Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 73 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In the not-too-distant future, the evil Dr. Forrester forces a temp named Mike into a series of experiments, where he's forced to watch cheesy movies so the mad scientist can monitor his mind. However, as Mike can't control where the movies begin or end, he'll try to keep his sanity with the help of his robot friends.
- telescope
- cinema on cinema
- satire
- puppet
- mad scientist
- spoof
- robot
- held captive
- space adventure
- escape attempt
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michael J. Nelson
Mike Nelson
Trace Beaulieu
Crow T. Robot (voice) / Dr. Clayton Forrester
Kevin Murphy
Tom Servo (voice)
Jim Mallon
Gypsy (voice)
- John Brady — Benkitnorf
- Rex Reason — Dr. Cal Meacham (archive footage)
- Faith Domergue — Dr. Ruth Adams (archive footage)
- Jeff Morrow — Exeter (archive footage)
- Lance Fuller — Brack (archive footage)
- Robert Nichols — Joe Wilson (archive footage)
- Russell Johnson — Steve Carlson (archive footage)
- Douglas Spencer — The Monitor of Metaluna (archive footage)
- Regis Parton — Mutant (archive footage)
- Karl Ludwig Lindt — Dr. Adolph Engelborg (archive footage)
- Directed
- Jim Mallon
- Written
- Michael J. Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, Kevin Murphy, Bridget Jones Nelson & 2 more
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 235 ratings
- Studio
- Gramercy Pictures, Consolidated Puppets, Universal Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
