Isis: The Outsider

"The Outsider"
	Series Isis; Season 1, Episode 10
Air date	November 8th, 1975
Writers	David Dworski; Susan Dworski
Director	Hollingsworth Morse
Producers	Norm Prescott; Lou Scheimer; Dick Rosenbloom; Arthur H. Nadel
Starring	JoAnna Cameron; Brian Cutler; Joanna Pang
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"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.

Cast[]

Principal Cast[]

Actor	Role
JoAnna Cameron	Isis, Andrea Thomas
Brian Cutler	Rick Mason
Joanna Pang	Cindy Lee

Guest Stars[]

Actor	Role
Mitch Vogel	Wayne Moss
Morgan Jones	Mr. Tilden
Harry Hickox	Har Winstead
Wirt Morton	Charlie Michaels
Anson Downes	Phil Hobbs

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.

References is made to Dr. Barnes in this episode, but he does not make an appearance.

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.

Quotes[]

Andrea Thomas: If you weren't such a lazy bird, you'd help us.
Tut: Squawk! Lazy bird!
Andrea Thomas: You sure are.

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Isis: Force of gravity from this rock be still. Let me roll it up the hill.