This week join Jonathan and Andrew as they discuss the online archives that have been built to TV shows that never existed: the 1963 Fantastic Four series and the late 1970s show Kresky. They discuss the particulars of each of these archives, whether we can classify them as hoaxes, and whether each of these can be understood as practices in alternative history or merely genre experiments.
Kresky Archive: link
Fantastic Four Archive: link
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- The archive shows us the 1963 Fantastic Four cast in costume.
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- Ben Grimm in rock form doesn’t seem so unbelievable if we remember the creations from Lost in Space (CBS, 1965-1968)
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- The 1967 ABC Fantastic Four cartoon title card
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- The leading man of our archive: Kresky
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- Kresky was one in a long line of tough and cool TV cops like ABC’s Baretta (1975-1978)
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- cool, tough, and suave fellow TV protagonist to Kresky, Thomas Magnum.
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- Kresky had a gruff but lovable supervisor similar to Hunter’s (1984-1991) Capt. Devane
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- Cast photo for the 1980 Enos spinoff show that inspired Cantrell.
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- M*A*S*H* 1984 attempted spinoff pilot W*A*L*T*E*R* similiar to Cantrell.
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