Beyond Westworld

Beyond Westworld is a 1980 American television series based on the 1973 film Westworld, which was written and directed by Michael Crichton. Although the DVD box cover mentions that it follows the film's events, it ignored the 1976 film sequel Futureworld.^[1]

Beyond Westworld
Title card
Based on	Westworld by Michael Crichton
Developed by	Lou Shaw
Starring	Jim McMullan James Wainwright Connie Sellecca
Composer	George Romanis
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	5 (2 originally unaired)
Production
Executive producer	Lou Shaw
Running time	60 minutes
Production companies	Lou Shaw Productions MGM Television
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	March 5 (1980-03-05) – March 19, 1980 (1980-03-19)

Synopsis

Security Chief John Moore of the Delos Corporation has to stop the evil scientist Simon Quaid, who is planning to use the robots in Delos to try to take over the world.

Cast

• Jim McMullan as John Moore
• James Wainwright as Simon Quaid
• Connie Sellecca as Pamela Williams
• William Jordan as Joseph Oppenheimer
• Severn Darden as Foley
• Nancy Harewood as Roberta
• Judith Chapman as Laura Garvey (pilot only)

Broadcast and reception

The series was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards (Outstanding Achievement in Makeup and Outstanding Art Direction For a Series), though only five episodes were produced. Only three of these episodes aired by CBS before cancellation.

In the United Kingdom all five episodes were shown by some ITV regions separately, starting with Granada Television, which aired the first four episodes between August 2 and 23, 1980 in an early-evening slot, but delayed the fifth until a morning slot on January 7, 1981. Across the nine regions which showed the "full" series, many showed episodes 2–5 in differing random orders, and only Yorkshire Television showed them more than once. Ulster Television only showed two episodes, six months apart. Thames Television aired all five episodes in an early afternoon slot during the summer of 1982.

Home media

On July 29, 2014, Warner Home Video released the complete series on DVD-R in Region 1 via their Warner Archive Collection manufactured-on-demand service.^[2]

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"Westworld Destroyed"	Ted Post	Lou Shaw	March 5, 1980 (1980-03-05)
John Moore is assigned to hunt down Simon Quaid, who has some androids that he proposes to use to further his own ends. The first one is hiding amongst the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine.
2	"My Brother's Keeper"	Rob Holcomb	Lou Shaw & Haward Dimsdale	March 12, 1980 (1980-03-12)
Quaid blackmails the owner of an oil company and John and Pamela must find the android in the company's ranks.
3	"Sound of Terror"	Paul Stanley	Martin Roth	March 19, 1980 (1980-03-19)
Quaid gets his hands on some uranium and John and Pamela must find another android who is hiding in a rock band.
4	"The Lion"	Jack Starrett	Martin Roth and David Bennett Carren	August 23, 1980 (1980-08-23)
Delos circuitry is found in a car explosion and John and the rest of the Delos team must try and work out Quaid's new plan.
5	"Takeover"	Don Weis	Gregory S. Dinallo and Steven Greenberg and Aubrey Solomon	January 7, 1981 (1981-01-07)
Quaid's target is the police officer in charge of the state governor's visit. John and Pamela must stop Quaid and identify the police officer, who is actually an android.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
1980	Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards[3]	Outstanding Achievement in Makeup	Beyond Westworld	Nominated
		Outstanding Art Direction For a Series	Beyond Westworld	Nominated