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20. Sky High (TV Series)(2003-2004) Sky High is a live-action, supernatural Japanese television drama series, starring actress and model, Yumiko Shaku. It aired in Japan, first run, from 2003 to 2004, and was popular enough to spawn the 2003 feature film of the same name (produced while the series was still in production and starring the same actress). Both are based on the Japanese manga, Sky High. Shaku stars as Izuko, the Guardian of the Gate to the afterlife. READ MORE 19. You Really Haven't Lived Until You've Seen The Japanese Spider-Man TV Show This version of the famous web-slinging hero was part of a deal that Marvel made with Toei, namely that for a four-year period, Toei could use Marvel's characters in any way they saw fit. So in 1978, a Spider-Man tokusatsu series was produced for Japanese television by Toei Company Ltd. While Spider-Man's costume was certainly based on the original, the storyline had nothing to do with the Marvel character. The series had...

By Tim Knight With an official Marvel Cinematic Universe iteration of Doctor Strange in the works, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and due to hit movie screens in 2016, I thought it was time to set the Wayback Machine to the 1970s and fall under the spell of the original Dr. Strange movie. As ever, this 1978 TV movie needs to be considered on its own merits, taking into account the budgetary and technological restrictions of its time. The Ditko-verse Five hundred-year-old sorceress Morgan LeFey (Jessica Walter) is tasked by her nameless, demonic master (a giant, mist-enshrouded puppet, voiced by David Hooks) to slay Earth's current sorcerer supreme, Thomas Lindmer ( John Mills... yes, THE John Mills ) within an arbitrary timeframe of three days. I suspect he's supposed to be Dormammu . The legendary Arthurian villianness has been hanging around the "higher levels of the Astral plane", a set clearly influenced by the iconic artwork of Dr. ...