He-man is the action figure which was developed in sort of a backwards fashion. In cases such as Star Wars, the toys were created after the film and, in fact, until the first movie became a hit they had a hard time finding a company which was interested in making their action figures. With He-Man, however, Mattel, smarting from the fact that they had turned down the opportunity to make the Star Wars toys, determined to develop a successful line of fantasy action figures to compete, came up with the concept for He-Man. The toy makers started with an existing Mattel toy- Big Jim- and used clay to bulk him up with much bigger muscles. The result was the impossibly brawny He-Man...
The show goes on to detail He-Man's soaring popularity, followed by it's inevitable decline. It's all quite fun and interesting, but I didn't enjoy this episode quite as much, I think mainly due to one of the guys- I can't remember his name- who was extensively interviewed. He was really potty-mouthed, which was a bit jarring in a show about children's toys and seemed out of place as well as inappropriate. Besides, He-Man, who always ended his show with a moral to the story, would never have talked like that... heck, neither would Skeletor for that matter.