For two and a half wonderful years in the mid-1980s, Tyne Tees Television produced a fun little show for CITV in the United Kingdom featuring Super Gran, a grandmother with superpowers, based on books by Forrest Wilson. Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly famously sang the theme tune and it gave a good idea of what the titular character was all about. Here are the first few lines:
Stand back Superman, Iceman, Spider-Man. Batman and Robin too. Don't wanna cause a fracas, but B.A. Baracas, have I got a match for you. She makes them look like a bunch of fairies. She's got more bottle than United Dairies. Hang about - Look out! For Supergran!
While that may have been something of an exaggeration (she displayed nothing like the level of power shown by Superman, for example), Super Gran was not to be messed with. Granny Smith - played by Gudrun Ure - acquired superpowers when she was hit by a magical ray gun and these were generally portrayed as being the ability to jump really high, some moderate super-strength and some more esoteric abilities like x-ray vision. She used those powers to protect the fictional town of Chiselton from villains like Scunner Campbell, The Muscles and Tub.
