Tuesday, November 30, 2010
The Cult-TV Faces of: The Superhero
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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OK, here goes:
ReplyDelete1. George Reeves as Superman (The Adventures of Superman)
2. Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin (Batman)
3. Van Williams and Bruce Lee as the Green Hornet and Kato (Green Hornet)
4. Stephen Strimpell as Mr. Terrific
5. William Daniels as Captain Nice
6. Ben Murphy as Gemini Man
7. Lee Majors as Col. Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man)
8. Joanna Cameron as Isis (Secrets of Isis)
9. Deidre Hall and Judy Strangis as Electra-Woman and Dyna-Girl (The Krofft Super Show)
10. Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
11. Nicholas Hammond (or perhaps stuntman Fred Waugh) as Spider-Man
12. Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman (The New Adventures of Wonder Woman)
13. Lou Ferrigno as The Incredible Hulk
14. William Katt as Ralph Hinkley (The Greatest American Hero)
15. Chuck Wagner as Automan
16. Lewis Van Bergen as Jon Sable (Sable)
17. Jeff Lester as Captain Justice (Once A Hero)
18. John Wesley Shipp as The Flash
19. Dick Durock as Swamp Thing
20. Dean Cain as Clark Kent (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)
21. Carl Lumbly as M.A.N.T.I.S.
22. Mark Dacascos as The Crow (The Crow: Stairway to Heaven)
23. Michelle Lintel as Black Scorpion (Must resist making obvious joke)
24. Matt McColm as NightMan
25. Eric Close as Michael (Wiseman)Newman (Now and Again)
26. Victoria Pratt as Shalimar Fox (Mutant X)
27. Patrick Warburton and David Burke as The Tick and Arthur (The Tick)
28. Yancy Butler as Sara Pezzini (Witchblade)
29. Dina Meyer as Batgirl (Birds of Prey)
30. Tom Welling as Clark Kent/Kal-El (Smallville)
31. Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers (Bionic Woman)
32. Milo Venimigila as Peter Petrelli (Heroes)
The only one I'm not certain about is Sable.
Thanks for this, John.
Howard
1. Adventures of Superman 1952
ReplyDelete2. Batman 1966
3. The Green Hornet aka The Kato Show 1966
4. Mr. Terrific
5. Captain Nice
7. Six Million Dollar Man
8. Isis
9. Elektra Woman and Dyna Girl (Electra-Cool!)
10. The Bionic Woman
11. Spider-Man 1981
12. Wonder Woman (you're a wonder, Wonder Woman!)Hey, where are the pictures of Debra Winger as Drusilla aka Wonder Girl?
13. The Incredible Hulk 1977 with Bill Bixsby and Lou Ferrigno
14. The Greatest American Hero
15. Automan
17. Captain Justice
18. The Flash 1990
19. Swamp Thing 1990
20. Lois and Clark
21. M.A.N.T.I.S
22. and the secret ingredient is....The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
23. Black Scorpian
24. Night Man
26. Mutant X
27. The Tick
28. Witchblade
29. Birds of Prey
30. Smallville
32. Heroes
I think that's the best I can do
Dreaded Dreams
Petunia Scareum
It's like dying and going to heaven. So much great stuff. Has anyone seen Tick?
ReplyDeleteAnd that shot of Wonder Woman's Lynda Carter. [Eating hand] Good grief, makes me want to pull the box set out right now! : )
Wow,
ReplyDeleteHoward and Trick or Treat Pete -- you two are AMAZING! You guys are fantastic, identifying these superheroes in such short order.
The only one that seems to be giving you both grief at this point is #16, which is actually the late Simon MacCorkindale as "Manimal," another Glen Larson series that arrived the same year as Automan.
But still, you two are super-impressive getting these; and Howard, you have great discipline to resist the joke (from your quote in my Superhero book) about Black Scorpion! :)
Hi Sci-Fi Fanatic: These are gorgeous superheroes, aren't they? The Tick is an amazing, wickedly funny show and I highly recommend it!
I agree with you about Lynda Carter. I soooo need to watch some Wonder Woman again,
Thank you, all my friends!
best,
JKM
Ahh, it's good to see John Wesley Shipp in there as the scarlet speedster, the crimson comet, the monarch of motion, my all-time favorite superhero... The Flash! CBS's The Flash was a wonderful superhero series--a rare breed, really--and it'll always have a special place in my heart.
ReplyDeleteHi Brian,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you: The Flash was one of my favorite superhero programs when it aired back in 1990. I really wish it had gone on beyond one season: the series had good actors, good special effects, and some fun, quirky stories. I've always admired "The scarlet speedster" too...
Thanks for the comment,
warmest wishes,
JKM
Ah, AUTOMAN. I have fond memories of this admittedly cheesy guilty pleasure but loved the TRON-like blue glow to his costume.
ReplyDeleteJD: Automan is a guilty pleasure of mine, too! I love the costume and the Tron riffs; and Automan is by far and away better than the other Glen Larson series of the same vintage, Manimal (which was really pretty dreadful...).
ReplyDeletebest,
JKM
Right there with everyone on The Flash. Just picked up the box set for 15 dollars. Excellent show.
ReplyDeleteChris and I watched "the Crow" last night. He had never seen it :)
ReplyDeleteWasn't Black Scorpion a soft-core porn series edited down for regular TV? I could have sworn this was true.
ReplyDeleteOr was that some odd dream I had that makes me sound like a strange person now that I described it in public?
Hi Alicia!
ReplyDeleteThe original Crow film from 1994 is awesome. What did Chris think of it? Terrific, moody, dark film...
And hi, Will! You know, Black Scorpion originally consisted of two soft-core porn "movies" (ahem) but then it was adapted to be a series on the Sci-Fi Channel for one season. It was no longer any kind of porn, just...bad.
But guests on the show included Frank Gorshin, Adam West and Lou Ferrigno, among other luminaries of superherodom!
Now, let me bash TNG some more in your presence! Hah...kidding. I enjoyed reading your comment today on SFF's review of Farscape. :)
Best,
JKM
I was going to say Manimal too, dang it.
ReplyDeleteI love Mark Dacascos, he's the best part of Iron Chef, lol. Did you know he was on one episode of The Flash? Small world, isn't it.
I didn't get #31 I guess because I never bothered to watch the newer version of The Bionic Woman.
Dreaded Dreams
Petunia Scareum
Trick or Treat Pete:
ReplyDeleteI can't blame you about the new Bionic Woman. It was awful. Absolutely awful. Offhand, I can't think of a worse TV series (besides Black Scorpion, anyway...)
best,
JKM
JKM,
ReplyDeleteI never watched those soft porn movies. I didn't. Not once. Okay. Jeez. Leave me alone. I. Did not. Have. Sexual Relations. With that show.
*blush*
Hi Will,
ReplyDeleteI watched those Black Scorpion movies (soft-porn), but only as research for my book, you know?
Seriously...
best,
JKM