Explore 5 vastly underrated 1960s sci-fi movies that you probably missed! From “Creation of the Humanoids” to other hidden gems, this video will introduce you to some of the best sci-fi films from the 60s that deserve more recognition.
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0:00 Intro
0:41 The Time Travelers 1964
3:01 Doctor Who and the Daleks 1965
4:42 Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. 1966
6:25 The Illustrated Man 1969
8:34 Creation of the Humanoids 1962
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Your inability to pronounce simple words and names is alarming. An the illustrated man was a very well known movie for nearly twenty years. It's ownership cause issues with re-release.
Loved the Time Travelers when I was a kid, which used to come on a lot on Saturday afternoons. The robots in the movie were referred to as androids though, which is probably one of the earliest times in film that that term was used. I swear there was a sequel/reboot/re-imagining/spin-off that came out in the early 70s involving time travelers going back in time during the Great Chicago Fire.
Just saw Creation of the Humanoids for the first time a few years ago (love those retro tv channels) and I was surprised I’d never heard of it. Quite a good movie, not an action movie but a good thinking movie.
one film or short story I saw 40 years or more ago. Not sure if it was english usa 1950s 1960s. Very Alien looking creatures. A man lies in a hospital bed, has a bedside light projected onto a wall. There are transparent Amoeba typ creatures projected onto the wall. They are talking to him, asking him to join them, a nurse comes into the ward and knocks the light to one side, so the images of the creatures are lost. Later on he has an ear operation and can't hear them any more and goes back to his wife. I have never seen it since and can't remember what it is called.
I did not like Cushing's who versions over the original tv series. Love early Doctor Who
Nice choices. I would add one film I enjoyed as a kid, Robinson Crusoe On Mars.
Great choices. The Time Travelers and Creation of the Humanoids are two of my favorites.
I have heard of all of these. I have seen them back in the 1980s.
Ray Bradbury wrote The Illustrated Man. The narrator said Ray "Roddenberry".
The "Time Travelers" was a great movie I remembered it my whole life. Just recently watched a copy after 60 years. Still a great plot.
why does that one humanoid look so much like like pinhead from hell raiser without the pins ?lol
The Dr.Who is cool but sssslow.
Ray Brad berry is great.
I found Creation of the Humanoids on Creature Features (You Tube). Those Clinkers are AI with human interaction. And the Confederate uniforms of the Order of Flesh and Blood is wild. I really do enjoy rewatching this movie. Frances McCann was a hottie.
I have seen them all multiple times. I can also pronounce the names properly.
AWKWARD!!! LOL!
I strongly recommend "Creation of the Humanoids" for the AI questions of self-awareness and attraction, and "The Time Travelers" for the hot jumpsuits.
"The Time Travelers" just begs to be re-made.
'Bernard' Cribbins, Bernard, not bloody Robert or Robin or whatever you said. BERNARD. And Daleks is pronounced DAR LEX, not bloody 'dah licks'. Sheesh
Bernard Cribbins.
I've seen four of those films. And read the Ray Bradbury book.
I saw the Time Travelers back when it came out at a Saturday matinee .. I was hoping somebody would upload it to youtube
I fail to see how being produced in the UK is such a terrible disadvantage. As usual the usa thinks the world only exists within its own borders.
Robert Cribbins ? Bernard you mean.
That pic of 'Gordon Flemyng' sure looks like 'Roy Castle'.
Ray Rodenberry ? Bradbury you men.
What's a Turdis?
You need to train you AI how to pronouce "Dalecks" it isn't "dahl-ecks" at all. Yuck and put aside. The Doctor would NOT be amused.
Creation of the Humanoids was a favorite movie of mine when I grew up. It still holds up today as maybe the best of the futuristic android movies exploring the line between Man & Machine, alongside Blade Runner and Ex Machina.
Illustrated Man, an anthology of Ray Bradbury short stories. Liked the the story based on >The Veldt.
IDK, but in the thumbnail, those aliens had purty mouths
ray roddenberry. lol. ray bradbury.
Dr Who and the Dereks
One is forgivable, but this has several incorrect basic names and accreditations
The time travellers was brilliant i only whish i could find a decent copy of it.
Wow good picks! I saw Time Travelers as a kid and never forgot it. All these other suggestions are a must watch for me!
Group of good actors, cast due to the fact they look like A listers. Only. Unfortunately!
I appreciated a lot "creation of the humanoids" , a real lost gem.
How I Wish I could watch "the illustrated man". Only read the novel.
The films are fine, as are the descriptions, but I am not happy with the AI voice.
Seen all these movies. I have reviewed both Doctor Who movies too.
Creation of the Humanoids was one of make up great Jack P Pierce’s (Frankenstein,Mummy, Wolfman) last films
So much fun in all these films.!
Doctor Who and the Daleks was shown in a double feature with Night of the Living Dead in U.S. drive-ins and movie theaters. That's how I saw them.
Unearthly Stranger (GB, 1963).
The Director of the Time Travelers was doing a Q&A one day at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, Mr. Melchoir, and I missed that event even though I lived close by. He directed a favorite Outer Limits episode too…geez, I still kick myself.
Ray Roddenberry ?
Yep, I missed them all. I wasn't alive
Thank you!
the last one have an original plot
I saw The Time Travelers on late-night TV when I was a kid. The only two moments in the movie that survived in my head after forty+ years was the burning robot, and the women in the shower talking about the impending population explosion. I ran across it a year ago on Netflix (I think) . While it was kinda cheesy, it was fun.
"Ray Roddenberry"?
Wow juicy mouth.
These movies all played on television with great regularity in the 1970s. The Time Travelers and The Illustrated Man were two of my favorites. Glad to see you bring these films forward so younger people can discover them.
Pronounced Dahleks not Daleks.
What if you didn't miss these films and instead promoted them for decades? All the while, sci-fi cinema has been taken over by big-budget superhero garbage, with young viewers unable to tell the difference between ideas and pretty SFX and, more so, outright defend corporate sci-fi as if their personal pride depends on it.
Not bad choices, though I can think of many better ones, but you need to check your facts. You've made a mess of the Dr Who entries, in particular. I wouldn't mind but a quick peek at Wikipedia is all you needed.
1960s Illustriated man..futuristic. 2024 Illustratrated person..It's here
Roberta Tovey
Daleks Invasion Earth was awful it's meant to be 2150 but the set is 1960's and there is a sign that the Daleks have that says Bomb Release
I really like “Time Travelers”. It’s very colorful and imaginative.
i would like to see you get your facts correct to start with
I bought a copy of The Time Travelers only to discover that the actor who played the mutant, Peter Strudwick, was a teacher I had in junior high in the mid 70’s.
6:29 Jack Smite directed a film. Thats all folks nothing to see. Move along. Please disperse.
Why do you keep showing a picture of Roy Castle,as director Fleming?.
Those are all great! To your list, I would add only François Truffaut's 1966 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." I saw it at the State Theater in Kalamazoo, MI, in 1966, and I still consider it my favorite film of all time. There was trouble in production because the male lead actor, Oskar Werner, did not get along at all well with Truffaut, but the film turned out great anyway. Julie Chrstie plays two separate, contrasting characters and makes both of them believable. Cyril Cusak is perfect as the fire chief.
Creation of the Humanoids was one of Andy Warhol's favorite movies.
3:17 Robert?
I've seen all of these, and enjoy them for what they are. However, the two Peter Cushing movies are dumb. Still, better than anything the BBC has put out for several years masquerading as Doctor Who.
It's pronounced "DAR-LEKS", not "DALEX".
Thumbs DOWN, bad narration, stoned or stupid narrator
The Time Travellers is an exceptional movie.
I just saw "Creation of the Humanoids" here on Youtube a few months back. Great movie.
Dr. Who didn't invent the TARDIS. His race (Time Lords) invented it. The TARDIS can take the shape of almost anything including a British Police Box. I don't remember ever watching "The Illustrated Man" movie but I did read the book. It was a fascinating collection of short stories revolving around the tattoos of the Illustrated Man. The ending of the book was a bit of a shock to me.
2:44 wow was phil hartman actually a time traveler?
Thanks for the sci fi video, great! The Time Travelers was made with two different endings. One a happy ending and the other….. Look for either, they are both good. MST3K The Remake did the happy ending version. I first watched it on Amazon Prime without riffing and with the other ending and it was pretty awesome, I prefer it.
I would include 5 Million Years to Earth.
Hi folks, I'm looking for a TV(?) movie that I saw around 1974-1980 on TV. The story takes place 100-200 years before now. Comes an earthquake, the buildings fall apart but the bricks and stones come together, everything rebuilds (on another planet that is similar to Earth). On that planet there are flies too. But much bigger flies, like an eagle… at the end of the story comes another earthquake and everything goes back to normal… that's all I remember. Does anybody remember this film?
How did they come up with the voice of the Daleks?
It isn't exactly evil, but it sure is annoying – shut them up anyway you can!
"They must have gone back." "Back where?" "… Back to the future." "BACK – to the FUTURE !?"
The Time Travelers Robot heads @2:21 remind me of bigfoot. They lose their hair in summer and store fat in cones on top of their heads. It is identical to a late summer bigfoot. Give them black eyes and a human nose and you got a bigfoot.
DEVO had those masks.
IA narration is terrible.
Been trying to find Time Travelers online for a long time.
Presto Foster. Robert Cribbens. Ray Roddenberry. Good Lord. A Dalek could have done a better job.
A lot of DJs and off-beat music producers use the dialog from these old sci-fi flicks in their spacey underground electronica music mixes
Youre doing a great job with these videos, i love it.
The time travelers freaked me out as a child. That guy with no feet.
Time Travelers must have been a Dan Curtis production because most of the actors were on the 60's series 'Dark Shadows'.
Was Preston Fosters character a prototype for Walter Pigeon's Dr. Morbius?
I loved the first movie as a kid. They used to show it all the time in New York.
Love Creation of the Humanoids. AI here we come
Are you drunk? The only word you got right is "cohesive".
Dude, they are called Daleks pronounced DAR LEKS
I'm surprised "The Illustrated Man" actually got finished, what with Rod Steiger eating the scenery everyday.
Wait, Dr. Who later takes the Tardis to a galaxy far, far away and changes his title & name to Moff Tarkin? Who knew?
I would add The 10th Victim, Wild Wild Planet and The Earth Dies Screaming.
Is Ray Roddenberry Gene Roddenberry's brother?
Well this is odd. I just finished watching a movie called Journey to the centre of time (1967), come to watch this video that was on my watch list and the first movie mentioned, The time travellers, is what the movie I just saw was a remake of. The remake even used the same spaceship footage! Youtube is weird sometimes.