The Most Popular Articles About Classic TV In 2021
20. Sky High (TV Series)(2003-2004)
Sky High is a live-action, supernatural Japanese television drama series, starring actress and model, Yumiko Shaku. It aired in Japan, first run, from 2003 to 2004, and was popular enough to spawn the 2003 feature film of the same name (produced while the series was still in production and starring the same actress). Both are based on the Japanese manga, Sky High. Shaku stars as Izuko, the Guardian of the Gate to the afterlife.
This version of the famous web-slinging hero was part of a deal that Marvel made with Toei, namely that for a four-year period, Toei could use Marvel's characters in any way they saw fit. So in 1978, a Spider-Man tokusatsu series was produced for Japanese television by Toei Company Ltd. While Spider-Man's costume was certainly based on the original, the storyline had nothing to do with the Marvel character. The series had a major impact on other Japanese live-action (tokusatsu) shows, and in particular the Super Sentai series, by popularizing the use of piloted giant robots to destroy giant monsters. This series also introduced the formula of featuring monster battles on two scales in the same episode.
Leela was a warrior of the Sevateem, descended over many generations from a colonisation ship’s survey team. Proud, strong and occasionally violent, Leela was also curious to learn more, running into the TARDIS when the Doctor refused to take her with him, and accidentally activating the controls. Resisting the Doctor’s attempts to “civilise” her, she fought sinister Voc robots, slimy Rutans and even leapt through a window to escape a murderous ventriloquist dummy. After helping the Doctor defeat the Sontarans’ invasion of time, she chose to remain on Gallifrey with Commander Andred and the first version of K-9.
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3. The Sexy 80s: 20 Minute Workout
Way back in the innocent 1980s there was a syndicated exercise program called 20 Minute Workout. The program featured three lovely ladies doing exercises on a rotating platform to synth music. Though the show was marketed as a ladies fitness program it was in actuality softcore erotica targeted towards men.
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2. Fireball XL-5 - From The Land of Forgotten Television
Fireball XL5 is a science fiction themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol. The show was produced from 1962 to 1963 by husband and wife team Gerry and Sylvia Anderson through their company APF, in association with ATV for ITC Entertainment, and first transmitted on ATV on Sunday 28 October 1962. While developing his new show, Anderson thought a brand of motor oil—Castrol XL—had an interesting sound. A phonetic change created the name "Fireball XL", with the "5" added as the title seemed a bit flat without the numeral.
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1. Cleopatra 2525 - From The Land Of Forgotten Television
19. You Really Haven't Lived Until You've Seen The Japanese Spider-Man TV Show
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Xena's adventures chronicle her fight against evil in a heavily fictionalized ancient Greece. In Hercules, she is depicted as a seductive but treacherous warlord. Further episodes of Hercules featured Xena during May sweeps, and chronicle her evolution from a villain to friend and ally of Hercules. In her own series, Xena set out to redeem her murderous past by fighting against tyranny and evil, and protecting the innocent and weak. Many of her adventures prior to the televised stories are revealed in flashback episodes.
Genesis II is a 1973 American television film pilot created and produced by Gene Roddenberry and directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. The film, which opens with the line, "My name is Dylan Hunt. My story begins the day on which I died", is the story of a 20th-century man thrown forward in time, to a post-apocalyptic future, by an accident in suspended animation.
We still do not know who killed the two men (later identified as members of the extremist group the Isfahan) who attacked Lauren Kyte on 22 September, nor the armed intruders who were subsequently found dead at her abode. Nor can I find any medical rationale for the highly anomalous post-mortem findings on their bodies.
A long time before Disney took over Star Wars and brought it into our homes with the outstanding Mandalorian series George Lucas handed the keys to the franchise over to director Steve Binder and his production company who produced the rather infamous Star Wars Holiday Special that aired on CBS on this day in 1978. The show featured the first appearance of Boba Fett in an animated sequence, (that was the good part) several low grade comedy sketches, a couple of strange musical numbers including a song by Carrie Fisher that was bad by even 70s standards and a boring plot that centered around Chewbacca trying to get to his home planet of Kashyyyk to celebrate their version of Thanksgiving know as Life Day.
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9. Pink Lady (1980)(NBC) - From The Land Of Forgotten Television
Way back in 1980 Sid and Marty Kroft, the makers of H.R. Pufnstuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, somehow convinced the folks over at NBC that a prime-time comedy/variety show starring Japan's hottest singing duo Pink Lady (Mie and Kei) and comedian Jeff Altman would be something that Americans would want to watch on a Friday nights instead of getting drunk. Unfortunately being drunk would end up being the only way anyone could make it through an episode of this poorly conceived mess of bad stand-up comedy, bad sketch comedy and Pink Lady lip syncing American disco hits. The fact that Pink Lady were indeed trying to mouth the words to English songs was so obvious that the makers of the show just gave up after a couple of episodes and let the duo just sing their hit Japanese songs instead.
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Feldon first became known for her starring role in a commercial for "Top Brass," a hair product for men. The commercial featured her lying on a stuffed tiger and purring that she only liked "tigers: men who use Top Brass." This commercial caught the eye of Leonard Stern, who was setting up a spy spoof show called Get Smart. Stern called it a "very sensual performance," and was quickly convinced that Feldon ought to play the leading female role for the show.
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7. Wesley Snipes, Jenny Agutter And Michael O'Gorman Almost Cast For STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION!
A recently released memo from Paramount reveals that "Star Trek: The Next Generation" could have had a much different cast if the studio had been able to sign the actors that it had on it's initial 'wish list'.
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6. The Godzilla Many Americans Have Never Seen - Ryusei Ningen Zon (Zone Fighter)
The Zone Family is forced to find shelter on Earth after their home planet, Peaceland, is destroyed by the Garoga Army. Posing as the Sakimori Family, the Zone's had hoped to begin a new life, instead they would become Earth's defenders against the Garoga Army. The Zone Fighters are able to transform to giant size to battle the giant beasts enslaved by the Garoga.
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5. The Midnight Special: The Partridge Family - I Can Feel Your Heartbeat
The Partridge Family was created for television by Bernard Slade, and the series' executive producer was Bob Claver. The show was inspired by and loosely based on the Cowsills, a family pop music group that was famous in the late 1960s. In the show's early development, the Cowsill children were considered by the producers, but because the Cowsills were not trained actors and were too old for the roles as scripted, Slade and Claver abandoned that idea. Shirley Jones had already been signed as mother Shirley Partridge and star of the show. Surviving members of the Cowsill family have more recently suggested that in fact they were the leading contenders for the child roles, but the deal was wrecked because their tyrannical father insisted that his own wife should play the mother role, despite the producers' insistence that Jones's casting in the role of Mrs Partridge was not negotiable.
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18. Xena: Her courage will change the world!
16. As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly
Many of the antics that viewers enjoyed on WKRP in Cincinnati were inspired by real events. In the seventh episode of the series, "Turkeys Away," Mr. Carlson conjures up an attention-grabbing Thanksgiving promotion. With the help of Herb and Les, he puts a spin on the classic turkey giveaway and makes the holiday one that won’t be forgotten — for decades to come. WKRP will drop 20 live turkeys from a helicopter.
Many of the antics that viewers enjoyed on WKRP in Cincinnati were inspired by real events. In the seventh episode of the series, "Turkeys Away," Mr. Carlson conjures up an attention-grabbing Thanksgiving promotion. With the help of Herb and Les, he puts a spin on the classic turkey giveaway and makes the holiday one that won’t be forgotten — for decades to come. WKRP will drop 20 live turkeys from a helicopter.
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15. From The Typewriter Of Agent Dana Scully
15. From The Typewriter Of Agent Dana Scully
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This series combines the Oriental philosophical feel of the long established Ultraman character with a more Western approach to characters and story-telling. The result is a thrilling action adventure which has been compared in the press to a "combination of original Ultraman and the work of Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds, Space:1999, UFO)." Filmed entirely on location in Australia with a multi-national cast, Ultraman: Towards The Future was the first live-action Ultraman series produced entirely in English. Filled with exotic locations, high speed action and intriguing science fiction concepts, Ultraman: Towards The Future is a series to please young and old alike.
14. Ultraman: Towards the Future (1990) - From The Land Of Forgotten Television
13. The Doctor's Sexiest Companion? Peri Brown (1984-86)
Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown, met the Fifth Doctor while bored at her stepfather archaeological dig on Lanzarote. After helping defeat the Master, Peri opted to travel with the Doctor. During an early adventure, the Doctor and Peri contracted Spectrox Toxaemia on Androzani Minor. The Doctor’s selfless actions saved her from death and prompted the Time Lord’s fifth regeneration. The Sixth Doctor was initially unstable, and Peri had trouble coming to terms with him. She fought Cybermen on Telos, the combined machinations of the Rani and the Master, and joined the Doctor’s second incarnation in Spain to repel the Sontarans. During the Doctor’s trial, it was revealed that Peri died on Thoros Beta, when her mind was overwritten with that of the Mentor Lord Kiv. King Yrcanos – being used as an assassin by the Time Lords - destroyed the Peri-Kiv hybrid’s body. When the Doctor was acquitted, he was informed that the evidence concerning Peri’s death had been falsified – she lives, married to Yrcanos, a warrior queen of the Krontep.
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Syndication was the saving grace for “Star Trek”. Soon after the show had been canned by NBC, Paramount, who had purchased the rights to the show from Desilu, began shopping the show around to local TV affiliates. The show gained a huge following when it was marketed to younger viewers as part of their after school programming. Soon “Trek” toys began appearing on store shelves and a mass marketing snowball began rolling. Lunch boxes, posters, miniature starships and even an animated series were all hurriedly put into production. Fans began to organize fan clubs and conventions that quickly grew into large-scale star-studded events. Never before had a series been reborn in the manner “Star Trek.” did after it was syndicated. “Star Trek” quickly moved from a mere TV series to a cult phenomenon.
Five hundred-year-old sorceress Morgan LeFey (Jessica Walter) is tasked by her nameless, demonic master (a giant, mist-enshrouded puppet, voiced by David Hooks) to slay Earth's current sorcerer supreme, Thomas Lindmer (John Mills... yes, THE John Mills) within an arbitrary timeframe of three days. I suspect he's supposed to be Dormammu. 10. Travel to a Galaxy not quite far enough away: The Star Wars Holiday Special
12. Star Trek: To boldly go where no Geek-O-Rama has gone before!
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11. Dr. Strange (1978)
Five hundred-year-old sorceress Morgan LeFey (Jessica Walter) is tasked by her nameless, demonic master (a giant, mist-enshrouded puppet, voiced by David Hooks) to slay Earth's current sorcerer supreme, Thomas Lindmer (John Mills... yes, THE John Mills) within an arbitrary timeframe of three days. I suspect he's supposed to be Dormammu. 10. Travel to a Galaxy not quite far enough away: The Star Wars Holiday Special
A long time before Disney took over Star Wars and brought it into our homes with the outstanding Mandalorian series George Lucas handed the keys to the franchise over to director Steve Binder and his production company who produced the rather infamous Star Wars Holiday Special that aired on CBS on this day in 1978. The show featured the first appearance of Boba Fett in an animated sequence, (that was the good part) several low grade comedy sketches, a couple of strange musical numbers including a song by Carrie Fisher that was bad by even 70s standards and a boring plot that centered around Chewbacca trying to get to his home planet of Kashyyyk to celebrate their version of Thanksgiving know as Life Day.
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9. Pink Lady (1980)(NBC) - From The Land Of Forgotten Television
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8. Actress Profile: Barbara Feldon
Feldon first became known for her starring role in a commercial for "Top Brass," a hair product for men. The commercial featured her lying on a stuffed tiger and purring that she only liked "tigers: men who use Top Brass." This commercial caught the eye of Leonard Stern, who was setting up a spy spoof show called Get Smart. Stern called it a "very sensual performance," and was quickly convinced that Feldon ought to play the leading female role for the show.
READ MORE
7. Wesley Snipes, Jenny Agutter And Michael O'Gorman Almost Cast For STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION!
A recently released memo from Paramount reveals that "Star Trek: The Next Generation" could have had a much different cast if the studio had been able to sign the actors that it had on it's initial 'wish list'.
READ MORE
6. The Godzilla Many Americans Have Never Seen - Ryusei Ningen Zon (Zone Fighter)
The Zone Family is forced to find shelter on Earth after their home planet, Peaceland, is destroyed by the Garoga Army. Posing as the Sakimori Family, the Zone's had hoped to begin a new life, instead they would become Earth's defenders against the Garoga Army. The Zone Fighters are able to transform to giant size to battle the giant beasts enslaved by the Garoga.
READ MORE
5. The Midnight Special: The Partridge Family - I Can Feel Your Heartbeat
The Partridge Family was created for television by Bernard Slade, and the series' executive producer was Bob Claver. The show was inspired by and loosely based on the Cowsills, a family pop music group that was famous in the late 1960s. In the show's early development, the Cowsill children were considered by the producers, but because the Cowsills were not trained actors and were too old for the roles as scripted, Slade and Claver abandoned that idea. Shirley Jones had already been signed as mother Shirley Partridge and star of the show. Surviving members of the Cowsill family have more recently suggested that in fact they were the leading contenders for the child roles, but the deal was wrecked because their tyrannical father insisted that his own wife should play the mother role, despite the producers' insistence that Jones's casting in the role of Mrs Partridge was not negotiable.
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4. The Doctor's Sexiest Companion? Leela (1978/79)
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3. The Sexy 80s: 20 Minute Workout
Way back in the innocent 1980s there was a syndicated exercise program called 20 Minute Workout. The program featured three lovely ladies doing exercises on a rotating platform to synth music. Though the show was marketed as a ladies fitness program it was in actuality softcore erotica targeted towards men.
READ MORE
2. Fireball XL-5 - From The Land of Forgotten Television
Fireball XL5 is a science fiction themed children's television show following the missions of spaceship Fireball XL5, commanded by Colonel Steve Zodiac of the World Space Patrol. The show was produced from 1962 to 1963 by husband and wife team Gerry and Sylvia Anderson through their company APF, in association with ATV for ITC Entertainment, and first transmitted on ATV on Sunday 28 October 1962. While developing his new show, Anderson thought a brand of motor oil—Castrol XL—had an interesting sound. A phonetic change created the name "Fireball XL", with the "5" added as the title seemed a bit flat without the numeral.
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1. Cleopatra 2525 - From The Land Of Forgotten Television
When complications arise during her breast augmentation surgery, 20th-century exotic dancer Cleo (Jennifer Sky) is put into suspended animation. Waking 525 years in the future, Cleo joins two women in their fight against the Baileys, armed flying machines who now control Earth's surface. Her team leader, Hel (Gina Torres), is commanded by a mysterious female entity called "Voice", who relays orders via a communications implant under Hel's right ear. Voice controls many other teams and gives them their orders in a similar fashion, in effect forming a resistance to the Baileys, with their ultimate goal to retake the Earth's surface. Their final team member is Sarge (Victoria Pratt), whose sister belongs to a cult that regards the Baileys with reverence and willingly sacrifices themselves to them.
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