Did You Watch This Show as a Kid? VOYAGERS!

[pixletwin]

I used to love this show. I haven't thought about it for years but for some reason it just popped back into my mind this morning.

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[thenammagazine]

Who didn't? Main star was a dumbass though and suicided with a blank to the dome.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I think I did, looks familiar

 

[Darth Waller]

I thought I knew alot about 80s shows, but I don't remember watching that one.

 

[devilof76]

Holy crap. I forgot all about it, but yeah, I watched it religiously.

Thanks pix.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

I don't remember that one, and don't recall ever even hearing about it before now, but it sure seems like a show I would've watched.

 

[Darth Cruel]

I actually remember seeing advertisements for this show on TV. But I was a senior in high school and was concentrating too much on partying to watch any TV so I never saw it.

 

[devilof76]

I was in second grade. I was obsessed with Time Bandits and it was the closest thing to it.

 

[Darthrazz]

Yes! I loved it, I actually learned about history and didn't realise it!


Wasn't the main character replaced by another actor after he killed himself?

 

[devilof76]

I remember that now. He was screwing around with .44 loaded with blanks and shot himself in the head.

 

[karamazov80]

I am having some serious deja vu about this thread right now

 

[devilof76]

imdb credits him in all 20 episodes so I don't think he was re-cast.

 

[pixletwin]

The show was canceled because NBC 'r' Dum.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

His name was Jon-Erik Hexum and he had moved on to another (Cover Up) show before he shot himself.

Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

On October 12, 1984, the cast and crew of Cover Up were filming the seventh episode of the series, "Golden Opportunity," on Stage 17 of the 20th Century Fox lot. One of the scenes filmed that day called for Hexum's character to load blanks into a .44 Magnum handgun. When the scene did not play as the director wanted it to play in the master shot, there was a delay in filming. Hexum became restless and impatient during the delay and began playing around to lighten the mood. Apparently, he had unloaded all but one (blank) round, spun it, and in what would appear to be a game of Russian roulette, at 5:15 p.m., he put the revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger.[6]

They replaced him on Cover Up and said that he had been killed on a mission. I used to watch both shows and I remember all the media this got at the time. The Cover Up episode where they deal with his replacement was very moving. He had a partner on the show that was part of his cover story. He played a secret agent posing as a model, and his partner was a female photographer. All through the episode she kept complaining about the new guy and kept asking where Hexum's character was--they had become very close through the course of the show. At the end of the episode, they finally tell her he was killed on assignment, at which point she starts crying as the camera pulls back. Very sad.

Here's the full article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum

 

[Darthrazz]

imdb credits him in all 20 episodes so I don't think he was re-cast.

I was mistaken, he was in all episodes....maybe I was thinking of Coy and Vance from Dukes of Hazzard?

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[devilof76]

Or you could have it mixed up with the other show he was in.

I remember the accident with the gun very clearly, and I associated it with the cancellation (but apparently the show was already over). I had been anticipating more episodes when my mom broke the news to me that it wasn't coming back. She told me he had been working on a different show and then relayed the details of the accident. I was pretty upset.

Thanks a lot pix.

 

[galactiboy]

I thought I knew alot about 80s shows, but I don't remember watching that one.

I'm not familiar with this one either... looks like one I would have liked.

 

[Batty]

I don't remember it at all. I doubt I would've watched it.








Did it have Mormons in it?

 

[Darthrazz]

Does anyone remember Jason of Star Command?

https://space1970.blogspot.com/2009/12/jason-of-star-command-1978-79.html

 

[tomandshell]

I remember that show! Does that mean I'm old yet?