Coming This Year On Forgotten TV!

Actor Jared Martin Dies At 75

Jared Martin died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer at age 75.
He had a number of shows in the Forgotten TV era, most notably The Fantastic Journey (1977) and War of the Worlds (1988) as well as episodes of Get Christie Love!, The Rookies, Logan's Run, Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk and more.

I will be doing a podcast episode on The Fantastic Journey this year.

The Frequent Wire Podcast Network

Forgotten TV is now part of the Frequent Wire Podcast Network!

Frequent Wire is a collaborative podcast network founded by David Lawler with several ideas in mind: introducing classic movies and television, pop culture, exercise and fitness, sports and news, and spirituality and inspiration to a whole new generation, plus interesting and stimulating conversations about everyday life and the human psyche.

Shows include "Misadventures in BlissVille", "That Twilighty Show About That Zone," "Mixtape Rewind," "Ship To Ship - A Star Trek Podcast", "Two Davids Walk Into A Bar," as well as "Forgotten TV." 

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Forgotten TV ep 7-The Super 70s Part 4

The 1978 CBS TV movie Dr. Strange and the 1979 CBS Captain America TV movies are discussed.

TV themes clipped
1978 Dr. Strange themes
1966 Captain America animated
1979 Captain America theme

1970s CBS movie bumper
1978 Wonder Woman/Incredible Hulk/CBS On The Air promo
1970s Captain America/Hulk Mego TV commercial
VHS trailer for 1979 Captain America II

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Walnut Grovecast - Episode 13 - Bunny

Chris and Mark kick off #Nelliepalooza, the summer of Nellie with this discussion of Bunny!
http://vhsrewind.com/wgc-bunny-nelliepalooza/

Forgotten TV ep 6-The Super 70s Part 3

The 1977-1982 live action CBS TV series The Incredible Hulk is considered.

TV themes clipped
1966 Hulk/The Marvel Super Heroes
1978 The Incredible Hulk

Incredible Hulk Colorforms 1970s commercial
Me-TV Incredible Hulk promo
Mego Marvel Comics Elastic Super-Heroes Collection 1970s commercial
1978 Dr. Strange CBS promo
VHS trailer for 1979 Captain America

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1977-Quark

Quark was a sci-fi spoof created by Buck Henry, who previously had brought us TV comedies Captain Nice and Get Smart. 
The pilot aired May 7, 1977 (pre-dating Star Wars by 18 days.) It was picked up as a mid-season replacement in early 1978.

Richard Benjamin was Adam Quark, captain of a United Galaxy Sanitation Patrol Cruiser (a garbage scow.) Ship's engineer Gene/Jean (Tim Thomerson in an early role) is a "transmute", a humanoid being with a complete set of both male and female chromosomes. Other roles were: logical science officer Ficus Pandorata played by Richard Kelton, Betty I and Betty II (which one is the clone?) played by Cyb and Patricia Barnstable, and Conrad Janis as Otto Bob Palindrome, commander of the space station Perma One, which the ship answered to.

Mainly inspired by the original Star Trek series (complete with numerous recycled Trek sound effects), the show also later spoofed Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lost in Space, and Flash Gordon. Several elements seemed later recycled in comedies like Spaceballs and Third Rock From The Sun. Even though it was basically a sitcom with a laugh track, many of the effects were not bad and were completely on par with other late 70s TV shows.

Quark lasted seven episodes (eight if you count the pilot), was released on DVD in 2008 and is now out of print but available from a number of resellers online.