Dr Strange (1978)

Sep 14th, 2009 by cm2

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Comics fans will probably be disappointed with the number of liberties taken with the characters and their motivations (Strange gains his powers after being mutated by an alien machine, instead of through years of study and discipline; his mentor is an English dandy who just happens to live in Manhattan, instead of an ancient reclusive sage who lives in Tibet; Wong is a westernized valet instead of an Oriental mystical disciple; Clea is a ditzy grad student at NYU instead of an extra-dimensional sorceress-in-training; etc.), but the production values are surprisingly good for a low-budget TV production. Most of the supporting cast do their jobs credibly, but Peter Hooten is a cypher. He plays Strange as a somewhat vapid, self-absorbed disco-era playboy and projects no real sense of personality. Instead of being shocked or horrified by the mystical horizons revealed by the other characters, he just seems lost and maybe disinterested. As an example of failed 1970′s Marvel Comics TV adaptations (the others that come to mind are “Amazing Spider-Man” with Nicholas Hammond, and “Captain America” with Reb Brown), this is the best of a very bad lot. A marginally better “Strange” derivative is “Doctor Mordrid” with Jeffrey Combs and Brian Thompson.