PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI returns to talk about some seventies TV superheroes...

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on October 13th 2024.

This week PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is back, and, because we briefly mentioned watching WONDER WOMAN the last time he was on, I got to thinking about all of those superhero-based television shows that were on TV when I was an impressionable teenager, back in the late 1970s and I thought that PAUL might be just the person to talk to about them the next time he came onto the show.

So, for today’s hour of VISION ON SOUND we have a nice meander around the backwaters of shows like THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN, BATMAN, and THE INCREDIBLE HULK, as well as inevitably returning to WONDER WOMAN, and we consider several of the other shows that would have been on television at the time, and the extent to which they also riffed on the idea of the superhero, or maybe just the gifted stranger rolling into town and solving a particular problem. As well as this, we’ll be trying, in our usual manner, to scratch, however lightly, beneath the surface of what it is about these kinds of shows that made them so appealing to us, both then and, perhaps, even today.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

(2025 re-edit removes "Theme from Wonder Woman")