Oh MAN! This theme song has stuck in my head since I watched this when I was a kid - AND IT'S JUST HOW I REMEMBERED IT!!!! Been looking for this for literally decades! Thanks so much!
Watched this when I was a kid and hadn't given it a thought in decades, but watching this now brings it all back to that time when cartoons truly ruled Saturday mornings.
Super 6 was produced by Depatie-Freleng Productions in association with Mirisch-Rich Television and United Artists Television. The following program was brought to you in living color,only on NBC. The animated series ran for 2 seasons from 1966 to 1968. Only the first season consisted of original episodes.
1966 was the year of the Saturday Morning cartoon superheroes that exploded onto to TV screens. "Super 6" was the first ever series produced by David DePatie and Friz Freleng(who were also behind the Pink Panther cartoons) for NBC.
SUPER! It was one of the first DFE cartoons I knew much time before Pink Panther, which was first broadcast on Brazilian TV only in 1972. Thanks for posting!
I can't believe you had this, that Super 6 theme song has been haunting me since I was a kid growing up in the 60's. What a great guitar riff and theme, I wonder who sang it. I can't remember much about the episodes except I loved watching it back then.
"Meet the men from Super Service, facing danger just for kicks, half a dozen super strong men, who are called the Super Six. Super Six! Super Six! Battle criminals and all their evil games, Super Six! Super Six! Evil cowers at the mention of their names! Stomping down the fear of darkness, giving crime an undercut, five great thunderbolts of power, and a bolt who is a NUT! Super Six! Super Six! They give their all for Super Six!"
Captain Zammo was originally named Captain Whammo, but the toy company of the same name who gave us the frisbee and the hula hoop legally objected, so the animators changed it to Zammo.
Ive just brought the full series the other day and watched it the other day[never seen this as a kid and Im sorry I missed it]. The funniest segments to me were Super Bwoing [this guy was hilarious!]and the Brothers Matzoriley segments. I also remember seeing the Matzorileys in an episode of 'The Inspector' as diamond thieves. Bubbles the Mermaid was a cutie.
This show is really good! I recently got it on DVD and I really enjoyed it! There's a DVD set that just came out not so long ago and it has all 20 episodes (with 3 toons)!
Sure, I remember this show. The first cartoon usually featured "Super Bwoing" {super-klutz fights crime and his own clumsiness}; he usually ended each of his stories by finding himself in a ridiculous situation, wondering, "THIS is a job for Super Bwoing??". The second cartoon was usually "The Brothers Matzoriley" {they usually saved the day, despite three heads and different attitudes}. The last one was a "wild card", split among the other four heroes...
If there's one thing 60's and 70's cartoons got absolutely right, it's theme songs. See also: Cattanooga Cats, The Impossibles, Birdman, Banana Splits (and lots more I surely forget).
Você já percebeu que nos EUA a série estreou pela NBC, isso no dia 10 de setembro de 1966. Foi exibida no Brasil, ainda em preto e branco, pela TV Record, e reprisada já em cores pela emissora e também no quadro "Domingo no parque", do "Programa Sílvio Santos", então exibido na TVS (RJ) e Tupi (nacionalmente). Isso porque os direitos de exibição eram da TVS, e a Record exibia a série porque Sílvio Santos era então sócio dos Machados de Carvalho na emissora.
@RX552VBK Yessss!! They were also produced by De-Patie & Freleng but with a certain HB influence, its style was quite different from Super 6. The series was released in the 70s.
i'm 48 and watched SUPER 6 in St Louis when i was early grade school, I even had a Super6 coloring book lol The show was fun, but most of the episodes were of the clutzy guy not the cooler heroes. Anyone remember The Mighty Heroes?
Yes! I think that came out in the mid 1960s. There was Strong Man, Cuckoo Man, Diaper Man, Tornado Man, and Rope Man. It was a very funny cartoon! They managed to mess up and somehow managed to capture the criminals anyways!
@acla9000 My bad--you're correct. It was Speed Buggy. Do you remeber Helley's Comet? It was about a group of teenage rollerbladers that travel the galaxy going against other alien bladers. Reakky wild!
@donskidarko I always thought Zammo was wearing a witch's hat, the way it peaked up so much in the front. For some reason he didn't get as much air time as the others, always bugged me.
MsPandaRosa There were three Captain Whammo/Captain Zammo segments in total. The way he was dressed wearing a red leotard and what looked like a tutu with that peaked military cap that looked like a witch's hat, combined with his somewhat effeminate voice made him seem gay and at that time homosexuality was definitely not acceptable. As a result of the first commercial to air after the first Capt. Whammo segment being for the Super Ball (made by WHAM-O) WHAM-O toys demanded the name be changed. The name was changed to Captain ZAMMO. They also cancelled all further production of his segments leaving only the 3 already completed to broadcast.
@RX552VBK I remember all of them but Dune Buggy. The only cartoon I know featuring a buggy is HB's Speedy Buggy. Does Dune Buggy belong to other producer?
@brabon1 Hahaha! That's right! But was a nice Childhood anyways, and in those days tv was the greatest thing. I was addicted to tv until the Internet came out.
Lets see, Super Scuba, Granite Man, Elevator Man, Magneto Man, The doofus on the end was Super Boing. but who was the other guy? Captain somebody. Traveled back in time to screw up history.
Capt, Zammo!. Is that from research or memory? All i recall is he never did anything but pontificate while worshipful his boy sidekick did all the fighting.
anyone know the name of the cartoon series that of two characters, a little girl called "shrinking violet" and Native american[ Indian chief] called "super chief"
