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I happen to be rather fond of DAMNATION ALLEY. It's an extremely cheesy post apocalypse film from 1977 starring George Peppard & Jan Michael Vincent. As I said, it's cheesy & goofy, but fun & has a really cool vehicle at its center.

The makers of this film clearly saw it (along with several other films of the period, like THE OMEGA MAN, LOGANS RUN, SOYLENT GREEN, etc.) & ripped off the basic concept & then ladled on the Christian apologetics from their previous films. As well as a bunch of braindead (anti)computer nonsense. As well as the most arrogant, egotistical, self-important, moronic hero ever.

I watched this movie (okay, fast forwarded through much of it) because of Godawful Movies. I will never forgive them.

I watched the few episodes of this that were aired because I was a fan of war films. I was also a fan of MASH (the film & the series) & BARNEY MILLER & thought this was going to have the same feel of those Boy was I wrong. Even at the tender age of 16 I recognized it as crap. It was basically the lamest kind of work place sitcom, that just happened to be set in Saigon.

For a very long time I thought I had imagined this show. I had never met anyone else who remembered it. It wasn't until years after IMDb appeared that I realized I could look it up. Not only did I discover it actually existed, but that Laurence Fishburne & Bill Paxton were major characters. I seem to remember that the best part of the show was the opening credits. I'll have to check if someone as OCD as myself (but more computer savvy) has tracked it down & put it on YouTube.