I appreciate how you explain all of the special effects with reverence, rather than making fun of them. Even the ones where you can see on film how they did it, like springboards, ladders, etc. it took a lot of creativity back then
The six million dollar man's use of slow motion when things (and people) were supposed to be very fast was a touch of genius and surprisingly convincing.
Yes. The producers found that the bionic actions looked ridiculous when filmed at normal speed. The slow motion + bionic sound effect worked really well.
Those special effects crew deserves respect for having to pull off everything despite having not much funds,materials, and technology. They have more creativity and resourcefulness compared with those who used too much CGI today.
70s kid here. These effects are so goofy, but man they really sparked my imagination growing up. Thank you for putting together these videos. Brings back memories!
When these shows were in their prime, we were watching them on 19" or smaller tube TV's with grainy quality and as a kid, you would never catch all these things.
Yeah, I used to love to watch those specials back in the day that showed how they did special effects. They had a lot of cool techniques and they were always coming up something new.
I was a young teenage boy when WW came out. I can assure you that wires, springboards or mattresses were the LAST things I was looking for 😍 Interesting video, nonetheless 😊
Lynda Carter was a gymnast and ballet dancer, she started off doing her own stunts but they had to keep covering her cuts and bruises up with make up so ended up getting a stunt double. And the lens flare effect was done by accident from the second series onwards, the first series had her spinning in slow motion which was originally her idea with being a ballet dancer and they didn’t know how to get her to change into Wonder Woman for TV
In the late 1970s there were so few stuntwomen that in WW season 1, Lynda Carter’s stunt double was a man. Then in the season 2 episode Anschluss 77, Carter insisted on doing a dangerous hanging-from-helicopter stunt herself when there was no way to disguise the double. And she did it without safety equipment. Afterward the studio was furious and got her a woman stunt double, Jeannie Epper. I believe Epper even visited her son’s school in costume once, after his classmates didn’t believe she was Wonder Woman’s stunt double.
The best TV special effect from the 1970s and 80s (that I found out from this video was pioneered in the '40s) was having the stunt person leap off a building backwards onto an air mattress cushion and then reverse the film to make it look like they were leaping upwards. I could never figure this one out growing up, because one it looked pretty cool and convincing and two, they would often do these tricks outdoors and I wondered where the wires were I couldn't see. They would also do a variation of this trick by having a stunt guy holding a car or truck and the vehicle drives backwards, then they reverse the film to make it look like the superhero person was stopping a speeding car. Very clever way of getting around a TV budget and the special effects technology of the time.
My mom was such a fan of George Reeves' Superman and all my life, I'm 53 now, I thought he was the first actor to play Superman. I never knew there was someone before him. Of course for me Christopher Reeve is Superman. His interpretation of and portrayal of Clark and Superman is, in my opinion, the best performances of Superman. He gave everything he had to the characters. As a kid and to this day I still enjoy seeing his movies. I actually caught Superman 3 recently and I noticed something for the first time. He's much bigger in that one than in the first two! Henry Cavill is great too because he's a great actor. He's so much more than Superman.
When I was a kid I taped the Christopher Reeve movies and watched them over and over again. I always enjoyed watching Reeves and Reeve both. It was like new Superman and classic Superman.
Im a fan that likes to know "how its done" so I enjoyed your video very much. To me, knowing how doesnt take away from the magic, they still had to figure out how which gives me an appreciation for them even more.
My most favorite was The Incredible Hulk. I started to watch it because of Bill Bixby. Never heard of the hulk before then. Sometimes when The Hulk would throw people I saw for a second a spring board at the bottom of the screen pop up. Also the green slippers when He was in New York City he was wearing them. I did notice the tiny misframing sometimes that wasnt supposed to be in the shot but it was my favorite show and at the end of the week on Friday nights at 8 PM on Channel 2 Here in New York it was my escape from reality and a nice start of the weekend from School. (I never liked school to begin with.)
How good though was the metamorphosis. It was intense & scary with those eyes & the chilling music It's a joke now when you see the hulk change. Still the best hulk as far as I'm concerned because mainly because a real actor was used.
As a kid, I loved every minute of it. It all seemed so magical. It was the golden age of TV and an amazing time to grow up. I am so grateful that I lived during this era.
The Kirk Allyn Superman train effect was achieved through the processed screen system, which they also used in the 60's Batman TV series when Batman and Robin are "running".
I think what most people don't realize ( Especially the new Generation ) You could get away with a lot of these tricks. When I grew up watching the Greatest American Hero, Hulk, Wonder Woman, etc..... I was watching on a tube TV There was no 4 K high definition TV. You couldn't notice that stuff if your tried. Today all this stuff has to be perfect. Miss those great shows!!
Besides that we watched them once a week so not likely to catch these "flaws" since we didn't have dvds back then. I think there is a certain charm in the way things were done and I wouldn't change them if I could.
Yes and no to that. I was 5 years old when The Greatest American Hero came out in 1981 and it all looked real to me. By the time I was watching the show in syndication reruns in the mid 80s at ages 9 or 10, or the later 80s as a middle school kid.....yeah a lot of the flying effects looked really cheap and stupid, especially when you compared it to the Christopher Reeve/Richard Donner Superman films. But even as a kid I knew Hero was a TV show and the Reeve/Donner movies had a big screen movie budget.
@@John-ct9zs Everyone in Hollywood anticipated that show and kept asking Stephen J. Cannell, "Is he gonna fly?" They knew that the fx in "Superman" cost a million bucks just for the first flying scene; so how did they do it on TV, when the GAH pilot cost $1.5 million for the entire episode? The first scene they filmed was when Ralph flew for the first time and crashed into a wall. They played it back for the executives at ABC, with no music or sound effects. They cheered so loud they screamed!
When the Six Million Dollar Man fights Big Foot. I'll never forget being so scared as a kid. Watching it now is almost laughable, but still has that nostalgia I was looking for. Loved your video!
I enjoyed this video, especially seeing some of the shows that I looked at, as a kid. Seeing the effects, they used then compared to what they do now is just really amazing.
4:38 when you see superman switch from real to cartoon I think that looks cool as heck. I like that and I know if I were a kid watching that back then it would have blown my mind. Love it
As a kid growing up in the 70's, I loved all these shows, and didn't really think too much about the special effects (especially Wonder Woman, because any red-blooded American boy was checking HER out, and it didn't matter how old you were!). But now that I'm older, seeing how they made these effects is very amusing. Great job on this video - especially the bloopers at the end! :)
Love this video showing flops of the Old School Classic Movies we love. I am a kid of the 80s to the 90s but I had the privilage to watch this Old Superhero Series on TV.
"How do we make it look like the $6M man is running superhumanly fast?", "i got it!..let's just show him running in slow motion." And we bought it! Things were so simple back then.
Thanks for this! It was fun to see these great old shows. You don't look old enough to remember them, but I'm glad their appeal is not lost on younger people. There's such an innocence about these shows and about a generation who doesn't need so much help in order to believe in heroes! Perhaps with the help of your channel we can recover this faith and innocence. Thanks.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I grew up with the 70s superheroes in prime time and watched the older shows in re-runs. I've always liked anything with superheroes in it.
One thing I do appreciate about DCEU Wonder Woman is that the Lasso of Truth now has a golden glow so you can definitely tell that it's magical. I also think most of the speed effects in the 1990s Flash series still hold up really well for the time the series was made even without any of today's CGI, just by speeding up the filmed footage of John Wesley Shipp.
Yes, I loved that little nuance to DCEU’s Wonder Woman since in comics, the lasso had lines coming from it on her waist indicating glowing. Now they have to get the jet right-from outside, it’s invisible, but inside you can see everything-no invisible controls( like super friends), no seeing people floating through the air from outside( like the tv show)
1) Those brief color shots of "The Adventures of Superman" were not colorized decades later - the last two seasons were filmed in color even though the series was broadcast in black-and-white; 2) The scene where Wonder Woman bends a rifle with her bare hands is quite believable, even though the rifle was rubber, because actress Linda Carter ACTED like she was warping solid steel.
It was not broadcast in B&W because the film was in colour. Only the very rare TVs that had colour would see it. Bonanza was one of the first to film in colour from day one (1959).
Shazam!, Jason of Star Command, and Ark II were must-see Saturday morning shows! I still have the large-format Shazam! comics, anyone else read those? The recent films had quite a few Easter eggs for comic readers. Thanks for this great look back, well done!
I always found it funny in the old Superman shows, when the villains shoot at Superman, the bullets bounce off his chest, but when they throw the gun at him, he ducks
Necessity is the mother of invention. This is an absolutely charming video, and very much in my wheelhouse of loving the ingenious ways that people made epic superhero adventures on a costume drama budget.😊
Just a couple of quick observations: ~ When Superman is holding a piece of the train rail in place in order for the passenger train to cross safely over that broken section, when I was looking underneath the cars and beyond to background scenery, I saw these familiar jagged rocky outcroppings in the distance. I believe that is a section of the Santa Susana Mountains above Chatsworth, in the San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles area). There is a busy rail line that goes through those mountains, including about a mile long tunnel, which I walked through as a teen sometime in the 1960s, and it's pretty exciting! ~ I remember seeing a video about Superman, I think it was, where bullets were bouncing off his chest and creating a small streaks of sparks, or something similar in appearance; and the narrator described that, in the editing department, they would carefully put "scratches" on that part of the film to create this effect. ~ You also talked about the lack of a dashboard in one of the car scenes. What I also noticed was the lack of a windshield and rear view mirror. ~ Lastly, the cars that were rotating on a platform, one over another, looked like the kind of automobile models that the Danbury Mint makes. They create authentic-looking replicas that include very fine and exacting details along with many moving parts.
Back when these shows came out, no one noticed those things. Now that we can stream or binge them on DVD we begin to notice the 'goofs' and mistakes, but it only makes me love them more! I was really hoping you would show how they did the jumps on Wonder Woman. I swear there was a Barbara Walters Special with Lynda where they showed how the jumps where done when she jumped over huge trees, bushes and the famous Friends Fountain with and would love to see that again. I know it was done with wires, of course and perspective, but I would really love to see those again!
A lot of fun, thank you for all your research... I love all those old shows and it was fun to see the things (at least I) never noticed while viewing....
Spiderman was the best one for the TV special FX, I think, especially the brave guys climbing the outsides of real buildings (except when Peter left his apartment to try his abilities)
I have to say, I love your commentary. Instead of the exaggerated hyperbole of many UA-camrs, you have a very calm and genuine demeanour, which I thoroughly enjoy. Your obvious enthusiasm for these shows shines through and I was particularly enamoured of how you don't denigrate the effects for a cheap laugh - I particularly enjoyed where you said how the younger you might have been disappointed to know. I also loved these shows and there was something exciting and thrilling about them. I pity today's kids growing up with such cynical shows, to the point where I think they've lost that sense of wonder.
Love ALL your videos my friend keep em coming. !!!!! Although i LOVE George Reeves & think he was the BEST Superman Ever I get emotional watching him & CAN'T help just feeling so sad about what happened to him @ such a young age & we'll NEVER Find out the TRUTH. !!!!!!!! 😔🙏🏼🙏🏼
It makes you wonder if they had more money back then what effects they could have come up with.They were still enjoyable, and more subtle than some of today’s special effects.Great video,great trip back through nostalgia.❤❤❤❤
Lou Ferrigno's make-up for the Hulk took 3 1/2 hours too apply. There was oil based for when he had too perform in rain and water. And the other base which was a lighter tone. It took over an hour to wash it of. Some make-up removals used was lye soap, and various paint removers that were nontoxic.
This was a fun video and I made sure to like it. However I'm a little disappointed that you didn't bring up the remarkable stunts on the 70s Spider-Man series. Maybe if you do another video specifically about stunts? But anyway, great video as always, Crazyman!
No ones looking at a trash can when Linda Carter transforms into Wonder Woman.🤣
You took the woids outa my mowf!
Lynda herself was a special effect.
You’re so right. Wow
He put an arrow right on the can and I still wasn't looking at it
@@johntabler349 Wouldn't you have loved a Hulk v Wonder Woman grappling scene?
@@ArtorGrael it would have been glorious
I appreciate how you explain all of the special effects with reverence, rather than making fun of them. Even the ones where you can see on film how they did it, like springboards, ladders, etc. it took a lot of creativity back then
The six million dollar man's use of slow motion when things (and people) were supposed to be very fast was a touch of genius and surprisingly convincing.
Yes. The producers found that the bionic actions looked ridiculous when filmed at normal speed. The slow motion + bionic sound effect worked really well.
But why did things always make a whistling noise when being thrown through the air? 😃
@@heraclito3114 the Six Million Dollar Ham.
@@chadrogers4811 Because it was faster than a normal person could throw them.
Those special effects crew deserves respect for having to pull off everything despite having not much funds,materials, and technology. They have more creativity and resourcefulness compared with those who used too much CGI today.
And this ladies and gentlemen is what makes the older movies great! These are classics, absolute gems.
70s kid here. These effects are so goofy, but man they really sparked my imagination growing up. Thank you for putting together these videos. Brings back memories!
Sure takes me back to the good old days when cartoons like Shazam was on Saturday mornings.
Even though you showed us how the special effect was done.
I would still watch these shows over and over again.....Great childhood memories.
When these shows were in their prime, we were watching them on 19" or smaller tube TV's with grainy quality and as a kid, you would never catch all these things.
Also too, we were kids, and we didn't really care. We saw our Superheroes on TV and that's all that mattered to us.
That's why when you saw the original Superman in the cinema You knew he was flying for real
@jaysworld5378 - yeah I hear ya.... all my family had was a 13" B&W. With antennas u always had to move to get reception. Drag!
Also, the reception wasn't so clear before cable became a thing.
Yup the 19" Hitachi!!!
Cartoons were like 60% of what we saw. So the graininest didn't matter much... G.I. Joe!!!!
Superman The Movie holds up pretty well for the flying scenes , to this day is still the best Superman movie .
Those Reeves Superman films look really good in 4K and they do hold up - shockingly.
I must agree. I watched it a few yrs ago back holds true
Lynda is perfact
Still is!!!
@@李灰灰-h8b But she only had one butgcheek.
Ah soo fine
Back when tv was classic gotta love the effects for its time
Loved the special effects in those days still love them more than today's effects 😀
Yeah, I used to love to watch those specials back in the day that showed how they did special effects. They had a lot of cool techniques and they were always coming up something new.
Yah today's cgi are so overplayed
As kid you NEVER pay attention to small stuff like that... It's the excitement that you see when your superhero saves the Day!! 😁
@rikkiross7691 and as an adult, I prefer that than some crap with better effects..
This brings back happy childhood memories! They were campy but fun!
Sometimes I wish that I was a child again.
TV Crazyman is unmasked! What a delight it is to finally see what you look like.
Not new, but not common.
Thanks, I pop up on occasion, but it's been a while.😀
These special effects’ bloopers just make these shows so much more adorable!
I remember watching all these shows in the 70’s. Because it was all we had, they were great. I love watching old movie serials too.
Linda Carter was one hell of a specimen.
Oh Yes 😜
She was not a specimen . that is sexist
@@Spiritdove64 Lighten up sweetheart. It's a common figure of speech, and a compliment. I'd say the same about a man.
@@NelsonMontana1234 Lynda Carter only had one butt cheek. Look at the costume.
@@ColonelMarcellus Ha! Yeah, it looks like a diaper. I guess they thought that something tight and form fitting would be way too hot. And it would.
Great work using Ferigno's guest appearance on The Fall Guy for the Hulk.
Linda Carter has got to be in the top 10 list of most beautiful actresses of all time
Completely agree. She’s perfection.
@@BB49. But she lnly had one butt cheek...
I was a young teenage boy when WW came out. I can assure you that wires, springboards or mattresses were the LAST things I was looking for 😍
Interesting video, nonetheless 😊
Don't forget that disappearing trashcan, honestly the film crew probably didn't notice it either.
I agree totally. 😂
She could tie me up with that golden lasso anytime. 😂
I thought WW was a one person show, you mean there were other people there?
Lynda Carter was a gymnast and ballet dancer, she started off doing her own stunts but they had to keep covering her cuts and bruises up with make up so ended up getting a stunt double.
And the lens flare effect was done by accident from the second series onwards, the first series had her spinning in slow motion which was originally her idea with being a ballet dancer and they didn’t know how to get her to change into Wonder Woman for TV
Lynda Carter will always be known as Wonder Woman.
In the late 1970s there were so few stuntwomen that in WW season 1, Lynda Carter’s stunt double was a man. Then in the season 2 episode Anschluss 77, Carter insisted on doing a dangerous hanging-from-helicopter stunt herself when there was no way to disguise the double. And she did it without safety equipment.
Afterward the studio was furious and got her a woman stunt double, Jeannie Epper. I believe Epper even visited her son’s school in costume once, after his classmates didn’t believe she was Wonder Woman’s stunt double.
The best TV special effect from the 1970s and 80s (that I found out from this video was pioneered in the '40s) was having the stunt person leap off a building backwards onto an air mattress cushion and then reverse the film to make it look like they were leaping upwards. I could never figure this one out growing up, because one it looked pretty cool and convincing and two, they would often do these tricks outdoors and I wondered where the wires were I couldn't see. They would also do a variation of this trick by having a stunt guy holding a car or truck and the vehicle drives backwards, then they reverse the film to make it look like the superhero person was stopping a speeding car. Very clever way of getting around a TV budget and the special effects technology of the time.
Fun fact: Run-the-film-backward was why on The Bionic Woman, sometimes Jaime Sommers’ hair was done up in a bun. 🙂
My mom was such a fan of George Reeves' Superman and all my life, I'm 53 now, I thought he was the first actor to play Superman. I never knew there was someone before him. Of course for me Christopher Reeve is Superman. His interpretation of and portrayal of Clark and Superman is, in my opinion, the best performances of Superman. He gave everything he had to the characters. As a kid and to this day I still enjoy seeing his movies. I actually caught Superman 3 recently and I noticed something for the first time. He's much bigger in that one than in the first two! Henry Cavill is great too because he's a great actor. He's so much more than Superman.
When I was a kid I taped the Christopher Reeve movies and watched them over and over again. I always enjoyed watching Reeves and Reeve both. It was like new Superman and classic Superman.
I had to check to see if this was MY comment from 4 months ago because you're age and story match my own!
These B&W superman animation transitions are amazing
Loved how they did the special effects back then
Im a fan that likes to know "how its done" so I enjoyed your video very much. To me, knowing how doesnt take away from the magic, they still had to figure out how which gives me an appreciation for them even more.
My most favorite was The Incredible Hulk. I started to watch it because of Bill Bixby. Never heard of the hulk before then. Sometimes when The Hulk would throw people I saw for a second a spring board at the bottom of the screen pop up. Also the green slippers when He was in New York City he was wearing them. I did notice the tiny misframing sometimes that wasnt supposed to be in the shot but it was my favorite show and at the end of the week on Friday nights at 8 PM on Channel 2 Here in New York it was my escape from reality and a nice start of the weekend from School. (I never liked school to begin with.)
How good though was the metamorphosis. It was intense & scary with those eyes & the chilling music
It's a joke now when you see the hulk change. Still the best hulk as far as I'm concerned because mainly because a real actor was used.
I loved the Incredible Hulk TV series. Use to watch it with my Dad.
Lynda Carter was beyond fine, & is still pretty today. 😮
SHE WAS AN ALIEN FEMALE PRESIDENT IN CW'S SUPERGIRL SERIES!!!
@teranlcer
Who the hell is Lynda Carter? ! ? ! 😕🤔
It was great to see how these practical effects were done in 70s and 80s superheroes and action stars. Stunt guys getting creative!
As a kid, I loved every minute of it. It all seemed so magical. It was the golden age of TV and an amazing time to grow up. I am so grateful that I lived during this era.
Thanks
Thank you. I appreciate it.
I also love Lou when he has his Hulk Shoes on.
GREAT VIDEO! It brought back a lot of good memories! Thank you!!
I appreciate it.
The Kirk Allyn Superman train effect was achieved through the processed screen system, which they also used in the 60's Batman TV series when Batman and Robin are "running".
This was fun. Make some more! Dukes of Hazard, Real American Hero, Knight Rider, A Team, all had some great classic effects
I think what most people don't realize ( Especially the new Generation ) You could get away with a lot of these tricks. When I grew up watching the Greatest American Hero, Hulk, Wonder Woman, etc..... I was watching on a tube TV There was no 4 K high definition TV. You couldn't notice that stuff if your tried. Today all this stuff has to be perfect. Miss those great shows!!
Besides that we watched them once a week so not likely to catch these "flaws" since we didn't have dvds back then. I think there is a certain charm in the way things were done and I wouldn't change them if I could.
Yes and no to that. I was 5 years old when The Greatest American Hero came out in 1981 and it all looked real to me. By the time I was watching the show in syndication reruns in the mid 80s at ages 9 or 10, or the later 80s as a middle school kid.....yeah a lot of the flying effects looked really cheap and stupid, especially when you compared it to the Christopher Reeve/Richard Donner Superman films. But even as a kid I knew Hero was a TV show and the Reeve/Donner movies had a big screen movie budget.
@@John-ct9zs Everyone in Hollywood anticipated that show and kept asking Stephen J. Cannell, "Is he gonna fly?" They knew that the fx in "Superman" cost a million bucks just for the first flying scene; so how did they do it on TV, when the GAH pilot cost $1.5 million for the entire episode? The first scene they filmed was when Ralph flew for the first time and crashed into a wall. They played it back for the executives at ABC, with no music or sound effects. They cheered so loud they screamed!
I grew up watching all these shows either when they aired or reruns. This was a fun look at how they made it happen! Well done!
Thanks
Nice . The shows remain thrilling as ever
When the Six Million Dollar Man fights Big Foot. I'll never forget being so scared as a kid. Watching it now is almost laughable, but still has that nostalgia I was looking for. Loved your video!
I enjoyed this video, especially seeing some of the shows that I looked at, as a kid. Seeing the effects, they used then compared to what they do now is just really amazing.
Love the dummy which hit it's head and you can see the wooden ankle joints.
4:38 when you see superman switch from real to cartoon I think that looks cool as heck. I like that and I know if I were a kid watching that back then it would have blown my mind. Love it
nice video 😁
Thanks
As a kid growing up in the 70's, I loved all these shows, and didn't really think too much about the special effects (especially Wonder Woman, because any red-blooded American boy was checking HER out, and it didn't matter how old you were!).
But now that I'm older, seeing how they made these effects is very amusing.
Great job on this video - especially the bloopers at the end! :)
Thanks
Great video as always.
Thanks
Thanks. Enjoyed very much.
Linda Carter genetics, simply beautiful.
Love this video showing flops of the Old School Classic Movies we love. I am a kid of the 80s to the 90s but I had the privilage to watch this Old Superhero Series on TV.
Nice !! It's so fun to relive those Classic TV moments.
Love this, thanks for revealing ( and crushing my childhood) the tricks and techniques, lol.
"How do we make it look like the $6M man is running superhumanly fast?", "i got it!..let's just show him running in slow motion." And we bought it! Things were so simple back then.
Thanks for this! It was fun to see these great old shows. You don't look old enough to remember them, but I'm glad their appeal is not lost on younger people. There's such an innocence about these shows and about a generation who doesn't need so much help in order to believe in heroes! Perhaps with the help of your channel we can recover this faith and innocence. Thanks.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I grew up with the 70s superheroes in prime time and watched the older shows in re-runs. I've always liked anything with superheroes in it.
One thing I do appreciate about DCEU Wonder Woman is that the Lasso of Truth now has a golden glow so you can definitely tell that it's magical.
I also think most of the speed effects in the 1990s Flash series still hold up really well for the time the series was made even without any of today's CGI, just by speeding up the filmed footage of John Wesley Shipp.
His costume cost $25,000.00 to make.
Yes, I loved that little nuance to DCEU’s Wonder Woman since in comics, the lasso had lines coming from it on her waist indicating glowing. Now they have to get the jet right-from outside, it’s invisible, but inside you can see everything-no invisible controls( like super friends), no seeing people floating through the air from outside( like the tv show)
1) Those brief color shots of "The Adventures of Superman" were not colorized decades later - the last two seasons were filmed in color even though the series was broadcast in black-and-white; 2) The scene where Wonder Woman bends a rifle with her bare hands is quite believable, even though the rifle was rubber, because actress Linda Carter ACTED like she was warping solid steel.
It was not broadcast in B&W because the film was in colour. Only the very rare TVs that had colour would see it. Bonanza was one of the first to film in colour from day one (1959).
Shazam!, Jason of Star Command, and Ark II were must-see Saturday morning shows! I still have the large-format Shazam! comics, anyone else read those? The recent films had quite a few Easter eggs for comic readers. Thanks for this great look back, well done!
As a Kid in the 1970's. Lynda Carter taught me everything I needed to know about women lol.
I always found it funny in the old Superman shows, when the villains shoot at Superman, the bullets bounce off his chest, but when they throw the gun at him, he ducks
I am glad you included 'Greatest American Hero', currently having his theme song running though my mind... gah
Necessity is the mother of invention. This is an absolutely charming video, and very much in my wheelhouse of loving the ingenious ways that people made epic superhero adventures on a costume drama budget.😊
I still think the special effects in the 1970's Spiderman TV series where he was climbing buildings were really impressive for the time.
The scenes where Superman becomes cartoon Superman when he flies and otherwise does super things were fascinating, thanks for sharing those.
Just a couple of quick observations: ~ When Superman is holding a piece of the train rail in place in order for the passenger train to cross safely over that broken section, when I was looking underneath the cars and beyond to background scenery, I saw these familiar jagged rocky outcroppings in the distance. I believe that is a section of the Santa Susana Mountains above Chatsworth, in the San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles area). There is a busy rail line that goes through those mountains, including about a mile long tunnel, which I walked through as a teen sometime in the 1960s, and it's pretty exciting! ~ I remember seeing a video about Superman, I think it was, where bullets were bouncing off his chest and creating a small streaks of sparks, or something similar in appearance; and the narrator described that, in the editing department, they would carefully put "scratches" on that part of the film to create this effect. ~ You also talked about the lack of a dashboard in one of the car scenes. What I also noticed was the lack of a windshield and rear view mirror. ~ Lastly, the cars that were rotating on a platform, one over another, looked like the kind of automobile models that the Danbury Mint makes. They create authentic-looking replicas that include very fine and exacting details along with many moving parts.
I've got that exact Six Million Dollar Man poster directly behind you!!
Awesome!
@@tvcrazyman 👍♥️
Still love the old shows, even knowing how they're done. Thank you.
Really enjoyed your video. Great content.
Back when these shows came out, no one noticed those things. Now that we can stream or binge them on DVD we begin to notice the 'goofs' and mistakes, but it only makes me love them more! I was really hoping you would show how they did the jumps on Wonder Woman. I swear there was a Barbara Walters Special with Lynda where they showed how the jumps where done when she jumped over huge trees, bushes and the famous Friends Fountain with and would love to see that again. I know it was done with wires, of course and perspective, but I would really love to see those again!
Maybe I can find something on her jumping to share later on.
These shows brought back so many good memories of the 1970’s. Also, thanks for the outtakes at the end, a good bit of amusement.
Thanks for bringing back so many good memories. I'm a 63yo Australian and grew up in the 70s. Great video, content, and presentation. 🇦🇺 😊
The most important part of wonder woman was 100% real
Your effort is appreciated. Lots of fun! Thank you.
I loved it. I would have never known any of the magic in the movies. Thank you for this video.
Good stuff. I knew most of the how to already.... However, it was great to get a refresher course. Thanks.
I love how goofy he smiles when they're shooting bullets at him! 😂
I would have been crushed too if I had known all these tricks back then. Great video.
Thanks
I just came across the Captain Marvel Show from the 40's. I laughed my butt off when they were flipping the bad guys over the wall with the tree!
A lot of fun, thank you for all your research... I love all those old shows and it was fun to see the things (at least I) never noticed while viewing....
This needs a part 2 . Very interesting. Thank you
I also remember the Spider-man TV show, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Exoman , man from Atlantis, Lucan and the Invisible man.
Spiderman was the best one for the TV special FX, I think, especially the brave guys climbing the outsides of real buildings (except when Peter left his apartment to try his abilities)
@@KaptainCanuck I also enjoyed reading Captain Canuck comics from Richard Comely back in the 70s and still own all my copies! :)
I remember all of those. I can't believe you remember exoman. I guess there's at more than just me.😂
@@KaptainCanuck In the pilot, Peter was still living in his aunt’s house. It was her house that he was crawling all over.
Thanks for sharing,
I remember all those shows. Thank you
I was watching these on a 10 inch B&W 280P Television - no one saw wires. ;)
"Where's the dashboard!" Well I never noticed till now :D
Good stuff. Enjoyed this one. Thanks again for the effort.
I appreciate it. Thanks
I never noticed any of that stuff when I was a kid. I just simply enjoyed the scenes. Everything looked real to me. Thanks for posting
I have to say, I love your commentary. Instead of the exaggerated hyperbole of many UA-camrs, you have a very calm and genuine demeanour, which I thoroughly enjoy. Your obvious enthusiasm for these shows shines through and I was particularly enamoured of how you don't denigrate the effects for a cheap laugh - I particularly enjoyed where you said how the younger you might have been disappointed to know. I also loved these shows and there was something exciting and thrilling about them. I pity today's kids growing up with such cynical shows, to the point where I think they've lost that sense of wonder.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I agree, I think kids have lost a lot of that sense of wonder and imagination these days.
I watched these as a kid in the 80s. The cartoon/live action would be AWESOME to watch
Good content!
I worked with Dabbs Greer on a WB show in the early 2000s. He was such a great guy, RIP.
Awesome video. I really enjoyed it
Thanks. That sounds like a very neat experience. I bet he had a bunch of stories to tell. He worked on a lot of great stuff in his career.
Love ALL your videos my friend keep em coming. !!!!! Although i LOVE George Reeves & think he was the BEST Superman Ever I get emotional watching him & CAN'T help just feeling so sad about what happened to him @ such a young age & we'll NEVER Find out the TRUTH. !!!!!!!! 😔🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yeah, it was definitely sad. Christopher Reeve's ending was sad too. I loved watching both of them as Superman when I was a kid.
Great video! Thank you so much!
So charming, impossible to watch and not smile :)
Love watching six million dollar man its good to see you at last on screen linda carter and lindsey wagner most beautiful super heroes
Thanks
It makes you wonder if they had more money back then what effects they could have come up with.They were still enjoyable, and more subtle than some of today’s special effects.Great video,great trip back through nostalgia.❤❤❤❤
Lost in Space actually had a bigger budget than Star Trek. The Jupiter II set was vastly superior to the Enterprise.
Supe cool analysis bro! 70s had a charm which seems dated today, but they had a charm that is yet to be equalled
Great memories…thanks! 👍😀
Lou Ferrigno's make-up for the Hulk took 3 1/2 hours too apply. There was oil based for when he had too perform in rain and water. And the other base which was a lighter tone. It took over an hour to wash it of. Some make-up removals used was lye soap, and various paint removers that were nontoxic.
This was a fun video and I made sure to like it. However I'm a little disappointed that you didn't bring up the remarkable stunts on the 70s Spider-Man series. Maybe if you do another video specifically about stunts? But anyway, great video as always, Crazyman!
I forgot the 70's spiderman crawling all those buildings.
That show was awful.