# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/141 "2008-02-16T01:09:15Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] [Twinkles the Elephant](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyq2-DuGLXo) [/QUOTE] Blocked! I’ll have to check again at home. I’m amazed that I got that close on the name. Thanks, **jayjay**. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/142 "2008-02-16T01:49:00Z")
OK…wow… of the various retro-toons mentioned in this thread, I actually got to see a whole bunch of them for the first time back in the 60s-70s… on Puerto Rican TV channels… in SPANISH dub, no less! (However, the theme-songs would NOT normally be dubbed). Lesseee… in the order they’ve appeared in the thread… [ul]8th Man Johny Cypher in Dimension Zero (the Hero fights Evil in space, traveling with some sort of device that creates a tornado-looking space warp effect to whisk him around) Rocket Robin Hood Sinbad Jr (Tightening your belt activates superstrength? Huh. But you gotta love Rotcodam) Super President Tales of the Wizard of Oz Felix the Cat (With translated song!) Lariat Sam (Also, translated song) Roger Ramjet The Mighty Marvel Super Heros Spider-Man Hercules (translated song here) Beany and Cecil Gigantor (which in the Spanish version had a more faithful-to-original title “Hombre de Acero”) Astroboy (but of course. Dr. Elephunt was my man) The Touché Turtle/Wally Gator/Magilla Gorilla etc. combo Super 6 the Beatles cartoon Wacky Races/Penelope Pittstop/Stop that Pigeon Top Cat Shazzan Mighty Mightor Dodo, the Kid from Outer Space Birdman (the original, not Harvey:D) Atom Ant Thunderbirds Linus the Lionhearted[/ul] Also seen in Spanish dub in this time frame: Mr. Magoo (multiple versions) The New Adventures Of Superman Other old-school animes like: Prince Planet, The Princess Knight, Speed Racer, Kimba/Leo the White Lion (Jungle Tatei), Marine Boy and the Ocean Patrol, Agent S-5(Strykers 5) Space Giants/Space Monsters Ultraman (original) Other Anderson-style marionette shows: Captain Scarlet; Joe 90; Four Feather Falls PR TV stations however kept the following in English when they were run in my childhood: [ul]Chipmunks w. Crashcup Mighty Mouse (old version) Clitch Cargo (gawd that was horrible) Herman & Katnip[/ul] ---
**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 16, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/143 "2008-02-16T02:04:24Z")
[QUOTE=JRDelirious] Clitch Cargo (gawd that was horrible) [/QUOTE] Oh, god, Clutch Cargo…that’s the one that had the filmed real people lips superimposed on the animated faces? [Yep, it was](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFnLirXjjto). Barely animated, I should have said… ---
**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 16, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/144 "2008-02-16T02:08:57Z")
Ooh! Look what else I found while I was looking for that Clutch Cargo clip! [Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP8G1EJuMuk) I loved that Edward G. Robinson-inspired frog… ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/145 "2008-02-16T07:16:03Z")
[QUOTE=PoorYorick] 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. [/QUOTE] [This clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUG6wtLDHqo) ends with the wizard’s incantation. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/146 "2008-02-16T07:23:34Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Heh…there used to be a clip on YouTube with an outtake from New Zoo Revue, with Charlie the Owl cursing out Freddy. I can’t find it now, though. [/QUOTE] Not exactly safe for work. [Blue Zoo Review](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfxayTFX8qY) :eek: ---
**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 16, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/147 "2008-02-16T11:44:09Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Stuffy Durma was part of Hal Seeger’s [_Milton the Monster Show_](http://www.davemackey.com/animation/seeger/milton/index.htm). [/QUOTE] Eep! Muggy-Doo Boy Fox! There’s nothing on YouTube but there’s a DVD. I don’t remember any of it being that good, and I don’t think any New York TV station ever showed it. Once again the Internet steps up.. thanks!. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/148 "2008-02-16T12:27:55Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Tony Stark makes you feel he’s the cool exec with a heart of steel. As Iron Man, all jets ablaze he fights and smites with repulsor rays! [/QUOTE] Or as my sister and I used to sing… “Iron Man, Iron Man, Does whatever an iron can!” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/149 "2008-02-16T18:34:14Z")
> [@](#): > > by \*\*Slypork \*\* > > I vaguely remember a cartoon from the 80’s (I think) called Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. Anyone ever hear of it or know where I can find it? I remember the comic book, but never read it. I didn’t know there was a cartoon. But there was. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101056/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101056/) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580/150 "2008-02-16T19:57:03Z")
[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] BTW, the guy who was the voice of Thundarr also played the Colonel in _Boogie Nights_. One way that some of the old clips might be making their way onto youtube is that folks who worked for the TV stations may have saved some of the old tapes. I know that in the 1990s, there was a guy working at the local PBS TV station who had the master tapes of _The Lathe of Heaven_ which aired in 1980 (and until a couple of years ago, was _not_ available on DVD or VHS). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-but-not-forgotten-cartoons/437580.md?page=7)