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Title
 Attack of the Stone Creatures
Details
 Episode: 3
 Air Date: 09/23/1978
 Running Time: 24 minutes

Synopsis

In a sand-filled desert near Egypt, a man in a jeep appears to be on some sort of archeological mission. Before long he discovers the hidden pyramid of Ramal, an architectural oddity that includes a large shiny circle on the side that has the ability to shimmer and animate the nearby giant club-tailed lion statues. The stone monstrosities attack the man, blowing him away with their hurricane-level breath.

Our heroes, meanwhile, are cruising down the Nile in the Calico. The kids and Godzooky are planning to go for a swim in the ocean, and do so, although Godzooky makes a mess of it by splashing all the water away for a brief cartoony moment.

After Godzooky adds his unique level of levity to the story, the archeologist from before makes an appearance, but now his skin is bluish purple like a blueberry. Somehow he has a severe case of frostbite in the middle of Egypt! The archeologist is revealed to be one Mr. Jarvis, and he tells our heroes where the pyramid of Ramal is. The crew of the Calico determines to investigate and fly to the location via helicopter. A sandstorm disrupts their travel, and then suddenly the vehicle is engulfed in a freak snowstorm, which begins to freeze up the rotors on the chopper. Captain Majors calls Godzilla to help them, and luckily the king of all monsters was killing time somehow underneath the waves of the Nile. The rotors on the helicopter completely freeze over, and our heroes plummet from the sky—but Godzilla proves faster than a speeding airship and arrives just in time to catch the falling copter in his capable claws. Godzooky, meanwhile, explores nearby and stumbles upon one of the stone lion statues from before and is promptly menaced by them both. Godzilla comes to save Godzooky and sprays fire in no particular direction. Godzooky reveals that he has the power to spray smoke or something from his mouth.

Cantankerous Godzilla spouts fire again, and one of the stone lions freezes his hand in ice before they both hide themselves beneath the sand. The ice on Godzilla's hand then just up and disappears. Godzooky sprays smoke rings as well, in an attempt to aid in the battle. Somehow in all the confusion, Godzilla missed where the stone monsters hid, but Godzooky knows just where they are. The humans, meanwhile, amazingly remain completely oblivious to the fact that a terrible battle of the behemoths was just going on not far away, and, overcome with archeological curiosity, go to investigate the far more interesting pyramid.  

Our heroes start digging out the fascinating pyramid (which was buried again beneath the sand), and soon they reveal the gold circle, which shines and calls the stone creatures back out of the ground! This time, however, for some reason the stone monsters don't move. Godzooky goes for a drink at an oasis, and Pete the little kid goes along with to fill all the Calico team's canteens, but ends up dropping one of them in the oasis due to Godzooky's antics. As the freckled tot wades into the water, suddenly an insta-whirlpool opens up nearby and sucks him and then Godzooky down underwater. Once again, no one else notices.

Back at the pyramid, the gold circle inexplicably starts glowing again, and for some reason the stone creatures come alive this time.

Pete and Godzooky find themselves transported inside the pyramid. Little Pete wants to split up because he thinks they have a better chance of escaping that way, but Godzooky wants to stay together, so Pete decides the big dumb dinosaur is right. Inside the pyramid, the sarcophaguses are apparently alive and one of them clamps onto Godzooky's tail and briefly attacks him, and then the pair of bumbling heroes finds a door.    

Outside, another sandstorm starts up, once again caused by those meddling stone guardians. Captain Majors and the others, now that there is sand blowing everywhere and they might actually have a reason not to notice, finally see that the statues are alive. The stone lions puff up a blizzard, and Captain Majors calls Godzilla again, who had long since taken a powder.

Godzooky, meanwhile, is having a hard time opening the door that the two of them found. The adults outside hear Pete calling from inside the pyramid. Eventually Godzooky gets the door open, with the help of the Captain Majors and the others pushing on the outside. Thus they escape from the blizzard.

Godzilla makes his grand reappearance, and Godzooky runs out to help him. Godzilla roars at Godzooky. The stone creatures try to freeze Godzilla with their breath, and the Big G objects, picking one of them up and squeezing it until it bashes him with its tail. The other statue charges to the rescue, but Godzilla flames it in the face, and Godzooky distracts it with his smoke rings. The stone monsters both start shooting giant hailstones out of their mouths, knocking the King of the Monsters about. After a while Godzilla gets ticked off and flames the hailstones as they are forming so that they can't keep hitting him. Nevertheless, the monsters manage to freeze Godzilla in a sheath of ice. Then the two beasts of living stone charge the Godzilla-sicle in an attempt to smash him to bite-sized Godzilla bits.

At the last moment, just as the twin statue fiends are about to collide with him, Godzilla breaks out of the ice and dodges out of the way. The stone creatures, unable to stop in time, crash into each other and shatter apart into a bazillion little rocks.

Godzooky then comes along to provide a bit of the required end-of-episode comic relief and knocks down a pile of stones, startling himself.


Staff
Music by Hoyt Curtin, Will Schaefer
Cast
Carl Majors, Captain Jeff David
Pete Al Eisenmann
Brock Hilly Hicks
Darien Quinn, Doctor Brenda Thompson
Godzilla Ted Cassidy
Godzooky Don Messick
Monster Appearances Aliens, SDF, Misc
Godzilla, Godzooky, Stone Creatures N/A
Stock Footage Other Points of Interest
None Episode Guide