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The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! 7-Disc Box Set DVD
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is the late-1980s syndicated Mario-themed series that combined live-action wraparound segments featuring Lou Albano as Mario and Danny Wells as Luigi running a Brooklyn pizzeria with animated adventures of the title characters in the Mushroom Kingdom and other genre-parody settings. The show aired in syndication and on The Family Channel and USA Network across 1989, with a 51-episode animated run.
The format is the appeal: each episode pairs a live-action Mario Brothers comedy bit with an animated adventure where Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad take on King Koopa across riffs on classic stories (Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Frankenstein). Episode titles like "The Bird! The Bird!," "King Mario Of Cramalot," "Mario & The Beanstalk," "Count Koopula," and "Star Koopa" telegraph the show's gleeful commitment to genre-parody storytelling. The animation is bright and chunky.
For late-1980s syndicated programming, this was the peak of the era's wave of video-game-property adaptations, sitting in the lineage of game-to-cartoon programming. Suited for longtime Mario fans, viewers with affection for the era's particular brand of live-action-meets-animation hybrids, and anyone with a soft spot for the lineage of Nintendo-derived TV.
Standouts worth revisiting include "The Bird! The Bird!" (the opener), "Mario & The Beanstalk" (a fan-favorite parody), "Count Koopula" (a holiday-themed swing), "The Adventures Of Sherlock Mario" (a literary riff), and "Robo Koopa" (the closer). This 7-DVD collection brings 51 episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! into one place, a deep slice of the late-1980s Mario library in one set.
More Information: IMDB, Wikipedia
51 Total Episodes on 7 DVDs:
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 1 - The Bird! The Bird!
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 2 - King Mario Of Cramalot
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 3 - Butch Mario & The Luigi Kid
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 4 - Mario's Magic Carpet
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 5 - Rolling Down The River
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 6 - The Great Gladiator Gig
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 7 - Mario & The Beanstalk
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 8 - Love 'Em & Leave 'Em
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 9 - The Great BMX Race
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 10 - Stars In Their Eyes
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 11 - Jungle Fever
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 12 - Brooklyn Bound
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 13 - Toad Warriors
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 14 - The Fire Of Hercufleas
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 15 - Count Koopula
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 16 - Pirates Of Koopa
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 17 - Two Plumbers And A Baby
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 18 - The Adventures Of Sherlock Mario
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 19 - Do You, Princess Toadstool Take This Koopa
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 20 - The Pied Koopa
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 21 - Koopenstein
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 22 - On Her Majesty's Sewer Service
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 23 - Mario & Joilet
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 24 - Too Hot To Handle
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 25 - Hooded Robin And His Mario Men
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 26 - 20,000 Koopas Under The Sea
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 27 - Mighty McMario & The Pot Of Gold
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 28 - Mario Meets Koopzilla
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 29 - Koopa Klaus
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 31 - The Unzappables
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 32 - Bad Rap
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 33 - The Mark Of Zero
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 34 - The Ten Koopmandments
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 35 - The Koopa's Are Coming! The Koopa's Are Coming!
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 36 - The Trojan Koopa
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 37 - Quest For Pizza
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 38 - The Great Gold Coin Rush
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 39 - Elvin Lives
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 40 - Plumber's Academy
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 41 - Karate Koopa
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 42 - Mario Of The Apes
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 43 - Princess, I Shrunk The Mario Bros
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 44 - Little Red Riding Princess
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 45 - The Provolone Ranger
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 46 - Escape From Koopatraz
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 47 - Mario Of The Deep
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 48 - Flatbush Koopa
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 49 - Raiders Of The Lost Mushroom
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 50 - Crocodile Mario
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 51 - Star Koopa
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Episode 52 - Robo Koopa
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