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  • Thanks for bringing back some memories for my mom. :P Now she's never gonna stop making me look up old shows she used to watch… XD

  • Will this show ever be released on D.V.D?

  • That boy gotta damn lightenin bolt on his chest

  • im looking for some fun shit from my childhood that means something .. so far battlestar gallactica and greatest american hero beat this.

  • I like how the guy he travels with isn't important enough for a name ("eh just credit him as 'mentor'") and all the Greek deities are actually just cardboard cutouts (man those greeks would worship anything!)

  • My brother had the 6 Million Dollar Man doll. It was awesome. It had a special eye telescope and you could see the circuitry in his arm.

    I once owned a pair of pants. They didn't do any cool tricks.

  • me too

  • Jackson Bostwick, the original planker. :)

  • Awesome forces dude

  • Shazam was dope

  • Billy Batson and his (making quote signs with fingers) "MENTOR."

  • cool

  • They made a terrible mistake removing Jackson Bostwick as Captain Marvel- that would be the same as removing Christopher Reeve as Superman and having him played by a different actor in a sequel.

  • 33 q no les gusta... TODO CALZA POLLO!

  • Comments are those from the Immortals.

  • and then the immortal spinnoffs, sensing money, can yell "ISIS"!

  • @spadehatesscrewtube Yes, the Spell of ISIS to be uttered by those who can harness th Powert of the name Isis... Are you worthee to Utter... Her .. . Name and Share the Power of the GODs? BE So Carfull How U  Answer?

  • @MagicWally i'm sorry, i can't translate what you said because it's so horribly mangled. but thanks for trying!

  • 0:04 i CALL BULLSHIT THATS A DALEK!

  • Unfortunately, young Billy Batson and his mentor were killed and eaten during the Zombie Apocalypse. Their sylish 1970's Winnebago motorhome is, however, featured in "The Walking Dead" on AMC.

    SHAZAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!...

  • I had totally forgotten about this - I guess my mind "deleted" it from the file.

    Well... now it's back.

  • When you want to keep your identity a secret, the best way is to travel in an RV with an older guy who is not related to you and paint a big SHAZAM! lightning bolt on the front. Stealthy, very stealthy. That's what happens when you are granted powers by a bunch Greek Gods and....a pre-Omridian Jewish ruler of a Judean city-state. WHAT?!?

  • i learned alot from this very educational show,got up early on saturdays to catch all the cartoons and shows like shazam,isis,land of the lost awesome stuff,i miss the 70's.

  • I heard that a movie called "Shazam!" was going to be made about Captain Marvel- but now it has been scrapped because the Superman reboot is in production. The studio decided Superman and Captain Marvel are too much alike- so it is completely unnecessary to have both supeheroes with stories on the big screen.

  • always wonderd what i was shouting

  • Shazam... I first heard about this character from one of my friends who's into WAY deeper into comics than I am... and so when I first heard of My Secret Identity again in University, I sort-of thought it was going to be the same show, because I thought his name was Ultraman (Shazam's/Captain Marvel's)... and that was what Jerry O'Connel's character called himself. After watching one or two eps of that, I realized how wrong I was. HAHA. And that, I had seen Secret Identity as a kid.

  • FUN FACT: the name SHAZAM is really an acronynm 4 the elders and the powers they each gave Captain Marvel. the wisdom of SOLOMAN the strength of HERCULES the stamina of ATLAS the power of ZEUS the invunerability of ACHILLES the speed of MERCURY this show even had a spin-off: ISIS ISIS & Captais Marvel even crossed over into each others show more than once. they later did an ISIS/SHAZAM power hour when the ratings started to fall. they don't make shows like this any more. dang it !
  • @machstormer thanks for the info,didn't know that,only thing i know is i grew up watching this and learned from it.

  • Loved this show when I was a kid. Who has got the FULL shows to watch?

  • incredibly gay....

  • I didn't know Captain Marvel had his own TV show! AWESOME!

  • epic intro.

  • jackson bostwick is hot

  • I was a kindergartner when this show was on and I loved it.

  • Pretty sad if you ask me. Why couldn't they use the same guy?

  • @texasghost

    Because even in the comics, Billy and CM looked nothing alike. It's a superhero disguise thing. Oddly, all the other "Marvels" look a lot like their alter egos. Only Billy had a major physical transformation.

  • @RedwoodTheElf Originally, the idea was actually that Billy changed into a completely different person when he became Captain Marvel. It's an idea that's fallen kind of out of vogue with modern fantasy and superhero stories.

  • @RedwoodTheElf Technically Captain Marvel and BIlly Batson are two different people..They switch places during the transformation....In the second graphic novel Batman returns (?)... Shazam it trapped under falling debrie... He tells Wonder Woman. Billy Batson died several years earlier.. He was always a sickly person... And that he would probably returm to nothing if he said the Shazam again....After the people are saved he does one last time yell Shazam and vanishes..

  • Now Billy Batson lives in a double-wide drinking Thunderbird and yells "Shazam" while looking at his manhood and viewing free internet porn.

  • ....I used to think his name WAS Shazam. Whoops.

  • I remember this show. It was one of those shows you watched because there wasn't anything else on. Why did his hair grow shorter after he changed into Shazam?

  • @learnamericanenglish The same reason each Doctor Who has a different hair color & length when he regenerates.... just 'cause. :)

  • I was watching Brave and Bold on Cartoon Network on Friday. I hate the voice of Billy Batson. I know Billy is suppose to be a young man but I always thought he was like 18 or 19 yrs old not 12. In the comics he was an anchorman. The voice they gave Billy Batson is just plain silly. I would prefer they find a 19 or 20 yr old guy to do the voice.

  • @sallyjosie

    I like Billy as a kid. It makes it more interesting for me.

  • @CobaltIsNotReal to each their own. I grew up with Billy as a young man. And in the comic books he was a news anchor.

  • @sallyjosie

    I've only really read the Jeff Smith miniseries, so I'm not much an expert on the comics.

  • @CobaltIsNotReal I've only read a few myself. What I want to see is the old mini-series from the 1930's. or maybe the 40's. They are probably really cheesy but thats okay. Sometimes the cheesy stuff is the most fun. Like a lot of the Kroftt shows. Bigfoot and Wildboy, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, H R Pufnstuf. They are silly but fun. You can see some of them over in the suggestions box. At least they are in mine. Wonder Bug. Land of the Lost.

  • This has to be the only super hero that goes from a teenager to a middle aged man.

  • Little known fact: in development, Captain Marvel was first known as Captain Taint Sweat.

  • Black Adam created 31 accounts and disliked 31 times this awesome vid.

    SHAZAM you motherfucker !!

  • @RebelAdmiral

    lol

  • @RebelAdmiral the only cool character from the marvel family is black adam....

  • The Greatest American Hero was better; made more sense than SHAZAM!

  • remember watching this when I was young. So was Captain Marvel as Strong as Superman?

  • @mozeus5 Yes.  Yes he is.

  • coooooooooool!

  • Wow. I so loved this show as a kid. So.....define "developing understanding".

  • Isn't Shazam what Kamakaze's yell before pressing the button on their belt???

  • I'm Black Adam and I disapprove of this message !!! =P ( Brought to you by the Black Adam foundation )

  • I miss these shows. They were awsome.

  • Yes but this show brought us one of my two favorite women. Isis...aaahhh white mini-skirts and high leather boots.

  • I CAN NOT BELIEVE I USED TO WATCH THIS...I was born in 74 so I was very young but geeee wizz what crap...still, brings back great memories (just not of the show)...lol

  • @realityme Banana Splis,HR PuffnStuff,Lancelot Link.... yes we were easily entertained saturday mornings by crap in the '70s

  • @NoIDidunt10 truuuue!!!

  • @realityme

    I was born in 67 so I remember this better. It was one of my favorite shows. I also read the Shazam comics. I thought it was cool how a teenager could say one magic word and then a bolt of lighting would hit him and he would be transformed into a superhero. This was one of my favorite Superhero shows of the 70s along with Isis, Wonder Woman and the The Six Million Dollar Man / The Bionic Woman. And my favorite movie of the 70s wasn't Star Wars. It was Superman: The Movie.

  • @Superbatfan  I was born in 69, I was right there with you :) Would not change it for anything in the world!!!

  • @Superbatfan Me too!!

  • @Superbatfan Jaws was my favourite movie..and do you remember Love American style, Operation Petiicoat, Space 1999, Fantastic Voyage, Emergency and one Adam 12, Hogans' hero's, WKRP, to name a few..I'm the same age as you, and relate to all the shows you mentioned..Thanks for mentioning Isis, I forgot that one and watched it as well, all super friends, our gang reruns "little rascals" and Hillarios house of Frightenstein were good too.

  • @Superbatfan .... I also was born in the 60's so I totally agree with you!!! The Six Million Dollar / Bionic Woman is is my favorite!!!! Also liked Superman!!!

  • "Develope understanding"?  Captain Marvel is a liberal?

  • SHAZAM CANNOT BEAT SPECTREMAN

  • So his mentor's name was just Mentor? Okay.

  • Just wondering, was Jackson Bostwick (Captain Marvel) any relation to the actual GOOD actor Barry Bostwick?

  • @FreulerAZ Funny, I was wondering that same thing during the intro!

  • héy_ànÿÔÑÊ_wänñà_chãt_wïth_mè_­ï_fÊel_sÒ_lòñËlY_tÒÐAý~

  • michael gray should have gotten an emmy award - made of CHEESE

  • cheesier then 100 galtee sandwiches

  • Im 40 years old and i remember running around saying shazam like i was going to turn into capt.marvel.

  • Just curiousity, when did YouTube come out? I see uploads no earlier than January of '06.

  • Didn't they drive around making meth in that RV??

  • I loved watching this when I was a kid

  • When I wa a child, I watch this TV serie in 1982... I loved it!!!

  • @youseetoo i hope it was older than that because i use to watch it and i was 21 in 1982!!

  • always wanted to get in cap-marvels stuff.

  • I loved this show remember watching it every Saturday

  • I can't believe I ever enjoyed this show. Alas, what a waste of time.

  • i always think he screams KAZAAM

  • in some ways this resembles Ben 10

  • They needed Mary Marvel in that short skirt.

  • Transforms him from Indian to European...WOW!

  • man dat was lame looking from the present perspective haha

  • I used to like this show until I found out that Billy really didnt have special powers, he was just high on PCP that the old man gave him. When I heard that him and the old man were really discreet gay lovers, I lost interest in the show. Just kidding. Shazam was the Shznit.

  • :26

  • DAMM !!! Billy Batson is hot !!!

  • Wow! Been a few since I saw this. Like Buck Rogers, I ask myself, what the hell was I thinking to like this crap! LOL!

  • thanks that takes me bak to my chyldhood, funny thing is

    i am amazed any vcr taping of this survived! all these years

  • A show with a 14-year-old kid who never goes to school, traveling around in a RV with a pervy-looking old man? And nary a sidewise glance from the authorities? "Shazam, shazam" indeed!

  • @bjggjb Your thinking is warped!

  • Wow i totally forgot about that show. Freaky at best.

  • I take it that Gomer Pyle was the Immortal Elders' first choice to create a mighty supernatural hero back in the '60s, but it didn't work and they had to wait ten years to try again with young Billy?

  • used to say shazam! in the backyard every saturday after the show and try with all my might to fly, then i would put a makeshift 'wind' on my bike and try to get lift-off, those were the days

  • I used to yell "Shazam" every time I orgasmed - my wife left me...Bitch...LOL!!!

  • @er6789er Oh man! That's so messed up! LMAO!!

  • @er6789er maybe she thought you had a thing for Jim Nabors......

  • @er6789er What I said when I got an erection...she left me too.

  • @er6789er trust me after she left you is when you should've yelled Shazam!

  • @er6789er Dude, that is too funny. I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!

  • @er6789er , does this mean you turned into Captain Marvel each time???

  • it was corny but i watch every week, lol

  • "traveled the highways and BI-ways of america" LOL..SUCH A GAY OVERTONE! i went oustside during a thunder storm and held a steel rod while i yelled SHAZAM!! nothing happend and i quit watching the show.

  • @justmedick ... Man... you're too much!! LOL!!!

  • @MrJamie1932 LOL...

  • @justmedick Well, if you were fool enough to go out in an electrical storm with a metal rod, you were already the DUMBEST of mortal beings, so who knows? Maybe you could have become the mightiest in your next life...

  • @bjggjb I GUESS U ARE NOT BRIGHT ENOUGH TO TELL WHEN SOMEONE IS BEING SARCASTIC.

  • @justmedick Speak for yourself, chief.

  • @bjggjb  hahha..

  • Here's a factoid that someone 'may' have already posted, but I am going to give anyway! Les Tremayne (Mr. Mentor) was a film narrator & character-actor in the 40's & 50's! (Sort of the LeFountaine of his time!) He did alot of those classic Action/Sci-Fi trailers... using terms like; "It Will Stagger The Imagination!!!" He is probably best known for playing Gen. Mann in Gerorge Pal's War of the Worlds!

  • I yell SHAZAM! After I take a BIG Dump...

  • this was my favorite show. soooo long ago.

  • I stil go outside and yell Shazam....just in case.

  • Billy was so gorgeous!

  • I loved this show and always preferred Jackson Bostwick's Captain Marvel by far over John Davey's.

  • that was one of my favorite show on saturday afternoon shazam i always wanted to ride with them in that RV no worries when you was a kid lol sit back and wath tv then go out to play memories

  • SHAZAM!

  • I remember watching this on Saturday mornings here in Australia in 1981 when I was just six, I loved it and I don't think they ever played it again; it's one of those shows that didn't follow me into adulthood as some others did though, but still a nice little trip down memory lane, cheers mate

  • @thestew75 Yeah. Cool show. Low budget.  I haven't had any Australian fosters (beer) in some time. Cheers, mate.

  • Oh dear god how can un-see what I have just seen?

  • I LOVED THIS SHOW!! WOW FLASH BACK!!

  • They don't make stuff like this any more .... I want a hot tub time machine !!!!

  • O L D !

  • Wow - I learned a lot about life and civility through this show - I wish this kind of show was around today....

  • live action? WHEN WAS THIS???

  • @TEMPmichaelhansen i grew up on this show back in the 70s

  • @TEMPmichaelhansen This show aired from 1974 to 1977 on CBS.

  • 0:45 Billy is totally flirting with Mentor!

  • "Mentor?" Uh, yeahhhh. Okay...sure!

  • What about Hektor? He shoulda got a say in it

  • turns Billy Batson into SHAZAM,some gay ass looking dude,before we new there were Gays.....LMAO

  • @jeepers2655 it´s Captain Marvel

    Shazam! is the title of the concept & the phrase he says to turn into a superhero

  • Immortal elder Mercury looks gay.

  • cheesy transformation i have seen better transformations on superman at least the isis tv show had a better transformation sequence

  • Solomon

    Hercules

    Atlas

    Zeus

    Achilles

    Mercury

    SHAZAM!

  • @FluffyFeralMarmot  you forgot Asparagus

  • I loved this show every saturday, like you couldn't wait till saturday

  • i remember this show every Saturday morning back in the middle part of the 70's there 2 guys that played captain marvel

  • Yea Baby!

    I remember watching this as a little kid and being fascinated with the whole superhero theme - remember the Superfriends cartoon Saturday mornings? Today this concept would be laughed at and killed off before the idea was even submitted due to its lack of extreme violence, foul language, and sexual innuendo (and beyond). Today kids have video games with lifelike 3-D murder and violence, Spongebob, Britney Spears, and Hanna Montana - no wonder it's Psychopaths R Us - DAMN SHAME!

  • @classicgamer1968

    This despite the fact that the age group born between 1964-1970 produced almost twice as many serial killers and mass murders as any other generational cohort in American history, including my own, born in the late 1980s. In short, get fucked.

  • @theangrylibertarian lmao.... well, I wouldn't toot my horn for the late 80's born crowd just yet dude. Serial killers usually hit first around age 28, and since people born in the late 80's are still in their early to mid 20's right now, I'd say that at least the last part of your statement can't even be realistically considered.

  • Ha,Ben 10 was obviously ripped this off even has the old guy in the RV too

  • This was good stuff in the seventies!

  • he should have kept his arms straighter

  • I remember watching this every Saturday around noontime. This was some good tv back in the days. Wish we had this type now....

  • I loved that billy...so cute.

  • yamma hamma. even by 70's standards this is really uncomfortable to watch

  • OMG...one of my favs!!! ;)

  • Billy needs a haircut.

  • @Addams1x1 Hell naw he's incredibly hot with that hair!

  • me too every saturday morning i watch cbs shows shazam isis hour and the grooive goolies and this too billy gray and his wife own a flower shop in southern calif after he retire from acting

  • me too every saturday morning i watch cbs shows shazam isis hour and the grooive gouls

  • As a kid I could never figure out why they always were chasing around in that Winnebago. Couldn't they just stay at headquarters waiting for the next assignment?

  • @c8udyp

    haha, they were going to Burningman! )'(

  • Awesome! used to watch this as a kid, had a crush on Billy but never quite understood how "Shazam" turned him into a completely different and much older man. Thanks for the memories!

  • so Shizam and Captain Marvel are the same superhero?

  • OMG!  I grew up with this stuff!

  • captain marvel was lame

  • Why Mentor and not grandfather? Loved the show though.

  • Why was the picture always so grainy on this show? I always wondered that as a kid. Kept me from ever watching it. And how come he didn't just change identities, but somehow became a whole different person? Where did the other guy go? That show was wack.

  • Why was the picture always so grainy on this show? I always wondered that as a kid. Kept me from wanting to watch it.

  • DAMNIT! THE FUCKING LIGHTNING HIT ME AGAIN!

  • When I was a kid watching this when it was new, we never had to click OFF an internet ad. Aging happens.

  • shazam

  • I loved this show...but chosen by the immortal cartoons Billy Batson, Mentor, and Billy's big hair travel the country to right wrongs...awesome!

  • Wow this brings back memories!!  Loved it when I was a kid.

  • why do they have to run to take off?

  • ben 10? jajajajajaja

  • My all-time favorite superhero. They should have a 21st century version of him.

  • cool show when i was a kid but the acting sucked.

  • I used to watch the Shazam/Isis hour too. Great time to be a kid back then in early 70's. Though never thought about it but why is Solomon included w/the Greek/Roman God's who were responsible for Captain Marvel's powers? Odd.