HERO HIGH:THE COMPLETE SERIES TV DVD REVIEW

A blurb from Entertainment Rights about “Hero High: The Complete Series: Welcome to Hero High, an institute of super learning for teenage heroes and heroines in training! These students aren’t always in control of their super powers, leading to hilarious misadventures. In 1981, Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! Combining live-action skits, comedy, and songs with the animated adventures of Hero High and Shazam!

In 1981, The Kids Super Power Hour with Shazam! premiered on NBC. It was a combination of live action footage of the Hero High characters dressed up as to the parts they played and would also do the voices as well. Then they would show an episode from Hero High and an episode from the animated series of Shazam! The show lasted just one season and was one of the last true Saturday morning Children’s show before syndication took over because sadly in my opinion, there is no more Saturday Morning TV. As usual, my hats off to Entertainment Rights to put out a packed full product. This set has all 26 episodes of the series along with Audio Commentaries on 1 episode and the live action footage. There are also interviews with the actors and crew from the series.

VIDEO

The video quality is great! The episodes were digitally remastered. There is also a Play All feature.

Audio

Was originally recorded in Mono. Audio quality is also in Mono.


Disc 1-
1. “Boo Who”
2. “Starfire, Where Are You?”
3. “The Art Of Ballot”
4. “The Captives”
5. “Do The Computer Stomp”
6. “A Fistful Of Knuckles” *
7. “ Rat Finx Rex”
8. “High Rise Hijinx”
9. “Off Her Rocker”
10. “A Clone Of His Own”
11. “Follow The Litter”
12. “Game Of Chance”
13. “Malt Stop Mayhem”
14. “The Umpire Strikes Back”


Disc 2-
15. “The Not So Great Outdoors”
16. “Track Race”
17. “Cover Twirl”
18. “The Human Fly”
19. “My Job Is Yours”
20. The Big Bang Theory”
21. “What’s News”
22. “He Sinks Seaships”
23. “Girl Of His Dreams”
24. “The Blow-Way Blimp”
25. “Jog-A-Long”
26. “Law Of The Pack”

Extras

Disc 1- None

Disc 2- Spotlight Interview with Lou Scheimer (02:19)
Spotlight Interview with John Berwick (12:40)-“Rex Ruthless”
Spotlight Interview with Johnny Venokur (12:42)-“Punk Rock”
Spotlight Interview with Tom Ruegger (07:08)
Spotlight Interview with Robby Landau (05:27)-Writer
Spotlight Interview with Michael Swanigan (05:16)-Storyboard Artist
Spotlight Interview with Darrell McNeil (06:47)-Storyboard Artist
Kids Super Power Hour-Live Action Footage with Wraparounds (20:00) *
Image Gallery (15 pictures)
DVD Rom-Scripts in PDF format

Verdict

A fun animated series that I really liked. This was one of the last Saturday Children programs before everything went to syndication. Well worth the buy!



Rating: ****!