The film: Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)

Why you should see it: Wacky doesn’t even begin to describe it in this case.

Here’s the sit - Astronaut Tom Trimble (Dennis Dugan) and the android look-alike Hermes he built to avoid going crazy arrive via light-barrier breaking spaceship back in time at the court of King Arthur.

There, Trimble falls for the lovely Alisande (Sheila White) and must deal with the evil Nordred (Jim Dale). Guess what happens?

Where are they now? Dugan is these days better known as one of Adam Sandler’s collaborators, and the director of Big Daddy, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, You Don’t Mess With The Zohan and The Benchwarmers, among others. We sort of wish he’d stuck to acting.

Carry On legend Jim Dale still snags the odd acting job, but he’s now more heard than seen as the narrator of the Harry Potter audio books and on TV as the voice of recently-cancelled drama Pushing Daises.

How it could be remade: We have a horrible feeling Disney would want to shove this one right back to Dugan – but as a director.

The first person to suggest Rob Schneider takes over the lead for one of his typically laugh-free comedy performances is hereby banished to the court of Very Painful Limbs.

So maybe Dwayne Johnson could suit up…