[1] 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!
"[2] With his guardian "Mentor" (Les Tremayne), Billy travels the country in a 1973 Dodge Open Road motorhome, looking for injustices to resolve.
The Mentor character, as played by Les Tremayne, was unique to the TV series and did not originate from the Shazam!
The Mentor character has not been used since, although Uncle Dudley is shown driving a similar RV in the 2010s animated series Justice League Action.
A handful of episodes appeared on Nickelodeon/Nick@Nite’s sister network, TV Land infrequently throughout the 2000s, originally appearing on the "Ultimate Fan Hour" in early 2004 as part of the "TV Land Kitschen" late weekend night programming block.
[4] A young man must figure out what to do when his friends insist on stealing cars and going on joy rides.
Chad feels so useless that he decides to run away, and when his brother goes after him, Danny gets bitten by a rattlesnake.
When a woman dies leaving instructions in her will to destroy her horse, Beckett, her niece tries to stop it.
A woman is concerned about her brother, Gary, when he seems to have fallen in with the wrong crowd, in the form of a drug dealer named Brock.
Young Larry Burns knows that it was Ron Craig who robbed Mentor, but is threatened that he had better keep quiet.
Don has dropped out of school to be a mechanic, but when he and Billy get lost in the desert, he sees that he does not know as much as he thought he did.
Jim "The Brain" Carter is a new kid in town and is having a tough time finding friends.
Tough guy Greg decides to make Jimmy try something dangerous in order to prove that he is good enough to hang around them.
Billy finds Howard stuck on some rocks in high tide, and is able to call his father using a note found in the boy's pocket.
On their way home, Howard and his father stop at an old ghost town, where a puppy has fallen down into a mine shaft.
Alan makes a big mistake and says that he has been inside the rhino exhibit at the zoo, and now he has to prove it, otherwise he has to find some new friends.
Poor Jackie is being accused of robbing the gas station he works at because he has a criminal record, plus it was done using the keys.
Debbie realizes this when Tom and his buddy swipe a six-pack of beer from a gas station, and almost get mangled by a large truck.
Meanwhile, Mentor finds the crooks' mask, costume and cape, which proves Marvel's innocence.
Dan is too proud to accept help from Captain Marvel when his airplane runs out of gas in the middle of nowhere.
Now the person who convinced him to cheat needs a big favor – the keys to a van which contains an experimental solar-powered gyroscope.
The leader of the club does not want Yale to join because he is Jewish, but soon the racist gets what he deserves when a mountain lion attacks him.
After pressure from the teammates to play baseball, Curtis runs away, and unknowingly ends up in the middle of a missile testing range.
[5][6] Warner Archive re-released the complete series in HD on a four-disc Blu-ray set on October 8, 2019.