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Post by Don Quixote on Jul 28, 2008 19:37:13 GMT -5
Woah woah woah... all the talk of super heroes on TV in this thread, and we neglected Hong-Kong Phooey!
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Post by CBG on Jul 28, 2008 19:40:24 GMT -5
NUMBA ONE SUPER GUY!!
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Jul 28, 2008 20:47:32 GMT -5
I really need to check out The Tick sometime. It's always on my To-do list, but never gets done. I should do something about that.
Someday.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jul 30, 2008 21:41:57 GMT -5
I watched a show called Ultraman when I was about 10 years old. Even then I knew it was awful but I liked it anyhow. It was a Japanese show, probably from the 60's where the hero could grow to giant size to fight the badguys.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Mar 8, 2009 3:14:00 GMT -5
Thought we might want to bump this to the TV forum?
I went hunting for some unaired TV pilots and manage to find a poor looking copy of Ultra - It stars the gal from the Terminator TV show (and 300). I guess it's nothing like the comic, which upset some folks, but I thought it was cute... ilogical, but cute. It's kind of a look at a superhero as just another celebrity. She has to have an agent, they film a commercial. It also had Peter Dinklage in it, but no network picked it up.
Another I watched featured Jerry O'Conell before Sliders, when he was a bit tubby. It was titled My Secret Identity and it's abvout a kid who gets into the neighbors gama radiation and receives powers. Boy this was really stupid. Poorly paced and trite. The villain was played by the old guy who played the bartender at the beginning of the X-Men.
I watched and reviewed the M.A.N.T.I.S. pilot - I netflixed the series, what I remember of it is that they changed some things and made it bad.
I'd also like to see episodes of the quirky, short lived Once A Hero - Wish they'd release it, online or whatever, I'd love to see the unaired ep with Adam West.
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Post by Torgo on Mar 8, 2009 11:01:31 GMT -5
You know, I always meant to update this with entries for Smallville and Birds of Prey, but never got around to it.
I think I'll wait and see if this is Smallville's last season or not before I do, though.
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Post by Crowfan on Mar 8, 2009 11:34:26 GMT -5
This takes me back a long way
I watched Ultraman, Specterman, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, Superfriends, Batman(1966), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(to the point that at a college Halloween party I dressed as Raphael), and that's all I can think of at the moment.
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Post by Mod City on Mar 8, 2009 20:58:21 GMT -5
With superhero television, I never watched much after Spiderman And His Amazing Friends and the Incredible Hulk series that ran Saturday mornings in the early 80s.
Around the same time, there were a couple of shows on network television I watched whenever I got the chance:
Automan Computer programmer and humanoid hologram solve crimes. Apart from blatantly borrowing from Tron, it was still pretty entertaining for a seven-year-old. And the neon-blue Countach looked cool. I'd like to see it again, though I know it probably wouldn't hold up.
Voyagers! Kind of a pre-Quantum Leap. Pair of time-travelers visit places in history to correct a "problems" with the timeline. Might be a bit of a stretch to call it a superhero show, but the two main characters were meant to be heroic and the time travel element lends to the "super" part.
I had friends who watched Misfits Of Science, but it was always on when I couldn't watch, so I've only seen about five minutes of the entire series.
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Post by Shep on Mar 8, 2009 23:32:03 GMT -5
[/center] The only live action series in my top five, like similar efforts of the 50's Superman, the Incredible Hulk had no supervillians and it was just a matter of time befor the main character showed up and saved the day. What saved the show was the portrayal of David Banner as a tortured soul desperatly searching for a cure for his condition. As he goes from town to town meeting new friends and leaving them behind, we genuinly feel for him. It's a successful drama with a jolly green giant running around, and I love it. [/quote] Bill Bixby was really wonderful in this. I saw the "Homecoming" episode recently where Banner comes out of hiding to visit his father and sister because he doesn't want to be alone on Thanksgiving. The final scene between Bixby and John Marley is beautifully played.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Mar 19, 2009 2:32:57 GMT -5
Moonknight coming to TV?If they keep the costume and have him fight superpowered or mystical beings I'd watch it. If they soften it and have him fight regular joe's... eh, then I'd pass on it. Also You know a show I only saw once or twice but remember little of it, Nightman. Anyone watch that or remember it?
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Post by Don Quixote on Mar 19, 2009 8:26:06 GMT -5
They'd better make him crazy. I like crazy Moon Knight better.
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Post by Torgo on Mar 24, 2009 10:00:36 GMT -5
I just found out yesterday that Dixney XD has aquired Spectacular Spider-Man and just started airing them. I missed out on this series on Kids WB because I didn't recieve that channel, but I NetFlixed that first DVD they put out and I thought it was surprisingly impressive. The animation was too cute-sy, but the scripts were quite solid. I'm eager to check out the rest of it.
While I rushed to set my DVR at 11 at night, I discovered at that moment they were airing ruruns of the 90's X-Men and Hulk shows. Hadn't seen them in a while, so I sat down and watched them. My opinion of X-Men hasn't changed, it's a cool show that won't shut up. The Hulk show was something I haven't seen since I was a kid, and while it was kind of fun, the script of this particular episode seemed to be lackluster. I may give it a couple of episodes and see if it grows on me.
Oh yeah, there was also some Avengers show on afterward that I had never heard of. Ugh. I tried to watch the entire episode, made it about 25 minutes and shut it off before the very ending. Terrible.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Apr 16, 2009 2:07:19 GMT -5
Did you know? The guy who plays Noah on Heroes was the actor the network wanted to play the Flash on TV?
I've been researching TV movies, pilots mostly - for my site. You know I started with these rules to keep it manageable and then expand when it did (I went from theatrical only, to including TV and direct to DVD movies)
Deciding whether a pilot can be considered a movie as well can be dicey. The Flash for example went right from the 2 hour pilot to full series the next week, it never felt like a stand alone film.
For others it wasn't as automatic, Hulk had 2 movies before they finally elected to commit to a series. Wonder Woman also had 2 pilot films, then two, hour length specials - then finally they made 11 episodes. (which I'm watching currently)
Watching this first season of Wonder Woman, which isn't bad, a little camp at times. But I got to thinking, if they ever do a live action movie...
Lynda Carter is a must to play Queen Hippolyta!
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Post by reaperg on Apr 21, 2009 11:05:57 GMT -5
I love me some old school Japanese live action superhero wackiness.
BCI released the original "Ultraman", "Iron King" and "Super Robot Red Baron" before they went under.
A company in Hawaii, JN Productions, has released "Kikaida", "Kikaida 01", "Kamen Rider V3", and "Inazuman". These sets are expensive, due to the licensing costs, the ton of extras, and the quality and care put in by such a small company, but worth it. Hard to find in continental U.S. stores, except where they specialize in Japanese/anime stuff.
"Ultraman Tiga" was also released stateside. More recent (1996-7) but also great.
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Post by Torgo on Apr 28, 2009 22:20:47 GMT -5
Pull out the pocketbook, Truebelievers. Disney is finally putting the 90's Marvel shows on DVD in chronological volumes. First up is X-Men, which hit shelves today in two volumes. Most likely this release was to cash in off of X-Men Origins: Wolverine this Friday (and perhaps the new X-Men show on Nicktoons, as well), but I'll proudly support it. Hopefully, they'll sell well enough to warrant season releases of Spider-Man in the near future.
Or, hopefully, nudge Disney a little bit into finally releasing the third season of the Tick (hopefully with the two missing episodes from the first two sets as bonuses).
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