The Phoenix (1982 TV series)

The Phoenix
Genre	Science fiction
Created by	Anthony Lawrence Nancy Lawrence
Starring	Judson Scott E. G. Marshall Richard Lynch
Composer	Arthur B. Rubinstein
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	5 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Mark Carliner
Producers	Leigh Vance Christopher Kochoff Anthony Lawrence Nancy Lawrence
Cinematography	Donald H. Birnkrant Frank Beascoechea Frank Tidy
Editors	Marvin Adelson David Berlatsky Tony de Zarraga
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Production company	Mark Carliner Productions
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	March 19 (1982-03-19) – April 16, 1982 (1982-04-16)

The Phoenix is an American

• Bennu of the Golden Light (played by Judson Scott), the protagonist, is an alien who possesses special abilities including physical levitation, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, astral projection and telekinesis. Some of these are made possible or amplified by his Phoenix Amulet, which draws power from the Sun. Bennu's home planet was originally called Aurica, but this was changed to Eldebran for broadcast.
• Yago is another being from the planet Eldebran. He is evil and Bennu's primary opponent. Yago is connected to the
  Aiwaz, presumably after the alleged being who dictated The Book of the Law to Aleister Crowley
  .
• Mira (played by Sheila Frazier) is another being from the planet Eldebran. 40,000 years ago she was placed on Earth as Bennu's companion, and when the series begins he is searching for her.
• Justin Preminger (played by
  con man
  . He is generally only one step behind his alien quarry.
• Dr. Ward Frazier (played by E. G. Marshall) is a scientist sympathetic to Bennu and his goals.

Sources and influences

• The series bible mentions Erich von Däniken's books Chariots of the Gods? (1968) and Gods from Outer Space (1970) as the source of the idea that aliens may have visited the Earth roughly 40,000 years ago.
• Yago's ability to create illusions using the power of the Moon was, according to the series bible, "implied in the Lunacy [sic] Act of 1842".
• Bennu is the Egyptian word for the mythological phoenix bird.^[2]

Episodes

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