Shazam! or "Curse You, Lou Schiemer!"
I watched far too much TV as a kid.
YouTube apparently has great swathes of my childhood, and boy has it aged poorly.
Shazam & Isis! Billy Batson has the Worst. Hair. Ever. Also it cracks me up that his mentor's name is apparently "Mentor". And I think 12 years old armed with camera phones could come up with better flying effects.
Isis however, is still kind of hot. What? Stop looking at me!
Later it became all about the franchises of this company.
They did some live action stuff: Space Academy and Jason of Star Command, which I believe both existed in the same narrative universe, one was a spinoff of the other I think.
And then they did a ton of animation. Robots, magic swords, vehicles with weaponry all over the place, people that turned into vehicles, vehicles that turned into people, people who turned into weapons, it was all good.
(I should say for the record, that even as a kid/early teen I knew good and well these things existed to sell toys, we all did. Heck, as soon as a new character or vehicle was introduced in the show me and my friends thought "Oh hey, I wonder if the toy version is any good?")
Of course, I had to back a dark horse. See, Filmation had He-Man, and Thundercats, both hugely popular, sure.
But after Thundercats took off, they figured "Hey, let's do Thundercats, but with a bird theme!"
Thus Silverhawks. It had nearly as good a theme song as Thundercats, plus I loved the face visor thing, and they all had lasers, and in general the show pushed all my nascent buttons (come on, it had a lady with super strength, covered in space armer, with built-in lasers. Love.), and I lliked the show even more than Thundercats. But it wasn't nearly as popular.
But Filmation went to the well again, and did Thundercats with fish! Tigersharks! And it was totally a failure, Youtube doesn't even have a good copy of the opening. It died with all the obscurity it deserved.
I could go on and on. Pole Position. MASK. Centurions (Good lord, the pilot guy was named Ace McCloud. The ground guy was Jake Rockwell. The sea guy was Max Ray. It's just so ...awesome! And by awesome I mean terrible. And by terrible I mean god I loved these crappy, crappy shows. My capacity to consume total cheese? Bottomless.
And though we've talked about it before, it always remains a favorite, so, for Flos_Campi.
YouTube apparently has great swathes of my childhood, and boy has it aged poorly.
Shazam & Isis! Billy Batson has the Worst. Hair. Ever. Also it cracks me up that his mentor's name is apparently "Mentor". And I think 12 years old armed with camera phones could come up with better flying effects.
Isis however, is still kind of hot. What? Stop looking at me!
Later it became all about the franchises of this company.
They did some live action stuff: Space Academy and Jason of Star Command, which I believe both existed in the same narrative universe, one was a spinoff of the other I think.
And then they did a ton of animation. Robots, magic swords, vehicles with weaponry all over the place, people that turned into vehicles, vehicles that turned into people, people who turned into weapons, it was all good.
(I should say for the record, that even as a kid/early teen I knew good and well these things existed to sell toys, we all did. Heck, as soon as a new character or vehicle was introduced in the show me and my friends thought "Oh hey, I wonder if the toy version is any good?")
Of course, I had to back a dark horse. See, Filmation had He-Man, and Thundercats, both hugely popular, sure.
But after Thundercats took off, they figured "Hey, let's do Thundercats, but with a bird theme!"
Thus Silverhawks. It had nearly as good a theme song as Thundercats, plus I loved the face visor thing, and they all had lasers, and in general the show pushed all my nascent buttons (come on, it had a lady with super strength, covered in space armer, with built-in lasers. Love.), and I lliked the show even more than Thundercats. But it wasn't nearly as popular.
But Filmation went to the well again, and did Thundercats with fish! Tigersharks! And it was totally a failure, Youtube doesn't even have a good copy of the opening. It died with all the obscurity it deserved.
I could go on and on. Pole Position. MASK. Centurions (Good lord, the pilot guy was named Ace McCloud. The ground guy was Jake Rockwell. The sea guy was Max Ray. It's just so ...awesome! And by awesome I mean terrible. And by terrible I mean god I loved these crappy, crappy shows. My capacity to consume total cheese? Bottomless.
And though we've talked about it before, it always remains a favorite, so, for Flos_Campi.