Its sad that such jewels are left unearthed in the annals of television. Infiltrator was a pretty decent attempt at CBS to provide the basis for a sci-fi series. Scott Bakula is a scientist, who's latest creation is a matter transporter/teleporter. Being like most scientists he uses himself for the final test to see if it works with humans and it does, the only hitch is that he teleported into the lab next door which had a multi-million dollar artificially intelligent space probe being readied for a mission to Mars. So what? Well, his little quantum journey merged him with the probe ala' the fly, and its electronic prototype systems become hardwired with his own body, right down to his blood cells. He and the female scientist that developed the probe now have a real problem on their hands as the probe is just as curious about our world as the far away worlds it was designed to explore and at times will modify Bacula in order for its objectives to be met. This also includes the perception of threats as when ever his adrenaline goes up so does the probes and boom Bacula transforms into a half man half machine laser shooting cyborg. Eventually some baddy gets wind of this and tries to capture him for study and then the action really starts. This could have been a great series as the whole angle of how the infiltrator probe guides our hero through obstacles could have been really cool not to mention the cyborg effects were pretty neat for the time.
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Outrageous!
thomas-ratcliffe18 July 2006
HEY!!! CBS!!! Get this out on DVD NOW, and reserve me a copy!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched my VCR tape till it's worn out. It's worth watching again and again. It's outrageous that you didn't create the series. You aired it at the wrong time. Put it back on the air and request a new vote for a series and this time advertise it large! Of all the SciFi series that are being aired at this time I believe Infiltrator would compete well with the best of them. You missed out on a great series. I would rather have seen Scott Bakula in an Infiltrator series than Quantum Leap, and I love Quantum Leap... Scott did great as Professor Sam Beckett. I have 316 original (Non-pirated) DVDs in my collection, and most of them are SciFi.
Long Lost Childhood Fun
dysamoria22 September 2007
i've not seen this since it originally aired, but it stuck with me for a very long time. i remember parts like i saw it yesterday (i have eidetic memory that i cannot control) and other things about it are just a haze. i would love to see it again.
Infiltrator and I-Man (also starring Bakula), could have both been fun TV series. (though Quantum Leap and Bakula did fantastic work and i hope to own that series on DVD one day).
Infiltrator's special effects were, as i remember as a young person, from way back then, very well done and, sometimes, a little gross (i remember his hand in transformation where all the flesh sort of "sucked inward" making it look skeletal as the machine started to take over and form itself into a robotic counterpart to a human hand), and that really got my attention.
The concepts were smart. The series would have been nice if there was a wide-scope plan in place, but as we've seen with 80's pilots, lots of science fiction ideas were tried and since there were no real plans on where to take it, they just threw things at the audience to see what would stick. When something stuck, they didn't know what to do with it beyond the pilot or miniseries (like Something is Out There, which i WANT ON DVD BADLY).
This could have been The Guyver before The Guyver was actually made into a live action movie series (gag gag gag, though the second one had some good cinematic moments). i wonder if this was inspired BY the Guyver (i don't know the age of that Manga).
i'd give it a ten, but i'm sure my memory glorifies it a bit, so i'm trying to compensate and be realistic, giving it an 8... until i see it again.
Scott Bakula has been and always will be one of my favourites. It would be a great pleasure to see this one-off show again and to have it in my collection. i'm with the other commentator above me: i own tons of legal DVDs and almost every one is science fiction. Set us up for some sales!
Infiltrator and I-Man (also starring Bakula), could have both been fun TV series. (though Quantum Leap and Bakula did fantastic work and i hope to own that series on DVD one day).
Infiltrator's special effects were, as i remember as a young person, from way back then, very well done and, sometimes, a little gross (i remember his hand in transformation where all the flesh sort of "sucked inward" making it look skeletal as the machine started to take over and form itself into a robotic counterpart to a human hand), and that really got my attention.
The concepts were smart. The series would have been nice if there was a wide-scope plan in place, but as we've seen with 80's pilots, lots of science fiction ideas were tried and since there were no real plans on where to take it, they just threw things at the audience to see what would stick. When something stuck, they didn't know what to do with it beyond the pilot or miniseries (like Something is Out There, which i WANT ON DVD BADLY).
This could have been The Guyver before The Guyver was actually made into a live action movie series (gag gag gag, though the second one had some good cinematic moments). i wonder if this was inspired BY the Guyver (i don't know the age of that Manga).
i'd give it a ten, but i'm sure my memory glorifies it a bit, so i'm trying to compensate and be realistic, giving it an 8... until i see it again.
Scott Bakula has been and always will be one of my favourites. It would be a great pleasure to see this one-off show again and to have it in my collection. i'm with the other commentator above me: i own tons of legal DVDs and almost every one is science fiction. Set us up for some sales!
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