Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Top 10 Eighties TV Shows

1. The A Team
2. Knight Rider
3. The Incredible Hulk

Then a big drop down to...

4. MacGyver
5. Street Hawk
6. The Six Million Dollar Man
7. Airwolf
8. TJ Hooker
9. Magnum PI
10. Chips

UPDATE: Thanks to the comment from "SchindlersFist", I've been thinking back to that slightly far fetched show "Manimal". My memories are hazy, but I do remember enjoying the transformation from man to animal (in the same way that Dr. Banner changed into the Hulk) but I believe the whole show was so unbelievable it was scrapped after eight shows. As one review on iMDB puts it:

Short-lived and watchable but pretty embarrassing to remember, Glen A. Larson and Donald R. Boyle's "Manimal" cast Simon MacCorkindale as a criminologist with the ability to tranform into any animal he chose; his assistant and his girlfriend were the only ones who knew, and if only more people - as in viewers - had known, it might have gone to a full season.

Due to a) budgetary concerns and b) this being before morphing, viewers only ever saw him change into THREE animals - usually a panther or a hawk (both realised quite well by Stan Winston), but for the episode "Scrimshaw" we saw him turn into a snake to rescue Brooke (the show's token female) from a sinkhole. This repetition and the need to hide other changes as a result (in the show where he became a horse we had to make do with sound effects) must have bored viewers, though the actual scripts can't have helped... safe to say we won't be seeing a movie version of this one.


Manimal DOES NOT make my Top 10 List.

1 Comments:

Blogger James E said...

Mr. Fist,

Thanks for the comment. Please see my update in my blog.

James

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