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Supertrain Opening Credits
Supertrain is an American television drama/adventure series that ran on NBC from February 7 to May 5, 1979. Nine episodes were made, including a 2-hour pilot episode.

The series took place on the "Supertrain", an imagined nuclear-powered bullet train that was equipped with amenities more appropriate to a cruise ship than a train, such as swimming pools and shopping centers. It was so big it had to run on very broad gauge track (not two sets of tracks as depicted in some advertising). The train took 36 hours to go from New York City to Los Angeles. Much like its contemporary The Love Boat, the plots concerned the passengers' social lives, usually with multiple intertwining storylines, and most of the cast was composed of guest stars. The production was elaborate, with huge sets and a high-tech model train for outside shots.

At the time, Supertrain was the most expensive series ever aired in the United States. The production was beset by problems, including a model train that crashed, and while it was heavily advertised during the 1978-1979 season, it suffered from bad reviews and low viewership; despite attempts to salvage the show by reworking the cast, it never took off and left the air after only three months. NBC was never able to make up the production losses (it produced the show itself, at first with help from Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis), and combined with the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics the next season (which cost NBC millions in ad revenue), it nearly bankrupted the network. For these reasons, Supertrain is usually cited as one of the greatest television flops.

RT: 1:54
Sep 21, 2009 10:01 PM
Re: 1970s Supertrain - Love Boat on a Train?
What more can you want: endless tunnel jokes, inept porters, groovy discotheque, doctor AND nurse, and lots of polish on that phallic window. That's a hit. I don't blame them for spending elevnty million dollars on "Supertrain"! It's got it all.

This is the CREAM: so rich. This is my new theme song. Now I know what to set the lyrics of "Keep Fucking That Chicken": disco remix to....
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Thoughtful commentary, sir.

*puffs pipe*

Quite.
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For some reason, I think of BBS as something of a gal like Grace Jones. She me correct me if I'm wrong, but only if she spices it up some more.
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Indeed, I am a brown woman. I am lighter than Queen Grace, and younger too. I also dress a little less like I am from Alpha Centauri (I'm a bit more East Bay Area warrior girl), but I like her style.

Spicy discipline includes Tapatio in the boom-boom.

And no, you and I would not become a hermaphroditical creature in that process.
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My sincere apologies, Booge. I feel as if I've missed some critical exchange, or bit of popular culture. Would you please enlighten me?
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Don't trip, potato chip.

Keep fucking that chicken!

http://mcooki.es/176860
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By the way, that typo of mine goes for a thousand bucks. A bargain (if you ask me).
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It was alright...

I always preferred "Mega Covered Wagon" personally.
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I'm thinking this was only a few thousand percent worse than Jerry Van Dyke in his 13 episodes of My Mother the Car.

Oh good, BB has clarified for others her heritage, which some of us already knew. And W_W had a happy little accident (apologies to Bob Ross).

BHG? you just posted the link. Heh.
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You can almost hear the script writers

"Ok people the boss's want a Love Boat of there own and clearly we cant use a boat so any ideas?...

Bus? Nah to corny...

Space Station! No we have Galactica as compitition...

I GOT IT! A TRAIN!

a train? isnt that a bit, you know... boring?

A Super Train!

NOW WE'RE TALKIN!!!"
By: KingKyle
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haha
By: NEU-NEU
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WOW! this reminds me of one of my tv show ideas. THE LOVE TRAIN-it's the love boat on tracks with an all black cast! supertrain even had an isaac-like token black guy! the amazing thing is that the great donald westlake co-created this.
By: rongway
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Right?! Dude, that's why I posted this. I love Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake). And how the author of my favorite Parker books (yeah, I have the whole series. no big deal...), the man whose work led to Point Blank with Lee Marvin...how he created a mutant bastard Love Boat on a, a "Super" Train?!

I'm freaking out. Man.
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A nuclear powered bullet train???

"This weeks episode; Everyone's hair is inexplicably falling out....again!"
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