Commander USA's Groovie Movies: Hercules II

Commander USA does his show from "Mel's Mt. Olympus Diner".

Episode aired 19 November 1988

The Adventures of Hercules (1985)
Le avventure dell'incredibile Ercole (original title)
PG | 1h 28min | Adventure, Fantasy | 4 October 1985 (USA)
When three traitorous goddesses steal seven magical thunderbolts with unearthly power, it falls to one man with the strength of one hundred to save the universe from eternal chaos and darkness: Hercules. As an Olympian array of monstrous villains line up to claim Hercules' head, our protagonist must summon every last ounce of his formidable strength to defeat them all, recover the thunderbolts, and take to the cosmos itself for one final battle with his arch-nemesis, King Minos.

According to an interview with director Luigi Cozzi, the movie wasn't planned as a sequel to Hercules (1983). He was asked by the producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus to film scenes for I sette magnifici gladiatori (1983) to save it. After they saw what he filmed, they asked him to write a story around the scenes, and make a few more with Lou Ferrigno, not telling him that he was involved in a sequel to Hercules (1983).