1956's "Forbidden Planet" follows a crew of astronauts traveling the galaxy in a flying saucer. While visiting planet Altair IV, they find a scientist and his daughter (Anne Francis) living alone ...

A 1991 recording of the jukebox musical Return to the Forbidden Planet at the West End's Cambridge Theatre, as based on Forbidden Planet and William Shakespeare's The Tempest.

In the realm of retro science fiction cinema, "Forbidden Planet" is unanimously considered a Hollywood classic and ranks at the top of almost any serious list of seminal outer space films.