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Supertrain!

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Well here’s a bit of 1970s kitsch I had never heard of in my life: Supertrain.

This was a short-lived flop on NBC back in 1979. From what I can tell, the pitch meeting went something like this:

“So you know what a smash hit Love Boat is, right?? So what we’ll do is the same thing, except we’ll change the method of transportation. We’ll put it on a train!”

And that’s precisely what they did. Here is the introduction. Brace yourself for character actors that are massively overdoing it for the camera. It looks absolutely dreadful.

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