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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 985368" data-attributes="member: 426">Here are some shows with some comments on them.  I am also going to include some Saturday morning shows which had an appropriate theme.  I should warn you my memory is quite sharp.V: The Series -- Many bad movie cliches, and one wishes that they had someone who was partially competent leading the human resistance.  Some inadvertent humor and very bad names.The Powers of Mathew Starr -- Just because Louis Gossett, Jr. was in an Officer and a Gentleman did not save him from this series.  Matthew Starr was an alien prince from Tau Ceti  (a real sun-like star about 11 light years away) with psychic abilities.  Helping him in his exile on Earth after a hostile invasion by another alien race was an advisor played by Gossett.  The government on learning about  the aliens did not ask about advanced alien technologies or how psychic powers work but uses them like FBI agents on special cases.  (Judson Scott, the actor who starred as Bennu on the Phoenix, played an assassin in the first episode.  Initially, I thought he was playing his character from the Phoenix before he went bad.)Galactica 1980:  This show used as much stock footage from Battlestar Galactica as possible.   Except for Lorne Greene, was there an actor on the show.  There was also a teenager who was so brilliant, he glowed with a soft light.  Naturally, they hardly had him do anything.Jason of Star Command: (1970s)  Even James Doohan in a minor role could not save this show, which used stock footage from an earlier Saturday morning show.Land of the Lost:  Very low production values, but not too bad for its time.  (Mid 1970s)  Of course, I might be remembering it through the foggy lens of nostalgia.  One of the cheapest effects was an alien who was harmed by powerful emotions who looked like a man-shaped collection of round plastic or quartz.Shazam! -- Not only bad live action, but horrible animation of Solomon, Hercules, Achilles, Zeus, Atlas and Mercury advising Billy Batson. (1970s)Isis:  Connected to Shazam, an archeologist gains powers from an Egyptian goddess.  There was a raven on the show named Thoth.I am uncertain of the title, but there was a 1970s or early 1980s kids show on CBS that I think was called "The Ark."  Set in a post apocalyptic future, a team of people and a talking chimp explored a ruined world.  My Secret Identity (1980s? 1990s?) A teen is accidentally zapped by a ray from a device built by an inventor.She-Wolf of London -- This was shown briefly on the Sci Fi channel as part of their rarities.  An American woman cursed with lycanthropy travels to London and has adventures.  This was a Glen Larson production.  I am uncertain of the year, but I think probably sometime in the 1980s.Timecop -- TV version of the movie. Briefly on ABC during the 1990s.Robocop the Series -- Not high on production values.  One of the characters was a hologram who was originally a woman whose mind was downloaded into a computer.Birds of Prey  (2002) -- Cheap production values and a story line that did not do the DC Comic justice.Sliders -- 1990s to early 2000s -- The series seemed to have pretty cheap production values, and plots that did not work out.  John Rhys Davies left the show because he thought it did not live up to its potential.  Some good episodes.Cleopatra 2525 -- Other than woman wearing skimpy clothing, was there any justification for the Tribune Company producing this series.  (Circa late 1990s, early 2000s)?Highlander: The Raven -- Spinoff of the Highlander TV shows about an Immortal who is an accomplished thief.The Misfits of Science (1980s) -- A super hero show that had a young Courtney Cox as a member of a team of misfit superheroes.  Dean Martin, Jr. starred in it.</blockquote>

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