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Question: I remember a TV show from the mid-1970s that no one else seems to recall. "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo" also ran on NBC from 1979 until 1981.
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Lobo was quickly given a series of his own. with the help of his deputies, short stubby Perkins (Mills Watson) and lanky Birdie (Brian Kerwin). McKay, who was nothing like the character Burt Reynolds played in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies, no, not at all, and he had a monkey, but there was no resemblance to the guy with the orangutan whom Clint Eastwood played in the "Every Which Way But Loose" movies, no, not at all.Īnyway, Lobo was always chasing B.J. Can you help us with the title? Is it on DVD?Īnswer: Oooh, sounds like "Lobo," also known as "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo," also known as "Sewage."Ĭlaude Akins played Lobo, a character he introduced to great acclaim on the NBC series "B.J. One was tall, blond and smart (kind of), and the other was nearly bald, stubby and always getting into trouble. It was about a sheriff who had two deputies. Like all the Terminator characters, big and small-screen, we'll just have to wait and see what the future holds.Question: My son and I are remembering a sitcom from the 1980s but can't recall the title.
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After all, no one seems too concerned that the new Star Trek movie is the first since 1989's Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier to hit cinemas without a TV branch of the franchise being in production. Whether the movie makes the slightest bit of difference to the TV show's fate – and vice-versa – remains to be seen. James Cameron found himself the recipient of a lawsuit by the brilliant and incredibly litigious writer Harlan Ellison, who noted marked similarities between The Terminator and his classic The Outer Limits TV episodes Soldier, and Demon with a Glass Hand, resulting in Ellison's name being added to the movie's credits – not for nothing is Sarah Connor pursuing an ex-FBI operative named Agent Ellison. Termintor's legacy is a little more complex. Plenty more were less direct in their "homages": the early 1970s buddy cop movies influenced Starsky And Hutch while shows like BJ and the Bear would be so confused they'd take whatever was going (in that case Convoy, Clint Eastwood's orangutan flicks, Smokey and the Bandit and many more). But there are plenty of other shows suspiciously similar to successful movies of the time: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid morphed into Alias Smith and Jones, the original Battlestar Galactica was forced to legally prove its dissimilarity to Star Wars, and The Fall Guy was the TV knockoff of Burt Reynolds' Hooper.
There has been no shortage of legitimate TV tie-ins: Planet Of The Apes, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, etc. The relationship between television and film has usually been more parasitic than symbiotic. While I hope that this works out, one can't but note how different these Terminators are – judging from the clips and trailers I've seen, McG has transformed it into a Transformers movie while the show has taken things off into some great nature-of-humanity routines, electronic sentience explorations and smart time-travel conundrums, while respecting the source material. It seems that they're waiting to see just how Terminator-crazy we get over the new movie. What we do know is that the sets have been destroyed – not a huge problem, since it doesn't have complex standing set pieces like Battlestar Galactica – and the show's Shirley Manson (who has been another steadily improving aspect of the series) described herself as "an unemployed actress" on The Craig Ferguson Show the other night. Warner Bros has said little more than the show is under consideration Entertainment Weekly has been claiming insider information that it's all over, while one of the show's writers, Ashley Edward Miller, has been Twittering that the fat lady-robot hasn't yet started singing. Official word on the show's future has been vague, but then it always is. Longer running shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation really only hit their stride from season 3 onwards they need that long to get everyone working from the same page. Genre shows are regularly cut down in their prime – Firefly and Drive are just two examples of many. It's done well to get this far in the current climate.