Entertainment · TV & Streaming · 2 hrs ago
Lee Majors Played a Mysterious Assassin in Fox’s 2010 Human Target
Fox brought DC character Human Target to TV in 2010 with Mark Valley playing Christopher Chance.
The character protects people from assassination, though this version works as a bodyguard and takes on identities that keep him close to his clients.
Chance was trained by a figure known as The Old Man, but he broke with his mentor after refusing to kill a target.
In the first-season finale, Lee Majors played a mysterious man named Christopher Chance.
Valley’s character later borrowed that name, which he had not used before.
The show received very poor reviews, continuing a troubled TV history for the character after an earlier, short-lived 1992 series.
The Fox series was canceled, and its first season remains notable for Majors’s role in Chance’s backstory.
Lee Majors played a mysterious man who lends his name to Christopher Chance in the first-season finale of Fox’s 2010 series Human Target.
The series starred Mark Valley as Chance, a former assassin who worked as a private contractor providing protection and security.
In the show’s backstory, Chance refused to kill Katherine Walters, breaking with his mentor, The Old Man.
The character Christopher Chance first appeared in DC Comics in 1972, while an earlier Human Target appeared in Detective Comics in 1953.
Fox’s series was a second television adaptation of Christopher Chance, following a short-lived ABC show in 1992.
- Who
- Lee Majors played a mysterious man in the series’ first-season finale. Mark Valley played Christopher Chance.
- What
- Majors’s character lent his name to Chance.
- When
- The Fox series debuted in 2010; Majors appeared in its first-season finale. The exact episode date is not stated.
- Where
- On Fox’s television series Human Target.
- Why
- Chance borrowed the name Christopher Chance from Majors’s mysterious character. The sources do not state why Majors was cast.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Fred Venable, the first character to use the Human Target name, appeared in Detective Comics #201.
Christopher Chance first appeared in Action Comics #419.
ABC aired a Human Target series starring Rick Springfield as Christopher Chance; it lasted seven episodes.
Fox debuted its Human Target series, with Mark Valley as Christopher Chance.
Lee Majors appeared as a mysterious man whose name Chance later borrowed.
- Fox series debut
- 2010
- Christopher Chance actor
- Mark Valley
- Lee Majors’s role
- Mysterious man in the first-season finale
- Earlier TV adaptation
- ABC series starring Rick Springfield, 1992
- First Human Target appearance
- Detective Comics #201, November 1953
What people are saying
deliberately exposed himself to others