Mystery Island was a live-action segment on the CBS

CBS

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 Saturday morning package program The Skatebirds

The Skatebirds

The Skatebirds was a 60-minute show on CBS Saturday mornings from 1977-78, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show featured four short segments hosted by live-action wraparounds featuring "The Skatebirds", three large birds played by actors in costumes.The Skatebirds, so-called because they...

(1977-1978

1977-78 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning)

This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all three commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1977 and ending in the spring of 1978...

), produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Plot

The show featured the adventures of a plane crew: Chuck, Sue and Sandy, along with their robot P.O.P.S., who became stranded after the evil Dr. Strange caused their plane to crash-land on his remote island. Dr. Strange hoped to capture P.O.P.S. and use it in his quest for world domination

Hegemony

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Props

The P.O.P.S. prop or costume was a re-use of the original Robot B-9

Robot B-9

The B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot was a character in the television series Lost in Space. Known and addressed simply as "Robot", his full designation was only occasionally mentioned on the show.-History:...

 from Lost in Space

Lost in Space

Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968...

, modified with a bubble on its shoulders, a cylindrical (rather than bubble) head, a blue-and-white paint job, and other minor changes. (P.O.P.S. image.) It has since been restored to its original Robot B-9 appearance.

Episode guide

• A Matter of Gravity (September 10, 1977) -
• The Mind Blower (September 17, 1977) -
• Just Whistle for an Answer (September 24, 1977) -
• Sue's Courage (October 1, 1977) -
• Valley of Fire (October 8, 1977) -
• Sentinels of Time (October 15, 1977) -
• Who's Whom Here? (October 22, 1977) -
• Fate's Just a Dirty Trick (October 29, 1977) -
• Golden Birds of Prey (November 5, 1977) -
• Visions from Falconia (November 12, 1977) -
• The Duel (November 19, 1977) -
• Kingdom of the Beats (November 26, 1977) -
• Pops in a Box (December 3, 1977) -
• Island of the Apes (December 10, 1977) -
• The Skull's the Clue (December 17, 1977) -
• Home Run (December 24, 1977) -

Cast

• Lynn Marie Johnston - Sue Corwin
• Michael Kermoyan - Dr. Strange
• Stephen Parr - Chuck Kelly
• Larry Volk - Sandy Corwin
• Frank Welker
  Frank Welker
  Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker is an American actor who specializes in voice acting and has contributed character voices and other vocal effects to American television and motion pictures.-Acting career:...
  
   - P.O.P.S. (voice)

Reruns

In September 2005, Mystery Island episodes were rebroadcast as part of Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels is an animated series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from September 10, 1977 to June 21, 1980 on ABC....

on Boomerang

Boomerang (TV channel)

Boomerang is a 24-hour American cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. Boomerang specializes in reruns of animated programming from Time Warner's extensive archives, including pre-1986 MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises...

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