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    Misfits of Science

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    1 9 8 5 – 1 9 8 6Β (USA)
    16 x 60 minute episodes

    The Misfits of Science are a group of young weirdos with strange but handy abilities.

    Johnny B (Mark Thomas Miller) is a former rock singer who got zapped by an amplifier on stage. Now he shoots lightning bolts (but has to recharge periodically).

    Gloria (a pre-FriendsΒ Courteney Cox) is a pretty 17-year-old who can make objects move by concentrating hard, while 7-foot-4 scientist Dr Elvin ‘El’ Lincoln (Kevin Peter Hall) can shrink to the size of a doll.

    These freaks are unhappy with their lot untilΒ Dr Billy Hayes (Dean Paul Martin) of the Human Investigation Team (HIT) moulds them into a crime-fighting unit.

    The pilot episode also featured Mickey Jones as Arnold “Ice Man” Beifneiter who had the power to freeze anything he touched. His character was missing from the weekly series when it aired.

    Handsome Dean Paul Martin (son of legendary actor and crooner Dean Martin) died in a military plane crash on 21 March 1987, aged 35. Β Kevin Peter Hall died on 10 April 1991Β (also aged 35) of AIDS-related pneumonia after contracting HIV from a blood transfusion.

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    DrΒ Billy Hayes
    Dean Paul Martin
    DrΒ Elvin ‘El’ Lincoln
    Kevin Peter Hall
    John ‘Johnny B’ Bukowski
    Mark Thomas Miller
    Gloria Dinallo
    Courteney Cox
    Jane Miller
    Jennifer Holmes
    Dick Stetmeyer
    Max Wright
    Miss Nance
    Diane Cary

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