The Mighty Heroes. Rope-Man, Diaper-Man um…and two others.
Great stuff
Tanstaffl: Both late '60s.
And there was a surprisingly good (given the competition) Dr. Strange made-for-TV movie.
Fenris
There were two “Six Million Dollar Man” episodes with Bigfoot. Andre the Giant played Bigfoot in the first, Ted Cassidy played Bigfoot in the second.
Captain America, on a motorcycle. He lasted at least a season.
I think we should include Ultraman, Speed Racer and Racer X (secretly Speed’s older brother Rex Racer). They’re all from Japanese shows from the 60s, but we didn’t get them here in the States until the 70s.
Ellen, Sasquatch was a sophisticated robot built by benevolent aliens who lived in a mountain headquarters in the Northwest.
I think he was a product of the same technology that produced the “fembots” Steve and Jaime battled (and which briefly replaced Oscar Goldman). But I remember no other details.
Three others. Cuckoo Man, Tornado Man and Strong Man.
They showed that mighty heroes thing on British tv in the 80s sometime. I, as one of the few female comics fans in captivity who really really liked female characters made the mistake of bemoaning the lack of female heroes in that sucky cartoon. And so some little **** who made fun of me for everything I said made fun of me for that too. But I like female characters! and there was no female characters! I was urinated off about that man.
Grumble grumble.
Oh also the Galaxy Trio there was Vapor Man, Galaxy Girl and um…some other guy. They weren’t very good. I wanted to see a detailed origin and explanation for their motivations! Needless to say these were not forthcoming. Vapor Man came from the planet Vaporus or something. As a small child I thought it was bad!!! (in the old sense of the word)
Pardon me just a moment, everyone, while I enjoy the thought of Infectious Lass “in captivity.”
I knew it! I knew it, I knew it was aliens! The robot thing didn’t ring a bell, but I recall aliens were in there somewhere. Thank you, dear Fiver, for that one.
(BTW, there IS something sweet about imagining Infectious Lass in captivity. Perhaps you should provide her with a bowl of Lass Chow™ and see if she exhibits any more species-specific behavior.
Who could forget? Whatta hottie.
Oh G Force from Battle of the Planets.
By the way thanks plasticbryan I had just finally Got over that! And don’t think it was easy to purge that huge phlegmy turdball of a show.
Speaking of Gemini Man. Does anyone else remember The Invisible Man with David McCallum? Truly retched stuff.
Also, what about The Tomorrow People? I didn’t see the show until the 1980s when we finally got cable, but it definitely had a 1970s look to it.
Hong Kong Fooey! Number one super guy!
Oh wait I have it. The Ultimate Super hero team of the seventies!!
KISS
Watch the movie they made in with Hanna Barbara and you’ll see what I mean.
kingpengvin:
You’re talking about KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, right? Who could forget that magical moment when the evil android KISS clones started singing, “Rip rip, rip and destroy!” and all the kids started ripping and destroying because, hey, they thought they were really KISS.
plasticbryan wrote:
He most certainly did not. The 1970s TV Captain America lasted for precisely two made-for-TV movies. In the first, which we learn that the Super Soldier Serum is apparently called “F.L.A.G.”, and in the second, Captain America foils the plans of a fake veterinarian by a strategic application of the word “choleoptera.”
I remember watching HeMan (or was it Thundar?) and Shera way back in the 70’s.
She landed awkwardly on a branch. It could have been worse; she could have been somewhat more upright.
The fembots were completely different technology from Sasquatch.
Can’t believe no one’s mentioned Baggy Pants and the Nitwits yet. Animated version of Arte Johnson’s old man character from Laugh-In. Bizarre. Oh, and the Bionic Stooges.
Robonic stooges, sir. Robonic. Which makes me wonder which universities are offering programs in robonics.
You all forgot The Man From Atlantis, starring Patrick Duffy.
And, the He Man/She Ra thing–that was the 80’s.
When did The Greatest American Hero come on?
The Greatest American Hero the 80’s, specifically 1981 - 1983.
And, yes, The Man From Atlantis 1977-78.
The two I thought of bracketed the 70’s: The Green Hornet with Bruce Lee - 1966 - 67; and Knight Rider (thinking about K.I.T.T. the car as the superhero) - 1982 -1986, plus a 1991 movie
My source for all this: http://www.abouttvshows.com/ and my-friend Google. And they don’t have He Man / She Ra in their list.