You don’t have to have read a comic or watched an episode to know about the power of Greyskull, for instance, or his bony nemesis Skeletor.įranchise fans, of course, will have knowledge that runs a little deeper. It’s one of those franchises that you will be exposed to, even if just subconsciously. You cannot erase the image of those furry little speedos. Like all the most enduring and iconic characters, He-Man’s image is indelibly printed on our collective consciousness. Today, Masters of the Universe has all but disappeared from even the most obscure TV channels, but it continues to maintain a cult following.
As today’s endless reruns of Friends, Cheers, Frasier and such will testify, TV shows are never really gone. I was born right at the close of the eighties, and so arrived too late to enjoy its brief 1983-1985 original run. Now, granted, the much beloved He-Man and the Masters of the Universe show was a little before my time. Just that name alone swaddles me in waves of comfortable nineties nostalgia.
