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''Shazam!'' is a half-hour live-action television program produced by Filmation (the studio's first such program), based upon DC Comics' superhero comic book series of the same name. The program starred Michael Gray as Billy Batson, a teenage boy who can transform into the superhero Captain Marvel, originally played by Jackson Bostwick and later by John Davey, by speaking the magic word "Shazam!" With his guardian "Mentor" (Les Tremayne), Billy travels the country in a Winnebago, looking for injustices to resolve. The show ran from 1974 to 1977 on CBS' Saturday morning lineup. From 1975 to 1977 it was known as ''The Shazam!/Isis Hour'' and included ''The Secrets of Isis'', about an Ancient Egyptian superheroine resurrected in the body of a schoolteacher, as the second half of the hour. Joanna Cameron, the star of ''The Secrets of Isis'', appeared as Isis, and her alter-ego Andrea Thomas, on three episodes of ''Shazam!'', and John Davey likewise appeared as Captain Marvel in three episodes of ''Isis''. ==Differences from source material== As in other media, when he spoke the magic word "Shazam!" Billy would be struck by a magic lightning bolt and would be transformed via animation and special effects into Captain Marvel, the World's Mightiest Mortal. However, the television version of ''Shazam!'' departs notably from the comic book version of the character. The eponymous wizard Shazam, who empowers Captain Marvel in the comic book and serves as his mentor, does not appear in the series. Teenage Billy instead speaks directly to the elders that empowered him (who appeared as animated characters): Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury) via a communication device. Instead of being based in any one particular city, Billy (Michael Gray) and his traveling companion Mentor (Les Tremayne) travel through California in an RV, interacting with people in various towns where they stop. Whenever a potentially dangerous situation arises, Billy becomes Captain Marvel to save the day. In an era before cell phones were commonly used, Mentor would make phone calls from the RV on a type of mobile phone, asking a "mobile operator" to dial the number. While the series was on the air in 1976, DC's ''Shazam!'' comic book was modified somewhat to reflect the format of the TV series, with Billy Batson traveling across the country aboard a van furnished by his employer, station WHIZ, contacting the six elders via the "Eterni-Phone", and with Uncle Dudley, an established character in the source material, taking on a role similar to the Les Tremayne Mentor character.〔''Shazam!'' #26 (Dec 1976), DC Comics, Inc.〕 Unlike the comic books, there were no supervillains (such as Doctor Sivana, Captain Marvel's greatest enemy in the comics) shown on the program, and violence was downplayed. Billy, as both himself and as Captain Marvel, would help people out of difficult situations of their own making. As in many Filmation shows and cartoons, moral messages were contained within each episode, crystallized at the end of each episode by Billy learning a new moral lesson from either Mentor or his empowering elders. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shazam! (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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