I interviewed him in... 2018 for a Black Scorpion article on a magazine I had. He was also in Howard The Duck, which had another special in the same issue!
@@GoodBadFlicksblack scorpion is on Tubi TV so nobody don't have to worry about missing out on the show the whole app is free and they got Babylon 5 as well
THERE’S Black Scorpion! I met the TV series’ lead, Michelle Lintel, at a press event and still have the pics. She’s a goof, great sense of humor, as the series definitely proved. Basically every episode was Roger Corman saying “Put an attractive woman in a space bikini, and name her the villain of the week!”
The episode of _Black Scorpion_ that I remember the most was the episode titled *Love Burns* where Dave Mustaine of Megadeth guest stars as a character named Torchy Thompson, and my favorite line where he said *No thanks, I don't like freezing police, but I do like burning them* and then the guitar riff from *Hangar 18* starts playing when he is fighting Michelle as Darcy Walker. I also remember in that episode where they would also play the Megadeth song *Five Magics* in some scenes too.
The plot point mentioned in First Wave where the protagonist has everything taken from him to measure his resilience sounds positively biblical in a Job sense.
I really liked First Wave. A friend and I still have a running joke that if either of us do something out of character, we try to make the other eat some salt to prove we're not aliens. I also say "It's the sword that killed Lincoln" when I see a historical item on display anywhere.
I loved the Darien Fox invisible man show! Such a good way to do the invisibility thing. They came up with a way for him to have close, to “see” and even have an invisible car at one point.
It was more of a “smart guy gets creative with powers” thing. Or that time he got whimsical while crazy on quicksilver and beat the living shit out of a mime.
I liked that they also reversed the trope of "If you're invisible, I can still see your body heat" by having him appear colder since all light is refracted around him.
As I recall, the layer of quicksilver converted UV light into visible, so he could still see, although in weird colors. He could also see other quicksilver-coated things, for the same reason.
One thing you forget to mention about The First Wave, is that the main character fights the alien invasion conspiracy, with the help of a manuscript that contains prophecies by Nostradamus, who somehow predicted the alien invasion plot back in the 16th century. This was during that phase in the late 90´s, when all these conspiracy theories & occult stuff was pretty popular in tv series ( X-Files, Millennium etc.)
now that you mention it, that unlocked a memory that i watched the first wave back in the 90s, i only remembered the nostradamus part not the name of the show.
The Invisible Man was my favorite show when I was a kid. I would beg my parents set up our VCR to record it if I was going to miss it. Watching The Wire years later, I remember seeing one of the Greek gangsters for the first time and shouting, “it’s Hobbes!”
Loved both Chronicle and Invisible Man. The Chronicle was similar in concept to Special Unit 2 and Warehouse 13. Sadly none of those shows lasted long.
I thought the SciFi channel was really on my Radar between the 90s and 2000s (that is when Farscape came out, maybe my favorite sci-fi series), but the invisisble man is the only one of these series I knew existed. First Wave and The Chronicle really look like shows that would have attracted me, but I totally missed out. Thanks again. This series is great.
I love this series of videos from you. I learn so much. I don't remember any of these outside of Black Scorpion. I was an event bigger comic book nerd than I am now. I'm also a Joan Severance fan and was a bit disappointed when she didn't return for the show. On a separate note: I'm still bugging on my personal UPN Mandela Effect. I can't believe that, as of now, The Strip and The Watcher were not only not on together on the same night, but now they weren't made within 3 years of one another. I distinctly remember that they were on the same night, back to back. 1995-96 season, Tuesday nights 8 and 9 pm, Eastern Time. Now they say that The Strip was never even on a Tuesday night... EVER. This bugs me. Vegas Night (both shows were shot in Sin City) now never happened. It's worrisome. I guess I should probably talk to @All Time about it. But it gets u def my skin.
SciFi channel was great for the reruns of old series and getting to watch tv shows that were killed quickly . Managed to tape all of First Wave, farscape, Warehouse 13, Haven, Contiuum, Dominion,Invisible Man, Special Unit 2, and many others.
Continuum was a Canadian show shot in Vancouver, also had better production quality than most Scifi channel shows. The actors in that show could be seen plastered all over things like SG-1 which scifi channel took aver from Showtime after they got rid of their Sci-Friday lineup which was phenomenal.
I love OG Sci-Fi Channel. Sci-fi Prime with my favorite Friday night lineup with Poltergeist Legacy, good versus evil, Farscape, First Wave, and Invisible Man.
Mission Genesis was the first time I really was aware of Nicole DeBoer. It was great to see her in CUBE and then get onto DS0 for the last season. I never really watched The Dead Zone but it's great she was on the series. I watched all of the Sci-Fi Channels shows, but I've forgotten all about them.
I'd like to see them do a retrospective on SciFi Channel movies/miniseries that were intended to be backdoor pilots for shows that weren't picked up. SciFi's got a lot of them. The Triangle, The Lost Room and both Riverworld tv movies come to mind.
@@Getwright- Oh god that crap...I remember the ads for that one and being stunned by how awful it looked. Made the Billy Zane film's worst moments look like a masterpiece in comparison.
Another great installment of this series and this one in particular really gave me nostalgia flashbacks. I grew up watching Sci-Fi and Black Scorpion and The Invisible Man were some of my favorite shows as a kid. Black Scorpion is dumb but I can have some fun with it. The Invisible Man though to me personally is a very underrated show that still holds up well today. And if anyone is trying to find Season 2? I might be able to help you.
Season 2 came out in DVD in the UK. I have copies, but the audio is pitch-shifted as a result, which is an artifact of the analog before-times of PAL and NTSC. I always loved the recurring gag of them being “the world’s only welfare-recipient intelligence agency.” They keep getting bounced around from sponsor to sponsor, from the Bureau of Weights and Measures to the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. Totally random. The banter in the show between Fawkes and Hobbs - my favorite part of the show - was apparently largely ad-libbed.
@@CantankerousDave The UK Season 2 DVDs though have been out of print for years. I have the non pitch shifted digital versions that were streaming on hulu.
All of these are fond memories. Early cable (and oc streaming series) was a really interesting and creative phase. Sadly, all things go the way of the safe, the sanitized and the samey
I remember Mission Genesis but mostly because of that Leonard Nimoy special. But duuuude, seeing Black Scorpion again after all these years was pure untapped nostalgia. Wish these were more accessible today, they definitely added some shades to the sci-fi genre that I miss in today’s media.
I remember all of these shows! The ones I enjoyed the most were First Wave and The Invisible Man, watched them both till the end. Thanks Cecil for another fun trip down memory lane!
Fun Fact: In the Chronicle, James Hong made an appearance in an episode playing David Lo Pan. Though honestly, I don't remember if it's supposed to be the character from Big Trouble in Little China or some kind of weird coincidence
I'm so glad you mentioned Black Scorpion! It's such a weird show but I really dig it. It's a great superhero parody and I always made a point to watch it whenever I could. That era of superhero TV is so interesting to me. We didn't have many options at the time. Hopefully more people become aware of the show now because it was bonkers and very entertaining
Black Scorpion and Mantis were two of my favorite superhero shows of that ime period (though Matis was on a different network). I still have my DVDs for Black Scorpion and it still holds up so well.
It's a shame that the studios won't go back to these forgotten TV shows and try to reinvent them! I can see the potential in these shows if givin more time. Thanks for another video man! Looking forward to more!!!
The Chronicle was a really good show, there was one episode where Adrienne Barbeau appeared and told the Rena Sofer character that she's seen weird stuff, like leper pirates in fog. Hell, First Wave was good too. It was the first time I ever liked Traci Lords in anything.
I LOVED Invisible Man. the weird buddy cop dynamic of Darien Fawkes and Bobby Hobbes was the best part of the show. the Agency was fun in that unlike most secret government agencies that have sick, superspy stuff, they were underfunded and their base looked like an abandoned middle school from the 1970s. I remember one episode they had to do a briefing scene, and for budget purposes they had to use ViewMasters, and Fawkes and Hobbes have an argument over who got the purple one. hilarious. i happen to have the First Wave, I-Man and Black Scorpion dvd sets when they briefly were available. I will point out that the First Wave dvds are the censored for US broadcast versions, cutting out the occasional bit of nudity from the original Canadian versions. Alas.
Man, I watched all of these back in the day. I especially loved The Invisible Man. One thing though... the show never actually changed its name to I-Man. Fans probably called it that online, but there was never an official change. That's like saying Battlestar Galactica changed its name to BSG.
most of the more popular shows are spread over other services, or were straight up acquired by others in company mergers or pick ups (amazon having both the expanse and stargate for example). it’s largely very early stuff, stuff that didn’t make it a season, or a lot of the (notoriously questionable in quality) movies that are languishing in a basement somewhere. not great in an archival sense, plus being posted on yt does mean there’s some interest, but probably not enough for most services to want to bother paying for it unless it get’s bundled in with something they do want
I-man was an excellent show. It had the right amount of cheese, drama and humor to make it work. The chemistry between Fawkes and Hobbes was great. Bummer there is no release on disc of the whole thing, I might have some episodes taped from TV in the attic somewhere. First Wave was also an interesting show, although they only showed one season where I live.
There are several channels I've given up on because they cancelled shows I liked: Fox, TBS, Syfy, BET. Or I want to give up on them completely if not for at least one show: SpongeBob and Good Trouble. I was already on the fence when they cancelled Bitten but I gave up when they cancelled Happy and Krypton along with the Lobo spinoff that was in development. Krypton was admittedly not that good of a show, but it had potential.
I stopped watching new shows because they would always get cancelled too soon. I think Odyssey 5 broke me, where it was scheduled to be 5 seasons (its in the TITLE!) and they cancelled it after season 1 so there will never be a resolution to the story.
Not too distant future huh? I've been hoping you'd cover my all time fav show MST3K for years. That show deserves a deep dive/exploring episode I think.
I remember _First Wave,_ it was like a modern version of Larry Cohen's _The Invaders_ but with the prophecies of Nostradamus involved for that extra _X Files_ conspiracy factor Sci-Fi Channel's _Invisible Man_ was also great
@@TheAntiSanta true, but I actually meant and I think I should kick myself for not writing this properly, was that I rather have some interesting Sci Fi and horror shows like these ones instead of endless reality shows about building and restoring houses, endless copies of Jersey Shore or you know the usual garbage.
Man i loved First Wave and Invisible man, Invisible man was the first show i saw every episode of and there was no streaming or torrenting back then and you could watch it only on tv.
I loved First Wave, still remember some of the episodes. The Salem Witch episode was a highlight, as was the scene with the rich guy who found the book.
I loved wacky Earth 2. I loved some of the uniquely concepts in the show. Also, the vehicles were off the hook. There was one big one that was built by...BMW, I think? Anyway, it's too bad the show didn't take off. 😕
Yeah, but I think the reason was the kid. I hated that character and all that story arc about him. And maybe that mindset of absurd plot decisions by the characters, not asking the right questions, etc, to lengthen the show as much as possible. That often makes the audience to get bored. I liked the concept but the show was a wasted opportunity.
@The-Man-On-The-Mountain Indeed. There were a lot of good ideas and it seemed like they had trouble tying them all together. Yeah, the "miracle/special kid" thing was already overdone by that point. I always laughed at the part in the show's opening title sequence where he's supposed to be being pulled away in a dream sequence and he's slowly flailing his arms around while being pulled backwards through some mist by a platform he's standing on. It always made me laugh. Anyway, I liked the "doctor glove" device, the VR headsets, the teacher guy with the data glove (who, of course, had some terrible secret buried in the memory)... I can blab for hours about it, so I better stop. 😉
I loved the Chronical, had to stay up to midnight on in the middle of the week to see the episodes in Sweden. Would love to get hold of it again. First wave S1 was great, was showing around 5pm so easy to catch after school. Don't think they ever released the other seasons in Sweden.
Yep, only problem is they have a tendency to get taken down at a moments notice. So if you see something you want to watch, its best to watch ASAP because it may not be there tomorrow.
built some props on that Black Scorpion series, and still have several unfilled scripts from those days; the 60's Batman Def inspired the script writers
I remember watching it when I was a kid. The first episode really stuck with me. It took a ton of random searching off recollection, but eventually found it here & was thrilled.
I have been trying to remember the name of Mission Genesis for years. I still vaguely remember the episode where the military officer was brainwashed after applying a tattoo in order to take over the project for a military state.
I loved Sci-Fi Buzz. In a pre-internet age it exposed me to so much older sci-fi, fantasy and horror. It was how I discovered The Misfits, anime, and I could go on. Mike Jerrick was a fantastic host (tracked him down on Twitter for an autograph). On top of that we got weekly speeches/rants by Harlan Ellison. It really seemed that cast and crew loved covering genre entertainment unlike the sarcastic fake fan "journalist" of today.
The Sci-Fi channel was made with a love of the genre. They were giving the fans what they wanted and were succeeding. Unfortunately, they weren't succeeding enough according the higher ups and that was how we got things like Wrestling on the Scifi channel.
My father is a man who loves his tv shows with equal parts ham and cheese (he grew up on the Adam West Batman), he's the only person I know that watched the Black Scorpion tv series devotedly.😅
Wow, it's not often you find 5 shows where I haven't heard of/can't remember them, but you've done it here. Well done. Great glimpses into these creative gems.
The Black Scorpion tv series was pulled early on, then re-released on (if memory serves) Sci Fi. It piggy backed off a couple other Corman productions budget wise with the apartment set being built under the budget for Running Woman. It may well also be the final product ever completed at the Venice Beach studio as it was sold just after the series was wrapped. I worked on it for pre production and a few episodes. Initially Julie Strain was the lead until about a week before filming. As per the look of everything, we literally had no budget even on Corman standards.
Wow, for no budget (and I believe you) the show didn't look cheap. Low budget sure but not "no budget". I guess there was some serious stretching there. I did some a good bit of repurposed footage from other things Corman related. I wonder why Julie bailed. I thought it may have been because she was doing the Andy Sidaris films around the same time but I checked to see her last one there was years before this show.
@@GoodBadFlicksfrom what I recall she wanted more money. Wasn't going to happen as the budget was a strict lock. The scorpion mobile was built on a beater 80's green corvette. Think the budget was $5500 to complete by Greg Aronowitz who was promised to direct an episode or two to offset the budget. Was a great place to be yet terribly managed at the studio by those in charge. Not Roger or his people but those at the studio itself. Roger is awesome.
Oh man, I used to love the Invisible Man when I was a kid, my favorite episode was the one where the team discovers the Quicksilver gland wasn't some lab grown artificial creation, but was actually extracted from a, get this, a freaking Sasquatch. It got even more bonkers when they found out it was specifically taken from a female Sasquatch and was emitting mating pheromones which attracted a male Sasquatch, which ofcourse was Invisible the entire episode.
I like the one where he thinks he’s seeing a ghost while invisible, until they figure out that he can see in the ultraviolet spectrum and there was someone else invisible. It introduced me to the concept of ultraviolet
Does anyone else remember watching Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion on the sci-fi Channel when it first came on air? You can find all the episodes on TH-cam...that show is a hidden gem for conspiracy theory fans.
Great video, as always! You and Matt Baume are are the two youtubers I watch to get info on old TV shows that many have forgotten. Also, Black Scorpion is also on Shout Factory TV. I watched them and wonder how comfortable all those rubber suits must have been. How does Black Scorpion fight at all with that much exposed skin?
Today if they remake it, the main character Will be black woman with girl boss attitude. Her friend Will be gay or lesbian. So its better not giving hollywood any ideas
My stepdad was in Black Scorpion, Steven Kravitz who played Slugger on the show. I remember him telling me that he loved working on the show.
I interviewed him in... 2018 for a Black Scorpion article on a magazine I had. He was also in Howard The Duck, which had another special in the same issue!
Very cool!
Wasn't there a show like Black Scorpion with Famke Janssen in it? @@GoodBadFlicks
Hey,that's so COOL.And so glad he loved working on that show.I watched it back in the day.
@@GoodBadFlicksblack scorpion is on Tubi TV so nobody don't have to worry about missing out on the show the whole app is free and they got Babylon 5 as well
THERE’S Black Scorpion! I met the TV series’ lead, Michelle Lintel, at a press event and still have the pics. She’s a goof, great sense of humor, as the series definitely proved. Basically every episode was Roger Corman saying “Put an attractive woman in a space bikini, and name her the villain of the week!”
Corman gives the audience what they want lol
The episode of _Black Scorpion_ that I remember the most was the episode titled *Love Burns* where Dave Mustaine of Megadeth guest stars as a character named Torchy Thompson, and my favorite line where he said *No thanks, I don't like freezing police, but I do like burning them* and then the guitar riff from *Hangar 18* starts playing when he is fighting Michelle as Darcy Walker. I also remember in that episode where they would also play the Megadeth song *Five Magics* in some scenes too.
@@AdamKNACI’ve seen that clip, LMAO.
The plot point mentioned in First Wave where the protagonist has everything taken from him to measure his resilience sounds positively biblical in a Job sense.
First Wave was my first time encountering 117 in biblical numerology until Halo.
I really liked First Wave. A friend and I still have a running joke that if either of us do something out of character, we try to make the other eat some salt to prove we're not aliens.
I also say "It's the sword that killed Lincoln" when I see a historical item on display anywhere.
I wish I understood your jokes!!!
Weird to see _The Invisible Man_ being forgotten. I was a regular viewer when it aired. Loved the show.
My so loves it so much
yes it was a good show
It was great.
I remember black scorpion I used to watch that with my dad as a little kid for the longest time. I forgot about that show. Thank you.
I loved the Darien Fox invisible man show! Such a good way to do the invisibility thing. They came up with a way for him to have close, to “see” and even have an invisible car at one point.
It was more of a “smart guy gets creative with powers” thing. Or that time he got whimsical while crazy on quicksilver and beat the living shit out of a mime.
I liked that they also reversed the trope of "If you're invisible, I can still see your body heat" by having him appear colder since all light is refracted around him.
As I recall, the layer of quicksilver converted UV light into visible, so he could still see, although in weird colors. He could also see other quicksilver-coated things, for the same reason.
One thing you forget to mention about The First Wave, is that the main character fights the alien invasion conspiracy, with the help of a manuscript that contains prophecies by Nostradamus, who somehow predicted the alien invasion plot back in the 16th century.
This was during that phase in the late 90´s, when all these conspiracy theories & occult stuff was pretty popular in tv series ( X-Files, Millennium etc.)
Dude! I completely forgot about the Nostrodamus manuscript aspect of the show. It's been so long since I watched this show.
I forgot about it too
Didn’t Nostradamus turn out to be one of the aliens? It’s been a while but I LOVED this series!
Yes, Cade was the Twice Blessed Man, And also, His partner Crazy Eddie was named after A Mote In God's Eye.
now that you mention it, that unlocked a memory that i watched the first wave back in the 90s, i only remembered the nostradamus part not the name of the show.
I miss old school Sci Fi Channel. I wish they bring it back.
Amen.
For real. I miss all the cheap B movie sci fi of random and excessive monster movie ideas. They're cheap and they did well. and enjoyed
Me, too. 😕
Yeah, and TLC goes back to being educational.
and the G4 channel.
The invisible man and farscape were SO good back then! Reruns of sliders were pretty great too
And weekday binge-athons of old series like AlienNation...
The Invisible Man was my favorite show when I was a kid. I would beg my parents set up our VCR to record it if I was going to miss it. Watching The Wire years later, I remember seeing one of the Greek gangsters for the first time and shouting, “it’s Hobbes!”
They still try. The Librarians was fun.
I love your usual content. But, these episodes of forgotten TV shows are so good.
:)
Happy that you included Black Scorpion. I looked for some info on that one just 2 days ago and you just provided some context here. Thanks!
It's on Tubi
I worked on two of these-- The Invisible Man and The Chronicle (which was incredibly fun for a low budget show). Thanks for all the kind words.
You are welcome! You worked on some great shows that deserve way more love :)
Loved both Chronicle and Invisible Man. The Chronicle was similar in concept to Special Unit 2 and Warehouse 13. Sadly none of those shows lasted long.
I used to love the mix of original series and old school reruns Sci•Fi Channel used to have. There was more of a balance back then.
I thought the SciFi channel was really on my Radar between the 90s and 2000s (that is when Farscape came out, maybe my favorite sci-fi series), but the invisisble man is the only one of these series I knew existed. First Wave and The Chronicle really look like shows that would have attracted me, but I totally missed out.
Thanks again. This series is great.
You are welcome!
I love this series of videos from you. I learn so much. I don't remember any of these outside of Black Scorpion. I was an event bigger comic book nerd than I am now. I'm also a Joan Severance fan and was a bit disappointed when she didn't return for the show.
On a separate note: I'm still bugging on my personal UPN Mandela Effect. I can't believe that, as of now, The Strip and The Watcher were not only not on together on the same night, but now they weren't made within 3 years of one another. I distinctly remember that they were on the same night, back to back. 1995-96 season, Tuesday nights 8 and 9 pm, Eastern Time. Now they say that The Strip was never even on a Tuesday night... EVER. This bugs me. Vegas Night (both shows were shot in Sin City) now never happened. It's worrisome. I guess I should probably talk to @All Time about it. But it gets u def my skin.
Thanks! Memory is weird like that, I've had things like that where you swear its one way but its another.
@@GoodBadFlicks th weird part is I clearly remember that they billed it as Vegas Night on UPN.
Wow, ditto! =O
SciFi channel was great for the reruns of old series and getting to watch tv shows that were killed quickly . Managed to tape all of First Wave, farscape, Warehouse 13, Haven, Contiuum, Dominion,Invisible Man, Special Unit 2, and many others.
Continuum was a Canadian show shot in Vancouver, also had better production quality than most Scifi channel shows. The actors in that show could be seen plastered all over things like SG-1 which scifi channel took aver from Showtime after they got rid of their Sci-Friday lineup which was phenomenal.
I love OG Sci-Fi Channel. Sci-fi Prime with my favorite Friday night lineup with Poltergeist Legacy, good versus evil, Farscape, First Wave, and Invisible Man.
Just wanted to say I really love this series from you, and appreciate all the research you put into it.
Thank you for the kind words :)
I miss when the Sci-Fi channel actually tried....
Mission Genesis was the first time I really was aware of Nicole DeBoer. It was great to see her in CUBE and then get onto DS0 for the last season. I never really watched The Dead Zone but it's great she was on the series. I watched all of the Sci-Fi Channels shows, but I've forgotten all about them.
She did an Outer Limits episode with Robert Patrick (the T-1000) called "The Quality of Mercy". Good episode.
I loved these shows and remember them fondly. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Glad you enjoyed it
I'd like to see them do a retrospective on SciFi Channel movies/miniseries that were intended to be backdoor pilots for shows that weren't picked up. SciFi's got a lot of them. The Triangle, The Lost Room and both Riverworld tv movies come to mind.
The did a modern update of The Phantom that probably fits on that list. (felt like a pilot to me)
@@Getwright- Oh god that crap...I remember the ads for that one and being stunned by how awful it looked. Made the Billy Zane film's worst moments look like a masterpiece in comparison.
I still think about the ending of Lost Room. Apparently there was an attempt to do a comic continuation like 10 years ago, but it fell through :(
Loved those those series from that time. Farscape and Sanctuary are another two that I really liked
Loved Invisible Man/I-Man. Paul Ben Victor was great as Agent Bobby Hobbs
I loved The Chronicle. It was a fun series
Another great installment of this series and this one in particular really gave me nostalgia flashbacks. I grew up watching Sci-Fi and Black Scorpion and The Invisible Man were some of my favorite shows as a kid. Black Scorpion is dumb but I can have some fun with it. The Invisible Man though to me personally is a very underrated show that still holds up well today. And if anyone is trying to find Season 2? I might be able to help you.
Season 2 came out in DVD in the UK. I have copies, but the audio is pitch-shifted as a result, which is an artifact of the analog before-times of PAL and NTSC.
I always loved the recurring gag of them being “the world’s only welfare-recipient intelligence agency.” They keep getting bounced around from sponsor to sponsor, from the Bureau of Weights and Measures to the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. Totally random. The banter in the show between Fawkes and Hobbs - my favorite part of the show - was apparently largely ad-libbed.
@@CantankerousDave The UK Season 2 DVDs though have been out of print for years. I have the non pitch shifted digital versions that were streaming on hulu.
Thanks! Invisible Man was just too smart for the executives.
All of these are fond memories. Early cable (and oc streaming series) was a really interesting and creative phase. Sadly, all things go the way of the safe, the sanitized and the samey
Sadly now they would just do a remake of these shows instead of just releasing the old shows for streaming and what not
The channel that gave us 2 seasons of Happy! not too long ago is safe and sanitized?
I remember Mission Genesis but mostly because of that Leonard Nimoy special. But duuuude, seeing Black Scorpion again after all these years was pure untapped nostalgia. Wish these were more accessible today, they definitely added some shades to the sci-fi genre that I miss in today’s media.
I remember all of these shows! The ones I enjoyed the most were First Wave and The Invisible Man, watched them both till the end. Thanks Cecil for another fun trip down memory lane!
You are welcome!
The Invisible Man is great. Humorous action with a touch of horror.
Fun Fact: In the Chronicle, James Hong made an appearance in an episode playing David Lo Pan. Though honestly, I don't remember if it's supposed to be the character from Big Trouble in Little China or some kind of weird coincidence
I'm so glad you mentioned Black Scorpion! It's such a weird show but I really dig it. It's a great superhero parody and I always made a point to watch it whenever I could. That era of superhero TV is so interesting to me. We didn't have many options at the time. Hopefully more people become aware of the show now because it was bonkers and very entertaining
It was a superhero show back when they weren't a dime a dozen
Black Scorpion and Mantis were two of my favorite superhero shows of that ime period (though Matis was on a different network). I still have my DVDs for Black Scorpion and it still holds up so well.
Man you are reaching BACK. I loved The Invisible Man when it was on . I remember one season finale had the viewers choose the ending of the finale.
A lot of my friends worked on The Invisible Man and The Chronicle. Thanks for refreshing those memories. Good times.
Thanks! Tell them they did some great work :)
It's a shame that the studios won't go back to these forgotten TV shows and try to reinvent them! I can see the potential in these shows if givin more time. Thanks for another video man! Looking forward to more!!!
Thanks for watching!
Men, I can't believe how close the could have made a crossover episode between Invisble man and The Chronicle!! Thanx, Cecil!!!
The Chronicle was a really good show, there was one episode where Adrienne Barbeau appeared and told the Rena Sofer character that she's seen weird stuff, like leper pirates in fog. Hell, First Wave was good too. It was the first time I ever liked Traci Lords in anything.
I loved that show. Every episode was fun and they did a great job balancing it from silly to serious.
I fell in love with Joan Severance as an actress when she played Susan Profitt on "Wiseguy".
The perfect combination of sexy and psycho...
I loved First Wave and The Invisible Man on SciFi. Thank you!
I LOVED Invisible Man. the weird buddy cop dynamic of Darien Fawkes and Bobby Hobbes was the best part of the show. the Agency was fun in that unlike most secret government agencies that have sick, superspy stuff, they were underfunded and their base looked like an abandoned middle school from the 1970s. I remember one episode they had to do a briefing scene, and for budget purposes they had to use ViewMasters, and Fawkes and Hobbes have an argument over who got the purple one. hilarious.
i happen to have the First Wave, I-Man and Black Scorpion dvd sets when they briefly were available. I will point out that the First Wave dvds are the censored for US broadcast versions, cutting out the occasional bit of nudity from the original Canadian versions. Alas.
Their chemistry was so good. Really made the show fun to watch
Man, I watched all of these back in the day. I especially loved The Invisible Man. One thing though... the show never actually changed its name to I-Man. Fans probably called it that online, but there was never an official change. That's like saying Battlestar Galactica changed its name to BSG.
I love this content! What a great series you’ve created! Thank you
Thanks for watching!
Some of those early Sci-Fi channel shows were quite enjoyable!
How has the sci fi library not been bought by a streaming company yet?
Right?!?
Scifi channel makes boneheaded decisions.
most of the more popular shows are spread over other services, or were straight up acquired by others in company mergers or pick ups (amazon having both the expanse and stargate for example).
it’s largely very early stuff, stuff that didn’t make it a season, or a lot of the (notoriously questionable in quality) movies that are languishing in a basement somewhere.
not great in an archival sense, plus being posted on yt does mean there’s some interest, but probably not enough for most services to want to bother paying for it unless it get’s bundled in with something they do want
I-man was an excellent show. It had the right amount of cheese, drama and humor to make it work.
The chemistry between Fawkes and Hobbes was great. Bummer there is no release on disc of the whole thing, I might have some episodes taped from TV in the attic somewhere.
First Wave was also an interesting show, although they only showed one season where I live.
Oooh, I recall watching and liking the Invisible Man! I haven't a clue about the others, but hard to not recognize a young Ezri Dax!
There are several channels I've given up on because they cancelled shows I liked: Fox, TBS, Syfy, BET. Or I want to give up on them completely if not for at least one show: SpongeBob and Good Trouble.
I was already on the fence when they cancelled Bitten but I gave up when they cancelled Happy and Krypton along with the Lobo spinoff that was in development. Krypton was admittedly not that good of a show, but it had potential.
I stopped watching new shows because they would always get cancelled too soon. I think Odyssey 5 broke me, where it was scheduled to be 5 seasons (its in the TITLE!) and they cancelled it after season 1 so there will never be a resolution to the story.
🔥this channel's been consistently top notch for years
Thank you!
@GoodBadFlicks thank YOU! 😊
Not too distant future huh? I've been hoping you'd cover my all time fav show MST3K for years. That show deserves a deep dive/exploring episode I think.
I remember _First Wave,_ it was like a modern version of Larry Cohen's _The Invaders_ but with the prophecies of Nostradamus involved for that extra _X Files_ conspiracy factor
Sci-Fi Channel's _Invisible Man_ was also great
I loved First Wave. The Invisible Man was also very cool.
Damn, I wish I had more shows like these instead of endless (and not very good) reality shows.
Agreed
SyFy hasn't produced an original reality show since like 2017
@@TheAntiSanta true, but I actually meant and I think I should kick myself for not writing this properly, was that I rather have some interesting Sci Fi and horror shows like these ones instead of endless reality shows about building and restoring houses, endless copies of Jersey Shore or you know the usual garbage.
Man i loved First Wave and Invisible man, Invisible man was the first show i saw every episode of and there was no streaming or torrenting back then and you could watch it only on tv.
As someone who didn't grew up with Sci-fi channel. This was fascinating throwback to their early series.
We loved The Invisible Man! I have it on DVD!
I loved First Wave, still remember some of the episodes. The Salem Witch episode was a highlight, as was the scene with the rich guy who found the book.
I loved each and every one of these shows as a kid.
I love this series. Keep feeding me all this nostalgia lol
Will do :)
Given SyFys back catalogue, I'm surprised they haven't attempted their own streaming service.
Or partnered up with Netflix or Disney+.
or license them to Tubi
I loved wacky Earth 2. I loved some of the uniquely concepts in the show. Also, the vehicles were off the hook. There was one big one that was built by...BMW, I think? Anyway, it's too bad the show didn't take off. 😕
It's available on DVD...
Yeah, but I think the reason was the kid. I hated that character and all that story arc about him. And maybe that mindset of absurd plot decisions by the characters, not asking the right questions, etc, to lengthen the show as much as possible. That often makes the audience to get bored. I liked the concept but the show was a wasted opportunity.
@The-Man-On-The-Mountain Indeed. There were a lot of good ideas and it seemed like they had trouble tying them all together. Yeah, the "miracle/special kid" thing was already overdone by that point. I always laughed at the part in the show's opening title sequence where he's supposed to be being pulled away in a dream sequence and he's slowly flailing his arms around while being pulled backwards through some mist by a platform he's standing on. It always made me laugh. Anyway, I liked the "doctor glove" device, the VR headsets, the teacher guy with the data glove (who, of course, had some terrible secret buried in the memory)... I can blab for hours about it, so I better stop. 😉
Earth 2 was good, I was sad it didn't continue
@@GoodBadFlicks Must...not...start...to...ramble...about...Earth 2... (ack!) 😜🤪😉
I loved the Chronical, had to stay up to midnight on in the middle of the week to see the episodes in Sweden. Would love to get hold of it again.
First wave S1 was great, was showing around 5pm so easy to catch after school. Don't think they ever released the other seasons in Sweden.
Back in the day before Tivo and the internet
I remember all of these shows. First Wave confused me. I never knew what was going on. RENA SOFER!
what i learn from watching this series is that youtube is the GOAT when it comes to making forgotten media available.
Yep, only problem is they have a tendency to get taken down at a moments notice. So if you see something you want to watch, its best to watch ASAP because it may not be there tomorrow.
Another amazing journey through weird and obscure TV.
Thanks!
::in deep voice:: :YOU'RE WATCHING MISSION GENESIS ON THE SC-FI CHANNEL!"
God, you're so bloody good at what you do. Keep up the excellent work as always, Cecil.
Thank you so much!
built some props on that Black Scorpion series, and still have several unfilled scripts from those days; the 60's Batman Def inspired the script writers
You're right; the only one of these I can vaguely remember is 'Black Scorpion', But now I wish I'd seen them! Especially 'The Chronicle'! =)
I didn't get into First Wave until the last season and then immediately wished I watched it from the beginning. Thanks for bringing me back!
You are welcome!
I've been watching that show "Otherworld" you recommended. Entertaining. I'm surprised it didn't do well. Intresting premise.
I remember watching it when I was a kid. The first episode really stuck with me. It took a ton of random searching off recollection, but eventually found it here & was thrilled.
Holy crap! Deepwater Black! I loved that!! It had baby Ezri Dax on it haha. I was deeply disappointed it didn't continue. (I remember Mercy Point too)
Great new video, Cecil. loved Black Scorpion. but definitely haven't heard of the rest. I will check some of them out. :)
You are welcome!
Black Scorpion is currently on Tubi, at least it was last week when I spotted it.
I have been trying to remember the name of Mission Genesis for years. I still vaguely remember the episode where the military officer was brainwashed after applying a tattoo in order to take over the project for a military state.
I loved Sci-Fi Buzz. In a pre-internet age it exposed me to so much older sci-fi, fantasy and horror. It was how I discovered The Misfits, anime, and I could go on. Mike Jerrick was a fantastic host (tracked him down on Twitter for an autograph). On top of that we got weekly speeches/rants by Harlan Ellison. It really seemed that cast and crew loved covering genre entertainment unlike the sarcastic fake fan "journalist" of today.
The Sci-Fi channel was made with a love of the genre. They were giving the fans what they wanted and were succeeding. Unfortunately, they weren't succeeding enough according the higher ups and that was how we got things like Wrestling on the Scifi channel.
"In space, nobody care hear you moan". One of the best lines ever
You should see the rest of the scene, its a good laugh
My father is a man who loves his tv shows with equal parts ham and cheese (he grew up on the Adam West Batman), he's the only person I know that watched the Black Scorpion tv series devotedly.😅
I love "The Chronicle"! In Brazil was aired by cable channel AXN.
I want to go back...
I WANT TO GO BACK!!!
Wow, it's not often you find 5 shows where I haven't heard of/can't remember them, but you've done it here. Well done. Great glimpses into these creative gems.
Thanks!
I still have my Invisible Man season 1 set. I tuned in to The Chronicle for Rena Sofer and was glad I did.
I grew up on 90s Sci Fi channel. Please do more of these
:)
This has quickly become my new favorite segment that you produce. Thanks!
The Black Scorpion tv series was pulled early on, then re-released on (if memory serves) Sci Fi. It piggy backed off a couple other Corman productions budget wise with the apartment set being built under the budget for Running Woman. It may well also be the final product ever completed at the Venice Beach studio as it was sold just after the series was wrapped. I worked on it for pre production and a few episodes. Initially Julie Strain was the lead until about a week before filming. As per the look of everything, we literally had no budget even on Corman standards.
Wow, for no budget (and I believe you) the show didn't look cheap. Low budget sure but not "no budget". I guess there was some serious stretching there. I did some a good bit of repurposed footage from other things Corman related. I wonder why Julie bailed. I thought it may have been because she was doing the Andy Sidaris films around the same time but I checked to see her last one there was years before this show.
@@GoodBadFlicksfrom what I recall she wanted more money. Wasn't going to happen as the budget was a strict lock. The scorpion mobile was built on a beater 80's green corvette. Think the budget was $5500 to complete by Greg Aronowitz who was promised to direct an episode or two to offset the budget. Was a great place to be yet terribly managed at the studio by those in charge. Not Roger or his people but those at the studio itself. Roger is awesome.
8:34 Good one Cecil 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another fantastic installment Cecil👍👍
Thanks!
God, i watched the hell out of the I-Man as a kid 😂
Good times.
i miss faster than light news feed. that was one of the best parts of early scifi channel.
I miss that one too. Had my VCR set up to record it daily.
The Invisible Man was my favorite series back in the day.
Has the Canadian TV series LEX come up on this channel? I have a friend whose shown me a few episodes here and there and it's really something else.
Not yet!
Oh man, I used to love the Invisible Man when I was a kid, my favorite episode was the one where the team discovers the Quicksilver gland wasn't some lab grown artificial creation, but was actually extracted from a, get this, a freaking Sasquatch. It got even more bonkers when they found out it was specifically taken from a female Sasquatch and was emitting mating pheromones which attracted a male Sasquatch, which ofcourse was Invisible the entire episode.
I like the one where he thinks he’s seeing a ghost while invisible, until they figure out that he can see in the ultraviolet spectrum and there was someone else invisible. It introduced me to the concept of ultraviolet
You almost got me but i had heard of Black Scorpion. Thanks Cecil buddy. You rock
You are welcome :)
Does anyone else remember watching Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion on the sci-fi Channel when it first came on air? You can find all the episodes on TH-cam...that show is a hidden gem for conspiracy theory fans.
Ok, I need to watch this!
@@GoodBadFlicks Yes please. :)
Not me squealing with joy that you finally covered First Wave
I aim to please but sometimes it takes a little while
I miss those late night shows on UPN FX Sci-fi. Coming home from the bar and seeing whats on. Thats how we discovered The Croc Hunter :)
Great video, as always! You and Matt Baume are are the two youtubers I watch to get info on old TV shows that many have forgotten. Also, Black Scorpion is also on Shout Factory TV. I watched them and wonder how comfortable all those rubber suits must have been. How does Black Scorpion fight at all with that much exposed skin?
Thanks! I also liked how Black Scorpion and every female villain were fighting with massive rubber/latex wedgies
"In space, no one can hear you moan."
I think by this point, I'd have to take her up on that to test her theory. You know, for science. :)
"The next one is coming in the not too distant future"... Next Sunday AD perhaps?
It’s crazy how many of the shows were on the Syfy channel
I loved Black Scorpion movies and watched some of the TV show on Roku.
It's a concept that should be revisited.
Today if they remake it, the main character Will be black woman with girl boss attitude. Her friend Will be gay or lesbian. So its better not giving hollywood any ideas