The Cape , NBC ’s latest experiment in the superhero narrative , aired its last adventure on Monday , time out at a mere nine televised installment . In accolade of The Cape ’s idosyncratic insanity , here are 10 more ridiculous skill fiction programs that fail to make it big .
https://gizmodo.com/goodbye-vince-why-well-miss-the-cape-5773889
When I spoke with Vinnie Jones at Comic - Con last summertime , he seemed fairly sanguine aboutThe Cape ’s prospects of becoming The Next Big Thing(I kept my persuasion to myself , as Vinnie Jones could easily wear my aorta as a hat ) . The Cape ’s tenth and terminal sequence will stream online sometime this month .
A sneaker peek at The Cape ( and a conversation with Vinnie Jones )
Here are 10 other scifi show that went so gamey concept they touched the stars … and died in the cold , unforgiving vacuum of space .
Holmes and Yo - Yo ( 1976 )
Number of Episodes : 13
When sad - sack tec Alexander Holmes keeps putting his pardner in the hospital , his superior do n’t burn him or relegate him to desk work . No , they pair the clumsy bastard with Gregory “ Yo - Yo ” Yoyonovich , an experimental police force robot built to keep his unqualified married person out of trouble .
If only veridical life was this cushy ! I would ’ve sign up up for the police honorary society years ago if I could get my own Geminoid doppelganger as thanks for driving my cruiser on the sidewalk .
How did the duo fight criminal offense ? Rather than rely on any of Yo - Yo ’s mechanical contrivance , the duo bludgeon criminals ( and the audience)to death with schtick . The show also had the wannest laugh track ever .
Future Cop ( 1976 )
Number of Episodes : 8
Incidentally , Holmes and Yo - Yo was n’t the only robocop show to debut in 1976 . That class , the pilot burner for Future Cop ( co - starring Ernest Borgnine ! ) aired , but the show was prorogue until 1977 . It ran for another six episodes , was canned again , and then re - piloted in 1978 as Cops and Robin . The ill-starred pig - and - bot premiss go forth yet again in 1992 withMann and Machine(but this clip with a ladybot ) . Despite a score by Devo ’s Mark Mothersbaugh , this show run all of nine episode .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQ-mzYRl3s
Manimal ( 1983 )
Not to be confused with theHumanimal , Dr. Jonathan Chase was an NYU prof with a secret . No , he ’s not solicit up with his undergraduate — he can ferment into any beast he wants ! And — like any near recent 70s - early LXXX genre character — he ’s aid the NYPD lick crimes !
Dr. Chase mostly limited himself to transforming intoa falconand a panther , and sometimes he turned intoa helpful , quicksand - proof snake . The special effect were done by the late and great Stan Winston , but people can only watch a snooty pedantic transform into a seemingly constipated jungle cat so many times . find the manimalismhere .
Automan ( 1983 )
turn of Episodes : 13 episodes were made , but only 12 bare .
Like Manimal , Automan make out from the brain of Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider manufacturer Glen Larson . And like Manimal , Automan lasted a single time of year . Its conceit should be conversant at this point — Walter Nebicher ( Desi Arnaz , Jr. ) oppose crime with his holographic married person , Automan ( Chuck Wagner ) and his sidekick Cursor , who was a burn dot .
The root song will make you feel like turning around abruptly at entire strangers while giving them a dual - fisted quarter round - up ( and then awkwardly freezing in post for several seconds).Relive the show ’s Tron - inspired antics .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-e3fdWOv1U
Woops ! ( 1992 )
issue of Episodes : 13 ( only 10 aired )
In this post - nuclear warfare situation comedy , six goofy , uneven survivors seek to resume society on a farm Gilligan ’s Island - style while stand off gargantuan mutant animals . Because you experience , a circumscribed factor pool and actinotherapy - induce infertility are the stuff of yuk - yuks .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLqbgTt1GbI
Mr. Smith and Jennifer Slept Here ( 1983 )
Number of Episodes : Both 13
If you were incredulous that NBC in reality had the sense to run something as kooky as The Cape , just check out their fall 1983 pedigree - up . The former was about an orangutan with an IQ of 256 ; the latter was about a movie starlet who ’s run over by an ice cream truck , haunt a Los Angeles house , and befriend the current owner ’s adolescent boy . Commenters on YouTube seem to rememberJennifer Slept Heresomewhat lovingly , but Mr. Smith has been chuck out into the dustbin of history . A pity , I know . We all would ’ve loved to have seen a Mr. Smith - Dunston Checks In crosswalk .
Street Hawk ( 1983 )
The awesomely - named Jesse Mach spend his days as a police troubleshooter and his Night as a vigilante ride Street Hawk , an observational motorcycle that can reach out focal ratio of three hundred miles an hour . I can suppose the auction pitch coming together — “ It ’s like Airwolf … but on a bike ! ”
The Phoenix ( 1982 )
bit of Episodes : 5
A fine-looking extraterrestrial named Bennu of the Golden Light is waken in Peru in the twentieth century . Bennu was armed with every damn tycoon in the phone book , the lady - killing looks of Gunnar Nelson , and a laurel wreath that would make Mr. T weep tear of penitence .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0KSqelmgN8
Exo - Man ( 1977 )
telephone number of Episodes : 1
In this one - and - done pilot by Cyborg writer Martin Caidin , a brilliant prof is paralyzed by triggerman and put on a clunky exosuit . on the face of it a gambit to piggyback on the success of another Caidin - inspired show , The Six Million Dollar Man , Exo - Man merely illustrated why an Iron Man movie would have go down on in the 1970s .
For other doomed scientific discipline fabrication telly shows , check out …
– The Gemini Man ( 1976 ): 11 episodes , inconspicuous humans - way vanity
– Once a Hero ( 1987 ): 3 episodes , superhero comedy that the great unwashed did n’t seem to hate
– The Geico goggle box show ( 2007 ): 13 episode , 6 vent
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