Eating crappy cereal, watching crappy kids tv shows

I remember when I was a kid, I got really excited in September because that's when the networks rolled out the new Saturday morning kids shows. Most of them were lame Hanna Barbara cartoons that were poorly drawn and dealt heavily in frustration humor like "Hong Kong Phooey" (a stupid dog super hero that was supposed to solve crimes but was so dumb, the crimes always got solved by accident.)

But I liked the live action series better. For some reason, the shows I liked only lasted one season. Remember "Big John Little John?" It was one of those kid and adult switch places story lines starring Robbie Rist, the little John Denver look-a-like punk who was on the last season of the Brady Bunch as Cousin Oliver. How about "Shazam!" All I remember about that one was the Shazam guy was a teenager who'd say "Shazam" and would turn into a super hero. I seem to remember that he traveled around a lot in an RV with his uncle. I'd watch the hell out of "Isis" and "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl" and "Wonder Buggy" in which various transitional super heros and teens who turned a junked out dune buggy into a super car would solve crimes.

The most obscure of them all was "The Red Hand Gang". All I can remember about this show was a bunch of kids would gather in a wooden hide out that they'd marked with a red hand print. And, of course, they'd solve crimes. Kids just don't solve crimes like they used to.

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