Night Man

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Night Man (or NightMan) was an American television program running from September 1997 to May 1999, loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and created by Steve Englehart (the original comic title was "The Night Man") and developed for television by Glen A. Larson. The show was often criticized by fans of the comic for taking many liberties with the character. It starred Alexandra Hedison as Jennifer Parks and Matt McColm as the title character, a "martial artist" superhero whose real name was Johnny Domino, a saxophonist. Englehart would write three episodes of the series. Nightman is also one of the few series to cross over with characters from Larson's previous series, in the episode "Manimal" Johnny Domino allies with Professor Jonathan Chase, the star of the short-lived 1980s' series Manimal. The second Larson series to cross characters over was Knight Rider (Michael Knight teams with David Dalton, star of the tremendously short-lived Dalton's Code of Vengeance.

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[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Johnny Domino is a well-known San Franciscan jazz musician who is accidentally struck by lightning in a freak cable-car accident. The strike allows him to telepathically recognize evil. Although Night Man has no other superhuman powers on his own, he owns a special bodysuit that gives him several abilities, including flight and advanced sight. His arch nemesis was Kieran Keyes (played by Kim Coates), who would slay Johnny's father in the premiere of the second and final season.

[edit] Comics version

Published by Malibu Comics for its Ultraverse line, the comic book Night Man gained his powers from piece of shrapnel that embedded itself in his head after his car was struck by a cable car that had been hit by a burst of energy known as a "jumpstart", later found to originate from The Entity, an alien starship which had crashed on the Moon. Though not himself jumpstarted, the passengers of the cable car were empowered, some of which went on to form The Strangers. This version of Johnny Domino while not exactly telepathic,could hear evil thoughts, could see in the dark and did not require sleep. His costume and equipment were merely makeshift items from hardware stores and the like, plus a kevlar vest he bribed a friend to steal from a police station. This version could not fly.

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season 1 (1997)

  1. 1- 1 20 Sep 97 (pilot) (1)
  2. 1- 2 20 Sep 97 (pilot) (2)
  3. 1- 3 12 Oct 97 Whole Lotta Shakin'...
  4. 1- 4 19 Oct 97 I Left My Heart
  5. 1- 5 26 Oct 97 Still of the Night
  6. 1- 6 2 Nov 97 Face to Face
  7. 1- 7 9 Nov 97 Chrome
  8. 1- 8 16 Nov 97 Takin' It to the Streets
  9. 1- 9 23 Nov 97 Lady in Red
  10. 1-10 30 Nov 97 That Ol' Gang of Mine
  11. 1-11 11 Jan 98 Bad Moon Rising
  12. 1-12 18 Jan 98 Constant Craving
  13. 1-13 25 Jan 98 You are Too Beautiful
  14. 1-14 1 Feb 98 Do You Believe in Magic?
  15. 1-15 8 Feb 98 The House of Soul
  16. 1-16 15 Feb 98 Nightwoman
  17. 1-17 22 Feb 98 Chrome II
  18. 1-18 1 Mar 98 Bad to the Bone
  19. 1-19 26 Apr 98 Hitchhiker
  20. 1-20 3 May 98 Devil in Disguise
  21. 1-21 10 May 98 Double Vision
  22. 1-22 17 May 98 Amazing Grace

[edit] Season 2 (1998)

  1. 2- 1 11 Oct 98 The Ultraweb
  2. 2- 2 18 Oct 98 The Black Knight
  3. 2- 3 25 Oct 98 It Came from Out of the Sky
  4. 2- 4 1 Nov 98 Book of the Dead
  5. 2- 5 8 Nov 98 Fear City
  6. 2- 6 15 Nov 98 Manimal
  7. 2- 7 22 Nov 98 Knight Life
  8. 2- 8 29 Nov 98 The People's Choice
  9. 2- 9 10 Jan 99 Ring of Fire
  10. 2-10 17 Jan 99 Sixty Minute Man
  11. 2-11 24 Jan 99 Blader
  12. 2-12 31 Jan 99 Love and Death
  13. 2-13 7 Feb 99 Burning Love
  14. 2-14 14 Feb 99 Scent of a Woman
  15. 2-15 21 Feb 99 Dust
  16. 2-16 28 Feb 99 Spellbound
  17. 2-17 7 Mar 99 Double Double
  18. 2-18 25 Apr 99 The Enemy Within
  19. 2-19 2 May 99 Gore
  20. 2-20 9 May 99 Revelations
  21. 2-21 16 May 99 Nightwoman Returns
  22. 2-22 23 May 99 Keyes to the Kingdom of Hell

[edit] Trivia

  • The Night Man character would appear in the animated series UltraForce (another Malibu Comic creation), but the back story of Johnny Domino is altered as well compared to the TV Series and Comic.

[edit] External links

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