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Thursday, October 03, 2013

"Doctor Strange": TV's 'Sorcerer Supreme'



With Marvel Studios gearing up for a big screen "Doctor Strange" feature, adapting the Marvel Comics' character created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, take another look the 1978 CBS TV pilot "Dr. Strange", written and directed by Philip DeGuere, starring Peter Hooten as 'Dr. Stephen Strange', Sir John Mills as 'Lindmer' aka 'The Ancient One' and Jessica Walter as 'Morgan Le Fey':


"...'Clea Lake' becomes a pawn of the sorceress 'Morgan Le Fay'. Meanwhile, the primary defender of the world against threats of a magical nature, the 'Sorcerer Supreme' is 'Thomas Lindmer'. 


"He and his pupil 'Wong' contact a psychiatrist named 'Stephen Strange', who is the heir to becoming the next Sorcerer Supreme.


"As Strange bears a magical ring, Lindmer must convince Strange of the reality of the mystical world where the battle between good and evil is played out on a magical level, unknown to the mundane world, to save Clea and thwart Morgan's plans..."


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