Captain Lou Has “Mario’d” His Last
Author: Rees | Date: October 15, 2009“Captain” Lou Albano, the wrestler-turned actor, died yesterday at the age of 76. He was taken into hospice care a week ago, however his exact cause of death is not yet known. I know absolutely nothing about wrestling, but I gather that he was well liked in that aspect of his career as well as the one a lot of my fellow kids of the 80s/90s will remember him for… As Mario in the Saturday morning kids’ classic “Super Mario Brothers Super Show”.
So, dance along with Lou for one last time with the video above… Of course, Mario can never die – only those who portray him.
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Cap’n Lou wasn’t a wrestler, he was a manager…
Still, I remember this program from when it used to be on ‘The Childrens Channel’ on Sky, back whan Sky only had about 15 channels. They’d get 2 kids to face off head-to-head in a time trial across levels from the various Mario Bros games, interjected with really terrible bits of live action Marioness from Lou and whoever played Luigi… Those were the days!
Come on it’s time to go do the Mario!
RIP Lou Albano!
I see… Well, like I said, I know nothing about wrestling – Wikipedia said he was a wrestler so that’s what I went with! Apparently he’s in the WWE hall of fame or something too.
Yes, I remember the olden days of TCC (didn’t they become “Trouble” in the end?) and their cheesy children’s pap. Although I think Sky had about 25 channels when we got it. Latecomers to the party as always!
I bow to wikipedias superior knowledge, apparently he was a wrestler too… I only remember him being a manager back in my childhood, watching WWF on Sky when it only had 8 channels and no remote, just a set top box with 8 buttons on!
Yeah well I remember Sky when it had 2 channels, the box was hand-cranked, and you had to change the channels by carrier pigeon! You whippersnapper!
Apparently I have my Mario shows mixed up… Lou was in the actual cartoon Mario program, which was also on TCC when I was a kid…
Wonder what that program where the kids faced off on the Mario games was called then? If anyone else remembers please let me know, otherwise this is going to drive me nuts!
I vaguely remember this, although apparently it was on ITV. I also watched GamesMaster religiously as a child.
Even my strong Googlesauce is failing me in finding any info on the TCC programme though. Perhaps someone with a good memory for these things will chime in..?