From: smmcafee@mtu.edu (Sean McAfee)
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Subject: Re: Saturday morning (Was :Galaxy Trio/BirdMan)
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:39:30 GMT
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In article <gf01D7q00VpaRR3KZq@andrew.cmu.edu> "Kevin J. Chen" <kc2w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Michael Denney writes:
>>Ah memories!  Does anybody remember "The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam"?

>Sigh.  I remember this one, too.  I mostly skipped over the teenage
>superhero parts, but the Marvel family (complete with Uncle) stuff was
>way entertaining.

Last summer I found a tape containing three episodes of this show at a local
video rental place.  The two episodes with only the Marvel Family were
passable; the one with the Hero High gang was abysmal--it had one of the
stupidest plots I've ever seen.  To summarize:  A lion-headed alien called
Star Master was trying to melt the polar ice cap; he froze Mary and Capt.
Marver Jr. in a block of ice (yes, just ordinary ice); Capt. Marvel flew up
to S.M.'s ship; instead of demolishing the ship, C.M. rescues Mary and
Junior so they can help him fly a huge telescope mirror to the North Pole to
reflect S.M.'s ray.  What the hell was he thinking?

Runner-up for stupidest part of the plot was when one of the Hero High kids,
Weather Man, reflected a Star Master-generated ray with a mini-tornado.
Sheesh.  Also, I must admit my enjoyment of all three episodes was further
diminished when I recognized Captain Marvel Jr.'s voice as that which would
later belong to Raphael of TMNT fame.

>Much, much later, someone also did a solo Thing show, although it
>wasn't Ben Grimm.  It was some doofy kid with a magic ring that turned
>him into The Thing by attracting all the rocks in the immediate
>vicinity.  Doof-o-rama.

Yup.  "Thing Ring, do your thing!"  Geez.

>Other Saturday morning-ness:

>Hanna-Barbera's Laff-O-lympics:  Yeah, cheesy, but it was fun to see
>all of my favorite characters stuffed into a single cartoon.  Of
>course, this was the predecessor to the later Yogi's Space Race.

Which was in turn the predecessor of the show "The Galaxy Goof-Ups".  I saw
this on Nickelodeon last summer; it was *painfully* stupid (and this from a
guy who laughed his ass off at "Plan Nine from Outer Space"!).

>Superfriends: Global Guardians:  The final incarnation of the show,
>this time adding Cyborg.

Come again?  The latest (and greatest) incarnation of the Justice League of
America I remember had Firestorm as the new member.  Unfortunately, this
show aired at the tail end of a phase I went through in which I thought I
was above watching cartoons, so I only remember a few episodes.  I thought
it was lame at first (in the first episode I saw, Firestorm turned Lex
Luthor's helicopter into a wooden rowboat), but I soon saw what an excellent
series it was--Superman was less omnipotent, for example.

Come to think of it, I believe the latest Superman series aired at about the
same time.  Why the hell did it get canned so fast?  It was GREAT!  Anyone
know if episodes are available on tape anywhere?

>Spiderman and His Amazing Friends / The Incredible Hulk:  I miss these
>a lot; most of them were done really well (I'm especially fond of
>episodes where other superheroes appear, such as either of the two
>X-Men episodes, or the episode where The Chameleon traps Spiderman and
>six other superheroes on an island and picks them off one by one).

I remember that one!  I was really hoping Doctor Strange would pull off some
great magic stunts, but all he did was melt the bars of a cage with his
amulet.  Drag.

>Something with the Happy Days characters and a time machine.  Don't
>ask me how I remember this one.

Ah, the one with "a future chick name o' Cupcake".  I practically worshipped
this show when I was young, but I happened to catch it again on USA a year
or so ago, and it was bad.  REALLY bad.

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