The Flash has been a big hit for The CW since Grant Gustin pulled on Barry Allen's uniform in 2014 but sadly the 1990 version of The Flash wasn't so commercially successful.
Although it amassed plenty of fans, the 90s interpretation of The Flash, which starred John Wesley Shipp as the super-fast hero, only ran for one season before network CBS cancelled it.
But the show wasn't always conceived as a Flash stand-alone show, because it actually started life as a Justice League-style ensemble piece.
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Danny Bilson, who was one of the show's developers, spoke to Den of Geek to celebrate its 30th anniversary and revealed that he and co-developer Paul De Meo initially wrote a feature length pilot script for a series called Unlimited Powers.
Unlimited Powers did feature Barry Alan / The Flash as a major character but the plan was for him to be joined by several other DC Comics characters including Green Arrow, Doctor Occult, Blok, Wally West and even Oliver Queen's teenage daughter.
The team set-up wasn't the only difference either, because The Flash was at first written not as a young man getting to grips with his powers but as a 40-something Barry who had just been released from prison after a 15-year stretch into a world where superheroes are outlawed.
Ultimate Powers was turned down by CBS, despite it being one of Bilson's "favourite scripts that we wrote", because it was considered too dark, featuring a dystopian world which was secretly ruled by supervillains.
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But with the success of darker superhero stories in the modern world, including Amazon Prime Video's The Boys, it seems that the creators were onto something back when the 90s were beginning.
"One of the things that is proven true over time is that... The stuff that we couldn't get done, somebody did it later," Bilson said. "There was this weird thing where we were always a little bit too far ahead of the curve or something, but it is what it is. It was what it was."
Soon after Unlimited Powers was turned down work began on The Flash and it became the solo show fans know and love.
The series may have only run for one season but many of its lead actors have gone on to appear in The CW's The Flash, with the DC crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths directly acknowldging the 90s series as part of DC canon.
The Flash airs on The CW in the US. Sky One and NOW TV air the show in the UK.
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