I never saw it, but I remember the local morning DJs making fun of the concept: “Wherever criminals strike–as long as the place where they strike is in his parents’ basement–Generation X Man will be there!”
It was intended to be series. The series was never picked up, but the pilot got a brief theatrical release. You can tell it was made for television. There are a couple of abrupt scene changes that are a bit jarring when you watch it as is, but would have worked fine around a commercial break.
Not according to anything I have ever read on the subject. I know that George Pal wanted it to be the first in a series of movies. In fact, at the end of the movie a theatrical sequel was announced: Doc Savage: The Arch Enemy Of Evil. Where did you get info that it was an pilot that never got picked up?
Pal wanted to make “several Doc Savage pictures. After the first one is successful, we’ll make another one, and then we’ll sell the series to television. By that time, every network will fight for it. At least, that’s my conviction.”
Which means that the original movie was not a back-door pilot, an unsold pilot, or a pilot transformed into a movie.
It was created to be a theatrical release, and was publicized, filmed and released as such.
Watch the way the scenes were constructed. It was edited with an eye to commercial breaks.
Did you see it on television, or in the theater? I saw it in the theater and noticed no such breaks.
Since this is a hijack, I will now stop talking about “Doc Savage: Man Of Bronze”.
I saw it in the theater. I saw it more recently on late-night cable. As I said, there are a couple of abrupt scene changes where the writer was obviously expecting to insert a commercial.
I did see one episode of “Holmes and Yoyo.” The only scene I remember was John Schuck (the robot) pressing his nose repeatedly, which produced photos of whatever they were investigating. I forget where they came out. I think he ran out of film, too.
Does anyone else remember the Fox late night show The Wilton North Report? I think it only lasted about a month, and in that very short period of time it totally changed formats. The first time I saw it there were comedy skits combined with news bits and serious interviews, but when I caught another episode a couple of weeks later it consisted of mini-documentaries with occasional follow-ups by Paul Krassner. BTW, I have no idea where the title came from.
Either English or American, I don’t remember, but not Russian. Could well have been Canadian.
Snezhnaya Koroleva; interesting. Much of it looks similar to what I remember, though not exactly.
There were two infamous shows that people of my generation half remembered until the Internet came and confirmed they were real. This and the Star Wars Holiday Special. My only memory of this was Hawkman standing at a podium and my only memory of the Holiday Special was the stormtropper tearing the head off Baby Chewie’s giant teddy bear.
What, you don’t remember the chase scene on wetbikes?
Mordru on a jet-ski. Even at 7 years old, I recognized the absurdity of that.
ETA: Just realized my math was wrong. I was 12, not 7
Inspired by gdave, I tried to watch this (it’s on YouTube).
It is a mess! Only worth it if you crave a way-over-the-top Matt Frewer (as in, you wish Max Headroom had a rap battle with Jim Carrey’s Riddler).
Much more entertaining was a commentary where some… Gen-Xers?.. canNOT believe how awkward it is:
I don’t think it’s been mentioned, but the detective series, Longstreet:
I did watch a few episodes, and while it was intriguing, it wasn’t something that I felt I had to watch every week. Others must have felt the same way, as it was cancelled after only 23 episodes.
Another that I don’t believe has been mentioned is The Interns:
This one lasted 24 episodes, and wasn’t bad, as I recall. Most notable, to me anyway, was a pre-MASH Mike Farrell.
And then there was Lucas Tanner:
It wasn’t too bad, and I rather liked it, perhaps because I was in high school at the time, and wished I had a teacher like Lucas Tanner. Whereas Room 222, which was still fresh in everybody’s memories, might be tagged as a dramedy like MASH; Lucas Tanner was a little darker, and marketed as a drama. Still, it only lasted 22 episodes.
I watched them all.
I was surprised to find it was based on a book series first, and from a long time ago. (late 30s).
A special issue of MAD Magazine in the summer of 1972 had a special preview of the upcoming TV season à la TV Guide. The shows I remember best are Longsarge, an amalgam of all the PIs then on television who turned to the profession after suffering some kind of personal tragedy.(Sarge had George Kennedy as an cop who became a priest after his wife was murdered). Longsarge was, among other things, a deaf Zen Buddhist who rode a motorcycle. The other show (whose name I don’t remember) was about a young woman who goes to the big city in search of fame and fortune (like the protagonists in That Girl and Funny Face) and hopes to snare a man in the process. The only thing stopping her was that she was fat and ugly.
I remember laughing my ass off at the preview, and then I was stupid enough to leave it lying around in the lounge of my language school. Somebody else walked off with it (may he/she rot and burn in Hell), and I’ve never been able to find another copy. 
Screw Mike Farrell! The only memorable thing about The Interns for me was Elaine Giftos. Hubba-hubba! 
I’m sorry. As I said, there just wasn’t much out there at the time in terms of live-action superheroes. I was willing to put up with quite a bit of dreck, graded on a pretty generous curve - I thought it was better than, say, Night Man, which I found totally unwatchable. I haven’t rewatched Generation X since, precisely because I was pretty sure it wouldn’t even live up to my modestly rose-colored memories.
But, I mean, Matt Frewer chewing the scenery? Gold! Although I suspect you’re giving his performance way too much credit by describing it as Max Headroom in a rap battle with Jim Carrey’s Riddler, because that would be awesome.
Something like 5-10 years ago my wife and I watched some show on the Food Network or the Cooking Channel featuring chef Ludo Lefebvre. I want to say it was filmed at his actual home and he brought in a bunch of young chefs for what was a hybrid school/competition. Ludo would often mess with them somehow, like change the challenges in the middle of it.
I’ve verified with my wife that she remembers watching and enjoying this show, so I know I’m not just making it up, but there is absolutely no mention of anything like this on his website, his Wikipedia entry, or his IMDb page.