Invisible Man - David McCallum TV series from 1975

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This will possibly appeal to the older forum members.

I remember loving this show when I was a lad, together with The Six Million Dollar Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L4H5JlPf1M

It has apparently just been released on R1 DVD - it only ran for one season of about 12 episodes, so not a massive box set.

I was wondering if anyone remembers it or indeed if anyone has purchased the DVD? Apparently the Blu-ray will be released on June 19 as it's taken longer to produce - it will be in HD as film was used rather than videotape, although the effects shots were produced using video, so I'm not sure how they are going to handle the quality difference - this may explain why its taken longer for it to be released. I also want to wait and see if it'll be a region free release or not.

Thoughts anyone?
 
sk3lph said:
it only ran for one season of about 12 episodes, so not a massive box set.
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Thist just goes to show how different your perceptions of TV were when you were a kid, along with the scarsity of channels and a one episode a week culture, cos at the time this and pretty much any TV series seemed to go on forever. I never realised there were this few episodes of this. Serenitys ideal time to have been shown would have been back in 1978.

I can remember vauge bits about the character and setting but can't remember any of the stories. David McCallum is also one of these blokes who simply does not age.
 
ahhh that brings back memories.

also reminds me of something similar out around the same time called Gemini Man :).
 
Yup, I thought it went on for longer too.

Gemini man came after this one. I liked it but I didn't think it was as good, the idea of an invisible man underneath a live like mask fascinated me. It must have been cold at times as he was naked when he was invisible.
 
I remember this, but i thought this was just a rather good TV movie, i don't remember this as a TV series.

The effects were quite impressive for the time
 
Gemini Man was the same in the sense that it was also about a bloke that that was invisible, but the difference was that (as I recall) the mechanism to make him invisible was controlled by a very seventies digital watch and he could only stay invisible for 15 minutes, so the watch counted down as he used it - the consequences of going over the limit was (I think) that he'd stay invisible permanently. Of course this meant that he was unconsious while invisible a lot to build tension as his watch counted down.

I preferred the David McCallum version as David McCallum is a bit of a legend and the mask to cover the invisibility was just way cooler (IMHO). He used to take the mask off with a bit of a flourish too, as seen in the vid I linked to in the first post.

At the risk of hijacking my own thread - does anyone remember a show called Holmes and Yoyo? There isn't much info on it about, but it was essentially a cop show, but the twist was that one of the cops was an android, and this proved when he (or anyone else) adjusted his tie and a couple of doors sprung open on his chest revealing his robotic workings. Of course, like Gemini Man tension was built as he met lots of people that had a compulsion to adjust his tie and therefore blow his cover.
 
Bubo said:
David McCallum is also one of these blokes who simply does not age.
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You look at him now in NCIS and compare him to say Robert Vaughan you really wouldn't think there is only a year between the two of them in age would you?
 
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