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Mr. Terrific(TV show/series, 1967)

25min per episode | Genre: Comedy

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 17 episodes

Mr. TerrificRating: 3.5/5 (with 3 votes)
Mr. Terrific is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m., from January 9 to August 28, 1967. Stephen Strimpell starred in the title role. A similar series on NBC, Captain Nice, also aired that season on Mondays, at 8:30 p.m. The show was an attempt to capitalize on the "camp superhero" craze sparked by the success of the 1966 Batman TV series. ()
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About Mr. Terrific

Mister Terrific is an American TV sitcom that aired on CBS Television from January 9, to May 8, 1967. It starred Stephen Strimpell in the title role, and lasted 17 episodes. The show was similar to NBC's Captain Nice, which followed Mister Terrific on Monday nights during its run. Riding the tide of the camp superhero craze of the 1960s, the show's premise involved gas station attendant Stanley Beamish, a mild-mannered scrawny youth who secretly worked to fight crime for a government organization, The Bureau of Secret Projects, in Washington. All he needed to do was take a "power pill" which gave him the strength of a thousand men and enabled him to fly, much like Superman, albeit by furious flapping while wearing the top half of a wingsuit. Unfortunately, he was the only person on whom the pills worked. It was established that, although the pill would give him great strength, he was still vulnerable to bullets. Furthermore, each power pill had a time limit of one hour, although he generally had two 10-minute booster pills available per episode. Much of the show's humor revolved around Stanley losing his superpowers before he completed his given assignment.

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Mr. Terrific Seasons and Episodes

01/09/1967Season 1 - 17 episodes
#1 | 01/09/1967Matchless
A foreign scientist named Petrov has offered to sell his Portable Power Paralyzer, a compact device that can immobilize any machine, to the U.S. Government's Bureau of Secret Projects for $30,000. On board a non-stop train to Washington DC the BSP agent trailing Petrov is killed, so Bureau Chief Barton J. Reed calls a Purple Alert summoning service station owner Stanley Beamish to take the power pill that turns him into Mr. Terrific. Stanley uses his terrific powers to board the train and unknowingly receives the device when Petrov switches matchbooks with him. Stanley then mistakes a toy salesman for his contact and pays 30 grand for a simple child's doll. The matches change hands a few times before Stanley's partner Hal winds up with them and is subsequently captured by a beautiful foreign agent named Mala. Stanley uses his back up ""booster"" pills to catch up with the bad guys, rescue Hal and recover the Paralyzer.
#2 | 01/16/1967Mr. Big Curtsies Out
Mr. Terrific is put on the trail of a mysterious crime boss, but attempts to reach ""Mr. Big"" lead to several dunkings for Stanley who keeps misplacing his booster pills. Mr. Big turns out to be a woman, but our hero doesn't have to manhandle the lady. The dunkings have given him a cold and created a new weapon in Mr. Terrific's arsenal: the super sneeze.
#3 | 01/23/1967I Can't Fly
Mr. Terrific's power pills fail him just when a crippled airplane sends out an SOS. The plane is in for a big letdown unless the Government men can get Mr. Terrific airborne.
#4 | 01/30/1967My Partner the Jewel Thief
Stanley's suspicious behavior, as he tries to solve a jewel robbery, leads Hal to believe that his best friend has become a crook.
#5 | 02/06/1967The Formula Is Stolen
Spies who have stolen the formula for the power pill trail B.J. Reed and determine that Mr. Terrific works at Hal and Stanley's Service Station as a front. They plan to kidnap our hero and either lure him to their side or brainwash him. The shapely Nina (Joan Huntington) at first charms and hypnotizes Hal. When the pills don't work on him, she returns for Stanley. Although the enemy agents learn that Stanley is on to them, he still manages to swallow some of the pills they have produced and captures the gang of villains.
#6 | 02/20/1967Stanley the Safecracker
Safe cracker ""Fingers"" Maclaine (Stephen Strimpell in a dual role) is released from prison two days early. Anxious to see his girl Dolly and to meet the new criminal gang he's joining, Fingers soon finds himself again in police custody and finishing his sentence in a small hotel room. B.J. Reed has arranged for Stanley Beamish, armed with a supply of power pills, to infiltrate the gang of bank robbers while his double Fingers sits twiddling his thumbs. The real Fingers escapes and uses his underworld connections to find out what's going on. When he appears at the gang's hideout, the jig is up for Stanley. Our hero must use his wits, such as they are, to trick the crooks into letting him take a power pill so that he can turn the tables and send them all up the river.
#7 | 02/27/1967Stanley the Fighter
Stanley must go the distance with a professional caliber boxer in order to break up a crime syndicate that's working out of a gymnasium. There's just one problem: the fight's about to start and Stanley's power pill is nowhere to be found.
#8 | 03/06/1967Stanley the Jailbreaker
Stanley goes undercover as a prison inmate so that he can attempt to ferret out the location of a criminal's hidden loot.
#9 | 03/13/1967Fly, Ballerina, Fly
A defecting Soviet ballerina needs Stanley's help to get away from her countrymen. Stanley needs help retrieving his lost booster pill.
#10 | 03/20/1967Harley and the Killer
B.J. calls a Purple Alert, when escaped murderer Herman J. Von Brock wants to kill Harley for helping to send him to prison. Stanley moves into Harley's home as a 24-hour guard, but a threatening note tossed from a speeding car sends the agents to Hal and Stanley's apartment. A bored Harley volunteers to do some work at the service station, where he is grabbed by the killer. Stanley and B.J. spot Von Brock's car from the air, but Stanley's power goes off. This time it's Barton J. Reed to the rescue as he tackles Von Brock and sits on the killer's chest until help arrives. Seldom has justice been meted out so cruelly on a 1960s sitcom.
#11 | 03/27/1967Stanley and the Mountaineers
In hill country, Stanley must find an illegal still and stop a shotgun wedding.
#12 | 04/03/1967Has Mr. Terrific Sold Out?
Stanley is asked to demonstrate his powers for several representatives of foreign nations. One of them is an impostor who wants to kidnap Mr. Terrific.
#13 | 04/10/1967Stanley Goes to the Dentist
A dentist who's been using truth gas to get secrets from government agents changes tactics and places a tiny transmitter in Stanley's tooth.
#14 | 04/17/1967Stanley the Track Star
Stanley laces up his sneaks, and turns on the terrific speed, when he's assigned to locate a kidnapped athlete.
#15 | 04/24/1967Try This On for Spies
Our hero accidentally gives a genuine set of vital blueprints to an enemy agent and keeps the phonies for our side.
#16 | 05/01/1967Stanley Joins the Circus
The search for a stolen code book sends Stanley undercover and under the big top. Ultimately he has to power up and battle several performers and a gorilla in order to accomplish his mission.
#17 | 05/08/1967The Sultan Has Five Wives
The Bureau of Secret Projects must protect a visiting Sultan, so Stanley powers up and becomes a sort of Turbanator.

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 2 languages: German (DE), English (EN)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 01/09/1967
Last episode released on: 05/08/1967
Cast: Stephen Strimpell, Dick Gautier, Paul L. Smith, John McGiver
Voice Actor: Paul Frees
Producer: Budd Grossman
Executive Producer: Jack Arnold
Composer: Gerald Fried
Keywords: superhero, sitcom

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:9213, Added: 05/12/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024