Super President facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Super President |
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| Voices of | Ted Cassidy Paul Frees June Foray Shepard Menken Don Messick Lorri Scott Mark Skor |
| Narrated by | Paul Frees |
| Theme music composer | Doug Goodwin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | David H. DePatie Friz Freleng |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | DePatie–Freleng Enterprises Mirisch-Rich Television Productions |
| Distributor | United Artists Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | 1967 – 1968 |
Super President is an American animated cartoon that aired Saturday mornings on NBC from September 16, 1967 to December 28, 1968. The series was produced by the DePatie–Freleng animation company.
In the show, the President of the United States has extraordinary superpowers, including increased strength and the ability to change his molecular composition, and uses them to protect the free world, as well as his hapless Vice President. The show was relentlessly criticized for its bad taste and low quality, and was cancelled after thirty episodes, midway through its second season.
Plot
The President of the United States, former Astronaut James Norcross (voiced by Paul Frees) is given superpowers as the result of a cosmic storm during a space mission. The future President gains increased strength and the Metamorpho-like ability to change his molecular composition at will to any form required (like granite, steel, ozone, water and even electricity). A hidden panel in the Oval Office allows him access to his secret base, a hidden cave beneath the "Presidential Mansion" (a somewhat modified White House). Super President travels either by using a futuristic automobile/aircraft/submarine called the Omnicar, or by using jets built into his belt.
Despite the fact that the character's name is "Super President," for some reason only Norcross' chubby, pipe-smoking advisor Jerry Sales knows that the leader of the Free World is also a red and white-costumed superhero in his off-hours.
A total of thirty episodes of Super President were produced. Two episodes appeared in each show. Each episode also included an episode of Spy Shadow starring secret agent Richard Vance (voiced by Ted Cassidy) who had learned in Tibet how to command his shadow (also voiced by Ted Cassidy) to act independently of himself, an ability he put to good use as an Interspy operative battling a variety of villains, including the evil forces of S.P.I.D.E.R. ("Society for Plunder, International Disorder, Espionage and Racketeering"). Spy Shadow had the power to slip through small openings, hide himself in another person's shadow, and was invulnerable to harm thanks to his insubstantial nature, but his fists remained decidedly solid. Spy Shadow's only weakness is the inability to appear in total darkness for "there can be no shadow without light".
Episodes
- The Great Vegetable Disintegrator
- The Billion Dollar Bomber
- The Electronic Spy
- Day of the Locusts
- The Case of the Destroyer Satellite
- King of the Sea
- The U.F.O. Mystery
- No Time Passes
- Man of Steel
- The Earth Robber
- Monster of the Atoll
- Return of the Vikings
- The Cosmic Gladiators
- The Condor's Eye
- The President and the Pirate
- Interplanetary Menace
- Red Ray Raider
- The Treachery of Jerry Sales
- Rangled Terrors
- Dound and Doom
- Spears from Space
- Toys of Death
- Birds of Terror
- The Menace of the Moles
- The Chameleon
- The Gravity Destroyer
- Ice Invader
- Electronic Giant
- Time Crimes
- A Million Years of Menace
Cast
- Daws Butler -
- Ted Cassidy - Richard Vance, Spy Shadow
- June Foray -
- Paul Frees - Super President/James Norcross, Narrator
- Shepard Menken -
- Don Messick -
- Lorri Scott -
- Mark Skor -
