Mr. Terrific is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m., from January 9 to August 28, 1967. Stephen Strimpell starred in the title role. A similar series on NBC , Captain Nice , also aired that season on Mondays, at 8:30 p.m.
7-522: Mister Terrific may refer to: Mr. Terrific (TV series) , a 1967 US television sitcom "Mister Terrific", a third-season episode of the Golden Girls Mister Terrific (comics) is the name of two different superheroes in the DC Comics universe Mister Terrific (Terry Sloane) Mister Terrific (Michael Holt) Topics referred to by
14-525: A mild-mannered scrawny youth who secretly worked to fight crime for a government organization, "The Bureau of Secret Projects," in Washington. All he needed to do was to take a "power pill" which gave him the strength of a thousand men and enabled him to fly, much like Superman , albeit by furious flapping while wearing the top half of a wingsuit . To the often-lamented misfortune of the Bureau of Secret Projects, he
21-404: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mr. Terrific (TV series) The show was an attempt to capitalize on the "camp superhero" craze sparked by the success of the 1966 Batman TV series. Riding the tide of the camp superhero craze of the 1960s, the show's premise involved gas station attendant Stanley Beamish (Strimpell),
28-420: The amiable yet gullible Beamish to lose Mr. Terrific's powers at inopportune times, before he completed his given assignment. Beamish's government employers were Mr. Barton J. Reed and Mr. Harley Trent, and his day-job partner at the service station was Hal Walters. Beamish was sworn to secrecy concerning his alter-ego and super-powers. Alan Young , who had just completed his run as Wilbur Post on Mister Ed ,
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42-402: Was the only person on whom the pills worked. It was established that, although the pill would give him high strength levels, he was still vulnerable to bullets. Furthermore, each power pill had a time limit of one hour (like Underdog and DC Comics 's Hourman ), although he generally had two 10-minute booster pills available per episode. Much of the show's humor revolved around the tendency of
49-482: Was the original choice to play Stanley H. Beamish, and appeared in the original 1966 unaired version of the pilot, which featured a different supporting cast ( Edward Andrews as The Chief, All Checco as Dr. Kramer, Dick Merrifield as Tony Lawrence, Sheilah Wells as Gloria Dickinson, and Jesse White as Mr. Finney). The entire 17-episode series of Mr. Terrific was released commercially on DVD by Ufa/DVD in Germany under
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