You have to admit The Man With The Power was a unique property. ---SPOILER
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-------------------------------------------------The show starts out with a guy (Eric Smith) walking along a train track, he saves a turtle that is stuck on the tracks and gets his foot stuck between the tracks. As a huge train car is about to run over him(and the turtle in his hand) -- he uses special powers to stop the train car. This tv pilot & Eric Smith reminds me a lot of Matthew Barton's "Powers Of Matthew Star", they're both telekinetic teenagers of the 70's. I guess the man with the power didn't have the huge teen appeal that Matthew Barton had. It had great actors like Vic Morrow but it just didn't make it as a series. The Trio Network just aired a segment on it 12/30/02. It was on Trio's "The Greatest Shows You Never Saw" -- that special was excellent -- Eric Smith saves the turtle!!!! Agent Walter Bloom his mentor helps show him he can move a wagon (with terrible special effects) -- he was supposed to end up being a special agent with special powers kind of like Steve Austin in the Six Million Dollar Man but the concept was canned.
WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-------------------------------------------------The show starts out with a guy (Eric Smith) walking along a train track, he saves a turtle that is stuck on the tracks and gets his foot stuck between the tracks. As a huge train car is about to run over him(and the turtle in his hand) -- he uses special powers to stop the train car. This tv pilot & Eric Smith reminds me a lot of Matthew Barton's "Powers Of Matthew Star", they're both telekinetic teenagers of the 70's. I guess the man with the power didn't have the huge teen appeal that Matthew Barton had. It had great actors like Vic Morrow but it just didn't make it as a series. The Trio Network just aired a segment on it 12/30/02. It was on Trio's "The Greatest Shows You Never Saw" -- that special was excellent -- Eric Smith saves the turtle!!!! Agent Walter Bloom his mentor helps show him he can move a wagon (with terrible special effects) -- he was supposed to end up being a special agent with special powers kind of like Steve Austin in the Six Million Dollar Man but the concept was canned.