Time Stands Still

plot
The Venusian millionaire Tara is holding many priceless works of art, including da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, in his palace on the Jovian moon Calisto.  Haggerty, meanwhile, has invented a watch which speeds up the wearer’s reflexes sixty times.  Dart learns that Tara leaves the palace doors open for two minutes every day while he inspects his gold mines.  Wearing the watch, Dart enters the palace unnoticed and manages to remove all the items Tara has stolen.  Tara realizes what has happened and fires rocket missiles after the Galasphere.  However, the type of missiles Tara is using are programmed to explode if they do not reach their target within a certain amount of time, and Dart and his crew manage to keep the Galasphere out of range of the explosions.

notes
Professor Haggerty’s “time watch” would later appear in Sands of Death.

credits
a National Interest Picture production
produced by Roberta Leigh and Arthur Provis
directed by Frank Goulding
created & written by Roberta Leigh
voices by Libby Morris, Dick Vosburgh, Ronnie Stevens, Murray Cash
puppetry by Martin & Heather Granger, Joan Garrick
electronics by F.C. Judd
space consultant: Colin Ronan
recordist: Cyril Brown
dubbing editor: John Beaton
RCA sound recording
script assistant: Denise Kaye
cameraman: Arthur Provis
editor: Roy Hyde
art director: Roland Whiteside
models: Derek Freeborn
special effects & animation: Bill Palmer, Brian Stevens, Bert Walker
2nd unit cameraman: Jimmy Hopewell