Originally Posted By DAR Let the joy commence: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Saturday-Morning-Cartoons-1960s-Vol/dp/B001QU880M/ref=pd_ts_d_28?ie=UTF8&s=dvd" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Saturday...F8&s=dvd</a>
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove I wanted to be Judy Jetson when I grew up. And I thought Top Cat was awesome....oh, good times, DAR.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I loved Top Cat, I thought TC's little flunky Bennie was awsome. Bennie always wore a sports coat....that's so funny, even to me now...a cat in a sports coat!
Originally Posted By mele My husband held us hostage yesterday by forcing us to watch "The Land of the Lost" marathon on the Sci-Fi channel. My God, it was horrible.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Those 'toons and Johnny Quest were my least favorite...why would you want serious cartoon? And racist...that Indian boy Sajeb or whatever his name was always had to be rescued by the superior white kid.
Originally Posted By DAR Hadji was his name. I wasn't much of a Johnny Quest fan. But the Herculoids, Space Ghost, Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, epic win. Also there's a 1970's Volume out today and half the disc features the numerous Scooby Doo rip offs like: The Amazing Chan and Clan Speed Buggy Funky Phantom
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I was a Looney Tunes kid. Bugs, Daffy and Porky. But my favorite has always been Foghorn Leghorn. Who did Tom and Jerry?
Originally Posted By jdub >>Who did Tom and Jerry?<< The originals were made by MGM. Later TV versions included those by Hanna-Barbera, now owned by WB, just like the Looney Tunes. >>My husband held us hostage yesterday by forcing us to watch "The Land of the Lost" marathon<< That's the kind of thing that could make a happy family go all 'Jon & Kate.'
Originally Posted By mele I like how the cartoons in the 70's and 80's always had characters in a band who would solve mysteries OR they took adult characters and had shows where they were babies/kids. Egads.
Originally Posted By jdub Thanks gods for the Cartoon Network for a '90s creative birth at H-B & other cartoon studios. Seriously. Those toons were head & shoulders above the '70s dreck I was exposed to as a child.
Originally Posted By DAR So I was looking at the back of the box for each set and it states that: These sets are intended for the Adult Collector and not suitable for Children. What could be so offensive on these that children couldn't watch? Also, Jamie Farr aka Klinger from MASH wrote episdodes of Chan and Clan. I never knew that.
Originally Posted By DAR Here's a list of cartoons for each set: 60's Disc #1 TOP CAT - The Tycoon (Also on the Complete series DVD set) ATOM ANT SHOW with PRECIOUS PUP & HILLBILLY BEARS - Up & Atom / Precious Jewels / Woodpecked THE PETER POTAMUS SHOW with BREEZLY and SNEEZLY & YIPPEE, YAPPEE and YAHOOEY - Fe-Fi-Fo Fun / All Riot on the Northern front / The Volunteers SECRET SQUIRREL SHOW with SQUIDDLEY DIDDLY & WINSOME WITCH - Sub Swiper / Way Out Squiddly / Prince of a Pup THE FLINTSTONES - The Happy Household (Also on the seasonal DVD sets) THE PORKY PIG SHOW - Often An Orphan/Mice Follies/The Super Snooper (Daffy Duck) THE QUICK DRAW McGRAW SHOW with SNOOPER AND BLABBER & AUGIE DOGIE - Dynamite Fright/Outer Space Case/Growing Growing Gone Disc #2 THE JETSONS - Rosey The Robot (Also on the season 1 DVD set) MARINE BOY - Battle To Save The World {Anime} SPACE GHOST/DINO BOY SHOW - The Heat Thing / The Worm / Zorak (also on the complete series DVD set) HERCULOIDS - The Beaked People / The Raider Apes FRANKENSTEIN JR. AND THE IMPOSSIBLES - The Shocking Electric Monster / The Bibbler / The Spinner THE MAGILLA GORILLA SHOW with PUNKIN PUSS & RICOCHET RABBIT - Gridiron Gorilla / Small Change / Atchison, Topica and San Jose (Also on the complete series DVD set) Bonus Materials: THE QUCK DRAW McGRAW SHOW (with SNOOPER AND BLABBER and AUGIE DOGIE) - Dough Nutty / El Kabong Was Wrong / Gem Jam Bonus Documentaries on QUICK DRAW McGRAW, MAGILLA GORILLA, FRANKENSTEIN JR. and THE IMPOSSIBLES. 70's Disc #1 THE JETSONS - The Space Car (also on season 1 DVD set) THE BATMAN TARZAN ADVENTURE HOUR HONG KONG PHOONEY (also on complete series DVD set) GOOBER AND THE GHOST CHASERS SPEED BUGGY WHEELIE AND THE CHOPPER BUNCH Disc #2 YOGI'S GANG AMAZING CHAN AND THE CHAN CLAN ROMAN HOLIDAYS JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS (also on season 1 DVD set) THE NEW SCOOBY DOO MOVIES (also on a Best-Of DVD set) FUNKY PHANTOM Bonus Documentaries on THE FUNKY PHANTOM, JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS and THE CHAN CLAN.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Put me down in the Quick Draw/Snooper/Blabber and Augie Doggie camp. And the Flintstones, of course. Goes without saying. Just to see him speed by the same lamp and table a million times in his cave....good times.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs My Saturday Morning Cartoons consisted of The A-Team, Shirt Tales, The Smurfs, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Saturday Supercade, Galaxy High, Teen Wolf, Captain N: The Gamemaster, The Berenstain Bears, The Super Friends and The Amazing Spider-Man and Friends.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Early to mid-60's HB was pretty good. Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and their associated cartoon "pals" still hold up as simple but funny. (And yes, I've seen some as an adult.) By the later 60's the formula was wearing a little thin, and by the 70's it just wasn't that good, IMO. Compare the original Yogi Bears with "Yogi's Gang" and you'll see. I loved The Herculoids as a kid, though that was one of the shows tagged as "excessively violent" at the time. I have no idea how it would look to me today - I'm curious, actually. Saturday morning started to come back with Pee Wee's Playhouse and the Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse. By the 90's HB was producing good stuff again, along with other studios. As jdub said, it was way better than the 70's output.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I saw a few Herculoids episodes not long ago. I also enjoyed them as a kid. That show did NOT age well at all.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<Autopia Deb: I saw a few Herculoids episodes not long ago. I also enjoyed them as a kid. That show did NOT age well at all.>> The same could be said for HR Pufnstuf, Lidsville and all the others in the World of Sid and Marty Krofft I remember that there were hardly any Sunday morning cartoons, save for The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. It was a 2-hour cartoon block, with four different cartoons, and even their own version of DTV for time filler The shows that I remember in that block were Yogi's Treasure Hunt (Yogi and the gang search for treasure and avoid perennial HB Villains Dick Dastardly and Muttley), The Paw-Paw Bears and and 80s Johnny Quest. There were others, but I can't think of them right now. I think there was another syndicated cartoon block called The Comic Strip which featured cartoons like Street Frogs and Camp Mini-Mon, a summer camp for famous movie monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, etc).
