Salvage 1


Salvage 1 is an American science fiction series that was broadcast for 16 episodes on ABC during 1979. The pilot film, Salvage, was shown on January 20, 1979, to high ratings.
This show is one of the first new filmed shows from Columbia Pictures Television to not display a copyright notice under the show's logo at the beginning, but rather at the end.

Plot

The pilot centers on Harry Broderick who owns the Jettison Scrap and Salvage Co. and is a specialist in reclaiming trash and junk to sell as scrap. His dream is to recover equipment left on the Moon during Apollo Program missions. In the show's opening title narration, Harry states:
"I wanna build a spaceship, go to the Moon, salvage all the junk that's up there, bring it back and sell it."

He invites the former astronaut Addison "Skip" Carmichael and NASA fuel expert Melanie "Mel" Slozar to assist him in this effort.
Broderick and his ragtag crew complete their mission and go on to further adventures in the subsequent series.

The ''Vulture''

Harry builds a spaceship dubbed Vulture, made completely from reclaimed salvage and powered by a chemical called monohydrazine. The main body of Vulture is composed of a Texaco gasoline semi-trailer tank truck with a cement mixer as the capsule. This is augmented with three shorter rocket boosters placed 120 degrees around the main tank.

Episodes

Season 1 (1979)

The first season ranked 48th out of 114 shows that season with an average 17.7/26 rating/share.

Season 2 (1979)

The last four episodes were shown in the early 1990s on The Nostalgia Channel, now known as Youtoo TV.

Production

author Isaac Asimov was the show's scientific adviser.

Merchandise

made a prototype of a model rocket version of the Vulture. It was never brought to market.