THE CAPE IS NO MORE

NBC have cut the number of episodes of its news TV-fantasy, The Cape from thirteen to ten and all indications are that the show will be cancelled after poor viewing figures. I've only seen the pilot episode, thanks to a friend in the US who sent me a recording, and I thought it looked good. The effects were okay and the storyline in the two episodes I saw worked well.

I thought it had a Batman vibe about it but it seems the powers that be have kicked it into touch.

BOYHOOD IDOLS - THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN

103 + 3 REVIVAL MOVIES
1974-1978 & 1987-1994
UNIVERSAL TELEVISION
GLEN A.LARSON & KENNETH JOHNSON

I haven't done any of these boyhood idol posts for awhile but I caught an episode of this old TV clunker this afternoon and it reminded me of how much I used to love this show.

I was nine years old when the show first showed on UK television and at the time I knew nothing about the source novel, Cyborg by Martin Caidin.

What I did know is that for the time it was groundbreaking television and as a kid it left us as excited as a pig in shit.

So into the show was I, that my nan made me a tracksuit that was identical to the one Steve Austin wore in the series. And I had the action figure which was cool because - his eye was a telescope which was viewed through a hole in the back of the figure's head and the skin of one arm and both legs could be pulled back to reveal little bionic parts.


Course watching the show today is a different experience but it's nice to think back at how compulsively I viewed the show and would throw a tantrum if I couldn't watch it. I think it was on a Thursday night at about 7.30 so it wasn't really too late for a nine year old.

Course the series spun off into The Bionic Woman but that was pants as far as this young boy was concerned. Eventually the program ended and Lee Majors became The Fall Guy which I also liked but not as much as The Six Million Dollar Man.

All together now...

We can rebuild him, we have the technology to make him better, stronger, faster - de de de deee