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
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.
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.
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 😊
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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!
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".
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).
I'm 52 so I'm old enough to remember watching some of these shows as a kid and these HD tv does those old shows no justices you can see everything; I was watching the hulk and when he was turning back to Banner, he was looking into a puddle of water playing in it and you can see the paint coming off his hand lol
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.
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)
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)
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.
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.
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!
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.
Mixing the 2 D animation with live action was so cool and ahead of its time.I wish they would do that in today's films it would be pretty cool to see how it would turn out.
Some great stuff here. As a child of the 70s I loved all these shows. Interesting how Burt Ward needed a stunt double for a running scene but if you watch the $6 million man, there are plenty of scenes where Steve is shown running through a forest or over some terrain, and it’s clearly a stuntman. Maybe they didn’t want to get the actor too sweaty. 😂
I recently watched a bunch of old Ultraman episodes and there were tons of things like in these tv shows that as a kid I never noticed. Still great memories 😂😂
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 loved this video. I grew up with this level of technology. I have to admit, I laughed out loud when the narrator said, "Why did Burt Ward need a stunt double to run around the corner." 🤣😂😅
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!
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.
Another thing that George Reeves would do is jump up outside a window by grabbing a bar above it and then swing his legs into the window and release the bar so it look like he was landing feet first through the window. It was a great effect! In the DVD commentary Jack Larson and Noel Neill talked about the episode where they got the power of flight and had to lie down on that arm that George used for the flying shots. George could hold himself on it for hours, but they found they didn't have the strength to do it for more than minutes. They said they always knew George was athletic, but never really realized just HOW athletic he was until they had to do those flying scenes!
I grew up with this stuff, so great to see here. One note is Al out of this tuff was not seen because of misdirection but also the screen size ratio was 4:3 and was out of frame. Many of the videos show the full frame which would not have been possible back when these shows were on. Great stuff though, some stuff could have been seen for sure.
One thing I noticed later, was that George Reeves' Clark Kent, was definitely not mild mannered. I recall Clark even socking some criminals himself from time to time. When I saw Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent, I really appreciated how he had to recreate that character to fit the mild mannered mold.
Yeah, the first season of Superman was shot like an old film noir, and some of the scenes were kind of dark for what was eventually marketed as a children's show.
I think when I was a kid I just figured that was considered mild mannered for the 1950s. It makes you wonder, but then I'm not sure the show would have worked with Reeves acting too mild mannered, especially in the first couple of seasons when the show was more gritty.
this was pretty good all of my favorite shows i watched everytime they came on review thor vs hulk 70s when banner started to change thor looked over the other way when hulk was morphing to the hulk anyway awesome video
I noticed even as a kid that when Wonder Woman would do some sort of stunt, she ( her stunt double) was wearing boots with no heel, then when it switched back to Lynda Carter she had heels on her boots again
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 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. !!!!!!!! 😔🙏🏼🙏🏼
I have to say, I love your commentary. Instead of the exaggerated hyperbole of many RUclipsrs, 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.
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!
More Bionic Man extras. Was hoping the venus probe would make it. An excellent couple of episodes. Would love to see kids now have to wait a week for the cliffhanger to be resolved. It had everyone talking
So many videos drag on and on where things are so obvious and I get a little more mad than I should. I defiantly loved this video. I was actually shown things I missed and thought, "wow cool." TY
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.❤❤❤❤
I was not really into comic books as a kid, but I watched most of these comic book tv shows and movies back in the late 70's. I believe that's Debra Winger next to Lynda Carter in the invisible plane at around 13:05 .
George Reeve's smashing through anything looked great. I can't remember the episode, but there's a time he smashes through a house wall (suspiciously close to a door he could have just entered) and a part of the wall bonks him on the head. Reeve seems to notice but somehow it was just the funniest one I saw.
"Where's the Dashboard?" ......... I'm subbing just for that, but also a fan of classics like these as well. Met the guy that made the original "Blob" for the movie. He had a container of it, but he said don't touch it, its toxic now. BTW! Don't know where you are, but there is an event we go to every year called Retrocon, around Philly, PA. This years guests are Bionic Man and Woman actors! I'm sure it's obvious where I am in the video 😀
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....
Thank you for this video, it kind of brought back a lot of memories from when I was a kid, I guess I'm showing my age. To me, Lynda Carter still looks stunning as Wonder Woman. Even more beautiful than the modern version that we have today. Growing up I did my best to try to date a girl who looked like her, but I never succeeded, Well, I'm still not dead yet, so there's still a chance, maybe.
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
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!!!!
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..
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.
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?
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.
Sure takes me back to the good old days when cartoons like Shazam was on Saturday mornings.
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.
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.
Back when tv was classic gotta love the effects for its time
Lynda is perfact
Still is!!!
@@李灰灰-h8b But she only had one butgcheek.
Ah soo fine
Sometimes the old effects look better...more real.
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.😀
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!
These special effects’ bloopers just make these shows so much more adorable!
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? ! ? ! 😕🤔
Even though you showed us how the special effect was done.
I would still watch these shows over and over again.....Great childhood memories.
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.
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.
As a Kid in the 1970's. Lynda Carter taught me everything I needed to know about women lol.
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.
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...
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
Linda Carter genetics, simply beautiful.
Loved how they did the special effects back then
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. 🙂
These B&W superman animation transitions are amazing
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 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!
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 love how goofy he smiles when they're shooting bullets at him! 😂
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.
Great work using Ferigno's guest appearance on The Fall Guy for the Hulk.
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!
I still think the special effects in the 1970's Spiderman TV series where he was climbing buildings were really impressive for the time.
Love this, thanks for revealing ( and crushing my childhood) the tricks and techniques, lol.
When fake was real. Now fake is done with computers and not real at all. Irony can be ironic.
That's true.
lol
Love the dummy which hit it's head and you can see the wooden ankle joints.
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).
The scenes where Superman becomes cartoon Superman when he flies and otherwise does super things were fascinating, thanks for sharing those.
I'm 52 so I'm old enough to remember watching some of these shows as a kid and these HD tv does those old shows no justices you can see everything; I was watching the hulk and when he was turning back to Banner, he was looking into a puddle of water playing in it and you can see the paint coming off his hand lol
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.
I am glad you included 'Greatest American Hero', currently having his theme song running though my mind... gah
As a kid I remember noticing some of these bloopers and laughing. I still loved these shows.
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.😂
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)
The most important part of wonder woman was 100% real
GREAT VIDEO! It brought back a lot of good memories! Thank you!!
I appreciate it.
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.
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.
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 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
im sure someone asked him to shave off the mustache and the stunt man went oh heck no! lol
He tried to powder it! 😂
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.
Mixing the 2 D animation with live action was so cool and ahead of its time.I wish they would do that in today's films it would be pretty cool to see how it would turn out.
Some great stuff here. As a child of the 70s I loved all these shows. Interesting how Burt Ward needed a stunt double for a running scene but if you watch the $6 million man, there are plenty of scenes where Steve is shown running through a forest or over some terrain, and it’s clearly a stuntman. Maybe they didn’t want to get the actor too sweaty. 😂
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 recently watched a bunch of old Ultraman episodes and there were tons of things like in these tv shows that as a kid I never noticed. Still great memories 😂😂
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 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.
First time I've seen the "Texas Switch" used with between live-action and animation!
I loved this video. I grew up with this level of technology. I have to admit, I laughed out loud when the narrator said, "Why did Burt Ward need a stunt double to run around the corner." 🤣😂😅
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.
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.
Another thing that George Reeves would do is jump up outside a window by grabbing a bar above it and then swing his legs into the window and release the bar so it look like he was landing feet first through the window. It was a great effect! In the DVD commentary Jack Larson and Noel Neill talked about the episode where they got the power of flight and had to lie down on that arm that George used for the flying shots. George could hold himself on it for hours, but they found they didn't have the strength to do it for more than minutes. They said they always knew George was athletic, but never really realized just HOW athletic he was until they had to do those flying scenes!
I grew up with this stuff, so great to see here. One note is Al out of this tuff was not seen because of misdirection but also the screen size ratio was 4:3 and was out of frame. Many of the videos show the full frame which would not have been possible back when these shows were on. Great stuff though, some stuff could have been seen for sure.
WONDER WOMAN AND THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN WAS FILMED BACKWARDS WHEN MAKING HIGH JUMPS, RUN BACKWARDS WHEN SEPERATELY FILMED JUMPING! GREAT VIDEO!
I remember all those shows. Thank you
So charming, impossible to watch and not smile :)
One thing I noticed later, was that George Reeves' Clark Kent, was definitely not mild mannered. I recall Clark even socking some criminals himself from time to time. When I saw Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent, I really appreciated how he had to recreate that character to fit the mild mannered mold.
Yeah, the first season of Superman was shot like an old film noir, and some of the scenes were kind of dark for what was eventually marketed as a children's show.
I think when I was a kid I just figured that was considered mild mannered for the 1950s. It makes you wonder, but then I'm not sure the show would have worked with Reeves acting too mild mannered, especially in the first couple of seasons when the show was more gritty.
I loved it. I would have never known any of the magic in the movies. Thank you for this video.
This needs a part 2 . Very interesting. Thank you
this was pretty good all of my favorite shows i watched everytime they came on review thor vs hulk 70s when banner started to change thor looked over the other way when hulk was morphing to the hulk anyway awesome video
I noticed even as a kid that when Wonder Woman would do some sort of stunt, she ( her stunt double) was wearing boots with no heel, then when it switched back to Lynda Carter she had heels on her boots again
Thanks for bringing back so many good memories. I'm a 63yo Australian and grew up in the 70s. Great video, content, and presentation. 🇦🇺 😊
I wish I could go back to the eighties and live there forever 😊!!!
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
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.
Supe cool analysis bro! 70s had a charm which seems dated today, but they had a charm that is yet to be equalled
I have to say, I love your commentary. Instead of the exaggerated hyperbole of many RUclipsrs, 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.
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.
More Bionic Man extras. Was hoping the venus probe would make it. An excellent couple of episodes. Would love to see kids now have to wait a week for the cliffhanger to be resolved. It had everyone talking
oh those sounds really brought me back to 1970s as a kid I had everything related to the. six million dollar man even the inflatable house
So many videos drag on and on where things are so obvious and I get a little more mad than I should. I defiantly loved this video. I was actually shown things I missed and thought, "wow cool." TY
Good stuff. I knew most of the how to already.... However, it was great to get a refresher course. Thanks.
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
Not bad. I loved the Superman re-runs on Saturday mornings.
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.
I was not really into comic books as a kid, but I watched most of these comic book tv shows and movies back in the late 70's. I believe that's Debra Winger next to Lynda Carter in the invisible plane at around 13:05 .
George Reeve's smashing through anything looked great. I can't remember the episode, but there's a time he smashes through a house wall (suspiciously close to a door he could have just entered) and a part of the wall bonks him on the head. Reeve seems to notice but somehow it was just the funniest one I saw.
Great tv back then.
"Where's the Dashboard?" ......... I'm subbing just for that, but also a fan of classics like these as well. Met the guy that made the original "Blob" for the movie. He had a container of it, but he said don't touch it, its toxic now.
BTW! Don't know where you are, but there is an event we go to every year called Retrocon, around Philly, PA. This years guests are Bionic Man and Woman actors! I'm sure it's obvious where I am in the video 😀
I wonder what the blob was actually made of. 😀🤔
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....
Thank you for this video, it kind of brought back a lot of memories from when I was a kid, I guess I'm showing my age. To me, Lynda Carter still looks stunning as Wonder Woman. Even more beautiful than the modern version that we have today. Growing up I did my best to try to date a girl who looked like her, but I never succeeded, Well, I'm still not dead yet, so there's still a chance, maybe.
I've got that exact Six Million Dollar Man poster directly behind you!!
Awesome!
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The best special effects hands down were done for Irwin Allen's shows for 20th century Fox....the best...😊
I was one of those kids who actually liked "The Amazing Spider Man" live action television series with Nicholas Hammond. It was fun!
I was disappointed it didn't last long when I was a kid.