy sci-fi robots

[@jonbradley4789]

My favorite line from the movie is "NO TACTION contact!"

[@TrekMTBikeRider]

Even as a child when I saw this movie, I felt that Harvey Keltel’s dialogue seemed somewhat off.

[@10072018]

I found it quite terrifying in concept. It's an ambitious flop, but if you can imagine how the movie would be if they'd done a little better job (while you're watching it) it's a very satisfying film. That being said a few of the scenes are actually brilliant in their own right. Prime candidate for a remake.

[@SolitaryWolf]

ITC brought us Space 1999 and other great sci-fi television.

[@ChrisElsasser]

Hey Dan! The movie Hardware directed by Richard Stanley of South Africa had a monster robot called the war beast who puts itself back together again just like Hector! 😂

[@andrewdonatelli6953]

Coincidentally, I just watched Saturn 3 last week. The first time I have seen it since I saw it in the theatre when I was 11 years old. At the time I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was, I vaguely knew who Kirk Douglas was, but I sure knew who Farrah Fawcett was! And that poster! I liked it as a kid, even though some of it was over my head at the time. Having recently rewatched it, I still like it. Objectively bad, maybe, but unsettling and frightening. Sometimes that's enough to make a film enjoyable.

[@gregmoss5644]

I recently purchased one of the only physical copies of John Barry's original draft screenplay 'The Helper' in existence for a huge amount of money. Which is the draft Farrah read on that flight with Lord Lew Grade. Quite different from the finished film, this draft has never been made public. And I can see what drew her to it and got her to sign on. I'm planning to publish a review of it on my site in the near future.

[@hgwells1899]

Please do:) Highlighting the differences would be of great interest

[@gregmoss5644]

@@hgwells1899 Absolutely. Will do.

[@gregmoss5644]

The first major difference is that it takes place on earth and not in space.