Written by James M. Tate / 4/14/2014 / No comments / action , heather menzies , made-for-TV , marvel comics , reb brown , seventies , superhero
REB BROWN AS CAPTAIN AMERICA IN TWO 1979 TV MOVIES
1979 part one: *** part two: ** |
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Reb Brown as Captain America... beachside |
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Flyin' High |
Heather Menzies, the ingénue from the first, is replaced by Connie Selleca, while Len Berman returns as the scientist who’d granted the powers (handed down by Steve’s father, the original Captain America). And yes, this is extraordinarily dated – with music even CHiPs would consider corny… but it’s simple fun: like how a child’s mind registers a comic book rather than a grownup’s progressed interpretation.
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Reb Brown reflects Captain America |
Yes... And what happened is THE INCREDIBLE HULK was running at the time, and Marvel Comics, when they got down to it… they were charging twenty-five hundred dollars an episode, a licensing fee for THE HULK, okay…
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The Shield of Captain America |
And what was Captain America's shield made of?
That was plastic… The reason they had it be plastic is so I could see through it… And in the new Captain America, they had the titanium… But they had to make it so that I could see through it, and you could ride the motorcycle and still see through it...
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