W.E.I.R.D. World

W.E.I.R.D. World. Fox-TV. Series premiere 26 September 1995. From William M. Gaines's comic books Weird Science and Weird Fantasy. Two-hour premiere: William Malone, dir. A. L. Katz, prod. and one of 3 writers. "A Two Fisted [sic] Production" in association with Hallmark Entertainment. Ed O'Neil featured as Dr. Monochian. **+Dr. Monochian runs a super-secret, autonomous, US government (?) research facility, using very young scientists (and, at the end of the episode, a time-traveled Albert Einstein). Mise en scene an interesting combination of high-tech and quasi-cyberpunk funky, with the images suggesting 1950s B-movies and (appropriately) Gaines-produced horror comics. One of the three subplots in the premiere featured a time-machine that looks like a Van de Graaff generator; another more thematically featured robots both humanoid and primitive looking, plus a robotic prosthetic arm (cf. and contrast the Terminator films et al.).