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post #51 of 63
10/11/09 at 9:09am
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Originally Posted by Cylon Baby View Post
Too many to mention in one post, so I'll focus on the Gerry Anderson puppet series, which I saw as re=packaged "movies" on Showtime:

Captain Scarlett

Thunderbirds

Stingray

And their one non-puppet based show (although they made up all the humans to look like puppets) UFO
Ahhh, UFO. A spiffy opening, featuring the tough as nails Ed Bishop, and smoking hot British girls with purple hair and silver spacesuits. Oh, blessed England, how I love you so!
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post #52 of 63
10/11/09 at 12:20pm
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All in the far-flung future of the 1980's!
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post #53 of 63
10/11/09 at 12:25pm
Sorry, but these two will kick all your asses.
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post #54 of 63
10/11/09 at 12:28pm
Damn, I almost posted that one yesterday. I remember that whole Bigfoot thing in the 70's. It was all over TV. I'm not sure that this show was as embarrassing as what The Six Million Dollar Man did with the idea.

And on a similarly embarrassing note: Electrawoman and Dynagirl. And in the "You couldn't make this up" department, Cyndi Lauper performs the theme on MTV.
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post #55 of 63
10/11/09 at 12:33pm
This one wasn't so much weird as awesome. Sadly, this is the closest anything has come to a faithful adaptation of Burroughs' novels. And it's Norm and Lou again. I should have known.

They also produced excellent series of The Lone Ranger and Zorro. Later, all three got smashed into one show, and became lame.

I think they also did the Flash Gordon cartoon, which was great for one season, then rather enthusiastically took to jumping sharks.
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post #56 of 63
10/11/09 at 12:37pm
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Damn, I almost posted that one yesterday. I remember that whole Bigfoot thing in the 70's. It was all over TV. I'm not sure that this show was as embarrassing as what The Six Million Dollar Man did with the idea.
At least the didn't make him a goddamn alien robot.

All the shows on the Kroft Super Show were downright weird -- Bigfoot and Wildboy, Dr. Shrinker, Electra-Woman and Dyna-Girl, Wonder Bug, you name it, it was weird.
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post #57 of 63
10/11/09 at 12:38pm
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This one wasn't so much weird as awesome. Sadly, this is the closest anything has come to a faithful adaptation of Burroughs' novels. And it's Norm and Lou again. I should have known.

They also produced excellent series of The Lone Ranger and Zorro. Later, all three got smashed into one show, and became lame.

I think they also did the Flash Gordon cartoon, which was great for one season, then rather enthusiastically took to jumping sharks.
The Tarzan and Flash Gordon shows were pretty awesome. I seem to remember Flash Gordon constantly getting pre-empted, which, being a serial, wasn't the best thing for sustaining an audience.
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post #58 of 63
10/11/09 at 12:45pm
I said lunch, not launch!

Jim Nabors actually found a way to go downhill after Gomer Pyle. Note the appearance of the same alien suit seen in Far Out Space Nuts. Those Krofts were nothing if not thrifty.
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post #59 of 63
10/11/09 at 1:15pm
Greg David, Tarzan Lord Of The Jungle was...awesome. My dad and I used to watch it every saturday morning. We also enjoyed the Johnny Weissmueller Tarzan, and...Filmmation's cartoon is the only other Tarzan that we watched with any regularity.
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post #60 of 63
10/11/09 at 1:39pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David View Post
And on a similarly embarrassing note: Electrawoman and Dynagirl. And in the "You couldn't make this up" department, Cyndi Lauper performs the theme on MTV.
Yes, girls in spandex... went a long way to changing my pre-pubescent mind by proving girls weren't quite so "icky". The Cyndi Lauper clip, however... if she was getting loaded on JD and NyQuil before and after that performance, I wouldn't blame her one bit.

Fuck, all the shows I remember have been named already. I'd throw in Creature Features, but that was more AWESOME than weird, especially being the horror geek that I am. Still, to run with Greg's "ElectraWoman" post... may I present The Krofft Supershow? See, you kids today get to grow up with cartoons like Batman: Brave and The Bold, Phineas and Ferb, Fairly Oddparents, etc. and whole networks of cartoons. We got nightmares with bad disco songs and face glitter.
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post #61 of 63
10/11/09 at 2:03pm
Although it premiered after I graduated high school, I remember seeing this one on Saturday morning while recovering from a particularly vile bender...

Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos

The less said about this, the better off we all are...

But those Krofft Brothers!! I wish I could make a career out of marketing bad acid flashbacks! Who amongst you remembers this!!!


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post #62 of 63
10/11/09 at 2:06pm
Timothy225, Come on, some of the cartoons in the 70's were awesome...Force Five Grandizer, Starvengers, Gaiking, Danguard Ace, Star Blazers, Battle Of The Planets, The New Adventures Of Flash Gordon, Tarzan Lord Of The Jungle, not to mention Godzilla films and of course some live action offerings included...the classic Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers In The 25th Century By Glen A Larson!
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post #63 of 63
10/11/09 at 4:37pm
The first four, Fleed? Never saw 'em. Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets? Saw 'em in the original Japanese dubs years later when I was a teen, and the American versions paled by comparison. Flash Gordon and Tarzan? Yeah they were good... I'll give ya that. Galactica and Buck Rogers? For the kitsch factor, sure they were OK, but as straight sci-fi dramas, nope! To be honest, though, those two shows had potential, but Galactica became more of a "who's turn is it to crash-land a Viper on a strange planet this week?", followed by Buck Roger's "who's the sexy chick Rogers is going to nail this week, and why the hell doesn't he just do the horizontal mambo with Wilma already?" crap we got every episode. I was bored with both after the first season of each that I stopped watching, and from what I understand, I didn't miss much.

The same could be said for V and V: the Final Battle. Once I saw the baby Visitor and the little girl who saves the day by touching the mothership controls, Michael Ironside man-crush notwithstanding ( who was fucking BAD...ASS in this; check this out at the 5:00 mark), I was done.
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