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This was a fun little episode where Betty finally gets a great deal of screen time. It is true that most of the lines given to Betty could have been easily given to Valerie, but it's nice to see Heather Young getting to do more than usual.

Again, this episode shows that not all the giants were enemies of the little people as Jack Albertson's character might even have been able to send them back to Earth. His teleportation device had a weight limit of 5,000 pounds which could have sent all seven castaways and perhaps the Sprindrift home too.

Ironically, Betty is back, but there is no sign of Barry and Chipper in the episode.

With Betty now emerging full swing into the story (after actress Heather Young's pregnancy saw her removed from several episodes), Betty's contributions don't seem to measure up more beyond what Valerie did; be abducted with Fitzugh.

This episode concerns basically, feuding scientists, we'll say, played by Mark Richman and Jack Albertson.

To further complicate matters, Albertson's housekeeper, Mrs. Evers, is working for the SID.

After Fitzugh and Betty are freed by the scientist's teleporting machine, the sympathetic flight attendant ventures too close to learn of Albertson's fate and must hide in the gun barrel, brought by an over-zealous SID man named Willis.

That was pretty good.

Willis starts to shoot at movement with the afore-mentioned gun, but . . . . it was only a cat.

I'll write up a report on you, mister, Mrs. Evers says.

Why? For not shooting the cat? Strange woman.

Willis is later redeemed when he manages to capture Betty and Dan who are trying to get the jail keys to free Albertson.

Now Betty is reduced to freezing in a trap if Albertson won't operate his teleporter for the sinister Richman.

Episode plays out well.

Depending on the editing of my copy, Barry nor Chipper are seen at all in this episode.

It's a battle of sciiiiiiieeeeeeeeeence, as a Dr. from the SID matches with with a professor from maybe the other side of the world where the humans visited earlier in their balloon.

Betty and Fitzhugh get frozen by a 50 years behind 1080's Earth technology miniature freeze ray - not cold freeze, but some type of electro zap freeze.

Just as Dr. what's his name (I just watched it, but I can't remember his name), SID, is about to interrogate them with flame, they are teleported away by Professor what's his name (I can't remember that one either).

Dr. SID wants Professor other side of the world's teleporter. An SID agent posing as a land lady alerts Dr. SID that Professor other side of the world has the little people.

Little people and professor captured, little people move in to save professor who offers to teleport them to Earth. Betty and Dan put in a cryogenic freezer, lowering the temperature at one degree per minute. Mark cuts the power just before they freeze. Professor so and so gets half way through instructing Steve and Fitzhugh on operating the machine then setting it to self destruct. Steve seems to figure out the rest himself. He teleports the Professor and everyone else to safety just before the teleporter's self destruct causes Dr. SID's equipment to self destruct - not sure why that happened.

Unfortunately for the group, Fitzhugh, cut off by Steve, doesn't have enough time to focus the destination on Earth. He was so close.

The teleporter, explains the Professor, can teleport anything seen by it's range finder to whatever is seen by its range finder. But the first teleport happens from within a closed room - the range finder, a telescopic whatsit, wouldn't see through walls. The teleporter also constantly teleports people and things to where its range finder isn't looking. OK, it's magic.

When they escape the cryogenic freezer, Betty is so injured, frozen almost to death, there's no way the humans can make a run for it. So they have to use the teleporter to escape. But seconds after they teleport into the forest, which was never viewed by the range finder, Betty is fine.

Barry was absent from this episode. Maybe it was left over Delta Radiation.