An Incredible Knight Quantum Hobo Team Rider
Just realised today - the Littlest Hobo, Quantum Leap, Incredible Hulk, Knight Rider and the A-Team are all basically the same programme.
Pillars of my youth, I learned about helping people in need and being a good citizen through these programmes. But they’re all the same. Some random stranger (dog) comes into town or using some time-travel plot device, enters someones body. Something bad is going down and the stranger has to make right. Stranger does the do within 40 minutes (allowing for a few 5 minute add breaks) and leaves town. Usually involves the baddies getting in some pickle of their own making or being defeated by cabbages fired from pipe welded onto a transit.
How inspiring. No matter how bad things can get, you never know when a radioactive bloke with anger management issues might turn up - or a friendly but disturbingly intelligent dog. Where are these programmes today? When we need them most?
It’s all high concept story arcs spread over 8 series each of 24 episodes. Just try watching Lost if you, like me, decided it was nonsense after series 1 episode 2….
I want to jump in, watch a dog/permed man/angry green monster/time traveller prevent a poor family’s house from being demolished by evil property tycoons and corrupt local government officials, cry as the stranger leaves town even after being begged to stay and then switch off and go do something else. I demand a return to this golden age of television… if only for our children.
