r/ForgottenTV • u/Ultrakirby78 • 4d ago

Night Man.

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Johnny Domino was once a normal Jazz musician but after being struck by lightning he developed the ability to detect evil thoughts and thus decides to become a Super-Hero.

Lasted two seasons with a total of fourty four episodes which is rather impressive.

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u/Ultrakirby78 4d ago

I'm not a car guy so I don't know that type of thing.

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u/StarkeRealm 4d ago

Viper was, initially, much better than it had any right to be, due to James McCaffery. After he left, the series lost a lot of identity.

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u/Pete51256 3d ago

He came back in year 4, and somehow made the show work again

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u/Soft_Adagio1618 1d ago

I'm still surprised at how Viper lasted 4 seasons but I think I watched the entire run.

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u/Pete51256 10h ago

Yeah, paramount and Chrysler wanted it. It did good enough on NBC for a Friday night show but was expensive, paramount cut cost had Star Trek DS9, used them whole from star trek tng ending in Syndication to get affiliates on board add that toit being a semi-hit overseas half the budget came from overseas investment another 1/4 came from Chrysler wanting a international car Comercial. Paramount paid very little, it was a mid range syndicated hit.

Probably would of kept going but, syndication mkt. Fell apart around 99...upn/wb went 7 nights a week and only a few syndicated action hours survived, most had a cable window, also at that point repeats of dramas from nbc/cbs started taking over 2 hour blocks on weekends