Produced by the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF), Sammy’s Super T-Shirt is standard kids vs villains fare – this time, it’s a fight for possession of the titular t-shirt, which has been accidentally imbued with superpowers.
Pint-sized 12-year-old Sammy Smith (Reggie Winch) has a special “lucky t-shirt”. It has a print of a tiger on it, and he wears it when he’s training for the “big race” with his young “manager and trainer”, Marvin (Lawrie Mark), replete with a fantastic afro.
Sammy dreams of becoming a super athlete, despite his puny build, and works out at home with the help of a training cassette tape.
A run-in with some young bullies sees Sammy’s shirt accidentally mixed up with some clothing used by the Chemi-Tex research laboratory in an experiment to render clothing indestructible (by “densifying the molecular wave patterns”).
When Sammy retrieves the shirt, he discovers that wearing it now gives him super strength and speed – illustrated by slow-motion footage (a la The Six Million Dollar Man) accompanied by the roar of a tiger.
Pursued and kidnapped by Chemi-Tex employees Mr Becket (Richard Vernon) and Mr Trotter (Julian Holloway), Sammy and Marv eventually escape along a river courtesy of Sammy’s super t-shirt-powered breaststroke.
Sammy makes it to the big race in time, but when his t-shirt finally runs out of juice, it’s up to Sammy to win the “Junior Superstar Challenge Cup Race” under his own steam.
Sammy Smith
Reggie Winch Marvin
Lawrie Mark Big Sid
David Young Chalky
Keith Jayne Mr Becket
Richard Vernon Mr Trotter
Julian Holloway Mum
Patsy Rowlands Sportsmaster
Jack May Gateman
Michael Ripper Neighbour
Marianne Stone
Director
Jeremy Summers
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Pint-sized 12-year-old Sammy Smith (Reggie Winch) has a special “lucky t-shirt”. It has a print of a tiger on it, and he wears it when he’s training for the “big race” with his young “manager and trainer”, Marvin (Lawrie Mark), replete with a fantastic afro.
Sammy Smith
