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SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

cavalier13 Mr. Terrific was my favorite show at the time! As a kid, I didn't find any fault with Strimpel. The story was very cool for a 6 or 7 year old!it would've been a big hit if Woody Allen was the main character.I really looked forward to seeing Beamish and Hal every week. I even took pretend power pills.My neighbor liked Mr. Nice.I thought Mr. Nice was way to silly, even though I was a kid."The superhero in his underwear" or some such nonsense was the selling point.

darthcite Like the previous comment, no one I know has any memory of "Mr. Terrific" whatsoever. I was five years old when this show aired, but remember that "Mr. Terrific" had to take some abnormally large pill to get his superpowers, which he kept secreted in his ring. He would make several funny faces when he swallowed it, which of course was hysterically funny to a five-year-old! He always had to wear his "flying jacket" when he flew, and he would flap his arms as he did so. Whenever his boss called for "A-C-T-I-O-N", Mr. Terrific would swallow that pill & save the day. I thought I was the only guy on Earth who remembered it!

James Collier Mr. Terrific is a show with many fathers. Batman, whose campy TV show had been burning up the airwaves, naturally inspired copycats. Another DC comic book character was also a big influence - the mildly obscure 40s hero Hourman. Rex "Tick Tock" Tyler, a pharmacist, invented a drug called Miraclo which would give him super powers for one hour. Unfortunately, following all these formulas left the series very formulaic. His powers were the standard Superman set - he could fly, was bulletproof, and could lift houses. It was not a super hero show, though. Instead of super villains, the hero battled spies. His 1 hour power pill was almost guaranteed to wear off just as he needed his powers most, leaving him to find some way of getting at his 10 minute booster pill. Plus, there was Dick Gautier's character, a Lothario of a best friend, who had to both be kept in the dark and rescued on occasion, and the hero's mother - ditto. After cancellation, they combined a couple of the episodes into a made-for-TV movie. All the elements are there - the spies, the pill problems, the hero's friends. If you see the movie, you've seen the show. Not a bad program, fitting in well with the late Sixties brand of screwball comedy. If you like Gilligan's Island, or imagined Get Smart with super powers, you would like it. But you'd like The Greatest American Hero better. Same idea, better execution.

stephanie.masumura The show is campy (with an animated intro in the Rocky and Bullwinkle style) that talks about the great scientific invention/pill that grants super human strength but only works on 96 lb weakling Stanley Beamish. The government uses Stanley to help solve problems when no other solution will do. Stanley, who works at the gas station with another fellow, is your stereo typical (and looks similar to William H. Macy). The show itself is campy and the transformation sequence (where Stanley takes his big white pill and then becomes Mr. Terrific) is insanely campy and was shown at least three times in the episode I watched. It was cute the first time, but it wore thin the second and third times. I wondered about the Batman influence as the government office (where Stanley reports for duty) looked suspiciously like the Commisioner's on Batman. I wondered if it wasn't the same set.