Automan
- Walter Nebicher: Desi Arnaz Jr.
- Automan: Chuck Wagner
- Lt.. Jack Curtis: Robert Lansing
- Captain E.G.Boyd: Gerald O'Loughlin
- Roxanne Caldwell: Heather McNair
Automan (also: Automan - The Super Detective ) is an American series that was produced by Glen A. Larson. Although 13 episodes were recorded, but only 12 were ever sent. Original series was December 15, 1983 on the American ABC network.
The idea for the superhero Automan can be traced back to the movie Tron, but apart from visual similarities so that almost no similarities. Apart from the science fiction background, it is a not so serious, typical of the 1980s crime drama with humor and action elements.
Action
The series tells the adventures of Automan and its inventor, the police and computer programmer Walter Nebicher.
Walter would like to actively participate in the fight against crime but his boss, Captain Boyd, him constantly whistles back, and the other cops take Walter actually not really serious. That's why he created a crime -fighting program with artificial intelligence, including hologram. This - by Walter called Automan (from Automatic Man ) - even has the ability to leave the computer and interact in the real world and to fight crime. Then he looks like a normal man with a human head and body with red-hot circuits.
No one except Walter and his colleague, Roxanne knows auto Mans true nature, because all the other think he is a government agent named Otto J. Mann.
Walter can merge with Automan, so that they become a being that has the capabilities of both, such as Car Mans invulnerability against bullets and explosions.
Always on car Mans side cursor, a free-flying, fiery ball that draw all sorts of things that Automan needs, and can give rise to. If he leaves clothes arise, this has always shining collar or cuffs. The cars, airplanes and helicopters, the generated cursor, not always follow the laws of space and time, as may be Lamborghini Countach, for example, 90 ° (corner ) make curves. It is also the first cursor, which arises from the computer when the program starts and then generates Automan.
Trivia
- Automan refers in some approaches and in the design of the effects on the film Tron.
- The motorcycle scene from " Arizona's Worst Sheriff " came from the series " A Fall Guy " and was also shown in this same way.
- The series was filmed in parallel with the NBC series The Case of Professor Chase, so some of the same sets were used for both series. In a scene from "Professor Chase " Walter is even seen in the background.
- Walter is synchronized by Nicolas Böll.