'The Flash'

<b>The powers</b>: Super-speed <br><BR> <b>The actor</b>: John Wesley Shipp<br><BR> <b>The run</b>: 1990-1991<br><BR> <b>The villains</b>: Corrupt officials and mobsters, Trickster, Captain Cold, Mirror Master <br><BR> <b>The tone</b>: At first dark, gritty and relatively realistic, then with added comic-book villains.<br><BR> <b> Of note</b>: Danny Elfman composed the theme song, and Mark Hamill played The Trickster. None of that could make up for the Flash looking like a 'roided out bodybuilder rather than a lithe runner with a super-speedy metabolism.

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The powers: Super-speed

The actor: John Wesley Shipp

The run: 1990-1991

The villains: Corrupt officials and mobsters, Trickster, Captain Cold, Mirror Master

The tone: At first dark, gritty and relatively realistic, then with added comic-book villains.

Of note: Danny Elfman composed the theme song, and Mark Hamill played The Trickster. None of that could make up for the Flash looking like a 'roided out bodybuilder rather than a lithe runner with a super-speedy metabolism.

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