The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!

The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!
Captain Marvel in the Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!
GenreAnimation
Fantasy
Based on
Captain Marvel
by
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes38
Production
Executive producersNorm Prescott
Lou Scheimer
ProducerArthur H. Nadel
CinematographyR.W. Pope
EditorsRon Fedele
Joe Gall
Hector C. Gika
Running time60 min.
Production companiesFilmation
DC Comics
Original release
NetworkNBC
Release12 September 1981 (1981-09-12) –
11 September 1982 (1982-09-11)
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The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! is an NBC Saturday-morning cartoon produced by Filmation Studios in 1981. The half-hour show included two cartoon stories, with a variety of live-action wraparound segments.[1]

Hero High featured a group of students attending a high school for superheroes.[2] This was a comedy originally planned to feature the characters from Archie Comics, but during development, production company Filmation terminated their relationship with the publishers, and the characters were turned into more generic versions of the same roles.[1]

Shazam! was based on the DC Comics series of the same name, the adventures of Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family, including Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., Uncle Marvel, and their tiger, Tawky Tawny.[3] In the show, the team fights enemies like Doctor Sivana, Mister Mind, Black Adam, Mister Atom, Ibac, and more.[4]

From time to time, the characters of one show would appear in the other. Isis from The Secrets of Isis also made a guest appearance in animated form on Hero High.

  1. ^ a b Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 338–399. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  2. ^ "Hero High - The Complete Series". DVD Talk.
  3. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 248. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  4. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 469–470. ISBN 978-1476665993.