Yes, you guessed it (or if you didn’t shame on you!) one of my favorite childhood cartoons was Thundarr the Barbarian! Included in my list of favorite childhood shows was:
Voltron. I liked both the 5 lion one and the one made of a ton of little space ships… the lion one was the better Voltron IMHO.
Blackstar. I used to debate with my grade school peers as to whose sword was more powerful Blackstars or Thundarrs… Blackstars obviously.
Dungeons & Dragons. Yes, this show was pretty cheesy but I loved it anyway. So much so my wife bought me a complete set of the episodes sans commercials for Christmas last year. Yay!
Spider-man and his Amazing Friends. Awesome show! Especially loved the episode(s?) where the Xmen made a guest appearance.
Also liked (but didn’t get to see very much of) the Herculoids, and the Mighty Orbots.
So share with me people. What were some of your favorite childhood shows?
I liked the Godzilla cartoon – the one with Godzookie and the four-person “Mystery Machine”-like yacht crew (bearded guy/brainy woman/black guy with glasses/ubiquitous kid) sailing all around the world and always running into titanic-sized monsters everywhere they went.
And I have fondest memories of the Shazam/Isis live action show.
Grim Beaker , I didn’t even know that “Dungeons and Dragons” had a video set! Do you know where your wife got it? I’m enquiring solely for a…child, ummm, my *nephew, * that’s it!
I think you can get bootleg videos of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon at most sci-fi conventions. I know some of the shows have been released on videotape by Rhino, but I don’t think they have a complete set.
Back when rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 was still read by J. Michael Straczynski (who also created Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future), I once posted:
I don’t know quite where this puts me on the pathetic scale, but I am paying DirecTV an extra two dollars every month, specifically so that I can get Cartoon Network’s sister channel, Boomerang, which shows Thundarr on weekends. Also Pirates of Dark Water (anybody remember that one?), Godzilla, and an alarming amount of Jonny Quest. But Thundarr rules them all. Thundarr was the man. And Thundarr was the first cartoon I ever saw where it was patently obvious to me that he and Ariel were, shall we say,
“more than just good friends.”
They also show the Herculoids, but I don’t bother with them. They’re just silly.
