super 6-intro

[samuel63867]

Você já percebeu que nos EUA a série estreou pela NBC, isso no dia 10 de setembro de 1966. Foi exibida no Brasil, ainda em preto e branco, pela TV Record, e reprisada já em cores pela emissora e também no quadro "Domingo no parque", do "Programa Sílvio Santos", então exibido na TVS (RJ) e Tupi (nacionalmente). Isso porque os direitos de exibição eram da TVS, e a Record exibia a série porque Sílvio Santos era então sócio dos Machados de Carvalho na emissora.

[dpkvwells]

ive got go now....ZIP ZAM ZOWIE & SHOOSH.......if i can still remember this cartoon maybe my memory isnt going bad after all

[PeakPersuasion]

Theme song by Gary Lewis and the Playboys.

[auldsk8r]

Groovy theme song!

[InsertName125]

Sort of a cross between the Beatles and Mighty Heroes.

[commanderfalco]

Cool!



[autzbitz]

super six !

[peternoer]

and there came a Super 6 coloring book at the time this show aired

[Mindmassager]

I always thought the band who performed the theme song sounded really familiar. Turns out it was Gary Lewis & the Playboys.

[JasonDamisch]

Hippie cartoon super heros?

[TheSV3]

@JasonDamisch Sort of, in its day. They worked for a super-hero temp service and were hired (for lack of a better term) to perform super deeds for their clients. I remember the names of 4: Magnet Man, Super Scuba, Granite Man, and Super Boing. But for the 60's, I guess you could call them hippie super heroes. Thanx

[beachbootybum1]

Kinda remember this one.

[DaddyNowhere]

Oh MAN! This theme song has stuck in my head since I watched this when I was a kid - AND IT'S JUST HOW I REMEMBERED IT!!!! Been looking for this for literally decades! Thanks so much!

[VAMPIRO69FM]

@DaddyNowhere  lol! same here.

[Abitibidoug]

@DaddyNowhere That's what I thought. This clip brings back memories of watching this show as a kid in 1967-69. Good stuff!

[Josarah9]

Capt, Zammo!. Is that from research or memory? All i recall is he never did anything but pontificate while worshipful his boy sidekick did all the fighting.

[FoxPlant2006]

Notice only one of them actually has a conventional superhero costume?

[peternoer]

It came out same time as this show

[peternoer]

anyone know the name of the cartoon series that of two characters, a little girl called "shrinking violet" and Native american[ Indian chief] called "super chief"

[neontetra67]

@peternoer That would be Funny Company.

[nycruise]

@peternoer

"The Funny Company" - also "Mary Twitter" and "Weisenheimer" - remember them?

[Josarah9]

Lets see, Super Scuba, Granite Man, Elevator Man, Magneto Man, The doofus on the end was Super Boing. but who was the other guy? Captain somebody. Traveled back in time to screw up history.

[donskidarko]

@Josarah9

it's Captain Zammo

[MsPandaRosa]

@donskidarko

I always thought Zammo was wearing a witch's hat, the way it peaked up so much in the front. For some reason he didn't get as much air time as the others, always bugged me.

[motowng57]

Who performed this song? It sounds like Gary Lewis & The Playboys..

[smittykins]

@motowng57 According to Wikipedia, you're right.

[briareos02]

@motowng57 - Yes I think it was Gary Lewis and The Playboys. If I remember correctly, they were mentioned on the end credits of each episode.

[AVDPhoenix]

I do not actually have memories of this cartoon... Just like a feeling that I actually saw it. If so, I was like 1 or 2. But My mom put me in front of the TV since very little.

[brabon1]

@AVDPhoenix the tv was your babysitter too? i love how all our parents did the same thing...then got pissed when we got addicted

[AVDPhoenix]

@brabon1 Hahaha! That's right! But was a nice Childhood anyways, and in those days tv was the greatest thing. I was addicted to tv until the Internet came out.

[ftsjr]

Great memories of Saturday morning cartoons.

[penieres7]

super gays?  or super sexs?

[TimL2005]

Not related, really..Similar themed super hero shows on competing networks,,I think both in the same season..Super 6 on NBC and Mighty Heroes on CBS

[yamaguchiyo]

is this in anyway related to "the mighty heroes?"

[shadejford]

@yamaguchiyo not related to "The Mighty Heroes"for that was produced by Terrytoons. "Super 6" came from the folks that gave us "The Pink Panther."

[Setebos]

@yamaguchiyo --- only in that they came from around the same period. "Super Six" was de Patrie-Freleng, whereas "Mighty Heroes" was Terrytoons.

[MrAntares71]

It seems to me that this was the first inspiration for the Superfriends. Good memories!

[timtt2]

i'm 48 and watched SUPER 6 in St Louis when i was early grade school, I even had a Super6 coloring book lol The show was fun, but most of the episodes were of the clutzy guy not the cooler heroes. Anyone remember The Mighty Heroes?

[Steve17010]

@timtt2 I do remember "The Might Heros". I've also seen many of their episodes on U-tube.

[JCCyC]

If there's one thing 60's and 70's cartoons got absolutely right, it's theme songs. See also: Cattanooga Cats, The Impossibles, Birdman, Banana Splits (and lots more I surely forget).

[gesi98]

Awesome! I remember this as a kid. The theme's been in my head forever. Glad I found it.

[eagleofmiami]

They should release these classic cartoons on DVD. What up w/ that!

[albalonybalony]

To think, I was 8 years old, when this cartoon first aired; where did the time go??

[1975tooto]

I love this! These were the best years of my childhood! SO ARE THESE ON dvd? I know someone has the collection.I am willing to do anything to get my hands on these!

[rayssonation]

1966 was the year of the Saturday Morning cartoon superheroes that exploded onto to TV screens. "Super 6" was the first ever series produced by David DePatie and Friz Freleng(who were also behind the Pink Panther cartoons) for NBC.

[Schweinhundt]

Wow. I'd forgotten about the NBC peacock. As the announcer reminded us, the show was brought to us in living color. To think there was a time when color television was a major selling point.

[RX552VBK]

Wow! never heard of Super6. I'm 44 and I know cartoon history. I'll ask my sister--she 8 years older!

[GuyThom01]

I definitely remember the Super 6 and I'm just 4 years older than you. They were my favorite cartoon as a kid.

[RX552VBK]

Remember Dune Buggy? Or Bat Fink? The Adventures of Waldo Kitty?

[acla9000]

@RX552VBK I remember all of them but Dune Buggy. The only cartoon I know featuring a buggy is HB's Speedy Buggy. Does Dune Buggy belong to other producer?

[RX552VBK]

@acla9000 My bad--you're correct. It was Speed Buggy. Do you remeber Helley's Comet? It was about a group of teenage rollerbladers that travel the galaxy going against other alien bladers. Reakky wild!

[Gladrius]

@RX552VBK

Bailey's Comets

[acla9000]

@RX552VBK Yessss!! They were also produced by De-Patie & Freleng but with a certain HB influence, its style was quite different from Super 6. The series was released in the 70s.

[astroboy1960]

I remember there were two other cartoons that showed along with Super: Super President and another about a guy who had trained his shadow to fight crime.

[RX552VBK]

Yes! My God! As soon as you wrote Super President and that Shadow guy--it was like a bolt of memory! That's one of my earliest memories! Wow! Thanks!

[144wychwood]

Really? I'm 45 and cartoon history buff too but I remember this show and loved it, especially the theme song.

[RX552VBK]

Perhaps it didn't broadcast in NYC when I was a child. I asked my sister about (she's a little older than me), she said she didn't remember either.

[retox]

Thanks so much for posting, I've been looking for a Super 6 clip forever!!

[Postscriptnow]

Wow. My earliest memories are of this cartoon and Kimba the White Lion.

[eleventhdr]

this was the high water mark of this incarnation for me everything since then has been going down very slowly!

1966 was one of thos high water marks in time how i wish we could go back to 1966 thing's were so very different back then!

yeah someone post the cartoons i would love to see thses once more!

1966!

[bender1958]

Did you notice that Super Bwoing sounded like Jimmy Stewart

[GandSAfan]

"ZIP, ZAM, ZOWIE, SWOOSH!!" Super Bwoing was just hilarious! :)

[acla9000]

SUPER! It was one of the first DFE cartoons I knew much time before Pink Panther, which was first broadcast on Brazilian TV only in 1972. Thanks for posting!

[jackhillty1]

that gary lewis sure could sing

[TheMikester307]

Wow! I had the coloring book for this show when I was a kid!

[GandSAfan]

I bet that would be a hot ticket collector's item. ;)

[jackhillty1]

zip zam zowwie and Shwoof!

[luudnoma]

you find any cartoons series you wish on Net(including YouTube) except for Super 6. Here it is an absolutely rare work from DePatie-Freleng . I'ld like know why is so impossible to find a complete toon(even DVD or VHS, nothing !) Sounds like excluded from midia eternally.

[acla9000]

Você tem razão.. Eu também gostaria que esta série fosse lançada em DVD.

You are right. I wish this series was released in DVD, too.

[vonsmitty1313]

Always loved this theme song,but until recently never knew that Jerry's kid Gary Lewis sang it. Does anyone know if he also was the singing voice of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids? Sure sounds like him...

[fromthesidelines]

Sure, I remember this show. The first cartoon usually featured "Super Bwoing" {super-klutz fights crime and his own clumsiness}; he usually ended each of his stories by finding himself in a ridiculous situation, wondering, "THIS is a job for Super Bwoing??". The second cartoon was usually "The Brothers Matzoriley" {they usually saved the day, despite three heads and different attitudes}. The last one was a "wild card", split among the other four heroes...

[auldsk8r]

Cool cartoon!  I was just starting school when this one came out. Always liked the theme song.

[allen8754]

i remember this vividly, i have forgotten which one said Hither Yonder and Away!!!!!!!!!!

[levinecuneta]

magneto man, super scuba, elevator man, capt. zamo, granite man and super boing!

[vynilistic]

There were also The Brothers Matzoriley. The body with 3 heads. There's an episode on YouTube featuring them.

[levinecuneta]

wow! after all these time! I fanally saw it again!

[rawheadjim]

I can't believe you had this, that Super 6 theme song has been haunting me since I was a kid growing up in the 60's. What a great guitar riff and theme, I wonder who sang it. I can't remember much about the episodes except I loved watching it back then.

[bakertoons]

Gary Lewis sang the opening.

[vynilistic]

Gary Lewis & The Playboys were hot at that time. I guess that's why he was chosen to sing it.

[Rlotpir1972]

I could play the opening theme if I had a Telecaster guitar.

[rayssonation]

Super 6 was produced by Depatie-Freleng Productions in association with Mirisch-Rich Television and United Artists Television. The following program was brought to you in living color,only on NBC. The animated series ran for 2 seasons from 1966 to 1968. Only the first season consisted of original episodes.

[Rlotpir1972]

United Artists are owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer since 1983.

[TimelordR]

I sure wished i had seen that show when it was on NBC on Saturday mornings. Also, does anyone remember the names of the superheroes?

[Steve17010]

Some of the names are Elevator Man, Granite Man, Magnito Man, and Super Boing. Another might be Scuba Man.

[LuvvyDuck]

God,I miss that NBC Peacock. Thanks for putting this up! :)