Ford's presidential successor, Jimmy Carter, began to implement this law in earnest, helping to set up the U.S.

The shorts featured four animated metric superheroes: Meter Man, Liter Leader, Super Celsius and Wonder Gram.

The series shared the animation style, song quality and voice actors with the popular Schoolhouse Rock!

Incoming NBC president Fred Silverman, formerly of ABC, may have thought to replicate the success of that show; Newall & Yohe also produced Saturday morning network IDs and the full-length Drawing Power!

The Metric Marvels was released on VHS for educational buyers only in 1979 by Newell and Yohe, Inc.; Center for Humanities Mount Kisco, NY.

and seven teacher's guides, described as "seven 2 1/2 minute segments in which four animated superheroes explain the metric system" and carried the note "Previously issued as seven filmstrips by Xerox Films".