Here's the original Human Target - VIDEO

Jason told you yesterday that Fringe cast member Mark Valley is going to star in a new version of The Human Target, about a masterspy-ish person who flies around the world on his superplane, donning disguises to become the people he tries to help out of trouble. I say "new" version because this actually was already a TV show, in 1992, with Rick Springfield in the lead. It was on ABC and lasted only a handful of episodes. Then it was gone, but for good reason.

It wasn't very good.

To be fair, the premise was pretty cool (if impossible), and the show had a great theme song. It just didn't come together that well (though I wish it had lasted longer than it did - I'm a sucker for shows like this). It was created by the same people who did The Flash, but that show was better.

I still have all of these episodes on tape, and I also have the comic books that came out around the same time. I'm not sure if they did that because they thought the show was going to be big or they just did it to do it (this was before the web and online fans and webisodes). With all of the superhero/action shows and movies that are around today, maybe this will find a bigger audience than it had in 1992.