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Apr 07, 2019
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The Shazam TV show! The presumed dead Mouseketeer! How to watch movies in Japan!

With the new DC superhero film Shazam out now, it was timely for The AV Club to look back at the 70s live-action Shazam! TV show.

Shazam! ran from 1974 to 1977, and, this being the ’70s, most episodes had a distinct ABC Afterschool Special vibe. Anti-semitism, drugs, a high school girl trying to get on the boy’s varsity team: This Shazam! favored the dom…

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