The Flash: The Complete Series (DVD, 2006, 6-Disc Set)

Amanda Pays...More Than Just Eye Candy on Flash TV Show

Amanda Pays was born on June 6, 1959, in London, England and started acting in the United Kingdom.

However, Amanda is best known in the States for her roles as Theora Jones in the movie and television series Max Headroom, and as Christina "Tina" McGee in The Flash TV Show based on the comic book series.

I first saw Amanda on the Flash TV show, where she wasn't used as 'eye candy', but in a more serious role. This was refreshing as most often women are treated other than that on these genre of tv shows or movies!

The Flash was shot as a live action CBS television series from 1990-1991 that starred John Wesley Shipp as the DC Comics superhero, The Flash. It co-starred Amanda Pays.

The series was created by the writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo while composer Danny Elfman wrote the series’ title theme.

Unfortunately the show only lasted one season, as it was expensive to shoot and the ratings were not as sucessful as the network wanted, due to changing the time slot after running up against the more sucessful shows Cosby Show and Cheers.

The series is now on DVD and is worth watching if you have not seen it before. It is definitely not 'campy', but also not overly 'grim and gritty'.

Michael

This series was fantastic when it premiere in the Fall of 1990,and it still is today in this GREAT DVD box set.John Wesley Shipp was a terrific Flash,and together with Amanda Pays they created a television classic.The only thing wrong with this series is that CBS botched it and only gave it one season.

THE FLASH WAS A GREAT TV SHOW TOO BAD IT ONLY LASTED TWO SEASONS,WITH ONLY 22 EPISODES. IT HAD A LOT OF ACTION One of the more exciting and atmospheric TV adaptations of a popular comic book series, The Flash benefited from terrific special effects, but lasted only a single year on its network in 1990. The John Wesley Shipp The Flash & partnered him with an attractive fellow scientist (Amanda Pays) and the villions were,mobsters (Michael Nader,& the Trickster (Mark Hamill, Captain Cold (Michael Champion), Mirror Master (David Cassidy)Great show you'll love it.

I have always enjoyed the comic book medium and Flash was always one of the most consistant characters. The series is actually fairly well written using people that have been involved with comic book creation and very colorful sets, as you would expect in the four color offset printing. Rendition varies for use on the tv screen. The special effects are fairly well done for the series, exploring different facits of his personality. He is just so nice, as a hero should be. Fun and good natured as well as serious character insight for the cast. This makes the shows more fun to watch because they don't bog down into petty grievances.

For about 25$ or less, you can have the Flash Complete "Season" (not Series, there's only ONE season) which contains all 22 épisodes of the season on six DVD discs, all in excellent quality. There's no bonus or special what-so-ever, only the episodes without commercials. The only regret is that there's only one season, all because of CBS for resheduling the TV show too much often that viewers thought that it was canceled prematurely.

Two thumbs up for the Flash Complete "Season" and two thumbs down for CBS for killing the show.