Hello and welcome to our self-isolation special retrospection podcast in a change from a normal show with each put together a day's retro TV schedule, a list of shows and films that would run from around 9am to 12pm. So when you can't leave your house, settle in and join us for a day's viewing fun. Hello, my name's Colin and if I hear anybody laugh, one wise crack, one sneaker out of any of you, I'll turn you into a toad. And I'm Paul and I might mind my very brag lumpy please.
Course you do. You're like everything lumpy. I do. You've got to strain it through your teeth otherwise you don't get the goodness out of it.
Oh, it's amazing you've still got teeth. Well, for you, not many of you. So where are you going to take turns of our selections, I guess, right? Yeah, this is a new one for us, isn't it?
Yes. So we've got, I mean, I don't know how accurate your times are, mine are not very accurate. And also, I realised I would be fired if I was a scheduling person, because I scheduled stuff in mid-morning and then I watched the episode and I was like, this is harrowing, what's it doing at 11am? I don't think I've actually done everything like that, but I know what you mean.
Okay. As far as the timing goes, I've rounded everything up to the nearest hour or half hour. Yeah. Yeah.
So we may have, I may have more, you may have much, but how many half hour shows you've done, right? Yeah. And to keep it in with the retro theme, I mean, those extra minutes were things finished. It would be the time where you'd get up and make a brew or I'd get up and open a tin of spaghetti hoops.
Oh, it'd be the test code with the one with the chalkboard. Oh, yeah. Do you remember her? Wait, whoa, hold on a second.
That was a bit of a... I just made you a rep. Yeah, but first of all, yeah, do you remember her? She was a child, Colin.
Yeah, so we read the whole fit at the time. Yeah. I was a little purple guy that used to sit with her. It was a puppet.
That was it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure if he was purple, he may be.
I can't remember the colour. Well, I mean, I'm kind of colour blind, so you may not have been purple. He was right yellow. Well, you look better than me.
So, Paul, what are you going to start your mining of self-isolation with? So 9am, I'm going to get up. I'm going to have my... Sorry, just getting up at 9am.
That was a surprise right there. Well, this is all fictitious, isn't it? Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. He's an idealised version of life.
Right, right, right. 9am, I get up. I've fixed myself some cocoa pops or possibly some ready brack, as I indicated earlier. And I think I'd pop on an episode of Space Sentinels from 1977, and particularly the episode that I picked was episode 2, which was called Space Giants.
Does it involve giants? Is this a cat who? I don't think I know this show. Well, it was about a trio of teenage superheroes, although they all look about 35.
It's a cat who. Oh, okay. Wait, they can't even draw on the right age? No, really, they do look about 35, yeah.
That's weird. And they represent three different racial groups, and they use their powers to fight against the forces of evil. It ran for one season of 13 episodes in 1977, but it was always repeated when I was a kid in the early 80s. Right.
So characters that you had were Hercules, pretty self-explanatory. You had Mercury, he was an Asian guy with speed powers. Okay. And you had Astria, who was an African American woman, who could change into any form, and somehow all three of them could fly.
Oh, of course, why not? Was this show, Pat or something else? Like, was it shown in something or is it its own? I think it was part of Swapshot, but it was an American show.
Okay, right, it's a cartoon that they showed. It's a tattoo that they showed. It's kind of that, I got that filmation look about it. Shit.
Just not much animation, the frames. So the hijack was in a volcano, and they were aided by a super computer, because you had to have one of those back then, didn't you? Was it just a voice? Like a flashing light?
I did it. It was a gigantic floating head, holographic floating head, actually. Oh, okay. Yeah.
And they had a cute little robot sidekick, obviously because everything did back then as well, didn't it? So, and it had a cracking, funky soundtrack. It was great. How did it go?
Just a lot of wackers in it. A lot of wackers. Oh, wackers, yeah. Oh, okay.
Fun, a fun fact for you about it. I've tried to interspersed fun facts all through my schedule. Oh, this is new. Yeah.
So the character model of Hercules in the show was actually reused in the initial designs of He-Man, when they were doing the He-Man character in 1983. Oh, okay. Yeah, you can see it. If you see it, you're spotted straight away.
When are you going to tell me your fun fact? It's got a bit of this kind of power. So the episode that I picked was called Space Giants, according to IMDB, was about a trio of enormous robots I sent to Robert Government Vault in the desert, but realising that the superior to humans, they built an army of robots to destroy us. Wow.
And if anyone wants to go and find it is on YouTube. Oh, excellent. Was it like 20 minutes long or something? No, about 20 minutes long, something like that.
Yeah. They're costumes for kind of a mix of all superhero outfits with that kind of Greek god aesthetic to them. You know. The more you describe it, I think I remember it, but it wasn't a favour to mine.
Oh, I never missed it. Never missed it. Yeah. I think that's probably what started my love of superheroes, to be honest.
Really? Yeah. Shake Sentinels. So that's what we should blame.
I suppose. Yeah. Yeah. So what's your choice?
Well, it's no surprise, but my 9am choice is Will Otherwisp. Will Otherwisp? Yeah. Serious?
Five minute cartoons. About a group of inhabitants of a forest. And this is IMDB telling us this. Will Otherwisp is a sprite farm from gas who narrates each story of a character's including Evil Edna, of which shapes like a TV set, an old fashioned TV set, I should point out.
Yeah. So you think she'd have the aerial things to get out the top of her head? Yes. They were what cast her spells.
Yes. And the TV stand was her legs. Yes. Yeah.
And we have Mavis, who was a rather overweight fairy. She couldn't fly because of her weight, but everyone loved her as she was, although she was always concerned about that. Well, I never realized that these episodes had so much depth through them. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And then there were other characters like the Moog and the Ergun Arts, which were aliens that flew in a mushroom. Ah, when was this 70s?
Ah, yes. Think we know what was going on there then. Right. So it's 81.
There's still mushrooms involved. Right. All the voices were done by Kenneth Williams. Yeah, exactly.
Well, don't bow. Nice impression. And Will otherwise itself was actually drawn to look like Kenneth Williams. Yes, I remember that.
Yeah. And we had an effort. He was a Groff East End caterpillar. And he was kind of the protagonist in the show.
Kenneth Williams turned up a lot on kids TV back then. They didn't need to do a few Japanese as well. Yes, he did. Yeah.
Actually, it's funny, but I've noticed that a lot of comedians do children's television in the UK. But man, I think a lot of comedians are very good at doing voices. Yeah. And kind of clearly we're certainly good at that.
Yeah. And the episode I've chosen is episode 17. And it's boring, old Edna. And this episode, I've heard the caterpillar.
He's kind of tired of Evil Edna because she's always trying to ruin things. And he gets a woodworm who has an Asian accent. OK. But it's not a dodgy accent.
It's OK. Does it make fun of different words or stuff? It's just because every character in this show has a different accent. What does he say like, Colin?
I'm not doing it. Ripping bombs from that. But he gets this woodworm to eat her wooden cabinet away. So Evil Edna is nude.
Wow. Yeah. And then... I think I'll buy you a bag then.
I know, right? You can see all her wiring. Can you? Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. Ah, weirdly. Her dogs. Whatever, it was kind of Williams.
It had to be nobs, wouldn't it? The wood. And then she puts on like this fetch thing and then tells people that if you laugh at this, I'm going to turn into a toad and cross alpha, who's, he just can't stuff himself from laughing. He's turning into a toad and the episode finishes.
What can you say? Not much. But it's five minutes of... What?
It probably makes a lot of sense if you're either stoned or drunk. Yeah, it did. I never knew that Willa was so complicated. I mean, I'm a fan of Willa, which I haven't seen in years.
And I don't remember it being so strange. Yeah, it's kind of strange, I think. Especially, I think it's strange because the characters and the accents, they seem almost adult-like in what they're saying and doing. Even though it's like a furry land.
And I think this is one of the thing that English children show at the 70s and 80s does. It says a lot of stuff that kids don't get, but adults are going, oh, okay. It's a little bit of that today, I think, because obviously I've seen a lot of modern kids shows by having one. But yeah, I'd agree, I think back then, there was a lot of stuff that probably went over their heads more than it does now.
Yeah, yeah. So I said I've done a five minute show, should I do my next one? Yeah, go on. Okay, 905, we're going with Charlton and the Wheelies.
No, this is not a shock for me. I thought you were going to pick this. Why? Because I know it's something that you like.
You use a good voice on the telling, I remember. Oh, it all aired. That's the one, yeah. Do I, I am DB says a wonderfully eccentric series about Charlton, a happy-go-lucky dragon, named after a suburb of Manchester?
Charlton. Is that a suburb of Manchester? I guess, I mean, no, that's with an income. Who intentionally files the evil schemes of a mad Welsh kettle, which we try to stop Charlton and the Wheelies having fun.
More drugs. Brose, play. This was a stop motion show that ran from 1975 to 1978, and it's set in Wheelie World because all the characters have three wheels. You know why they have three wheels?
No. Easy to animate. Yes, because they're all, you said they're all stop motion, wasn't it? Yes.
Yeah. Yeah. And the kettle witch, Phinella, she's always coming up with plots to kind of get rid of Charlton because she doesn't like the fact that Charlton makes the wheelies happy. Okay.
Yeah. And I've chosen episode five, which is Charlton and the crime wave, which is where Phinella starts to commit crimes and then leaves evidence pointing to the fact that it's Charlton who did it. Oh, that's a classic Sweeney plot. That is.
We're the Sweeney. Oh, it all did. So why do you like this then? Because you've always liked this show.
Hold on. I think it just because Charlton cracks me up because the dialogue, there's something you could take the dialogue in two different ways. You could take it at face value where it's just a kid's job, but there's a hint in your end about certain things that I said and done, and it's a bit more sophisticated than you would expect. It's also just stupidly fun and it's kind of wacky too.
I think it's the kind of thing that the UK has always done really well, this kind of stuff with other wheelies and there's a couple of other ones as well, which are really old things like Mr. Ben and things like that. Yeah. Yeah.
I think it's just something about us, I think. I think it does. Yeah. Not sure what.
Drugs. That's a good choice. I like that. I like that.
I like that. I like that. I like that. I like that.
I like that. I like that wheelies as well. I think I used to sit more when I was quote unquote, having a day off sick. Yeah.
I got a feeling it was a mid day, right? I think it was. For some reason. Yeah.
Well, they used to do that a lot, didn't they? That's when Mr. Ben used to be on as well. And the other thing that's strange about these shows, like Will All The Wears, Charlton and The Wheelies, and then other shows that I don't have in my list like bagpusses, there wasn't really many episodes made, but in my mind there's hundreds of them.
I think it's just because they were so heavily rotated when we were kids. Yeah. I guess so. Yeah.
Yeah. Things like finger mouse. Yes. Yes.
Thomas the Tank Engine. Thomas the other one. Not Thomas the Tank Engine. Sorry.
I've had the engine. I've had the engine. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. They were mid day stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
But there's not many other made. No, no, but they were all these on. Yeah. No, that's good.
Good. I, I, I, I, I approve of those two. Oh, thank you very much. I'm glad they have to pause.
Let's just stamp it. Paul, see all of approval. Then right. Yeah.
That'll change shortly. You, you couldn't either disapprove or approve of my first choice, because you didn't know what it was. That's true. Yeah.
Yeah. This could change soon, but I think you'll be all right with my second choice. All right. So at 9.30 I've chosen an episode of a battle of the planets.
Oh, yes. The episode I've chosen is episode two. The rescue of the astronauts. The battle of planets was a cartoon show that ran from 1978 to 1983.
For 85 episodes, believe it or not. I do know the song, I think. Yeah, 85. The show was actually, well, I'll get to what the show was, but it was about a five member superhero team, superheroes again.
Yeah, you love your superheroes. You know, called GeForce, and they fight to defend the Earth, and it's base colonies, apparently, from the threat of the planet spectra. Oh, none of this I knew. The show was actually, was mostly footage from existing Japanese anime series called Gatchaman.
Yes. Yeah. And it was all tweaked for US audiences. They took out most of the violence, and they added a robot character called 7Sarc 7.
Oh, he wasn't in the original? No, no, no. He was kind of looked like Artie D2. Yes.
Yeah. And he was there to tie all the footage together and create a story that was completely different from the original story that they take in the footage from. Right. Huh.
You got props for that, because that's quite clever thing to do, isn't it? Yeah, that seemed to go on a lot more back then, because I'm thinking of monkey magic. Yes, it was blur plots were completely different than the actual plots. Yes, and the dubbing was very loose.
Compared to the original. So the characters in Battle of the Planets were key up. Vos by Alan Young. You know Alan Young?
You're going to have to tell me. I'm not sure. Oh, very old movie actor. If you, I'm deviated.
Thanks for narrowing it down there, Paul. Oh, he's in Tonset. The people are up. All right.
Key up, spoken kind of, like he had issues, let's say. Oh, wait, a lisp? He was kind of talking a nonsensical brain injury kind of way, let's say. And then you had Jason, Princess.
Yeah, what did you think of Princess, Paul? I thought that she was very interestingly drawn for, you know, six year old me at the time. Yeah, okay. You're looking at pictures of them now, aren't you?
No, I'm just remembering, you know, what possible thoughts you could have had about Princess. Oh, I'd have to. Yeah. Tiny.
And we had Casey Kason as a mark. Remember Casey Kason? Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the villains, I was voiced by Key Luke. Key Luke was quite an old actor at the time. He'd been in a lot of Charlie Chan movies from the 1940s. But people probably remember in most as the Curie-Oshic group, if you can say it, Curiosity Shop owner in Gremlins.
Oh, okay. Yep. Yep. Costumes.
It also appeared in a TV series that I'm suspicious, might appear in your list later. Oh, really? Yeah. Are you sure about that?
Not totally sure. Because you've gone off the show. I've gone off the show. Yeah, it's not as high up as it used to be, but back in 1988 when it was on, holy crap.
We can't never stop talking about it. So we'll see. Yes, we will. I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I'm not going to spoil it for you.
Okay. I'm going to keep your legs now. You're going to be waiting for it. Oh, yeah.
So the costumes were kind of a fantastic mixture of birds with sort of, they had a beak tail mate and feathered style capes. Yeah. I thought it looked great. The soundtrack was fantastic.
Again, it was really funky 70s soundtrack. I don't know whether the soundtrack, the music was from the original Gatchaman or whether they put it on themselves. Yeah, I don't know either. Was the ship called the Phoenix?
Is that right? So this episode I chose, episode two, rescue the astronauts was, it was about two astronauts returning from a mission and they disappear upon re-entry. That's the worst place to disappear. That depends.
You got to get out of there quick. And G-force are called in to investigate. And I always remember the voiceover for Battle of the Panic at the beginning that kind of told you what was happening. And he had this line in it that said, they're watching for alien attacks from Beyond Space.
Oh, where's that? Beyond Space? What's Beyond Space? More Space?
Yeah. Because you said they're, they're, they're, they're, they're attacks from Mars Space. Which is the far road into my space. Oh, very good.
That's it. That, that exists, isn't it? Yeah, it does. We were doing podcasts there 15 years ago.
We'd be all right, would we? We'd be amazing because we'd be the first to do podcasts. Ten says. Yeah.
Do you remember that seven is like seven? I was trying to get off with Susan, the sexy computer. Vaguely, yes, yes. Yeah.
I like Susan, she had a nice voice. Let's move on. Yes, I think we're done there. So what's your next choice, Colin?
Well, I'm still at nine, ten because all mine are really shot at this point, but I'm going for Danger Mouse. Of course. So IMDB says Danger Mouse, the greatest secret agent in the world, was follow Colonel Kays Aarders and try not to break Professor Squawk and Clocks inventions, but I don't remember Professor Squawk and Clock being in the original. I thought she was a character created for the reboot that came with something strange to file Baron Greenback and his henchmen to the Letos plans.
So this is animated TV series from 1981. I was originally voiced by David Jason and Terry Scott. And Danger Mouse is a superhero mouse that lives in a post box and is ably assisted by a sidekick, Penfold. And they are both sent, go on.
Would you call him a superhero? I thought he was more kind of like a spy. Yeah, I mean IMDB calls him a superhero, but all right. Spy, a spy is fine, I don't mind.
I mean, I'm not arguing the semantics of Danger Mouse with you. I think you are. Should we go deep? We're going to go deep on Danger Mouse.
Rest of the podcast is just about Danger Mouse. Is he a spy? Is he a superhero? Is he a rodent?
What is the defining line between the both? I mean, is James Bond a superhero? Kind of is sometimes. Not anymore.
Why? He runs through walls now. Oh yeah, that's true. Carry on.
Okay. So in this episode, it's called the Four Tasks of Danger Mouse. And it's from the second series. And it's a sick episode.
And in this, Baron Greenback has kidnapped Penfold. And Danger Mouse has to get four items from around the world to rescue Penfold. And the last item are feathers from a vampire duck. Vampire duck?
Yeah. And this is the first time that we see Count Docula. Really? Yeah, this is where he first appeared.
And all Count Docula wants to do is become famous on television. He wants to be a TV star, an actor. And he does. He gets his wish, doesn't he?
Because he gets his ocean. Yeah. Yeah. That?
Didn't know that. No, what? Count does drink because it was a blood, was it? It's a catch up.
That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, well, I mean... None of this is in this episode because it's really like early days for the character. Right. It's just a loud duck that's a vampire at this point.
And there's a lot of jokes that are very text-avory in nature. So going off of mountains and stuff. It's also a lot of cheap animation that they used to do, you know, people in dark rooms with just the eyes showing. In this one, it's the fog of London.
Because they're trying to get the fog monster. Oh, no, no, you've said that. It's kind of ringing a bell with me this night. Was it ringing a bell in the fog?
Dong. Dong. Dong. Dong.
Yeah, you like a big dong? Oh, dear. Oh, don't worry, Paul. I've got worse than that later.
Oh, yeah. I'm surprised that you got to mention got into the whole painful things, to be honest. Well... Oh, God.
I think that I like this show so much because it reminds me of one of my best friends. Who's that then? It's a guy called John. And he looks remarkably like Penfold.
That's it? Yeah. It's weird. I mean, he's cross between Penfold and Ed the Duck.
What? He's got the first style of Ed the Duck. Oh, right. Okay.
All right. All right. Anyway, I really like Dangitemals. I like the fact that it's David Jason and Terry Scott.
Some great jokes in it. I also like the fact that they've rebooted it now, and it's still funny now. And one of the reasons it's funny now is because they use a lot of comedy writers, sitcom writers to write the episodes. Yeah, it is.
It's one of the few times that something gets brought back and it's just as good as it was back then. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good show.
And I can always like throw on an episode of Dangitemals and it kills 20 minutes and I'm happy. Is it still David Jason? No, it's Alexander Armstrong. Oh, yes it is, isn't it?
Yeah. As Dangitemals, Penfold is Kevin Elden. Ah, okay. And Colonel K.
Stephen Fry. They also don't look like the previous episodes, though, which is probably one of the picks. Yeah, they do. And now they have, I think Richard A.O.D.
has been in it. As well, playing a character. I think John Oliver has been in it as well, isn't it? I think so.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I think Richard A.O.D plays a snowman. Yeah, it's a good show.
I like the original, like the new one. Fantastic. So what have you got now? You might as well do another one to get us up to 10 o'clock.
Oh, yeah, this one, because this is half an hour, this one. And I think this one will be a little bit of a surprise. Okay, here we go. I'm ready.
The Monkeys. The Monkeys. Yes. Hey, hey.
Go on, then. Do the rest. We're the Monkeys. Yeah.
So, I ODB. I'm on the other side. Sorry, go on. I sang one of those songs.
Am I didn't, you know. You did. Oh, that was wishful thinking. Yeah, I know.
I did pick it. Well. So IMDB says the Mr. Benches were struggling rock band.
And that's it. That's all IMDB says. Good old IMDB. Yeah.
Right. So, go on. No, I was just going to say tell me about the Monkeys. Then.
Oh, so the Monkeys ran from 1966 to 1971. And it did follow the exploits of American pop bands, but of course they grew larger than the series itself and became a band themselves. Yeah, they weren't though. Really at first.
They were put together for the TV show, weren't they? They were a manufacturer's pop band. One of the first. Yeah, I think so.
And then they released an album but the album had them as being the musicians. And the Monkeys were not happy about this at all. Because they always publicly admitted that they were actors pretending to be a band. So when the producers and the music people faked it, they were like, no, this is nonsense.
And so they actually got rid of the music supervisor at this point. They fired him. And they started to learn how to do their instruments and they wrote their own songs. And then they actually became a real band because they were unhappy about the idea of being a fraud.
Yeah, because of what they finally ended up at. So they're often named as kind of like the American Beatles aren't they? The time Beatles loved them. I can say that.
Yeah, publicly. They not just for the fact that they were comedians and actors but also for the music as well. Yeah. Yeah.
I like the show because I've forgotten how insane it is, how it breaks the rules. I mean, on the episode I've chosen is the fifth episode and it's called the Spy Who Came From The Cool. And obviously it's a parody of spy films. The Monkeys are mistaken for Russian spies and they accidentally buy a per-miracres that contain a hidden micro-tape.
Per what? Per-miracres. All right. Oh, for some reason in the show a lot of people keep saying it.
Miracres. Miracres? Yeah, I'm not sure why. Okay.
Wasn't Monkeys English? One of them was, right? Yeah. David Jones?
David Jones, that was him. Yeah. Yeah. So this show has obviously it has a lot of jokes about spy films, spy TV shows.
It also has a lot of breaking the fourth wall. There's one where they have a lamp and David rubs the lamp and then a junior appears and she's dressed like the character from iDream of Jeannie. Oh. And she's like, Master, what would you like?
And he just looks at the camera and goes, what do you know? Wrong show and then leaves. So there's a lot of stuff like that. I actually will see some of these kind of jokes in a later series that I've chosen.
But I think it's just a fun thing. And also, I like the Monkeys music as well. Like, do you know what? I didn't know that about you.
Didn't know I love the Monkeys? Oh, yeah. Hey, Quarters is a beautiful album. Yeah, love the Monkeys.
Didn't they do kind of an experimental movie later? A head. Head, that's it. Janicales is evolving.
Yes, great film. It's about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it's about like, and a fake band trying to seem relevant to the time that they're not moving. It's a great film.
It really is. So there's still monkeys in it? Yes, they're in it. No, I mean, they're still playing.
Yeah, they're playing the Monkeys, but they're playing it very differently. So is this was after the TV? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
Interesting. I might have to go. Oh, you're sure. It's always movies that I've always heard about, but they've actually seen.
So I think I should go and take, you know, look for that, I think. Even if you don't like, enjoy it, it's still interesting. Well, I love a lot of, particularly late 60s, early 70s, kind of experimental nonsense. Okay.
Okay. Don't worry. Best way to put it, but I do like all that kind of stuff. Yeah.
Well, that'll definitely fit into that category, if that is really a category. Well, I've got something in that category coming up later. Oh, dear. Okay.
So 10 a.m. And what a surprise. It's more superheroes. Is it just, is it just going to be a day of superhero stuff?
It's not. No, okay. Okay. I can't just work with it, but I think this could be the last time.
All right. Right. I'll hold you to this. Yeah.
Oh, don't do that. Never hold me to anything. Um, so tell me, I'm gonna put an episode of Spider-Man and his amazing friends. Which can be showed at TV show, cartoon series that ran from 1981 to 1986 for three seasons.
How many episodes in a season? Roughly. Uh, about 12. I think season two only had four, for some reason.
Oh, all right. I should check. I've got it on a box set. So, believe it.
I like the way I believe it or not. Oh, yeah. I believe it. Let's not need to add that bit.
So after I was an episode seven, seven little superheroes. I'm sure you can imagine what that one's about. It's about eight little superheroes. But it's actually a play on the Tenet Lendens.
Ah, okay. Oh, I like that idea. Yeah. So, um, the show is about Spider-Man, obviously.
Um, Battle in Crime in New York with the help of Iceman and Firestar. And they all live together in an apartment, with Firestar's small dog called Ms Lion. Now, for some reason Firestar sticks in my mind. I don't know why.
No, I don't know why. I'm not a big superhero fan, so there must be something about that character. Is it a woman? It is a woman, yes.
Okay. No, it's a Firestar, it's actually a character that was created specifically for his TV show. She wasn't from the comics. Ah, so I must have seen this series at some point.
I'm sure you did. It used to be on Going Live. Then, yes. I would have seen it then, yeah.
Yeah. Um, yeah. So, I'm pretty sure, as you say, my love of Firestar as a seven-year-old boy had nothing to do with a skin type costume. Absolutely not, pal.
Just stop. No, no, no, no. Stop. Um, apparently the tiny little dog, Ms Lion, was actually one of the deciding factors for selling the show to NBC.
Wait. They wanted a to be dog in it. The dog was important. The dog was important to NBC.
They had to have the dog, otherwise they were going to take it. Okay. All right. Let's just let that one go.
He's good to know that TV companies make decisions back then, just like they did today. Apparently. It's on the show that the characters teamed up with other Marvel superheroes, like Captain America, the Black Knight, and the X-Men. And the show featured voice talents of people like Dan Gil-Zan, Kathy Garver, and the great Frank Welker, who's pretty much in every cartoon series from the 80s that we watched.
Okay. And also, narration from Stanley. Ah, so he actually gets something to do with this. He's open every episode.
All right. He's a group of people who's every episode. He was used to start every episode. On this episode, he's kind of a riff on 10th of the Indians.
So a mysterious stranger invites Spider-Man and his friends to his isolated country house. And he also invites the Submariner, Shanna the She-Devil. She was a new one on me. Yeah, never heard of that.
Captain America and Dr Strange. And he's places called Wolf Island. And Spider-Man goes? I mean...
Oh, he goes all right. Oh, he goes all right. Oh, all right. Oh, he goes he goes.
Yes, he goes. Oh, okay. Because I mean, it sounds a bit strange. Why would you?