Worst SFX No.11: Doctor Strange (1978)

Martin Anderson

Published on Jan 6, 2009

This TV pilot, starring a Magnum-style Peter Hooten as Marvel Comics' sorcerer-about-Manhattan, never made it to a series, but did enjoy a brief theatrical release in Europe. Like The Shape Of Things To Come (see above), it features 'Edie Benton' (actually Sledge Hammer's Anne Marie Martin) as love interest, and also shares that film's proclivity for ghastly FX. Balzaroth seems to have been made out of plasticine as the after-dinner past-time of an untalented teenage animator…