I'd forgotten about that. "Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit our of my hat!". I now have the urge to go looking for Johnny Quest on YouTube. I even know a guy named Rayce.
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Weedsville- How prophetic. Must have been Colorado or Washington State. Or actually anywhere these days.
Now Sky King-- Hated that show...it replaced Casey Jones.
tree68Anyone remember "Clutch Cargo?" As I recall, he was an adventurer. The animation was pretty bad, but the show was entertaining.
The "other" Syncro-Vox show, "Scott McCloud, Space Angel" was in my opinion quite a bit better. This and the old 'Planet Patrol' (which turns out to have been called 'Space Patrol' most other places) were my favorite shows in the early '60s.
And yes, "Jonny Quest" was Hanna-Barbera's entree into 'serious' cartooning.
(Speaking of Hanna-Barbera, if there is any question certain shows were intended for a 'mature audience', perhaps this will jog your memory:)
I was thinking saturday morning-type cartoons that kids watch. George of the Jungle, Beanie and Cecil, Road Runner, many more, a few mentioned. Today, most are pablum or anime. I think a top-notch cartoon can appeal to both child and adult. Doesn't have to be raunchy or cynical.
RME- Old Twilight Zone reruns have a "Pall Mall" pack in the corner as the credits roll by. You would think they could digitally remove that but there it is! Saw it just the other night on the Space Channel.
Saturday mornings I kind of fancied that Fireball XL5. Loved the opening sequence and the music at the end. Bought a complete set from a specialist importer in old movies and videos, they came from England, 20 years ago now. Unbelievable how many "things" they had on that show that appeared later in Star Trek. They had a doctor named "Bones".
Miningman RME- Old Twilight Zone reruns have a "Pall Mall" pack in the corner as the credits roll by. You would think they could digitally remove that but there it is! Saw it just the other night on the Space Channel.
I also remember seeing the closing credits of "Twilight Zone" reruns in the late 1980's with the outline of the cigarette package quite visible but the actual package blacked out.
I'm sure that I'm not the only person who came to this conclusion but "Night Gallery" was really a new version of "The Twilight Zone".
MiningmanSaturday mornings I kind of fancied that Fireball XL5.
I think I liked ALL the Gerry Anderson shows, starting with the somewhat improbable Diver Dan. My father bought a '62 Thunderbird that looked reasonably like Supercar (Elwood Engle strikes again!) -- I confess to having one big problem with Fireball XL5 and that was the extremely hokey Tom Jones-style song they shoved in at the end ... "I wish I was a spaaaace-man, the fastest guy alive" ... even as a kid I didn't like it and realized it didn't fit with serious science fiction. Didn't help when years later I learned about quadrant marketing and so forth.
The Internet is a wonderful thing to help preserve many of these things that I thought would be around forever and then largely disappeared. I joined the Museum of Broadcasting in LA in the '90s in part to research where some of the almost accidental surviving recordings of some of these shows could be found. Now you can find them on YouTube.
Still hard to believe, though, that substantially all the Captain Kangaroo shows are gone. I spent years happily watching that program, don't remember most of the detail, but always thought I would be able to watch the reruns to remember. Now it is one with the CaSo and Port Burwell ... hell, Ashtabula where there is little left but a bunch of shiny stripes in the streets and big empty yards.
Rod Serling produced some scenarios that were 'food for thought' back then.
Norm
RME- Seldom disagree with you, but, I loved that tune at the end of Fireball XL5. Yes of course it was way "out of place" and on many levels, I mean..a love song for kids? ..and the style?...but that is exactly why it was so great. It was unexpected and daring. It was so smooth!
"My heart would be a Fireball....everytime I gaze into your starry eyes"
Used that line here and there. Worked for me. Ahem.
...and the graphics, zipping from planet to planet, moon to moon, coming up on them real fast and stopping...I don't know if Gerry Anderson was the first to do it but he sure was imitated a lot after that.
Diver Dan was such a great show. So smart a show. Supercar was fabulous. How about Stingray and of course "Thunderbirds are a go".
Geez we had it good.
Absolutely horrible what happened to Captain Kangaroo video being lost forever..those shows were brilliant and very funny.
Didn't think anyone read any of that Port Burwell stuff. NDG only. Thanks.
Norm- I've read that Rod Sterlings ideas were based on the horrible things he saw and what it did to people while fighting in the Pacific Theatre. A lot of it was very dark. There was little hope and salvation in the Twilight Zone. Lot of great actors, long list.
Miningman...and the graphics, zipping from planet to planet, moon to moon, coming up on them real fast and stopping...I don't know if Gerry Anderson was the first to do it but he sure was imitated a lot after that.
I forgot that. And all it took was a moment's recollection and sure enough!
(Of course it wasn't far from that style to the intro to Hoppity Hooper, and thence by a commodius vicus of recirculation to SpongeBob and the incredibly frenetic Disney XD/Nickelodeon stuff that goes by too fast for Adderall...)
Diver Dan was such a great show. So smart a show. Supercar was fabulous. How about Stingray and of course "Thunderbirds are a go". Geez we had it good.
Stingray of course. But you remind me a bit of a friend we teased once when she referred to that movie "the mirror that has two faces" ... It's "Thunderbirds are GO!" (And in that spirit, I promptly think of Speed Racer ... the original, not the weird remake thing). On the whole, though, I'm glad the "F.A.B." thing didn't catch on as a nadsat equivalent...
And we better add Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons while we're at it. I still am haunted a bit by the "we must have a closer look" mistake right at the beginning that drove all the subsequent plots; it put a whole different spin on how I looked at policy and war. Was it supposed to do that?
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