Misfits of Science,” at 7 p.m. Friday on NBC-Ch. 5, is about a collection of superhumans who, thwarted in their work at a research laboratory, band together to turn back a power-hungry coterie ...

Idon’t say this about just any TV characters, but in the case of the youthful superheroes of NBC’s new Misfits of Science series, I’m compelled. They look Marvel-ous. They look so Marvel-ous ...

The second-dumbest series Brandon Tartikoff put on NBC during “the quality network” era of the ’80s was a short-lived science fantasy called Misfits of Science. (Manimal was the unassailable ...