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Hailey2006 - 2019-04-16

A lot of these aren't really forgettable, you got The Flash, SeaQuest, Eerie Indiana, Touched by An Angel...


Xenocide - 2019-04-16

We've got Eerie Indiana AND Twin Peaks on here! They had a baby and it was called Gravity Falls.


Marlon Brawndo - 2019-04-16

I mainly submitted this for the really obscure stuff I'd never heard of or never watched.

Mann and Machine and Space Rangers I'd never heard of. Viper and MANTIS were shows I'd been aware of but never watched.

The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage was an incredible concept and should have gone on for years. It was a Disney series about a pirate ghost being helped by a shady Wall Street tycoon avoiding jailtime while in the Caribbean who was basically a stand in for Donald Trump. They tried to really nail that home. I submitted the pilot episode a long time ago in the hopper but it didn't make it out. It was like a combination of Ghostbusters and it had lasers and explosions. It was beautiful. I wanted to recommend it for anyone that likes obscure things, especially Scrimmjob. The entire series is on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/HJDoX0Ej1wk


poorwill - 2019-04-16

Way to sell it, dumbass - you left out the coolest part:
"A regular part of every episode was an appearance of the high tech powerboat. Built by scientist/inventor Logan "FX" Murphy (played by Steve Hytner), the Blackbird was a black trimaran speedboat that resembled a SR-71 reconnaissance plane. It was originally commissioned by the previous owner of Blackbird Castle, a drug runner. After his arrest, Tarberry took possession of the Blackbird from Murphy. When not in use, the Blackbird was moored at a secret dock at Blackbird Castle on San Pietro Island."


Marlon Brawndo - 2019-04-16

Michael Eisner pointed out the speedboat in several episodes (he made an introduction for each one).

Disney should bring back this series. It had everything!


posertom - 2019-04-16

RIP Linda Hunt


poorwill - 2019-04-16

They need to bring MANIS back - it was just ahead of its time:

"Wealthy, well-spoken black conservative scientist Dr. Miles Hawkins is shot in the spine by a police sniper during a riot while trying to rescue a child, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.

After losing a lawsuit against the police department and discovering evidence of a vast right-wing conspiracy against the black community, he angrily undergoes a change in political philosophy and uses his company's resources to invent a formfitting combination powered exoskeleton and bulletproof black body armor that not only enables him to walk while wearing it but in the process also endows him with superhuman strength, speed and agility, plus the ability to fire nonlethal paralysis darts from his wrists."

"The pilot featured strong roles for a variety of African-American actors, including Gina Torres as dedicated pathologist Dr. Amy Ellis, Bobby Hosea as ambitious reporter Yuri Barnes, Wendy Raquel Robinson and Christopher M. Brown as African students of Hawkins who act as his secret support staff in his fight against crime, and Steve James as handsome inner city youth club manager Antoine Pike.

The series that followed controversially jettisoned all the black characters save for the hero himself, and the supporting cast was "whitewashed" to include quirky British scientist and exoskeleton co-inventor John Stonebrake (Roger Rees) and smart-mouthed, streetwise young bicycle courier Taylor Savage/Savidge (Christopher Gartin), with police detective Lt. Leora Maxwell (Galyn Görg) being the only other person of color as a regular on the show, and the plot was completely rebooted and simplified from that of the pilot."


Marlon Brawndo - 2019-04-16

I had no idea they got rid of all the black people on like, the only black superhero show. That's...wow.


Caminante Nocturno - 2019-04-16

If they brought back MANTIS today they'd just fuck it up like they do everything else.


garcet71283 - 2019-04-16

If they brought it back today it would be the exactly same show but with all the white characters waxing poetic about how bad they feel about the plight of colored people.

And the only positively portrayed romantic relationship would be the now lesbian Lt. Leora Maxwell and Joan Stonebrake (John Stonebrake gender-swap reboot).


Spit Spingola - 2019-04-16

Was expecting them to all be obscure and mediocre but it's more like they worked their way up to more popular ones. I feel like a lot of these syndicated shows like Space Rangers, MANTIS, and a few they didn't use like TekWar and Earth: Final Conflict are almost the TV schedule equivalent of packing peanuts. They made an incredible amount of them and they really did fill up a schedule.


Marlon Brawndo - 2019-04-16

The 90s really did churn out an amazing amount of crappy scifi that let me down.

And we haven't talked about how incredibly shitty Earth 2 was! It was so shitty! How can you have an alien that lives underground and burrows through the earth if it's a humanoid? Whaaa? Are the aliens Bugs Bunny? That made no sense.

I also hated Earth: Final Conflict. I would actually watch it every now and then just to hate on it.


duck&cover - 2019-04-16

I remember Space Rangers now. The fat guy with the metal hand also had a mechanical heart. During one episode he had to take the heart out of his chest and tinker with it during a battle.


BHWW - 2019-04-16

Space Rangers aired on CBS; it was just one of those series that just happened to look like something you'd see in first-run syndication during the 1990s. I understand it was cut short but became something of a cult hit in Europe and elsewhere.


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