WayneLigon
Adventurer
omata said:
That could be... any of a dozen shows
Though it was probably Ronin Warriors.
Obscure cartoons you forgot you liked
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That could be... any of a dozen shows
Though it was probably Ronin Warriors.Greppa of Tartwater
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Mmmm Memories....
I've been hunting episodes of my favorite cartoons (Bless the existence of Boomerang), however here are my faves...
"Mighty Orbots" my absolute favorite and object of obsession
"Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars"
"Super Stretch and Micro Woman"
"Tarzan"
"Flash Gordon" The Filmation version
"Pole Position"
"Saturday Supercade" (remember Qbert, Donkey Kong and Pitfall Harry?)
"Dungeons and Dragons"
"Mask"
"Blackstar" (I found two tapes of this. Mine Mine!!!)
"Jem and the Holograms"
"The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam"
"Teen Force"
"The Drak Pack"
"Transzor Z"
"Battle of the Planets"
and
"The Space Sentinels" I think this is a filmation bit too.
*Looks up*
Wooo, that's a lot of cartoons.
I've been hunting episodes of my favorite cartoons (Bless the existence of Boomerang), however here are my faves...
"Mighty Orbots" my absolute favorite and object of obsession
"Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars"
"Super Stretch and Micro Woman"
"Tarzan"
"Flash Gordon" The Filmation version
"Pole Position"
"Saturday Supercade" (remember Qbert, Donkey Kong and Pitfall Harry?)
"Dungeons and Dragons"
"Mask"
"Blackstar" (I found two tapes of this. Mine Mine!!!)
"Jem and the Holograms"
"The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam"
"Teen Force"
"The Drak Pack"
"Transzor Z"
"Battle of the Planets"
and
"The Space Sentinels" I think this is a filmation bit too.
*Looks up*
Wooo, that's a lot of cartoons.
Turgenev
Legend
re:Battle of the Planets/G-Force
Very true. The series had a kill ratio that would probably match any current Hollywood action flick. Hell, even one of the main characters dies at the end of the first series (sure he is brought back as a cyborg in the 2nd series but I'm only talking about the first series here).
The original Gatchaman series is very different from the American versions. The violence in the original series is something else when you consider it was originally aired in 1972-1974. Civilians died left and right when the mecha monsters showed up (people were stepped on, or blown up, or sometimes both
). Course, then there are of those "robot" planes that would get destroyed fighting the villain mecha... in the original series you would often get a glimpse of the pilot screaming just before his craft would explode.
Other stuff was edited out for the North American market, such as...
Jun (Princess in Battle of the Planets) kicking the evil green guards in the groin during the fight scenes. This didn't happen in every fight scene, but it is there.
I also remember two episodes where Jun gets a bit excited/hysterical and Joe (Jason) or Ken (Mark) slap her to calm her down.
The main villain was a hermaphodite who could change from one gender to the other (course this was hinted at in the North American versions but never developed like in the orginal). He was actually twins who were mutated and fused together by an alien force who was manipulating the bad guys for his own plans.
Jinpei (Keyops, i.e. the kid) swore a streak of profanity that surpased any of the adults on the show (which is saying something since Joe used to swear a lot also ). Course Jinpei was only saying 'sh*t' (or the Japanese equivilant) all the time, but still. That's why his Battle of the Planet's version had the strange speech pattern - to make up for the fact that the character is speaking but they edited out his dialogue.
That leads us to 7-Zark-7 (the annoying r2d2 look-alike who watched everything from his underwater base) - this was an American addition to replace scenes that were edited out for its "violent" content.
Obviously, Batttle of the Planets was one of my favourite cartoons as a kid (and Gatchaman is stilll one of my favourite cartoons). Others would include...
60s Spider-Man
Rocket Robin Hood
Scooby Doo (can't stand Scrappy Doo though)
The Real Ghostbusters (loved the Collect Call of Cthulhu episode)
Fat Albert
The Godzilla Power Hour
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
Dungeons & Dragons
and the list goes on and on...
Cheers,
Tim
WayneLigon said:
Very true. The series had a kill ratio that would probably match any current Hollywood action flick. Hell, even one of the main characters dies at the end of the first series (sure he is brought back as a cyborg in the 2nd series but I'm only talking about the first series here).
The original Gatchaman series is very different from the American versions. The violence in the original series is something else when you consider it was originally aired in 1972-1974. Civilians died left and right when the mecha monsters showed up (people were stepped on, or blown up, or sometimes both
). Course, then there are of those "robot" planes that would get destroyed fighting the villain mecha... in the original series you would often get a glimpse of the pilot screaming just before his craft would explode. Other stuff was edited out for the North American market, such as...
Jun (Princess in Battle of the Planets) kicking the evil green guards in the groin during the fight scenes. This didn't happen in every fight scene, but it is there.
I also remember two episodes where Jun gets a bit excited/hysterical and Joe (Jason) or Ken (Mark) slap her to calm her down.
The main villain was a hermaphodite who could change from one gender to the other (course this was hinted at in the North American versions but never developed like in the orginal). He was actually twins who were mutated and fused together by an alien force who was manipulating the bad guys for his own plans.
Jinpei (Keyops, i.e. the kid) swore a streak of profanity that surpased any of the adults on the show (which is saying something since Joe used to swear a lot also
). Course Jinpei was only saying 'sh*t' (or the Japanese equivilant) all the time, but still. That's why his Battle of the Planet's version had the strange speech pattern - to make up for the fact that the character is speaking but they edited out his dialogue. That leads us to 7-Zark-7 (the annoying r2d2 look-alike who watched everything from his underwater base) - this was an American addition to replace scenes that were edited out for its "violent" content.
Obviously, Batttle of the Planets was one of my favourite cartoons as a kid (and Gatchaman is stilll one of my favourite cartoons). Others would include...
60s Spider-Man
Rocket Robin Hood
Scooby Doo (can't stand Scrappy Doo though)
The Real Ghostbusters (loved the Collect Call of Cthulhu episode)
Fat Albert
The Godzilla Power Hour
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
Dungeons & Dragons
and the list goes on and on...
Cheers,
Tim
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
I don't think (although I'm not sure) that anyone has mentioned these, so I'll toss them out there:
Denver, the Last Dinosaur
Widget the World Watcher
the Robocop animated series
Dino-Riders
None of these were ever that big, but some of them were great old cartoons (I especially liked the last two).
Denver, the Last Dinosaur
Widget the World Watcher
the Robocop animated series
Dino-Riders
None of these were ever that big, but some of them were great old cartoons (I especially liked the last two).
Damon Griffin
First Post
I am the terror that flaps in the night.
I am the chewing gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
I -- am Darkwing Duck!
Let's see, Dangermouse has already been mentioned, but I didn't see a mention of the spinoff series, Count Duckula.
Sealab 2020 (before the Cartoon Network twisted it into Sealab 2021).
Pinky & the Brain
George of the Jungle / Tom Slick (the other two-thirds of the show featuring SuperChicken)
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Secret Squirrel
Atom Ant
Go-Go Gophers
Shazzan! (The genie summoned when Chuck and Nancy join the two halves of the magic ring...not to be confused with Captain Marvel.)
The Arabian Knights (from the Banana Splits show)
The Justice League...maybe a decade before Super Friends, this show used only the familiar comic characters, not a cast half composed of alien twins, geeky teens, their pets, and ethnically or culturally oriented "new" characters like Super Chief, Black Vulcan, etc. Also featured the occasional Teen Titans cartoon. This would have been around '67 or '68 and MAN would I like to see those again.
I am the chewing gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
I -- am Darkwing Duck!
Let's see, Dangermouse has already been mentioned, but I didn't see a mention of the spinoff series, Count Duckula.
Sealab 2020 (before the Cartoon Network twisted it into Sealab 2021).
Pinky & the Brain
George of the Jungle / Tom Slick (the other two-thirds of the show featuring SuperChicken)
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Secret Squirrel
Atom Ant
Go-Go Gophers
Shazzan! (The genie summoned when Chuck and Nancy join the two halves of the magic ring...not to be confused with Captain Marvel.)
The Arabian Knights (from the Banana Splits show)
The Justice League...maybe a decade before Super Friends, this show used only the familiar comic characters, not a cast half composed of alien twins, geeky teens, their pets, and ethnically or culturally oriented "new" characters like Super Chief, Black Vulcan, etc. Also featured the occasional Teen Titans cartoon. This would have been around '67 or '68 and MAN would I like to see those again.
King_Stannis
Explorer
My wife loved "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs", about 9-10 years ago. I never got into it as much as her, but there were a few episodes that were cool.
WayneLigon
Adventurer
King_Stannis said:
I think the Xenozoic Tales, the comic series that was made from, has a new collection of all issues available now.
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