It was the new spin nobody knew they wanted but Disney insisted upon anyway. On July 26, 1979 "Unidentified Flying Oddball" merged Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" with a space-warp traveling android named Hermes. Setting a course for hijinks on today's Sci-Fi 5.

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