Misfits of Science: An Oral History

They just want to have the weapon. His foot gets red, kind of, when it touches water.

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And Courteney Cox is living in a mental institution because of that jewelry store in a mall episode, with necklaces floating everywhere. Mom and Biefneiter the frost man.

Why is this frost man here? Why is he eating candy? Why did this pilot episode of a television show begin with him? Mom designed as a protective barrier to the laser super weapon that was built.

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Our heroes debate whether Biefneiter can do it. You see Biefneiter Biefneiter, Biefneiter, Biefneiter! But then he does it. It all turned out pretty well for some of the people here. Not for Kevin Peter Hall, of course, and not for Dean Paul Martin, who died even sooner, in , when he crashed a fighter jet. So what does this show all mean? The tag line of the show is trying its hardest to be: Let your freak flag fly! Apart from… that, the rest of the dialogue is all exposition explaining what tasks they must accomplish, like when they break out Dr.

And we had a lot of fun doing it.

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But it turned out to be the flop. Getting the Gang Together. Misfits of Science was my first real job. I could do it well now, but back then I was just too nervous. I mean, it took me seven years to get my first job, really. Just my behavior, I would say, more than anything else. This one, though, I was just locked on, like a soldier. It was almost too easy for me to play Johnny B. For one thing, I was in a punk band in college, and I played in a couple of other really crappy bands, so there was that.

It was an easy part for a kid. No one understands me! I met Courteney Cox the day that we shot the scene on the beach in Venice, which was rather ironic, because I lived half a block away from that. I lived right on the beach.

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I think our introduction scene in the show was the first time I met her. She was young and beautiful, and she was the kind of girl that everyone in the whole cast and crew adopted as their little sister. I think we were all too caught up in our own crap. Courteney…I could never say a bad thing about her. I became very good friends with Dean Paul Martin. And I was this kid from the south who drove this Camaro SS, red with a white racing stripe. And he thought that was really cool, and he wanted to do a show about a guy who drove a Camaro and solved crimes.

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He thought we should do that show. Kevin Peter Hall…I stood up at his wedding. Like I said, he was one of my closest friends. We had a lot in common, doing the same thing at the same time. The main title sequence and its theme song was not usual for TV shows of the era. Donald Todd, head writer and story editor, described them as follows:. On January 25, , the series was released in Germany as a five-disc DVD box set Region 2 with all episodes including the final episode, which was originally unaired on NBC but broadcast in Germany with both English and German soundtracks and German subtitles.

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For the New Zealand hip hop group, see Misfits of Science group. The Palm Beach Post. Universal Television James D. Billy and El, scientists for the Human Investigation Team, put together a team of super-powered individuals to deal with a secret government project to create a neutron beam cannon. Larry Linville and Edward Winter guest star.

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On behalf of a dead friend of Billy's, an archaeologist, the Misfits set out to prove the existence of buried Mayan treasure beneath Beverly Hills. A friend of the Misfits claims to have made contact with aliens from Mars. Problems arise when the authorities try to prevent him from continuing his contact. A primitive in a loin cloth comes ashore at Venice Beach and no one knows who he is — in fact it's believed he may be a caveman.