{"id":26331,"date":"2020-06-05T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26331"},"modified":"2020-06-05T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T16:54:16","slug":"making-the-leap-to-the-small-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/making-the-leap-to-the-small-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Leap to the Small Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I just read the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/20\/book-report-tron-the-storybook-by-lawrence-weinberg-1982\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Tron: The Storybook<\/em><\/a>, I had to right away, wherein &#8220;right away&#8221; means in a week or so, watch the film.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;re watching, I see the character Bit:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/tronbit.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>and I think, what else have I seen him in?<\/p>\n<p>Then, today, it finally hit me:  He was also in the television series <em>Automan<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/automantitle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Although the role on television was not a speaking role, it looks like it was physically demanding.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/automancursor.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Automan<\/em>, he&#8217;s credited as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7352456\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Cursor&#8221; as Himself<\/a>.  I guess the first appearance in <em>Tron<\/em> was uncredited, and he must have left the industry after the television program.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whatever became of that guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I just read the Tron: The Storybook, I had to right away, wherein &#8220;right away&#8221; means in a week or so, watch the film. As we&#8217;re watching, I see the character Bit: and I think, what else have I seen him in? Then, today, it finally hit me: He was also in the television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26332,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26331\/revisions\/26332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}