The second most successful cult TV show of the late 1970’s/early 1980’s, (beaten in the ratings only by ‘Neeh-Naw Neeh-Naw! Huuuuurgh! Rrraaaaarrrrgh! Here comes Norris, the Crime-Fighting Sasquatch!’) ‘HN! MP!’ was an adrenaline pumping tea-time action-fest that revolved around the adventures of a Merman Paramedic whose catchphrases included ‘Please excuse my fishy smell’ and ‘I am Merman, hear me swim!’
Every week Honky would face the triple dilemmas of a medical emergency, a crime-scene and a domestic crisis, all of which invariably placed him in mortal peril!
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| Wilma T. Bermcrack III |
By episode three he had been joined by a glamorous sidekick, Fishface McBoobs, a killer whale with human breasts (the result of a cruel genetic experiment carried out in the lab of Honky’s nemesis Professor Dresden Waugh-Cryme). McBoobs, played by Hollywood starlet and part-time hooker, Wilma T. Bermcrack the Third, became almost as popular as Honky himself and throughout the scorching summer of ’79, millions of teenagers could be seen wearing T-shirts emblazoned with her catchphrase ‘Just because I’m a killer whale with human breasts doesn’t mean I don’t have feelings, pal!’.
Taken off air in 1983 due to terrifiying circumstances connected to witchcraft, bestiality and multiple fatalities on set, the show lives on in the hearts of the fans.
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