Well, we’ve already answered the question of what The Avengers trailer would have looked like if it had been done in the style of the 1960s cartoon series. Now let’s answer the equally burning question of what the movie would look like if it had been made in 1978.
This particular mash-up features footage not just from the 1970s Captain America TV movie,but also of Thor and the Incredible Hulk from the 1988 TV movie The Incredible Hulk Returns, as well as many other shows of the period – see if you can spot them all. At the very least, Galactica 80, MASH and Airwolf are in there, but I’m not sure how Jason King ended up doubling for Tony Stark, though.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
