I was 26 when "Captain Nice" appeared, lasting only half a season. My husband and I loved it. It was funny and sweet.In 1967, Williams Daniels, who played/was Captain Nice, had a very busy year as he was also in "The Graduate" (as Dustin Hoffman's father), "Two for the Road", and "The President's Analyst". The last one holds up very well even today and is available on VHS. It is still funny, true, and also reflects the swingin' sixties.Alice Ghostley was also in "The Graduate". She is one of the great character actors and always a joy to see in any film.My husband and I may have been a jinx to TV quality because it seemed everything we liked lasted a very short time. Well, we are now divorced so maybe the spell is broken.

I was about 16 when the show premiered and already a fan of comic book superheroes and comedy, so I HAD to watch this show. And I LOVED it. A shame it only ran one season. What I also remember that in the promotion of the show, there was this great comic book art poster drawn by the legendary Jack Kirby of Marvel Comics fame but I only saw it on TV. I would love to own a copy of it if it exists anywhere.One of the things I remember was a running gag used by the writers. The Commissioner (played by Liam Dunn, a thin balding older man, famous for being a comic foil in many Mel Brooks films) would say something like, "Don't tell me the bank was robbed again" to which the chief would echo the words, "The bank was robbed again." Then Dunn would say with great exasperation. "I asked you not to tell me that." It still makes me laugh today. Even fellow schoolmates would echo this gag.With great comic talent like Alice Ghostly and Liam Dunn as backup, and on the heels of the ultra campy Batman series (which I hated at the time for making a mockery of a great comic book hero) it should have been a huge hit.The public! Go figure.

I saw this show when I was ten years old. I was a Batman TV show fan, and this new one was also a spoof on the superhero genre. I thought it was hilarious! Hey, I was ten...I especially liked the little touches like the hero's father, whose face was never seen because he was constantly reading the newspaper at the breakfast table. When the son went to work in the morning, the father would return his "goodbye" without looking up from the paper, oblivious to his son's true identity. Lots of people can identify with that off-hand commentary on absentee fathers. So, it did have some (albeit minor) social messages.Shows like this (see also Mr. Terrific from the same year) were ahead of their time, and therefore unpopular. Recent superhero spoofs like "The Tick", which I have never seen but heard about, I believe have forebears going back at least 15-30 years. These previous shows would include "The Greatest American Hero" in the '80s.

I think most people have totally forgotten about this show. I sure wish I could. Isn't it funny how some things just lodge themselves in your brain, no matter how useless or pointless they may be?