Ghetto Man and the Legends of the Superheroes

I’m a little bit busy today, but you won’t leave this blog empty-handed. For your viewing pleasure, I present an entire episode of a terrible television show from the 1970s — Legends of the Superheroes.

I’ll leave it to Movie Poop Shoot to give you a description of the show:

What is LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES? Well, I’ve seen it with my own eyes, and I’m still not sure. Airing on NBC in January 1979, LEGENDS was apparently one of Hanna-Barbera’s few ventures into live-action. If I had to guess, it seems to me like the success of the “SUPERFRIENDS” Saturday-morning animated series prompted the production of this abomination, a live-action comedy/action kids’ show that thankfully only managed to eke out two episodes, most likely because when the people bankrolling this trainwreck saw the finished project, they not only slashed funding, they probably slashed their wrists as well.

Here’s a segment from one of the episodes in which Ed McMahon introduces the never-heard-of-before (nor again) hero, Ghetto Man, who does a painfully bad stand-up/roast routine that mashes up “in the hood” jokes with superhero humour:

If you need more seventies cheese, I’ve posted the entire first episode below in six parts:

Legends of the Superheroes, Part 1

Legends of the Superheroes, Part 2

Legends of the Superheroes, Part 3

Legends of the Superheroes, Part 4

Legends of the Superheroes, Part 5

Legends of the Superheroes, Part 6