Visionary TV producer and rapper Tony Tanhyde talks and raps about a TV show which featured not-so special effects and a host of guest stars (many of whom have since legally prevented us from using their names) The Martian Cowboys sank without trace after a little over 2 seasons only to appear years later on a Mexican cable TV channel where it found a new audience and gained cult status. So much so that it became affectionately known as a ‘Handful of Cents’ They said science fiction and westerns were two genres that could never mix. We proved them wrong.