Gerry Anderson Encyclopedia
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Planitimus is one of the most striking and unusual guest characters ever to appear in the British television series Supercar.

Why? He is an alien from outer space, who sends his equally-otherworldly countryman Kalmus on a lengthy journey "halfway across the universe" to the distant planet Earth - on a very special mission, to a certain very secret base in the American state of Nevada...

Planitimus, along with Kalmus, appears in the second-series episode The Day That Time Stood Still.

He was voiced by Cyril Shaps.

Trivia[]

Planitimus' face is never seen on-camera; he is shown seated in a chair of futuristic-design, talking to Kalmus.

Planitimus

The mission is an (Earth)man...

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