While I'm pretty sure I liked "Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home," was tolerant of that dog series whatever it was, and was willing to "live and let live" when "Fish Police" came about...
I'm certainly glad I never heard about the 1970's TV series "Happy Days" going on to become an animated show. WITH TIME TRAVEL.
Oh, brother. I thought today's reality shows had the concession on dopey.
I know this thread is "built for abandonment", but I'll comment anyway (and risk sounding like our own Disco Stu).
Yeah, I remember that garbage. It was made during The Dark Times, when the likes of CHIPS, The Misadventures of Sherff Lobo, and Alice were all on TV...except now the plague had spread to Saturdays which for the most part was filled with the worst kind of schlocky bilge imaginable. Of course this cartoon also had to have a "cute" animal sidekick "for the kds to relate to."
I was amused by the Amazon description: "...adventures in different times and places as they try in vain to return to 1957."
Let's translate that to language easily understood by most FSMers:
"...non-adventures on the same slow-ass messageboard as they try in vain to return to 1977 and the sucrosy tit of Star Wars."
I notice that on the Gilligan's Planet cartoon, all of the original cast voice their animated counterparts, except for Tina Louise. Dawn Wells ends up doing the voices for both "Mary Ann" and "Ginger."
I notice that on the Gilligan's Planet cartoon, all of the original cast voice their animated counterparts, except for Tina Louise. Dawn Wells ends up doing the voices for both "Mary Ann" and "Ginger."
That was also the case for The New Adventures Of Gilligan (I mean Tina Louise not coming back).
I guess giving a successful sitcom the sci-fi angle was as plausible a Saturday-morning-update as any. The obvious example which springs to mind . . .
There was also the Partridge Family 2200 A.D. which was thankfully a bit before my Saturday-morning-cartoon-watching time (1974-75 season). The theme and effects mirrors that of The Jetsons and every other cheap, crap Hanna-Barbera cartoon--the McDonalds of animation.
I notice that on the Gilligan's Planet cartoon, all of the original cast voice their animated counterparts, except for Tina Louise. Dawn Wells ends up doing the voices for both "Mary Ann" and "Ginger."
Tina Louise hated everything about Gilligan's Island. She thought it ruined her motion picture career and "star" power. Tina was very much a diva in real life. She refused the Gilligan's specials as well.
I guess giving a successful sitcom the sci-fi angle was as plausible a Saturday-morning-update as any. The obvious example which springs to mind . . .
There was also the Partridge Family 2200 A.D. which was thankfully a bit before my Saturday-morning-cartoon-watching time (1974-75 season). The theme and effects mirrors that of The Jetsons and every other cheap, crap Hanna-Barbera cartoon--the McDonalds of animation.
Hanna-Barbera "invented" the limited animation process so it could be affordably produced for television. For good or for worse they created the television animation industry. The worst of the lot were who ever did those early Marvel cartoons which were nothing more than slide shows and Ruby Spears, who did Star Trek, The Animated Series.
The fully animated cartoon shorts by Warner Bros and Disney never made any money for the studios. They were simply an added bonus to get people into the theaters.
I thought Filmation did Star Trek:TAS which was a rotoscoping(?) process and at least we got the TOS cast's voices, if not the Alexander Courage theme. I rather liked Filmation's Flash Gordon cartoon, the one from 1979; I even had a few of the (pretty nice) action figures based on characters and how they appeared in the series.
I thought Filmation did Star Trek:TAS which was a rotoscoping(?) process and at least we got the TOS cast's voices, if not the Alexander Courage theme. I rather liked Filmation's Flash Gordon cartoon, the one from 1979; I even had a few of the (pretty nice) action figures based on characters and how they appeared in the series.
I screwed up! Filmation did do ST:TAS. They did some rotoscoping on their series Tarzan, not so much on Star Trek. The only thing rotoscoped in ST:TAS as far as I know were some of the shots of the Enterprise.
They didn't even bother painting the whites of the characters eyes! Other than some profile walking/running cycles (and a lot of that were in silhouette), it was practically a slide show. Though they did an amazing job recreating their likeness with such simple designs.
Also they originally weren't going to hire the supporting cast to do their voices, because they couldn't afford them. But Nimoy said if they didn't, he wouldn't do voice work for the series.
I loved that Tarzan series when I was a kid! Too bad it hasn't ever been issued on dvd whereas its Saturday-morning mates, Zorro and The Lone Ranger have.
Even though I have a (nostalgic) soft spot for the cartoons of my childhood, they're not a patch on the superb BATMAN: TAS. All I had as a kid were those less-than-wonderful Superfriends cartoons whch do have their amusing moments.
I can still remember the theme songs of those "slide show" 1960s Marvel cartoons, though! Which I believe were merely adapted from the comic books.
I never saw ST:TAS until about ten years ago! I knew it existed and I'm pretty sure that the Nickelodeon channel aired in around Summer, 1985 but I always missed it. (boo hoo)
Hey, we're salvaging yet another of DavidinBerkeley's abandoned topics!
