Isis: The Outsider

"The Outsider" is the tenth episode of season one of the superhero action series Isis. It was directed by Hollingsworth Morse with a script written by David Dworski and Susan Dworski. It first aired on CBS on Saturday morning on November 8th, 1975. In this episode, a new student named Wayne Moss becomes an activist at school and hijacks a bulldozer in the hopes of preventing a construction company from developing land inhabited by local wildlife. Isis has to take action to stop a runaway bulldozer.

Notes & Trivia

 * Isis was created by Russell Bates and developed by Marc Richards. It was produced by Norm Prescott and Lou Scheimer of Filmation Associates.


 * This episode is included on disc one of the Secrets of Isis: The Complete Series DVD collection by BCI.


 * Executive producer Richard M. Rosenbloom is credited as Dick Rosenbloom in this episode.


 * Although it is the tenth aired episode of the series, it is actually the fourth episode in production. It is listed as episode 4 on the DVD collection.


 * There are a total of eight credited cast members in this episode: 6 are male cast members, and 2 are female cast members.


 * This is the fifth episode of The Secrets of Isis directed by Hollingsworth Morse. He directs eleven episodes of the series in total.


 * This is the second episode of The Secrets of Isis written or co-written by David Dworski. He writes three episodes of the series in total.


 * This is the first episode of The Secrets of Isis written or co-written by Susan Dworski. She writes two episodes of the series in total.


 * This is the final television acting work for Harry Hickox.


 * This is actor Wirt Morton's only known work in television.


 * This is the first television acting work for Anson Downes.


 * Isis uses the powers of transformation, invocation, flight, superhuman strength, and telekinesis in this episode.

Trivia

 * Film and television actress Tara Reid was born on the same day that this episode first aired.


 * Character wink: Sometimes in TV, characters break the fourth wall by both literally and/or metaphorically "winking" at the camera. This episode concludes with a close-up of Andrea Thomas winking to the viewers.

Bloopers

 * Isis's Egyptian-cotton undies do a peek-a-boo to the viewer in the scene where she grabs the dynamite stick.


 * During the class demonstration, the teacher refers to tungsten as a mineral. Tungsten is a chemical element, not a mineral.