The Fantastic Journey

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Name:	The Fantastic Journey
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Creator:	D.C. Fontana, Richard Fielder, Robert Hamilton, Leonard Katzman, Ken Kolb, Howard Livingstone, Michael Michaelian, Katharyn Powers
Date(s):	February 3 – June 17, 1977
Medium:	TV series
Country of Origin:	United States
External Links:	The Fantastic Journey on Wikipedia
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The Fantastic Journey was an NBC American science fiction television show. There were ten episodes.

Canon

"The Fantastic Journey" was a short-lived, relatively unlamented TV series. It traced the adventures of a band of travelers marooned in a Bermuda Triangle-like area of multi-leveled time zones. Each week's show pitted the intrepid band against a danger in a new time zone. The zones co-mingled in this strange region and ranged from antediluvian Atlantis to far in the future. And our stars played characters from many of these eras. The show was not a rousing success, and did not last very long, although in honesty, 'Fantastic Journey,' like Logan's Run at a later date, appears to have been a victim of the overly-hasty ratings game. Both shows were pulled just when they had begun to develop some of their potential and gave some promise of turning onto a really good program after all."

"The Fantastic Journey" had elements of the earlier series, The Time Tunnel, and of the later series, Sliders and Quantum Leap.

Fanworks

The show was the subject of Susan M. Garrett's first published fanfic.

Zines

All Fantastic Journey zines

• Fantastic Journal has two issues.
• Peripatetic #1 was all Fantastic Journey.
• The Ghostbusters Live From the Bermuda Triangle is a Real Ghostbusters/Fantastic Journey crossover by Sheila Paulson.
• The Guardian Stone is a Fantastic Journey/Lord of the Rings crossover by Sheila Paulson.
• Vortex had nine issues.

There are also at least three one-shot Fantastic Journey fics in various multimedia zines.

• "Walls of the New Jerusalem" in Green Floating Weirdness #2 (crossover with War of the Worlds TV series)
• "Over the Hills and Far Away" in Green Floating Weirdness #3 (crossover with War of the Worlds TV series)
• "Gloom" in Moonbeam #7