I've remembered the opening sequence of this show for quite some time, but no one I mentioned it to could ever come up with the show's title. Finally I found it with a properly worded Google search - amazing tools we have today.I remember a specific episode where there was a crazed driver who was tormenting the motorcycle cops by speeding through their speed traps and - once the motorcycles were in pursuit - releasing numerous logs out of his rigged trunk and the poor policemen would wreck their bikes after running over the logs. Yeah, far-fetched, but it got worse.The hero of the show then took some sort of mind-altering drug and demonstrated in the lab that - under the drug's influence - he was capable of amazing feats of concentration and dexterity. He grabbed speeding arrows out of the air effortlessly.So after the lab tests, the cops were given the drug and were then capable of driving their bikes around the logs and catching the demonic motorist.With some 50 years of retrospection, I'm wondering now if that magic drug might have been LSD? It was a more innocent time...Anyway, it was a favorite show of my 7-year-old self. That and "The Troubleshooters" and "Rescue 8".

At the age of eight, this was one of my favorite shows. I liked that the protagonist had to demonstrate ingenuity in a variety of, sometimes unexpected. circumstances. A memorable scene for me is when he took an elevator only to have the apparatus fail and the elevator plunge precipitously downward. Not to worry... our man jumped up and grabbed the light fixture on the ceiling of the elevator car and lifted himself up. When the elevator hit bottom he was able to absorb some of the impact by holding himself close to the ceiling. There's been many a time I've looked around an elevator to see what "I" could hold onto in the event of a similar calamity!

In 1967 I visited the Lake Elsinore glider-port and flew a yellow Pratt Read sailplane. Returning to Germany the above serious ran on TV and one segment was about the high altitude sailplane flights in California in the early 50ies. (The real life pilot was Bill Ivans, I don't know who played him in the series) It turned out that the sailplane in the film was the same (same N-number) as the one I had flown at Lake Elsinore. Ever since I saw that segment I have been searching for it and have been wondering if it is somewhere available. (other segments in that serious were about the Baker Ejection Seat; an instrument to find avalanche victims etc.

My father was a career Air Force man. So when Col. John P Stapp's famous rocket sled images appeared in the opening credits of THE MAN AND THE CHALLENGE in 1959 I, as a 14-year-old, was immediately hooked....and George Nader was the perfectly-cast star. I loved the stories. It didn't matter they were off-center from science-reality, as we knew it then - in my mind, they were 'possible.' The ideas just fascinated me. That it was possible to live through an elevator fall - or that one could survive a marooning at sea by drinking the base nutrients from a raw fish squeezed through a torqued towel, made absolute sense in my young, formative mind - they still do.I've often reflected on that series over the years, and now realize what a huge impression it made on my ultimate enrollment in the aerospace industry.I appreciate what all of you have written in remembrance of George Nader and this wonderful TV series. Yes, the film world often brings heroes - but much more than that; 'ideas of quality' can shape and determine one's entire future. It certainly did mine - may you all have been so blessed.