Courteny Cox as Gloria Dinallo Rocks.

This one was really special to me when I was 13. I saw the pilot once when it aired. I kept coming back each week for a long while. Then it was gone.

Misfits of Science was an amazing show before its time. It played like a fun X-Men movie. Again, had it come out a few years later it would have been a super major hit. This show was amazing.

6:25 Joke's on you. Stetmeyer secretly had a cat-eating alien living in his laundry room, so herding cats wasn't really a big challenge to him.

I loved this show as a kid. Courtney was so beautiful in this show. I was about 8 years old and had a crush on her 😅

Courteney Cox as Gloria Dinallo blinded me with science… SCIENCE!!!!

I loved that show back in the 80's when I was a kid.

I was a comic-obsessed teen when this show hit the airwaves, and yes, I loved it simply because it was the closest thing to a superhero TV show that my 14-year-old self had seen up to that point.

Loved Misfits! So sad that it didn't get the support and writing that it needed.

They really had it tough in that pilot, going up against not only Frank Burns, but Colonel Flagg, too!

It may have only ran for one season but it always stuck with me. A truly fun part of my childhood Friday nights. Even now I remember the theme tune, the tv getting kicked off its stand and of course 'Goodnight Bunnies!'

I loved watching this show back in the day and was sad when it was ended so quickly.

Stam Fine's channel has a way of digging up those old shows that had completely slipped out of your memory and make you go "ooooooooooohhhh, yeah..." It's wonderful--makes us children of the early 80s feel like we are temporarily evading our early-onset senility.

I think the movies Real Genius and Weird Science were more of an inspiration than Ghostbusters though those two movies and Misfits all came out in 1985. I figure someone at the TV studio said, "we got two movies coming out about crazy science stuff, let's develop a show along the same lines."

Another programme I want to see thanks to Stam Fine 😅

I loved this show!

Never heard of it but it looks a show 12 year old me would have loved.

I had the pilot on VHS as a kid, all I remember is Kim Wilde's GO FOR IT playing

Could you cover Beauty and the Beast? It was the quintessential '80s fantasy/romance/adventure series, complete with Ron Perlman in beastface and Linda Hamilton as his above-ground love interest. The intro alone made it worth watching: "He lives in a secret world, safe from hate and harm. And though we cannot be together. . . (music swells) we will never be apart." The underground sets were actually quite impressive.

Loved Misfits of science, Auto man, and Manimal.

Never seen it but a nice recap. Thanks.

I have the video trailer for this burned into my brain. Just like with the pilot of Greatest American Hero, I thought this only existed as a standalone movie (even as a kid I kind of knew it felt like an intro to a series - just without the series). Then as I got older I was pleasantly surprised to learn both this and GAH had whole series' to discover... Just like other commenter's, the fact that the movie had people with superpowers made it a must for me. Back in the day, if you were comic book fan, there weren't too many options. Courtney will always be the girl from Misfits and He-Man to me. _"'Friends'? Oh, you mean that show with the girl from 'Misfits of Science'?"_

I had never heard of this show, but the clips you showed demonstrated good chemistry between the cast. I agree that it had potential, a shame it got cancelled before they really nailed its identity

Watched this in the 80’s in the UK where the pilot was distributed as a movie rental. Loved it!

This is one of the ones I mention and people think I am making it up ' "No, it has Frank from MASH, the dad from Alf and Courtney Cox in it and it really happened!" and they look at you like you're mad.

I loved that series! Had a serious crush on Gloria back in the day :-)

I remember El wearing the Michael Jackson outfit and I think there was a joke about, "Okay, but why do you have to wear the glove?" Misfits seemed to get too easily dismissed as "Oh, it's another crap '80's genre show" by adults but as a kid I loved it and and as an adult now I respect that a lot of the people involved were trying to make something good. Even Max Wright.

I remember so little about this series. I remember Billy pretending to be Crockett and Gloria suspending two of her coworkers over a hot grill. I guess the show did not leave much of an impression on me.

It looks really good, clever for it's time. 👍🤘

Your description of Billy's character seems very reminiscent of many of the actor's dad:s roles.

..."Like sniffing paint with lead in it"...😂

Never knew about this show. Would have been about 8 when it was on.

I enjoyed the show and was very disappointed when it disappeared from the airwaves... I liked Automan and Street Hawk too...

LOVED Misfits of Science. Still do. Taped every episode (that's right).

Luved "Misfits of Science" back in the day! Think it also borrowed elements from "Fantastic Four" and "The X-Men" as well. It had clever writing, with great performances and spfx... shame it didn't have a longer run! - Chris

Awesome as always ❤

This seems like an inspiration for Mike Mignola's B.P.R.D.

This was such a great show, especially for the time. It's no wonder NBC killed it (because 1980s NBC was pretty antithetical to good television). I remember that it was hard to watch because they kept on moving it around the schedule. Thanks for the memories!

I loved this show! Thanks for doing the review!

I was like 12 and hooked but the show got real hard to find on the schedule and so I'm sure I've not even seen everything broadcast. That pilot was great though.

I liked Misfits of Science, it was cool.

Did well in Belgium of al places. Was even repeated a few times. Maybe that led to the European DVD.

Please do The Invisible Man tv series, 2000-2002. Hard to find on DVD, the second season was not released. I wish both couple be remastered released in original widescreen format.

4:59 Johnny ⚡️ was my fav character 22:19 broke my heart had no idea he was dean martin’s son and heard about the crash on the news, but I thought a new episode of misfits would play on tv.

Thx for unearthing this series .. I’m fairly certain it didn’t come to a channel near me at the time. If you need more humour-riddled sci-fi than can I recommend Hyperdrive .. not many episodes but the structure and delivery are excellent IMHO.

This wasn't shown here in the UK and, oh dear, I was already too old for its target viewer range.

I would watch "Aliens vs Webster". Also this lovely show featured Major Burns & Col. Flagg from M.A.S.H.-fame. Definitely belongs in the Stam Fine Vault of Almost

There are a lot of familiar faces in this short lived series, both past and future. 15:03 Wow yeah, that really is Dean "I know Kaiju... really" Devlin. This is almost as funny as the time I saw the guy in MST3k's "City Limits" episode. 20:10 Julius Carry?! Lord Bowler himself!! It's only a matter of time before Stam gets to Adventures of Brisco County Jr. Sho nuff!

Yes yes yes - Courtney Cox starred in Friends but who cars - she also starred in Cougar Town and Scream - those were two much better roles!

Omg. I had entirely forgotten this show! Have you done Riptide?

i could have sworn you had already covered this... oh well, bonus!

Before I knew about the X-men, I watched this.

Never even heard of this series

0:20 - is that where they got the idea for "Mystery Men" (1990) ?

I never saw The Invisible Man :)

Loved this show.

I always wanted to do a Fanfiction about a new Misfits of Science using Carrie White from Carrie who had a better life and didn't freak out, Charlie McGee from Firestarter grown into a mid-teen, and a young Chinese American woman who had a 'Language Power' including Computer Languages which her a 'Super Hacker' and was a Martial Arts expert on top of that. So, a Telekinetic, Pyrokinetic (also fiery speed), and a really Smart Kung Fu expert. Unfortunately, I never could come up with a decent plot so I never tried. It just seemed like a good idea.

I keep thinking that Craif Sheffer played Johnny. Maybe this is a Mandella Effect. Nah, I'm just wrong.

Why so many Ghostbusters sequels/reboots and not a single Misfits of Science movie?

What I’m mostly taking away from this is that if I had encountered 20 year old Courtney Cox before seeing Friends, Jennifer Aniston would not have been my crush on that show 😍

Please can you do a video on Space 1999. It seems like your territory. X

Loved this show as a kid. But it seemed whenever I found a creative show to watch they pulled it in favor of boring drama series.

FOREVER KNIGHT is Legend.

tHiS lOoKs GreAt! I also have a fever.

Is it on streaming anywhere?

Not shown in the UK i do not think, so never saw or heard of it. Looks a bit wacky, is that correct?

Kevin Peter Hall was The Predator, THE PREDATOR.

5:49 "K-9!" 😆

Never even heard of this show...

Was this ever broadcast in the UK? I don't remember it at all, and I was TV show obsessed during the 80s ...

I liked this show as a kid. I used to read the TV guide, and I remember not seeing it one week, then the next. That happened a lot. Guess I just had bad taste in TV shows.

Great gags anyway!

2:50 - Like "The Tomorrow People" ?

I was int he NAV when this had its first run.

This is the first Stam video where I have never even heard of the subject, let alone seen it. Maybe it wasn't on here...

I loved it at the time. Especially whining but softhearted Stepmeijer. A recent rewatch of the pilot however left me a bit unimpressed. Maybe I actually loved the regular episodes more. Or I simply grew up. 😁

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I can totally see Matthew Perry in the lead role

Monica is Carrie :)

Hey that Dude with the speaking scene in prison looks familiar! Wasn't he in Deep Space 9?

21:02 Interesting leathers in the background

I don't think this was ever on in the UK.

The full Misfits of Science theme was posted to KZfaq a few years ago, and as mentioned in the video is an absolute BANGER: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNChYK9y1sfPeKs.html

Oh no...the dad.from ALF.

Is it me or was there a blink and you'll miss it appearance by the late James Laurenson? He was from New Zealand, mainly worked in the UK, has 116 credits on IMDB (including playing Nikolai in Episode 11 of this series) and is probably best know to "Stam Fire" viewers for playing Hector Ross in 5 episodes of "Sharpe".

Aliens vs. Webster, ROTFLMAO.

Kevin Peter Hall. The Predator.

ceti alpha 5 or ceti alpha 4?

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The name of this show makes it sound like its gonna be a horror anthology with science as the conceit... But then i realize I'm thinking of another show...isnt there a spin off of showtime's "Masters of Horror" based around science?

1:39 MEENO PELUCI!

Courtney Cox just sooooooooo cute. Out of the 4 women in The Friends cast she was by the far the best looking.

I vaguely recall this series as a kid. Specifically, I remember the guy that could shrink himself.

Ice man disappearing nothing to do with a cease and disist from marvel I'm sure

10:55 It's wiff-waff! Get the name right.

How did Johnny B take a shower or even wash his hands if he couldn't be near water? Are you telling he never bathed? It's kind of gross if you think about it.

This is the first show you've covered that I've never heard of. I guess it was never aired in the UK. Courtney Cox is super cute in it.

Ancient 📺 Law You should never have more than 1 blonde in an adventure/action series.

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