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.
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