This affable TV show is set in a secret town inhabited by America’s most brilliant scientists, all working on fantastical futuristic projects for the government. These have a remarkable tendency to cock up, meaning that the world / universe keeps lurching towards accidental apocalypse, endangered by an army of clones, a rift in space-time, a reactivated Cold War death ray or genetic hybrid plants with pollen that turns you mad. In each case, it’s up to a non-science geek, Sheriff Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) – a ‘regular guy’ who stumbled across the town after breaking down while escorting his troublesome runaway daughter home – to save the world. Colin Ferguson is a hugely sympathetic lead, and lends the show much of its warmth, but the rest of the characters – like a pretty gun-toting deputy sheriff, a mysterious and manipulative psychotherapist, and an outdoorsy Aussie cryptozoologist – also have a great cartoon-like appeal. They make doing battle with out-of-control science and impending cosmic catastrophe seem like a whole lot of fun.

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