by Larry Brody
Over the past several weeks I’ve posted the scripts for Season 2 Episodes 1 through 6 of the FoxKids Network The Silver Surfer animated series I ran for those who wondered what all of us involved in the show back in 1998 intended to come if we hadn’t been cancelled.
Today it’s the turn of Season 2 Episode 7, Down to Earth: Part Two. This one never got beyond “First Draft,” status because the possibility of the series returning was becoming dimmer. It’s dated May 4, 1998 and continues the the Surfer’s, um, “misunderstanding” with The Fantastic Four.
Let the battle continue!
PREVIOUS SEASON TWO EPISODES:
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And now it’s time for:
THE SILVER SURFER
DOWN TO EARTH: PART TWO
(formerly HOME ALONE: PART TWO)
(#2147-20)
WRITTEN BY
LARRY BRODY
FIRST DRAFT
MAY 4, 1998
THE SILVER SURFER
“DOWN TO EARTH: PART TWO”
TEASER
FADE IN:
EXT. DEEP SPACE
As THE OUTLINE OF THE WATCHER RIPPLES INTO EXISTENCE against
the velvety background of space. He regards US gravely.
THE WATCHER
I am the Watcher, observer of all
events of import in the cosmos…
As he talks, the Watcher turns his head to look at something,
O.S. We ANGLE WITH his gaze.
THE WATCHER
(continuing)
Now must I take notice of what
transpires on a small planet in
what its inhabitants call the
Milky Way galaxy…
Now we FIND:
EXT. SPACE OVER THE PLANET EARTH – (BEGINNING RECAP)
As the SILVER SURFER and NOVA reach it. (NOTE: All SHOTS in
this sequence are all-new animation of events in #2147-19.)
THE WATCHER (O.S.)
When the Silver Surfer agreed to
accompany Nova, the former herald
of Galactus, to this world, known
as Earth…
The Surfer and Nova start downward, into the atmosphere.
THE WATCHER (O.S.)
(continuing)
He hoped to gain a respite from
the burden of responsibility he
felt for the universe he truly had
created…
EXT. EARTH – HIGH IN THE SKY – NIGHT
As the FANTASTIC FOUR wing to the attack, the HUMAN TORCH
flying alone, MR. FANTASTIC, THE THING, and THE INVISIBLE
WOMAN in the FANTASTICAR.
BRODY SILVER SURFER 2147-20 FIRST DRAFT 05/04/98
2.
THE WATCHER (O.S.)
Instead, however, he and Nova
found themselves under attack…
The battle begins!
THE WATCHER (O.S.)
(continuing)
By a group of cosmic-powered Earth
beings called the Fantastic
Four…!
