Who Wants to Be a Superhero? (UK TV series)
| Who Wants to Be a Superhero? | |
|---|---|
| Created by |
Stan Lee Bruce Nash |
| Developed by | CBBC / NBC Universal |
| Starring |
Sam Nixon Mark Rhodes Stan Lee |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Alex Cross |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two/CBBC |
| Original release | 3 January – 18 April 2009 |
Who Wants to Be a Superhero? is a UK children's reality show hosted by Sam Nixon, Mark Rhodes and Stan Lee, based on the NBC Universal/Sci Fi Channel (United States) series of the same name. The show is a co-production between CBBC and NBC.
Children aged 9 – 13 create and become their very own, unique, never before seen superhero characters for the series, taking part in missions and challenges and living away from home in ‘The Superhero Lair’ in London. Contestants responded to trials on the CBBC Channel and application forms on the CBBC website.
There were 13 superheroes in total; seven boys and six girls.
This table gives the order of superheroes being "powered down" (eliminated) from the series. Some weeks, superheroes were immune from being powered down as a reward for a challenge or were unable to take part due to illness.
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Footnotes:
In most episodes, the superheroes take part in challenges and missions (as instructed by Stan Lee) to save the world from evil villain, Dr. Dark. Throughout the series, Dr. Dark tricks them, steals from them, and even goes as far as to imprison Sam and Mark. The villain is assisted by his evil, mutated, scary (and often angry) half human-half pig henchmen, whom the superheroes encounter multiple times during their missions. Dr. Dark is eventually defeated in episode 14 by the three finalists, on the roof of the secret lair. In the final episode, Stan Lee creates Fire Fiend, a fire based enemy for H2O Man's comic book.
Each episode (with the exception of episode 1 – auditions) the superheroes face one or two challenges working as a team, pairs, trios or individually. They are judged by Sam and Mark on their behaviour as a superhero.
For their next mission, the superheroes are sent to Dr Dark's lair to rescue the animals he stole from a pet shop. There's a sleeping pig henchman inside, and the animals have to be lifted to safety by hand, with cockroaches, locusts, maggots, a rat and a lizard being among the animals that needed rescuing. They able to rescue the animals without waking the henchman. However, Santh and Pink Puffle Girl succumb to their fear of insects and are unable to complete the mission. Back at the lair, Stan announces a surprise treat for the superheroes: a meal at a restaurant with two celebrities - but there are only six seats in the taxi. Santh stays behind with Pink Puffle Girl, arguing that they don't deserve to go because they failed the mission. At the restaurant, the superheroes met Michael and Rani - the hosts of Best of Friends - but some of the heroes break the rules by revealing where they live and letting the two celebrities try on parts of their costumes. Near the end of the meal, a food fight erupts. The superheroes chosen for the Power Down are Santh, who expected a reward for staying behind; Deflector, for taking part in the food fight and almost pouring a drink on Michael's head; and Pink Puffle Girl, for getting and confrontational when trying to convince the other heroes that she should stay behind. Heroes shouldn't expect rewards for their actions and Santh falls victim to the Power Down.
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