Fractured Flickers announcer extolling the virtues of the item being advertised, accompanied by darkly humorous clips. A fly-by-night real estate development, for example, was illustrated with clips of buildings being destroyed by a cyclone (from "Steamboat Bill, Jr." with Buster Keaton). And "This moment of softness (explosions, wild parties, etc.) has been brought to you by Bee. Bee, the only tissue woven in mid-air by bees!" Regular features were the "Minute Mysteries", featuring Stan Laurel as master detective Sherman Oaks (his scenes "fractured" from his 1925 short comedy, "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde"), and the weekly "tributes" to some American city. Each
Battle Beyond the Stars Corey in BBTS, began his adventures from the planet Akir with Nell. It also has the characters of Dr. Hephaestus and Sador of the Malmori. Battle Beyond the Stars Battle Beyond the Stars is a 1980 American space opera film from New World Pictures, produced by Roger Corman, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, that stars Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Sybil Danning, and Darlanne Fluegel. "Battle Beyond the Stars", intended as a ""Magnificent Seven" in outer space", is based on "The Magnificent Seven" (in which Vaughn also appeared), the Western remake of Akira Kurosawa's film "Seven Samurai".