Salvage 1 (1979) - TEASER WITH OPENING

[bwc1976]

I remember seeing the movie, but had no idea they made a whole series of it! Awesome!

[mcjumic]

"junkman"... Back in 1979, did people actually use that word? Apparently they did, because it's like "he's a junkman", and they probably wouldn't have done that if there were a considerable chance that viewers would go "what the f**k's a junkman"... which is basically my reaction. I mean it's obvious, but still, people don't talk like that anymore.

[happydavid13]

Good old Harry. I used to love this show! Good thing he was running his business and building his rocket in the USA. If he had been based in the UK, all his junk would have been stolen by rioting chavs, whilst the overpaid/overpensioned police would do nothing but make excuses why they couldn't intervene. If Harry tried to defend his property, the police would be there immediately to arrest him and make sure he was locked up.

As for building the rocket, once again, in the UK, Harry would find

[mrmuffer69]

I wish they would release this on DVD. Loved the show.

[bluestate69]

i love andy griffith!!!!!!!!!

[AtariTape54018]

This episode first aired just as the price of gas was breaching $1/gallon for the first time, and everyone thought such a high price was outrageous. The 34¢/gallon that they were advertising in this episode was ridiculously low, even for that time, and that's the point. This is why their oil well reclamation process was so sought-after.

[cylon6]

This takes me back. Saw this in the UK as a kid and loved it. I even remember the pilot movie. It was so sad that the inventor of Salvage 1 didn't get to go to the moon. :-(

[TheBillyJimish]

Got about THAT far , 14 years later as predicted, and stalkerboy slammed it into the ground.

Get "well" soon... ("86 lbs overweight. It's the "rain" collecting in the gutters and adding weight... ignore the kid vaccuuming vomit from the 80s)

Go on PatBill, tell them "how ever so clever he is..."

LOL

[Capt777harris]

Heh, I remember this show.

[BigDickMcGirk]

A very strange product of its time; the energy crisis in full swing. Dumb fun to say the least.

[PupuTheClown]

To bad Don Knotts wasn't on this show !,,,,lol

[TimL2005]

As much as I loved this show when it was on, It was never going to last more than 3-4 seasons at the most..No way it lasts 20 years..It was a product of its time..

[GIMetalfortheTroops]

I was about five years old when I first watched this series. I was living with my grandparents and my grandfather, who was a big sci fi junkie, and I would kick back on weekend nights and watch shows like Salvage-1. Man, those were truly awesome and memorable days for which I miss and shall remember fondly. Thanks for uploading.

[payntingdotcom]

If everybody could stay 11 years old forever, shows like this would never get canceled.

[PupuTheClown]

,,,I thought it was much better than the Incredible Hulk or Chips,,,lol

[fromthesidelines]

This is from the episode "Energy Solution" [May 21, 1979].

[nasw]

Wish this show was still on. Loved it as a kid and feel strongly that, if the network has made the decision to keep it going for at least twenty or twenty-five seasons, it would have passed through an inevitable period of repetition and self-parody and become so innovative that it would have reshaped all of TV. I'm serious. You don't make a show better by canceling it; you KEEP IT GOING. There will always be sponsors, and if not, you get underwriting. This show should have lasted 'til '99-'04.

[moneyclaude2500]

You know i was thinking this was savage 1 just realized it's salvage 1! MEMORIES!

[steelbuc39]

I was 10 when this came out. Brings back good memories

[hubbardmediagroup]

Loved this show as a kid. Nobody I know these days remembers it. Downloaded the pilot a couple of years ago but never seen the series available

[ADAMMAGIC39]

34 cent a gallon for GAS !!!!!!!! miss those days !!

[EmmettTheSane]

@ADAMMAGIC39 Clearly filmed in 1978 or *early* 1979, before the oil crisis!

[rufusman2008]

Too, true Timbercutter. The show tried real hard to stay current by borrowing storyline from headlines (the synthetic gasoline episode comes to mind). Somehow, years later, when MacGyver was repairing cars that had all plastic engines with Seran wrap, I can't help but think this show started it all...

[TimbercutterOK]

Great concept, but they ran out of things to do with the spaceship. I recall an episode heping an extraterrestrial go home, and one where they used the engines to do something with an iceberg. But not much else. Not enough spaceship to hold the kid viewers, and not enough story to hold the adults.

[Robert08010]

I loved the concept of this, the idea that you could scrounge around a junk yard and build a space ship. I was still young enough to believe back when this was on!

[md902A]

Used to watch this in UK and then we would spend the afternoon playing out an episode. One of our friends parents garage fitted in nicely as the spacecraft. Seem to remember the spaceship body was made from a cement mixer body?

[joem5643]

This was my favorite show. The movie was re-aired in 1989 I have it on tape.

[cityofdomes]

Loved this when I was a kid. Grew up with junk, now play with it and build stuff. Wish they'd release this on DVD - pilot and series.

[warszawianka]

WOW. I probably haven't seen this for 28 years. Brings back a lot of memories.

And... 34¢/gallon gas. Damn.

[rainymadman]

does any one remember a tv show that had the truck (in white) from Damnation Alley and they also had a jetpack what was the name of that show thanks

[spiritgreywolf]

ARK II. It's in Wikipedia

[ninelivecat]

I remember watching this on Saturday mornings on RTE in Ireland circa 1980 and Daktari also

Joel Higgins was also in Silver Spoons around the same time

[djnomark]

fuck me ive been on about this for years and none of my mates remembered it. i was born in 72 so i would have been 7 or 8 when this was aired in the uk. jeez the shit you remember eh

[cornelius10000000000]

you sound like me geez. i was born in 73 none of me pals remembered this. i had this and a show called project ufo jumbled together in my head as one only recently found out what they were called.like anything , dont look quite as good as i remember. it was on thames tv of an afternoon if you were off school sick i think? take care bruv

[paktype]

The ironic thing about this is that back in the '70s, the notion of a privately-developed space travel was a wild dream. In 2008, its a very real possibility.

[paktype]

Remember this show well. My brother and I both loved it.

[blunder15]

been buging me what the name of this show was couldnt find it any where,loved this show

[ChrisLee007]

I loved this show when it was first on. I was 14.

[philipcordwell]

I remember this. I think the second episode was about Bigfoot.

[MikeMulligan567]

Wow. I consider myself pretty knowledgable about 70's TV and I seriously never heard of this show until just now.

[jime6688]

Thank God for this clip because I was talking about this show for years and either no one saw it or completely forgot about it. "Andy Griffith as an astronaut? What've you been smoking?" Thanks for the clip classictelevisionfan.

[ADAMMAGIC39]

34 cents for a gallon of gas !!!!

OMG those were the days !!

[trentcreek]

I never knew about this show, especially since Battlestar Galactia was on the air during the same time and network.

Anyway, nice, but cheaper just to get junk from here and sell it. Not to mention there is not all that much junk there. The descend module weighed 22,375 lbs with the propellant taking up 18,000 lbs. So anything I see with any "scrap" value would be the 6 silver-zinc batteries and the copper wiring.

[f16warbird]

Wow!

For 1 minute 32 seconds I was transported back to age 11 again.

THANK YOU!!!

[TessAndDave]

I knew I wasn't dreaming it! This was one of my favourites when I was about 10 years old.

[filmidioten]

lol Andy Griffith going to the Moon, I can't believe I never heard about this show!

[Wheeljack35]

Ihaven't seen this since I was 13

I did like this show

[evancortez2]

Man, I was so in Love with Trish Stewart when I was a kid! You can see why...

[mancunian1234]

Never been repeated.Hardly surprising.

[boshenska]

Great memories!! I was 7 years old when this came out...loved it as a kid and would love to see the series on DVD!!

[DADDIO2]

What a great show why did they have to (pardon the pun) SCRAP IT.I agree wheres the DVD I would buy the complete set p.s I live in the UK fuel now is £1.20 a litre about $2.50

[wvrq]

Trish stewart, what a babe, briefly on young and restless wish gas cost 34 cents again.

[mattormeg]

Thank you sooo much for posting this - for years I thought I had imagined the entire thing.

[100thbombgroup]

Me too.I thought I was making it up and having memory problems.

[phantomofthenet]

You and me both...I thought I'd imagined it myself!

[cameraguy1968]

These old SciFi TV shows were fun, that´s what stays with us, i still love these shows.

[towringer]

Wow, I haven't seen this opening sequence since I was a HS freshman. Now, I'm helping organise my 25th HS reunion.

[youtub3k]

I loved this series. But there's yet to be a DVD set of the series. Or even just a DVD of the pilot movie. And it was a pretty darn good Tv movie! Just because this show predated the Space Shuttle, apparently it's media poison. Can't upstage the "real" space program!

So we only get The Andy Griffith Show, and Matlock, on DVD. Nothing in between. Screw us fans.

[JohnnyAqua]

I remember this episode, he finds a way to replenish abandoned oil wells.

[tsteady]

gas 34 cent a gallon...wow