Man from Atlantis - From Warner's Archives Comes the 'Pilot' Telefilm on DVD, Starring Patrick Duffy **UPDATE: High-Res Box Art**

Now available to order online, but won't be in stores

He's the lone survivor of a lost civilization...thrust into ours! A giant storm tosses ashore a being, who is both human and a creature of the deep. Mark Harris is the name given him by the astonished scientists who study and protect their remarkable find. Harris is equally astonished: a fish out of water eager to learn about us.

Patrick Duffy (a year before beginning his legendary run on Dallas) plays the Atlantean in the origins movie that (along with three more films) preceded the cult-fave Man from Atlantis series. In this adventure, Harris uses his amazing underwater abilities to save mankind from a madman's (Victor Buono) plot to launch missiles from all the world's nuclear submarines!

Yesterday the website for the Warner Archives, the studio's manufacture-on-demand (MOD) home video project, made a new DVD title available without any advance notice to us. It's the first (of four) telefilms that aired in the first half of 1977, prior to the 13-episode run of the regular hour-long weekly series that was broadcast on NBC from Fall 1977 to Spring 1978.

Stars included a pre-Dallas Patrick Duffy, a pre-Doogie Howser Belinda Montgomery, and a post-Batman Victor Buono. The show came from Herb Solow's production company, and Solow was Executive Producer, and Bob Justman was also a producer (Solow and Justman were both behind-the-camera veterans of Star Trek). The humans on the show kept up with the titular character (Duffy) by means of their cool-looking submarine, the Cetacean.