I am not kidding, the two episodes I watched of that show were the worst pieces of television I have ever seen.
This thing lasted 44 episodes and POLICE SQUAD lasted 6?
Anyone else remember this show with total hatred?
Hatred? No. It takes far more than a bad show to arouse hatred in me.
Total indifference is a better description. I haven’t watched much television since they cancelled “Gilligan’s Island”.
I am, however, the only living person to have watched “Struck by Lightening” starring Jack Elam as Frankenstein’s monster. The worst sitcom idea of all time… (IMHO)
Night Man. Is that the show were the jazz sax player was a superhero? If so then yeah, that show sucked.
I remember Nightman. What an amazing piece of bad television. One of those things you can’t tear your eyes away from even as you’re trying to scratch them out.
I always wondered, when did the guy sleep? I think he was some sort of cop or security guard during the day, then he played smoky, incredibly-sexy jazz that made every woman desire him, then later on he’d be … Night-man!
And what was his super-power – some sort of super-flying suit? Night vision? Insomnia? Super-saxophone-playing? I remember one episode where he got his butt kicked repeatedly by a bunch of vampires.
The production values were wonderful. They had about three scenes of him becoming Night-man, one of which was used in the opening credits and at breaks to commercials. So no matter where he was when becoming Nightman! the moon would be full behind him, then there’d be a close-up on him, and then some shot where he’s flying or something … maybe. I think there were only two shots of him playing saxophone, and even then you’d hardly ever hear the music. Always his friends plotting to short-sheet his bed or something. Of course it never worked because he never used it.
Nightman! So bad it went all the way through good and back to being bad again.
That show had no positive qualities that I can recall. The fact that you made it through two episodes proves that you have a superhuman constitution. I couldn’t even make it through the premier episode, though I think that was 2 hours long. The acting was bad, the writing was bad, and the special effects were bad. Who did the producers blow to get that show to last 44 episodes?
Marc
What? Cancelled? Say it ain’t so!
Are you kidding me?!? They drove around in a Prowler! That right there MADE the show!
[sub]Dijon carefully takes tongue out of cheek.[/sub]
Dear Lord, this show was a black hole of crap.
According to the website:
…Night Man teamed up with MANIMAL for an episode.
Now THAT would have been something to see.
Poor Glen Larson. Who would have thought that Battlestar Galactica would have been the high point in his career?
I liked that show.
Ok, so it was utterly bland, dull, wildly implausible, unimaginatively written, and indifferently acted, and the series finale was incredibly weak, but it had some strange hypnotic quality that draws you in after half a dozen episodes or so. I just don’t know what it wat.