Okay so my partner and I lovingly refer to this one as "Fat Carrie" (we're both festively plump so we can do that). It was a made for tv movie that features a very young Helen Hunt and a girl who uses telekinesis to get revenge on those who bully her. But her mother becomes concerned about her new interest in the spooky arts and tries to find a way to stop her.
It tries really hard to be scary but bless it's heart it just can't manage it.I'd love to see Mary Jo and Bridget take it on but honestly just seeing it riffed at all would be amazing.

Victor Jory (Cat Women on the Moon, The Green Archer) stars as Lamont Cranston, better known by his secret identity, The Shadow. But this isn’t your classy Old Time Radio Shadow, voiced by Orson Welles—no sir! This Lamont Cranston is a criminal scientist (whatever that means), and evidently he can no longer fog men’s minds. He still has his terrifying laugh, at least, but I’m not sure what good THAT does anyone. Maybe it has something to do with endorphins.

But fear not! He may not be rich, or powerful, but The Shadow DOES have certain skills: specifically, the skill to disguise himself as a Chinese pawn-shop owner named Lin Chang, who is friendly with the criminal element. Jory really gets to stretch his acting chops in this role, cramming more offensive stereotypes into one character than I thought possible. I didn’t notice any prosthetic buck-teeth, but I haven’t seen the entire serial, either. But enough of my bitterness—only read on, and see what treasures await the lucky Riffers who choose THE SHADOW!

FEEL YOUR HEART POUND as The Shadow battles the evil Black Tiger and his gang of nebbishy crooks! MARVEL at the coincidence of yet another serial villain with the power of invisibility!

READY YOUR JAW FOR DROPPAGE at the sight of gangsters talking to a plastic tiger’s head with flashy lightbulb-eyes, because the Black Tiger likes to use it as a speakerphone or something! And it can electrocute you if you touch it! Sometimes!

GASP at the insight of Cranston’s girlfriend Margot Lane, who ACTUALLY KNOWS HIS SECRET IDENTITY, and it’s not a big deal!

That’s right, Rifftrax crew: all these powerful emotions could be yours. All you have to do...is riff “The Shadow.”

Link to first episode available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NotreOWeWnc

In 1966, Grantray-Lawrence Animation produced a TV series made up of shorts revolving around various Marvel heroes--Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Namor The Sub-Mariner, and The Hulk. These stories were taken from the Silver Age comics.

And when I say "taken from," I mean literally. The "animation", and I use the term generously, was basically the original comic art with some animation--moving lips, the occasional (slightly) moving figure or a fully animated silhouette, on-screen sound effects.

These shorts reflected the slight cheesiness of Silver Age comics--characters describing their actions even as they played out onscreen, somewhat over-inflated dialogue, etc. In one shot, an old building had a sign on it helpfully labeling it "OLD BUILDING."

The other memorable thing about this series was the theme songs. Each character had their own theme song, which played at the beginning of each of their shorts.

"When Captain America throws his mighty shiiiieeeeld/All those who chose to oppose his shield must yiiiiieeeeld!"

"Tony Stark makes you feel/He's a cool exec with a heart of steel..."

"Doc Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays/Turned into the Hulk/Ain't he unglamor-ays?" (Yes, they managed to squeeze a rhyme out of that.)

"Stronger than a whale, he can swim anywhere/He can breathe underwater and go flying through the air/The noble Sub-Mariner/Prince of the Deep/So beware, you deadly demons! (basso profundo voice) Lord Namor of Atlantis is the Prince of the Deeeep!"

"Across the Rainbow Bridge of Asgard/Where the booming heavens roar/You'll behold in breathless wonder/The god of thunder, Mighty Thor!"

These catchy theme songs stuck in people's heads...in fact, the first Iron Man movie featured the cartoon theme song, played when Tony's award is announced, and again when we see him in the casino.

Despite their cheesiness, these cartoons do have a lot to recommend them--the classic comic art, the fresh-from-Stan-Lee writing even if it is a little overblown, their place in Marvel comics history. Cheesy enough to laugh at, but charming enough to like--in short, a perfect subject for riffing.

(Grantray-Lawrence Animation would go on to make the 1967 Spider-Man series. The animation here was hardly Disney--it was still rather limited, but at least it wasn't just the comic panels with a few moving parts. Plus, G-L topped themselves by giving us the most memorable Marvel cartoon theme song of all.)