Comments on: 7 Of The Most Expensive Flops In Television History

By: SoundtrackWhore

SoundtrackWhore — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:51:19 +0000

Ruddiger, you are absolutely right about Airwolf. Growing up in the time of The Equalizer, I enjoyed the great Cold War themes Airwolf and shows like it evoked every week. Hawke’s distrust of the Government; the fine line which Archangel usually crossed, and those beautiful images of Airwolf in the desert…ah, film! The music was awesome, and the show took on nearly folkloric proportions when Airwolf’s mystique as a living thing (think Mind of the Machine) came into play.

Then, the move to Canada, the killing off of…well….everyone, the TERRIBLE acting, and those CGI effects (YIKES! How would anyone have thought those would work?), and you have yet another example of television thinking they know better than us.

The day will come when someone who hatches a good idea gets to keep his idea and see it through to the end – think J. Michael Straczynski and Babylon 5. The shows above clearly demonstrate that we humans are terribly flawed and sometimes see the good in crap, even when that crap is stinky to everyone else but ourselves.

By: JYH3

JYH3 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:27:35 +0000

“Father of the Pride” was mainly canned because it was a show that had relatively adult themes and even though was put on at the gray hour of 9:00 (meaning some kids were allowed to stay up and watch it while some adults were just starting their evening tv watching), it had decidedly adult themes and was not really for children. It also was a bit lopsided: the scripts focused heavily on the animal side of things, whilst the most humorous part was in fact the characters of Siegfried and Roy (one of whom was played by David Herman, well known for his role of Michael Bolton from “Office Space”). The issue with them getting a spin off was that when it was being developed, the terrible accident with the REAL Siegfried and Roy and one of their White Tigers occurred, and making a spoof on their lives seemed in poor taste, thus it was dropped. Such a shame though, I’d have loved to watch and animated “Siegfried and Roy” every week…

By: ajmilner

ajmilner — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:53:19 +0000

David Letterman said of Cop Rock’s failure: “Too much cop — not enough rock.”

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:59:35 +0000

I have to admit that I have not seen ANY of the above T.V. shows with the exception of part of an episode of ‘Manimal’(think ‘Wonder Twins’ minus one) As for the rest, I think it amazing that the networks have lasted as long as this with this type of reek on the airwaves. I also admit that I had given-up on NBC (and ABC for the most part) at that time. It’s no wonder that cable exploded so quickly. At least they could enjoy a unique new reek (commercial-free at first)
the early 1970′s to mid 1980′s were particularly ‘fragrant’

By: RB Glennie

RB Glennie — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:56:15 +0000

I’ve never seen most of these shows, but the `Fugitive’ remake was actually very decent.

As for `Supertrain’, one episode featured Dick Van Dyke as a villain – if you can believe it.

By: Damasta

Damasta — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:14:22 +0000

Okay I’m gonna say it…. Manimal was my favorite program as a kid. It was awesome and I loved the effects every time I saw them. Someone should please remake it.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:21:36 +0000

Say what you want about “Cop Rock”, the use of music – and the music itself – was a thousand times more original than “Viva Laughlin.”

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:13:46 +0000

I have to say that I *loved* COP ROCK, and am hoping that somebody brings it out on DVD. It really was a weird concept, but the cast and crew made it work. If the Gulf War hadn’t interfered (also killing an interesting little drama called WIOU), COP ROCK might have found its audience.

LB is conflating ELI STONE (a lawyer show with music, some of it by George Michael), which made it for two seasons, and LIFE ON MARS, a time travel/coma? cop show set in the ’70s modeled on a better British series of the same name; no George Michael, though…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:11:18 +0000

Very amusing, right up until the moment you decided to refer to Supertrain as “a setting guaranteed to draw in 10 year old boys and autistic adults who would care mostly about the nuclear powered bullet train”.

Let’s hope you never have to earn empathy the hard way, because if Autism enters your life, you’ll find out that there’s nothing remotely funny about it. It is, without exaggeration, hellish. You should be ashamed of yourself.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:33:35 +0000

OMG! ‘Supertrain’ is so very, very horrible… but I remember liking it. YES, I was an eleven year old boy at the time and loved ‘The Love Boat’ and ‘Fantasy Island’. It is astounding that NBC spent a boatload of money on that. I really wish they did go under. Probably the only thing that saved them was their Thursday night lineup in the early 80s.

@gnateye – ‘Damnation Alley’, that is EXACTLY what I wsa thinking! How funny.