I don’t believe anyone has yet mentioned
“Captain CAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAANNNN!”
Yeah, it was lame, but I watched it.
I was a big fan of Bugs, the Pink Panther, and Land of the Lost.
I now horrify my children with stories of the days when we only had cartoons on Saturday mornings and we only got 4 channels. I told them that I used to wake up early to see cartoons on Saturdays, and they asked me why I didn’t just record them, rather than get up early. :smack:
Still later there was Pink Panther And Sons. The boys were various colors, including at least one green one.
They tried the same gimmick in the series Popeye and son. His son, whose name escapes me, also loved the sea. He was blonde, pretty boy surfer.
Gosh am I this old?
Looney Tunes
Tom and Jerry
Huckleberry Hound
Deputy Dawg
Yogi Bear
Rocky & Bullwinkle
Popeye
Woody Woodpecker
Andy Panda
Droopy
Baby Huey
Felix the Cat
Touché Turtle
Wally Gator
I forgot GUMBY, Dammit!
Hey, what was the mid to late 70’s Saturday (early) morning show that featured a father and son team (there might have been more people, or it was a whole team of people maybe?) that tooled around in this really cool, sleek, 70’s style-spaceage, huge honkin’, SUV groundtransport in some weird vision of the future earth (post-apocalyptic maybe)? It’s a vague memory but I think it went something like that.
It was live-action in the style of Shaazam or Krofft-supershow. I think all of those shows must have used the same studio backlot somewhere. I just remember all of those same central California valley environments. I think Kung-fu with David Carradine and Little House on the Prairie were also filmed in the same location. Anybody know where that ubiquitous filming location really is?
Oooh, I just thought of another, The Shirt Tails!" Little woodland type animals living in a tree. I still have the two little stuffed animals (Pammie Panda and Rick Raccoon) I got at a Hardees promo. (How old school is THAT?)
DocCathode, you’re such a big nerd-a guy after my own heart! (Tell me-are you like me in that you remember all the details from cartoons and commercials when you were three, but could never remember what you studed the night before a midterm?)
Devilsknew That sounds like Ark 2.
Guinastasia “Shirt t-t-tales!” I did well on midterms. I do tend to forget things like the day, date, and my birthday.
Inhumanoids
From the firey depths of the earth, where nightmares begin
Inhumanoids, inhumanoids,
The evil that lies within!
Rich guy, scientist guy, reporter chick and blue collar jock guy (his name was Auger)build special vehicles and armored suits after a trio of giant monstars (Metlar, the plant Tendril, and the undead D’Compose) are freed from imprisonment. They are opposed by Blackthorne Shaw, a powerhungry scientist with his own armor.
Visionaries
Knights of the magical light
Visionaries
With magical powers they fight
Powers of strength and skill and speed
Powers that accomplish the greatest of deeds
Visionaries
Knights of the magical light!
The planet Prismos has flying cars, robots and plenty more. But, the age of science is ending. As the suns align, a new age of magic begins! Technology fails and civilization returns to the dark ages. But, the mage Merklynn promises great powers to those who can pass his test. The warriors who do are given the ability to transform into an animal. Those with staves can cast a spell once per day. Those without staves find that they can breathe life back into the vehicles of the age of science.
The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby Doo
It had Vincent Price. And a sickly sweet/annoying little kid as a new sidekick. OTTOMH “Zomba sees and knows!”
What’s up Doc?
Sorry my King Kong went Ding Dong!
Didn’t mean to jump on ya in the pit a lil’ while back. I was feeling a bit defensive, it was a meaningful experience to me no matter how crazy it seems.
I guess I’m too old for Voltron and Scrappy Doo (together at last!). My little sister watched Captain Caveman, but I was too old for that too. I mainly remember **Superfriends **(with Wendy and Marvin and Wonder Dog), Scooby Doo (*sans *Scrappy), Speed Buggy, Inch High Private Eye, and such live action shows as **Captain Marvel **and Isis.
From these clues I bet my age could be pinpointed to within 1 year.
Today, I vill demonstrate my machine by transplanting the mind of this chicken into a rabbit.
No problem.
I still want to toss Scrappy Poo into a blackhole. I don’t know ANYONE who ever liked that obnoxious little shit-did you?
freind e. thorp
i go back farther than you, i guess. i remember saturday mornings with black and white live action shows like fury (sort of like lassie but with a big black horse) and sky king (a cowboy with an airplane???) then on to bugs and daffy. there were also a couple of puppet sci fi shows, one space opera called (iirc) fireball XL5 and one with submarines (the name escapes me) mighty mouse, top cat, and huckleberry hound. later, the jetsons.
i seem to have lost track of saturday mornings about the time scooby doo was first on.
I remember I would collect as a paperboy on Saturday mornings and I’d hurry between houses and get to watch litttle 5 minute snippets of all of the cartoons as I waited in the living rooms where all of my customers kids were watching cartoons. More often than not I’d get to watch a whole cartoon show more or less, only missing some parts of it.
one more note: farfel the puppet dog singing N E S T L E S nesatlies makes the very best…choc----late
Nobody mentioned H.R. Puffinstuff? God, whoever wrote that one WAS puffing on a “magic flute”, IYKWIM. Also, after my time, but anyone remember Captain Planet? It was from the era when cartoons couldn’t just be entertaining, they also had to teach “a valuable lesson.”
I like Scrappy. While Shaggy (who demonstrated amazing speed both while fleeing, and while assembling sandwiches) and Scooby (A truly massive dog easily capable of killing an average size human or pinning them) would run in terror from anything remotely scary, Scrappy attacked any oponent. If Scrappy had been in the Mystery Machine for the original series, none of the episodes would have made it past the first commercial break. The gang sees the monster. Scrappy attacks. He tears off the mask and :gasp: It’s old Mister Witherspoon!
IMHO Scooby Dumb was the annoying cousin.
There was also A Pup Named Scooby Doo. Young Freddy can’t solve anything or understand any clues. He also believes any story printed in a tabloid. The show was less scary than the original and most of the mysteries were easier to figure out. There was an original song (played over a montser chase montage) in each episode. OTTOMH
“You can’t hide from a one eye!
He’s got his eye on you!”
“Bring on the cheese . . . monster!”
One of the directors also worked on Tiny Toons. The character designs are slightly different in these episodes. But, his stamp is this odd dance. While keeping their arms and hands stiff at their sides, the person juts their head forward and back while doing a very complicated shuffle with their feet.
“Velma said ‘Jinkies!’ It must be a clue.”
I love this show. Truly trivial tidbit- Scooby’s mother and father reveal his full name is Scoobert.
Captain Planet And The Planeteers sucked. Five children, representing various cultures- Kwami from Africa, Mahti from India, Wheeler from the USA, Linka from the USSR, and I can’t remember the name of the Asian chick) are summoned by Gaia (who despite having skin color that looks like a caucasian with a tan, caucasian facial features and straight hair was originally voiced by Whoopi Goldberg) to a magical island where they are given magical rings (powered by hope) with the powers of earth, heart, fire, wind, and water. When their powers combined, they summoned the elemental champion Captain Planet. CP wore a red uniform. Despite having blue skin and green hair, few characters have been whiter.
The show was stupid by any standards. Hoggis Greedly (voiced by Ed Asner) was so greedy he would deliberately spill oil into the ocean. How he made a profit from this eludes me. The hot Dr Blyte (with computer henchmen Mal, voiced by David Rappaport) did evil things just because. Lootan Plunder liked to go out of his way to destroy forests, stripmine etc. The only villians whose motivations made sense were Duke Nukem (unrelated to the fine videogame character of that name) and Verminus Skum. Nukem was a yellow, scale covered mutant (a cross between the Thing and the Michelin Man) with a mohawk, swimtrunks, and a Hawaiian shirt. He thrived on radiation, especially the ultraviolet rays of the sun. So, at least he was trying to destroy the ozone layer for a reason- for him, the environment would be healthier without it. Verminus Skum was a kind or ratman dressed in rags. He was working from the premise that he could pollute the environment so badly, the human race would become extinct and rats would rule the earth.
Later on, the evil Sarm (or was it Zorm?) (voiced IIRC by the great David Warner) was introduced. He was an evil being who fed on pain, suffering, and the destruction of planets.
Every character was a cardboard cut-out. The writing sucked. The problems presented were strawmen. The solutions were crap. How soulless and hollow was the show? The created by credit was Ted Turner.
A far better environmental cartoon was Toxic Crusaders
Created by Troma Film, the cartoon had a team of hideously deformed creatures of superhuman size and strength fight Dr Killemoff and his henchmen. Killemoff was secretly a cockroach man from another planet, working to make earth suitable for his people.
Pirates Of Darkwater
A veiled environmental cartoon. There were a lot of big names and money behind this one. The animation had something like twice as many frames per second as other cartoons. It apparently bombed.
Maybe y’all can help me out here. I vaguely remember a cartoon that nobody, and I mean NOBODY else seems to remember. I swear to God, I did not make it up. It was on in about… 1978-9? It might have just been one season. It featured a dog and a cat who lived together in a blatant ripoff off The Odd Couple. The main reason I remember it so well is that I was watching it one morning when I was the absolute sickest I’d ever been in my whole childhood. Banquet Pot Pies were involved. You don’t want to know more!
Scrappy was an annoying little bastard. The black hole would be too good for him. 
It sounds familiar. Could it be The Oddball Couple as mentioned in post #40 of this very thread?
Re MC Hammer
I never saw an episode. But, according to the ads and the labels on the videotapes, the title was HammerMan.
Re Camp Candy
I liked it. The episodes had messages, but were fun and funny.