Narrator
Working my memory here. Did Paul Frees narrate the opening segment for this show?
shareI couldn't swear to it, but by my recollection, I believe you are correct.
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A bit of a search turned up this on a uk website:
Mr. Terrific had a theme song, but it was more of narration set to background music, thanks to veteran cartoon voice over artist Paul Fress[sic]:
A scientist both wise and bold/Set out to cure the common cold
Instead he found a power pill/Which he said most certainly will
Change a lamb into a lion/Like an eagle he’ll be flyin’
Solid steel will be like putty/It’ll work on anybody
Then it was found this power pill/Made the strongest man quite ill
So the secret search began/To find the one and only man
Who can take this power pill specific/And turn into the most prolific, terrific, Mr. Terrific!
What they found made them squeamish/For only Stanley Beemish
A weak and droopy daffodil/Can take this potent power pill
That sent him soaring through the skies/Fighting foes and fighting spies
When he took the pill specific/He became the most prolific, Hydrolific,
MR. TERRIFIC!
http://www.teletronic.co.uk/captnice.htm
"Dadoo4050: and who, disguised as a mild-mannered schoolteacher. . ."
Oh, does that bring back memories. I can even hear the goofy music that went with it, after [mumble mumble] years.
shareExcept for the first and maybe second episode, Paul Frees did the narration for the rest of the 17 episodes. I know, as I purchased the entire series on DVD from Germany! I have a region-free DVD player to watch them on.
shareThe DVD set I have, all 17 episodes, is also from Germany. The show must have ran there. I wonder what the Germans thought of this show?
sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7UJxViEg-w
shareThe titles remind me a bit of Terry Gilliam's graphics on Monty Python. However that didn't air for another 3 years (at least). And it of course was not made from the cutouts and so forth.
Also having Paul Frees narrate it reminds someone who saw a lot of cartoons in that era of the cartoons. Of course this was a live action cartoon of sorts.
Thanks for finding / posting this.