Salvage 1 (1979). Jettisoned Salvage.
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- Опубліковано 28 бер 2024
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Stam Fine Reviews looks at a forgotten adventure series Salvage 1.
Junkman Harry Broderick builds a spaceship out of spare parts to salvage NASA gear left on the Moon, and then ignores the space ship while he goes in search of various get rich quick schemes.
Stars Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, Trish Stewart.
It is not Matlock in Space. Would you like to have seen Space Matlock? - Розваги
Thanks for covering the shows that no one else seems to remember.
I remember the TV movie and that one episode where they find a Japanese soldier from WW2. I loved this series as a kid.
I remember that episode, Harry lied and told the Japanese soldier Japan won WWII.
@@americansupervillain4595 Everything was starting to be made in Japan back then!
I hadn't forgotten this one, we never missed it! (Mom, Dad and I are all sci-fi fans.) My favorite line, since I was living just north of there at the time, was Andy Griffith going "Not in a month of Sundays or till Biloxi, Mississippi freezes over!"
My mom liked it, too. She was a sci-fi AND Andy Griffith fan! And my dad, my older brother and I were/are (Mom & Dad are gone, RIP) sci-fi fans; but we just liked Andy Griffith, lol.
I’m in my 50s now but I remember when I was nine having seen the pilot episode playing on our school climbing frame which looked a little bit like the rocket with my two best friends. For some reason back then life seemed very happy and free and for some reason every year or so this show comes to my mind. I vaguely recall the fact that it started to not feature the rocket at all and I think we just lost interest but I do remember the pilot episode and playing the astronauts. Funny what sticks in your mind from when you were young.
cool story bro
I was 9 in 1979 and I saw pretty much every episode of Salvage 1 when it first aired (except the pilot movie surprisingly). I wasn't as bothered as you were at the lack of spaceship episodes as a nine-year-old. Partially this because they had a genius to how they interspersed episodes with the Vulture with capers that didn't have it, but also, as you say, Andy Griffith is so great in it. I loved it when I was a kid. Two weeks ago, I went back to watch the one where the Jettison gang rescue Klinger from a foreign country and I found it still really entertaining. Ironically at the time I said "I'd love for Stam Fine to do a review of it but it might be too obscure." Looks like I was wrong!
Every time I hear this series mentioned, I think of the ABC Sunday night movie intro in my mind. Nostalgia 🤠👍🏽
Elderly proto MacGuyver. "Don't thank me. Thank the moon's gravitational pull."
It's one of those shows that you loved as a kid but kinda forgot about. Thank you for reminding me
This one is etched into my brain as one of my first brushes with disappointment after the pilot had a spaceship and the subsequent episodes... didn't. On a side note, I saw Andy Griffith drunk more than once. Spent my summers working on the North Carolina island where he lived. Tipsy, sunburned Andy was not an uncommon occurrence.
My brother and i loved it, regardless of how ridiculous it was. It only worked because of Andy Griffith's charm.
I loved this as a child and I still do. I so wanted to be able to go into space.
I really enjoyed this show as a child, and I was reminded of it many years later when Billy Bob Thornton was in The Astronaut Farmer
I was 12years old when this show came out and loved it.
I remember this show when I was 9 years old.
I watched this as a kid.
I remember being fascinated by the expository sequence in the pilot in which Joel Higgins' character explains the physics by which they can get to the Moon much more efficiently than NASA, and thinking "as an ignorant child, I can't see anything wrong with this, but if it'd work, why did nobody ever think of it before?" Yeah... not so much, but it was convincing enough hokum to motivate the episode.
I'm reminded of the Titan sub that imploded. What can go wrong.
We got this in the UK in 1979. Enjoyed it thoroughly.
As a kid i built a rocket as per specs from the tv show Blue Peter, but the double aided sticky tape burned up on re-entry so i had to bail out over a paradise island populated only by beautiful women and squirrels. The latter constantly cockblocked me.
Allan King did a couple of "TV shows Year in Review" specials, where he would make jokes about TV shows and events airing at the time.
For this show, his joke was:
"Salvage 1 Audience 0."
"Brevity is the soul of wit." --- William Shakespeare
As a kid I absolutely loved the show. But that's a great line!
Mark Ross was a friend of Harve Bennett's business partner, Harris Katleman. Mark Ross had the idea, and had done some commercials and documentaries, but had no real television experience. He basically served as head writer for the show while production duties were given to Ralph Sariego (from TSMDM and TBW). Ross was a chain-smoker and died in the 1980s. The show had a 26 share, but ABC wanted a 30 share. It aired before Monday Night Football, which was a death slot until another action-adventure show came along that appealed to the same white male demographic: MacGyver. You can find all of this information and more in the book I've recommended to you before: "Science Fiction Television Series" by Mark Phillips and Frank Garcia.
My memory of the pilot movie was the astronaut demonstrating his "slow & steady" rocket engine to Griffith in a sports car. First he floored the gas pedal and shot around the racetrack to replicate the explosive liftoff of the standard rocket, much to Griffith's bug-eyed shock, then showed the entrepreneur his better way by lightly depressing the gas pedal and casually crawling along -- after Griffith braced himself for more high speed buffeting. I thought it looked like a great alternative to me!
I was captivated and puzzled by that scene too and had to learn a lot of physics before I figured out why that wouldn't work. (It *is* the best way to, say, do an interplanetary burn after you're already in space, provided you have some steady source of power like solar or nuclear energy. Space probes with ion drives basically work that way! But it wouldn't get you off the ground, since you have to start by providing enough thrust to exceed Earth's gravity--and the slower you go, the more fuel you waste doing that. It's sometimes called gravity drag.)
I remember liking this show, but disappointed that Vulture was used so sparingly.
"Goooood Spaceship"
I remember this show, damn thought no one else ever saw it.
I missed this one as a kid, can't beleive i've never heard of it. Thanks for the video, great channel. 👍
WOW!! I remember this show and had forgotten all about it, thanks Stam.
Here in the UK it was shown on ITV weekdays in the kids hour 4pm. Remember finding it fun and liking the theme tune. About the same time there was a series called Project Bluebook about UFO airforce investigators. Another fun, but short lived show. Great video, bringing back some good memories.
Wasn't the 1978-1979 show about the UFO Airforce investigators actually called "Project UFO?" It was based on Project Bluebook so perhaps it was retitled in the UK. I agree, it was a fun and interesting show.
@@paulbrassil2095 Yes I think you’re right about the title. Thanks
I actually liked this show, but I was a kid when it came out,
I have vague memories of watching this show as a preteen, mostly tinged with disappointment around them never going back to the moon.
I absolutely adore Stam Fines’ analogies! I try to emulate Fines’ knack for comparisons, but it works about as well the TV dramatization of “Nine To Five”…it sounds like a good idea until you realize you don’t have Dolly Parton or Lilly Tomlin and the good writers are on strike.
i remember watching this at 9, only a few episode plots, rocket and iceberg.
The most shocking part of this, was hearing the words "The second season....."
That raised my eyebrows too!
Holy shit! I’ve had memories of this floating around in my head for years and have often wondered what it was I had seen as a kid, or even if I’d seen it at all. Damn!! Well done!
I never heard of this one! Thanks Stam 😊
Loved the show and watched it regularly, when it aired. Fun premise, likeable cast and good stories. I was disappointed that we didn't get more with the ship; but, they did alright.
If you have never seen The Andy Griffith Show, though, you need to correct that. One of the funniest shows ever created for television, with a lot of heart and warmth, too, for the first 5 seasons.
I remember this😊
Loved this show!
See this is the kind of show they should remake. It's a great concept that would not only be much easier to do now, but actually makes more sense to do now since there is so much space junk out there.
I thought this was a fever dream from my childhood. I would tell people about it, and they would just laugh at me.
I was nine years old and the show came out. Never missed an episode when it was on the air as a kid I was really into anything space related and then the thought of building your own spaceship. Just fascinated me as a kid. No I never tried to build my own lol. But just a premise that someone couldwas really neat to think about. The show was campy and it was fun. There was not any deep thinking required for the show. You put it on it played you enjoyed it went off. How was it. It didn’t last the two seasons.
This ran for almost two seasons!! I have no memory of it. I remember Quark with Richard Benjamin, and that ran for fewer episodes.
Matlock
In
Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
I literally ran home from school to see this. The pilot anyway. All fell apart after that, I recall 😂
Anyone under 50 is likely to see this as "Matlock in Space", but you have to consider that "Matlock" is "Sheriff Andy becomes a Trial Lawyer". This is especially true when Matlock brings in Don Knotts. Despite the plot saying these two just met, they act like they've known each other forever immediately.
For that reason, "Salvage One" is "Sheriff Andy in Space".
I have fond memories of watching it.
I loved this show as a kid. I think ut was on Sunday night and i would look forward to it every week. I koved Star Wars and Logans Run etc but thus has a soecial appeal
I don't recall this show or the movie at all. Now I'm intrigued.
Andy Griffith starred in a made for TV movie called "Savages". He played the villian in that movie which was very effective.
As a fan of sci-fi television and the Andy Griffith Show, of course I watched Salvage 1. I remembered it more fondly (and falsely) than what I learned today. In 1979, we would be two years away from the first space shuttle launch. I can see how then, the US Government looked to abandoned the space program and literally tossing parts to the junk yard. There is something admirably rogue about doing what the government won't that was too busy making itself look infallible. However, I didn't remember turning a cement mixer into a worthy and bonafide spacecraft.
I loved that show
A few weeks ago, you said it was on your to do list, and here it is. Thank you.
Fans of the TV series Community can see The Vulture briefly during season three, episode seven, "Studies in Modern Movement". While Jeff and Dean Pelton are singing karaoke, a number of random images are put on the blue screen behind them. One of those images is a brief clip from Salvage 1. I suspect showrunner Dan Harmon was a fan as a kid, too. I watched and enjoyed the TV movie as a kid. I gave the series a shot, but when it was clear that they were never going into space again, I found something else to watch.
I watched it during the original airing. It was the type of show that young me (10 at the time) would watch because it had the veneer of science and space. I swear I thought it was Bruce Boxlietner and Kate Mulgrew as the two younger leads. However Trish Stewart looks quite fetching.
Time for a gritty reboot.
Great review, which accords with my memory. Get on the dvd release, please, ABC!
It was a series?!? I remember the film, I guess that was the pilot. As a kid I had vague memories of a film with a rocket using a concrete mixer as a command module. Was years later I rediscovered it and realised I hadn't imagined it.
The pilot, for lack of a better word, was presented as a Movie of the Week, so it felt a little different. The series started right after, but it kind of felt like the series idea came up during the making of the movie. Andy Griffith was longtime favorite of the public and it had been long enough since his old show that it made sense to build something around him.
@@carlrood4457 The movie was definitely on TV here in NZ at some point. Not sure we ever got the series though.
I had repressed this memory
I totally did not remember it was a series. I thought it was a TV movie.
I liked that show. I wish it could be re-released again somewhere.
I haven't given this show one thought since I saw it 45 years ago. This is great stuff.
As a 13 year old I absolutely loved this show when it started. I knew it was fantasy but I had no idea how removed it was from reality. After following all the rocket news over the last few years I now know you'd have a better chance getting something on the lunar surface by throwing it at the moon. But as a kid I really enjoyed the premise and remember being extremely disappointed when it was cancelled. I think I must have just gone along with the story even though they didn't go to space much.
If you are taking requests, I would suggest Kenneth Johnson's Cliffhangers!, the short-lived NBC anthology series, inspired by the old movie serials. The problem is no DVD release, but can be viewed on UA-cam. Three recurring segments: Dracula, aka The Curse of Dracula, with the vampire hiding out in modern San Francisco and hunted by a Van Helsing descendent and his partner, who falls in love with him. By far the best segment and the only one to reach its conclusion, before the show was canceled. Stop Susan Williams featured Susan Anton, as a reporter whose brother is murdered by a shadowy group and she sets out to find out why and what he had uncovered. Never really develops a strong mystery and never really finds clues in the episodes, but she always ends up in a new locale and a new deathtrap. The Secret Empire-Basically, a remake of the old Gene Autry serial, The Phantom Empire, but actually set in the Old West, with a secret underground civilization, ruled by a Ming the Merciless type, played by Mark Lenard. Peter Breck, of the Big Valley, is one of the villains (a crooked rancher in cahoots with Lenard) and the hero is the local marshal, and star, Geoffrey Scott, made a pretty good western hero and did some of his stunts. Lots of Flash Gordon mixed in with it.
Stop Susan Williams and The Secret Empire had their concluding chapters filmed, but not shown in the US. They were shown in Canada and the UK, which is how bootleggers got ahold of them. The Secret Empire's finale features some great fight stunts by Scott and a cameo by the Ranger 3 prop, from Buck Rogers. Dracula got released as a pair of telemovies, later. The footage available is pretty low grade,though. Not horrible, but not original masters and definitely shows its age.
I only vaguely remember this show from when it originally aired. Didn’t realise there was more than one season 🤷♂️
I think the only episode I ever saw was the iceberg one but it did stick in my mind.
I had never heard of this show before and now I am getting the episode off of the Internet archive.
Thanks alot.
If you want to know why Andy Griffith is still a known name all these decades latter in the US I would recommend checking out one of my all time favorite films "A face in the Crowd" a movie where he gives a performance worthy of an Oscar. Also check out any of the episode from the first five season of The Andy Griffith show if you want to know why that show is still loved and rerun everywhere to this day. In particular I would recommend "Pickle Story" "Barney in the Choir" "Oppie and the Bully" "The Christmas Story" and "Aunt Bee the Warden" as a great place to start.
I really like how laid back your reviews are and how you do a good job of finding comfort food TV and movies I have never heard of, keep up the great work.
I loved this show as a kid. It was a great concept that was lost on the audience. Much like another ABC phenomenon called “Battlestar Galactica” that they canceled round that time
I luved "Salvage 1" as a kid...got the Poster Magazine at the time...was gutted when they cancelled it. - Chris
As a kid I just loved the idea and never wanted it to stop so i was very disappointed. But as an adult the ideas are impractical.
… never watched this show because I knew there was no way they had the budget to follow through with the premise.
Before watching this video. I remember this show. The pilot movie was heavily advertised and a really interesting concept. That's where it should have ended. The rocket to the moon was the whole point. The weekly series simply didn't have that.
Andy Griffith in space? I’d never have believed it.
Thanks, I thought i had mis remembered or imagined this as a kid
It was always a fun romp. Plausible sci-fi? No. But fun? Yes.
I remember loving this series as a kid. It's a disservice to call it Matlock in Space. It was creative and imaginative especially for the time. Sure it's a little silly.
Reminds me of “Planetes”
I can see a mechwarrior series, but just a salvage crew following battles and wheeling and dealing the various salvage they have and occasionally finding a gee whiz banger of a 100 ton inner sphere and them spending all their cash and money on it to get it working again only for us to never see it operational, but dab gum it, we come back every week waiting to see them fire it up only for disaster! Now it'll cost even more money to repair! I can imagine all the crazy hijinks, barely scraping by thinking they are making good deals when they are making bad ones, their ship constantly at risk of being seized all while a much more likable dependable rival salvage crew bail them out from time to time in secret because if there was no competition they'd make less money.
my dad told me about this show and how his brother became a scrap dealer because of it lol
Practically the whole family sat in front of the TV when this first came on. TV was everything that the smartphone is now.
I remember the pilot movie being shown in Ireland on RTE, which years later showed Matlock (not in space)
I loved this as a child, but I made the mistake of rewatching it and it didn’t age well. But a great idea still.
I remember this show. They figured out the special effects were too expensive so the space stuff got sporadic
I remember this from the first time around and recently rewatched it, apparently Isaac Asimov was the scientific adviser, I find that hard to believe, I reckon they asked him one question, once
I loved this when I was a kid but I only remember the first story. Maybe that was all we got in the uk back then.
I have to admit, I would watch Iowa Five - O
I was always amazed salvage-1 didn't take advantage of more miniatures. launching and landing using forced perspective would have been easy to do.
Asimov was a chemistry major (earning his doctorate), taught biochemistry, and wrote some definitive books in botany. With that in mind, he would have been a great advisor on a show about rockets.
I remember this show from when I was a kid and just how much I was disappointed with it... even at that time. I can't imagine my opinion would be any different now in adulthood.
I loved this as a kid. It inspired me to build my own robot..Which I didn't. I'd no ability to.
This is one of the kid shows little-kid-me tried to find and watch, but I don't think I had figured out the grid system in the weekly TV guide yet.
I grew up during the end of the Apollo program so anything about the moon was for me! The 6 million $ man went to the moon, why not a junk man. 😂😂😂 After all what was NASA doing?(Out behind the launch pad, smoking grapevine, and dreaming about the Space Shuttle) Okay probably not but it kind of felt that way. It was an okay show, but more space excursions would have been nice.
I watched this show from beginning to end! I had a huge crush on Trish Stewart and later on in life I tried to find out what she did after the show but there isn’t much on her after the show ended, it seems like she just vanished from the face of the Earth
I remember 😂❤
I remember this series turning up on ITV in the UK during the pre-teatime slot, but its appearance seems sporadic. I did managed to see one of the eps featuring the rocket although it wasn't heading for space.
He could have just patented the fuel if it makes Moon jaunts cost effective. I'd only heard of the series and the premise, took one look at the spacecraft and thought it was too implausible to watch, but the mood seems fairly special
I heard of the movie but I didn't know there was a series that went with it.
You didn't mention the only episode I can remember. The one with Bigfoot!
Did nobody at ABC have Gerry Anderson's telephone number? "Salvage 1" would've been so much better if filmed in Supermarianation.
Have you covered Martian Chronicles yet? Same period, eerie as hell.
Iowa. You kill me man.
Can't believe I never heard of this. I'm guessing they never put it into syndication, at least not in the US.
We want a Maaaaaatlock freeway!!!