Curtain Up! It's Time for Danger Theatre

April 4, 2017 10:56 PM

Danger Theatre was an action comedy TV series aired in 1993. Most of the half-hour episodes were split into two segments, all introduced by host Robert Vaughn. Over the seven-episode run, there were three different shows which appeared in the segments.

Tropical Punch
Former Batman Adam West starred as Captain Mike Morgan, head of the Tropical Punch unit of the Hawaii police force. With the assistance of detectives Tom McCormick and Al Hamoki he bumbles his way through exotic locales and crimes. Segment appears in 4 episodes. Not to be confused with Hawaii Five-O.

The Searcher
Future Batman Diedrich Bader starred as the black-clad and accident-prone Searcher, who rides his motorcycle from town to town searching for people in need of help. The most popular segment, it appears in all 7 episodes, two of which took up the full episode. Not to be confused with Renegade.

357 Marina del Rey
Non-Batmen Todd Field and Ricky Harris costarred as two hip, cappuchino-sipping college graduates who decide to take their laid-back lifestyles to the world of private investigation, only to find it more dangerous than expected. Segment's first and last appearance in final episode. Not to be confused with Miami Vice.

The full series is on YouTube, split across two videos:
episodes 1-4
episodes 5-7

posted by ckape (8 comments total)

I've been watching MST3k and was reminded of the show by a riff in Zombie Nightmare, which aired a few months after it was canceled.
posted by ckape at 11:02 PM on April 4, 2017

Ah -- Robert Vaughn. Once starred as an ersatz James Bond in his own TV series (along with Dr. Mallard of NCIS), was in Bullitt and was one of the Magnificent Seven. Lately appeared as a TV shill for a MA attorney. Sad to learn that he's gone.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:42 AM on April 5, 2017

Man, I loved this show. Not sure revisiting it is a good idea.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:24 AM on April 5, 2017 [1 favorite]

Are you sure this wasn't actually a recurring SNL skit from the 1980s and you're all just sharing a false memory of it as a real show? Did Sinbad appear in this as a genie, at all?
 
posted by Herodios at 8:37 AM on April 5, 2017 [3 favorites]

In a Shazaam!-like level of recall, I thought that there was an entire spin-off series of The Searcher. Either there was, or Danger Theatre got re-run so much on Scottish television that we seemed to have a picture of Diedrich Bader on the listings page for most of the 90s.
posted by scruss at 9:24 AM on April 5, 2017

Uh-oh, Chongo!
 
posted by Herodios at 9:43 AM on April 5, 2017

We must, of course, never forget the failed attempt to bring this format back in Heat Vision and Jack
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 3:16 AM on April 7, 2017

Thank you for posting this; this is the sort of cheesy humour show I very much love and I'd never heard of it.
posted by lesbiassparrow at 9:48 PM on April 7, 2017