原作是长谷川町子(1928~1992)的同名四格漫画,最开始连载是1946年,当时还只是在九州的一家报纸上。之后,从1949年开始,一直在《朝日新闻》上连载。漫画的所有角色都以海产品命名,据说是作者每天和妹妹在海边散步时想出来的。内容以以主妇海螺小姐为中心,描写矶野一家七口幽默开朗的生活,反映一般日本大众的生活状况。主角海螺小姐的开朗、善良以及略为急躁的个性是受大众欢迎的关键。
改编成动画在电视上首播是在1969年10月5日,比号称国民动画的 GUNDAM系列还早大约10年,最开始视听率就达到19.3%.尽管当时有报纸批评动画剧情乱七八糟,和原作太不一样,但有良好的收视率坐镇,节目得以持续播出。目前已播出6000话左右,连原作者和初代配音员都已去世。
值得一提的是,在如今这个数字处理盛行的时代,《海螺小姐》却仍然保持每张都用赛璐珞(胶片)作画的传统。
现在的播出时间为每周日的18:30~19:00。。五位勇猛大力士,摆阵月湖水上擂台,一对一的力量对抗,超级丰厚的现金大奖,湖南经视全民热血力量挑战节目《大力水手》全面开战!只要你有力量,只要你够胆量,带上你的激情来挑战吧!。中国早期引进的科幻译制片(其实本质是个僵尸电影。。。)
Two sisters, high school seniors in the early 1980s, awaken one morning to blood red skies and the realization that the human race has been wiped out. It becomes apparant that anyone who was not surrounded by steel when the Earth recently passed through the tail of Haley's comet has been reduced to a pile of red ash (the trace elements of human chemical makeup.) They encounter a rebellious Native American man and take over the air waves at a local radio station in an attempt to get help. Unfortunately, they attract the attention of a group of scientists who knew what the effects of the comet would be. They hid underground in a steel laboratory, but idiotically left the vents open. Now, as various survivors of the comet who were only partially surrounded by steel are decaying into flesh-hungry zombies, the scientists are attempting to come up with a vaccine made of the blood of people who were not infected by the comet. Thus the trio must fight their way past not only roving packs of the cannibalistic dead, but also outsmart a pack of scientists desperate not to become that way themselves.。