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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Show Notes and Video Playlist: Episode 11-7: Exo-Man (1977)

*We hope you enjoy this look at an obscure TV movie! Unsold pilot Exo-Man premiered June 18, 1977 on NBC.

*Before we get too far into it, we promised you a screengrab, and here it is:



*Here is the video playlist for Exo-Man. Note that we include a recent upload of the movie and not the multi-multipart version we saw.

 

And remember, you can always check out our official YouTube page for all of our past podcasts and episode-specific playlists for each one!

*Kevin McCarthy is listed on the Exo-Man IMDB page, and Exo-Man is listed on his IMDB page, but we don't think it's him. Are we totally clueless here?

*Martin Caidin wrote the novel Cyborg, which was turned into The Six Million Dollar Man, and 3 follow-ups in the series.

*Here is Brick Mantooth's tweet re: The Exo-Man custom toy (the toy is no longer available, but the pic is below):





*Little Women was an NBC miniseries in October 1978. David Ackroyd appeared in the series that came out of that mini and aired only for a brief time in early 1979.

*Anne Scheeden did have a recurring role on Emergency but was actually in more episodes of Marcus Welby M.D.

*Here is a history of the Photoplay Gold Medal Awards that is more accurate than Wikipedia!

*1978, just after this movie, saw the last recorded auction of a Gutenburg Bible. It sold for $2.4 million.

*This article in Paste talks about anchovies on pizza and cites another article as pointing to 1989's Loverboy as helping make anchovy pizza a joke. 1989 is at the tail end of our era. Surely the joke was around well before then, right?

*Mike mentions the amazing find of a demo for a theme song, and here for the first time anywhere are the actual lyrics!

Dr. Nick Conrad likes to jog
With his girlfriend Emily
He keeps a meticulous log
And teaches physics at the University
He always does what's right
Even if it means crossing a line
He never backed down from a fight
Till he got piped in the spine
Now it's time for some UV light

Exo Exo Exo-Man
He uses science we don't understand
Exo Exo Exo-Man
He has a really cool van
Exo Exo Exo-Man
When he hops, he will land
Exo Exo Exo-Man
Gonna give the man a hand

Malfuntion, Malfuntion, Malfuntion

Larry, give him a haaaaaand

Exo Exo Exo-Man
He uses science we don't understand
Exo Exo Exo-Man
He has a really cool van
Exo Exo Exo-Man
When he hops, he will land
Exo Exo Exo-Man
Gonna give the man a hand





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