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I’ve heard that Legends of the Superfriends was bad, but I never realised how bad. I just stumbled across some clips of it on Youtube:
That was comedian Brad Saunders as “Ghetto Man.” If its the same Brad Saunders, he’s still in the comedy business with his Babysitter Productions outfit.
As cringeworthy as that was, and yes that was actually Adam West as Batman, remarks like,
A few years ago the NAACP asked you guys to integrate, but I’m sorry, we don’t feel that the Green Lantern qualifies as coloured people. — Ghetto Man
don’t seem too far off the mark nowadays — and this was made thirty years ago!
I saw this once as a kid and it blew my mind. I had been a faithful viewer of Batman re-runs and the live-action Shazam show. Having both characters + Green Lantern in one show was unreal. It’s cringy now but growing up in the ’70′s meant a very casual acceptance of the “roast/talk show” and the variety show as normal TV genres.
I have no idea how this ever EVER got greenlighted but I suspect drugs were involved. I think LotS only lasted two episodes before it was consigned to oblivion, much to my heartbreak.
Nostalgia is a big influence in how we view these things. I’m sure they were all brilliant in their day, but a lot of those 60s and 70s shows just passed me by. I was either too young or they never made it to the UK, and those that did make it to the UK were shown in an obscure timeslot (I remember having to wake up at 5am to watch re-runs of the Aquaman cartoon).