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6th Mar 2007, 12:01 PM #1
Saturday Morning Cartoon Also Rans
When we were little there were always cartoons on on saturday morning or during the week. I always liked the more sci-fi/fantasy/mystery/superhero type ones more than loony tunes etc.
There were literally hundreds of them. But whilst many have gone into TV classic history loads more have gone into obscurity.
This thread is to celebrate those toons and share our memories of them and our saturday mornings.
Thundercats, He-Man, Scooby Doo etc not allowed.
I'll start off with Arabian Knights. "SIZE OF AN ELEPHANT!"
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6th Mar 2007, 12:33 PM #2
I remember Thundercats being on on a Thursday afternoon, but thats by the by.
Saturday mornings used to be Battle of the Planets, Terrahawks & Ulysses 31(I think this was on on Saturdays)
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6th Mar 2007, 12:42 PM #3
Arabian Knights was part of the Banana Splits Show, wasn't it? Did it get shown on it's own too?
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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6th Mar 2007, 12:44 PM #4
Challenge of the Gobots!
Si.
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6th Mar 2007, 12:58 PM #5
The Gobots weren't third rate Transformer rip-offs. Oh no!
M.A.S.K. and The Centurions spring to mind as cartoons that the other kids liked: I always remained true to my beloved Transformers even when they were rubbish!
There was a Saturday morning show, presented by a puppet kettle and various cups and dishes, that featured other little serials, all of which ran in 6 parts. One of these was called Mr.Nice (I think) about a cartoon character who came to life and battled fearsome (camp) enemies. This would be very early 90's I reckon. Anyone else remember it?Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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6th Mar 2007, 2:02 PM #6
How about Defenders of the Earth... defenders. That was pretty good.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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6th Mar 2007, 2:12 PM #7
That's how I remember it, don't recall seeing it on its own. The Three Musketeers (with Tulie (sp?) always wanting to be a Musketeer but being too young) was the other one from there.
Am I allowed to mention Godzilla and Godzooky? They had two ways of summoning the former - either getting the latter to call out for him or the Captain character to press a button on a little control device he had in his pocket. They went to Atlantis in one episode, you know...
Tarzan (the filmation one) was brilliant. Is there a DVD anywhere? Great "der-der-der..der-der-der..der-DER-DER" theme tune where the end titles would climax on a close up of him approaching on his vine doing his "OOARGH-AH-OH-AH-OH-AH-OH" or however you write it. Plots concerning the Elephants graveyard, a lost city somewhere, and an evil robot of Tarzan with red eyes.
Space Sentinels...rubbish but fun, if you know what I mean. Didn't quite grasp that Herc and Merc were the daft ones, with Astra (able to turn herself into any animal, a bit like her off Space 1999 now I think of it) the relatively sensible one. Sentinel 7 and Mo were quite sweet too.
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6th Mar 2007, 3:18 PM #8
They also had another one about a family that could shrink or something. They had a little car.
What about Fang Face?
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6th Mar 2007, 3:51 PM #9
Da-da-da-da-da Inspector Gadget da-da-da-da-daaa (ooh ooh!)
Si.
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6th Mar 2007, 4:37 PM #10
Space Sentinels was a big favourite for me. I saw it again a few years ago, and sadly it was utter tosh. Mo was great though with his extendable neck... and I used to confuse Zen in Blake's 7 with Sentinel One.
Does anyone else remember Janna of the Jungle with her amazing boomerang bangle neck thing? I used to love that.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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6th Mar 2007, 5:01 PM #11
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6th Mar 2007, 6:15 PM #12
KISSYFUR
I remember the name, and that it was a bear, but nothing else.
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6th Mar 2007, 6:57 PM #13
Yep, Fang Face was another classic. It was a bit like The Incredible Hulk in that you kept waiting for which bits would make him angry/have him being exposed to the moon or the sun.
Inspector Gadget always seemed to have quite complex ingenious plots for a cartoon (haven't seen it for over 20 years, mind). I seem to remember the baddie being a disembodied gauntlet connected to an empty chair with a chain and a speaker providing the voice. And there was always an extremely unsubtle moral about health and safety at the end.
When I was about 8 I wanted to live with Jana in the jungle. I quite liked her.
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6th Mar 2007, 7:05 PM #14
Battle of the Planets, Pole Position , The Smurfs, Visionaries, Ulysses 31, crappy Laurel and Hardy cartoons, Dungeons and Dragons, The Family-Ness, Dogtanian, Willy Fog, Godzilla, Star Fleet, Defenders of the Earth, Alias the Jester, Kissyfur, Vicky the Viking, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, Hong Kong Phooey, Dr Snuggles, Captain Caveman, The Muppet Babies (just before Saturday Superstore/Going Live at 8:35am), Zoids, Centurions, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, The Raccoons and Gummi Bears (think they were Sunday morning).
Does The Pink Panther Show count? I think that was Saturday/Sunday afternoons!?
Don't forget Rolf Harris's Cartoon Time/Cartoon Club, that crap with Tony Robinson (Stay Tooned!) and STV's Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade (ran for about 52 years with two episodes of Sport Billy and bloody Wonder Wheels.)
Loads of them at the usual sites (TV Cream, etc.):
http://www.thechestnut.com/index.htm
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/1011/index.html
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6th Mar 2007, 7:12 PM #15
Pole Position - with the talking cars? Always a joy! That was one of them Japanese cartoons, wasn't it. Great theme tune, like most of them in fact. I remember Pole Position from the 6am 'woken up far too early' slot on BBC1. They also ran an interesting 70's (possibly) cartoon version of Batman at that time slot, way back in the early 90's.
So what do you rememeber about Kissyfur, James? The name rings a bell...
And you missed Ovid's Video. And possibly Edward J. Quack Quack.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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6th Mar 2007, 7:22 PM #16
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6th Mar 2007, 7:22 PM #17
Kissyfur had an impossibly cute voice.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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6th Mar 2007, 7:26 PM #18
Kissyfur was about a big naked bear who invited folk to kiss his special hair, wasn't it?
Or maybe it was this:
http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_S...fur/index.html
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/609-kissyfur/
The Big Cartoon Database is an excellent site.
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6th Mar 2007, 7:46 PM #19
I really liked Kissyfur. He lived in very nice tree house and without reading James's links, he and his dad escaped from the Circus but they lost his mum or something. And there was a school and a crocodile. Gelling agents, marzipan, it's all in there.
Who remembers the utterly lost "Happy Days" spin off cartoon where they travelled through time in a flying saucer? It's one to file alongside the "Roseanne" cartoon.
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6th Mar 2007, 7:50 PM #20
I don't remember much about Pole Position except the, as Rob says, excellent theme tune. Which was, erm, excellent.
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7th Mar 2007, 10:58 AM #21
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7th Mar 2007, 12:36 PM #22
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang was one of the worst cartoons (even worse than the Laurel and Hardy one!) of all-time ever all-time. Mr Cool sucked more than The Fonz in Al's toilets!!
http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-B...ppy_Days_Gang/
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/fonzhdgang.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fon...appy_Days_Gang
I don't believe Ron Howard was involved!
Thursdays on Children's BBC in 1984. That 'Warriors of the Deep' sounds interesting.
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7th Mar 2007, 12:45 PM #23
I don't remember watching Fonz and the Happy Days Gang at all... so it must have been terrible!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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7th Mar 2007, 12:57 PM #24
Fantastic Max, Inhumanoids, Bravestarr and that Mexican Amigo and Friends crap are another four straight out the bottom drawer.
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7th Mar 2007, 12:57 PM #25
The only cartoons I can remember on Saturday mornings were those in Banana Splits
Probably my favourite cartoon fixture was Fridays on BBC when they used to do a Tom & Jerry double bill round about 7pm. Far better than anything they had on Saturday mornings.
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