What happened to Liana in the last few eps?

Katie Saylor's departure was kind of odd, if she had been canned, I'm sure she would have been removed from the opening credits. Her resume/acting history basically ends with The Fantastic Journey, after a series of appearances in various TV guest spots in the early to mid-70's plus her role in the cult classic INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS(1973). In fact, watching that(now on DVD from a good print)you'd have to look twice to see it was the same person, in those leggy outfits in FJ(I also realize four years can make a difference!), as she was quite easy on the eyes(at least to this then-16 year older in 1977) to look at. I wonder wherever did she go, and considering illness rumors, one hopes she is still with us. Someplace.

Saylor's departure and, outright disappearance has been a true mystery for FJ fans from the start. We know where the others went. Roddy McDowell went onto many films(FRIGHT NIGHT), TV appearances, etc before sadly passing away in 1998 from cancer. Jared Martin did alot of TV (The Incredible Hulk,etc) guest shots, before getting back into his own series again in 1988 in WAR OF THE WORLDS, and then a regular spot on DALLAS-nowadays he's pulled back from being a star be the director of some kind of theater troupe with his wife. Ike Eisenmann is best known for his small but memorable role as Scotty's doomed nephew in STAR TREK II:THE WRATH OF KHAN(1982) and now does the "Mark Hamill thing"-lots of animation voice overs, notably in the Disney dubbings of Miyazaki films. Carl Franklin left the front of the camera to go behind and become a successful and critically acclaimed director of some indie films.

But what of the lovely Katie?

Something I am sure she didn't like in the series-in the start of one show, the travellers are caught in another time storm or something which had them being blown about by what were obviously huge, off camera fans. The cat VERY OBVIOUSLY did not like this, no matter how trained or tranked it was as it was clawing her arm and shoulder to ribbons and rather than wreck the shot all she could do was hold on to it no matter what!

It was a fun show, and had some stellar guest stars(such as Joan Collins, Ian McShane) but fell to the fate of many mid-season replacement shows(which this was). It's cancellation prompted a letter writing campaign that rivalled Star Trek's so said story editor Dorothy Fontana, but NBC didn't blink this time. Part of the problem was it was telecast on Thursday nights at 8pm. In my neck of the woods-and others-local sports programming pre-empted that slot, forcing the NBC affliates to re-play the show on Saturday or Sunday afternoons around 4pm. Thus many people never saw the show's first five or so episodes. It left the airwaves in April 1977 and NBC aired one final show "The Innocent Prey" at the end of June of that year, in what became an open timeslot for specials and remaindered shows.

If this was really true, then I'm sure you could come up with a picture of her since she's your step-grandmother.

Well don't forget to ask her what happen with the fantasic journey!

Tell her she still has a fan club!

You're a troll and your post is b.s.

Strange since she died in 1991.......

Hi
Once again , katie saylor is alive. There is no proof what so ever that she passed away. Yes she did leave F.J. due to illness, but she eventually recovered. She is married to lawyer, who handled the HOWARD Hughes estate. She now goes by the name kate strassman.

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