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* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' on train tracks!

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* RecycledInSpace: RecycledWithAGimmick: It's ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' on train tracks!
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Hour-long comedy-drama series which debuted as a MidseasonReplacement in 1979 on Creator/{{NBC}}. An attempt at emulating [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]]'s success with ''Series/TheLoveBoat'', ''Supertrain'' [[FollowTheLeader was essentially the same show]] with the ''Pacific Princess'' [[RecycledInSpace swapped out for the titular "Supertrain"]], [[CoolTrain a super-broad gauge, nuclear-powered bullet train]] that could cross the United States from coast to coast in 36 hours.

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Hour-long comedy-drama series which debuted as a MidseasonReplacement in 1979 on Creator/{{NBC}}. An attempt at emulating [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]]'s success with ''Series/TheLoveBoat'', ''Supertrain'' [[FollowTheLeader was essentially the same show]] with the ''Pacific Princess'' [[RecycledInSpace [[RecycledWithAGimmick swapped out for the titular "Supertrain"]], [[CoolTrain a super-broad gauge, nuclear-powered bullet train]] that could cross the United States from coast to coast in 36 hours.
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Hour-long comedy-drama series which debuted as a MidseasonReplacement in 1979 on Creator/{{NBC}}. An attempt at emulating Creator/{{ABC}}'s success with ''Series/TheLoveBoat'', ''Supertrain'' [[FollowTheLeader was essentially the same show]] with the ''Pacific Princess'' [[RecycledInSpace swapped out for the titular "Supertrain"]], [[CoolTrain a super-broad gauge, nuclear-powered bullet train]] that could cross the United States from coast to coast in 36 hours.

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Hour-long comedy-drama series which debuted as a MidseasonReplacement in 1979 on Creator/{{NBC}}. An attempt at emulating Creator/{{ABC}}'s [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]]'s success with ''Series/TheLoveBoat'', ''Supertrain'' [[FollowTheLeader was essentially the same show]] with the ''Pacific Princess'' [[RecycledInSpace swapped out for the titular "Supertrain"]], [[CoolTrain a super-broad gauge, nuclear-powered bullet train]] that could cross the United States from coast to coast in 36 hours.
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However as of 29 January 2024 the full series can be found on Website/YouTube in a ''very'' poor quality upload.

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* JustTrainWrong: For starters, it was a broad-gauge rail that went for three thousand miles, it was BiggerOnTheInside by a long shot, and despite being billed as a bullet train, a quick calculation puts its speed as less than 80 MPH. That's just the tip of the iceberg...

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* JustTrainWrong: JustTrainWrong:
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For starters, it was a broad-gauge rail that went for three thousand miles, it was BiggerOnTheInside by a long shot, and despite being billed as a bullet train, a quick calculation puts its speed as less than 80 MPH. That's just the tip of the iceberg...
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* CoolTrain: The main reason for the show's huge budget.

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* CoolTrain: As mentioned above, the Supertrain is a humongous nuclear-powered [[Series/TheLoveBoat cruise-ship]]-on-land. The miniature model work became the main reason for the show's huge budget.



* ThrillerOnTheExpress: According to the poster in the page image.
%%* TrainTopBattle:

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* ThrillerOnTheExpress: According to [[TwoLinesNoWaiting Many of the poster in series' episodes]] had an example of this trope as either primary or secondary plots (especially after the page image.
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* TrainTopBattle: The PilotMovie climaxed with one of these. Obviously the fact it's on top of a nuclear-powered bullet train tried to exaggerate its seriousness.
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** As noted by Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the so-called "Supertrain" was much slower than the affordably-priced Amtrak Acela Express, French TGV and Japanese Shinkansen bullet trains.

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** As noted by Wiki/TheOtherWiki, Website/TheOtherWiki, the so-called "Supertrain" was much slower than the affordably-priced Amtrak Acela Express, French TGV and Japanese Shinkansen bullet trains.
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[[caption-width-right:350:It's [[DorkAge the new]] Creator/{{NBC}}!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:It's [[DorkAge [[AudienceAlienatingEra the new]] Creator/{{NBC}}!]]
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* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Noticeable in the opening intro in the gym. The (musclebound) man is working out with a dumbbell; the woman is ''polishing her nails''.

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