The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot

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The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot
Directed by Mel Ferber
Written by Stanley Ross
Louis M. Heyward
Produced byLouis M. Heyward
Starring Vincent Price
Tommy Kirk
Aron Kincaid
Music by Les Baxter
Production
company
Distributed by ABC
Release date
  • November 18, 1965 (1965-11-18)
Running time
30 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot was a 30-minute TV special which was a sequel to Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965). [1]

Contents

It aired on ABC as an episode of Shindig! in November 1965. [2]

Plot

Dr. Goldfoot and his assistant Hugo send their robot woman Diane to entrap Malcolm Andrews, who contains all the knowledge of the world in his head. Diane sets out to seduce Andrews but is stopped by government agent 001/2 of Security Intelligence Command (SIC). Diane and the agent begin a romance, and Goldfoot and Hugo capture Andrews.

Diane brings the agent to Goldfoot's lair where Goldfoot intends to kill him. However Diane turns against Goldfoot and overpowers him. There is a floorshow.

Cast

Production

According to Susan Hart, the film was the idea of Ruth Pologe, head of AIP publicity in the New York office, who arranged with ABC to do a special relating to the picture. [3] Jack Baker did the choreography.

Songs

Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner wrote the music and lyrics for the songs with Les Baxter as musical director. There are three main songs:

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References

  1. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (September 9, 2019). "The Cinema of Tommy Kirk". Diabolique Magazine.
  2. ↑ Martin, Betty (November 10, 1965). "Warners Buys First Novel". Los Angeles Times. p. d18.
  3. ↑ Tom Weaver, "Susan Hart", Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews, McFarland, 2003 p 134
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