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At first, I was happy just to have discovered this 1982 ad in which a young Jack Black sells Pit Fall for the Atari 2600. But then a friend turned me on to the cult phenomenon that is Black’s 1999 unaired TV pilot, Heat Vision and Jack. Black plays Jack Austin, a renegade astronaut who has become the smartest man on Earth. His sidekick is a motorcycle, Heat Vision, voiced by Owen Wilson. Adding to the star power of this Knight Rider satire was Ben Stiller, who directed the pilot.
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