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Shazam!
1974 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 3 seasons
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The live-action adventures of Captain Marvel! By uttering a single magic word young Billy Batson transforms himself into the world's mightiest mortal, Captain Marvel. The acronym of the first letters of the names of the six elders who train Billy with their respective special gifts: Solomon, wisdom; Hercules, strength; Atlas, stamina; Zeus, power; Achilles, courage; and Mercury, speed, in a word ... SHAZAM!
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I used to watch that, along with Shazam/Captain Marvel, and The Mighty Isis. Also the Kroft Super Show. The Kroft puppet shows were pretty subversive. HR Puff'n Stuff basically had Puff the Magic Dragon as a main character, basically a walking marijuana reference. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl were a superhero duo with their own storyline on the Kroft Super Show, IIRC. Basically Batman and Robin in a flying car, where the men were support characters and the action duo was female.
Where I grew up, binge watching all of the Saturday Morning cartoons and shows in a row (not all episodes in a show, but all shows with an episode that day) was viewed as something kinda bad. People talked about it as if it was going to be a part of the destruction of the culture. I always felt guilty, and mom would kick us out of the house after lunch. Then we'd spend the whole day outside unless it was raining.
Now, watching a whole bunch of television in a multi-hour block is just kind of a normal thing, so long as you don't overdo it.
The parents of the day might not have been wrong about the destruction of the culture part, though.
Also there was a TV show called Shazam.
As a 90s kid I thought the article was going to talk about the Shaq Genie movie, and it turns out it was.
I do know there was a Shazam cartoon on VHS. My local Rite Aid used to have a tiny VHS rental section. It was organized by having all of the covers stuffed into a poster display (the kind where a good number of flat frames are hinged at once side and attached to a shelf so you can flip through them like a book), and you simply found one you wanted to rent and told the clerk. The clerk would pull out the movie from underneath the shelf for the one day rental. Anyway, they had an extremely narrow kids selection, which we burned through almost immediately. Except for one title. The only cartoon in the list, Shazam was apparently some kind of superhero, but we would never know because the VHS tape was lost long ago and the manager wasn't interested in either ordering a second copy or removing the cover from the display. So every week we would ask and every week the tape would be missing.
In retrospect it was probably shit, but so was most everything kid oriented in those days.