Misfits of Science

Misfits of Science

1985
Misfits of Science
Misfits of Science

Misfits of Science

7.4 | en | Drama

A superhero fantasy television series featuring super-powered humans and their madcap adventures.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP16  Three Days of the Blender
May. 16,1986
Three Days of the Blender

When a blender is accidentally delivered to Billy, he ends up getting arrested as a spy and Stetmeyer gets targeted by the FBI.

EP15  The Avenging Angel
Feb. 21,1986
The Avenging Angel

Gloria helps out an aspiring pro wrestler with the use of her telekintic powers without telling him - the wrestler, Milt, soon decides he does have super powers and Gloria needs to keep helping him out when he decides to go after crooks trying to sell him protection.

EP14  Against All Oz
Feb. 07,1986
Against All Oz

In this somewhat bizarre episode, Billy tries to break a record for staying awake and finds himself in an alternate reality where everyone he knows is there but in different jobs and with different personalities.

EP13  Center of Attention
Jan. 31,1986
Center of Attention

El goes undercover as an incredibly talented basketball player (with some help from Gloria) to expose a crooked owner who is having his players throw their games.

EP12  Once Upon a Night
Jan. 17,1986
Once Upon a Night

Gloria's pen pal Jae is the object of a hunt by unknown assailants.

EP11  Grand Elusion
Jan. 10,1986
Grand Elusion

Billy recruits the gang to help a fellow scientist's daughter defect when she and her father tour America as part of a Russian girl's gymnast team. The gang takes the place of the magician hired to perform for the tour thanks to a judicious use of super powers, but the daughter refuses to leave without her father. Complicating matter, the KGB minder Galenkov has sworn to make sure the scientist Nikolai never gets away. The Misfits have to pull off an elaborate bait-and-switch to make sure that both Nikolai and Tatyana manage to escape.

EP10  Grand Theft Bunny
Dec. 27,1985
Grand Theft Bunny

The bad guys manipulate the Misfits into helping them unleash a plague on L.A. with the aid of a contaminated bunny rabbit.

EP9  Twin Engines
Dec. 13,1985
Twin Engines

Johnny's friend Lonnie begins having premonitions of danger, but it turns out in fact he's linked to his previously-unknown twin Dwayne, a motorcycle racer, and the Misfits have to help them both out.

EP8  Fumble on the One
Dec. 06,1985
Fumble on the One

The Misfits have to help Brick Tyler, a part-bionic CIA agent who has managed to lose the ""football"" - the briefcase that the President carries that can activate nuclear war.

EP7  Steer Crazy
Nov. 29,1985
Steer Crazy

Three senior citizens end up with super-powers from irradiated hamburgers, and the Misfits have to both help them out and restrain them from injuring themselves.

EP6  Sonar...And Yet So Far
Nov. 15,1985
Sonar...And Yet So Far

A marine biologist and friend of Billy's who works with dolphins believes they can talk, making him the target of drug smugglers who need the help of his dolphin friends to recover a sunken cache of cocaine.

EP5  Sort of Looking For Gina
Nov. 08,1985
Sort of Looking For Gina

Johnny's efforts to get a date with an attractive woman, Gina, go amiss when it turns out she's involved with crooks and the Misfits have to mastermind a bank robbery to help her out.

EP4  Lost Link
Nov. 01,1985
Lost Link

A primitive in a loin cloth comes ashore at Venice Beach and no one knows who he is - in fact it's believed he may be a caveman. It turns out that the man, "Link," is in fact an Aborigine from a lost tribe in New Guinea and the Misfits help him to set free the soul of his deceased child by placing a small totem on a rocket.

EP3  Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
Oct. 25,1985
Guess What's Coming to Dinner?

A friend of the Misfits claims to have made contact with aliens from Mars. Problems arise when the authorities try to prevent him from continuing his contact.

EP2  Your Place or Mayan?
Oct. 18,1985
Your Place or Mayan?

On behalf of a dead friend of Billy's, an archaeologist, the Misfits set out to prove the existence of buried Mayan treasure beneath Beverly Hills.

EP1  Pilot
Oct. 04,1985
Pilot

Billy and El, scientists for the Human Investigation Team, put together a team of super-powered individuals to deal with a secret government project to create a neutron bomb.

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7.4 | en | Drama , Comedy , Action & Adventure | More Info
Released: 1985-10-04 | Released Producted By: Universal Television , James D. Parriott Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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A superhero fantasy television series featuring super-powered humans and their madcap adventures.

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Kevin Peter Hall , Courteney Cox , Max Wright

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SnoopyStyle Dr. Billy Hayes and Dr. El Lincoln are scientists working for Humanidyne and the military. They get fired after an incident with an iceman. Lincoln is a 7 foot tall black man who can't play a lick of basketball. He's been taking a serum to get smaller but he ends up with a shrinking ability. They have kept other mutants secret from the military. Johnny Bukowski is an electrically powered rock-n-roller with water as his greatest enemy. Gloria Dinallo (Courteney Cox) is a telekinetic teen with anger issues. Her sympathetic probation officer Jane Miller gets her out of the mental institution. Together in an ice cream truck, the Misfits of Science saves the world. Billy and El get back their jobs working under Dick Stetmeyer.Yeah, I remember watching this show back in the day. It came and went after a few months. I remember the tall black guy who could shrink and the cute angst-ridden girl played by Courteney Cox not long after her Dancing in the Dark breakthrough. The writing is strictly 80's with a manufactured adventure every week. The show needs a consistent villain to give it a serial aspect. It struggles to come up with stories that could incorporate the group's abilities. More than anything, it needs a structure to generate the adventure for the show rather than this random generator from nothing. It has a light comedic feel although the funniest thing may be the naked giant black dude almost every week and the wacky one-liner experiments. It's not really that funny. This is not the best show but it has some passable fun and that unforgettable cute girl who danced with Bruce Springsteen.
flex-12 Courteney was totally, totally hot. The show was really good too (hey, I was 15) but who am I kidding, I only watched it for Courteney.From what I remember, the team was made up of Dr. Billy Hayes who was the organiser and fast talker, Dr. Elvin 'El' Lincoln who was really tall (and didn't like it) but after 'modifying' himself to be smaller could press a gland at the back of his neck and shrink to only a few inches tall for a short time, John 'Johnny B' Bukowski, a rock musician who could draw charge from batteries etc and discharge them as lightning bolts from his hands (but would get burned by water), Gloria Dinallo (Courteney 'sigh') who was a telekinetic and troubled teen, all Carrie-like in the pilot.
DeltaYankee I hated it when Misfits of Science ended. However, I did hear that it was because Dean Paul Martin died in an airplane accident. (He was, IIRC, a member of the Air National Guard.) It wasn't just cancelled.(And I agree. I also had a crush on Courtney Cox.) :-)
OLAF21 I have to say, yeah Misfits. I watched this as a kid (about 12-13), as two buddies have. We were absolutely stunned. Active libido-tickling (Ms. Cox at 19, you gotta love it!) and thrilled. It's a B series alright, but one that's fun, inventive and quite... anti-heroesque, if you get me. Talk about non-conventional : a black man, a dirty rock singer, a jail bird, you name it! Plots were what they were, but there were thrills and suspense. And good FX.Sadly, it went quite unnoticed (here, at least), and was dropped in the big abyss of commercial crashes. But wet dreams keep coming about a DVD release... See it if you ever get the chance, no matter how old you are. If you like action and Sci-Fi (and simple fun), the lil' kid you still are somewhere will have a ball!