Did we already do a Weekend Discussion about episodes we’d like to see go to series? This would definitely be one for me.
Oh I want to see a weekly Batwoman series. Everybody does.
Your pick?
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Weekend Discussion Thread: What MSTed Movie Should Go to Series?During the Angels Revenge episode guide comments, Bad Wolf asked:
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A Monster A Go-Go series. Every week there would be two unrelated stories, and it would always end with “But there was no monster”, or “But there was no murder”, etc.
The Creeping Terror. Have it start on the east coast and make its way west. The show could be on for centuries!
‘Mutiny in Space’ there should be plenty of the old BSG footage to recycle, but that’s not all! ‘Commander Santa! Grandmadaughter! Captain Sting! the undead Lt. LaMonte! and every action packed episode could lead up to ‘Hard Ripchunk’ storming in with guns a’blazing and voice a’shrieking!
Teenagers From Outer Space –
A sitcom in the spirit of My Favorite Martian. Instead of “Uncle Martin” it would be a 30 year old teenage alien trying to fit in with the hip crowd at the local high school.
I’d watch Gunslinger: The Weekly Journey. Sheriff Rose would ride into a bustling new town each week, try to enforce law and order, fall in love with a Cane Miro hired assassin type who’d woo her while trying to kill her, and then leave a town fallen strangely quiet and deserted. The show’s signature could be a bookend effect – at the beginning she’d ride past the town sign (“Crowsfeet, population 128”) and at the end she’d pass the same sign, with the number now changed (“Crowsfoot, population 1”).
Or is that too much of a feel-good series?
Manos: The Hands Of Fate. Each week a new guest arrives at Hotel Torgo. Not much else happens.
Space: 1999 would make a good series (oh wait).
Angels Revenge!
A bunch of hot women with questionable acting abilities go around and solve crime with a bunch of TV-quality action sequences, and …
… oh wait.
How about Ohman, Hypnotic Patriot from Invasion USA? When he enters a bar filled with people who don’t understand the Communist threat or the importance of weapons, he just uses his brandy snifter to hypnotize them into thinking the Russians bombed them or England took the US back. Once they wake up, they see the error of their ways. Of course, the Commies try to hypnotize Ohman, he has to fight back with his own hypnotism on them. However, it winds up with America taken over by Godzilla.
Last Clear Chance. After arresting a Gypsy, a policeman is cursed to wander the earth, warning people about traffic safety, only to see them die in stupid accidents. David Lynch might be interested.
Code Name: Diamond Head
No doubt in my mind.
Kaitlin Jenner’s new gig, “Mr. B Natural, Malibu.”
I think that the cast of HORROR OF SPIDER ISLAND, would make a great soap opera mash up of Giligans Island and Valley of the Dolls. You got your nympho, drug addicts, country gal, lesbian couple, sleazy guys with creepy stashes, booze, nude, swimming in the Gilligans lagoon. The scripts write themselves.
The Dead Talk Back: The Series.
Every week one of the people in my rooming house gets improbably murdered, and I help the police find the killer by talking to the dead.
The Adventures of Zap & Troy, set in southern Alberta. I know the idea was pitched before, but I see it as a “reality” series, where Zap and Troy talk to the cameraman during their adventures.
Pumanman: The Animated Series. THRILL as Tony Farms vertically leaps to save the day. CHILL as Kobras shows up with another of his diabolical plans. TRILL as Vandinho proves again he’s the real hero.
Agent for HARM. Notably quality spy stuff, but tie in merchandizing. Yellow cardigans for everyone!
Does Master Ninja count?
The Mirror Universe Three Stooges: The three heroes from Red Zone Cuba have dark and dreary adventures as they wander the American Southwest.
Easy. Make it Time Chasers: the series.
Add a scene to the movie where the cleaning lady takes the 6 floppy discs with the
secret of time travel out of the trash and gives them to her nerdy nephew. Wackiness
ensues as Bob Evel (using a second time travel airplane one of him made) duels with an
alerted chin boy and plaid girlfriend who weekly combat him in attempts to save the space time
continuum from disruption, since it turns out time is a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey whimey stuff.
Btw, don’t blink!
Did we already do a Weekend Discussion about episodes we’d like to see go to series?
We did do one about MST movies as Saturday morning cartoons.
I think Ator would be viable as the lead of his own TV series.
I’d like to see a children’s animated show called “Coily and Friends”. Our favorite sprite and his pals are off to teach kids lessons in simple physics. Who are his wacky friends? Why there is Levy the Lever Sprite, Wheely the Wheel Sprite and Incly the Inclined Plane Sprite.
No question or hesitation: Danger!! Death Ray, although the actual title of the series would just be Danger!!, with a new hazard each week, such as Danger!! Atomic Bomb or Danger!! Germ Warfare. Bart Fargo would fly east or west, as the situation required, bedding various just-met women along the way and shooting out every surveillance camera he sees (better not go to any malls). Think of the money that could be saved by using bathtub and toy car special effects, which could then be used to attract A-list guest stars!
There could even be an episode that covers a whole different MST world, Danger!! Deadly Bees.
Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders: The Saturday Morning Cartoon Series! Each week Grandpa Borgnine brings us the heart-warming story of a person who walked into Merlin’s shop, acted like a jerk, and died horribly.
In the next season the show is retitled “The Merlin-Martian Rock-and-Roll Magical Power Hour.” The new segments follow the wacky antics of a wanna-be rocker toy monkey from Mars who causes mayhem and mischief every time he clangs his cymbals. It’s a living!
The Squishy Love of Alexander and Judy. A reality series about the young courtship of a man with a dorky name and a girl with blatantly ulterior motives. When not being neurotic over their budding love they talk about their kitchen appliances.
Radar Secret Service: The radar cops, along with a reformed Blackie and his girlfriend Marge, investigate crimes and might the syndicate, with the able assistance of Radar.
Boggy Creek Hunters: Dr. Lockheart leads a group of students on s quest to investigate monsters in the southern United States.
Future Battles: Sister Ann and Runaway with the help of Captain Polaris use Ann’s street connections and Runaway’s martial art skills to investigate strange sightings in the ‘hood.
Obviously, Overdrawn At The Memory Bank. Each week, Fingal finds new ways to scroll up cinemas to combat his data entry third-class boredom. Yes, the cinema of the week becomes the theme for the episode. Does the Fat Man get involved to stop him? You bet, though he does little more than eat and reverse access codes. Mom makes occasional guest digital appearances. Appollonia James and Pat Benatar are still there, handling the dopplers.
Just wait for the episode where Fingal pulls up old Pink Panther cartoons. He actually DOES dopple into an anteater!
just no full frontals of Rowsdower.
I know I’ve pitched this before on another thread, but I think The Starfighters would’ve made a good series if reimagined slightly a la Mad Men. We follow a group of hot shot pilots stationed at Nellis AFB in the 60’s. There are Vietnam War story lines. One pilot has meddling political connections. Being Las Vegas, you can get all kinds of mob story lines. We also can follow the various plights of their wives and girlfriends. Just think of the tragic arc you could have for the innocent corn de-tasseler as she unwittingly takes a waitress job in a casino and is slowly corrupted into drug addict by mob pressure and having to compete with a jet fighter for her man’s love…
Agree with robot rump! -give Zap Rowsdower to the people. Maybe some kind of a narrated series where are episodes narrated by Troy from his perspective, some with Rowsdower doing the same, and throw in a couple with “Evil Guy” and “Guy in the cabin” narration. Important part is to get Rowsdower up there weekly.
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You need to work in occasional guest appearances by Larry Csonka.
Project Moon Base WAS a pilot for a TV series. Like to see it go to full production? Sure, if they could get Donna Martell back.
‘Ring Of Terror’ as a ‘Tales From The Crypt’ like anthology series. Each week the graveyard caretaker would stop by a grave and tell the audience how the person buried there died. Usually in a very gruesome and terrifying way.
The Young Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Chronicles. Each episode has at least one 5 minute soliloquy.
I don’t think there were enough drugs in the 1960s to sustain a writing team for a Wild, Wild World of Batwoman TV series.
How about Red Zone Cuba the Series? It would be like that show Route 66, but with three criminals. It could actually be interesting, we could have episodes where learn a little bit about the past of Griffin, Cook and Landis.
The Green Slime –
A cable TV series where the slime-spawned creatures succeed in taking over the satellite and force the cornered occupants to watch bad, low budget science fiction movies, but only ones where the aliens win. At the end of each episode they would assess the effect on their captive humans in preparation for a full on takeover of Earth and every time they would come THAT close to success, but the weenie little alien wearing a white sailor hat would somehow mess things up and they would end up still stuck on the island, I mean satellite.
I wonder what Slime Alien is for “Gilligan, You Idiot!”.
How ’bout an “It Conquered the World” TV series – every week, Venus would send a different vegetable to try to conquer us. Sure there’d be carnage, but somewhere in there would be hidden messages for children about how important eating your vegetables is and good nutrition in general and the dangers of communism, and we could get Lady Gaga to write a killer theme song using the “Man is a Feeling Creature” speech as lyrics.
How about Master Ninja–oh, wait, but what about Riding with D–no, that’s also no good, maybe the Rocky Jones ser– …huh.
As far as failed pilots go, Stranded in Space fascinates me just because the premise makes no sense at all. It’s a dystopian alternate Earth that looks exactly like 1970s America where everyone speaks perfect English. Was it supposed to have diverged from our history because everyone’s left-handed or something? Then why is there no Paul Revere or Florida, and why do the Plymouth Furies still drive on the same side of the road?
How ’bout the “Megaweapon Variety Hour???” It’d basically be Nightrider, only with frequent breaks for musical numbers and dance routines. Okay, maybe it’d be more like “La La Land” only replacing Ryan Reynolds with Megaweapon.
“Hired!”, Sunday nights at 8. Join Doughboy Warren on his weekly adventures down at the Chevrolet dealer, learning good old lessons about life, love, friendship, and sensible sales management.
•Jimmy is replaced by Bucky, a character who is nearly identical but is much dumber and spews catchphrases such as “but he bought da flippin’ car!”
•A female love interest for our portly protagonist works across the street, selling Fords.
•Occasionally episodes shift to the perspective of Warren’s father, who often quests for head-handkerchiefs to use in his fight against the invisible flying elves.
I foresee 2 and a half seasons on TBS.
How about a Bride of the Monster series?
The octopus deserves its own spinoff.
Fire Maidens of Outer Space……mixed with Red Shoe Diaries. New astronauts visit every week. The rest, my friends, is up to your imagination……
Outlaw. There are 24 books in John Norman’s Gor series. Only two movies were made. I could easily see it getting the Game of Thrones treatment. Especially given the sexually provocative nature of some of the cover art/story lines. (Female slavery was big on Gor.)
Or to flip this week’s theme, I have trouble imagining any of the experiments that were meant to be TV series actually continuing. I know they made a few more episodes of San Francisco International, but how many quasi-exciting things can happen at a single airport on a weekly basis before you fire the guy in charge?
And Stranded In Space? Now that he’s stuck there would he bum his way around his new planet until he realizes it’s obviously just Earth with a different coat of paint and decide to settle down?
This week on Codename Diamondhead: meh, who cares? The weather’s way too nice to waste on spy nonsense. Special guest star Don Ho as himself.
And somehow, contrary to the laws of physics, the women he’d meet would be traveling in the opposite direction despite being on the same aircraft.
What about The Incredible Creeper? It would be a bit like The Incredible Hulk, except instead of wandering from town to town helping people he just strangles them.
How about Celebrity Bloodlust, where every week, new celebrity guests are flown to Dr. Balleau’s island where they’ll be forced to drink their own weight in booze and then let loose to drunkenly stumble through a jungle filled with punji sticks and quicksand traps. Fun for the whole family.
I’m thinking “Warrior of the Lost World”, but in the series they replace the lead with someone other than the unappealing, liver-faced, hungover guy from Paper Chase. They also ditch the irritating talking motorcycle and instead team the hero with Megaweapon. Together they roam the post-apocalypse fighting injustice wherever they find it. Megaweapon gets to crush a lot of cars and crash through buildings and stuff.
Oh, and later on there’s a comedy spinoff: “My Mother, the Megaweapon”.
but there was no Monster A Go-Go series.
Being a million years old, I actually have dim memories of other Gemini Man episodes, and recall (at a very young age) it not being too bad, but can’t physically force myself to sit through the riffing on “Riding With Death” to prove it. So I’ll just keep the memories rose-colored.
I’ve looked up other short-lived 70’s high-concept sci-fi series reruns on YouTube and the early days of SFC, and been similarly disillusioned.
“The Master”/Master Ninja, OTOH, was never cool, not even in the 80’s when nothing was.