The Gay Geek (June 12, 2008)

by mentioning Laura Branigan (my 2nd favorite singer) and her appearance on Automan. For a refresher, here you go

I have seen Justice League, and it's really bad, which is why i love it...and Mathew Settle was hot! what about the 70's live action tv version of Spiderman? I loved it when i was a kid, but watching it again was jaw dropping.

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One of the worst Super Hero shows ever, Black Scorpion, a Sci-fi network original.. Oh dear god I still have nightmares.. For those of you who can't remember follow the link...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0155425/

Anyone else remember this one, The Phoenix ?

Seems it only lasted about 4 or 5 episodes but I do recall it. Alien astronaut has to find his missing partner. From either 1981 or 82. Its male lead and the male leads from Manimal / Man from Atlantis should be filled for me in the other blog, missed coming out clues from the 80s.

There was also a show in the 80s, Otherworld, pretty good ...almost the same idea as Sliders, family moves from different world to different world each week. However would not count as a super hero show.

Oh, and Snicks, is this the Spiderman you mentioned ? Vague memories of it, would have been, what, 9 yo at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUcktiQxC9Q 

I have the Justice League pilot on video tape (!?!) adn it is so, so, awfully bad. I don't know, maybe I'm misremembering...I'd give it another try but we no working VCR anymore...oh well...not too upsetting! Birds of Prey was interesting, and I think, much better than Smallville (which is still on????), aside from the Tom Welling beefcake... and yes, it definately had troubles, but it seemed to be finding its' footing much more, right before the end...oh well, again. And I also quite enjoy the Sims. But only for periods. Every couple years I'll go 'ooh, what's out for Sims?' and buy every sim expansion I find, and play for a month, then I lose interest...oh well, for a third time.

This one ran for 3 seasons in syndication and was a pretty bad attempt to clone X-Men for the tv audience.

I've seen the Justice League of America pilot. If it had come out in the '70s, it might have been consider pretty good but it came out in 1997, and for that time, it was terrible.

I remember Black Scorpion and it was crappy too. The live action tv series, The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich in the Sound of Music!) was incredibly campy and cheesy but for its time period in the late '70s, it was fun.

There were also the two Captain America tv movies in the '70s starring Reb Brown. At the time, I thought they were kinda cool, though now, they'd probably be considered really cheesy and lame. I never saw the 1990 direct-to-video version starring Matt Salinger but its rating on IMDB is even worse than the Reb Brown efforts.

I actually thought Birds of Prey was decent. Certainly no worse than Smallville.

For fans of superheroes on tv, ABC Family just debuted a new series called "The Middleman", starring Matt Keeslar ("Urbania"). The show is being presented as a comedy. Think "The Rocketeer" meets "Get Smart". First ep was ok but it needs to get better to survive longterm.

What was so strange about the JLA pilot was how they wasted a mostly good cast (the guy who played the Flash was pretty bad). Green Lantern using a helicopter blade to fly was just tacky beyond belief.

Actually the Justice League animated series on Cartoon Network has some major plot problems in virtually every show. Lots of destructive fighting and wild characterizations. The worst episode had to be when criminals wasted their time having the female super-heroes battling in a cage instead of turning all of the JLA members into slaves. Gee, if I could control the world's greatest heroes by sending messages through their ear pieces, I think I might do that instead of watching a stupid cat fight. Of course, I am a gay man, so my choice is obvious.

Now I love My Hero. Granted, it's stupid, but George's comments on the human condition just goes to show how stupid earth beings really are. I really loved the Christmas episode in which Janet complains that you have to spend X-mas with people you hate. And George promptly invites everyone that she can't stand.

The Shadow live-action 1959 pilot was awful to watch. No Margo Lane and it had a weird mentor for Lamont Cranston.

The Superboy TV show from the 1980s is pretty bad. First they changed the actor playing Superboy. Then they kept changing the situations from season to season.

Shazam/Isis does not hold up well, though it would have been interesting to see Mark Harmon play Captain Marvel as C.C. Beck originally wanted. I found this out from Bostwick Jackson at a sci-fi convention.

Mr. Terrific and Mr. Nice are available on youtube. Only the very brave should give them a look. Also take a look at the Wonder Woman TV pilot in the 1960s from the Batman TV producers at youtube. Absolutely jaw-dropping.

The Greatest American Hero was a washout. And let's not forget--though try as we might--Who Wants To Be A Super-Hero? Though I'm a fine one to talk. I auditioned as Inside Man in Dallas for season two, lol.