“Automan” was a short-lived, fairly horrible TV series from 1983/84 that tried to profit from the popularity of Tron. While today it looks pretty awful on every level, at the time it seemed – at least to this 13-year-old – pretty awesome. The special effects were very primitive by todays standards, but even so they drove the cost of the show to around a million dollars an episode… substantial money at the time. And while the results are, well, cheesy, this was the first time that the notion of computer graphics playing an important role in TV was really tried.
Being a child of the 80’s, I suppose I should have all kinds of nostalgia for the 80’s. And I do. But one thing I *don’t* have a whole lot of 80’s nostalgia for is the cheeseball writing, dialogue and acting you see in a lot of these shows. Ugh.
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