272 The Gemini Man

First  watched : Autumn  1976

The  Gemini  Man  was  basically  a  re-boot  of  the  previous  year's  The  Invisible  Man  with   less  expensive  special  effects  ingeniously  explained  by  the  titular  agent's  inability  to  stay  invisible  for  more  than  15  minutes  of  the  day. The  main  part  of  Sam  Casey  was  played  by  Ben  Murphy  fresh  from  Alias  Smith  and  Jones  but  a  second  big  TV  hit  was  to  elude  him. The  Gemini  Man  was  even  shorter-lived  than  its  predecessor. Only  eleven  episodes  were  made  and  in  the  US  it  was  pulled  after  only  five  had  been  shown. Over  here  it  was  allowed  to  run  its  course  but  has  left  little  impression.