The Flash Added To The DC Comics Network

Wed Jul 9, 2008 — by Karl Cramer

The Flash Added To The DC Comics Network

John Wesley Shipp's 'The Flash' is the latest superhero TV series on Xbox LIVE Video Marketplace

It wasn't that long ago we told you that Xbox LIVE added a DC Comics Network channel to its lineup of videos for download on the Xbox 360 gaming console. Well, they're not wasting any time adding more programming. They've added The Flash to the lineup of superhero television shows.

1990's The Flash, starring John Wesley Shipp, was one of those shows that never got the recognition it should have. It was caught in an unfortunate network struggle for Thursday night between The Cosby Show and The Simpsons. Taking a cue from Tim Burton' first Batman movie, it was playful but took itself seriously. Comics author Howard Chaykin was on board as one of the program's writers so the show maintained the right shout-outs to appease comic fans. Amanda Pays perfected the hot, brainy scientist helping Barry Allen with his mysterious powers. And let's face it, that suit looked cool moving at super-speed.

All that quality was expensive, though, so CBS canceled it after one season when it failed to become a runaway hit. But the show lived on in reruns on the SCI-FI Channel and on DVD.

Visit the official page to see some great previews of each episode -- especially episode #12, if you want to see Mark Hamill hamming it up as the Trickster.

Keep 'em coming boys. Maybe you'll be the ones that will finally distribute episodes of the Adam West Batman series from the '60s.

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Glenn Hauman (11:38 AM on Thu Jul 10, 2008)

One of these days, we've got to get Mike Gold to write up a history of the TV show, and how it was beaten up by Bart Simpson and George Bush...

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