Cameron is a writer, artist, and journalist working from Ohio. Click here for more work! The first sign of trouble aboard Supertrain comes not even a minute into its pilot. Sidestepping the usual fare ...

In 1979, NBC President Fred Silverman, trying to save the last-place network, fast-tracked a drama called “Supertrain.” It combined railroads, disco and murder, and if you think it sounds terrible, ...

If you think today’s television series are both brain-dead and stupendously high concept, then you haven’t seen Supertrain. A weekly show about a nuclear-powered high-tech train zooming across the ...

After Ben Thoburn of Coinopwarehouse in Hagerstown picked up a jukebox he bought from a Philadelphia jewelry dealer, the man told Thoburn about a train he had in an old barn. Thoburn didn't know what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Success breeds imitation. So when ABC’s kitschy The Love Boat was ...

Like Sony’s 'Bullet Train,' in theaters Aug. 5, the NBC drama offered action and intrigue — and was the most expensive TV show of its time — but viewers and critics were not on board. By Ryan Gajewski ...

In honour of the death of the great crime-fiction writer Donald E. Westlake , here’s one of his least-prestigious but most-infamous credits: Supertrain, the 1979 bomb that almost bankrupted NBC. As ...

In 1979, NBC produced a TV series called "Supertrain," in which every episode took place on a nuclear-powered luxury locomotive with its own discotheque. I swear this is true. "Supertrain" was the ...