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My 80’s cartoonyness is focused usually on Jason and the Wheeled Warriors (which nobody remembers)
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It was Jayce, not Jason. It has an extensive, if not very good, Wikipedia entry, by the way.
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I’m not crazy after all! Ah-HA! 
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Well, lets not go getting ahead of ourselves.
Wow - dozens of posts into this thread, and no mention of Beany and Cecil yet? Amazing in retrospect how bad this was, but it’s the first cartoon I can remember from my childhood.
I am so glad someone brought up “8th Man.” I’ve always had that back in my dim, distant memories. Given that I was 5 when it aired here, I’m surprised I remember it!! I recall it being aired at about the same time as Gigantor.
Man, are there some cobwebs upstairs when dragging these out! 
More obscure characters are peeking up out of my memory, inspired by this thread.
What about a tall, skinny scientist and a little short, bald George Costanza-like scientist, both in white coats, who invented stuff? The little guy only spoke by whispering into the tall scientist’s ear. Who the hell were they and why does my mind retain this stuff and not algebra?
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I am so glad someone brought up “8th Man.” I’ve always had that back in my dim, distant memories. Given that I was 5 when it aired here, I’m surprised I remember it!! I recall it being aired at about the same time as Gigantor.
Man, are there some cobwebs upstairs when dragging these out!
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I remember both **8th Man ** and Gigantor. They both came out after Astroboy.
Anyone remember Touche’ Turtle? (Yes, I know that’s a hyphen and not an accent mark, please forgive me.) It was a Hanna Barberra cartoon that was shown on a kids show that alternated between that, Wally Gator, and Lippy the Lion. It had a live actor in a Hawaiian beach hut introducing the cartoons and providing fill-in business. The name may have been Beachcomber Bill, but I would not swear to it. I was watching in LA, just in case it was local.
[QUOTE=Tengu]
I can’t believe I missed this post before, but, man, THANK YOU…I’ve been trying to remember those two series forever - I remembered Oz, vaguely - the theme song popping into my head is what made me want to seek out information…
sings Oh, the world of Oz is a funny, funny place, where everyone wears a funny, funny face…
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You’re gonna find this frightening (or maybe just weird), but… ahem
They’re three sad souls, oh me, oh my,
No brain, no heart, he’s much too shy–
But never mind you three,
Here’s the wizard as you can see,
He’ll fix that one-two-three,
In that funny place called the land of Oz…
Then we head into the verse that you remember.
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What about a tall, skinny scientist and a little short, bald George Costanza-like scientist, both in white coats, who invented stuff? The little guy only spoke by whispering into the tall scientist’s ear. Who the hell were they and why does my mind retain this stuff and not algebra?
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Clyde Crashcup and Leonardo. They were a segment on the Alvin Show. The main thing I remember is some sequence with Clyde Crashcup in some kind of a car that completely surrounds his body with armor, shouting “I’m not comfortable in here!”
ETA: Looking over the episode titles on Wikipedia, maybe it was a bathtub, not a car.
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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.
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Nobody but me remembers this? Maybe I just imagined it.
Howzabout this one? “the Brady Kids” - a saturday morning cartoon about the Brady Bunch, but just the kids - no Mike, Carol or Alice. They had a pair of pet pandas and every episode had them performing a bubblegum song, in a band like the Archies (Greg & Peter on guitars, Bobby on drums, Jan playing a piano, Marcia & Cindy slapping tamborines).
And then there was a cartoon about a high school history teacher with magical powers. Every episode began with her class studying some period in history, and the students asking questions. The teacher would then draw the outline of a doorway on the drawing board, which became a magical doorway that the kids would all enter and go to that period in history. I don’t remember what it was called. Roughly the same time period as the Brady Kids.
like the NZR Two theme songs I never really totally forgot:
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman]
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.
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I remember this. The little alien sidekick was named Spinner and looked somewhat like a deformed teddy bear.
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]
Heretic. Thou shall perisheth before the power of mine mighty Uru hammer! HAVE AT THEE!
BTW–there was a Thor cartoon that was cool. As was the Captain America, Iron Man & Hulk cartoons.
<SINGS> When Captain America throws his mighty shield…</SINGS>
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You forgot Namor
And does anybody remember the Beatles cartoons ? or the Super 6 ?
Glad to see all the commentary on Jay Ward, I thought he was a genius. I was just going to mention that there used to be a store in Hollywood that sold exclusively Jay Ward paraphernalia. I googled it and surprisingly enough, it just closed in 2004. It was called Dudley Do-Right’s Emporium. I used to have a T-Shirt of Bullwinkle posing in a Burt Reynolds naked pose.
Does any one remember this annoying show that required a special sheet of plastic that you stuck to the TV and then drew on it as to the program’s instructions? I seem to recall it was a cartoon. I think it got canceled after a rash of ruined TVs caused by kids drawing directly onto the TV.
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And then there was a cartoon about a high school history teacher with magical powers. Every episode began with her class studying some period in history, and the students asking questions. The teacher would then draw the outline of a doorway on the drawing board, which became a magical doorway that the kids would all enter and go to that period in history. I don’t remember what it was called. Roughly the same time period as the Brady Kids.
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Mission:Magic, starring none other than Rick Springfield!
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict]
Does any one remember this annoying show that required a special sheet of plastic that you stuck to the TV and then drew on it as to the program’s instructions? I seem to recall it was a cartoon. I think it got canceled after a rash of ruined TVs caused by kids drawing directly onto the TV.
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I remember my mom telling me about that…
I found that this place has tons of toon info:
[QUOTE=Tengu]
It was Jayce, not Jason. It has an extensive, if not very good, Wikipedia entry, by the way.
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Well, I know what I’ll be doing the rest of my shift.
And all you folks talking about super hero’s appear to have forgotten:
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends starring Spidey, Firestar (who may be the genesis of my redhead fixation, actually), and Ice Man. Such a great cartoon.
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict]
I was just going to mention that there used to be a store in Hollywood that sold exclusively Jay Ward paraphernalia. I googled it and surprisingly enough, it just closed in 2004. It was called Dudley Do-Right’s Emporium. I used to have a T-Shirt of Bullwinkle posing in a Burt Reynolds naked pose.
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The Dudley Do-Right Emporium was run by Jay Ward himself, one of his many, many side projects. The store was founded in 1971- this appears to be a catalog from around that time (despite the “1960s” at the top of the page, a reference is made to a 1972 calendar), and shows that the store originally sold not only merchandise with the Ward characters, but also items related to some of Jay Ward’s other interests, such as old-time radio shows and film stars of the golden age. This 2002 catalog shows that towards the end of the store’s existence, it specified solely in Ward merchandise. The store is closed, but the Bullwinkle statue still remains- it was recently renovated under the supervision of Tiffany Ward (Jay’s daughter and head of Ward Productions), making Bullwinkle look more on-model and replacing his bathing suit (a reference to a nearby statue which no longer exists) with a Wassamatta U. sweater.
Penelope Pitstop and her arch-enemy Dick Dastardly and his snickering little dog Muttley. Started out as some kind of…race… airplane race? Ran for a year or two then morphed into the Perils of Penelope Pitstop, right?
Let’s see, what else? Top Cat, leader of a bunch of street-gang alley cats… he’s the boss, the’s the pip, he’s the championship, he’s the most, in fact, Top Cat!
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=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.
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Obligatory YouTube video of the intro
The genie was Shazzan.