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