"Legends of the Super-Heroes" TV Show!

[Ronnigon]

Is anyone in here aware of an old live-action TV show done in 1979 by Hanna-Barbera, called "Legends of the Super-Heroes"?

It featured several of the major DC superheroes such as Green Lantern, Hawkman, and the Flash...

...and apparently, it was a laughable train wreck of a show. Here's a commemorative webpage with actual video stills:

http://moviepoopshoot.com/comics101/117.html

Enjoy.

[David O Burcham]

I thought it was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid. I got a bootleg a few years ago at DragonCon (along with the CBS "Justice League" pilot) and thought it was even better. How can anyone not love Earnest T. Bass as Dr. Sivana?

[marshal99]

It may be cheesy but it was pretty cool when it aired. A real 70s classic. I can still remember watching it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/marshal99/9fc79494.jpg

[marshal99]

It was cheese but it was great cheese. How can anyone not love this when it first aired ? It was a live action superfriends .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/marshal99/ef5399a0.jpg

[Conn Seanery]

Sweet sassy molassey, I thought i'd dreamed up this show out of nowhere, wrote it off as some kind of twisted childhood memory that didn't exist. My new life starts today!

Well, not really, but damn! I can't believe I remember this show again.

[Ryan K]

Damn. I want this on DVD now.

And Birds of Prey too. I'm a glutton for punishment.

[Phil Clark]

I want it on DVD too.

By the way... people say Marvel had some lousy shows in the 70's and 80's yet this one doesn't get slammed very much. I guess because it didn't take itself too seriously.

[Ronnigon]

You people love me for this. I can feel your love. :D

[Athena Bast]

Seeing that picture of the Atom sitting on the books makes me think I watched this in a twisted rerun one day.

I'm pretty sure I did see an ep or two by accident and my brain just wanted to block it out.

Now I wanna see this for how bad it was.

[Ronnigon]

I've been looking more and more at this show. Apparently, it was really funny in places.

They created several ridiculous characters to create a "Monty Python-esque" feel to the show. Two of the characters are "Ghetto Man" and "Hawkman's Mother".

At one point in the show, Ghetto Man remarks:

"The NAACP says you guys have got to integrate and the "Green" Lantern doesn't count!"

That, to me, is funny, because it inserts petty, politicized ranting into even the most otherwise noble of places.

Also, there is a place where Hawkman's mother just nags and whines at him like crazy. She complains that the sons of other mothers brag that their sons became doctors and lawyers, but that her son became a "Hawkman". She also complains that it's too bad that he didn't become a carrier pigeon, because "he never visits".

*LOL* :D That's good, ridiculous stuff. I'm really having fun with this.

[drwho]

Why is it that all these new comic cartoons have to have the weirdest animation? Really hate the look of legion. They trying to be Picasso or something?

[Ryan K]

Why is it that all these new comic cartoons have to have the weirdest animation? Really hate the look of legion. They trying to be Picasso or something?

:confused:

That's out of left field. You do realize we're talking about a live action show called LEGENDS of the Super Heroes, not LEGION of Super Heroes?

[mrc1214]

Its amazing what they used to put on. Ive got to watch this.

[Ryan K]

According to Wikipedia, there were just two one hour episodes and the show was based on the Super Friends cartoon. So maybe DC will throw the two episodes on a future Super Friends DVD release as a nice extra.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_the_Super-Heroes

[marshal99]

I've been looking more and more at this show. Apparently, it was really funny in places.

They created several ridiculous characters to create a "Monty Python-esque" feel to the show. Two of the characters are "Ghetto Man" and "Hawkman's Mother".

At one point in the show, Ghetto Man remarks:

"The NAACP says you guys have got to integrate and the "Green" Lantern doesn't count!"

That, to me, is funny, because it inserts petty, politicized ranting into even the most otherwise noble of places.

Also, there is a place where Hawkman's mother just nags and whines at him like crazy. She complains that the sons of other mothers brag that their sons became doctors and lawyers, but that her son became a "Hawkman". She also complains that it's too bad that he didn't become a carrier pigeon, because "he never visits".

*LOL* :D That's good, ridiculous stuff. I'm really having fun with this.

The roasting episode by Ed McMahon were boring. They had "retired" man and all kinds of goofy stuffs.
The one with the actual "supervillain" plot were much better and more fun. Goofy still but it was fun to watch.

[David O Burcham]

I'm telling ya (those who have never seen it, that is), you have not LIVED until you've seen Sinestro disguised as a gypsy fortune teller, Riddler disguised as a roadside pychiatrist, Dr. Sivana disguised as a little boy selling lemonade, Weather Wizard disguised as used car salesman, Solomon Grundy disguised as an auto mechanic (not to mention all of the heroes falling for the dastardly ruses) and MORDRU DRIVING A JET SKI!!!

Awesome!

[Ronnigon]

According to Wikipedia, there were just two one hour episodes and the show was based on the Super Friends cartoon. So maybe DC will throw the two episodes on a future Super Friends DVD release as a nice extra.

Well, they probably won't do it unless there are requests for it.

[Ronnigon]

While we're at it,

I remember that, before the Saturday morning of the very first cartoon of "Challenge of the Superfriends" -- the one where "the Legion of Doom" was introduced -- ABC Television had a live-action show the night before (Friday), where they had all these actors on the left side of the screen playing the Superfriends, and all these other actors on the right side of the screen, playing the Legion of Doom.

Does anybody remember this? If memory serves, it happened way back in the early 80's, and I distinctly remember that the actor in the Hawkman suit was shockingly buff, and that Green Lantern and Sinestro shot laser beams at each other from across the platform.

There was no humor in it... it was strictly for kids.

I wonder if the actors on that show were the same actors as "Legends of the Superheroes".

Also, does anybody else remember seeing it?

[Ronnigon]

MORDRU DRIVING A JET SKI!!!

Yep. He's an all-powerful demon wizard with the power to incinerate whole planets, but from time to time it amuses him to putt across the waters of Southern California on a Sea-Doo.

[marshal99]

I'm telling ya (those who have never seen it, that is), you have not LIVED until you've seen Sinestro disguised as a gypsy fortune teller, Riddler disguised as a roadside pychiatrist, Dr. Sivana disguised as a little boy selling lemonade, Weather Wizard disguised as used car salesman, Solomon Grundy disguised as an auto mechanic (not to mention all of the heroes falling for the dastardly ruses) and MORDRU DRIVING A JET SKI!!!

Awesome!

Solomon Grundy disguised as an auto mechanic with the heroes falling for it was explained in the show - it was Mordru's magic. Grundy had to wear that cap to magically disguise himself , if he takes it off , his disguise came off and the heroes would recognise him.

[LtMarvel]

The show was cool to my 5th-grade mind. When I got a bootleg of it years later, I got a very poor quality copy of a master tape.

[rick]

I was very amused by the first episode, but not so crazy about the roast.

It was not based on the Super Friends as much as the old Batman series and even put both West, Ward plus Frank Gorshin back in uniform.

The thing was just so amazingly terrible, that much like Kiss Vs the Phantom of the Park it remains one of my very favorite 70's memories.

Also, I thought that the Black Canary was really cute, but just sucked at martial arts.

[Thanos_6383]

Holy..........I remember this.WOW

[rick]

Holy..........I remember this.WOW

Scary what our subconscious will pull up from time to time, ain't it? :p

[Michael P]

"So, Hal Jordan, I see your Schwarz is as big as mine."

[Count Vertigo]

http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/comics101/117.html :eek:

To quote Bolt from Villains United.. "Great blazing bags of crap!"

Christ, I remember watching the repeat in 1980 on WPIX 11 here in nyc


Edit:Oops.. I didn't know this link was already posted! Sorry!

[rick]

How dare you.

Charlie Callas was born to play Sinestro, and who wouldn't believe that Solomon Grundy works in a garage?