LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES 1979 SERIES

LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES 1979 SERIES

Uh… Still, Frank Gorshin as the Riddler just did a great series of impressions. Okay, so it isn’t much but it’s something.Ġ0:33:15 I’d be annoyed that Captain Marvel just told the Riddler that his real name was Billy Batson, if not for the big red cheese being totally fooled by Riddler’s cunning plan of having an open-air psychiatrist’s office in the middle of a dirt road.

Watch the hands, big fella!Ġ0:28:58 Huntress just did something! She ran through a romantic picnic. But his pipsqueak voice and her canary cry are no match for Solomon Grundy. Now we know why he switched to using a credit card in Batman & Robin.Ġ0:27:53 Credit where it’s due, Hawkman looks pretty badass and so does Black Canary. However, they have to settle for a motorbike and sidecar because Batman only has $50 cash on him. I know, that’s how much it hurts the brain.Ġ0:24:13 Batman and Robin buying a used car from Weather Wizard… not quite as awful as it sounds. He says the oath, but… Imagine the Green Lantern movie. How could it possibly be this bad?Ġ0:19:26 If you’re a Green Lantern fan you may not be impressed with Hal Jordan being outsmarted by a dopey Sinestro in drag.

It all looked impressive, except for seeing Sinestro manually sabotaging the Batmobile and Batman having a stone in his shoe.Ġ0:15:03 Seeing Batman and Robin battle Solomon Grundy should be something that makes my inner-fanboy feel good. That’s how this is going to go.Ġ0:08:30 Things are no better for the heroes, as Batman pays tribute to Retired Man, a superhero who has now, um, retired.Ġ0:09:51 So all the superheroes chipped in to get Retired Man a retirement gift, and it’s a cheap gold watch? Way to be a skinflint, mister fancy-schmancy billionaire Bruce Wayne.Ġ0:10:05 Did Batman just call Robin “Laddy-booby”?!Ġ0:12:03 So the heroes have split up to track down a doomsday device. What?!Ġ0:01:40 Yes, Adam West and Burt Ward are back as Batman and Robin! Sadly the years haven’t been kind to them.Ġ0:03:05 It’s a super-villain convention and Solomon Grundy and others are definitely being played for (canned) laughs. According to them, he’s the “joy of the oppressed” and faster than “Rapaylian Pot”. The characters sort of looked right until The Flash arrived. Don’t expect much in the way of the story either, because the second part of this is one of those awful “roast” comedy tributes.Ġ0:01:03 Damn, it was all going so well. That means it has a laugh track too.įilmed on a budget that makes Corman’s Fantastic Four film look generous, expect bad costumes, bad sets and bad acting. And what a line-up of legends! The Flash! Black Canary! Hawkman! Green Lantern! Captain Marvel! The Huntress! And even… Batman and Robin! With a team like that, who needs Captain Cold?! And they weren’t taking on Vandal Savage, they were taking on Sinestro, Doctor Sivana, Giganta, Mordru, Weather Wizard, Solomon Grundy and The Riddler. His genitalia is as visible as a ballet star.It’s time to look back at Legends of the Superheroes. One amazing detraction (depending on how you want to look at it, then this may not be for kids) is clearly Green Lantern should have wore a protective cup or something. I all but suspect one of the two Saturday morning Captain Marvels were sought for this as well. Might have been fun back then, but still enjoyable to see these earliest hero depictions. The first one I missed the previous week. I remembered the second program, the roast with Ed McMahon from back when it originally aired and I thought that was dull. It's so low-budget, you can see people across the street watching when Solomon Grundy and Blac k Canary interact. They could have just run around and fought one another, like wresters (I long ago determined if some sports programs like football wore costumes like superheroes, I would be spellbound). Whoever did this clearly knew the comic books as they even put in the Legion villian of Mordru as the leader, instead of the later hyped up Darkseid.īut the look of many of the performers was accurate. Someone took West, Ward and Gorshin from the campy 60s show and just made it all out comedy, with very good additions of Charlie Callas as Sinestro (with no purple makeup, Callas' face best delivered the Sinestro look), Jeff Altman as the WEather Wizard and Howard Morris as Sinestro.

Earliest Screen Appearance of Many of These Characters

Legends of the superheroes 1979