The Over 40s Club Meeting

[Miss Chicken]

Better known as the OLD FARTS Club.

Gather together, old codgers. The topic today is

Our favourite childhood TV shows/cartoons. This means we are looking at shows from about 1979 and earlier.

Among the cartoons I loved as a child were

*Rocky and Bullwinkle (I especially liked Fractured Fairytales)

*Wacky Races/Dastardly and Muttley In their Flying Machines (I adored Muttley's laugh)

*Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har (Oh me, oh my, oh dear)

* Kimba the White Lion

 

[TJinLOCA]

OOh! Ooh! Me, me!

I loved Kimba too, Miss Chicken. I can still sing the theme song.

I absolutely LOVED Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL-5! I'd get so excited when I heard the theme song. My brothers and I used to pretend we were on the ship ... I was always Robert the robot. I loved that robot!

I remember 1967 as the year that had both Mr. Terrific and Captain Nice! Geek heaven!

As for cartoons, I loved watching Sherman and the wayback machine in Peabody's Improbable History. And I admit to liking Gumby. (I was a small child. It was pretty much a given.)

Ah, memories.

 

[MANT!]

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and of course..

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[MANT!]

Sorry for the double post..

wanted to add..

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[Joeman]

Pretty much anything that was on Saturday mornings in the 70's, especially anything by Sid and Marty Krofft. H.R. Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Land of the Lost stand out. Although it was short lived, I still remember Far Out Space Nuts, which Bob Denver starred on. I loved seeing Gilligan on a Saturday morning show. Speaking of Gilligan, I remember that my grandmother would always call me in from playing every afternoon when Gilligan's Island came on. I couldn't get enough.

I'm 46, so I was little in the 60's, but I recall loving Romper Room, Sesame Street, Zoom, Captain Kangaroo, and The Laurel and Hardy Show, along with all the old classic cartoons.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm 5 months over 40, so I think that counts.

My favorite cartoons were Super Friends (esp. the World's Greatest version) and of course this:

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[T'Bonz]

I just bought S4 of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

But I *hated* Kimba. Actually, any cartoon that was preachy or goody-two-shoes put me into a stupor.

Give me Bugs Bunny or the Road Runner and Wile E Coyote any day!

 

[Miss Chicken]

After starting this thread I ordered Rocky and Bullwinkle S1.

Next week I might buyDastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines though I am not sure if I would still like it.

I am a little disappointed that some of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons don't seem to be available on DVD such as Atom Ant, Lippy the Lion, Squiggly Diddy, Secret Squirrel.

 

[KimMH]

For the longest time I thought I had hallucinated Kimba - and this board has now; and in previous threads proven me more stable. I don't remember it being particularly good - but when Disney's LION KING came out I felt vaguely Deja Vue-y. Yes - an orphaned lion prince who struggles with his evil power mad uncle for control - for the good of the tribe of course. Nope! never seen that one before.

 

[Mary Ann]

I used to go home for lunch in elementary school and watch The Flintstones every day, though sometimes Rocket Robin Hood was on instead (a fine example of a cartoon being made on the cheap!). Saturday morning I was glued to the idiot box and some of the more obscure shows I remember are Animals, Animals, Animals (I can picture the actor who hosted it but can't remember his name. He used to be in a sitcom...Barney, I think), Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman, Doggie Dinkie, and Kidstuff. On one of the American channels there used be the School House Rock interludes, which I loved. I bought the DVD a few years ago and my kids like to watch it, too.

When our kids were younger my husband would buy videos of the old British children's shows he used to watch, including Mr. Ben, Bagpuss (my favourite), Trumpton, and The Clangers. The old Watch With Mother clips of Bill and Ben and Andy Pandy are hilarious to watch now, and while some people complain about being able to see the strings I hold those puppeteers in high regard.

I never saw an episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle 'til I was in my late teens but I loved it and watched it regularly with my brother who was in his late 20s. I still enjoy watching some kids' shows with my children, with BBC's Horrible Histories being a current favourite.

 

[Kirkman1987]

I'm not 40, but love cartoons.

I second Jonny Quest. One of the best action cartoons ever, and it was pretty mature for the time, with actual onscreen deaths and cool sci-fi fantasy plots. Race Bannon could give Jack Bauer a run for his money.

Speaking of vintage action cartoons

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[sojourner]

Hated, Hated, Hated, when Scrappy Doo was added to the Scooby Doo show.

 

[KimMH]

it always means your show is going down the tubes when they add cute little kids or weddings - or Ted McGinley . . .

 

[J.T.B.]

I was a big fan of Speed Racer when I was 5-7 years old, and liked the usual stuff like Super Friends. One show I really liked when I was a little bit older was the Filmation Flash Gordon that came out about '79. I have actually been tempted to get the DVD and see if it was as good as my recollection. The second season they kiddied it up/dumbed it down, and even as a ten year old I could tell I was being talked down to in the new episodes.

--Justin

 

[auntiehill]

Sadly, this year puts me officially in to the "over-40" group.

When I was a youngster, I clearly remember loving Kimba, but frankly, all I remember is the title and that it was cartoon.

I have much clearer memories of The Banana Splits, The Monkees, The Mod Squad, Room 222 and all the Hanna Barbera cartoons. I also liked all the educational shows like Vegetable Soup, Electric Company and Zoom.

Banana Splits
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I clearly remember finding the Huck & Friends, with the mix of live actors and animation, to be deeply strange
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[Mutai Sho-Rin]

We didn't even HAVE a TV until I was 8 (1954). I don't really remember much TV beyond variety shows and network news. Ed Sullivan, Playhouse 90, Lawrence Welk (urk), etc. Vague images of Deputy Dawg, Tweety & Sylvester, Snagglepuss come to mind. I was just too dang busy.

 

[Miss Chicken]

There were Australian shows that I loved (which probably no-one else on this board have seen)

There was The Magic Circle Club.

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I remember being very upset when I heard that Nancy Kato had been serious injured while filming an episode of the show,

I also liked The Magic Boomerang. When the boomerang was thrown it made time stand still for the time the boomerang was in the air (and it did seem to stay aloft for a lot longer than one would expect). The only clip I could find is very poor quality

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I also like Adventures of the Seaspray

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One show that I didn't particularly like was Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo.

 

[Mary Ann]

Lawrence Welk (urk)

My mom liked watching Lawrence Welk reruns 20 years ago. My brother does an excellent impression of Lawrence, which made the show bearable, because I spent the entire show killing myself laughing at his impressions ("It's-a Bobby and-a Sissy. Today Bobby let-a Sissy wear de skirt. Wunnerful, wunnerful!").

I'm a bit too young to remember Mitch Miller and Friends, but my dad had some of Miller's albums which he'd make my brothers and me listen to when we were young. Looking back I think this falls under child cruelty laws, but my dad didn't mean any harm.

I know we have some Dutch members, and I wonder if they also have memories of watching Fabeltjeskrant, Stratemaker Op Zee, Ti Ta Tovenaar, Paulus de Kabouterman, and Pip and Zip.

 

[scotpens]

My favorite cartoon shows from childhood: Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Alvin Show (the first Chipmunks cartoon series from the early 1960s), Beany and Cecil (very hip for the time), and the classic Warner Brothers cartoons. Never cared much for the Hanna-Barbera stuff, although I did watch Top Cat (a ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show aka Sergeant Bilko).

One show I really liked when I was a little bit older was the Filmation Flash Gordon that came out about '79.

Does anyone remember the ultra-cheap Flash Gordon TV series from the mid-1950s, starring Steve Holland and filmed in Germany?

. . . I also like Adventures of the Seaspray

. . . One show that I didn't particularly like was Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo.

Back in 1970-71, a local station here in L.A. used to show Adventures of the Seaspray at around 3 in the morning. Apparently they used it as a time-filler. And we got Skippy on local TV here as well. The problem with trying to make a kangaroo into an animal hero was that you can't really train kangaroos to do anything. They hop, they eat, they poop, and they make little kangaroos. That's about it.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Not at all.

We learnt years later that Skippy could do just about anything

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but not quite everything

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