{"id":38863,"date":"2004-06-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/16\/anybody-remember-blade-squad-or-mv24\/"},"modified":"2004-06-16T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T07:00:00","slug":"anybody-remember-blade-squad-or-mv24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040616-00\/?p=38863","title":{"rendered":"Anybody remember Blade Squad or MV24?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  It&#8217;s often fun to go back and see  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu\/~aaron2\/fox\/fox-news.html#develop97\">  the kooky ideas for television shows that floated around years ago<\/a>.  Here are some from 1997:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Blade Squad<\/i> &#8211;  An action series set in the year 2001  about a cop who gets around on jet-powered roller skates.   <\/li>\n<li><i>My Beautiful World<\/i> &#8211;  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.   <\/li>\n<li><i>The Notorious<\/i> &#8211;  A drama about seven crime families,  each representing one of the seven deadly sins.   <\/li>\n<li><i>MV24<\/i> &#8211;  A sitcom about a music video channel, starring Peter Scolari.   <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  Plenty more on the linked web site.  What&#8217;s really scary is that a lot of these kooky ideas  turned into actual television programs!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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 &#8211; An action series set in the year 2001 about a cop who gets around on jet-powered roller skates. My Beautiful World &#8211; A comedy whose characters include a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-38863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;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 &#8211; An action series set in the year 2001 about a cop who gets around on jet-powered roller skates. My Beautiful World &#8211; A comedy whose characters include a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}