ROGER RAMJET
SERIES ONE (Deluxe Collectors Edition)
Distributor:
Madman-AV Channel Certificate: G | 660
minutes | All Region
Available to buy Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Roger
Ramjet (Hero of our Nation)
"Roger
Ramjet, He's our man, Hero of our nation, For his adventures, Just be
sure, And stay tuned to this station"
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Superhero
Roger Ramjet works for the
American Eagle Squadron, helping
save America from such dastardly
villains as the horrid Noodles
Romanoff and his organization,
N.A.S.T.Y. (the National
Association of Spies, Traitors
and Yahoos.).
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
With
his inane grin and less than smart brainpower Roger Ramjet is an unusual
superhero, Gary Owens (the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
gives a superb voice to Ramjet as he fights crime the American Way aided
by Proton Energy Pills (which give him the strength of 10,000 atomic
bombs for 10 seconds) and a quartet of Kids (Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee)
who were also members of the A.E.S. Ramjet has a real charm, defiantly
low of budget (rather than animate lavish effects the team merely wrote
them in Batman style) and quirky of script.
Spy
spoofs and the cold war were all the rage in the mid sixties (Ramjet
debuted in 1965) so the show found plenty of easy targets, similar in
tone and feel to the Rocky and Bullwinkle show Ramjet contains much to
enjoy for adults with the scripts by Gene Moss and Jim Thurman
referencing plenty of adult over the heads of kids stuff. Very retro!!
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Audio
commentary on selected episodes by Roger himself Gary Owens.
