From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!bernie Newsgroups: net.games.triv Title: Re: Old Shows Article-I.D.: watarts.1628 Posted: Mon Jan 17 09:10:27 1983 Received: Tue Jan 18 00:22:49 1983 Reply-To: bernie@watarts (Bernie Roehl) References: ariel.199 "The Impossibles" was a *long* time ago. I seem to remember that one could stretch his body (Plastic Man-like), another could turn into a liquid, another could turn his legs into springs and bounce, and another could split into multiple copies of himself. Since that makes four and there were only three of them, I'm wrong about one of the above abilities. Their day-to-day job was playing as a rock band. (of the same name, I suspect). "It's About Time" was about two astronauts whose space capsule somehow goes through the "time barrier" and arrives in prehistoric times. Imogene Coca was in it, as a cavewoman. A subsequent season of the series (how's that for alliteration?) brought our two travellers back to the present day, along with a couple of prehistoric stowaways. Theme song (just for the record) went something like this : It's about time, it's about flight travelling faster than the speed of light Here is the tale of our strange crew right through the barrier of time they flew... Past the fighting minutemen Past the armored nights Past the Roman senators to this ancient sight. "The Immortal" was about Ben somebody-or-other (played by Christopher George, whose wife Linda Day George was on Mission Impossible for several seasons). Ben had been born with some rare factor in his blood that rendered him immortal (sort of). He didn't age, didn't get sick, etc. He could, however, be shot or stabbed or electrocuted or thrown off a bridge or eaten by a lion or any number of other things (thus making the series considerably more suspenseful). An aging multi-millionare (played by Ralph Bellamy, I think) wound up getting a transfusion from Ben and being rejuvenated. The effect, however, was temporary; he began aging again and arrived at his true age within about 24 hours. The story was therefore a long chase sequence, as Ben tries to evade the old guy's goons, who are out to capture him to serve as a one-man blood bank to keep the geezer young and healthy. The trick was to capture him but not kill him. Ben basically wandered from place to place having interesting adventures, much like all those other characters from all those other series in the sixties. (The most recent example of this genre is "The Incredible Hulk", where Banner wanders from place to place evading McGee). The problem is that the kind of immortality Ben had didn't make him interesting to watch; I mean, spending an hour a week watching someone not grow old is *boring*. --Bernie ...decvax!watmath!watarts!bernie