Pic of the Day: “Superstar” revisited

Posted by Marisa on March 14, 2013

Today – Pi Day! – our pic revisits the Supertrain episode “Superstar,” which, by some uncanny coincidence, was first broadcast exactly 34 years ago today: March 14, 1979. Timothy’s grumpy hit man Anderson is itching to take a shot at the guy he’s gunning for, Jack Hogarth (Dennis Dugan).

Tim has lots of fun saying the name “Hogarth” in this episode. As usual, his greatest co-stars are his teeth. This ill-conceived series – all 9 episodes – is pretty dismal, but Tim and his interactions with the great Mills Watson as his hapless sidekick make this particular episode (barely) worth watching.

Pic of the Day: “Superstar” revisited

Posted by Marisa on January 7, 2013

Our pic for today takes another look at “Superstar,” the episode of the short-lived series Supertrain that was first broadcast on March 14, 1979. Timothy and Mills Watson are a pair of inept hitmen trailing a TV star (Dennis Dugan). Sylvia Sidney‘s character calls them “Dopey and Grumpy.”

Watson pretty much had a lock on the bumbling sheriff/deputy roles on television in the 1970s and ’80s. Hard-working character actor Ed Lauter reports that he is now retired on a 22-acre spread in Oregon, “happy as a clam.”