Dr. Strange (1978 film)

Dr. Strange is a 1978 television film based on the Marvel Comics fictional character Dr. Strange, created by Steve Ditko. Philip DeGuere directed the film and wrote it specifically for television, joining forces with Alex Beaton and Gregory Hoblit to produce it. Stan Lee served as a consultant on the film, which was created as a pilot for a proposed TV series. The movie aired on September 6, 1978 in a twohour block from 8pm to 10pm on CBS, the same network that at that time aired The Amazing SpiderMan which aired its second season premiere the day before Dr. Strange and The Incredible Hulk. Unfortunately for DeGuere, CBS did not pick up Dr. Strange as a series.

Le Fay possesses a young woman named Clea Lake AnneMarie Martin, who was credited by her original birth name Eddie Benton before she changed it and uses her as a weapon against Thomas Lindmer John Mills, the old wizard, who is the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, meaning that he is its primary defender of our world against threats of a magical nature. She pushes him off a bridge, and he appears to die, before slowly getting up and healing an injury with magic. His pupil and friend, Wong Clyde Kusatsu, cares for him and locates Clea Lake for him.Lake, suffering from the psychic aftereffects of the possession and haunted in her dreams by le Fay, ends up under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Strange Peter Hooten at the psychiatric hospital. Strange is the heir to his fathers potential to become Lindmers disciple and the next Sorcerer Supreme. Strange bears his fathers magical ring as a sign of this, and he has already sensed something wrong and shared Lakes nightmare about the previous days events, but does not recognize what is going on. ........

Source: Wikipedia