OLD SCHOOL!!!! I got two words for you FUCKING SHAZAM

Dude, that's fucking Shazam, originally uploaded by PinthGarnell.

It's still Batman week, and the fawning over past Live Action Superhero Movies and TV shows continues.

In the late 70's on Saturday mornings, after all the good cartoons like Plastic Man, Fangface, Scooby-Doo, and Superfriends were finished, you would watch Tarzan and Fat Albert, but after Fat Albert aired, the cartoons were officially over and you had your choice of watching Solid Gold or going outside to re-enact that morning's Johnny Quest with the neighborhood kids. OR, for a couple months in '79 you could watch Shazam and Isis. Filmation, a company so named because they shot their shows on what had to be 8mm film, produced a total of twenty-some Episode of a live action Shazam. Oh, this show was so good. We loved this show so much. It was the exploits of some old man in a Winnebago and his odd reltionship with a young boy, Billy Batson. They drove the Winnie all over the country and encountered other groups of teenage boys who would get into some monkeyshines like doing drugs or joyriding or cheating on an exam or stealing or othe such childish lesson-deserving antics. They would be put into danger, and Billy Batson would say Shazam and turn into Shazam. Shazam would save the kids and then tell them off. Then at the end of the episode Shazam would talk into the camera and give you a talking to, telling you not to steal or whatever, the guy who played him had a really creepy smile and is now a huge gun advocate with his own line of hunting videos. I saw him at the comicon last year, but didn't get to close, he seems like he may snap at any moment and I've always thought a comicon is just asking for a massacre in terms of it's scale and unbalanced people anyway, a smartass comment in Jackson or Gil Gerard's direction could turn that place into a pile of bullet-riddled Army of Darkness shirts in a second.