Where the heck is The Six Million Dollar Man?

[Ubiquitous]

Replaced by AIRWOLF, apparently.

Yuck!


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[Michael Black]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Ubiquitous wrote:

> Replaced by AIRWOLF, apparently.
>
> Yuck!
>

I didn't think it was you for a momemnt.

You must have come onto The Six Million Dollar Man late. Surely this
is just a routine change, like just as we got MeTV here, they dropped
Remington Steele and added Bewitched. Wait a bit, and Remington came
back, and Bewitched was gone.

I may have watched a random episode of Airwolf, but I don't have any
recollections of it.

I did see "Blue Thunder" when it came out, I thought Airwolf kind of
followed. I found the movie on DVD at a book sale, but haven't gotten
around to watching it.

Michael

[anim8rFSK]

In article <n00rbb$bf9$2...@dont-email.me>,

Where are you watching this?

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Wait - are you saying that ClodReamer was wrong, or lying?

[Ubiquitous]

et...@ncf.ca wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Ubiquitous wrote:

>> Replaced by AIRWOLF, apparently.
>>
>> Yuck!
>
>I didn't think it was you for a momemnt.

Hee hee.

>You must have come onto The Six Million Dollar Man late. Surely this
>is just a routine change, like just as we got MeTV here, they dropped
>Remington Steele and added Bewitched. Wait a bit, and Remington came
>back, and Bewitched was gone.

I'm not sure how many seasons there were, but they usually restart from
the begining after showing the final ep.

>I may have watched a random episode of Airwolf, but I don't have any
>recollections of it.
>
>I did see "Blue Thunder" when it came out, I thought Airwolf kind of
>followed. I found the movie on DVD at a book sale, but haven't gotten
>around to watching it.

It reminded me of those shows (wasn't there a popular movie at the time
with Roy Shneider?) with a good dose of MAGNUM P.I., but there was no
score and the pacing was terrible. It didn't help that no one seemed to
have any acting range, so they spoke the same way when they had a
"heated" argument. Gah.

[Ubiquitous]

anim...@cox.net wrote:
> web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:

>> Replaced by AIRWOLF, apparently.
>>
>> Yuck!
>

>Where are you watching this?

On Esquire.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <n00rbd$bf9$2...@dont-email.me>,

Ah. Don't get that. Well, AIRWOLF is pretty good, if you ignore the
Canadian episodes.

Did you know that Jan-Michael Vincent had his leg amputated? Twice?

[anim8rFSK]

In article <n00rbc$bf9$2...@dont-email.me>,

web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:

> et...@ncf.ca wrote:
> >On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Ubiquitous wrote:
>
> >> Replaced by AIRWOLF, apparently.
> >>
> >> Yuck!
> >
> >I didn't think it was you for a momemnt.
>
> Hee hee.
>
> >You must have come onto The Six Million Dollar Man late. Surely this
> >is just a routine change, like just as we got MeTV here, they dropped
> >Remington Steele and added Bewitched. Wait a bit, and Remington came
> >back, and Bewitched was gone.
>
> I'm not sure how many seasons there were, but they usually restart from
> the begining after showing the final ep.
>
> >I may have watched a random episode of Airwolf, but I don't have any
> >recollections of it.
> >
> >I did see "Blue Thunder" when it came out, I thought Airwolf kind of
> >followed. I found the movie on DVD at a book sale, but haven't gotten
> >around to watching it.
>
> It reminded me of those shows (wasn't there a popular movie at the time
> with Roy Shneider?) with a good dose of MAGNUM P.I., but there was no
> score and the pacing was terrible. It didn't help that no one seemed to
> have any acting range, so they spoke the same way when they had a
> "heated" argument. Gah.
>

The BLUE THUNDER movie starred Roy Schieder. There was a BLUE THUNDER
TV series that crashed and burned almost immediately. People claimed
AIRWOLF was a rip off of BLUE THUNDER, but that was because they weren't
paying attention. AIRWOLF is a direct rip off of Clint Eastwood's
FIREFOX, but with a helicopter instead of a jet. AIRWOLF is technically
a spin-off of MAGNUM PI (or as we call it now a planted pilot) but they
changed it so much it's unrecognizable.

[Ubiquitous]

anim...@cox.net wrote:
> web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:
>> anim...@cox.net wrote:
>> > web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:

>> >> Replaced by AIRWOLF, apparently.
>> >>
>> >> Yuck!
>> >
>> >Where are you watching this?
>>
>> On Esquire.
>

>Ah. Don't get that. Well, AIRWOLF is pretty good, if you ignore the
>Canadian episodes.
>
>Did you know that Jan-Michael Vincent had his leg amputated? Twice?

I remember he was terribly disfigured but do not recall hearing about
the amputations.

[Ubiquitous]

If memory serves, Dana Carvey was on it and only uttered the line "Hey you guiys,
let's get out of here!" easch week.

>People claimed AIRWOLF was a rip off of BLUE THUNDER, but that was because
>they weren't paying attention. AIRWOLF is a direct rip off of Clint Eastwood's
>FIREFOX, but with a helicopter instead of a jet.

Ah, I had totally forgotten about that movie, but makes more sense.

>AIRWOLF is technically a spin-off of MAGNUM PI (or as we call it
>now a planted pilot) but they changed it so much it's unrecognizable.

I recognised it immediately, as if making Mr Wiggins dress like Tom
Wolf and wearing half a pair of sunglasses would suffice.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <n00rbg$bf9$2...@dont-email.me>,

I saw him recently on something ... might have been a clip shown on THE
SOUP. He's incoherent, and all but unrecognizable. Apparently he had
his leg amputated, and didn't follow the instructions on the handy
pamphlet they sent home with him, and they had to amputate the same leg
AGAIN, further up. Gah.

[Michael Black]

All I remember is a movie and a tv show that each had a helicopter. So I
thought Airwolf was a trend like any other one in Hollywood.

Firefox is another 1982 film, there were so many significant films that
summer. I remember someone telling me how I had to see it, but I didn't
until a couple of years ago, finding it on VHS at a garage sale. It was
okay, not that memorable, though I will eventually watch it again, maybe
see something more.

Was there something in a Magnum episode to watch that would be the point
where the spinoff came?

Michael

[Michael Black]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, anim8rFSK wrote:

> In article <n00rbg$bf9$2...@dont-email.me>,
> web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:
>
>> anim...@cox.net wrote:
>>> web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:
>>>> anim...@cox.net wrote:
>>>>> web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Replaced by AIRWOLF, apparently.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yuck!
>>>>>
>>>>> Where are you watching this?
>>>>
>>>> On Esquire.
>>>
>>> Ah. Don't get that. Well, AIRWOLF is pretty good, if you ignore the
>>> Canadian episodes.
>>>
>>> Did you know that Jan-Michael Vincent had his leg amputated? Twice?
>>
>> I remember he was terribly disfigured but do not recall hearing about
>> the amputations.
>>
>> --

>> "?bama is a damned narcissistic idiot who has just made the world a

>> much more dangerous place. Your children will curse his name."
>> http://www.jonmcnaughton.com/obama-foreign-policy/
>
> I saw him recently on something ... might have been a clip shown on THE
> SOUP. He's incoherent, and all but unrecognizable. Apparently he had
> his leg amputated, and didn't follow the instructions on the handy
> pamphlet they sent home with him, and they had to amputate the same leg
> AGAIN, further up. Gah.
>

I just checked wikipedia, doesn't say anything about the second
amputation. But I figured he'd lost his leg as a result of an accident.

But despite lots of that happening, apparently the leg was amputated
because of some disease (which perhaps derives from one of the accidents),
rather than because it wsa damaged in one of the accidents.

Apparently one of the accidents caused his voice to be permanently raspy.
That could be a good thing, except it doesnt' seem like his career his
going anywhere. And he wasn't the one with the eyepatchin "Airwolf" was
he? I thought that was Alex Cord, so having a raspy voice was only half
way to being "Snake Pliskin", besides that being another movie.

Michael

[anim8rFSK]

In article <alpine.LNX.2.02.1...@darkstar.example.org>,

The Magnum episode is Season 3 ep 20
"Two Birds of a Feather"
March 17, 1983
Magnum investigates the crash of a small plane in the Estate's tidal
pool and discovers it wasn't an accident and that the pilot he vaguely
recognizes helped save him in the Vietnam War.

The Magnum involvement is minimal as the pilot heads back to (IIRC)
Texas and his own series set-up.

Then somewhere in the development process it got warped into a FIREFOX
rip off.

I probably wouldn't know about it if I hadn't read about it ... probably
in an old STARLOG about AIRWOLF.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <alpine.LNX.2.02.1...@darkstar.example.org>,
Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:

Yeah, Alex Cord had the eyepatch (he lost the eye being attacked by
Airwolf in the pilot).

This looks like it was taken about the same time as the interview I saw:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/11/06/1415301904429_wps_9_EXCLUSIVE_A
irwolf_star_Ja.jpg

Here's a video interview, talks about the second amputation in the
article:

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/exclusive-video-interview-jan-m
ichael-vincent-amputation-hell

This says the leg was due to drugs and alcohol and not the car wrecks:

http://www.inquisitr.com/1593036/jan-michael-vincent-decline-80s-star-los
t-leg-due-to-drug-and-alcohol-problems/

[Michael Black]

I wsa just curious to see it. But sadly, when I got the first two seasons
of Magnum for 9.99 each, I never got back to the store before they raised
the price, so I didn't get season 3. I was surprised how much I enjoyed
those first two seasons of Magnum, I thought I'd watched it too much on
tv to have an effect.

I must get those two season out again, watch the one with Erin Gray again.

Michael

[anim8rFSK]

Oh, yeah, Digger Doyle is a great one. "I couldn't help that sneeze!"

Netflix streaming has all 8 seasons of Magnum PI.

[Ubiquitous]

et...@ncf.ca wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, anim8rFSK wrote:
>> web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:
>>> et...@ncf.ca wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Ubiquitous wrote:

>>>>> Replaced by AIRWOLF, apparently.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yuck!
>>>>

I think KNIGHT RIDER was oni the same year as AIRWOLF, so there's that aspect.

[Ubiquitous]

et...@ncf.ca wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, anim8rFSK wrote:
>> web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:
>>> anim...@cox.net wrote:

>>>> Ah. Don't get that. Well, AIRWOLF is pretty good, if you ignore the
>>>> Canadian episodes.
>>>>
>>>> Did you know that Jan-Michael Vincent had his leg amputated? Twice?
>>>
>>> I remember he was terribly disfigured but do not recall hearing about
>>> the amputations.
>>

>> I saw him recently on something ... might have been a clip shown on THE
>> SOUP. He's incoherent, and all but unrecognizable. Apparently he had
>> his leg amputated, and didn't follow the instructions on the handy
>> pamphlet they sent home with him, and they had to amputate the same leg
>> AGAIN, further up. Gah.
>>
>I just checked wikipedia, doesn't say anything about the second
>amputation. But I figured he'd lost his leg as a result of an accident.
>
>But despite lots of that happening, apparently the leg was amputated
>because of some disease (which perhaps derives from one of the accidents),
>rather than because it wsa damaged in one of the accidents.
>
>Apparently one of the accidents caused his voice to be permanently raspy.
>That could be a good thing, except it doesnt' seem like his career his
>going anywhere. And he wasn't the one with the eyepatchin "Airwolf" was
>he? I thought that was Alex Cord, so having a raspy voice was only half
>way to being "Snake Pliskin", besides that being another movie.

No, the man dressed like Tom Wolf with sunglases with one lens popped out with
this show's version of Magnum P.I.'s boss. I'm not sure of his relationship,
but he reminded me of the frenchman in Casa Blanca.

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"Øbama is a damned narcissistic idiot who has just made the world a

[anim8rFSK]

In article <mg8bof$cid$4...@dont-email.me>,

That's Alex "Dylan Hunt" Cord as Michael Coldsmith Briggs the III,
although later seasons got his name wrong and called him Michael
Archangel. He's a senior muckety muck in the F.I.R.M. (they got that
wrong later too) that built AIRWOLF, and acts as liaison between
Stringfellow Hawk and the Company.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <mg8bgd$cid$3...@dont-email.me>,

Knight Rider was 82-86; Airwolf was 84-87; Blue Thunder was on for 3
months early in 84.

[Ubiquitous]

OK, so it wasn't the exact year, but there was overlap that explains the
similarity in style of the two showsd.

[Jim G.]

anim8rFSK sent the following on 04/09/2015 at 10:58 PM:

"Now, Higgins, if you don't mind, Digger and I were comparing
investigative techniques."

--
Jim G. | A fan of the good and the bad, but not the mediocre
"Tell me you didn't think that nun was hot." -- Dean Winchester,
SUPERNATURAL

[anim8rFSK]

In article <mg93vd$1o0$1...@news.albasani.net>,

That was, like AIRWOLF, a planted pilot on MPI, but this one didn't go
anywhere. Too bad.

[Michael Black]

Yes it is. Nothing with Erin Grey could be bad.

I remember watching "Silver Spoons" in syndication, and one big reason
was "Kate". Of course, I was old enough that it was no kid's show for me.

Michael

[anim8rFSK]

I never have seen that.

[Ubiquitous]

That's more than I knew about him.

[Ubiquitous]

anim...@cox.net wrote:

>That was, like AIRWOLF, a planted pilot on MPI, but this one didn't go
>anywhere. Too bad.

The term is "backdoor pilot".

[Jim G.]

anim8rFSK sent the following on 04/10/2015 at 06:23 PM:

The Digger character didn't impress me all that much. As for Erin
herself, she was definitely not lacking in certain assets, but for some
reason was never in the walk-into-a-lamp-post category for me.