A police forensic scientist, Barry Allen, battles crimes as the super-fast superhero "The Flash."A police forensic scientist, Barry Allen, battles crimes as the super-fast superhero "The Flash."A police forensic scientist, Barry Allen, battles crimes as the super-fast superhero "The Flash."
- Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 4 nominations total
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- TriviaEach episode was budgeted at $1.5 million, then the largest budget ever for a series.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Chronic Rift: Women in SF (1990)
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It just ran one season, 1990, and there were 22 episodes, including the 2hr pilot. It was heavily inspired by the recent Tim Burton Batman movies, even as far as a Danny Elfman theme. But still stylish, silly, and a lot of fun. They managed to capture the Barry Allen costume and not look silly, along with lots of innovative sets and lighting, and the effects were quite good for the time. The character was a mix of Barry Allen, killed off several years earlier in the comics, and Wally West, the current comic book Flash, and played by John Wesley Shipp. Amanda Pays played a sidekick/romantic interest fairly similar to her character on Max Headroom. Mark Hamill played the Trickster in two episodes (sidekick Prank seemed like a fairly direct reference to Joker & Harley Quinn), David Cassidy played Mirror Master in another. Another episode was a nice homage to the popular team-ups of "Golden Age" WWII era Flash with the modern day Flash in the comics, here a retired hero called the Prowler, complete with a deep-frozen villain of the originals. But, it was up against The Cosby Show and the Simpsons, got bounced around all over the place schedule-wise, and interrupted several times by Gulf War I. And it must been very expensive to produce. It never really had much of a chance.
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