My wife grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes she accuses me of “imagining” television shows of the past, as if I’m just plain nuts and my memory is faulty. She didn’t believe me when I told her about Tobor the 8th Man and The New Zoo Revue. I proved they existed, though. I found an old VHS tape at a flea market of 8th Man, and the NZR has a a wikipedia entry. Recently I got a DVD of the old King Kong cartoons from Amazon and she was, to be honest, laughing hysterically at it. So after asking if there any other obscure cartoons that only I seem to remember I mentioned “Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero”, “The Arabian Knights” “Rocket Robin Hood” and “Sinbad jr”. There was also this show that only came on Sundays in the Philadelphia area that had cartoons of a family of Japanese Mice and a revolutionary war guy named Hector something.
I cannot be the only person to remember those cartoons. Even my cousin says he doesn’t remember some of them even though we used to watch them together as kids. Am I having some kind of fever dream or did anyone else see these shows?
The Mouse was Hashimoto San, another Terrytoons cartoon. I grew up on 'em in the 1960s. If you want, you can get them on DVD. (I looked, but they don’t seem to be on Youtube, unlike a lot of other older cartioons.)
For a long time I thought I imagined a show for children that featured freaky puppet kids with human hands, lost in space. I didn’t! There was an ongoing segment in a show called Vegetable Soup called Outerscope.
There is one episode where they land on a planet whose sole inhabitants are cleaning utensils. Must be CLEAN in Sani-Land!
Was *Rocky and Bullwinkle * a cartoon hour that also included… a very bright dog named Mr. Peabody, and a kid named Sherman? Or do I have that backward? And wasn’t there also Davey and Goliath, another kid-talking dog odd couple?
Not a cartoon, but still a kids show…I went off on this spontaneous memory trip one night telling my wife all about this great show called “Fingermouse”, telling her all about the puppets, and I even sang the whole theme song from memory after 30-some odd years. There was a mouse, and a snail, and a seagull, and and and…
She wouldn’t believe me, thought I was making it all up
I remember New Zoo Revue. Henrietta Hippo, Freddie the Frog, and I cannot remember the owl’s name right now. As a joke my Nana told me she was Henrietta Hippo and being five at the time I believed her and I told everyone. My Mom got a call from my school wondering why I was telling everyone my Grandmother was a hippo
Unfortunately, I seem to be the only one that remembers The Magic Garden. Carol, Paula, Sherlock the Squirrel, the chuckle patch, and the story box. Anyone?
For Canadians, the new channel Teletoon Retro is currently airing Rocket Robin Hood - which I used to watch late, late, late at night when I was in high school. I’m not sure if there ever was a significant period when it wasn’t on the schedule somewhere in Canada.
Random RRH trivia - Ralph Bakshi was in doing RRH at the same time he was doing Spider-Man, and occasionally re-used animation from the former in the latter - to allow both productions to be cheaper without showing it, which the pre-Bakshi seasons of both were horrible for. Two episodes were reused wholesale - Dementia 5 and From Menace to Menace became Revolt in the Fifth Dimension and Phantom From The Depths of Time, with minor changes.
It was indeed. It calso featured Aesop and Son, Dudley Do-Right of the RCMP, and the incredible Fractured Fairy Tales. The first three seasons of Rocky and Bullwinkle are out in DVD sets, and so is a collection of Fractured Fairy Tales. Well worth getting.
If you like R&B, look into Jay Ward’s other creations, including the much-neglected Crusader Rabbit, a proto-Rocky with a diminutive hero (CR) and his big but dumb sidekick (in this case, Ragland T. Tiger). Ward did the early ones, which was one of the first (if not THE first) cartoons made directly for television. Other folks made the l;ater ones, but they still had that Jay Ward feel to them. You can dig up clips on YouTube.
Captain Kangaroo had a couple of cartoons that I vaguely and fondly remember. Tom Terrific and his mighty dog, Manfred! And wasn’t there another one, with a western theme or something?
My wayback machine takes me to Felix The Cat. Black and white cartoon where Felix kept getting his nuts hit. He would be dragged along the ground and go over telephone poles with his legs spread. We thought it was funny.
Does anybody remember a cartoon called “Web Woman”? She was a superhero along the lines of Spider-Woman in Marvel Comics and had a little alien sidekick (like Gleek from “Super Friends”) and drove a flying car shaped likeed a scarab beetle. I swear I didn’t make this up, but nobody else seems to remember it.
Does anyone remember Wonderama? There was another show that I think was a spin off of that show or at least had the same host. I recall a kids show with the set made up like a board game and the contestents moved around as the game pieces. There were physical hazards occasionally that somehow remind me of the game “mousetrap”. Am I imagining this?
Check this out:Sonny Fox's Wonderama
I think it may have been “Just For Fun”. I remember Sonny Fox, but I watched Bob McCallister for a longer time. I might be mixing up my memories.
This one’s pretty obscure: it was a Terrytoons cartoon, and it depicted a little Frenchman artist type, with a beret, moustache and a paint palette. He’d paint pictures which magically came to life, and say to himself, “Ah, Gaston, you have done it again!”
Then there were some very old 'toons starring a cat, Sarge, and a goose, Gandy, and they were done by the folks who did Heckle and Jeckle, I believe.
The discussion of Manfred the Wonder Dog made me think of Snuffles, the hound on Quick Draw McGraw. To this day, whenever my sister and I eat something particularly delicious, we do the “Snuffles floating up in the air after eating a dog treat” bit.
