Salvage 1 | |
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Genre | Science fiction |
Created by | Mike Lloyd Ross |
Starring | |
Theme music composer | Walter Scharf |
Composers | Jack Hayes Ken Harrison |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Harve Bennett Harris Katleman |
Producers | Mike Lloyd Ross Ralph Sariego Craig Schiller |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production companies | Bennett/Katleman Productions Columbia Pictures Television |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | January 20 – December 9, 1979 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Salvage |
Salvage 1 is an Americanscience fiction series that was broadcast for 16 episodes (of the 20 produced) on ABC during 1979. The pilot film, Salvage, was shown on January 20, 1979, to high ratings.[citation needed]
Salvage is a 2006 horror film by the Crook Brothers, Jeffrey Crook and Joshua Crook.It was an official selection of the 2018 Sundance Festival. According to the directors' commentary, the film was shot for around $200,000. Salvage (31) IMDb 4.9 1h 15min 2010 18+. As they are pleading to be allowed to enter,brings to mind some of the scenes from the movie,The Mist,and The Fog. This movie is for the hardcore horror/thriller movie fans who love blood spattered gory scenes!
The pilot centers on Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) who owns the Jettison Scrap and Salvage Co. and is a specialist in reclaiming trash and junk to sell as scrap. His dream is to recover equipment left on the Moon during Apollo Program missions. In the show's opening title narration, Harry states:
'I wanna build a spaceship, go to the Moon, salvage all the junk that's up there, bring it back and sell it.'
He invites the former astronaut Addison 'Skip' Carmichael (Joel Higgins) and NASAfuel expert Melanie 'Mel' Slozar (Trish Stewart) to assist him in this effort. During Slozar's fuel experiments, the Federal Bureau of Investigation becomes concerned over the purchases of chemicals.
Broderick and his ragtag crew complete their mission and go on to further adventures in the subsequent series. A recurring subplot drives numerous attempts to find the appropriate explosive mixture to break an iceberg from the Arctic Shelf, to be transported to the California coast as a source of fresh water.
Richard Jaeckel had a recurring role as Jack Klinger, the FBI agent tasked with keeping an eye on Broderick and his associates. Their relationship is generally rocky, but the Salvage crew fly to his rescue when he is captured during a mission to a Latin American dictatorship.
Harry builds a spaceship dubbed Vulture, made completely from reclaimed salvage and powered by a chemical called monohydrazine. The main body of Vulture is composed of a Texaco gasoline semi-trailertank truck with a cement mixer as the capsule. This is augmented with three shorter rocket boosters placed 120 degrees around the main tank.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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12 | 12 | 'Salvage' | TBA | TBA | January 20, 1979 |
3 | 3 | 'Dark Island' | Gene Nelson | Ruel Fischmann | January 29, 1979 |
4 | 4 | 'Shangri-la Lil' | Ron Satlof | Judy Burns | February 5, 1979 |
5 | 5 | 'Shelter Five' | TBA | TBA | February 12, 1979 |
6 | 6 | 'The Haunting of Manderly Mansion' | Ray Austin | Mike Robe | February 26, 1979 |
7 | 7 | 'The Bugatti Treasure' | Ed Abroms | Story by : Mike Lloyd Ross Teleplay by : Richard Chapman & Ruel Fischmann | March 5, 1979 |
8 | 8 | 'The Golden Orbit: Part 1' | TBA | TBA | March 12, 1979 |
9 | 9 | 'The Golden Orbit: Part 2' | Ron Satlof | Robert Swanson | March 19, 1979 |
10 | 10 | 'Operation Breakout' | Gerald Finnerman | Gerald K. Siegel | April 2, 1979 |
11 | 11 | 'Mermadon' | TBA | TBA | April 16, 1979 |
12 | 12 | 'Up, Up and Away' | Les Green | Robert Swanson | May 14, 1979 |
13 | 13 | 'Energy Solution' | TBA | TBA | May 21, 1979 |
14 | 14 | 'Confederate Gold' | TBA | TBA | May 28, 1979 |
The first season ranked 48th out of 114 shows that season with an average 17.7/26 rating/share.[1]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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15 | 1 | 'Hard Water: Part 1' | Les Green | Mike Lloyd Ross | November 4, 1979 |
16 | 2 | 'Hard Water: Part 2' | Les Green | Mike Lloyd Ross | November 11, 1979 |
17 | 3 | 'Round Up' | TBA | TBA | unaired |
18 | 4 | 'Harry's Doll' | TBA | TBA | unaired |
19 | 5 | 'Dry Spell' | TBA | TBA | unaired |
20 | 6 | 'Diamond Volcano' | TBA | TBA | unaired |
The last four episodes were shown in the early 1990s on The Nostalgia Channel, now known as Youtoo TV.[2]
Science fiction author Isaac Asimov was the show's scientific adviser.[3]
Estes Rockets made a prototype of a model rocket version of the Vulture. It was never brought to market.[4]
What a good short film “Salvage” would have made, and what a bad long film it is. It’s a low-budget, low-impact, low-quality horror flick with a cool idea that simply doesn’t withstand being stretched over 90 minutes. Chop it down to about 20 and you’d have something.
It begins with Claire (Lauren Currie Lewis), a 19-year-old college student, leaving her graveyard shift at a convenience store and waiting for her boyfriend, Jimmy, to pick her up. But arriving instead, in Jimmy’s truck, is Duke (Chris Ferry), a friend of Jimmy’s from the salvage yard where he works. Allegedly, Jimmy asked Duke to give Claire a ride home.
Scary-movie things happen at that point, and then Claire wakes up. She’s back at the convenience store, apparently having dozed off on the job. The whole thing was a dream. OR WAS IT?!?!?!??!
Back in reality now, the film spins its wheels for a good long time. Claire’s mom (Maureen Olander) is behaving strangely in the basement. Jimmy (Cody Darbe) says he had a sexy dream about Claire and a friend of hers. Claire experiences deja vu in class and sees the killer from her dream stalking her elsewhere. OR DOES SHE?!?!?!?!?!??!
We realize early on that very little, if any, of what’s happening is real, that most of it is in Claire’s head. When the film goes into “Groundhog Day” mode (albeit with variations each time Claire is attacked), the relevant question becomes: Why should we be scared for Claire when we know she’s just going to wake up any minute anyway?
I also wonder: How many times can one character back away slowly from something while shaking her head in horror and saying, “No … no …”? It seems like half the shots in the film are of Claire doing that. The other half are of her walking slowly down stairs or around corners, saying, “Hello? Is someone there?”
Jeff and Josh Crook, the brothers who wrote and directed “Salvage,” have made three little-seen films before this one, all available on DVD. There are encouraging reviews of those movies on the Internet. “Salvage,” the Crooks’ first foray into horror, is likely a downturn in quality for them. It’s a film that will probably nowhere and do nothing.
D(1 hr., 30 min.;Not Rated, probably R for a lot of harsh profanity, some graphic violence.)