My Secret Identity Boned the Fish When...

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My Secret Identity is a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from September 1, 1988 to May 1, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. O'Connell stars as 14-year-old Andrew Clements, who while looking one day for his friend, Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoat (McGrath), trips and is hit by a photon beam, causing him to develop superpowers. He uses these abilities to fight crime, to solve personal problems and to help others. He hides his powers from his mother, sister and friends with the exception of Jeffcoat. Andrew initially called himself Ultraman, but this was later dropped for legal reasons.

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  I noticed that there is no slot for the sleeper super hero show "My Secret Identity" starring a young Jerry O'Connell. I'd personally like to place a vote for "Day One" as this show caused me to boycott any show boasting O'Connell in the cast. I hated the concept, and thought that he was a stupid actor with no talent.
  Never jumped. I was so unhappy when the stations out here stopped carrying it.
  This show always entertained me. What kid growing up never wished they had superpowers? It was just a lot of fun to watch.
  I don't know why, but it really annoyed me when they changed the words to the theme song from "It's all in a day's work for Ultra Man" to something like "If you're ever in trouble, I'm your man."
  It didn't. The show was always great, I just wish that it lasted longer and was still played.
  This show was very cool. Most suited for younger kids but overall tolerable for all ages. I watched it all the time and found it to be funny and sparked my imagination.
  My Secret Identity was a great show. I wanted to be Ultra-Man when I grew up. But I really started to lose interest in the show when, after a season or two, Ultra-Man stopped using aerosol cans because, well, they might help cause ozone depletion. A great show jumped because of political correctness.
  This was a good series…until the producers forgot they were making a superhero show. The early episodes of this series had Jerry O’Connell stopping crimes, but the later shows dealt with him dealing with real-life situations. Now, even a teen with superpowers must deal with dating and peer pressure, and I am not saying these cannot be interesting stories to tell. The problem with many of the later episodes is that except for Jerry O’Connell using his superpowers a couple times, they looked and felt like a normal dramatic series instead of a teen-with-superpowers show. I am not saying you cannot make a quality superhero show that emphasizes on character interaction, such as “Buffy: The Vampire Slayer,” “Now and Again,” or “Roswell” (even though it’s not a superhero show). If the writing for “My Secret Identity” was much better from the very start (near the same level as the three shows I just mentioned) and the transition from the superhero-centered stories to traditional stories was much smoother, then I would probably vote this series as “Never Jumped”. However, I cannot. On another note, in the pilot episode O’Connell wants to call himself Power Man, but decides not to because there already is a character with that name. As a result, he decides to call himself Ultra-Man…never mind there already is a Japanese superhero character named Ultra-Man, which has existed for at least 20 YEARS before “My Secret Identity” aired!