# old but not forgotten cartoons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 14, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580 "2008-02-14T12:45:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/101 "2008-02-15T17:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] Each cartoon would end with the Wizard talking to Tooter in a sweet Yiddish accent, “Alvays, alvays I tell you Tooter: Be just vat you is, not vat you is not. Folks vat do this, is the happiest lot.” [/QUOTE] Do you remember the incantation the wizard used to get Tooter back? Something like “Drizza drazza drizza drone, time for this one to come home,” or something to that effect? I have that stupid 45 year old snippet of memory stuck in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Carson\_O\_Genic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carson\_O\_Genic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carson_O_Genic)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/102 "2008-02-15T17:37:40Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] I did, along with **Supercar** with Mike Mercury (whenever anyone talks about a scientist character named Beaker, I think about this, rather than a Muppet). Two of the Anderson’s Supermarionation puppet efforts before Thunderbirds. There are lots of other, much more obscure cartoons from circa 1960. I give you: **Spunky and Tadpole** [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xf0oxpF2mZs/hqdefault.jpg "Spunky and Tadpole") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf0oxpF2mZs) **Colonel Bleep** ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RDmGhewzjq0/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/RDmGhewzjq0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque **Dodo, the Kid from Outer Space** ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F1CxOKYMbrc/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/F1CxOKYMbrc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque and those SynthaVox wonders, **Space Angel** and **Clutch Cargo** > **[ToonTracker.com for sale](http://www.toontracker.com/spaceangel/spaceang.htm)** > **[ToonTracker.com for sale](http://www.toontracker.com/clutchcargo/cargo.htm)** ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pFnLirXjjto/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/pFnLirXjjto?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] Waah!My parents didn’t allow enough TV time. ---
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/103 "2008-02-15T17:40:12Z")
Any love for Underdog? Atom Ant? Mighty Mouse? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/104 "2008-02-15T17:48:20Z")
There is also [Gerald McBoing Boing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_McBoing-Boing) which I watched also. King Leonardo might have started on Alvin, but he later had his own show. There was also a show in NY (on Ch. 11 with “Officer” Joe Bolton) of lame Dick Tracy cartoons. Dick appeared in the beginning and in the middle, but there were stereotyped detectives who carried the plot. Every cartoon had a place in the middle, where the detective, in trouble, says “Hold everything please” and calls in to Dick. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/105 "2008-02-15T18:01:02Z")
[QUOTE=jimmmy] I [believe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnEzWvSz7T0&feature=related)[it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2lNW3hFl4Q&NR=1) [/QUOTE] I swear that wasn’t there last time I searched youtube. Where do people get this shit? Thank you, though. I’m one step further away from being crazy. ish. oh, and BTW, I just have to say that the cereal doesn’t look anywhere CLOSE to being appetizing. I probably thought it looked good when I was a kid. Although I do seem to remember coming up with a theory at some point in my youth about how they could market anything as a cereal and kids would want it and swear it tasted good. “New, crap in a bowl! Just add milk. Part of this complete breakfast, we’re just not going to tell you which part. You’ll probably be glad we didn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/106 "2008-02-15T18:11:23Z")
[QUOTE=Jolly Roger] 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. [/QUOTE] When I was a kid in Jersey the semi-fuzzy Philadelphia UHF station (look it up, kids) played all kinds of cartoons I’ve never seen anywhere else, like Stuffy Durma the millionaire hobo. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/107 "2008-02-15T18:18:04Z")
[QUOTE=rhythmonly] Any love for Underdog? Atom Ant? Mighty Mouse? [/QUOTE] I was never a big Underdog fan; I can’t believe he still has a Macy’s parade balloon (and a superbowl commercial!) Mighty Mouse rocked, though. Good song. Also lame (even to my 8-year-old self) were the marionette shows referenced above (Fireball XL-5, Supercar). My friends and I used to crack each other up by walking around like a marionette. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/108 "2008-02-15T18:25:06Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] Also lame (even to my 8-year-old self) were the marionette shows referenced above (Fireball XL-5, Supercar). My friends and I used to crack each other up by walking around like a marionette. [/QUOTE] Oh, come on! _Thunderbirds_ was great! I loved that show. (Of course I was only like five.) It came on earlier than the other cartoons, so it was the first thing I watched on Saturday mornings. F-A-B! ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/109 "2008-02-15T18:28:35Z")
[QUOTE=BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed] I swear that wasn’t there last time I searched youtube. Where do people get this shit? [/QUOTE] Best I can figure people have old video tapes that they copy to their computer. That’s sort of the nature of video tapes, you record stuff to them you think you’ll want to save, or you record stuff and don’t watch it, and weeks later you don’t remember what’s on the tape so you just put it aside and record to a new tape. I know I have lots of 80’s Transformers and Voltron episodes, but the old commercials are probably more Youtube-worthy. I haven’t touched the tapes in probably 10 years or more. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/110 "2008-02-15T18:48:34Z")
[QUOTE=Jolly Roger] So after asking if there any other obscure cartoons that only I seem to remember I mentioned … Sinbad jr". [/QUOTE] Is that the one where he had a magic belt that gave him super strength, and a talking parrot? Cause I certainly remember that. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/111 "2008-02-15T18:58:38Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] [QUOTE=AHunter3] Originally Posted by AHunter3 What was that one where the guy would raise his club up in the air and say something and it would kind of vibrate and glow and he + the club turns into a superhero? & there was the one with the two kids who had two halves of a ring and a genie named “Shazam” ( no relationship to Captain Marvel)? Lots of those transform-to-superhero toons back then. [/quote] [Captain Caveman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Caveman_and_the_Teen_Angels) [Obligatory YouTube video of the intro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD36ZhpHPpE) The genie was [Shazzan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazzan). [Obligatory YouTube video of the intro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UQprbR3Gk0) [/QUOTE] Shazzan (not Shazzam) = correct. Captain Caveman, no that’s not the dude. [Found him. The mighty Mightor](http://www.toonopedia.com/mightor.htm). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/112 "2008-02-15T19:02:08Z")
Not as old as some of these, but anyone remember [Thundarr the Barbarian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundarr_the_Barbarian)? My dad and I would watch this together on Sundays after church… [YouTube video of the intro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhAobPugvsk) For some reason now I hear that intro in my head as “and his faaaabulous Sun Sword!” And wonder what he and Ookla were getting up to in camp… ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/113 "2008-02-15T19:08:26Z")
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist] When I was a kid in Jersey the semi-fuzzy Philadelphia UHF station (look it up, kids) played all kinds of cartoons I’ve never seen anywhere else, like Stuffy Durma the millionaire hobo. [/QUOTE] Oh my God. you remember that hobo too? I had a friend who actually knew the friggin’ theme song. He sang it once during Desert Storm. I laughed so loud my platoon sergeant got pissed that I’d give away our position. Thundarr the Barbarian rocked! Anyone remember the Funky Phantom? i used to love that one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/114 "2008-02-15T19:09:37Z")
[_Thunderbirds_ intro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RzCB3VRruE). ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/115 "2008-02-15T19:15:52Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Not as old as some of these, but anyone remember [Thundarr the Barbarian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundarr_the_Barbarian)? My dad and I would watch this together on Sundays after church… [YouTube video of the intro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhAobPugvsk) For some reason now I hear that intro in my head as “and his faaaabulous Sun Sword!” And wonder what he and Ookla were getting up to in camp… [/QUOTE] Loved that show, I’d run outside afterwards into the sunshine and grab the nearest sword-like stick and whack the hell out of stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/116 "2008-02-15T19:43:44Z")
I checked out the Thundarr clip on youtube, started clicking on links and came up with a promo for [this toon](http://youtube.com/watch?v=QKhIckp4ccY) that I had completely forgotten about until right now. ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/117 "2008-02-15T20:28:07Z")
I was in elemntary school, so this was the mid to late-70’s. I remember that it was on in the afternoon, because we used to race off the bus to get home and watch it (3 or 4pm). It was a kind of a space opera/star wars/battlestar galactica/star trek like cartoon and there was an enormous ship and the cartoon was a series. It would kind of cliffhanger and you would be enticed to tune in the next day? week? for the next episode. All I remember are the big ship, lots of 1920’s style death ray laser fights, white uniforms and lots of character intrigue. Anybody? It’s driven me crazy for years and I don’t remember enough to Google with, so my only hope is someone else who remembers this… ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/118 "2008-02-15T20:31:41Z")
_Space Cruiser Yamato_ (aka _Space Battleship Yamato_ and _Star Blazers_)? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/119 "2008-02-15T20:34:30Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Oh, come on! _Thunderbirds_ was great! I loved that show. (Of course I was only like five.) It came on earlier than the other cartoons, so it was the first thing I watched on Saturday mornings. F-A-B! [/QUOTE] Supercar was the only Anderson wooden puppet show I watched. Besides \*\*Space 1999 \*\* that is. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/120 "2008-02-15T20:39:26Z")
[QUOTE=pantheon] I was in elemntary school, so this was the mid to late-70’s. I remember that it was on in the afternoon, because we used to race off the bus to get home and watch it (3 or 4pm). It was a kind of a space opera/star wars/battlestar galactica/star trek like cartoon and there was an enormous ship and the cartoon was a series. It would kind of cliffhanger and you would be enticed to tune in the next day? week? for the next episode. All I remember are the big ship, lots of 1920’s style death ray laser fights, white uniforms and lots of character intrigue. Anybody? It’s driven me crazy for years and I don’t remember enough to Google with, so my only hope is someone else who remembers this… [/QUOTE] [Star Blazers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato) (the western name for the show - it was originally called “Space Crusier Yamato” in Japan.) Here’s a [Youtube](http://youtube.com/watch?v=u5oniErmeuE) clip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580.md?page=7)