Wed Jun 30, 2021 09:34 AM
Adventure on a train 😆 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTd687mIrg8
NBC’s Supertrain is here come aboard for a ride. What a great idea to make a show like “The love boat” but on a super luxury gigantic high-speed train crossing the continent at 200 mph! The star of the show would be of course THE SUPERTRAIN, the regular cast and popular guest stars. Incredible huge sets were built that had cost about 6 million dollars (in 1979 that was a lot of money…) Everything was done to make it look real and Big. Great disco themes and music composed by Bob Cobert. But the show was a failure. Too much on the container and about no content. Silly stories with too much improbabilities. The look of the show changed at each episodes with 3 different opening themes in just 10 episodes! Was it Drama? Was it suspense? Was it a disaster movie? Was it a comedy show? Was it a slapstick comedy with recorded cheers? All this happen when a show is rushed into production without clear guidelines on the format and the background of the main theme. Good stories, good writing and good technical consultants would have saved this SUPERTRAIN from crashing. How can you possibly believe that the government and the American people would allow an atomic-powered train to cross the America at 200mph without any single safety system on board? Would you like to have a Tchernobyl on rail? That’s insane! Anyway, i did this video to celebrate THE SUPERTRAIN. Because i love trains and this one is sure one of a kind. I used many of the themes including the recycled theme from “CHAIN REACTION”. In the first part you’ll see supertrain’s departure from NY followed by different shots of the models. (note: on one of the night shots, you’ll see only 5 cars. This was probably filmed after the crash that destroyed half the train, but that’s another story… ) Then you’ll see the end of the inaugural trip from the pilot “Express to terror” OK I re-edited it but it’s close to the original (meaning the original is as silly…) I would have loved a shot of the swimming pool during the emergency stop!!!! please: ASK NBC TO RELEASE SUPERTRAIN ON DVD NOW! Thanks for watching!
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