SHAZAM!/THE SECRETS OF ISIS-Now You See It, Now You Don't
THE SECRETS OF ISIS-the last two episodes also feature Captain Marvel but not Billy or Mentor. It is odd how when Isis summons Marvel in her two parters with him in it, how he is in his Marvel form and not the Billy form. The tired story has a weather control device and its parts stolen. The first part NOW YOU SEE IT, has Marvel lift a van into the air as he flies with it. This avoids a collision with an empty out of control car which Isis has to freeze to stop the fire in it. Part two, NOW YOU DON'T...has Marvel bring down a helicopter. The first part was to clear Isis's co worker and pal Rick who was blamed for the theft. Over egging this are three "boy" sleuths, Indian magic man Ranji who can use magic to create smoke and fire blasts from his hands to delay criminals, Feather who is a goof ball and CJ, an Asian who knows karate (possibly or barely and this actor went on to star in DIRTY HARRY I believe). Ranji is nothing more than a teen version of Guru from the far better animated series FANTASTIC VOYAGE (a redo of the popular movie which itself was based on a sci fi novel). The three boys were to be in a series and this was to be their pilot that spun off into a series (possibly and possibly called THE SUPER SLEUTHS) but it never did I believe. Also: they keep getting into more trouble and even in part two, leave Andrea stranded at a phone kiosk (a more modern phone booth from the 70s through the 90s). Isis uses her power of being able to make more of herself to surround the escaping henchmen (and the prerequisite sound effects for this and for some of Ranji's magic come out of BEWITCHED!!!!!). All in all okay but not great.
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