FOAK: 80s TV

At my regular Tuesday night pool sessions we've got in to an on-going
argument which even t'internet can't seem to solve.

One of the lads reckons that in 1984, when BBC were showing Manimal the ITV
programme on at the same time was called Microman and was some kind of Tron
type affair, with a car that could turn corners at 90 degrees. He's
absolutely adamant that this programme existed, even though nobody else
remembers it.

The car cornering thing does ring some bells with me, but the name
"Microman" doesn't.

Vast amounts of Googling have only turned up some Japanese thing which
eventually became Transformers, as far as I can tell, so can anybody on here
either confirm or disprove the existence of this TV show?

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I remember the series, but I don't think it was called Microman. I
even had some novels about it. Will have a Google.

 

Here we go... Automan...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automan

 

Automan, with, IIRC, Desi Arnaz Jr.

It was shite.

 

oh, and I'm 99% sure it was also on BBC1, not ITV, on a Saturday
evening, but ICBATG.

 

Nice one Ben - thanks to you an Darsy.

I didn't watch this, but nor did I watch Manimal, so obviously I'd found
something better to do with my Saturday nights by the time I was 13.

Wanking, most likely.


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More shite than his mother's show?

 

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That's *still* going on? Makes a change from arguing about the rules, I
suppose.

 

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

 

How really bizarre. We were talking about this just the other week.


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I didn't know you liked Rush..

Phil

 

You haven't been paying attention:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/3f7ab25bff07451e?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/4068f25a719cdb47?hl=en

 

Yeah. But that was *ages* ago. You surely can't expect me to remember
stuff for more than 5 minutes do you?

Phil

 

Who are you again?

 

Your bank manager. And you owe me lots of money. Remember?

Phil

 

That's *your* problem.