MAD MAX TV SHOW ????

Post by **XAMan** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:02 am

Gordon

First up congrats on doing a burnout with the 460 after they said not to at Motorvation ... Max would be proud !!

I think I caught a bit of that film while channel surfing ... was Richard Roxbouough in it as well ??

Have you seen 'Doing Time with Patsy Cline' which is an Australian caper / road movie featuring Matt Day as a would be country singer from the bush ?? Apparently they did $30K damage to the hero car Jaguar during filming only to find it was not insured for anything other than normal road use ... Whoops!!

A piece of useless trivia for you ... in the early nineties Matt Day took over bass guitar duties with pop outfit RATCAT who subsequently drifted off into obscurity. Saw themm a few times and he rocked!

Post by **Tom Millan** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 6:05 am

Quote: Originally posted by rockatansky4073 on 09 January 2005

Yeah, i wish i'd been old enough at the time MAD MAX 2 n' sh*t was released so i coulda grabbed the Merchandise.

I wish I was old enough to see Mad Max 2 also. It premiered in May of 1982 as The Road Warrior. The poster that was selected had a picture of Max with his gun drawn on a road with his dog beside him. The background was all black and the outline around Max was red. Beside him there was a series of good reviews by popular movie critics. One of the reviews compared the film to Raiders of the Lost Ark. That review got my attention and curiosity to want to see it. Only problem was that I was only 12 years old and the movie was Rated R. In Canada, especially Alberta, that means nobody under 18 may attend- whether they are accompanied by an adult or not. I remember the newspaper ad. The picture was of the poster above with a 'rated R' under it with a warning. It said: WARNING: Violence from beginning to end.

That warning and brief description of the film made all the more curious to want to see it.

Tom

Post by **Snow Warrior** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:20 am

I remember a short lived TV series with a Mad Max feel to it and it ran for maybe only one season on NBC in the U.S. It was called " The Highwayman" and it had some guy travelling around in some aerodynamic/futuristic looking 18 wheeler and they even hired an Aussie rules football player named Jacko something (sorry to my friends down under for not remembering this interesting character's name) as his sidekick. They were decked out in MFP like garb (leather jackets and shoulder pads) and they saved the day patrolling the desert highways of a post apocalyptic America--I think... Anyways it sucked. Maybe a CGI series that takes place before MM2 would work. I'd watch it!

Post by **ydx7** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:45 am

I brought that show up in some other discussion here. I don't Jacko used a last name. He was also the Energizer mascot before they got the rabbit. As for the show, the main character's truck had a cab that turned into a helicopter. Jacko's truck had a cab unit that looked like a futuristic version of those things that tow airplanes.

Post by **rockatansky4073** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:32 pm

bloody JACKO, yeah, in the 80's when i was a kid, you couldn't turn on the tv. night or day, without seeing him in ads or footy.

He does stand up comedy now, with Ex 'Criminal Head Hunter' MARK CHOPPER REED. was even Best man at CHOPPER's wedding.

I remember that poster TOM, its awesome, i really want to get it, but it doesn't turn up often, and when it does its expensive. luckily our (AUSTRALIAN's) video cover in the early 80's had the same image on the cover, cept it wasn't 'cut out' like the poster, he had the highway behind him, and DOG at his heal.

Post by **XAMan** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:10 am

Jacko also 'stars' in an Oz film Signal One.

Jacko is a cop on the edge who just can't take it anymore ...

The film itself is diabolically bad ... and almost too bad to edure to the end ... but there is one sequece that features a chase sequence with a black XB coupe in an underground carpark which is a little maxlike ...