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Television Graveyard, plot 16~ Lois & Clark

The early 90s attempted to reignite the love for genre TV. Two shows were already presented in this column- SeaQuest DSV & The Flash– but the primary networks had several other shows on air that they used to try to bring in the genre crowd. NBC ran a pair of dramas on Saturday night- The Pretender and Profiler– that they used to dominate the thrill/suspense group. CBS was king of the mysteries. And ABC had a tight grip on the “family” audience with their Friday night line-up of sitcoms. So they tried their darnedest to transfer that audience to a genre with the family friendly Superman series, Lois & Clark.

And it sort of worked. Continue reading →

Tags: Clark Kent, Dean Cain, Lois & Clark, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Lois Lane, Primetime, Profiler, SeaQuest DSV, Smallville, Superman, Television, Television Graveyard, Teri Hatcher, The Flash, The Pretender

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Author elizabeth ann

Television Graveyard, plot 15~ John Doe

19 Jun

One of the great things about having so many streaming services or easy to access DVDs these days is that when one is watching something and gets inspired to see more that an actor has done… it’s pretty easy to do. In the case of this post, I was watching the Legends of Tomorrow repeat last week and was reminded that before Prison Break, Dominic Purcell had another TV show on FOX, John Doe.

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Tags: Actors, Dominic Purcell, FanGirl Squee, Geekery, Heatwave, John Doe, Legends of Tomorrow, Lincoln Burrows, Mick Rory, Nerdtastic Ramblings, Prison Break, Reviews, Television, Television Graveyard

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Author elizabeth ann

Television Graveyard, plot 14~ Blood Ties

29 Nov

Toronto based private investigator Vicki Nelson stumbles into the supernatural world in this short-lived series out of Canada. Continue reading →

Tags: Blood Ties, Christina Cox, Dylan Neal, Henry Fitzroy, Kyle Schmid, Paranormal, Supernatural, Tanya Huff, Television, Television Graveyard, Vampires, Vicki Nelson

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Author elizabeth ann

Television Graveyard- plot 13, Birds of Prey

7 Aug

Towards the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the WB* attempted to keep the Girl Power strong with their network by bringing in some DC characters. After all, the WB was riding high on Smallville‘s success. They still had Charmed, but they seemed to want some ladies who kicked ass, without the cartoony silliness the Halliwell sisters sometimes got into- I don’t mock, still love Charmed!

yes, I know that Buffy* was on UPN for it’s last two years, but we all know the WB still thought of it as their baby.

What they got was thirteen episodes of what could’ve been awesome.

‘Could’ve been’ being the operative phrase. Of course, the fact that I own the DVDs also says that while the show wasn’t great, Birds of Prey was a lot of fun. And it had so much potential. Continue reading →

Tags: Arrow, Ashley Scott, Batgirl, Birds of Prey, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CW, DC, Dina Meyer, Guilty Pleasures, Huntress, Oracle, Shemar Moore, Smallville, Television, Television Graveyard, The Joker, The WB

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Author elizabeth ann

Television Graveyard – Supplemental Plot 2, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

8 Jul

Stewart here…

With the release of another Terminator movie this month, one of the better versions of this franchise came in 2008, just not on the big screen. The Fox TV show,Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, seemed like an odd choice for a franchise that had entered blockbuster territory after Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Being the original Terminator was a low budget affair that maximized its budget to become a influential Sci-Fi movie, could a weekly TV show do justice to that? In a word: Continue reading →

Tags: Stewart, Television, Television Graveyard, Terminator, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles

Television Graveyard- plot 12, The Flash

4 Mar

Back in the 1980’s and early 90’s, network TV did it’s best to bring audiences superheroes. Looking back on these shows, knowing what today’s special effects can do… these shows were cheesy and cartoonish. BUT that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth your time.

In this installment we look back on 1990’s, The Flash.

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Tags: Comics, FanGirl Squee, Flash, Geekery, John Wesley Shipp, Television, Television Graveyard, The Flash

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Author elizabeth ann

Television Graveyard- plot 11, Charmed… still charming after all these years

27 Jan

The 90’s brought about girlpower- from Xena to Buffy to the Spice Girls. For a few years, every where you looked something was empowering young girls. This is a good thing, right?

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Tags: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Girl Power, Spice Girls, Television, Television Graveyard

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Television Graveyard- plot 10, Forever Knight

16 Nov

In 1992 vampires returned to TV.

Forever Knight followed “Nick Knight”, a homicide detective who just happened to be an 800 year old vampire. The series was a follow-up to the 1989 TV movie, Nick Knight, starring Rick Springfield. The series starred Geraint Wyn Davies as the moody detective. Continue reading →

Tags: FanGirl Squee, Forever Knight, Geekery, Geraint Wyn Davies, Nerdtastic Ramblings, Nick Knight, Police Procedural, Rick Springfield, Television, Television Graveyard, Vampires

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Author elizabeth ann

Television Graveyard- plot 9, SeaQuest DSV

20 Jul

Things were different back in the 90s…

Sunday night television was actually appropriate for families. Shows didn’t aim to outdo each other by hitting extremes of violence, sex, language or gore. It was a different time.

Kids, in the fall of 1993, NBC premiered a sci-fi series from Steven Spielberg set in the near-ish future where the world was mostly at peace, and man had set out to explore a new frontier… the oceans.

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Tags: Actors, Jonathan Brandis, Roy Scheider, Sci-Fi, Science, Science Fiction, SeaQuest 2032, SeaQuest DSV, Television, Television Graveyard

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Author elizabeth ann

Television Graveyard- plot 8, The Gates

19 May

One of the great things about the end of the “normal” TV season is that it gives a chance to sit back and enjoy, via Hulu or Netflix, a show that ended years ago or that you may have missed. In my case, I have been enjoying a short lived supernatural series from 2010- The Gates.

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