I'm excited! I have the Wonder Woman Complete Third Season DVD set, which released the first episode of SHAZAM! "The Joyriders" as a complementary bonus DVD.
I also have The Secrets of Isis The Complete Series DVD set released by BCI/Entertainment Rights, which Captain Marvel (John Davey) guest stars in three episodes.
I payed a lot of money for the Isis DVD set on ebay. SHAZAM! and The Secrets of Isis are fun series with timeless morals of advice to teach kids, plus the morals could be a reminder for adults, that "a gun is not a toy." "Think before you act." "Safety first." "Treat others the way you want to be treated." "Two wrongs don't make a right, it only makes things worse." "You can't judge a book by it's cover and that's especially true with people." "It's the way a person acts that counts." "Showing off is not the way to gain respect, respect is something that must be earned." "Trying to be someone your not only makes you look foolish." "You can't buy friendship, real friends like you for yourself." "Every ending is also a beginning full of hope and promise." "Being responsible means keeping a promise you made." "Doing anything you know is wrong is dumb." "Being a true friend is believing in someone when others wont." "Frightening people is cruel so before you play a joke on someone ask yourself how you would like it if they were playing the joke on you," etc. Filmation hired professors from UCLA to include positive educational messages through the SHAZAM! and Isis shows. No sarcastic campy joke. It's done sincerely with heart. The shows dealt with serious issues like dealing with the death of a loved one, etc.
Jackson Bostwick (Captain Marvel) said, "To me, the most effective part of the show was not even in the initial episodes when they first started airing, but which eventually became the icing on the cake for the series. It was the end tags, when Captain Marvel flies back and talks to the audience about what they learned in that week’s episode. Right after they first aired, I told the Producer, Bob Chenault, that they missed the boat by not having the hero come back and wrap things up, ala The Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, etc. He told me that the network didn’t want to give up the 60 seconds of commercial time. Well, after the fan mail started arriving and indicated that they wanted to see more of Captain Marvel (not just in the last 15 minutes of the story), the gang at CBS in New York finally relented and we went back and filmed those tags for those first 15 episodes in one day out at Franklin Canyon Reservoir in Bel-Air. (It was important) not to preach to the kids and to give them a friend and someone to look up to, like I had with Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger when I was growing up."
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/oral-history-captain-marvel-7-110103.html
Isis also appears on three episodes of SHAZAM!
Here's the SHAZAM! facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/ShazamTvShow
She was part of that short-lived live action superhero TV era in the 70s....
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