[A quick one today, posted on 20 March 2008 (a THURSDAY!), found here. Surprisingly, I was able to find several of the videos Greg linked to! Enjoy!]
Column’s probably going to be delayed this week, but in the meantime, here’s a few amazing things I found on YouTube. These are clips so rare and weird that I’ve never even seen this stuff bootlegged at a convention.
Put it this way: my alternate title was See? See? I’m NOT MAKING IT UP!
Just to get the party started, here’s a clip from the 1977 TV-movie pilot for “Exo-Man.” I don’t care what anybody says about the new movie with Robert Downey Jr., seeing this will convince you that all Marvel fans should be down on their knees thanking God nobody in Hollywood took a swing at making Iron Man till now. [Edit: I don’t know if this is the same clip because Greg’s link is dead, but here it is!]
And here are a couple of the proto-steampunk Lone Ranger cartoons from 1966: Cult of the Black Widow and The Prairie Pirate. I’d forgotten this when I wrote the Ranger column, but Tonto got to have solo adventures on this show too — here he is fighting The Snow Monster. These are even more demented than I remembered. [Edit: Cult of the Black Widow is below, but I can’t find the other two. Sorry!]
Two of the post-Adam West Batman attempts at campy television superheroics: Captain Nice and Mr. Terrific. [Edit: The video below isn’t an actual episode, just a bit about the show. The Mr. Terrific link is a complete episode.]
Just for Bill Reed: Young Samson and Goliath. Sadly, it’s only the commercial, but you can at least get a taste of the sheer adrenaline-rush craziness of the thing. [Edit: The first video is the intro, and the second video IS an actual clip from the show! Greg’s link was, sadly, dead.]
The Greatest Batusi Ever.
… and finally, my new favorite music video.
Enjoy. See you in a couple of days.
In that spirit, here is the Premakes version of The Avengers, using old film footage….