Picks and Pans Review: The Phoenix

UPDATED 04/27/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 04/27/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT

ABC (8-9:30 p.m. ET)

American scientists open an ancient Incan sarcophagus and find a stark-naked Adonis (Judson Scott) who is not only alive but magical. Shelley (The Associates) Smith aids him after his escape, but this cross between The Fugitive and Chariots of the Gods would have a better chance of becoming a series if Scott weren't required to be so ethereally solemn.