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NBC Network - Gemini Man - "Smithereens" - WBZ Channel 4 (Complete Broadcast, 9/23/1976) 📺
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2023
- Here's the complete broadcast of a first-run episode - the first regular one, in fact - of the short-lived Gemini Man, "Smithereens" (S01E1), as aired on the NBC Network via its Boston, MA then-affiliate WBZ Channel 4 (today a CBS-owned station). (The pilot for this ultimately 12-episode show was broadcast on May 10th 1976.)
Ben Murphy played the title role, a man who has a watch that makes him invisible if pressed, but can only be invisible 15 minutes at a time or else he will vanish forever; also co-starred Katherine Crawford and William Sylvester. This episode - involving the transport of very dangerous fuel - featured among the guest stars Jim Stafford (of "Spiders and Snakes" and "My Girl Bill" fame).
A mini-bonus will follow. Also of significance, later on that night, the first of three Presidential debates between Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter would be held.
😄 Fuzzy's Note: I would be remiss if I did not also mention that this episode of Gemini Man comprises a good portion of my favorite Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episode of all time - "Riding with Death". Check it out after watching this - its hilarious! 😄 • MST3k 814 - Riding wit...
Includes:
Commercial for September 25th TV Guide issue (with Charlie's Angels on cover) (voiceover by Taylor Grant)
Station ID / Feeling Fine promo
Thursday night schedule preview (voiceover by Norman Rose) - notice a crucial spelling error on the screen
Episode preview and show opening titles
Sponsor billboard for Head & Shoulders (voiceover by Fred Facey)
Commercials for:
Head & Shoulders
Seeming technical difficulties moment with 31 seconds of black (no picture, no sound - beginning at 3:01)
Episode Act I
Commercials for:
Kodak (child and dog have their picture taken)
Queensize Sheer Energy
Episode Act II
Commercials for:
Downy fabric softener
Safeguard deodorant soap
Sponsor billboard for Safeguard deodorant soap (voiceover by Fred Facey)
Promo for Ford-Carter debate and Today (voiceover by Mel Brandt)
Promo for new season of Action 4 (voiceover by Gene Pell)
Station ID / promo for Match Game PM
Station ID / promo for Feeling Fine (again!)
Episode Act III
Commercials for:
Jell-O brand gelatin (with Mrs. Santelli of Ohio) (voiceover by Peter Thomas)
Quasar TV sets (with "Quasar Service Miser" chassis)
Episode Act IV
Commercials for:
Minute Maid Orange Juice (featuring Bing and Kathryn Crosby and family)
The Adventure People and Air-Sea Rescue Copter - from Fisher-Price
Preview of next week's episode (voiceover by Ben Murphy) (ending voiceover by Wayne Howell)
Promo for "Big Jake" (voiceover by Mel Brandt?)
Commercials for:
Clorets - "The Breath Deodorant" (with actor Richard Herd)
Burger King - "Have It Your Way"
End credits (with voiceover promo for Ford-Carter debate and Baa Baa Black Sheep by Arthur Gary)
Promo for Captains and the Kings miniseries (voiceover by Norman Rose)
Tail end of PSA for Action for Children's Television
PSA for Reading Is Fundamental
NBC News Update with Chuck Scarborough (opening voiceover by Bill Hanrahan), with items:
- First Ford-Carter debate "about an hour from now"
- Secretary of State Kissinger in London on southern Africa situation
- Norwegian ship in troubled waters off coast of Spain
- Evidence from Viking 2 can't say whether there was life on Mars
- Elias Sarkis sworn in as president of Lebanon
- Labor unions in France will stage 1 day strike in protest against government wage and price controls
Commercial: Dodge D-100 from Chrysler
Promo for Sanford & Son special (voiceover by Adolph Caesar)
"Speakout" with Doris Waldstein on Logan Airport refusing to abide by nighttime noise curfew
Animated Station ID (with logo color-coordinated to match 'N' logo)
Bonus: Preview and first few seconds of opening titles of Baa Baa Black Sheep first-run episode "Best Three Out of Five" (S01E03)
"Presidential Canditates Debate"
This aired on local Boston TV on Thursday, September 23rd 1976 during the 7:30pm to 8:31pm (Eastern) timeframe.
This footage was donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Steve Albert Collection.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
You guys who tend to these classic tv and movie channels are important to many ill peoples sanity. If i had no classics to hold on to the good memories, id be struggling that much harder to keep going. So thank you ❤️☮️🕊️
Dang! Well said! For real, sometimes these memories from happier times really do keep you going.
EXACTLY
Yes. I basically live in a complete "retro world" of my own making mainly only listening to my older new wave/synth music and watching my older favorite TV shows and movies like Lucan,The Phoenix,Darkroom,Cliffhangers,etc. It is,indeed,better...
The "original broadcast" aspect is what makes this channel so awesome. Lots of channels offer replays of 60's, 70's and 80's shows but original broadcasting is where it's at.
Agreed. I wish this was the two-hour pilot instead of one of the hour-long episodes, since I think the pilot was far better than the rest of the series, but I'll take whatever I can get.
Programs like these are comforting.
Sam, my patent papers are at a slight angle!
Robert Denby is so elusive he's not even mentioned!
You LIKE Robert Denby?!
He's a real Turkey, maaan.
STOP HARASSING DENBY!!
I remember watching “Gemini Man” back in the ‘70s. It premiered the year after David McCallum’s ill-fated “Invisible Man” series. I got my first digital watch because of this show.
Too bad they downgraded to that generic digital LCD watch instead of the cool Heuer Chronosplit in the pilot, which had LCD and LED displays.
I enjoyed Invisible Man, I mean it wasn't any Sapphire & Steel but it was entertaining. I could see why Gemini man didn't do well, his powers don't really move the story forward.
This is my favorite UA-cam Channel. Thank you so much for all the fantastic memories.
You said it!
"Presidential Canditates." It's nice to see NBC could spell as well as they could develop a watchable show.
that was good!
If you want to know what it was like to live in the 70's, this pretty much covers it all!
The Gemini Man was another attempt by NBC to do another invisible man. Ben Murphy appeared in another NBC TV series, The Name of the Game. He had a recurring role as an investigative reporter named Joe Stemple.
Joe *Sample,* actually. Same name as a member of a well-known jazz group, The Crusaders. Only appeared among the 26 episodes Robert Stack starred in - and those 26 were the only episodes Stack ever did (he never appeared in a Gene Barry or Tony Franciosa segment). Incidentally, that show was also produced by Universal TV as this one was.
This is like an early Xmas present. My favorite tv show with original commercials. I wish you had all episodes like that. Thanks so much for uploading. :)
"And believe me, Death does NOT pay for gas"
LOL "a handsome curly haired fellow!"
I kind of miss the era of "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" television shows. Just so many strange and unusual ideas we got out of it. While mostly remember for being lambasted on MST3K I still have a soft spot for this one.
I remember watching this episode with my mother when it first aired. Right on down to the Head & Shoulders sponsor tag!
I vaguely remember this actor and this show. Since it says this is the first episode I was surprised they didn't do an origin story.
I love these old shows! I didn't even know that there were VCRs in those days.
Is this the one with The Elusive Robert Denby?
Yes, that's what I get for not clicking "more" to read the description.
So awesome ! Thank you!
38:31 Malachi Throne is the on-camera talent for the Quasar commercial.
Had trouble figuring out if it was him or Nehemiah Persoff.
I had noticed that too. I posted to that effect before I noticed that you beat me to it, and then deleted it. Good eye!
"Oh and Sam- don't wear that shirt"
This only proves one thing:
ABBY IS SOME GAL
this might not have Mike and the 'bots, but it does have a rif at 57:41 !
The Gemini Man, Will Continue!
Ingenious. Low budget efficiency. Who needs special effects when you have an imaginary stunt-man!? Great upload, BTW! Nostalgia abounds. 🍻
@dafullclip, invisibility isn't hard to do; there's no need to blast current sci-fi/ fantasy shows or movies.
@@Neville60001 Making a comment that isn't supposed to be taken seriously shouldn't be that upsetting for most. There's no need for YOU to take it so far out of context.
Last 2 nights feel like I'm a kid again.
2:40 Squire Fridell in the Head & Shoulders commercial
“Oh, what a feeling, Toyota!”
Smokey’s gonna put you in the pokey then you’re gonna sing karaoke in Skokie
A Sanford and Son promo at 58:49!
Could have just as easily titled the series "Denim Man" 😄 I watched the pilot when it aired but finding subsequent episodes was something of a whack-a-mole challenge, and then it was just gone altogether. This was the year after the David McCallum "Invisible Man" series ran, which didn't last very long either.
On your video on your UA-cam channel, Burger King "America Loves Burgers" jingle was vocals by Florence Warner. Can you add her name in your description, please?
That flower-embroidered faux cowboy outfit was pretty embarrassing, wasn't it? I bet Ben Murphy looks back and thinks, "I can't believe I wore that on screen."
Ah yes, Gemini Man! Excellent fodder for MST3K!
Dang right!
What is MST3K? I don't recall that.
@@LaoZi2023 Mystery Science Theater 3000. It ran on Comedy Central for 7 years starting in 1989.
_Mystery Science Theater 3000_ .
This was one of the two episodes MST riffed as "Riding With Death." The other episode was "Buffalo Bill Rides Again" -- the link between the two was Jim Stafford's Buffalo Bill character, who is in both episodes.
3:40 Alan Oppenheimer, freelance Murray Slaughter impersonator. 🤣🤣
The series wasn't bad, but it's very rare that anyone actually counts the minutes Sam remains invisible, and that is a major part of the setup. But the 50s British Invisible Man was so much better - the identity of the actor playing the Invisible Man was kept secret for almost 20 years.
Alan Oppenheimer: one of the three actors to play the inventor of bionics, Dr. Rudy Wells, on "The Six Million Dollar Man" and the voice of Skeletor on "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe."
@@dngillikin First cousin to Robert, the head physics professor who head up the Manhattan Project (only joking).
Buffalo Bill was an American sitcom television series that featured the misadventures of an egotistical talk show host, played by Dabney Coleman who played that a-hole boss on 9 to 5 Movie.
@@sartainja And?
@@kali3665 Just adding my two cents to broaden and show appreciation of your brilliant commentary. No disrespect intended, my lord.
I've always thought there wasn't much point in a watch display to tell him how much invisibility time he had left that day when he couldn't see the watch while he was invisible. And did that automatically reset to 15 minutes at midnight every night? 1970s sci-fi wasn't the most logical.
"Riding with death!' coming to a SOL near you!
The original schedule for September 23rd 1976 before the presidential debate was added, was a different episode of "Gemini Man," "Night Train to Dallas" followed by the two hour opening episode of "Best Sellers: Captains & the Kings."
So the premiere of "Captains and the Kings" was delayed a week?
@@darrylh1971 There's a promo for the September 30th premiere of "Captains & the Kings" at 57:04
Much less commercials with soapy daughters these days!!
@Fuzzy This was my favorite MST as well (although to be completely fair, I have several others that are tied with it.)
Also Meant to say thanks for posting it much appreciated.
Danger On Tiki Island
Next On, The Gemini Man!
56:19 - Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, Special orders don't upset us, All we ask us is that you let it serve it your way, Have it your way at Burger King, you rule!
NBC was pretty much in the ratings gutter back then, it wasn’t until the 1980s when they made a turnaround with Brandon Tartikoff at the helm (He was to NBC what Fred Pierce is to ABC).
She's some gal.
“Sam don’t touch there!”
"Canditates" debate...(d'oh...at least it's memorialized here)
The voiceover in the RIF Reading is Fundimental PSA is done by Leslie Nielsen.
Ha it's the Warren Commission versus the Trilateral Commission Debate!
Listen to those great voices in the commercials 38:04 Peter Thomas et al
04:36 Damn corporate roughhousing!
19:22 Ricky Schroeder in the Kodak commercial, he was such a hot ticket during this time period! #😍
Driscoll’s glasses must be filthy.
Love hearing Norman Rose.
I have a question, I can see bring the mixture. But all the plans and equipment necessary to make it. It would seem to make more security sense to break up those items into different transports. #🤔
57:02 is the Universal TV logo, but it was cut off before it hits the last note. Weird.
The Fisher-Price Adventure People also plugs the Super Speed Racer car - That Speed Racer toy has nothing to do with the Speed Racer cartoon (imported from Japan in the 1960's).
42:11 My well-oiled chassis is coming up on your backside now!
Do you guys work with Obsolete Video Services? It seems like he is one of the few around that does transfers of these old original tapes/reels. Thank you for sharing!
Mentioning that name to Fuzzy is tantamount to uttering "Niagara Falls" to an insane person (for those familiar with the famed "Slowly I Turned" routine done by everyone from The Three Stooges to Abbott & Costello). But he has reasons. Oh, has he ever.
@@wmbrown6 Why am I nodding my head as if I totally get what you're saying? For some reason, when reading your comment, it triggered some kind of vague memory from Yestercentury. In the years before UA-cam, I was collecting old shows on VHS tapes. I think I had some dealings with "the other guy" (who was a collector) when I was looking for some old local Chicago television stuff. At some point, I learned of Fuzzy Memories and the person behind the site. He was doing on a grander scale what I was trying to do for myself- rebuild some "comfort food" memories of better times though old tv shows. I remember later sending him a couple of VHS tapes I had found at a thrift store to be added to his Fuzzy Memories website. I think maybe somewhere within dealing with both men, I personally formed some kind of an impression about "the other guy" that seems to line up with your comment.
@@wmbrown6I know the story too well
OHHHHH 💩 I never seen this b4 🙀
Canditates? At 00.36
Yep. You can see it mentioned in the description. This was but a symptom of their sliding to last place during this period as ABC was ascending and CBS spent the next few years at #2.
If anybody could show Bj and The Bear on its original NBC broadcasting version that would be awesome. Could anyone post up some Bj and The Bear episodes from NBC that's if you have a few of them and Lobo too.
Do you have the ford carter debate ?
Curious that this episode was edited for its initial broadcast. With tape splices and music skipping. (Well, clearly, whoever recut it didn't want to be bothered.) I guess NBC needed to shorten the runtime so they could have 30 seconds of dead space. No wonder this show was a ratings disaster.
It went opposite The Waltons on CBS
Bit confused about this one: Why is a show from a Boston station showin' up on a Chicago museum channel?🤔
In the past several years we’ve expanded beyond our Chicago roots to include broadcasts from all over the country.
The show was broadcast nationwide after all. Beggars can't be choosers. I'll take a complete broadcast from anywhere in the country.
For a moment I thought it was the name of a will smith movie
This is the first episode after the pilot, I could see why this show didn't make it beyond one season. The premise as it plays out visually is sort of weak. It would have been much more fun if he could duplicate himself for fifteen minutes at a time. Albeit a bit more technically difficult for the time-period it wasn't impossible. #👯
This show is a knock off of the $6.0 Million Dollar Man.
Except for invisibility, he has no dramatic physical powers--no running at 60 MPH, no seeing things a mile away, no tossing boulders like a bag of trash
I want to know about the science of one semi-truck stopping another semi that has broken breaks just the way they do in the show. #🚛
At 2:33 Pam Dawber
Doesn't look or sound like her...
Harve Bennet, should have know and the guy from 2001 A Space Odyssey
You mean William Sylvester. He played Dr. Floyd in 2001.
Does anyone know who the girl is in the shower on the Safeguard commercial? I know the Mom is Mary Jo Calett. The daughter looks so familar.
52:04--sounds like something lifted from a script from Scooby Doo (although he doesn't say "meddling kids").
A few "Murder, She Wrote" episodes tended to have moments like that after the killer is caught. Only I never heard villains say "that meddling mystery book writer."
Da Booner!
What's the story about "The Steve Albert Collection"?
Steve Albert was an early Umatic videotape adopter who lived in Boston at the time. He and his wife Diane were big TV guide collectors and aficionados. Steve has passed on, but Diane was able to get his tapes to us to preserve his unique recordings.
6:13 mmmm turkey soup
Also, the 30+ seconds of black during the first commercial break - was the Gemini Man himself at the controls at NBC that night?
He made some of their advertising revenue disappear.