The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is a 1989 American television
series, conceived by Andy Heyward, produced by DIC Enterprises and
Saban Entertainment, and distributed by Viacom Enterprises in the
United States, airing from September 4 to December 1, 1989. The series
was based upon Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2,
and was the first of three television series to be based upon the
Mario video game series.Each episode consisted of live-action segments
starring WWF/E Hall of Famer Capt. Lou Albano as Mario and Danny Wells
as Luigi alongside a special guest, either as themselves or a
character for the segments. The remainder of the program was dedicated
to animated stories of Super Mario Bros., starring the voices of
Albano and Wells in their respective roles alongside Jeannie Elias,
John Stocker and Harvey Atkin. For every Friday and the remaining
episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, it was accompanied by
animated serials of The Legend of Zelda, based on the video game of
the same name, and starring the voices of Jonathan Potts as Link,
Cynthia Preston as Princess Zelda and Len Carlson as Ganon, until the
conclusion of the television series.After the television series's
original run via first-run syndication, the series received reruns
until September 6, 1991, before The Family Channel picked up the
series a few weeks later and continued airing it until August 26,
1994. The show was later followed by The Adventures of Super Mario
Bros. 3 and Super Mario World.The premise of The Super Mario Bros.
Super Show! focused upon Mario and Luigi being two Italian-American
plumbers from Brooklyn, New York. In the animated serials of Super
Mario Bros., per the series' opening titles, the pair accidentally
warped into the Mushroom Kingdom while working on a bathtub drain for
a customer (as was re-iterated in the episode "Toddler Terrors of Time
Travel" in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3). Upon their arrival,
each episode begins with Mario reciting an entry into his "Plumber's
Log" (a parody of the Captain's Log from Star Trek) prior to both
himself and Luigi helping out Princess Toadstool (Jeannie Elias) and
Toad (John Stocker) in defeating King Koopa (Harvey Atkin) from taking
over the Kingdom with a sinister plot in a parody of a book, movie or
a historical event.
series, conceived by Andy Heyward, produced by DIC Enterprises and
Saban Entertainment, and distributed by Viacom Enterprises in the
United States, airing from September 4 to December 1, 1989. The series
was based upon Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2,
and was the first of three television series to be based upon the
Mario video game series.Each episode consisted of live-action segments
starring WWF/E Hall of Famer Capt. Lou Albano as Mario and Danny Wells
as Luigi alongside a special guest, either as themselves or a
character for the segments. The remainder of the program was dedicated
to animated stories of Super Mario Bros., starring the voices of
Albano and Wells in their respective roles alongside Jeannie Elias,
John Stocker and Harvey Atkin. For every Friday and the remaining
episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, it was accompanied by
animated serials of The Legend of Zelda, based on the video game of
the same name, and starring the voices of Jonathan Potts as Link,
Cynthia Preston as Princess Zelda and Len Carlson as Ganon, until the
conclusion of the television series.After the television series's
original run via first-run syndication, the series received reruns
until September 6, 1991, before The Family Channel picked up the
series a few weeks later and continued airing it until August 26,
1994. The show was later followed by The Adventures of Super Mario
Bros. 3 and Super Mario World.The premise of The Super Mario Bros.
Super Show! focused upon Mario and Luigi being two Italian-American
plumbers from Brooklyn, New York. In the animated serials of Super
Mario Bros., per the series' opening titles, the pair accidentally
warped into the Mushroom Kingdom while working on a bathtub drain for
a customer (as was re-iterated in the episode "Toddler Terrors of Time
Travel" in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3). Upon their arrival,
each episode begins with Mario reciting an entry into his "Plumber's
Log" (a parody of the Captain's Log from Star Trek) prior to both
himself and Luigi helping out Princess Toadstool (Jeannie Elias) and
Toad (John Stocker) in defeating King Koopa (Harvey Atkin) from taking
over the Kingdom with a sinister plot in a parody of a book, movie or
a historical event.
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