Saturdays were just better when I was a kid.

@costanzafaust

Жыл бұрын

The best was when the D&D cartoon didn't get pre-empted by some sports event and Tiamat would show up to scare off Venger.

I cannot get over Billy's hair! Its a character in and of itself. I can't with this show🤣

I watched every Saturday. I miss being young.

@Ghostshadow714

3 ай бұрын

Yes! I hated waking up early for school, but loved waking up for Saturday morning TV and cereal. ❤

@stillaboveground2470

3 ай бұрын

@@Ghostshadow714 Me, too. My parents would ask, "Why can you get yourself up at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, but not on a school day?" If they asked me this now, I would tell them, "What's the difference between cartoons and school?" (I love cartoons, that's the difference!)

@goldenagenut

2 ай бұрын

You said it, Saturday mornings were the best!

@viny9666

Ай бұрын

being young is a right being old is a privilege

@goldenagenut

Ай бұрын

@@viny9666... yeah, my lower back feels ' privileged ' ! Lol

I loved this show so much as a kid. In fact on more than one occasion I used to stand in an open field and shout "Shazam!", in hopes of transforming into Captain Marvel. Cut me some slack, I was eight years old. Some might consider it a stretch to say these episodes still "hold up", but I still find them incredibly charming and occasionally even moving. I pity anyone who can't appreciate the charms of "Shazam!" and its sibling show "Isis". P.S. SHAZAM! Nope, it still doesn't work P.P.S The comics worked Mentor into existing continuity by revealing him as Billy's uncle Dudley.

@vincentharris110

Жыл бұрын

MF....STILL SAY SHAZAM 🙂

@costanzafaust

Жыл бұрын

I did the same thing, but I was also wearing Shazam! Undaroos

@colinp2238

Жыл бұрын

It's because you aren't in a campervan. Thankfully by the time these shows were on I had passed that stage and was trying to impress girls, not as successfully as I hoped 😞

@RobRoyR8R

Жыл бұрын

2:36 was worth watching this. Thats funny

@protorhinocerator142

Жыл бұрын

@@colinp2238 Transforming into the movie version of Shazam would be amazing. I'd settle for the TV/RV version of Captain Marvel. That wouldn't suck. I think pretty much every kid tried uttering that word in hopes of super powers. Everyone I knew wanted powers, a cool super suit, the cape, an awesome name, all that.

My grandmother was an actress in this show.

The replacement Shazam looks like the guy you call when your air conditioning stops working in the summer! Were they kidding?

@queenglamazona8789

Жыл бұрын

I call him Dad-Bod Shazam.

The voice of Hercules was provided by another hero: the late, great Adam West.

@StamFine

Жыл бұрын

Having looked into this, I'm not ready to admit this is an error. If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. But... Adam West's Wikipedia does page say he played Hercules in one episode, The Delinquent, where Herc has two lines. There's nothing on the IMDB page for the series or Adam West. So I checked the episode. To my ears, it sounds absolutely nothing like west but does sound like the same producers who did all the other voices. Again, it's possible they nabbed West for two lines, but I can't see Filmation paying West to come in an say two lines in one episode of a very low budget series. Hercules: "Use these words wisely, Billy. And good luck." These are also the same people who weren't wanting to pay three of the main cast members to voice their characters for Filmation's Star Trek series

@kali3665

Жыл бұрын

@@StamFine You're probably right. His voice is very clear in at least the one episode, but since the "Elders" are pretty much interchangeable - and speak so little - it's entirely possible Filmation's regular voice talent (Lou Scheimer and his kids) did most of the voices anyway. 😄 But it's possible that West was already at Filmation since he may have been doing the Batman cartoon series at that time, and maybe they just asked him to read a few wild lines for Shazam! so long as he was there anyway.

@RobRoyR8R

Жыл бұрын

2:36 was worth watching this. Thats funny

@roxannestorm2616

Жыл бұрын

​@@StamFine yes but Adam West and Burt Ward did a Filmation did voices in a cartoon series The New Adventures of Batman.

@cnote729

Жыл бұрын

That's good fact....cool

I was born in 74 so I was obviously too young to see the first airing and understand the Original Shazam tv series. However it wasn’t until I was a little older about 6 or 7 when this show Re-aired to fully understand and fall in love with comic book superheroes to becoming a full on toy & comic book collector in the 80s. This show, along with the Christopher Reeves Superman and the Adam West & Burt Ward Batman TV series was my after school go to’s. Great childhood memories.

The Big Red Cheesiness!

This was my favorite Saturday morning show when I was 8 in the mid 1970s. I’m sure it hasn’t aged well, but I do have fun memories of watching Shazam! I know my 8 year old self would’ve loved the Shazam! movie that came out several years ago. It was a fun movie to see.

@ThatGuy-cb3yv

Жыл бұрын

Right there with ya!

@cnote729

Жыл бұрын

Me too I use to break my neck to see it

Billy: why are you all cartoons? The elders: hush!

@mckshrmptn

4 ай бұрын

It’s called Imagination. Long before internet,,, use your brain …hush

So glad you brought up Jackson Bostwick's uncanny resemblance to a brainwashed and traumatised Jac Efron.

Never knew this existed. It’s marvellous: just marvellous.

@richa.s9912

Жыл бұрын

No it's " Captain Marvel ," LOL 😂

That looks great, must watch. For similar old man travelling in van with young dude, The Master aka Master Ninja is a great show, so stupid, a real fav of mine

The original comic book Captain Marvel was drawn to resemble actor Fred MacMurray ("My Three Sons").

Oh yeah, I remember this (and Isis) very well from the Saturday-morning lineup.

..."travelling around with an old dude called Mentor." - 😄 I loved this show back in the day, but that's hilarious

This was the Captain Marvel I remember.

Oh man, memories of my youth! I LOVED Shazam! All those wholesome valuable lessons didn't seem to stick for very long into my teenage years, but hey. The 70s were over, and we were all gonna die from nuclear winter before we turned 30 anyway.

@donaldnevgonhapniv3084

Жыл бұрын

You're not alone I liked it,at 6.

@protorhinocerator142

Жыл бұрын

Today all those wholesome life lessons would be considered "hate speech".

@TristouMTL

Жыл бұрын

@@protorhinocerator142 Hehehe... not really. They were so saccharinely sweet all about being kind to others and respecting your elders and not playing with matches or hanging out with the bad crowd.

This 7-year-old in 1974 strongly preferred Jackson. His photo on the oversized DC comic was pretty unique for DC at these time. At least until Christopher Reeve showed up in 1978

I hope Stam doesn't get demonetized for using words like "chicken" and "fink."

@kaykutcher2103

Жыл бұрын

KZread's clutching its pearls as I type.

@RobRoyR8R

Жыл бұрын

2:36 was worth watching this. Thats funny

@protorhinocerator142

Жыл бұрын

He's not some jive turkey. He's not afraid of peer pressure from The Man.

I was eleven when this show went off the air and I grew up in LA. It's great to see shots of the area back in the day. I always thought it was weird that the van had the lightning symbol on it when, like the video said, no one was supposed to know Captain Marvel's secret identity. Also, the guy was called Mentor. They couldn't come up with a better name? Gotta love that 70's hair!

"Take 23 of a hostage video.".Priceless.

Thank you. Always great to see Joanna Cameron, even for just a split second. Shazam was a fun series in such a simpler time.

@mallninja9805

Жыл бұрын

The music @19:45 suddenly got me all misty eyed.

@queenglamazona8789

Жыл бұрын

Joanna Cameron was So Stunning as Isis.

gem of a review, in stitches 😅

I loved this show when I was a kid.

@darkwolf-22

Жыл бұрын

I Still Do.

@robanybody3363

Жыл бұрын

@@darkwolf-22 the actor who played billy batson in this show did a Cameo in the Shazam movie....and so did the RV.

It's a wonder the people they encountered did not notice the lightning bolt in front of the RV to guess Captain Marvel's alter-ego.

It was a great kids show. Reminded me of the old black and white Superman show.

Bought the Blu-Ray release back in 2020 and It gave me something to do during quarantine. I ended up enjoying it, it's very cheesy and dated but it's fun.

@oliverbrownlow5615

Жыл бұрын

Of course *Shazam!* was cheesy. Captain Marvel is the Big Red Cheese!

@bruthamann5697

Жыл бұрын

I watched it on Tubi a few months ago. Watching as an adult kept me laughing but as I kid this was the stuff legends were made of. 😅 I had a blast watching!!!!

@justafanofnerdculture7602

Жыл бұрын

@@bruthamann5697 Exactly!

Oh how I longed for Saturday mornings to come just to watch SHAZAM and THE SHAZAM / ISIS HOUR . Oh my ... 😂😂😂 I'll be 56 tomorrow the 1st day of Spring and I still like going back down memory lane to when I was a child watching these oldies 🥰🥰🥰

My new catch phrase: "There's a guy out there on a boat" with a heavy Canadian accent.

I watched this show every single Saturday when I was growing up.

Young Billy traveling in a van with an old gentleman, Creepy. Young Billy in a cave with 6 Greek men, “ Even Creepier “. LOL 🤣🤣🤣

This must be where they got the idea for Ben 10. The old man and the boy who changes into a super hero travelling in an RV.

@MattMcIrvin

Жыл бұрын

Ben 10 definitely gets a lot from Captain Marvel/Shazam! and also "Dial H for Hero", another superhero comic where a teenage boy (later, a boy and a girl) had magic dials that would turn them into a random superhero, a different one every time.

when this was on this was the only live action super hero show that I have seen other than the 60s Batman which was in reruns by the time I saw it.

Good Saturday morning show. 70's style. Shazam !

I love how Billy and Captain Marvel are two different cultures😅

I'm sure if I was ten years old, I'd have loved it.

Wow. Thanks for reminding me of this old show I watched as a kid and totally forgot about.

Man, I loved this show in the day.

TV's Micheal Gray!!!

Glad you brought up the Archer connection.

“Mentor, shouldn’t I tell my parents where I am?”

@oliverbrownlow5615

Жыл бұрын

In the comics, Billy was an orphan.

@richa.s9912

Жыл бұрын

LOL 😂😂 lol

@richa.s9912

Жыл бұрын

@@oliverbrownlow5615 Yes but in the Comics Billy have several others kids living with Billy Batson and the 2018 movie Shazam has several kids living with Billy and Justice League Superhero cartoons series on t.v. has kids living with Billy and they are orphan as well.

@oliverbrownlow5615

Жыл бұрын

@@richa.s9912 I'm not talking about the reboot. In the Golden Age, and in the 1970's DC revival (before it changed to reflect the tv show for a while), Billy was an apparently homeless orphan before he met the Wizard Shazam, and after becoming Captain Marvel, got a job as a radio announcer, and seems to have become an emancipated minor, though this was never discussed.

@RobRoyR8R

Жыл бұрын

2:36 was worth watching this. Thats funny

Very funny video! This must be the only video on yt that talks about isis so much lol.

I couldn't wait till Saturday mornings to watch this when it was The Shazam/Almighty Isis Hour; then after, change channels to find old 1950s black n white Superman episodes with George Reeves. Prime time was all about The Six Million Dollar Man. Super Friends started up in '75 which was like televised heroin, but slightly better. I do related to Billy I never noticed that Shazam swapped out actors. I must've already been conditioned for the multiverse. We were the middle children between tech booms and show innovations and options. It really was not odd then to switch between new color 70s content and 50s bygone era television. While our parents dressed with one foot in the 60s and the other in Shaft. The 70s were weird ....

I loved this show growing up! This is what I wish we could go back to! I was 7yrs old when this came out & I could not wait to watch it on the weekends! I wish Isis had continued too! I loved the original Cpt Marvel!

Loved this show as a kid. The big debate wasn't Ginger or Marianne, but Isis or Wonder Woman. Isis was a babe.

The three Saturday morning live-action shows I remember watching were "Shazam", Ark II" and "Run, Joe, Run".

@darkwolf-22

Жыл бұрын

What about the Monster Squad? No relation to the Movie of the Same Name.

@queenglamazona8789

Жыл бұрын

That was a weird Show. It Starrred Fred Grandy(Gopher from the Love Boat) as an Amateur Sleuth, Who Teamed Up with Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolfman(now Good Guys) in order to Fight Super-Criminals. I remember Julie Newmar appeared in at least one episode as a Witch.

He wore that same shirt all the time because that's what he wore in the comics. Also it saved money on costumes! Same reason. George Reeves wore the same exact suit as Clark Kent in the 50s Superman series. Shazam probably had a budget of $24.95 per episode!

@chamboyette853

Ай бұрын

No it was a lot more than that. Almost $100.

I remember watching this on Saturday mornings, around 1980 / 81 as a kid (along with the 1950s SUPERMAN TV show). Seeing it now, it looks so cheap! That cheesy cartoon scene with the various Gods rings a bell. You think that old bastard had impure thoughts about that handsome young man he was travelling with? 🤣

@ACLTony

7 ай бұрын

Cyrusq5999 - Doubtful that Les had "pedo" thoughts. Les Tremayne (Mentor) was a sought-after radio voice, movie, and tv actor back in the 1940's-60's era. Also did a lot of voice-over work. He was in his retirement phase when he was asked to star in this series. He was married (more than once) and often helped out at local colleges with young people aspiring to become actors. If you're into old sci-fi movies, you'll hear Les's distinct voice in the opening credits of the original "King Kong vs Godzilla".

In the United States, radio frequencies used for broadcasting TV were considered a public asset, and for broadcasting companies to get permission to use those frequencies, they had to promise to devote a certain amount of their time to programming that served some public good. That’s why you find a lot of TV shows with moral messages on Saturday mornings, when nobody was really watching except little kids. Like how every episode of G.I. Joe ended with a moral message where “knowing is half the battle.” The shows were pandering to two audiences, little children and the FCC, so the broadcasters could get away with sex and violence in prime time.

@PlumbPitiful

Жыл бұрын

That used to be the rule for the 7-8pm hour each evening as well. Networks gave up that time (probably by force!) so local stations could air educational and community programming. Somewhere along the way however it devolved into being used for game shows and the People's Court.

One of the cast members from the 1941 Republic serial made a guest appearance in an episode,that was Frank Coughlan, Jr.

There was an on-set injury. I know this for a fact, as my mom worked at the UCLA medical center in the plastic surgery reconstruction and burn unit as one of his nurses. She noticed that I had been watching the show, and she said of the actor--"We treated him. It was awful, what happened to him. He was a very nice person." If I recall correctly, he was hit in the face with a firework or a bullet blank. I think I recall her saying that there was damage around one of his eyes...and to a part of his face? She said that it was a shame, as he was an incredibly handsome man. She could relate to him closely, as she was a model a few years prior...and a SAG actress. She still holds her SAG card today. My mother grew up a fan of "Captain Marvel" comic books, yet another reason for her interest. The character is now called "Shazam" due to a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the company that owned "Superman"--as I recall. Captain Marvel and the Marvel family had been more popular than Superman at the time. Marvel Comics later came along, and took the name Captain Marvel and created a knock-off character--hence the name change to Shazam.

I loved the Shazam! / Isis Hour when I was a kid! It's hokey and cheesy by today's standards but in the 70s, it was pure gold!

I'm 54 and love rewatching SHAZAM/ISIS episodes, walk down memory lane, going to go see SHAZAM 2 tomorrow at theater 😅😊.

The spinning title of Norm Prescott and Lou Scheimer was to give equal credit/equal billing. This way no name was listed above the other. This came from an awesome book that Lou Scheimer wrote about his company Filmation.

I recently worked my way through this series. Mostly for nostalgia reason i was entertained. I tried to get my teenage daughter to watch it with me but she couldn't get past the "bad acting, pacing, and special effects" the best thing about this rewatch is that in my best Solomon voice i will give her some wisdom of the elders. Like make sure there is toilet paper before you poop.

I was more of a fan of Bigfoot and Wildboy and The Secrets of Isis, but Shazam was fun

@queenglamazona8789

Жыл бұрын

BI-YAAAA-BAAAHH !!!!!

OMG! That narration was HILARIOUS!

loved it as a kid. the actor change confused me, but man i loved me some Isis. awww, i remember the glass disc episode, only one i remember. wonder if this is the first appearance of the famous hollywood winnebago

It used to drive me nuts that these shows didn't feature comic book villains see also Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk

@PlumbPitiful

Жыл бұрын

How exactly would they have done the Green Goblin's glider or Doc Ock's arms? There was no CGI back then and to do it practically (if it was even possible) would have been far too expensive for a tv budget.

@michaelanderson7288

Жыл бұрын

Who is in Captain Marvel (Shazam)'s rogues gallery, anyway (besides Black Adam)?

@queenglamazona8789

Жыл бұрын

​I remember Doctor Sivanna, Mister Mind, and Black Adam. He had his own Set of Villians.

Wow,...your video brings back some LONG forgotten memories! THANKS for digging them out and dusting them off! Great job on this!

Yessssssss the producer revolving credits also worried me as a kid. :)

It was a fun show to watch when I was very little and it did its jobs. Teaching kids to be good.

Years ago, Jackson Bostwick was my Theatre professor in college. He directed several productions and offered his students the chance to explore acting. It was a great experience.

@ddsmitty1

11 ай бұрын

That’s really cool. Did you know at the time that he played Captain Marvel? Did he ever talk about the experience in class?

I went out of my way to try to catch this on TV, and couldn’t understand why I would rarely see it. I didn’t realize that by the time I was old enough to have a favorite television show, Shazam was already off the air, and all I was seeing was reruns.

Westwind was another great Saturday morning show. I had such a crush on Kimberly Beck.

Filmation? I was wondering why it was reminding me so much of He-Man. Isis even looks unusually similar to She-Ra 🤔

2:45. Dude, Thumbs up for that joke alone!

I use to watch this fairly regularly each week (though didn't stick around after they replaced the first Cap other than to see Isis) and was young enough not to be insulted by the Sunday School-like lectures. Seeing a live-action (and in color) was a thrill since I read every Captain Marvel comic I could get my hands on. Shame though it wasn't as enjoyable as George Reeves' Superman reruns we also were watching every week. Maybe if they'd mixed it up more with some other Earth-S hero and villain guest stars? Or made some higher stakes episodes? Still, it's a nice piece of my childhood that still makes me smile. So thanks for the video.

This point in history was pretty cool. There was Shazam! during the day, Wonder Woman in the afternoon, and both Captain America and The Incredible Hulk during the evening. Add in the Super Friends cartoon with reruns of Batman plus Spider-Man (as a featured part of The Electric Company), and the late 1970s were fun for us Gen-X kids.

@ewarrior9776

Жыл бұрын

Had all of those plus B&W reruns of Superman.

@amberlopez7477

Жыл бұрын

The Secrets of Isis

@paulschewene7850

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget live-action version of "The Amazing Spiderman" in the prime-time hours, too... with Nicholas Hammond playing "Peter Parker/Spiderman".

Great video; thanks for that blast of nostalgia! :) PS: Crazy Janeway jokes are always welcome! ;)

Fond memories!

I was 10 years old when this show first aired. Initially, I despised but learned to like despite preaching and morality lesson. Today, as a 59 year old man, I can watch and get kick out of it. For me, pleasant memories of my youth.

20:46 - superpowers include being able to swap guitars mid-strum

"Jackson Bostwick was like a Redwood"... "'Wood' for the standard of his acting", got a good laugh out of me on that one! 🤣

Captain Marvel was So Handsome. I used to watch the Show only for him.

I remember Les Tremayne(Mentor) as a soldier in War Of The Worlds 20 years earlier. Believe it or not he's about Tom Cruise's age in Shazam

@babytoshiro7014

Жыл бұрын

Tom Cruise age??? Wow 😆

@darkwolf-22

Жыл бұрын

He was also in the Movie-The Angry Red Planet. Definitely worth checking out.

@RobRoyR8R

Жыл бұрын

2:36 was worth watching this. Thats funny

Shazam, Isis, & Star Trek the Animated series are the best guilty pleasures to watch👍

@queenglamazona8789

Жыл бұрын

I remember the Star Trek Cartoon had the Same Actors from the TV Show doing the Voices.

We need need more shows like this to teach these lessons

@darkwolf-22

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. All Kid's Shows do today is Teach Children to be Disrespectful.

The guy playing SHAZAM could be Zac Efrons father!

Wow, that was my favorite live animated show when I was a little boy Saturday mornings were the best💕💯😌

I LOVED this show and still do for the 70s nostalgia! (Mostly the JACKSON BOSTWICK episodes, 'natch!)

@mikevivian3648

Жыл бұрын

absolutely! One of my fondest memories is watching this show! Still one of my favorite shows!

This was a great show. I missed it.

To think Michael Gray who played Billy Batson on this show had previously appeared as himself and as a surfer in the Hawai'ian themed Cartoon of Goober and The Ghost Chasers.

I do remember this from my youth, but can now see what you mean about the cheese.... He's a great character that is often hard to pin down the right balance of the "Child in a Grown Up Body" (Not like that).... I think the best version of Captain Marvel was in "Justice League Unlimited"... But given you're going down this route... are we going to see "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl" any time soon?

@MegaMagicdog

Жыл бұрын

Young Justice's version of the character was pretty good too!

@queenglamazona8789

Жыл бұрын

I loved Electra Woman & Dyna Girl.

LOVED this show as a kid!!! There was also Isis on Saturday mornings.

I actually remember this series. I am old.

One episode of the series featured a cameo by the first Billy Batson, Frank Coughlin, who played the character in the Republic serial, The Adv of Captain Marvel. Coughlin was retired, as an actor, but worked as a volunteer at a zoo, where they were filming. He went to the producers and introduced himself and they came up with a scene for him, in the episode.

I remember this series from my childhood. It was corny way back then for us Aussie kids.

Him just saying shazam is iconic. I never missed an episode.

I just bought the ISIS dvds a few days ago. There are few sets, thus it cost me $94. Granted, it was US-Canada region 1.

Leisure suits were self washing in the 70's. It was surely its own character on Shazam. Cheesy, goofy, still the Shazam and Isis show was must watch TV on a Saturday morning.

Holy phuckin sh*t, I remember this show. LOL 😂😂😂

Michael Gray voiced himself in a couple of episodes of Archer. He also appeared in an episode of Comic Book Men. Danny Bonaduce appeared in an episode of Shazam.

@protorhinocerator142

Жыл бұрын

4:20 Danny Bonaduce. Interesting how the time lined up perfectly to make that number happened. As for Michael Gray, he has a bit part in the new Shazam movie. I had to verify that was him, but he's definitely there. He's even wearing the same red and yellow shirt. He's a normal civilian bystander but he does have 4 seconds of dialogue. I can't remember what he said. Nothing of major importance. Pretty much "Hey it's me from that show, but also you need to save the city or something." I really don't remember.

@iwasanangryyoungman

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@protorhinocerator142 yup that was him - he even refers to Zachary Levi's character as "Captain Marvel" (thankfully, Marvel Comics didn't threaten to sue) Holy Lynda Carter, Batman!!!

@protorhinocerator142

Жыл бұрын

@@iwasanangryyoungman Oh, I didn't catch that. Good ear.

The rotating credits was a result of clashing egos over who was going to have their producer credit listed first. The first name tends to make people think you are the main producer while alny afterwards are seen as secondary (lesser) in the heirarchy ig hollywood. The compromise on the rotating style meant they both got top billing with Lou at first and Norm finishing the rotation sequence. Years later Lou figured out why Norm agreed easily to let Lou's name be first, you see Norm's name on top as the last (most rememorable) bit of the credit.

This sarcastic review of this 70s show devalues how much it meant to the kids of the era. Show's like Shazam, Isis, and Fat Albert were an extension of shows like Sesame Street, Electric Company, Zoom, and Vegetable Soup and it was nice to have television shows that focused on morality as opposed to shows like The Simpsons and Beavis and Butthead that took a dump on the idea that television could help instill values in kids. Yes, the shows may have been a bit cheesy, but kids didn't need content so heavy that forced us to grow up before they were mature enough to handle it. Most of us who grew up during those times enjoyed The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, A Family Affair, My 3 Sons, etc. because they were entertaining and devoid of cynical adult critics.

I loved the show when I was eight or nine. It wasn't really meant for anyone much older 🙂

I was born in 1971 and saw this as a very young kid. It might have been a year or two later here in Australia. I enjoyed it at the time but looking back, mentor has a creepy as hell vibe.

One of the best shows of the 70s (together with Irwin Allen's Captain Nemo, Space 1999 and another Filmation gem Ark II). I was a kid of the 70s so I was as daggy as some of the Shazam! kid guest stars - with the same long hair! This series had RED all over the place (cloths, the van was partly red, etc) and I love red.