

In an interview with USA Today, Heyward said "The Mario Bros.
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Lou Albano provided the voice of Mario History and development īefore the series was conceived, Andy Heyward, the then-CEO of DIC Enterprises, spent about a year trying to convince Nintendo to license the characters. There was no trick photography-Mario was out of the shop when he entered and remained out until the end of the episode. Lou Albano appeared as himself in "Captain Lou Is Missing".
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Upon their arrival, each episode begins with Mario reciting an entry into his "Plumber's Log" (a parody of the Captain's Log from Star Trek) prior to both himself and Luigi helping out Princess Toadstool ( Jeannie Elias) and Toad ( John Stocker) in defeating King Koopa ( Harvey Atkin) from taking over the Kingdom with a sinister plot in a parody of a book, movie or a historical event.Įach episode's plot featured characters and situations based upon the NES games Super Mario Bros. In the animated serials of Super Mario Bros., per the series' opening titles, the pair accidentally warped into the Mushroom Kingdom while working on a bathtub drain for a customer (as was re-iterated in the episode "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel" in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. Super Show! focused upon Mario and Luigi being two Italian-American plumbers from Brooklyn, New York. Main article: List of Mario television episodes Super Show!, however, was accompanied by animated serials of The Legend of Zelda. The Friday episode of The Super Mario Bros. The remainder of the program is dedicated to animated stories of Super Mario Bros., starring the voices of Albano and Wells in their respective roles, which were exhibited from Monday through Thursday. Lou Albano as Mario and Danny Wells as Luigi alongside a special guest, either as themselves or a character for the segments. The animation was provided by Sei Young Animation.Įach episode consists of live-action segments starring WWF/WWE Hall of Famer Capt. 2 by Nintendo, and is the first of three television series to be based upon the Mario video game series. The series is based on the video games Super Mario Bros.

Super Show! is an American live-action/animated television series airing from September 4 to November 30, 1989, on syndication.
