h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ive often wondered if any else remembers this show... when i was young in the mid 70's there was a show on briefly that i watched.. in the usa btw... the story was archeologists had opened a sarcaphogous which disrupted the (sleep) of a super human... when the opened it up the fluid which was inside drained out which turned out to be his memory.. he of course had super powers and recharged in the sunlight. he couldnt remember who he was or what he was supposed to do.. as the show went on he found out more about himself etc etc u get the idea.. would love it if someone could tell me the name of the show....thks

I think the name of the show was Phoenix.Hope this helps .

k thanks not sure if thats right or not lol but i was about 7 or so when i watched it and memory ain't what it used to be hehe.. one other thing i remember about this show.. there was an actor ( the bad guy) who was a major or such in the army.. he was forever chasing the main character.. the thing i remember about him is it appeared as if he had been burnt or scarred on his face in real life.... in the 70's he always was the bad guy..... thanks again

The ultimate.....'anyone remember this show ' is....THE INVADERS.. Starring Roy Thinnes in all ..umm....40 something episodes. Creepy music,dastardly baddies(Invaders no less!!) and a really cool secret society handshake, disfigurement thing..(shiver).....ok ..i,m off now and wil.....Crap! Invaders there still here!!!!!...

WE NOW RETURN YOU TO NORMAL PROGRAMMING.....click..splutter..fizz...and wonky reception..

The Invaders -- isn't that the show where Roy Thinnes (and all the invaders) had a wonky digit (finger)? I seem to remember something about that.

How about the series "V" with the aliens who ate mice? If I remember correctly, they also had forked tongues.

There were some good Brit cop shows in the 80's but I can't seem to remember any of the names. Come to think of it, they might have had different names in Canada. Right now, we're watching MI-5 which over there is known as Spooks.

Yeah your right of course it was The Invaders and yes it was a wonky digit..the little finger was bent the wrong way and i still scare my daughter by humming the creepy music that denoted that a Invader was about and doing nasty things on screen. V!! I had forgotten that one(80's?), and yeah that bird who was(oops, i meant girl, woman,lady,actress etc) the boss of them ,she used to swallow them mice(rats?) and she did that weird thing with her throat (i think).. Spooks! we just had a re run of that show here (in Australia). What about that show with Brodie and err..umm..Martin something and Gorden something(from upstairs downstairs fame and a lot of other movies)...Gawd. i hate getting old and forgeting stuff!!..cheers

Are you thinking of Martin Shaw (Doyle), Gordon Jackson, and some other guy (Bodie) who's name escapes me. Only shown the once because Martin Shaw refused to allow any repeats. (Martin Shaw used to go to my school, but that's another story). They were meant to be in a crack team called CI5, mmmh interesting name, nearly like MI5, and were drawn from the SAS (Bodie)and the Met (Doyle) to beat up the baddies and drive round in souped up Ford Capris. I remember that a Ford Granada crashed through a plate glass window in the opening credits. Cor, did Ford have shares in this series. It made me want to buy one just like theirs....

I don't know the show you're referring to: Martin, Brodie and Gordon but we don't get all of the Brit shows in Canada. So, you're in Oz. Are you originally from England or were you born in Australia?

I was born in England and emigrated to Canada with my family. I still watch Brit shows (including Corrie) whenever I can because I miss the humour and the way the actors portray real people, not glamour-types living perfect lives with perfect teeth and skin.

Bodie was played by Lewis Collins, who also starred in 'Who Dares Wins' a dodgy action film loosely based on the SAS's Iranian Embassy siegebreaking operation. Where is he now?

I seem to remember he used to manage to say all his lines without moving his mouth, thereby looking really 'hard'

I've spotted DVD box sets of The Professionals for sale, and my resolve is slowly weakening, might buy one just for the hot Capri action!

Anyone remember The Return of the Saint? with Ian Ogilvy? The only episodes I can remember are one where he had to rescue some glamourous (weren't they all?) girl who had a collar round her neck which was threatening to explode for no adequately explored reason, and another one where Mr Templar was trying to track down a sniper whose rifle had a telescopic sight equipped with a red laser sighting dot. There were lots of shots of people looking down at their chest, seeing the red dot over their heart, then being bumped off (very accurately!). When I bought one of those laser pointer things (also for no adequately explored reason, other than the fact that I thought they were cool) I was playing with it at work. I shone it onto a friend's forehead without him noticing and the guy talking to him immediately looked round wildly for the sniper! When he saw it was me mucking about he immediately went off into reminiscences about CI5


They were the days..

Lx

80's cops, Shoestring, they remade that into something in America?
Spender, late 80's wasn't it, 90's, I've often wondered if they couldn't relocate it to New Orleans, instead of Jimmy Nail, Avery Brooks, DS9 Captain.

YES!!YES,YES! Thats it! Bloody hell now its coming back in a wave of not overly welcome nostalgia. Breaking glass and that Naff theme music and Brodie and Doyle looking very CI5. One working class and seemingly irresistable to "BIRDS" and the other seemingly irresistable to Sloans and "Well Bought Up Gells!!" As well as the taciturn Gordon Jackson (who in his younger days was an ok charactor actor before he got typecast as the ..err..taciturn Scot!) You are right about the souped up cars!, ah i remember the idea of having a V6 Capri, an 8 track tape thingy ,hairy chest and chains therein, as well as a seemingly inexhaustable supply of cigarettes,booze, toothy grins and the type of music that makes women do ..err...well what you expect them to do in your ..V6 CAPRI!! Needless to say this went the way of Flared jeans and Yes albums with Roger Dean Artwork ()..lol...enuff ....cheers

Ian Ogilvy, hmmmm, yes that show did make it down here in the (70s?..err..80s..nahh..not the 80s surely?) But thoughts of the Saint , brought up(almost literally..yuck!)thoughts of Roger bloody Moore and that show he was in with Tony Curtis (before he went white and really pudgy and surprise ,surprise!!..really odd(for a hollywood type)Set in Monaco or some other trendy place where all the Villains looked like Ali G and ..umm..actually all the goodies looked like Ali G and the Bling-Bling (?) looked real! Cheers

Roger Moore played Brett Sinclair and Tony Curtis played Danny Wilde oppersite ends millionaires, Moor born with a silver spoon in his mouth and Curtis made it up from Hells Kitchen, NY, they were the professionals, that was 70's, Moore did get fat, in a bedroom scene as James Bond he had bigger man breasts than Jane Seymore had womanly substance.

Man-boobs! lol. Your right about that show

The Persuaders! not so much suspend your disbelief, as throw it out of the window! According to http://tv.cream.org Roger Moore also designed his own costumes for the series (that's a great site BTW, lots of screen captures and theme tunes to download)

What about The Champions? 3 secret agents who get superpowers after crashing their plane ...

Mmmm... Alexandra Bastedo

Lx

They got their super powers because they all died, but were brought back to life by Tibetan monks who then gave them their powers, or something...

I like The Persuaders, although it was really poor at times. Good sense of humour, and the Moore and Curtis sparring off each other was always fun. And a good theme tune, though not as good as much of John Barry's stuff.

The Professionals was alright. Best bits were when Gordon Jackson showed an unexpected side for his character. For that matter, probably generally the best bits were with Gordon Jackson in.

Don't think I ever saw the Return of the Saint, only the original. Alright, but nothing special, I thought. I'm not mad on the books either; the style means that Charteris always seemed to support Templar's views on things (whether he did or not, though I suspect he did), and I don't, so found it hard to like Templar particularly.

John Barry's themes deserve a thread to themselves, so evocative

Which Saint books have you read? I've got a few of the really early ones and a couple of the later ones. It's interesting to see how the Saint changes as he gets older, something Charteris notes himself in a preface to one book I have. I also got hold of a novelisation of an episode of the "Return of..." series which was overseen or something by Charteris and it's awful That one went straight in the bin. The cover artwork on the earlier hardbacks is lovely too, really fits the style and period of the books. I know what you mean about the Saint sometimes seeming to echo Charteris' views though though it's interesting from a social history perspective.

Oops! seem to be drifting off topic

Lx

Well on cable TV we used to get The Professionals and The Sweeny shown endlessly on Granada Plus.Sadly Granada Plus is longer available on cable...

I love the Persuaders, I stumbled on it by accident and bought it because It has Sir Roger Moore in it (I'm a big James Bond fan). The dialogue is so very clever, and it is so much moore fun than shows today.