Hey kiddies, thought I would drop by with another TV series
review. Yeah, I was feeling up for it.
So grab a seat, a refreshing soda and kick back. This is Night Man.
Spoilers have secret
identities too…
Ill-fated comic book company Malibu Comics creates a realm
known as the Ultraverse; a land with heroes and heroines of science and magic
alike. Mutants and super powered beings
roam this world until Marvel Comics bought them out in 1994. The idea was to capitalize on this new
bastion of characters and incorporate them into the existing Marvel Comics
universe. But hey who gives a crap
about that?!
Today we are talking about Glen Larson’s (creator
of Magnum P.I., Knight Rider, Quincy, M.E., The Fall Guy and Manimal)
adaptation of Night Man made for two seasons.
Loosely based on the comic book character, Johnny Domino, an
accomplished saxophone player and former martial arts instructor is struck by a
lightning bolt in a freak accident involving a cable-car and attempted
political assassination. Johnny (Matt
McColm of Night of the Warrior, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., The
Protector, Space Cowboys, Baywatch and The Matrix Reloaded) discovers
after this bizarre trauma that he is telepathically able to recognize
evil. After being released from the
hospital and an attempt on his life he encounters Rollie Jordan (Derek
Webster of Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, Mental and Damages)a brilliant
engineer who is of four men that created high tech body armor and weapons for
the Department of Defense only to have their project gutted due to budget cuts.
Wanting to hold onto their jobs and
reputations, they decide to move the armor into law enforcement only to find
out the prototypes are being auctioned off to foreign powers and possibly
terrorist cells. With the aid of his
father Frank (Earl Holliman of Forbidden Planet, Police Woman, Hotel de Paree and The
Wide Country) former Bay City officer the trio tries to intercept the
bad guys and rein in the cops for assistance.
Johnny feels the cops won’t arrive into time and uses the prototype
armor which consists of: a poly-weave Kevlar and Nomex hybrid, an anti-gravity
flying belt, a holographic woven cloak that allows him to be rendered
invisible, an optical lens that sees every spectrum of light and doubles as an
offensive laser beam.
Okay the storyline is a bit hokey, the cops are a trifle
inept and frankly the fact that Johnny manages to keep his identity secret at
all is something of a miracle. The
concept of a vigilante striking out on crime by his or her lonesome is not an
original story but that jazzy saxophone intro you will NOT get out of your
head. This show is a bit of a guilty
pleasure and yes for the haters I shall hang my head down for this. Similar to the Flash’s production, this show
had potential to continue fairly well but alas the dreaded Nielsen ratings felt
this show was not up to snuff and after only two seasons it went away like a
puff of smoke. This rating board also
thinks such shows as Road Rules and Jersey Shore are worth your time so keep
that in mind and hey at least check out the pilot if you are interested.
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