Oh, those were the best! Even when we got cable my sister and I would kill two hours catching all the series like “Inside Out” (moral dilemmas) and “TradeOff” (economics for middle school punks). Good times!
The Write Channel. The Club is now in session - Palabra Jot! Palabra Jot!
I kept a straight face until Bigfoot did the flying ninja jump at the end. Too much!
I see what you did there.
In the Terrytoons stable was one I remember fondly:
Gaston LeCrayon, about a little French beatnik-y character who painted things that came to life. He often twirled about in an ecstasy of self-admiration, saying things like, “Ah, Gaston, you haf done eet again!”
Also, one of the cartoons on the Alvin And the Chimpmunks show was Clyde Crashcup, which I also loved.
Does anyone from the L.A. area remember the show Skip ‘n’ Woofer? I was a bit old for it, but I liked it anyway.
And yes, I remember Diver Dan, though no one else my age IRL seems to!
One last one before I get distracted by something shiny: Anyone else remember the Hot Fudge Show?
I loved that show! I think I was about 8 or 9 when it was on the air. It was one of my Saturday morning favorites.
I was a fan of that one, too. I remember watching SMG and thinking that she was going to be big someday.
You are right! I was living in Hampton Beach, NH at the time.
My twin brothers were on the show too - did you do the map thing and win the big bar of Bit’o’honey??
I always wanted to be on that show and Romper Room - unfortunately - 'twas not to be.
The Dick Tracy cartoons were part of the Officer Joe Bolton TV show. I used to walk home from school for lunch and watch this.
I remember Diver Dan too.
The first time I ever saw STII:WoK, I remember recognizing Khans #1 man as The Phoenix. I was more excited than it really warranted.
The Bigfoot and Wildboy thing is just sooooo cheesy. At first I thought it was a Six Million Dollar Man spinoff. The only thing missing was the “bionic” sound when it threw a rock or jumped.
And Youtube reminded me of the “Logans Run” TV series. I thought I was dreaming that one up until I actually saw the clip.
That’s the one.
Just thought of another one. Anybody remember Jay Ward’s less successful show, Hoppity Hooper?
I was going to mention Hoppity Hooper! Instead I’ll mention Beany & Cecil (the sea-sick sea serpent).
I also remember arch-villain Crabby Appleton, the nemesis of Tom Terrific, I believe- although it may have been Beany & Cecil.
No, it was Tom Terrific. Captain Kangaroo was showing Tom Terrific cartoons when I was a kid (in the 70s) and I distinctly remember Crabby Appleton.
I did the “name the states” dealie and I seem to remember I couldn’t tell the difference between Colorado and Wyoming. (Who can?!) Didn’t win anything that I remember.
Oh - I never saw a “Possible Possum” cartoon but I do remember quite clearly that it was the possum from Deputy Dawg that said “It’s possiBILL, 's possiBILL” all the time. And his little buddy the nearsighted gopher: “What happened? What happened?”
How about “Blansky’s Beauties” with Nancy Walker and the girl who played Lori Beth on “Happy Days?” Nancy Walker was kind of a “house mother” to a group of Vegas showgirls.
Me too. I highly recommend the Box Set.
Trust me, I know what I’m doing.
Space Patrol! I suspect there’s only 5 people on the planet who remember that one!
Wasn’t that actually a Happy Days spinoff? Walker was Howard Cunningham’s cousin or something. And I seem to remember seeing Chachi in one of the re-run episodes TVLand ran a few years ago.
Only because there was a girl in our neighborhood that one of my friends said resembled one of the puppets. for some reason we thought that was hilarious, but we were kids then.
I suppose only people that grew up in the 70s and lived in the Philadelphia tri-state area will remember** Mean Mary Jean.** Not a show, but a series of commercials, advertising an auto dealer I think but my memory is faulty. She was a cheerleader dressed girl and there’d be guys in football uniforms singing “its Mean Mary Jean, superstar of our team!”. I remember that only because there was a college aged girl that lived two doors away from us. She resembled this mary Jean so whenever my friends and I saw her we’d sing the jingle. She thought it was funny and wave at us and smile. (or quite possibly she went inside her house and muttered "Little bastards, I can’t wait until graduation!")
Those and the Krass Bros. Men Store commercials.
Nobody but me remembers Freakazoid?
I remember it. I particularly remember watching it on Cartoon Network one night when my son was a newborn and having trouble sleeping. It was the middle of the night, I was sleep deprived already, and that strange show was on. I had a big dose of the surreal going on, the kind where you’re not really sure if you’re asleep and having a dream, or you’re awake and things are really that strange.
Yeah, I was pretty sure it was Tom Terrific, but I didn’t want to google it. I’m trying to do these from memory. To tax my feeble brain even further, I seem to recall that Tom Terrific’s dog was named Mighty Manfred.
Crabby Appleton, rotten to the core.
I watched way too much TV as a kid.