An animated version of the Marvel Family made its debut in Filmation's Kid Superpower Hour with Shazam!

The show featured two animated segments, loosely linked by live-action vignettes.

The animated Marvel Family segment was titled Shazam! and was remarkably faithful to the Marvel Family mythos of the time. The writers abandoned the Winnebago of the live-action show and went back to the source, attempting to capture some of the quirkiness and charm of the comics.

They brought in Mr. Mind and Black Adam and Ibac and the crocodile men - and in virtually every episode, Sivana and his evil offspring, Georgia and Junior.

Billy Batson still could never see through a Sivana disguise, Freddy's changing by saying "Captain Marvel" instead of "Shazam" saved the day more than once, and Sivana reveled in taunting "the Big Red Cheese".

Unfortunately, Filmation's animation left a lot to be desired - the characters' expressions and stances rarely changed. The pace of some stories is deadly dull, as if the directors never had heard the terms "excitement" or "action" before.

The transformation scenes were pretty good, though. It was Filmation, after all, that pioneered the "insert cool and relatively expensive transformation scene as often as possible" business with He-Man.

The company also reused the uninspiring theme from the live-action Shazam series, as well as incidental music and sounds from Archie. There was little, if any, attempt to disguise the swipes.
Vocal talents were odd to say the least .

Mary sounded like a forty-year-old woman, and Captain Marvel Junior, the one whose adventures have always been drawn more seriously than the siblings', is saddled with a cartoony, whiny voice that had been used by characters in other Filmation series.

Cap, for his part, sounds suitably heroic. (I think the same guy also did the voice for He-Man.)
The other segment was called Hero High, whose concept is best described as "the Archie gang gets superpowers". Archie's role was taken by surfboarding captain California, Betty's by good girl Glorious Gal, and Jughead's by the tubby Weatherman. Reggie and Veronica had their nasty twins, too.

Interestingly, the two segments crossed over at least once, with Captain Marvel appearing at school to seek Weatherman's help for some odd reason (even the nasty pair treated him with proper respect). We never did get to see if Captain California would dump Glorious Gal in favor of Mary Marvel, though.

The live segments featured an Archies-type band dressed up like the Hero High crew (evidently they got along well enough to play together, outside of school). Let's just say they were no "Kaptain Kool and the Kongs" and leave it at that, shall we?

Filmation released several compilations of the Shazam episodes on videocassette. These still pop up in bargain bins on occasion, and have been seen at numerous Blockbuster outlets.