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Look at your cast. Boris Karloff the great! Audrey Dalton the beautiful! Robert Conrad the beautiful! Ross Martin the kickiest sidekick ever! A man in a gorilla costume! Robert Conrad in green felt skintight fightin' duds! Three alpha male henchmen pummeled repeatedly by James West! All in glorious 1960s color! I first saw this when they first broadcast it on Friday, September 23, 1966 when I was ten years old. I didn't mind that the corked-up Mr. Karloff was racially inappropriate, but at least he spoke normal, not pidgin. Did I mention the beautiful Audrey Dalton? She wears a harem outfit the whole time!

It had been done before, but somehow, watching dummies Mortimer Snerd and Charlie McCarthy shown as real children is Twilight Zone creepy.

WARNING--DO NOT WATCH THIS PROGRAM IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE CRITICISM OF THE BIBLE. This film is a brief, enjoyable, yet maddeningly unprofessional accomplishment. Most of the scholars interviewed are either members of the Jesus Seminar or similarly critical theory writers about the origins of Christianity. Incredibly, not one of the interviewees is identified on screen. Not even John Dominic Cross, one of the most brilliant scholars of this critical theory school. Believers expecting reinforcement of their prejudices should look elsewhere; they have plenty of alternatives. I have no explanation of why the producers, whoever they were, deliberately chose to not identify the theologians in the film. It's as if someone in charge of the money changed their mind and backed out before they were done. Still, if you are intellectually honest and curious enough to accept real biblical history, this show is a good 50 minute introduction. But there is no substitute for reading the works of Crossan and others.