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jill was joanna cameron s stand in for scuba duba

Never jumped. Stupid show, goofy premise, but Joanna Cameron...that face, that long, black hair, that body in the skimpy costume...she made prepubescence on Saturday morning an experience!

From Guest: i remember on the episodes lucky and scuba duba joanna cameron s(isis) butt was sticking out when she ran in the ocean to save rany and lucky and when she was under water to save steve conrad,

They don't make 'em like this anymore, and it's a shame. If they "re-imagined" ISIS today, it'd most likely be a dark, dreary, serialized mess (kind of like the new BIONIC WOMAN, eh?), chock full of violence, double entendres, and lame attempts at being hip or ironic. Sure, ISIS had special "effects" that Ed Wood would've laughed at, and the show required not just a suspension, but an outright EXPULSION, of disbelief (for example, Isis's dimwitted male teacher pal could never figure out her true identity, yet at one point he invents a machine that controls the weather!). But this show was charming in its innocence, and star Joanna Cameron was very easy on the eyes. And it always had a positive message and a happy ending. As I said, they just don't make 'em like this these days.

jill was joanna cameron s stand in

i think it was jill s butt that was sticking out in the episode scuba duba

To the person trying to explain Isis's powers, you've gotta be kidding. Isis didn't make a lick of sense. I've got some episodes on tape and I've seen her stop time, run time (the film) backward, create stairs out of smoke, create duplicates of herself, make trees appear, pass through walls, make steel bars disappear, not to mention that she can summon Captain Marvel at will without involving Billy Batson, although I don't see why she would, since he can hardly do squat compared to her. They say she has control over "the elements" but they don't seem to know what an element is, so her powers are whatever the plot/the budget calls for. But who cares, the show was just a lot of fun, and both Isis and her secret identity were beautiful. I remember thinking it was somewhat erotic the way she pulled that necklace out of her cleavage in order to transform. They don't make em like this anymore....

Didn't jump. Saturday morning t.v during the 70s was the best part of the week, especially when the "Secrets of Isis" came on. For me, that was when puberty kicked in! I thought: "Oh my gah, she's beautiful!..I gotta watch this!" Even though it was on for a few years, I never forgot the show. In fact, it's probably is the only superhero show that didn't have violence in it which is probably why it didn't have a long run. I remember at the end of an episode when Isis flew in and delivered a morale message to the viewer..."Hi kids! Did you know its not right to smoke(or something like that)... See you next week." Then she'd fly off looking for trouble. Saturday mornings!...Those were happy times!!!

In one of her visits to the SHAZAM! show, The Captain gives her the once over and offers to be there for her, for whatever she needs, anywhere, anytime. It seemed a pretty strong come-on, and Isis didn't slap the Captain, oh no! She shot him back a "come up and see me sometime" look. I swear to God I'm not making this up. I have the episode on videotape.

I don't think this show ever jumped. Never was a sexier superheroine on T.V. The outfit she wore was slammin, and Joanna Cameron had a natural beauty that sent me on a headlong dive into puberty. What more could a twelve year old boy have asked for? Isis is still mighty in my book.

The show took a personal jump for me when Isis failed to rescue that dog in the ocean. For heaven's sake, she just ran in there and got knocked around by waves. I could have done a better job than that!

I see theres alot of confusion regarding the nature of Isis' powers, so here I am to set the record straight...deep breath...okay, here goes. Isis was the "mother of magic" goddess daughter who overthrew her father Ra (the then king of Egyptian gods). She had wicked powers---even for a godess--and was always benign to mortals. During the show, Isis' powerrs are contained in a MORTAL shell, so there are a few cutbacks in the original goddess-like abilities. basicly, Isis can controll any NATURALLY occuring substance or phenomenon. She can create/controll weather (the "zephyr winds" for example), she can manipulate the elements---causing rivers/waves to flow backward, rust metal, controll gravity, channel electricity, turn sand to glass, or extinguish flames ("Oh fire that burns and glows and flashes---reduce thyself to cooling ashes!"). The key thing to remember is that Isis is using MAGIC to do all this. Remember when she first donned the amulet, she could suddenly read the Hieroglyphics? That amulet also lets her speak the language of the gods that gives her incantations their power. WE hear them in english, but thats just for our benefit. Now, as to the reason that her powers seem to change---why she dosent just use the power that would solve the problem a lot qucker---when one uses magic incantations, one must speak them IN SEQUENCE. Imagine that all the incantations are arranged from A to Z. If the first spell you use is in the 'g' category, the next one couldn't be from the 'F' or 'A' category. This is why Isis sometimes had to be creative with how she did her stuff. Finally, regarding limitations or weaknesses, first, Isis needs to wear the amulet--without it she's grounded. Second, She has to speak the incantations aloud, so if she were ever gagged or otherwise silenced, she'd be powerless. Third, she cant control any unnatural substance like steel/plastic/fiberglass/mylar. *whew!* BTW, the show never jumped!

Sure it was cheese but it was fun! Isis was smoulderin' hot and the locals where she lived were even dumber than the rubes Billy Batson encountered stopping in his Winnebago. I mean Isis and Andrea Thomas have the SAME talking black bird, the SAME body and voice. The only differences are that Andrea had straight hair and wore slacks and glasses while Isis had longer, curly hair and wore a miniskirt(!). . .and Andrea and Isis never left their locale (unlike the constantly traveling Billy Batson and Captain Marvel). BTW, last I heard, Joanna Cameron is working as a nurse somewhere.

I liked this show even as a senior in college: I'm sure I'm not the only one. I saw Joanna Cameron on an episode of "Columbo". She played Dick Van Dyke's character's secretary. (He played a photographer who killed his wife he could take his secretary to the Phillipines.) You cant blame a guy for trying!

Even as a kid, when I watched the show, I wondered why the character of *Isis* had, as her symbol, the symbol of the goddess Hathor. Yes, I was an Egyptology junkie...