Watch Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) Free Online

Release Date: 1979

Cast: John Le Mesurier, Sheila White, Ron Moody, Jim Dale, Kenneth More, Rodney Bewes, Dennis Dugan

Categories: Movies, Science Fiction, Fantasy Adventure, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Time travel, Family Film

Unidentified Flying Oddball, also known as The Spaceman and King Arthur, (1979) is Disney’s film adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It was directed by Russ Mayberry. Subsequently re-released in the United States under the titles The Spaceman and King Arthur and A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court, and directed by Russ Mayberry, the film starred Dennis Dugan as astronaut Tom Trimble who unintentionally travels back in time with his look-alike android Hermes. Trimble’s NASA spacecraft travels faster than the speed of light, landing him and the... MORE

Unidentified Flying Oddball, also known as The Spaceman and King Arthur, (1979) is Disney’s film adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It was directed by Russ Mayberry. Subsequently re-released in the United States under the titles The Spaceman and King Arthur and A Spaceman in King Arthur’s Court, and directed by Russ Mayberry, the film starred Dennis Dugan as astronaut Tom Trimble who unintentionally travels back in time with his look-alike android Hermes. Trimble’s NASA spacecraft travels faster than the speed of light, landing him and the android near King Arthur’s Camelot, where – with the aid of their 20th century technology – they must defeat a plot by the evil Sir Mordred and Merlin to oust King Arthur from the throne. Like Twain's original novel (as well as the 1949 movie adaptation starring Bing Crosby) Merlin is presented as an evil character intent on dethroning Arthur. * Credited on-screen only as Tom Trimble. The spacecraft that was featured in this movie is on display at the Blackgang chine theme park in the Isle of Wight. Disney’s A Kid in King Arthur’s Court (1995), likewise based on the aforementioned novel, follows the same LESS