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Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987): Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris You might remember Captain Power‘s name if you grew up in the eighties, as so many of us here on JoBlo did. Indeed, this Saturday morning live-action show, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, was a favourite...

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My Secret Identity TV Series (1988-91): Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris If you grew up in Canada during the 1980s and 90s, you remember a channel called YTV. Earlier on Gone But Not Forgotten, we dug into a staple of YTV, You Can’t Do That on Television, which became our...

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Max Headroom TV Series (1987) – Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris One of the oddest pop culture favourites of the eighties has to have been Max Headroom. Played by Matt Frewer, Max Headroom was supposed to be a computer generated, wisecracking being of pure television. In reality, it was Frewer...

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Manimal (1983 TV Show) – Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris “Dr. Jonathan Chase… wealthy, young, handsome. A man with the brightest of futures. A man with the darkest of pasts. From Africa’s deepest recesses to the rarefied peaks of Tibet, heir to his father’s legacy and the world’s darkest mysteries....

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21 Jump Street (1987-1991) with Johnny Depp- Gone But Not Forgotten

Posted 5 years ago

Chris Back in 1987, the Fox Network was brand new and needed hits. One of the first shows that broke out in popularity was 21 Jump Street, starring a then-unknown actor named Johnny Depp. He played a young police officer...

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) – Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris In 1977, a little movie called Star Wars came out and quickly kicked off a sci-fi craze. Within two years, theatres were packed with Star Wars imitators, which extended to the small screen with Battlestar: Galactica and the show...

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You Can’t Do That On Television (1979-1990): Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris Everyone always associates the kids’ TV channel Nickelodeon with slime, but do you know how the association began? In fact, slime was a trademark of their first big hit show, You Can’t Do That On Television, a low-budget Canadian...

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Charlie’s Angels (TV Series) – Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris In this episode of Gone But Not Forgotten, we dig into one of the biggest shows of the seventies, Charlie’s Angels. While it’s easy to roll your eyes at the property given all of the failed sequels and reboots...

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Highlander The Series – Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris Growing up, I was a massive fan of the movie Highlander. Something about the mixture of swordfights, history and the soundtrack by Queen really spoke to me, and it was a favourite I returned to over and over again....

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Xena: Warrior Princess – Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris Back in the nineties, fantasy TV was a little different. The adult-oriented adventures of Game of Thrones and Outlander were a long way off, with the genre dominated by syndicated hour-long adventure shows. The king of this genre was...

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