The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

## Followed by

Club Mario

**The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!** is an American-Canadian children's live-action/animated television series made by DiC Entertainment which is based on the video games *Super Mario Bros.*, *Super Mario Bros. 2* and *The Legend of Zelda*, all made by the company Nintendo. The show aired from September 4, 1989-December 1, 1989.

## Segments

### Live-action

The live-action segments are short skits that open and close each episode of the show. The original segments focus on Mario and Luigi, played by former wrestler Lou Albano and actor Danny Wells respectively as they go about their daily lives in their basement plumbing shop in Brooklyn, New York, where in each segment they would be joined by a guest star, typically a celebrity at the time, like Nicole Eggert or Shabba Doo. In 1990, these live-action segments were replaced with entirely new ones in a new form of the show called *Club Mario*, replacing Mario and Luigi with two Mario-obsessed teenagers called Tommy Treehugger and Co-MC, played by Chris Coombs and Michael Rawlins respectively.

## Production

DiC CEO Andy Heyward spent about a year about trying to convince Nintendo to license the characters. In a interview with Heyward, he said "the *Super Mario Bros* is such a unique property, we had to do it in a different way. We want to do a cartoon but also do a show that extended beyond the cartoon."

In February 1989, the show was announced to be released in September 1989.

## Broadcast History

* Super Mario Bros.
* The Legend of Zelda

**Note**: In some foreign countries outside the United States originally aired the episodes on various programs. See List of foreign programs featuring The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! for the list of programs.

### United States

* Syndication
* Family Channel
* AFN Family [*citation needed*]

### Belarus

* СТВ+REN TV
* Jetix [*citation needed*]

### Brazil

* Rede Banderiantes [*citation needed*]
* RBTV [*citation needed*]
* SBT

### Canada

* YTV [*citation needed*]
* ICI Radio-Canada Télé [*citation needed*]
* Télé-Québec [*citation needed*]

### Chile

* etc TV [*citation needed*]
* TATETI [*citation needed*]

### Germany

* RTL [*citation needed*]
* RTL2 [*citation needed*]
* Fox Kids [*citation needed*]
* TV.NRW [*citation needed*]

### Indonesia

* RCTI [*citation needed*]
* Cartoon Network

### Israel

* ערוץ שתיים
* ערוץ 6
* Junior [*citation needed*]

### Italy

* Canale 5 [*citation needed*]
* Italia 1 [*citation needed*]
* Fox Kids [*citation needed*]

### Latin America

* Canal 5 [*citation needed*]
* TaTeTi [*citation needed*]
* Tacho Pistacho [*citation needed*]
* Fox Kids [*citation needed*]

### Poland

* Polsat [*citation needed*]
* Polsat 2 [*citation needed*]
* TV4 [*citation needed*]
* TOP KIDS [*citation needed*]
* NTL Radomsko [*citation needed*]
* TVR [*citation needed*]

### South Korea

* KBS [*citation needed*]
* SBS [*citation needed*]
* KBS2 [*citation needed*]

### Sweden

* TV3 [*citation needed*]
* M-Net (as part of K-T.V. block) [*citation needed*]
* Fox Kids

### United Kingdom

* GMTV
* The Children's Channel [*citation needed*]
* CITV [*citation needed*]
* Fox Kids

### Ukraine

* СіТі [*citation needed*]
* TET [*citation needed*]

**Note**: In some foreign countries outside the United States originally aired the episodes on various programs. See List of foreign programs featuring The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! for the list of programs.

### Germany

* RTL [*citation needed*]
* Fox Kids [*citation needed*]

### Mexico

* Canal 5 [*citation needed*]
* Televen [*citation needed*]

### South Korea

* SBS [*citation needed*]
* Tooniverse

### United Kingdom

* CITV [*citation needed*]
* Jetix [*citation needed*]

## Streaming History

* Super Mario Bros.
* The Legend of Zelda

### United States

* Amazon Prime Video
* Amazon Freevee
* Apple TV
* ConTV
* FilmRise
* FilmRise Family
* Fawsome
* Hoopla
* Hulu
* HappyKids
* Jaroo
* Kidoodle TV
* Netflix
* NCircle TV
* The Roku Channel
* Tubi
* Vudu
* Yahooligans! TV
* YouTube

### Angola, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Behrain, Belarus, Bermuda

* Pluto TV
* YouTube

### Germany

* Amazon Prime Video
* YouTube

### United Kingdom

* Amazon Prime Video
* Apple TV
* Netflix
* Pluto TV
* The Roku Channel
* YouTube

### United States

* Amazon Prime Video
* Amazon Freevee
* Apple TV
* ConTV
* Hulu
* Jaroo
* Kidoodle TV
* NCircle TV
* Tubi
* The Roku Channel
* Vudu
* Yahooligans! TV
* YouTube

### Germany

* Amazon Prime Video
* YouTube

## Trivia

* This is the first Super Mario Bros. cartoon, as well the first one to be created by DiC.
* Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool are the only characters to appear in every episode.
* This is the only DiC Mario show not to feature the Koopalings which makes sense since the show is based on the original Super Mario Bros. game and Super Mario Bros. 2 as well as the fact that Super Mario Bros. 3 was not released outside of Japan until the early 1990s.
* There was a View-master three-reel set based on the show (but labeled as Super Mario Bros. 2). The ''A" reel showed various scenes from the live-action segments, while the ''B'', and "C" reels show scenes from the first episode but are redrawn with more accurate designs. and even have Wart (who is the main antagonist of Super Mario Bros. 2/Doki Doki Panic) instead of King Koopa (despite the pictures descriptions saying it's King Koopa instead of Wart). This suggests that the scenes in the ''B'', and ''C'' reels are actually concept art, and Wart was originally going to appear in the show.

## References

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