History Film / StrandedInSpace

Eventually, he befriends the comely Dr. Bettina Cooke and drug-addicted Professor Dylan Macauley, who plan to get Stryker on-board a Terran spacecraft so that he may commandeer it and return to Earth. At this point, Benedict shows up, arrests and tortures Bettina, and a bunch of chases and explosions occur. Though Stryker fails to get on-board the spaceship, he manages to escape. Presumably, at this point, Stryker would begin a SternChase, ''Series/TheFugitive''-style, pursued by Benedict while looking for a way home, but the series wasn't picked up and the whole thing is LeftHanging.

* TheManBehindTheMan / TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The ruling council of the Perfect Order, consisting of three or four unidentified individuals (only one of whom has a speaking part), pulls Benedict's strings.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: It's apparently even called English for some reason.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Benedict rails on about TheEvilsOfFreeWill, specifically that one man with "ideas" will begin to think AGodAmI and will inevitably become a despot. What he doesn't seem to realize is that, in essence, the Perfect Order is exactly that, albeit with a small council of The Gods Are We rather than just one person.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Benedict rails on about TheEvilsOfFreeWill (specifically, that one man with "ideas" will begin to think AGodAmI and will inevitably become a despot. What he doesn't seem to realize is that, in essence, the Perfect Order is exactly that, albeit with a small council of A Gods Are We rather than just one person.

* AutoErotica / FakeOutMakeOut: When Stryker has Bettina alone in her car and is trying to explain himself to her, she begins honking the horn to get the attention of a passing truck. Stryker quickly begins kissing her to throw off the others' suspicions. Bettina is not amused.

* CounterEarth: As the main trope page notes though, this makes little sense as, since the Earth's orbit is elliptical, the two Earths would have to be visible from each other at some point.

* InexplicableCulturalTies: Other than The Perfect Order, [[ExaggeratedTrope there's only a few cosmetic differences that separate Earth and Terra.]]

A 1973 MadeForTVMovie from BingCrosby [[Series/HogansHeroes Productions]] originally known as ''The Stranger'' starring Glenn Corbett.

After a freak accident, astronaut Neil Stryker finds himself stranded on "Terra", an alternate Earth situated directly on the far side of the sun. At first, he doesn't realize this, as he is confined to a hospital by Dr. Revere who has been ordered by his superior Benedict, to drug and interrogate Stryker, orders the doctor reluctantly fulfills. Eventually, Stryker escapes from the hospital and, after spying Terra's three moons, realizes he is not on Earth.

As he learns at a bookstore that he makes his way to, Terra is under the command of The Perfect Order, a totalitarian government that apparently rose after a nuclear conflict 35 years before. As you might expect, The Perfect Order has succeeded in eliminating poverty and war, at the cost of how people with incompatible ideas are removed from society, reconditioned in "Ward E", and if resistant, executed. Religion is outlawed, as is most art, and it appears that alcohol is next on the list. For the most part, Terra's technology is equivalent to 1970's Earth (including cars with Plymouth logos), but with surveillance technology placed in every television and radio. Also, everyone's left-handed. Crazy huh?

* AlternateUniverse: Other than The Perfect Order, there's only a few cosmetic differences that separate Earth and Terra.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E05StrandedInSpace episode recap page]].

A 1973 MadeForTVMovie from BingCrosby [[HogansHeroes Productions]] originally known as ''The Stranger'' starring Glenn Corbett.

* AllTheMyriadWays: Other than The Perfect Order, there's only a few cosmetic differences that separate Earth and Terra.