Classic TV - The Secrets of Isis
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Saturday morning cartoons is something I feel bad for children today who can't experience it. My sister and I would wake up when it was still dark take our blanket, get a bowl of cereal and watch cartoons on the 3 CHANNELS until noon. the best feeling ever. Cant explain it now
My parents went through all kinds of hell trying to get me out of bed during the week. But on Saturday mornings I was up at 6:00 AM in front of the tv, baby!
I know what you mean and it always seemed to work out that the "good" cartoons always aired on different channels at different times so you didn't have to miss one. Did that make sense. I remember flipping back and forth from 6am til 11 am :D
Me too.
Yes, Sir!! On Saturday mornings, I would wake up at 6:30 to catch Buster and me. Then at 7:00, my all-time favorite cartoon would air...The Superfriends!! There was nothing like Saturdays!! Watching the cartoons, ABC Weekend Special, Soul Train, classic horror and sci fi movies, pro wrestling, playing with friends, going to the arcades...WOW!!!! Saturday was the most magical day that there was! I feel very, very fortunate to have grown up in the era that I grew up in. I was also born on a Saturday!!
That’s why this generation of children 👶🏽 is so lost 🤷🏽♂️. What passes for cartoons today is truly pathetic 🤨.
An absolutely amazing show during an absolutely amazing era of Saturday Morning cartoons. The 70s was an awesome time to be a kid 🙂
As a kid growing up in the 70's. The Secret of Isis was a highlight of my Saturday mornings. Thanks for covering this show.
I was on the crew of VH-1's "Where are They Now?" to tape and film Joanna Cameron in San Luis Obispo. She was just about to move to Hawaii. She was a very gracious woman.
I can imagine she's still very stunning. She's a natural beauty!
I remember watching the show when I was little. My mom had a necklace that kind of looked like the Isis amulet (if you squinted and didn't overthink it) so I'd play 'Isis' with it; me jumping off the stairs pretending to fly.
Truly a great time to be a kid watching these shows on Saturday mornings. I looked forward to it every weekend.
I was in high school when “Isis” was on Saturday mornings and found myself watching it. Despite being a kid’s show, watching it was better than doing homework, or household chores. :)
I was lucky enough to be growing up during the 70s at the height of Saturday Morning TV. I remember this show and enjoyed this look back.
I'm a longtime fan of both Shazam and Isis, considered myself lucky to find both shows again on DVD. Today's kids have absolutely no idea of what they're missing!
Joanna Cameron was my first celebrity crush.
I remember Joanna breaking the 4th wall at times, sometimes just looking at the camera (the viewer) with a knowing smile as she repeated the rhyming lines in order to fly. As a kid I found the show to eventually be a bit on the dull side. But rewatching it now, I'm actually impressed at her spinning takeoff scenes, her body language and posture as Isis flies, and other FX. Thanks for the show!
This was one of my favorite shows to watch on Saturday mornings. I’m now 57 and still watch it on DVD 📀the 70s truly were the best time to be a kid!
1976 was a good year for these Saturday Shows. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl was another fun show.
Loved Electra Woman and Dyna Girl!!!
Yeah, I had ViewMaster discs from that show. They battled SpiderLady.
I loved this series when I was a kid. I never new it was so ground breaking at the time.
I wish she'd appeared on Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman. Btw Cathy Lee Crosby played Wonder Woman in 1974 & Carter first played her in a '75 TV movie.
One of my favorite things about watching your channel is being reminded of things I actually used to watch but had since forgotten about... until I see your title and say out loud "OH WOW! I REMEMBER WATCHING THAT!"
Keep up the great work!
Yep, this channel is very under rated.. fantastic content.
Yeah, watched it premiere, progress, and fade into childhood memory. Watched all those old seventies Saturday morning shows as a kid. Glad to know they're still appreciated here and there, from time to time.
I am a proud owner of both that rare DVD box set, as well as each issue of the classic Isis comic from the 1970’s. Great stuff!
That's cool. Hold on to those relics.
I have them too!
@@bowl1820 - nice 👍 I’ve also got a couple of rare cartoon box sets which include the Isis character. “The Freedom Force” and another I believe is called “Hero High,” if I’m not misremembering the title. I don’t have that particular DVD handy right at the moment, but it’s in my collection.
The Secrets of Isis TV show had a HUGE impact on me. I'm so glad that you made this video to honor it. Cheers!
I remember this show back in the mid to late 70s on CBS...the memories of Saturday morning cartoons & live action shows...good stuff, good times!!!
Ironic that the producers of Isis and Shazam indulged in end-of-episode moralizing but showed none in the poor treatment of their own cast members.
Very true.
I loved this series as a kid, long with "the phoenix" series with Judson scott
wow, not too many ppl would know about or remember the phoenix series....ahhh good times🤔🤔😱😱😞😞🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
I remember Judson Scott was also in Star Trek 2-The Wrath of Kahn.
Back in the 1970's, I loved everything about Black History and Egypt. So, each Saturday morning it was great getting to watch the "Secrets of Isis" TV show. However, I always felt the story line was less of that of a collection of High School students and more like that of commuter college students still living at home and attending a Technology based Community College.
I just watched the series again recently. JoAnna Cameron was gorgeous. As a kid I thought she was attractive and pretty but watching it now as an adult...WOW.😍😍
I was into this in the 70s and still enjoy the intro and music now (whole episodes can be a bit dull but the nostalgia is still there). One thing that I fixated on as a kid was how the design of her amulet was replicated on her belt and head-band. What a cool costume.
Man, I was so in love with Joanna Cameron when I was a kid! She's truly one of the most beautiful women that I've ever seen! I also couldn't get enough of those damn legs... GOOD GRIEF!!!!! 😍
was my first load shot
@@lobsterwhisperer7932 TMI, class act crustacean.
She was the first TV crush of many young boys in that era. Along with Jean Hong.
From Ark II, not Ark. I saw so many mistakes in this video. Like she was not the first female superhero, that was Batgirl.
She was the first LEAD female superhero to enter full production. Even that was beat by a 1974 Wonder Woman series with Cathy Lee Crosby that was a pilot, but not picked up due to low ratings.
Not up to usual standards for the channel, either in substance or presentation.
Ah Filmation, the creators of so many childhood good memories. I remember Isis well, along with shows like Ark II and Space Academy. Thanks for the video, it's provided a lot of details I never knew about the show.
A couple of years ago, I watched an episode of Isis, since I had loved it so when I was a child. I had forgotten that the shows back then really tried to instil morals and character in us kids. It was amazing to see, because there are no shows for kids that do that now and haven't been for some time. I'd like to think that us Gen X kids carried some of the lessons from shows like Isis, Shazam, and others.
On a personal note, I believe that Joanna Cameron and Lynda Carter were my first crushes. In fact, I almost married a woman with their feature set, fair skin, blue eyes and dark hair. :-D
Love this show as a kid.
This with Shazam was a weekly Saturday morning ritual when I was growing up and Joanna Cameron....wow.
How could you not mention that Isis was written into Legends of Tomorrow on the CW as Zari? They even put her into full original costume in a Halloween episode.
Yeah I guess he should go to hell on account of him not knowing everything and not being addicted to shitty CW shows. Oh, the horror
@@AhtoNajeebRashied Way to go full toxic fanboy.
@@AhtoNajeebRashied yes will if you're going to talk about a shows history and development in and expert manner, one should mention all the facts. Especially since there's no comparison to something we watched as a child to something that evolved and is much more substantial and improved like the Arrowverse. So ya...
I absolutely loved this show as a kid. It was captivating.
She was also in that two part episode of Spider-Man when I was a kid I was really hoping that they were going to do a live-action version of Spider-Woman with Joanna Cameron as Jessica Drew
They should've done a Spiderman/Isis Crossover when she guest starred.
Whoa, Filmation's animated Ghost Busters was based on their live action TV show, not the 80's Ghostbusters movie. You have the wrong cartoon here.
Correct; you showed an image of the show called THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, which was based on the movie from Columbia pictures; the Filmation animated show was called THE ORIGINAL GHOSTBUSTERS, and was based on their live action program from ‘72; COLUMBIA was only able to license the name from Filmation, in the first place, because the film exec who had green lit the movie project had left Columbia, and become head of VIACOM, which held the rights to the GHOSTBUSTERS name at the time the movie was made...
I like this format of Delivery in these videos. Straight to the Point, not flashy. Featuring lots of original still-shots from the Show in question and filled with many background details and air-dates. Thank you, for making it work out.
Just an FYI, both the Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman premiered on the ABC television network in the US. Bionic Woman would move to NBC later in its run on American tv.
You can't have too much Cowbell.
And "Wonder Woman" would, in fact, move to CBS about the same time.
Wonder Woman also premiered mid-season, as Lindsay Wagner was injured and production had to halt on the Bionic Woman
I used to watch this on Saturdays with Shazam in the 70's. Such cheesy but fun shows!
Shortly after this series ended, the King Tutankhamun exhibit toured the USA. I was always surprised it never came back on the air after all the Tut excitement.
I'm curious - was there any fuss made at the time that this kids show character was basically a pagan goddess? Seems like the sort of things some parents would have frowned upon (considering how things like Dungeons & Dragons were received in some quarters).
I remember both. Loved the show as a kid, although can’t recall much of anything about it.
The series was only in production until 1976, but they aired it in rerun until 1978.
@@originaluddite Guess they'd be the same people who'd be upset with Asterix the (Pagan) Gaul, a phenomenally popular comic book character throughout Europe & the UK. It would be like being upset with Popeye or Hagar the Horrible...
@@celestepalm6949 By Toutatis, how could anyone be upset by Asterix! ;)
MMMMMMM SOOO HOTT! And a cool show I truly love the content you put out , it's a reminder of simpler times, keep up the awesome work!
She was/is still gorgeous. I'm really surprised that she didn't climb to higher standing in the 70's and 80's with more prominent roles or feature films.
I remember her in an episode of the live action Spider-man show.
@@JENDALL714 Am pretty sure that was one of the movies they made. (remember it also)
@@billa3785 it was indeed. SPIDER-MAN STRIKES BACK! it was the one about the atomic bomb. she played a reporter from L.A. its actually pretty good for what it was and she was absolutely glamours in it. could of easily played Lois Lane had there been a Superman series in the 70s for sure
@@JENDALL714 Yep SPIDER-MAN STRIKES BACK. was filmed during series 1 i believe. I used to watch it loads as a kid had it on a double vhs along with the Dragons Trap
@@BigDsbrush So she was in an episode of the old show, and a movie of the same said show? Or was the movie made up of episodes smushed together? Was born in 70, so I am going by memory here.
I loved this show as a kid. I used to play the character and bury one of my mom's ugly big medallion necklaces in the yard and then 'discover' it in an 'archeological dig' put it on and do the whole 'Oh, Mighty Isis' call before pretending to save someone. I didn't have imaginary friends so much as pretend to be imaginary people!
Wow! Thats fantastic! Yeah that's pretty creative. Love it...
@@artgamechanger3841 It probably comes as no surprise I used to pretend to be the Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman as well but I probably played this one first.
@@katequick3602 You would have been a great playmate had I known you! Haha
You do a fantastic job making these fun and nostalgic. Thank you!
I remember watching this show as a kid and loving it although Captain Marvel was still my fave.
Captain Marvel an old man and a teenage boy starting to be too old in a camper cruising School yards and playgrounds was just plain creepy he was the guy our parents told us to stay away from
@@tolfan4438 LOL, yeah the Mentor jokes never get old. I just wanted to see the transformation and watch Cap do his cheesy powers. Almost as cheesy as Bigfoot and Wildboy. Now THAT was an interesting combo.
As a series, Isis certainly predates 'The Bionic Woman' and 'Wonder Woman.' However, we must keep in mind that Lynda Carter's appearance as Wonder Woman 1st took place as a highly rated & successful TV pilot movie, which aired on ABC November 7, 1975. Thus, the keyword here is 'series.' Otherwise, the first live action portrayal of a super-powered woman was the first 'Wonder Woman' pilot movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby, which aired March 12, 1974 on ABC (this pilot movie was not a ratings disaster as is often claimed by 21st century critics or WW fans. However, this particular characterization of WW, rooted in the comic book's 1968-1973 limbo period wherin WW gives up her Amazon heritage & superpowers and instead fights injustice as a highly skilled martial arts heroine in a similar vein as TV's Emma Peel of 'The Avengers'). After the extraordinary success of 'The New Original Wonder Woman TV movie starring Lynda Carter, ABC worked, albeit slowly, into developing the pilot into spring 1976 first as as a one-off replacement for established series on hiatus, etc., and then continuing on to a more committed run until February 1977, totalling 13 episodes inexplicably stretched over a rather long period of time. Considered 'Season 1' of Wonder Woman as a series, those episodes were set accordingly to the comic book heroine's WWII era origin story. Yet again, ABC sat on the series' future in spite of consistent ratings success. That scenario allowed producer Douglas Cramer to take the show to CBS, where it debuted as 'The New Adventures of Wonder Woman' in the fall 1977 lineup. Nonetheless, Isis was indeed the first committed, live action TV series featuring a female superhero, one created in fact without influence from an established comic book character. However, Lynda Carter's star turn in the 1975 pilot film was such a huge success that ABC was flooded by fan mail demanding a series. At the time 'The Bionic Woman' was certainly already in development due to tremendous fan-love for the Jamie Sommers character when introduced on 'The Six Million Dollar Man' series. In summary, the mid to late '70s was a great time for TV series featuring strong female leads, whether in drama, action-adventure or fantasy, or comedy. However, Wonder Woman and Jamie Sommers were not characters destined for television longevity due to the high costs of production, a maturing fan base and fan fatigue. 'Charlie's Angels' certainly overstayed its welcome. Nonetheless, that era was a watershed moment in television history and the talents of Cathy Lee Crosby, Joanna Cameron, Lynda Carter and Lindsay Wagner paved a road that film & television producers would not tread again until the 21st century.
Pedantic
I'll see you and raise you. On TV the English were there first in the 1960s with "The Champions." (PS ... if we count Tarzan knockoffs as super-powers, shows like Sheena with Irish McCalla go back to the 1950s.)
Was there ever a better time for kids’ TV than the mid 1970s? Looking back almost 50 years later, it’s crazy how many great shows there were. I’d watch from around 8 am until noon, flipping through all three (!) networks. Too many great shows to list.
We were lucky. I was four when Isis premiered (I’m forty-nine now). I remember thinking Isis, Wonder Woman, Shazam, the six million dollar man, and the bionic woman were real, just like Santa! It really was sort of magical seeing them in live action on TV.
I watched that show every Saturday morning
I remember this show ,& really liked it.As a young guy with hormones kickin in ,Isis replaced Holly on my TV hotties...
Looking back I believe that this series as well as going to the King Tut exhibit in the 3rd grade, contributed to my lifelong fascination with ancient Egypt.
Thanks for posting.
I was in fifth grade when that the secrets of isis was on television. We still had recess at that time and one of my friends her mother gave her this old necklace with a pendant on and during recess she would take that pendant and necklace out and yell oh mighty isis 😆 such wonderful times back then!
👉 *Early 70s...* I would jump out of bed on Saturday morning & grab
a bowl of Fruit Brute cereal (adding a spoonful of sugar of course!),
and turn on the TV. The channel would "warm up" followed by a report
of how many hertz and megahertz it took to run the station LOL!!!!!! 😆
Isis, Shazam, The Hanna-Barbera Hour, Fat Albert, Mission Magic,
My Favorite Martian and so many brilliant cartoons. Then at 12:30
there was either the CBS Children's' Film Festival or the ABC Weekend
Special. Afterward, I was hyped up on sugar and a real pest for the
rest of the afternoon... Good Times!!!
Thanks for posting the history of ISIS!
Decades TV Network needs to give fans a whole weekend of this classic TV show The Secrets of Isis!
I loved this show as a kid! I haven't seen it since. I remember it came on right after Shazaam!
The background music is great.
Ah! The good old days of Saturday morning cartoons and adventure shows! I miss those days!
Thank you for doing these videos. I loved watching these shows as a kid.
It was a fun show to watch when I was a kid. I did have a crush on Joanna Cameron as I did on Lynda Carter. Despite Brian Cutler's enthusiasm, the character Wonder Woman existed 34 years before the T.V. character Isis was created. Wonder Woman first appeared in DC's All Star Comics in October 1941, and her first feature in Sensation Comics in January 1942. In 1974 Cathy Lee Crosby stared as the character in "Wonder Woman," a full year before the "Secrets of Isis." Lynda Carter played the character beginning in 1976 as the video describes, just a year later. So, Isis was hardly "way before" a live action Wonder Woman. If a year equals "way before" then the 1974 "Wonder Woman" takes the tiara.
I watched this on TV when I was somewhere between 5 and 7. The memory of it always stuck with me and the Isis part was my favourite over the Captain Marvel part. Thank you for doing this video. It's really cool to get more context for something I loved when I was young.
Thanks for another great video that gives me all the nostalgia feelings. Cheers. 😎
Cartoons was great back in the day. I love the Shazam and ISIS hour.
I watched this from age 1-3. Haven't seen it since. My mom said I would say "zephyr winds that blow on high, lift me now so I may fly" whenever she did and "oh mighty Isis, Isis, Isis". Lol.
All the episides are on youtube, or at least they used to be
Fun tv show 🙃
Awesome vid - thank you! Brings back some great memories.
I loved this show and was sad when they took it off the screen!!! I cried my eyes out!!!
She's no Linda Carter, but she is pretty. Also, I'd love to see a list of the morals at the end of each episode. Total 70s culture there.
Super friends had those and those PSA's actually worked. in some cases subconsciously. I remember the one on Super Friends where they explained the proper way to greet a stray dog by letting it sniff your hand before you pet it. I still do that to this day,,,,if I see a stray dog which is rare. LOL
It was a very inspiring character and mixed well with counterpart s. Could have come back
@@davidkirby1138 secrets of Isis would be a good fit on the DC streaming service even low budget shows can work with computers for special effects
He-Man had a resume' of the morals of the story voiced by Orko, that floating tiny and hooded magician.
@@davedogge2280 GI joe did as well. alot of 70's and 80's cartoons had them. then it stopped. ooooh govt conspiracy.
She had the best Caboose in the Industry.
I totally forgot this one. Thanks for the memories.
I use to watch this show it was awesome I miss waking up in the morning watching this
I watched and enjoyed this show in Melbourne. Thanks again Jonny.
I used to watch it aged 10 in Sydney. 👍🇦🇺
From memory it was initially on after school at 3 30 pm then moved to Saturday morning on Channel 9.
I'm another Aussie fan of the show. As a kid I somehow assumed that her school was a university. Maybe that was because our schools tend not to be as big or institutional looking as ones in the US.
I remember this show being on after Hey Hey. I think I was 7 or 8.
@@rdvrdv8920 Was that when Hey Hey was a morning kids show? :)
@@originaluddite Yes. I’m that old too 😕
I want to go back to school not really bad if I can have her as my teacher 🌹💯❤️😎
Good show. Like electro woman and dynamic girl. Ooh la la!😀
This show was on when I was in college. I had the only TV on my dorm floor and I always had a crowd of male students in my room on Saturday mornings (usually hung over) to watch it. We watched it for only one reason; JoAnna Cameron.
I agree with u artcamp7, kids today, don't know how special Saturday mornings were. So exciting getting up to watch most cartoons starting at 8am and would run till around 1pm. So many amazing memories for me.
I loved that show when I was a kid!
WOW!! I remember this show. I watched this and Shazam. Loved them Both
I don't think i really understood why i liked watching Isis as a kid, but i think i do now.
There was two Ghostbusters cartoons shows back then
There was absolutely nothing like the Saturday morning cartoons in the sixties I couldn't wait till Saturday morning when I was a kid
Joanna Cameron was a guest star on the 1978 CBS Spider-Man TV show.
I believe a version of this character was on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.
I believe you’re right. Zari Tomas had the amulet, wind powers and even a gold and white costume for about 5 minutes! They didn’t use the name however, probably because of what it may invoke now.
In the late 1970s, Joanna Cameronn was cited in the Guinness Book of World Records as having appeared in more TV commercials than anyone else.
She Passed in 2001. RIP.
“She’s got skills!”. Very well done.
Thank you for validating this show's actual existence. People who I grew up with and are the same age have no recognition of this series. And they watched the Shazam/Isis Hour! But, only remember Shazam. What is that? I try to explain it to my nephews and nieces and their friends and they look at me like I'm crazy. Weird. I have fond memories of the character and the program. But for how long before the Mendella effect overtakes us...
Wish Isis had been in the Shazam movie. Maybe It would've been a little bit less Boring.
Isis wasn't the first woman Super Hero Woman on Television, 1974's Fake Wonder Woman was, with Cathy Lee Crosby.
I remember this.
I remember the series title and the actress in her Isis role, but I don’t remember much about the series (I’m getting old!).
I have some memories of this. I was 5 or 6 and my mom and I would watch this and Shazam.
i loved it too.
I've been watching your channel and I really like your Channel. I could never quite put my finger on where your theme music came from but today I remembered it's from the old TV show UFO isn't it
It's easy to see when a actor is enjoying playing a part as you can see in Victor playing King Tut making him a fun loving character, I was born in 62 and Tut is one of the characters I remember the most.
I'm 57 now and most of my siblings n friend s would enjoy those days up til I became 18 and had to finally grow up to become a functional adult but boy o boy I sure do miss those days
I remember watching these 2 shows from 10 am to 11 am on Saturday mornings.
I watched "The Shazam! Isis Hour" every Saturday as a kid.
Joanna Cameron brought Isis to life! She had the right blend of brilliance and physicality!
Although, I was not really a big fan of it when it originally came out, I love the Shazam-Isis Hour. There's nothing quite like it now when it comes to re-invoking the spirit of those times. II have a hard drive with all of the episodes on it, and used to watch them everyday when I came home stressed out from work circa 2012-2015. If you grew up during those times, you really feel the flavor of the 1970's in these episodes and it makes you homesick for the past. It's like an After School Special except with Superheroes. Plus a lot of us guys where just discovering our puberty, and really had the hots for Isis actress Joanna Cameron.
I subbed to your channel as you are covering shows I never heard of, either maybe they didn't air in the UK or because I wasn't the target age group at the time. Either way, the extra impetus for the click was your use of the title music from UFO on your 'title card'. I'm a huge Gerry Anderson fan!
The character also appeared (sort of) in DC's Legends of Tomorrow as Zari Tomaz. However, due to the terrorist organization of the same name the CW Network was uneasy about using the Isis name
Wonder Woman and the Bionic Woman both came on the ABC network. Wonder Woman would later move to CBS. Also there was a Wonder Woman movie (pilot) with Kathie Lee Crosby in 74.
I remember Ricardo Montalban played the Villain in the 1974 Wonder Woman. That one should've been called Wonder Woman vs Mr. Roark from Fantasy Island.
The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Isis, Battle Star Galactica, Wonder Woman, Planet of the Apes, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Logan’s Run.
Us 70’s kids were very blessed indeed.
Many thanks for the info on this one, Remeber the Shazam Television show but this not so much so again many thanks for doing a video on this!
I had never heard of this show before, but had seen the character of Isis profiled alongside that of Black Adam in a book about DC's superheroes. I hope we will see more of this interesting character soon. 👏🏾👍🏾