My favorite but from the program... perhaps an inspiration for Toy Story's Forky...that and Mr. Bill.
My favorite but from the program... perhaps an inspiration for Toy Story's Forky...that and Mr. Bill.
Hell, high-school me was pretty excited about the $6Mill Man. Although I greatlly enjoyed the show overall, I think at the time I got a lot more out of the more sci-fi themed eps than I did the spy and espionage stuff (loved the ep with Shatner). Either way, I was pretty much glued to the set each week when it was on.
Sounds about right, been there.
That wouldn't have been out of place in the full-fledged Muppet Show either.
My two favorites are:I still love the original, two-part Bigfoot story, with Andre the Giant as the Squatch. Fun memories, though I'm fairly certain that if I watched those two eps now, I'd probably end up laughing my ass off!
Day of the Robot with John Saxon as an evil Robot that of course fights Steve st the end.
And
The Seven Million Dollar Man and the scene where Barney Hiller (Monte Markham) goes phsyco against some terrorists.
Also love the exchange:
Steve: "How much did you cost?"
Barney: "Seven Million."
Steve: "Well...Inflation gets us all."
Aside from the episodes already mentioned, I remember the Venus Space Probe episodes.
Yeah, I loved those as well. AND the two part 'Dark Side of the Moon'. Those were fun times.
Another thing I remember fondly from that period of time, and had nothing to do with the topics we've been talking about, was learning about the Oak Island treasure on Nimoy's In Search Of. I watched that show regularly, but that particular episode was the beginning of a 47 year obsessive interest in the subject.
Nostalgia is a great thing.
Another thing I remember fondly from that period of time, and had nothing to do with the topics we've been talking about, was learning about the Oak Island treasure on Nimoy's In Search Of. I watched that show regularly, but that particular episode was the beginning of a 47 year obsessive interest in the subject.
Nostalgia is a great thing.
Many decades ago, back in 2nd or 3rd grade, thanks to the Scholastic Book Club, I purchased a book on unsolved mysteries, and one of the two-three page stories was about Oak Island and how they discovered the original shaft and how far they dug down.Yeah, I loved those as well. AND the two part 'Dark Side of the Moon'. Those were fun times.
Another thing I remember fondly from that period of time, and had nothing to do with the topics we've been talking about, was learning about the Oak Island treasure on Nimoy's In Search Of. I watched that show regularly, but that particular episode was the beginning of a 47 year obsessive interest in the subject.
Nostalgia is a great thing.
This was 40+ years ago. The fact that they're still digging up that island boggles the mind.
The pilot movie was that concept at its best.
Wells reinforced Austin's skeleton with metal alloys in the book.
Indeed. After Henson had that outlet, the level of comedy on Sesame Street dropped significantly.
I read an article years ago that described this issue in terms of two "eras" of Gen X -- the Atari generation and the Nintendo generation. That rang true for me. I am not a video gamer at all, but I loved my Atari game console and remember it as so incredibly exciting. Games on your own TV! Who could believe it?Thats why its a subset of both (X)-(ennial) but has a difference experience than the mainline generations - I have absolutely nothing in common with a 1960s Gen X-er. Its an officially recognized thing. Its the cusp on both sides creating something different and unique. The main trait is the bridge between the analog world and the digital world, starting life in one era and graduating into another.
Xennials - Wikipedia
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Another marker of GEN X is the divide between analog and digital worlds -- older Xers like me (born in 1966) remember rotary phones and PARTY phone lines (!!!) and paying huge fees for long distance calls. I even have memories of the Apollo rocket launches and the moon landing (I know I have an unusually early memory beginning around age 2 1/2). So much was already changing by the mid- '70s that my sister, just 4 years younger than me, has a very different set of memories.
Agreed. It's been decades since I've read it, but from what I can remember about both the pilot and Caiden's Cyborg, the original TV movie stuck pretty closely to the concepts in the novel. As I recall, he went on to write at least one other novel featuring Austin.
He wrote three more Cyborg novels in total, which were in continuity with the first novel.
There were various other Six Million Dollar Man novels that followed the characters of the tv series.
"Straight on 'til Morning". A haunting episode as a kid and I saw it a short while back and it still holds up.
No, you're not strange, you got me! And as a writer, I'm highly embarrassed that I didn't catch this before I posted it.
Meg made a highly believable humanoid alien with those exotic blue eyes of hers.
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