The Flash (Season 1)

The Flash (1990) — watch online on iFILM. This CBS superhero series stars John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen, a police crime-scene scientist who survives a freak lab accident — lightning strike, chemical bath — and wakes up able to outrun a bullet.

Barry teams with scientist Tina McGee (Amanda Pays) to harness his speed, then suits up in a friction-resistant costume after a gang kills his brother, a fellow cop. The show packed in a rogue's gallery straight from the DC comics, including Mark Hamill's manic Trickster. It was one of the earliest serious attempts to bring a DC superhero to weekly television — years before the genre exploded on both big and small screens.

Stream every episode of The Flash (1990) online on iFILM — the original scarlet speedster, before the CW era made him a household name.