First viewed : Autumn 1977
The latest addition to the super-hero action series proliferating in the late seventies, Man From Atlantis was scheduled against Dr Who on the Beeb. Not so much jiggle-TV as bulge-TV, it starred young Patrick Duffy usually in nothing more than a pair of wet shorts. He was Marc Harris, last survivor of the lost city of Atlantis with webbed feet, gills , superhuman strength and the ability to dive to great depths. After being washed up on a beach he hooked up with a government agency to work in the oceans against aliens and mad scientist Dr Schubert ( Victor Buono ).
We didn't watch it regularly and I only remember one episode with any clarity, the one where Marc is somehow transported to medieval Verona and finds himself in the middle of Romeo and Juliet , adopted by the Montague family. I must shamefully admit that my first acquaintance with the main plot of the play came from that.
Like The Invisible Man it only lasted for one series which incorporated four TV movies as well as the customary thirteen 45- minute episodes. Duffy of course would move on to a much more famous role which would again involve him getting wet in one of TV's most notorious scenes.
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