Another one of the super-vehicle shows of the 80s was Supertrain, on NBC.
This series about life on a 200MPH rolling hotel, complete with swimming pool full of scantily-clad starlets, was the brainchild of networking programming "genius" Freddie Silverman.
I don't remember much about it, other thank it was highly plugged and the train was kinda cool-looking. I think the plots were the usual mix of mysterious murders on board, mysterious and sexy women, and bad guys seeking to derail the whole deal.
The viewers did it for them. Maybe because the idea that people would travel days to go transcon in a train when a jet could get them there in six hours (not like today when it takes 6 days, 5 of them sitting on the runway) was just a new feather on an old hat.
Anyway The series was soon gone, and so was Freddie.
This series about life on a 200MPH rolling hotel, complete with swimming pool full of scantily-clad starlets, was the brainchild of networking programming "genius" Freddie Silverman.
I don't remember much about it, other thank it was highly plugged and the train was kinda cool-looking. I think the plots were the usual mix of mysterious murders on board, mysterious and sexy women, and bad guys seeking to derail the whole deal.
The viewers did it for them. Maybe because the idea that people would travel days to go transcon in a train when a jet could get them there in six hours (not like today when it takes 6 days, 5 of them sitting on the runway) was just a new feather on an old hat.
Anyway The series was soon gone, and so was Freddie.