{"id":588,"date":"2008-01-24T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T11:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2008-01-22T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T20:18:22","slug":"remember-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Remember This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/automan.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Automan' \/>For those of you who had better things to do in 1983 than watch execrably bad SFTV, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automan\">Automan<\/A> was a short-lived series inspired (unofficially) by <I>TRON<\/I>.  Produced by Glen A. Larson*, starring a perpetually-bewildered Desi Arnaz Jr. and Chuck Wagner&#8217;s hair, it did nothing to enhance the reputation of computer programmers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d completely forgotten about it until <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theendoftheuniverse.ca\/\">The Website at the End of the Universe<\/A> pointed out that the entire pilot episode is <A HREF=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=7431697761438389295&#038;hl=en-CA\">available online<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m somewhat hesitant to admit that I actually watched this dumb thing when it first aired, but in my defense I was too young to have anything better to do than watch execrably bad SFTV, plus I wanted a pet Cursor.)<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n*Y&#8217;know, the thing about Glen A. Larson is, for every <I>Battlestar Galactica<\/I> there&#8217;s a <I>Manimal<\/I>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who had better things to do in 1983 than watch execrably bad SFTV, Automan was a short-lived series inspired (unofficially) by TRON. Produced by Glen A. Larson*, starring a perpetually-bewildered Desi Arnaz Jr. and Chuck Wagner&#8217;s hair, it did nothing to enhance the reputation of computer programmers. I&#8217;d completely forgotten about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}