Supertrain: Express To Terror (episode 1) 1/10

I have this on vhs. Only episode released on video

Any show with a 'Waka-chika waka chika" soundtrack is alright by me.

I was 6-7 when it aired... And big into trains at the time (What boy that age wouldn't?).

Of course Fred Silverman would later come up with the idea for Hill Street Blues, which in fact did become the next big thing.

I was in college and not watching much TV when this came on. I do remember this being very heavily promoted as NBC's comeback. I remember people calling it the Love Boat on rails. I think that was the first big problem: that it came off as an attempt to copy ABC's successes instead of coming up with the next big thing.

Robert Alda as the wisecracking doctor and the first shot has him pouring drinks....I wonder where they got that idea from

WOW! I can't believe it! TV's legendary "Supertrain". For years I've read about this series in TV books but I never thought I'd ever see it!

I would have totally watched this show! but in 1978 we weren't allowed to watch TV on weeknights. The train is totally cool and this pilot episode is quite entertaining -- Don Stroud is one of my heroes, he's such a great movie jerk -- and the ending with them hanging onto the outside of the train at 200mph is wild!

BRAVO! Thank YOU for posting!

5 Hornblasts, Indeed! =D

I have heard of "The Big Bus". It was a spoof of disaster movies. I don't have it but it is available on DVD. (At least it was).