Blocked!
I’ll have to check again at home. I’m amazed that I got that close on the name. Thanks, jayjay.
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]
Oh, god, Clutch Cargo…that’s the one that had the filmed real people lips superimposed on the animated faces?
Yep, it was. Barely animated, I should have said…
Ooh! Look what else I found while I was looking for that Clutch Cargo clip!
Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse!
I loved that Edward G. Robinson-inspired frog…
This clip ends with the wizard’s incantation.
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!.
Or as my sister and I used to sing…
“Iron Man, Iron Man,
Does whatever an iron can!”
I remember the comic book, but never read it. I didn’t know there was a cartoon.
But there was.
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).