Super Force (1990 TV series)

 In the year 2020 Astronaut Zach Stone returns to earth from the first mission to Mars. When he returns he finds his older brother who was a cop has been murdered after being framed by a corrupt billion dollar company that secretly runs the police force. Stone decides he will become a cop but when he finds the system is too corrupt or filled with soulless pay cheque worshiping goons he also takes up a night person as Superforce. Wearing a Robocop meets Power Rangers outfit and riding a suped up motorcycle that would make Cyclone jealous. Tech made by his friends Larry B Scott and talking computer Patrick Macnee (badly animated since they could afford to have Macnee around enough). Randomly making up new powers like his super nightstick and his electro force field. Made to air after the Superboy tv series of the time with costumes designed by the same guy that worked on the 90s Flash tv series this show covered every 90s superhero stereotype visually and contextually. Obviously suffering from budget cuts mean that some scenes jumped pretty hard as not much of the show flowed well. Random ascetic changes from dry sci fi to psychedelic 60s like super hero antics switching to Tim Burton twisted picket fences back to noir burnt out ugly future city wastelands. The issue with super hero 90s story telling is no one knew what style to keep it in , since the comic book makers all so had so many styles then the TV and film makers tried to  homage them all at once.

  Even if you never saw an episode of this before you will feel like you did as it does so many low budget 90s things that shows like Flash or even sci fis like Trancers did with future fashion choices only the 90s could design. The female police offers wear skirts so short and sports jackets with shoulder pads so big. The outfits that the star Ken Olandt wears along make him look like a cross between the Mask and the Griswalds when they go shopping in France in National Lampoons European Vacation. I wont go much on spoilers as the 2 hr pilot is online and I will link it on facebook and some of my social medias but the evil head of the corporations is an old white man being in a future wear Asian currency is in control so he is now somehow Asian as well. A sort of a Fu Manchu kinda thing. The villain is played by G Gordon Libby , yes the FBI agent from the Watergate scandal turned actor. As the series goes on the Supercop called Superforce would battle people like Lou Ferrigno , ex porn star Ginger Lynn Allen, LSD cult psychologist Timothy Leary and WCW wrestler STING.

  Expect me to rant about this on a future podcast as its this weeks timely obsession just like my obsession with Baywatch Nights recently. A future of bad style and corporate control of our police, pretty spot on except we never got to mars and our shoulder pads are not as big as Beat Arthurs... other than that this show wasn't too far off. Also the present day has let prove that some bad guys are or are not secretly robots.. oh spoiler for the pilot wwwhhoops

Here is the first 4 episodes edited together as a full length movie ripped from a 1990 vhs tape... watch if you dare to live this 90s fever dream .

Baywatch Nights SEASON 2 (because Season one did not count)

SO every so many years I am reminded of this bat shit crazy phenomenon of a shows existence. And now with the world in stay home crisis I guess I have some time on my hands and challenged my weak mind to a marathon.

So the infamous David Hasselhoff made Baywatch the semi action semi drama wildly popular show about good looking people running in slow motion on the California beach. Hasselhoff got a little bored that the show was not enough about him so he doubled up in a self produced spin off show Baywatch Nights were his character Mitch Buchanan got a side hussle as an investigator on the side of his lifeguard and coastguard work. The first season was a cop action romp but did badly in the ratings so in season 2 it completely rebooted its self. So you dont need to see season 1 as Season 2 exists in its own reality full of Ghosts, Demons, Aliens, Vampires, Parallel Dimensions. Yep X files was huge so Hasselhoff figured he could do it to. This 22 episode arch is so ridiculous when you keep in mind its his character from Baywatch doing this and in a Scully and Mulder way he will literally see aliens and the devil and the next episode say shit like “oh come on I don’t believe in the tooth fairy”. Everything about it watched like a passion / ego project to the level of it being brilliantly innocent and awful all at once. The rest of the cast of season one have disappeared except scientist Ryan Mcbride played by the beautiful Angie Harmon, an actress beautiful in a different way from the usual Baywatch girl so they figured you would believe this as a smarter show but she dumbs down her acting skills seen in Law and Order so she can read the cheesiest lines every typed on paper.  

I have been posting comments as I marathon through this on my Facebook but let me give you a run down of most of the impactful episodes I've been watching so far tonight.

Episode 1 (again remember only important is season 2 so this is season 2 ep 1)

Terror of the Deep : Sounding like a classic Corman movie, Mitch Buchanan's first up close encounter with a paranormal creature.  A ship has sank off the coast and archaeologists and secret agent enlists Mitchs scuba diving skills to check if someone is still alive on the ship and warns him there may be a mystical creature loose on it as it was being smuggled . Mitch meets basically the creature from the black lagoon on the ship but shrugs it off till the end the secret agrent questons Mitch on what he saw and he saw and makes Mitch very nervous saying “I saw it ok, I just dont know what I saw”. Dun dun dunnn.

Jump to Episode 3 THE RIG: Basically Baywatch goes fully HP lovecraft as scientists disappear on a oil freighter and Mitch goes to see if anyone is still there. But the scientists has awoken a growing ameba like crreature that is growing giant and swallows the frieghter with Mitch and Ryan in it. Oozing glowing green all over the walls and growing around it the the blob but with images of a worm like body moving all around them. But Mitch goes all Die Hard on the massive monster with no shape in the sea and blows the shit out of everything.

Jump to Episode 5 Circle of Fear:Where Ryan read a book of black magic and becomes curses by the devil himself. When the devil is defeated because of course a life guard and a CSI rep could beat the devil. The msyterious secret agent friend says You know it was the devil and it will be back. Mitch responds literally with “I kicked its butt and if it shows up Ill kick its butt again”

Jump to Episode 6 THE CABIN : Ryan and Mitch go to a haunted cabin that has them stuck in a time loop as they enter different rooms, they can hear each other but they seem different time lines from when the ghost was alive. The ghost is an old 49er miner who tries to kill em with a pick axe. In the end it was all a dream but Mitch sees his wound and knows he just jumped back in time to the begining where its safe.

Jump to Episode 9 Night Whispers: A female vampire is killing people in an old police precinct and wants to make Mitch her slave as she thinks he is really sexy , Mitch pretends he is under her spell but he tricks her because he knows he could have any woman anytime so her glam magic wont work on him and he kills the vampire. Seriously.. I wish I was making that up.

Jump to episode Space Spores: Mitch saves the whole world with his use of diving knowledge when the world is infected by the Andromeda Syndrome. Oh yeah thats episode 10.

Episode 11 Mitch is possessed by a demon giving him red eyes and making him mean after saving a possessed girl who was drowning.

Jump to episode 13  Vincent Schiavelli is a magical Dungeon and Dragons Dungeon Master who sucks his victims into a game world where he challenges them to Dungeons and DEAAAATHHHHH  .. Yeah really.  Vincent Schiavelli was the weirdest bit part actor of 80s television, I would love to know more of his history.

This will anger Geeks everywhere as they say some hilariously odd things about D and D and have a huge 12 sided dice to play with. 

Jump to episode 15 THE MOBIUS   Mitch and his paranormal team are grabbed into a time warp by a time demon that puts them in a ghost world after a scientist friend accidentally makes a portal to the ghost world of time...yeah seriously this is happening. But wait maybe it a parallel future where the Ozone layer has caused ghoul monsters to hatch from eggs and Ryan and Mitch has an awkward close moment which is ruined by them misquoting Star Wars lines. Confused.. I guess you will have to watch it.  Mitch says at one point I dont believe that science mumbo jumbo.. so what now after 15 episodes he only believes in magic?  As Hasselhoff says at the end of every opening credits in season 2, the only season that matter.. he says.. Nights will never be the same!

More Episodes to go Im just over half way there wish me luck folks. I wont put you through it all as I do this so you dont have to.. but hey fuck it why not its all on youtube. If you never hear from be again its because I am stuck in the mobius and David Hasselhoff chose not to save me.

otherwise what the actual fuck is happening