It is on DVD I bought myself a copy and enjoyed it… but more importantly my Kids fell head over heals for it. They don’t like many old cartoons but those ones seemed to really hook them. (I think its the music)
i adored Beenie and Cecil when i was a wee bairn!!!
and maybe on a subconcious (sp?) level, the wholesome morals presented in kid-friendly formats
btw - how do you feel about the accumulated works of Jay Ward (going all the way back to Crusader Rabbit)?
This was a great program. I loved all of the sarcastic humor they doled out. The “and friends” skits were much better than Garfield himself.
I love Bullwinkle, my kids don’t get it.
I was never big on **George of the Jungle ** and I never heard of Crusader Rabbit.
I didn’t like the “and friends” part, I always skipped it. Wade the duck, Roy the rooster, and that chicken that never left his shell were cool, but Orson was such a damn whiny goody goody.
**Crusader Rabbit ** was Ward’s first animated series. Also (and I didn’t know this) the first cartoon series made especially for TV
As many said, several of these weren’t Sat. morning cartoons. Not to say they weren’t fine and good (well, some of them. Personally, 90% of everything Hanna Barbara did was crap. Cheaply animated, cheaply voice acted, recylced plots, bad jokes, etc…)
I think the Golden Age of Sat. morning cartoons was late 80’s and early 90’s. We had:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Garfield and Friends
SWAT Kats
X-Men
The REAL Ghostbusters (that crap with the ape was just that…crap)
The Tick
Sonic the Hedgehog (there were two Sonic cartoons from the same era. One was clearly cheaply made, and was very comical (well, attemtped to be) and also sucked balls, and I think was syndicated. The better one was Sat. morning, had a darker tone, and overall pretty good considering its source material.)
Reboot
Pirates of Dark Water
Aladdin (I think it was a Sat. morning, but may have been syndicated. If it was syndicated, then it’s off the list…still a great cartoon, though.)
W.I.L.D. Cats (based off an Image comic book, I believe)
Transformers (I know they were earlier 80’s, and became syndicated, but did they start off that way? I’ll admit, Transfomers don’t hold up as well as the other ones, but compared to the current crop of shit that tries to pass itself off as Transformers, the original stuff is fucking Shakespeare.)
Ooh, and that actually reminds of of another one that might have been a Sat. Morning, but I am fairly certain was syndicated, but deserves mentioning anyway:
Beast Wars.
And I find it odd that people like things like George of the Jungle, Smurfs, Snorks, etc… I admit I watched them as a kid (obviously they were at that point a decade or two old,) but that’s because as a kid it really is hard to tell good stuff from bad stuff. Any of the cartoons I listed above I will glady still watch (and, in some cases, still do.) But watching the Smurfs or George of the Jungle would be about as fun for me as having rabid wombats slowly nibble away my toe nails. But hey, if you like them, that’s fine, I just don’t see the appeal. Like someone else said, the 60’s and 70’s (and a good chunk of the 80’s) did not have a lot of great cartoons. Everyone was doing everything as cheaply as possible, and it made for bad cartoons.
I remember that…vaguely. It was a spin-off of an IBM educational computer game. Ahh, vague memories.
“Ah-ha! I love saying that. All together now: Ah-ha!”