Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Author:Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

Man from Atlantis

ANY time you visited a public pool, you could tell who watched Man from Atlantis.That would be the kid trying his damndest to emulate star Patrick Duffy and swim like a porpoise, bobbing his hips up and down with his arms held close to his sides. More than one Duffy wannabe inhaled a gallon of chlorinated pee-water and sank slowly toward the drain, quickly realizing that the as-seen-on-TV stroke only worked if you were actually from under the sea.

The show ran from 1977 to 1978 and had Duffy playing Mark Harris, a mysterious Atlantean who washed up on shore and was then recruited by a government agency to help fight crime. Like Aquaman, the mermaid from Splash, or your average guppy, Harris needed water to survive, which, not surprisingly, became an issue about once an episode. His awesome webbed fingers, tight yellow shorts, and ability to breathe underwater weren’t enough to keep viewers interested, though, and Man from Atlantis dried up after four TV movies and thirteen regular episodes.

X-TINCTION RATING: Gone for good.

REPLACED BY: Kevin Costner played a Man from Atlantis–like fish guy, with webbed feet and gills, in the 1995 big-screen bomb Waterworld.

FUN FACT: Man from Atlantis was the first American TV series to air in the People’s Republic of China. Take that, communism.

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