Gemini Man

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Partial shot from the opening sequence, showing Ben Murphy as Sam Casey and the countdown digital watch that served as his stabilizer.

Gemini Man was an American TV series from 1976 starring Ben Murphy as secret agent Sam Casey who was injured in a diving accident which rendered him invisible. The agency, called INTERSECT, found a way to control his invisibility by the use of a wrist watch, referred to as a "DNA stabilizer". Pressing a button on the watch would make him invisible, which was a helpful tool in his line of work. He could however, only do this for 15 minutes per day or else he would die. This is the third of four weekly television series based on the H. G. Wells science fiction novel, The Invisible Man. NBC's previous The Invisible Man had been cancelled after 12 episodes. Gemini Man allowed the producers to recycle effects from the earlier series.^{[citation needed]}

1 Riding with Death
- 1.1 Mystery Science Theater 3000
2 Note
3 External links

[edit] Riding with Death

Two episodes, "Smithereens" and "Buffalo Bill Rides Again", were re-edited into one ninety-minute movie entitled Riding With Death, which was released in 1976.

Riding with Death used scenes from Colossus: The Forbin Project as establishing shots for sweeping computer room scenes. The "Guardian" logo ("Guardian" was the Russian version of "Colossus") appears in at least one segment. Though not immediately verifiable, at least one segment uses the "Colossus" speaker/microphone.

The film clumsily dealt with the dropping of Katherine Crawford (Abby Lawrence) from the cast by the latter episode, the length of time between filming (William Sylvester had grown a thick bushy mustache in the intermittent time), and the appearance of an arch-villain in the second "half" who did not exist in the opening of the series (save for a clumsy overdub referring to the villain's elusiveness in the final minutes of the first segment). Both parts feature singer Jim Stafford as a trucker named Buffalo Bill who befriends and helps Sam.

[edit] Mystery Science Theater 3000

In 1997, Riding With Death was featured in an episode of movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Mike Nelson and his robot friends highlighted the rather thin connection between the two halves of the "movie," and the general incoherence of the plot.