Little Remembered TV Series and TV Movies

CupofJoe said:
The Lone Gunmen
The X-files spinoff seemed to sink without trace not long after it appeared. It is probably most remembers cause the pilot episode was about an aircraft being hijacked and flown in to the WTC. It aired a few months before 9/11.
Kyle XY
Why does Kyle have no belly button? Half sci-fi mystery, half family drama. It was a nice easy watch but it never seems to find it feet.
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And they got killed off in the X Files.:(
 
I sort of liked the electronic sound track. It was verging on the surreal or dadaesque.
I got the feeling that they only joined film and sound at broadcast.
Or it was just terrible. I can't decide.
 
The White Horses. My late sister's favourite. It was an overdub for British TV
 
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Astro Pen said:
Danger is my Business 1950s Test Pilots, Divers, Explosives experts. I think there was one on Red Adair extinguishing oil well fires.
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Used to love that. Also Garry Halliday, Whirlybirds, Your Life in Their Hands, It's a Square World, Space Patrol, and a documentary series that I think was called 'Challenge', about extraordinary feats of science, engineering and medicine. This was the period 1955-1965.
 
Victoria Silverwolf said:
It definitely falls under "What were they thinking?"

That Laugh-In was much too slow and sedate?

That random electronic noises could replace the laugh track?
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Thanks for the memories.
Seeing the you tube clip brought back memories, not of the show itself, but of the times that brought it about. Ampex video recorders were the size of a steamer trunk, something one could only dream about until the much smaller vcr came out 15 years later. I bought 5 of them for friends and family as they had no idea what they were.
Comedians got hold of some very high tech equipment and just ran with it, but obliviously the video editors needed a story editor to edit their editing. What were they thinking. What comes to mind is Wiley Coyote working on the next invention to catch the Road Runner, in the shack on the railroad tracks, hearing the seductive train whistle in the not so distant distance.
Artists, like Andy Warhol, were writing books in a style that was completely unreadable. In retrospect it was a pretty stupid idea. I know, because I wrote one. You could have accomplished the same thing with a single chapter.
"It wasn't a bad show," then-Los Angeles Free Press reviewer Harlan Ellison claimed, "it was just an awkward show."
Laugh in was a very conservative tip of a very big ice berg. Some of it highly visible, other parts always behind closed doors, though the doors could be found in any public park.
Monty Python came out in 1969 and had already run its 4 year course before it was ever shown on American TV in 1974. By then counter culture was just another thing.
If Turn on was allowed to run unabated on prime time tv in 1969, perhaps it could have infected the human psyche the same way the computer virus destroyed the alien spaceship master control program in Independence day.

I was impressed by the central computer console, looked better than anything on the original Star Trek and I still like that program 55 years later. It was the size of the desk that you sat at to make the punch cards that were used to input a computer program into a computer which took up an entire building. The nice thing about university computer centers was that the drinking fountain water was ice cold.
 
Sword of Justice staring Dark Rambo . About man named Jack Cole gets framed for Murder and is tossed in jail when he gets out he goes after the people that set him up . No doubt inspired by Dumas's The Count Of Monte Cristo . The series ran from 1978 to 79.
 
BAYLOR said:
Sword of Justice staring Dark Rambo . About man named Jack Cole gets framed for Murder and is tossed in jail when he gets out he goes after the people that set him up . No doubt inspired by Dumas's The Count Of Monte Cristo . The series ran from 1978 to 79.
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Was that the one where he left playing cards around, the number on the card representing the number of years he was falsely imprisoned? It's coming back to me wasn't the spade suit the sword of justice?
 
Vladd67 said:
Was that the one where he left playing cards around, the number on the card representing the number of years he was falsely imprisoned? It's coming back to me wasn't the spade suit the sword of justice?
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Yes it was .:)

The show had an annoying opening theme music . it wasn't that good a tv show either.
 
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Astro Pen said:
The White Horses. My late sister's favourite. It was an overdub for British TV
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This series could almost be said to have saved my life, or at least to have give back my life after I had more or less lost it.

I had been kicked in the head by a horse as a boy, which made quite a big hole. Following surgery to rebuild my skull, I remained in a coma for 4 days.
Once I emerged from the coma, I was pretty much unresponsive to anything the doctors or my parents could do, other than eating the plain chocolate that my father would give me. They had little hope of any change.

But one day the theme tune for this programme, which I had previously been following, came wafting down from the children's ward, which was fairly close to the intensive care ward that I was in.

Apparently I sat up in bed and demanded to be able to watch the program. My wish was granted when I was wheeled into the children's ward, where I promptly fell asleep. But following that, I regained my normality and eventually became the household name that I am not known by today.

Incidentally, I remember none of this, although I do have vivid memories of my time in the children's ward soon after and of it's smell and of being given pork and beans for supper; despite all this happening some 56 years ago. And of course, the theme tune is with me always. (Grrr!)
 
farntfar said:
This series could almost be said to have saved my life, or at least to have give back my life after I had more or less lost it.

I had been kicked in the head by a horse as a boy, which made quite a big hole. Following surgery to rebuild my skull, I remained in a coma for 4 days. ... But following that, I regained my normality and eventually became the household name that I am not known by today.
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Glad to hear the injury didn't have any life-changing effects. Close call!
 
Anna and The King 1972 . What worked as a successful musical film failed miserably as a straight up non musical tv series . It lasted 13 episodes .

Nakia cop show , the main character was Native American. It lasted about 13 episodes.
 
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I found the least interesting thing about the TV series to be Prince Choolelongkorn (however you spell it).
They tried to make it all a bit too modern (modern for the early 70s), especially about the prince's freedoms. (*)
I suppose nowadays, you would say it was a bit too progressive. :giggle:

*Yes I know this was actually a central theme of the film and the original book, but I found it to be a too prissy about it.
 
Witchblade live action series ran for 2001 to 2002 two series.
 
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Odyssey 5 Showtime created the show and decided they didn't want it anymore . :(
 
Total Recall 2070 - but watch the uncensored Canadian dvd version.
 
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