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Post by brutalis on Oct 18, 2016 7:26:46 GMT -5
Not so much that i didn't wish to include them but in the day it was HB and Filmation who had the most hits (and misses) during the corporate ran Saturday mornings. The other companies were smaller in scale and they usually could manage 1 hit show if that at all.
Rankin-Bass was more of a specialty type of company and made their mark and big bucks in stop motion holiday shows which still run today. Their cartoon's really only remembered by us oldster's and never going into syndication as they were very much a part of their time.
Depatie-Freleng big hit primarily being with the Pink Panther Show, the rest of their shows never really having any staying power even though many were very good. Panther transcends time with his musical comedy.
Ruby-Spears was a HB wannabe that managed to use their connections with the major affiliates from their time with HB and parlay that into contracts with none of their shows lasting more than a season and only with Thundarr finding any real fame. The rest of the shows being throw aways excepting for Alvin & the Chipmunks which have their own fame beyond Ruby-spears.
Jay Ward is pure genius but outside of Bullwinkle, most all of their shows were seen more in syndication packages: Bullwinkle, Dudley Doo-Right, Fractured Fairytales, Mr Peabody & Sherman, George of the Jungle, Roger Ramjet were usually cut up into their individual shorts and seen in local kid shows or as fillers in between movies and such.
Total Television again with Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo doing great in syndication and repeats but no continuing new shows.
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Post by robsuperfriend63 on Oct 20, 2016 20:43:39 GMT -5
Ah, the Filmation Star Trek animated series...the least animated Star Trek series. My brother-in-law told me and after much debate I guess by some one on authority on Sci Fi that the animated series is now considered as cannon to the Star Trek original series and is also considered as the 4th Season of TOS. Seems fitting to me since A: most of the original actors provided the voices to the animated series and B: The writers who wrote for the animated also wrote for the original Star Trek. In fact a lot of the stories for the animated series were originally written for Star Trek for a fourth Season but of course NBC canceled it after 3 seasons.
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Post by coinilius on Nov 8, 2016 6:16:40 GMT -5
Ah, the Filmation Star Trek animated series...the least animated Star Trek series. My brother-in-law told me and after much debate I guess by some one on authority on Sci Fi that the animated series is now considered as cannon to the Star Trek original series and is also considered as the 4th Season of TOS. Seems fitting to me since A: most of the original actors provided the voices to the animated series and B: The writers who wrote for the animated also wrote for the original Star Trek. In fact a lot of the stories for the animated series were originally written for Star Trek for a fourth Season but of course NBC canceled it after 3 seasons.The Filmation Star Trek is an excellent series and a great continuation of the series - DC Fontana was the story editor for the first season of the cartoon.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 9, 2016 2:27:44 GMT -5
My only quibble with Star Trek is the voice direction, which is a problem with a lot of the Filmation cartoons. I'm not sure if Lou Scheimer did most of that or Hal Sutherland; but, Filmation often sounded flat, and Star Trek did quite a bit, except guys like Doohan, who had a radio background. The Filmation regulars, like Larry Storch and Jane Webb were better at it, though they tended to do the same voices in everything. Scheimer, himself, is miserably bad when he did incidental voices and especially on characters like Orko and Bat-Mite. (like nails on a chalkboard).
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