i'm waiting for it to come out on DVD!
Banana Splits came out when I was in HS (iirc) at the time we figured it was targeting the slow kids; just like all those people-in-oversized-costumes shows were: Barnie, Teletubies, and anything Krofft Brothers.
it's not fair to include all the sub-titles individually, Rocky & Bullwinkle is a single entry that covers everything that was under that umbrella. that was a classic great one though.
anyone else get stuck watching "Davie & Goliath" on sunday mornings because there wasn't anything else but church shows on at that that time (on the whole 3 channels we got)?
Supercar was simply another variation of Thunderbirds. marionettes are NOT cartoons. but the height of their use has to be "Team America: World Police" ("Matt DAAAAIMON!").
Speed Racer sucked moist *** crack for 2 main reasons: Chim-Chim and Spritle. there were other secondary reasons but those two are enough to explain it all.
No one's mentioned The Herculoids! Admittedly I was already married when it first came out, but it was better than a lot of other cartoons at the time.
i did pick up every single episode of Heckle & Jeckle on DVD. it's compressed like no tomorrow but it's all there. back when cartoons KNEW they were cartoons and played to that strength (like swimming in the bathtub with it stretching out in front of them).
anything Hanna Barbara released was production-line schlock. they were prolific though. there was a point where Jackie Gleason was considering suing them for their plagiarism of The Honeymooners (Flintstones) but that was a different time back then.
since this isn't limited to Saturday Morning Cartoons, how about "Fritz the Cat" or "Wizards" or "Betty Boop" (where characters morphed into other things in the background (a face into a skillet with eggs and bacon frying and back again). Trippy stuff, man!
