The Terrornauts is a 1967 British science fiction film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Simon Oates and Zena Marshall.

It was produced by Amicus Productions and based on the 1960 novel The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster, adapted for screen by John Brunner.

Dr Joe Burke leads the project, assisted by his small team as electronics expert Ben Keller and office manager Sandy Lund.

While waiting for a response, Burke tells of his uncle's discovery at a French archaeological dig of a cube that gave him strange dreams as a boy, inspiring him to become an astronomer.

Returning to the control room, Keller accidentally bumps Lund onto a "transposer platform" and she is matter-transported in a puff of smoke to a distant planet peopled by savages who try to kill her.

The inspiration for the treatment is clearly Dr. Who, but even on this modest level, children are unlikely to be much impressed by the slapdash effects, the jerry-built sets and, in particular, a silly robot (manned by Dalek operator Robert Jewell) which seems permanently on the verge of falling apart.

Director Montgomery Tully has wisely spiced the action with comedy, ably handled by veterans Charles Hawtrey as a prissy accountant and Patricia Hayes as a Cockney charwoman. ...