The Dangerous Desert

"The Dangerous Desert" is the second episode of Micro Ventures season one. It aired on November 23, 1968 on NBC.

The Space Agency calls in Professor Carter to retrieve a micro-sized circuit chip from the wreckage of a failed missile test.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Doctor Pollard
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jill Carter
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Patsy Garrett
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Professor Carter
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mike Carter
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Tommy Cook
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Tarantula
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Sound effects
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wasp
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Sound effects
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mother scorpion
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Gila monster
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wasp
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Sound effects
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mother scorpion
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Gila monster
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Gila monster
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable

Organizations

 * Space Agency

Locations

 * Missile launch site
 * Desert

Objects

 * Micro Reducer
 * Micro circuit

Vehicles

 * Test missile
 * Professor Carter's dune buggy

Behind the scenes

 * This is the first and only time Professor Carter is identified by name.
 * Professor Pollard is the only notable guest in the four-episode series.