Posted by Kromey at 6:17pm Jun 29 '08I remember watching a show, probably in the early-to-mid nineties, who's premise centered around a man who had lost his memory. (Yeah, I know, real original!) I seem to recall that it was aired on CBS, but don't hold me to that.
As I remember it, the name of the show was The Lazarus Man, but after Googling and hitting up IMDB I'm 100% certain that that is not the correct show.
I recall the opening credits including an animatic of a guy running through a maze; he may have been wearing a trenchcoat or something similar. Actually, I think the maze motif was something carried throughout the show (or at least several episodes), as in this guy was wandering the maze of his forgotten memories trying to find out who he is.
There was one episode in particular that I remember: The villain of the episode (not the long-running villain of the series, although this guy I think was hired by them) used funhouse-like mirrors to trigger all kinds of negative memories in the hero (apparently he'd done a lot of research into mirrors as spawning memories). Near the end of the episode the hero is broken and depressed, and agrees to go with the villain; as the villain is gloating to him in his car, the hero suddenly perks up, smashes the lens off his camera (I think the hero was a photographer?), and then stares at the mirror inside, which of course prompts several well-timed, happy memories of the hero's past, reinvigorating him and restoring his morale enough to escape the villain's clutches.
Please help me figure out what this show was! It was a great show, and it's killing me that I can't remember what it was!
As I remember it, the name of the show was The Lazarus Man, but after Googling and hitting up IMDB I'm 100% certain that that is not the correct show.
I recall the opening credits including an animatic of a guy running through a maze; he may have been wearing a trenchcoat or something similar. Actually, I think the maze motif was something carried throughout the show (or at least several episodes), as in this guy was wandering the maze of his forgotten memories trying to find out who he is.
There was one episode in particular that I remember: The villain of the episode (not the long-running villain of the series, although this guy I think was hired by them) used funhouse-like mirrors to trigger all kinds of negative memories in the hero (apparently he'd done a lot of research into mirrors as spawning memories). Near the end of the episode the hero is broken and depressed, and agrees to go with the villain; as the villain is gloating to him in his car, the hero suddenly perks up, smashes the lens off his camera (I think the hero was a photographer?), and then stares at the mirror inside, which of course prompts several well-timed, happy memories of the hero's past, reinvigorating him and restoring his morale enough to escape the villain's clutches.
Please help me figure out what this show was! It was a great show, and it's killing me that I can't remember what it was!