Go Back   Colonial Fleets > ALTERNATE UNIVERSES > Miscellaneous Entertainment
Notices
Miscellaneous Entertainment Talk about any other shows not covered by other forums.

Reply

 
Thread Tools
Old February 28th, 2006, 05:04 PM   #1
captmiloman
Bad Email Address
 
captmiloman's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Port Orchard, WA,
Posts: 327

Default March 18, 1981

I'm not sure if that date means anything to anyone. Let me refresh your memory,
"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air." March 18th marks the 25th anniversary of the premiere of "The Greatest American Hero" on ABC. If that doesn't make anyone feel a little older.
captmiloman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 28th, 2006, 05:29 PM   #2
ernie90125
Also Present
 
ernie90125's Avatar
 




SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDOwner:
BattlestarFanFilms.com

Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Newcastle, UK
Posts: 2,062

Default

Nope......I wasn't born at the time !!!!
ernie90125 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 28th, 2006, 05:42 PM   #3
BST
Snowball, My Angel Baby
 
BST's Avatar
 
COMMAND INSIGNIAAdmin
Colonial Fleets

Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Somewhere across the heavens... aka Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 9,184


Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ernie90125
Nope......I wasn't born at the time !!!!
Young whippersnapper!!

Hey Captmilo,

Pass the Geritol, will ya?
Gettin' a little feeble in me old age......

__________________
Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore .


Children are a message that we send
to a time that we will never see.
BST is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 28th, 2006, 06:06 PM   #4
Bijou88
Guest
 
Bijou88's Avatar
 
Posts: n/a

Default

I can still hear the theme song. GAH is a great show and has held up as entertainment. In some ways the episodes are now period pieces. The cold war is over but many episodes have to do with beating the commies. I am glad the episodes are available on DVD. The unaired pilot that is included with DVD season 1, "The Greatest American Heroine" is a great capper to the series. It acts as satisfying closure to the original series and an interesting "what if" for a new series that didn't take off.
  Reply With Quote
Old February 28th, 2006, 08:20 PM   #5
captmiloman
Bad Email Address
 
captmiloman's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Port Orchard, WA,
Posts: 327

Default

I've seen reports that Cannell is currently developing a GAH feature film(both he & Robert Culp hinted at this in the season one DVD exrtas). This is how I'd handle the story:School teacher Ralph Hinkley(Nicholas Brandon from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") is on a field trip with his students when their bus stalls. Ralph pulls out his cell phone to call his girlfriend Pam Davidson(casting TBD), but discovers it's dead. He leaves the students with the bus to find help. After walking for a little while, an out of control car nearly runs him down. The car is driven by FBI agent Bill Maxwell(Denis Leary). Ralph is obviously annoyed by this. Maxwell, in Denis Leary fashion lights up a cigerette and kind of goes on a rant about it not being his fault. At that moment, strange lights appear in the sky, followed by the familiar-looking ship. Ralph and Bill jump into Bill's car. The doors lock on their own and Maxwell's satillite radio turns on automatically. The "little green guys" are heard over the radio. Yes, this would be the familar setup from the original pilot episode only updated a bit. I think leary would be perfect as Maxwell if he were left free to portray the role slightly similar to the character of Mike McNeil from "The Job", only he would have to tone it down a little.
captmiloman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1st, 2006, 05:00 AM   #6
Pegasus4
Bad Email Address
 
Pegasus4's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NJ
Posts: 151

Default

a remake of GAH?! shhh, don't give Hollywood any ideas. Especially youknowwho. He might do a reimagining with a female Agent Maxwell, darker and sexier aliens, different powers and costume and leave out the girlfriend/wife Pam. That's all we need is GAH:TOS fans argueing with GAHINO fans.

I watched this show the night it first aired (for the first half then it was bedtime). I never liked how his name of Hinkley was changed to Hanley because it was the same name as that man who shot President Reagan. Insulting to people in real life with that last name.
Pegasus4 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1st, 2006, 05:14 AM   #7
Pegasus4
Bad Email Address
 
Pegasus4's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NJ
Posts: 151

Default

And I loved the Mad Magazine parody
Pegasus4 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1st, 2006, 07:40 AM   #8
Charybdis
Battlestar Callisto
 
Charybdis's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: USA
Posts: 1,064

Default

I remember watching this show early on! Wow, 25 years already...time flies...
__________________
When Commander Adama sees these, he's gonna go crazy!

http://bscallisto.proboards.com/index.cgi
Charybdis is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1st, 2006, 02:37 PM   #9
Bijou88
Guest
 
Bijou88's Avatar
 
Posts: n/a

Default

1981-1982 wasn't exactly a banner year for sci fi television. I think the only other game in town, besides GAH, was the "Powers of Matthew Star" and "Mr. Merlin." GAH was fun but one thing annoyed me. When Ralph would fly he was always freaking out. It seems to me that after a while he would get used to it.
  Reply With Quote
Old March 1st, 2006, 05:05 PM   #10
captmiloman
Bad Email Address
 
captmiloman's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Port Orchard, WA,
Posts: 327

Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Pegasus4
a remake of GAH?! shhh, don't give Hollywood any ideas. Especially youknowwho. He might do a reimagining with a female Agent Maxwell, darker and sexier aliens, different powers and costume and leave out the girlfriend/wife Pam. That's all we need is GAH:TOS fans argueing with GAHINO fans.

I watched this show the night it first aired (for the first half then it was bedtime). I never liked how his name of Hinkley was changed to Hanley because it was the same name as that man who shot President Reagan. Insulting to people in real life with that last name.


I'd actually would like to see GAH on the big screen. Who needs TV? I was listening to some audio of Mr. Benedict speaking at a convention from a few years ago. I agree with something he said. Most(if not all) TV today is written with women viewers in mind. He said that even the A-Team couldn't be done on TV today. I have to think that's why remakes of shows like "Charlie's Angels", "Starsky & Hutch", "Dukes Of Hazzard", "Miami Vice"(coming this summer) made their way to the big screen. You can't do those shows anymore in their original versions on TV. I think even Robert Culp's portrayal of Bill Maxwell would be a no-no. Even Gil Gerard's portrayal of Buck Rogers wouldn't work. Do I agree with it, no. But that's the way TV is today. Seems like writers and producers can still get away with more on the big screen. Just my $0.02 worth.
captmiloman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1st, 2006, 07:35 PM   #11
Bijou88
Guest
 
Bijou88's Avatar
 
Posts: n/a

Default

It is true that males do not watch as much TV as they used to. Males spend more free time playing video games or surfing the net. TV could become a medium that targets more of a female audience.
  Reply With Quote
Old March 1st, 2006, 09:20 PM   #12
Pegasus4
Bad Email Address
 
Pegasus4's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NJ
Posts: 151

Default

I remember Powers of Matthew Star and Mr. Merlin. They weren't bad but didn't last long. Mr. Merlin was funny.

I don't care if someone does a GAH movie. I was joking about it being remade the same way as another show we talk about on this site. Besides it's only a matter of time before it gets a new movie like everything else is getting made into movies nowadays.

Wasn't there supposed to be a Six Million Dollar Man movie with Jim Carrey? I wonder what $6M can buy today in bionics. It would be a movie about a man with a bionic hand Who would play Jaime Sommers?

True about males not watching as much TV. In my case it's because there's currently nothing on I like (plus I work nights). At home I'm usually playing video games or surfing the net
Pegasus4 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 2nd, 2006, 12:05 PM   #13
Bijou88
Guest
 
Bijou88's Avatar
 
Posts: n/a

Default

I understood it was going to be called the six billion dollar man.
  Reply With Quote
Old March 3rd, 2006, 12:22 AM   #14
captmiloman
Bad Email Address
 
captmiloman's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Port Orchard, WA,
Posts: 327

Default

Last I heard, the Jim Carey SMDM is/was supposed to be a comedy based on the novel Cyborg, which was the basis of the TV series. I actually didn't read the novel until about the early 80's. I thought it was actually better than the series itself. It would be interesting to see what could be done with this book, only updated, but not as a comedy. It would be interesting to see Jim Carey as Steve Austin, but my choice of actors would have to be Nathan Fillion("Firefly"/"Serenity").
captmiloman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 3rd, 2006, 01:06 AM   #15
Pegasus4
Bad Email Address
 
Pegasus4's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NJ
Posts: 151

Default

That's right, I forgot it was going to be a comedy. It was going to be Jim Carrey after all. I remember he was going to have nuclear powered bionic limbs.

I can see Capt. Mal as Steve Austin in a serious adaptation.
Pegasus4 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 3rd, 2006, 01:10 AM   #16
Pegasus4
Bad Email Address
 
Pegasus4's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NJ
Posts: 151

Default

Quote:
1981-1982 wasn't exactly a banner year for sci fi television.
It was the best for sci fi movies according to the movie Free Enterprise (not the film itself, the DVD extras). Tron, E.T., Poltergeist, The Road Warrior, a few others, and of course Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. That movie also said 1999 was the worst year for scifi movies. I can only think of one, Episode I.

Back on topic, the last two Otakon anime conventions I went to in Baltimore I saw a man dressed as the GAH. He had a thick brown mustache and his brown hair stuck out from under the wig. I have a pic I took somewhere. I'll post it when I find it. Yes I said anime con.
Pegasus4 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old May 16th, 2006, 09:39 PM   #17
Cylon Number 13
Renegade Humanocylon
 
Cylon Number 13's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: In the cockpit of my modified Viper.
Posts: 1,442

Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by captmiloman
I'm not sure if that date means anything to anyone. Let me refresh your memory,
"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air." March 18th marks the 25th anniversary of the premiere of "The Greatest American Hero" on ABC. If that doesn't make anyone feel a little older.
That show was cool!
Cylon Number 13 is offline   Reply With Quote

Reply

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump




So sez our Muffit!!!

For fans of the Classic Battlestar Galactica series



COPYRIGHT
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 04:08 PM. Contact the Fleet - Colonial Fleets - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top
Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.11, Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content and Graphics ©2000-Present Colonial Fleets
The Colonial Fleets Forums are run by Battlestar Galactica fans, paid for by Battlestar Galactica fans, for the enjoyment of fellow Battlestar Galactica fans.



©2000-2008 Colonial Fleets