June 16th, 2004

Anybody remember Blade Squad or MV24?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

It’s often fun to go back and see the kooky ideas for television shows that floated around years ago. Here are some from 1997:

  • Blade Squad – An action series set in the year 2001 about a cop who gets around on jet-powered roller skates.
  • My Beautiful World – A comedy whose characters include a Marilyn Monroe impersonator and a child with the body of a 10-month-old baby and the head of a Queens cab driver.
  • The Notorious – A drama about seven crime families, each representing one of the seven deadly sins.
  • MV24 – A sitcom about a music video channel, starring Peter Scolari.

Plenty more on the linked web site. What’s really scary is that a lot of these kooky ideas turned into actual television programs!

Category
Old New Thing
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Non-Computer

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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