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From: marc@pyuxn.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: TOBOR
Message-ID: <115@pyuxn.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Aug-83 21:23:04 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 13 21:23:04 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Aug-83 20:55:27 EDT
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Organization: Bell Labs, Piscataway
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You are confusing two cartoon shows. The EIGHT man was actually a ROBOT
reconstructed after some kind of injury. He had super
speed, super strength, and could change his appearence at will. His
alter-ego was a chap named TOBOR, a business man in the big city. TOBOR
had one weakness, sort of like kryptonite for superman. If he got an
electric shock he would lose his powers. He got his power by smoking
a special cigarette. To those who thought the Six Million Dollar Man
was original, The EIGHT man was created first.

   The other show  about the kid with the remote control device was
called "GIGANTOR". Gigantor was this humungous robot that could 
do anything under control of the remote control device, which this
kid (Jimmy?) kept beside his bed at night. I seem to remember at lease
3 shows where the remote control was stolen. This show was a lot of fun, 
at the time, but it probably had some serious flaws. The other show 
mentioned was Run Buddy Run, which I never heard of, but there was
a show on Saturday Mornings in the early 70's called Run Joey Run, 
about an adorable German Shepard running away from it's owner 
because it thinks it committed a crime. Sort of like the fugitive, done in
dog. If anyone evr  found out how that show turned out, please follow up.

                                              Marc Schare
                                           Bell Labs- Piscataway