Welcome to the Show!

Welcome to The Hot Hero Sandwich Project, the online home of a research project documenting the 1979-1980 Emmy Award-winning NBC Saturday morning children’s educational entertainment television series, Hot Hero Sandwich.

Use the tabs on the left to navigate this extensive archive of articles, interviews, and video, or jump right into some of our most popular posts on the right. Start with the Introduction and learn about the series in A Second Serving! and the FAQ tabs on left. The latest updates are noted on the the Project Posts list on the right.

The addresses for this website are:

• www.hotherosandwich.com
• hotherosandwichproject.blogspot.com

COMING UP! An article on Hot Hero Sandwich I wrote for RetroFan magazine #43 is slated for the Jan.-Feb. 2026 issue and scheduled for sale Feb. 11, 2026. We made the cover with Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!

— G. Jack Urso, Editor, The Hot Hero Sandwich Project

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Hot Hero Sound Engineer Ed Stasium’s Latest!

by G. Jack Urso

 

Ed Stasium, Hot Hero Sandwich’s sound engineer for the recording sessions with Music Director Felix Pappalardi and the Hot Hero Band, is still producing great albums with great musicians! The Long Ryders: High Noon Hymns, Double Vinyl Edition, featuring Sid Griffin, Stephen McCarthy, and Greg Sowders, and produced by Stasium, is slated for release March 13, 2026 from Cherry Red Records.

The Long Ryders, taking their name from the classic 1980 Western of the same name, playing Alternative Country and influenced by the Paisley Underground sound, has worked with Stasium on three previous albums.

According to Long Ryder guitarist/mandolinist Sid Griffin on the Cherry Red Records website, High Noon Hymns continues the band’s “distilled alt country genre we helped found back in the 1980s, one third Paisley Underground adventurism yet with a dash of our own crazed soulfulness thrown in.”

With the passing of The Long Ryders' bassist Tom Stevens, Murry Hammond of The Old 97s and The Long Ryders’ own Stephen McCarthy filled in. Guests appearing on High Noon Hymns include DJ Bonebrake of X on vibes and Wyatt Ellis on the mandolin.

 

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