Strange is a 1978 American superhero television film based on the Marvel Comics fictional character of the same name, co-created by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee.

[1] Stan Lee served as a consultant on the film, which was created as a pilot for a proposed television series.

Strange stars Peter Hooten in the title role, along with Jessica Walter, Eddie Benton, Clyde Kusatsu, Philip Sterling, and John Mills.

Le Fay possesses a young woman named Clea Lake and uses her as a weapon against Thomas Lindmer, the "Sorcerer Supreme".

Suffering from nightmares of le Fay, Lake is under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Strange at a psychiatric hospital.

Strange has the potential to become Lindmer's successor through inherited items from his father, including a signet ring.

Meanwhile, le Fay possesses a cat and tries to enter Lindmer's house, but magical barriers repel it.

Lindmer explains that Strange must choose between remaining mortal or becoming the Sorcerer Supreme, forgoing ignorance, offspring, and a painless death.

The film was shot on Universal sets in Los Angeles, going over-schedule by several days because of the special effects, which included a lot of the era's green screen.

DeGuere's friend, composer Paul Chiraha, was encouraged to produce an electronic score.

Chihara, interviewed in 2016, said that DeGuere had high hopes for the film, and that he was crushed when it "tanked"[4] in the Nielsen ratings.

In March 1985, Stan Lee recounted the largely positive experience of working on Dr.

Strange, compared with the other live-action Marvel Comics adaptations under the publisher's development deal with CBS and Universal in the late 1970s: I probably had the most input into that one.