The Invisible Boy extra on the "Forbidden Planet" 50th Anniversary DVD released in 2006 and on the Blu-ray released in 2010. Even on the Blu-ray, the film is in standard definition. The Invisible Boy The Invisible Boy (aka S.O.S Spaceship) is a 1957 black and white American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Herman Hoffman, and starring Richard Eyer and Philip Abbott. It is the second film appearance of Robby the Robot, the science fiction character who "stole the show" in "Forbidden Planet" (1956), also released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. According to an implied, subtle back story in "The
Return to the Forbidden Planet in Sydney, Australia, the beginning of a national tour, the pre-recorded narrator was Clive "Robbo" Robertson, who performed a futuristic parody of his own late-night TV news show, "Newsworld". An Australian cast album was released in 1991 by ATA Records. On September 27, 1991, an Off-Broadway production opened in New York at the Variety Arts Theatre, a former nickelodeon movie theatre. "Return to the Forbidden Planet" was the first theatrical production in the new venue. The cast included Julee Cruise, known to audiences from her role in "Twin Peaks". The pre-recorded narrator was James Doohan, famous as "Scotty" from "Star