Jeff Yagher (Kyle in V) was in high school drama club with me in 1978/79. He was an actor and I was in Props and Set. It was a very fun time! Jeff also played Iden in the Star Trek Voyager 2-parter Flesh and Blood, and his wife Megan Gallagher (who I never met) played a couple of guest roles in DS9.
10:48 "He comes from a secret place. . . far below the city streets. . . hiding his face from strangers. . . safe from hate and harm. . . " My GOD, this show was sappy! And I loved it. I'd get drunk on peach cider every Friday night and just cry my eyes out. Also, Ron Perlman became a teen idol until people found out what he really looked like. _Uhhhhh,_ no way.
Buck Rogers was one of the best shows of the 80's. It went downhill when they left Earth to "explore". V the mini series was great. V the series sucked the big one. Hard Time on Planet Earth was an interesting show. Max Headroom was so cool but they just didn't know what to do with it. The 'New' Twilight Zone was just a watered down version of the superior 60's TV show.
@@fjccommish if you were a 12 year.old boy it was. A perfect example of original BSG being intended as a copy of star wars format. I prefer the adult version.
This video contains two links to Quantum Leap. Galactica 1980 was originally planned to be like QL, with one of the Galactica crew going back in time to stop Baltazar from changing history, while the other communicated with him from the future. That concept later became Quantum Leap. Voyagers had a similar premise.
I always thought I'd be able to master flying by now if I was him. How hard could it be? And of course you got that FBI guy. So go out in the desert somewhere and practice flying at night. Nobody had cell phones back then to take your picture. Wear a black cat burglar suit over the super suit. Fly around. Maybe put some markers on the ground to get your bearings, things to fly past. Maybe add a couple of old junker cars and see how close you can come to flying into them without flying into them. If you make an oppsie, it was an old car so who cares? This is all basic stuff. Lear to fly, goofball.
I loved Otherworld too, could never remember the name of the show till watched this vid. Have been obsessing over it, off and on, for 30 yrs. So thank you @RwDt09
I remember Darkroom which was a Twilight Zone show, James Coburn was in fine form as the host. One episode has a man found a radio that was linked to the past of WW II. The consequences of his altering history were fun, maybe I was not used to these twist endings.
Yup, I remember that show. Wasn't there an episode about someone getting attacked by tiny toy soldiers? That was an idea they stole from Stephen King's short story collection Night Shift. They did an adaptation of that story, "Battleground," for the miniseries "Nightmares and Dreamscapes."
My favorite Episode of the "new" Twilight Zone was the one where James Whittmore Jr was the Sheriff and he ran into the Vietnam Vet who had to stay awake or else his Nightmares of the War would become reality.
That one and the one with the lady who could freeze time. There’s a nuclear warning and she freezes time, runs outside and that last shot still gives me chills!
Wow talk about memories. I watched a LOT of the shows growing up, although a few I never heard of. Otherworld was a show I could never forget & I got lucky & found a DVD copy about 8 yrs ago. Fantastic Journey should have made the list...oh well.
An actual DVD of Otherworld, or a DVD that someone had made from the TV broadcasts? I have copies of all the episodes that were recorded off TV, but the sound is way out of sync on a couple of them, especially the last episode.
@@lurkerrekrul I actually found it on Amazon. I THINK it was done by someone, but it's not glitchy or out of sync like most copies would be & you really wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I was just happy to have a copy of the show.
@@lurkerrekrul you have to understand that it's been roughly 8 yrs since I got my dvd. All I can suggest is that you check everywhere (new/used) on the site. I can't promise anything, but there's always a chance of running across a copy. Sometimes you have to be patient.
Sometimes such DVD sets are available for a short time and then seem to disappear. At one point, there was a DVD set of the cop show Lady Blue available. Unfortunately by the time I became aware of it, the link was dead and I never saw it anywhere else. Someone did eventually upload a copy. I'm not sure if they were taken from those DVDs or some other set, but the quality isn't the greatest and the episodes were recorded off a cable channel. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to have a copy of it at all, I just wish the quality was better. Actually, I wish the networks would release more of these older, one-season shows on DVD, or even DVD on demand, where they apparently make the DVDs as people order them. I imagine music copyrights get in the way a lot of the time. Reportedly the show Werewolf was going to be released on DVD, but they couldn't clear the rights to two songs and the studio no longer had a separate audio track for just the dialog, so the whole release was scrapped. Personally, I wished they'd just muted those scenes and provided subtitles. Pirates would have spliced in the audio from the TV copies.
One add: War of the Worlds - the series. 2 seasons. Wasn't horrible but wasn't great either. Both seasons very different- the 2nd one a bit darker and sillier. I don't think V needed a reboot- the original was hilarious.
1st season was a great horror show, and had some amazing tv gore. 2nd season was more dystopian scifi based, but had a great look and tone. Both are on DVD for real cheap, and worth picking up.
I watched every one of these except Once a Hero. I'm not sure how I managed to miss that one as it was the kind of show I definitely would have watched.
10:36 The first TV appearance of Thanos: The Living Titan! It was like they were tracing Jim Starlin's Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) run when they created this opening sequence! I'm glad I didn't see this show when it was released! I would have actually hated it!
Fun fact: the fighter ships used in Buck Rogers were actually the original designs proposed for the BSG Vipers. Glen Larson was a master at recycling sets and props.
Loved Buck Rodgers, more specifically Erin Gray. The original V was also great the sequel and remakes not so much. The Greatest American Hero was fun except for the fact that he never figured out how to use or fly in the suit. The loosing the instruction manual because it struck with him and he forgot to bring it with him when he regrew. Also love Linda Hamilton in Beauty and the Beast. Max Headroom was fun would love to watch the re-runs of all of these
The only one I can recall that I haven't seen was called "Lucan", about a boy raised by wolves, & then rescued & brought into society. Didn't last long, but I loved it.
"Galactica 1980" was a riot! Replacing Starbuck and Apollo with two lifelike mannequins and reducing the show's budget and writing to cheesy 'cop show' level was a super-genius idea! My favorite scene in the series was when they were at a party on Earth and accidently somebody deactivates a Ceylon by using the microwave oven! WTF! You mean that the 13 Colonies could have avoided genocidal eradication JUST BY popping in a Swanson's Pork Riblets TV dinner with green bean and apple pie side dishes? IF ONLY THEY HAD KNOWN! But the most egregious example of a drop-off in quality has to be "V: The Series". This was a truly excellent pair of mini-series' that got disfigured into a ultra-cheesy self-parody that focused on the 'Diana' character acting like a "Dynasty" vixen. Pure retardsville.
i remember werewolf it was cool. though didn't understand the last episode were he was on the beach I think due to a ship wreck or something. anyways he wakes up and the pentagram is gone, but the blood line was not severed
TZ revival had a great episode with an old car that made a present day kid relive a bank robbery I think and he was pulled from the car and whoever pulled him out saw the past events when he did. ..car was parked and he saw it being chased by cops
Sledge Hammer! . China Beach . Wiseguy. ALF. Kate & Allie . Who’s the Boss. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . Crime Story . The Tracy Ullman Show . Night Flight. WKRP in Cincinnati. Miami Vice . Reading Rainbow . Fraggle Rock . Wild Kingdom . The Love Boat . Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids . Police Squad! . Designing Women . Mork & Mindy . Murder, She Wrote . The A-Team . Cagney & Lacey . Doctor Who . Mister Roger’s Neighborhood . Quantam Leap . Murphy Brown . Little House on the Prairie The Muppet Show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse . St. Elsewhere. M*A*S*H . Newhart . Hill Street Blues. Here’s a few for the 80s I remember.
,Beauty and the Beast and Werewolf and V were not failures.They had huge cult followings.What killed them were the show producers pissing off their fans by doing stuff in the shows .They could have run for years
Lots of fun stuff here. I remember The Travelers but had forgotten the name. Werewolf and Max Headroom were great. I vaguely remember Hard Time on Planet Earth. V the Series was fun, but the two miniseries were so much better. Wish they left it with those.
holy sh1t. i had just been wondering if i had made up The Darkroom because i never hear about it, but i couldn't look it up because i could only think of the title as The Red Light, but i knew that wasn't right.
I actually loved that show and was upset when it got canceled. A few years ago, I finally found the whole series at a con on some bootleg DVDs and...well. There are definitely reasons it didn't last. I'm surprised BUCK ROGERS is here, though - by the standards of the time, that show was a hit, and it at least made it to a second season, unlike some shows on this list.
Voyagers, Friday the 13th: the series, and Battlestar Galactica was the sh*t! Loved them! Loved them.....loved them! Wish I could find those three series on videos.
@@TimelordR That Era,(1980-87), was not entirely "excrable". 1981/1982's: 'The Darkroom', 1983's: 'V' Mini-Series, 1984-86's: 'Twilight Zone' Reboot and 1983-87's: 'Tales From The Darkside', were three of the most memorable, and deserved better fates. As far as about 75% of the rest...💩!
James Coburn could make anything sound cool (too bad he wasn't around for "Scary Door" on Futurama. Also, what house did they film the Darkroom intro in?
Your list included V, Otherworld, Voyagers and The Greatest American Hero. You have gained my grudging approval as an obscure 80's sci-fi aficionado... who actually lived through the 80's. HOWEVER... you missed Manimal, Auto Man and Tales of The Gold Monkey. Tsk, tsk. For shame.
Dark Room Rocked i loved it. Premier Episode was by Stephen King!!! Galatica 19i0? Puke Loved Buck Rogers!!! Omg V!!! I loved V!!! Robert Ennglund before Freddy and of course Micheal Ironside. Never heard of that one. Never heard of this one either Voyagers cute Greatest American Hero!!!!💞 Never saw that one Beauty and the Beast💞💞 Werewolf eh Max Headroom.freaky The New Twilight Zone very good
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Vincent the Beast look like a lion? I always thought he was handsome for a monster. Was Darkroom as terrifying as its title sequence?
Does anyone else remember a Wizards and Warriors/ Dungeons and Dragons type of show? I vaguely recall only one episode where the hero and the evil prince-type guy had to work together to get out of a dungeon because a curse handcuffed them together.
Captain Justice reminds me of the early 1980s Marvel Comics comic book super hero character code-named Captain Hero. The only difference is that Captain Justice's origin is similar to the origin of the cartoon character Captain Steel from the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters, and a reversed version of the plot from the video game Comix Zone.
I loved the episode with the villain they both called the creator father and loved when the hero asked him why felt way he said fool he created me I love him! As the artist died he told the villain he was his favorite it made him happy for the first time in his life he cried with joy touching episode.
Yeah, me too. Watching it again, though, I had to shake my head a bit at how often they recycled footage during the TV series. I suppose that's what happens on such limited production budgets. The Visitor uniforms and weapons were cool. The shuttles reminded me of the Eagles from Space:1999.
I believe that was in the 90's and these are 80's Sci Fi Fantasies and so was She Wolf Of London. Oddly enough I hate the Friday The 13 movies, as I don't care for slasher horror movies, but I found the TV series interesting as it didn't follow the same premise.
@@wiseguymaybe I agree I hate slasher films I always think of the family being notified disgusting excuse for entertainment like watching lions eat people but I loved the premise of the series.
OTHERWORLD, V THE FINAL BATTLE, BSG , GREATEST AMERICAN HERO were the very best Sci-Fi shows during the 80's . why they chose to have BUCK ROGERS no longer fighting Space Pirates & having adventures on different planets, but have him as an explorer traveling to different planets is beyond me. even GALACTICA 1980 was a very bad idea. The fun & excitement while they we're in deep space disappeared when they arrived on EARTH. Although I appreciate the attempt to show them trying to adjust to life on EARTH after traveling so long in deep space.
They missed one. I remember there was a series about a cop teamed up with a man that was actually a hologram. He could turn into a car, plane, etc. Used to watch it happily every week.
