5 Forgotten TV Shows Part 26 - Saturday Morning Cartoons

[@tskmaster3837]

"Turns out Kids don't want to watch shows about adults." JM Strazinski said he was told the same exact thing when he made the Ghostbusters movie into an animated show. He flexed some writing muscles and made it work.

[@chamilton4577]

I was very aware of this attitude from producers, even as a kid. They always pointed to the big hits that had kids in them as proof that kids didn't like shows about adults. It was always a lie. All of my friends wanted to jettison the kid characters from our favorite shows.

[@garyhall7867]

​@@chamilton4577goddam Kennys

[@TheRealNormanBates]

@@garyhall7867 _DE-CAP-I-TA-TIOOOON!_

[@garyhall7867]

@@TheRealNormanBates 🤣🤣🤣🤣 wish he'd just throw a new vid out along with the comps

[@DOSRetroGamer]

What an idiotic assumption.

[@bookaufman9643]

I remember originally seeing The groovy ghoulies in 1979 as part of an afternoon comedy block. I remember loving it for a little while.😊

[@Big_Tex]

The one I remember is “Inch High Private Eye”. That came out in my prime cartoon-obsession age. I’d watch from 6:30 to noon then complain to my mother that cartoons weren’t on all day.

[@RaptorNX01]

Soul Train was my nemesis. it meant the cartoons were over.

[@simonwoodthrillerwriter]

I grew up in the UK 70's & 80's and it was cartoon heaven. I saw Groovie Ghoulies, Inch High Private Eye & Space Sentinels (we got the name change). One short-lived cartoon I remember but no one else does was Jana of the Jungle.

[@ChunAsperEndao]

Watching cartoons in syndication was wild, because you'd see current shows alongside shows that had been produced 15 years earlier, and being a kid, you would pretty much just take it for granted that they had all been made fresh just for you. I suspect that children these days aren't developing the same breadth of taste and cultural curiosity, because even though they technically have access to a lot more than we did, it's harder for them to watch something old without understanding in advance that it's from a different era and wasn't intended for them in particular.

[@edmundolastra3279]

These are before my time unfortunately 😢 still seem really fun tho 👍

[@LAHFaust]

I feel like they also have too much choice. They can decide to watch whatever their heart desires when they want to watch it. I remember disliking some shows in the middle of the block and facing the decision of "do I watch this show I'm apathetic about or do I go do something else until the show I do like comes on?" It teaches patience and, in a tiny way, that you can't always get what you want.

[@RaptorNX01]

i think an example would be that I had seen inch high private eye as a kid despite it being cancelled many years before i was born, thanks to syndication.

[@OldMan_PJ]

My favorite forgotten cartoon was Count Duckula, it was a British cartoon spinoff from Danger Mouse. I forget what channel aired it in the US but the Thames Television logo is forever ingrained in my memory. Who couldn't love a vampire duck vegetarian?

[@krs4976]

I had no idea you had those in America. Count Duckula was huge here in the Uk.

[@ninjaconsultantsixshot]

Count Duckula is arguably the very first Nicktoon as it was an American British coproduction.

[@otaking3582]

It aired on Nickelodeon in the US, and was actually a co-production between them and Cosgrove Hall. Pop Arena has a video about Count Duckula that I recommend watching.

[@lazchurchyard1229]

DUCKYBOOS

[@guyvizard549]

I wanna say it was PBS, but don't quote me on that... Maybe Nickelodeon, eventually... I feel like both toons were not on one of the big four channels at the time.

[@AubreyTheKing]

Saturday morning cartoons were AMAZING! JUST AMAZING! There are a "few" stations that show cartoons are TV. But it's not as impactful as it was back then. Kids these days have NO IDEA how amazing it was to watch cartoons on a Saturday morning right after school the next day. What's even more fun is when you watch it in the morning with your siblings, parents, family or friends. GOD I MISS THE GOOD OLD DAYS! Thanks for the video, man! Looking forward to more forgotten cartoon shows!

[@arthurcarlyle7263]

I grew up in the 90's and 00's, but my parents grew up in the 70's and 80's and were smart enough to show me cartoons and shows from those periods as well. Because of this I'm familiar with a lot of this stuff, which is great!

[@markoyamashitach]

Saturday morning cartoons were awesome! I'd wake up at 7AM and be able to watch nonstop cartoons all the way until noon. Those were the days.

[@CantankerousDave]

Cartoons were over when American Bandstand came on.

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

The last cartoon of the day would be Captain O.G. Readmore. Which would be either a live action, or animated episode based on a book.

[@frankinzoidwright5666]

Dude! That Pole Position song intro slaps.

[@MarsGundam]

Lol, was just about to put that.

[@WookieeMonster1]

Definitely. Still sometimes sneaks into my head, along with a few others, like Star Wars Droids. 😊

[@bannedfreespeech]

So was Wheeled Warriors

[@erikbjelke4411]

"Pole Posi-TION!! Sit back and watch them go!" I think that's how it went.

[@McPh1741]

Born '78 but I remember watching "Inch High Private Eye" and "Space Sentinels" on TV. You're right, there were so many cartoons coming out back then. It's easy to forget some of them. Watching these videos brings back so many memories of forgotten cartoon- Pandamoniam, Mighty Man and Yukk, Plastic Man, Trolkins, The Snorks, Turbo Teen, Speed Buggy, The Centurions, and the list goes on.

[@b0gster]

loved Plastic Man

[@kri249]

I use to watch Snorks and Speed buggy. And I loved the Centurions. I had the water guys action figure.

[@McPh1741]

@@kri249 Man and machine. Power extreme.

[@ericgaskins571]

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, the best 2 decades for Saturday morning cartoons. We were so spoiled and we didnt even know it. I loved my Saturdays when i was young. Both parents worked Saturdays so i had all the time in the mornings i could wish for. I had off brand pop tarts and the off brand cereals. Yeah, we were poor. You wouldnt know by the smile on my face though. I miss the good old days.

[@r0kus]

I was born in 1954, so my Saturday mornings included more variety. In addition to cartoons like _Mighty Mouse_ and reruns of _Quick Draw McGraw,_ we had Live Action shows like _Fury_ and _Sky Kong._ (Fury starred Peter Graves as a respected authority figure, which is what made his appearance in _Airplane!_ as a pilot who would openly hit on boys so much funnier.) We also had puppet shows like _Super Car_ and _Thunderbirds._ (Those were the kind of shows _Team America: World Police_ were parodying.)

[@zeroman614]

Cartoons weren’t everything, we Gen-X kids also had plenty of live-action and puppets shows. Banana Splits, Shazam, Land Of The Lost, The Great Space Coaster, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Saved By The Bell, and many more.

[@travisshallenberger9486]

And here I thought we'd finally get that coverage of Laverne and Shirley in the Army! Oh well, another time then. Man, Filmation & Hanna-Barbera were staples of my childhood. They cranked out so much content back in those days it was hard to keep track of all of them. I remember just about all of these, but Here Comes the Grump was a new one for me. And Pole Position! I remember the prime time preview show talking about that one. Not exactly a high point for Ted Knight & Joyce DeWitt. But the show gave some big memories of Saturday Supercade and all the other shows trying to turn video games into shows.

[@ChrisCooling]

I covered it on Forgotten TV. Presented pretty much everything I could dig up on it

[@geoffsokoll-oh1gq]

Help, help! Here comes the Grump! All I remember of the theme.

[@flickflack]

Just a treasure trove of content there. One of my personal favorite forgotten cartoons was Rude Dog and the Dweebs.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

:)

[@RavenHouseMystery]

Thanks for another great nostalgic episode, Cecil. I remember the Groovie Goolies well, along with the Space Sentinels and Inch High, Private Eye. I can't believe I missed Pole Position (since I loved the arcade game), but I was well into high school by 1984. To this day, I still do a Frankie impression of "I needed that".

[@AkuTenshiiZero]

Man, there are _so_ many cartoons I watched in the 90s that nobody ever talks about. King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Mummies Alive, Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys, Extreme Dinosaurs, and I think I am one of the few people alive who vividly remembers the pilot episode for Defenders of Dynatron City that aired once and was never seen again.

[@mjjoe76]

I vaguely remember the King Arthur show. Wasn’t the concept that it was a football team called the Knights, and the QB was named Arthur King?

[@TheInhumanBeatdown]

@@mjjoe76 More or less. Basically Morgan le Fay kidnaped the OG Arthur and his Knights in Crystals and was prepared to overtake Camelot. Merlin called to the future summoning the football team to act as Arthur and his Knights. It was an interesting show, but was canceled/ended without a proper conclusion. The only way to get a somewhat ending is by playing the SNES game, but its one of those you will need a guide to know what to do an how to do it type of games.

[@CantankerousDave]

Captain Simian was great. It was packed with sci-fi actors. Michael Garibaldi and his crew against Worf and his henchman, Alex DeLarge.

[@christinacolasanto530]

lve scene this particular topic discused from all the decades there should be a 90s one some where on youtube.

[@MandleRoss]

It's so great to find shows in here that only dwell in an otherwise unreachable back room on the brain. I certainly recognized Groovy Ghoulies and Inch-High Private Eye from Australian Saturday morning cartoon slots! (I wonder what they called "Groovy Ghoulies" in the UK... because it almost certainly wasn't THAT!)

[@BertTurbaville]

Jeez talk about a trip down memory lane! Thank you for this- that first shot of ALL the cartoons (Jonny Quest, The Herculoids, Space Ghost, etc) of my otherwise forgettable youth really took me back!

[@legospaceman4978]

With the exception of Here Comes The Grump, the rest were staples of my Saturday morning cartoon. I loved Pole Position cause they could hover. Your review of Here Comes The Grump made me think it could have been the inspiration for Adventure Time.

[@DerekCFPegritz]

Gods, I miss Saturday Morning Cartoons. I am fifty years old and I would _still_ watch them every Saturday if I could.

[@mateofatt6454]

Inch High Private Eye is legendary!!! Thank you for another great video

[@jasperfen3754]

I (barely) remember the Groovie Goolies from the segments I saw in reruns of Sabrina. I remember being aware of Pole Position when it aired, and thinking "this is a stupid, boring waste of a cartoon time slot" I do not remember The Grump at all... How a cartoon flew under my radar at that time I have no idea. I remember inch high private eye, from reruns on Sunday, when I managed to get out of going to church, (I saw a lot of older Hana Barbara cartoons like herculoids and josie and the pusseycats that way). I clearly remember watching Young Sentinals as a kid, but have trouble remembering anything specific aside from that big head and Mercury running in circles. Fun Video. Thanks.

[@legomech1946]

Pole Position was great and had one of the catchiest cartoon theme songs ever. I can still hear it in my head clear as day. Right up there with Galaxy Rangers.

[@craftynekoLM]

Thank you for this series! The hubby and I were reminiscing and had such a good time. Can’t wait for the rest of the entries so I can relive my childhood, yes! 🙌

[@euansmith3699]

I'd forgotten about Pole Position; and yet the theme song popped right in to my head. 🎶

[@pdzombie1906]

Bundleling Pole Position with Joyce and the wheel Warriors makes sense to me since they had the BEST intro songs of the eighties!!! Thanx, Cecil!!!

[@ssoory6343]

My old forgotten cartoons include Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Dastardly and Muttley, Top Cat and Josie & The Pussycats

[@parisgreen4600]

LOL, just the other day I saw a KZbin video (live, not cartoon) of two pet guinea pigs chasing a pigeon, and they used the "Stop that Pigeon" song from Dastardly and Muttley. What a flashback!

[@ssoory6343]

@@parisgreen4600 Muttley's laugh and Dastardly's bitter rants never gets old 😆😆

[@MrSpike320]

Born in '71 and I TOTALLY remember Space Sentinels!!!. Filmation also did a couple of live action series in the '70's as well, my favorites being Space Academy and Jason Of Star Command. 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

Ark II, Land of the Lost.

[@JoeDredd2012]

0:01-0:21 Yep I sure did Cecil yes back in the day! 2:48 Yep!! I use watch that cartoon every Saturday morning when it aired on CBS back in the early 80's I revisited it on youtube about 2 years ago it still holds up for me. 6:22 I actually remember watching that one on Cartoon Network back in the early 90's it was just ''there'' for me. Another fantastic installment please keep on doing more of these Cecil they are sure a ton of fun👍👍

[@DGoodhart]

Great episode! Just a little note about The Freedom Force, even though it only lasted 5 episodes, it was because it was part of a larger show called Tarzan and the Super Seven, which featured Filmation’s Tarzan, the live-action Jason of Star Command and the animated shows, Freedom Force, Web Woman, Manta & Moray and SuperStretch & Microwoman. It was basically in rotation with the other animated shows, only Tarzan and Jason of Star Command appeared every week.

[@jomeke101]

I was born in the early 60's so I definately remember all these cartoons. In fact I have them all on dvd....Great memories...

[@TheRealNormanBates]

7:40 USA used to play an hour of odd cartoons for an hour every night at 7 pm EST (Cartoon Express I think?). They had *Inch High, PI* as well as *Clue Club, Sport Billy* and a few other odds and ends I missed when in the single digits in the 1970's.

[@GérannGerberChannel]

Great episode Cecil!! It would be great if you can do a video in this category on Banana Man as well!! Also, please do a video on 'Apollo 18 - 2011', 'Johnny Mnemonic - 1995' and 'Judge Dredd - 1995'.

[@kri249]

This could practically become its own segment. And you're right, kids cartoons were abundant when I was a kid in the 80s and it is hard to describe to someone younger what that era was like. In fact it's even my retort if I'm told I'm old. I can just tell them my childhood was better theirs, or that it's worth being old now because I got to be a kid in the 80s. As for short lived cartoons I remember the other Ghostbusters show and a French or Canadian cartoon called Robo story.

[@studogable]

HUGE Space Sentinels fan back in the day - I sure didn't realize it was quite that old. Thanks for bringing it up!

[@jamiepalmer6452]

As a 2000s baby, the Boomerang channel is the only reason I know so many old cartoons like The Herculoids, Wacky Races, Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Top Cat, etc. (not any of the ones on this list though😅). I miss those days so much!! Great video! Also, this is a 90s cartoon but do people remember SWAT Kats??

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks!

[@TheKKVB]

4:27 Shout out to the long time Good Bad Flicks fans knows that reference. lol

[@joey_dangerously]

Nothing like getting up early, eating damn near a whole box of King Vitamin while watching these shows.

[@blueberrypanquakes]

I really missed out by not being born until 85. Most of these would've been right up my alley as a kid.

[@impofstpete727]

Man, those Hannah Barbara cartoons take me back. I remember when they made them all collide in Lafflympics and Wacky Races. So many detective formats too using a group of teens teamed up with some anthropomorphic thing.

[@davidfausel9029]

I LOVE this - great video. I remember 1, 2, 4, and 5 all watched in syndication as a kid. Damn I have never forgotten that blasted Pole Position theme song lol.

[@DoorsInTheLabyrinth]

The Groovie Goolies got a bit of a boost in the 90s (for some folks anyway) with the band The Groovie Ghoulies, named after the show! I saw them play a couple times, they were fun, like if you took the subject matter of the Misfits, but had it played by the Ramones.

[@garyreid2178]

I remember a show on the ABC network called The Saturday Superstar Movie. It had, if my memory serves, a show called Those Were The Days ( about a family in the early 20th century)the animated adaptation of Lost In Space (with Jonathan Harris as Dr. Smith), but the character lineup was different. And a full length animated movie. So many Saturday morning memories. It was a great time to be a kid back then.

[@SamiDC]

OMG I haven't heard the name Josh Hadley in years. The Grump, haha! Good one, Cecil.

[@krs4976]

My first thought in the intro was Groovy ghoulies , i cheered when you immediately mentioned it. I can't tell you how much I loved that as a kid 😎 I'm glad to say we had all of the cartoons you mentioned in the UK. Space Sentinels was fantastic and probably the biggest hit in here. Did you have Ulysses 31 in America? Did you have

[@poleaxed6447]

I loved Ulysses 31 especially the soundtrack. It was actually a series made in Japan for French TV to get kids into classic literature. I believe the English dub was done for American release.

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

Yup we got it, in syndication.

[@fumblztv8979]

Another great video. Back in the mid-90s, I lived in San Francisco, and there was a block of TV shows that came on at midnight and went Doctor Who, Liquid Television, Robotech, and Here Comes The Grump. Possibly the best lineup of my lifetime.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks!

[@briang9581]

1.Young people given superpowers by an extraterrestrial. 2.They are led by a big floating head. 3 There's a comic relief robot. Those elements could never combine into a long-running franchise.

[@Madbandit77]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Mjolnir877]

Great video! I think the only one of these I'd even heard of before was Inch High Private Eye.

[@fje6902]

The Groovy Ghoulies was made by the same animators as the Archie Show. The novelty hit from 1970-"Chick-A-Boom" was featured on the Groovy Ghoulies in a kid friendly version, of course.

[@DaanSchreurs1]

Thanks for the upload! Good start of my friday night.

[@nactrumofficial5450]

"Inch High Private Eye" was one of my favs in the early 80s.

[@oldmanharley4018]

the french-american M.A.S.K. by DiC is definitely going into one of these lists. and man if only we could talk about animation from other countries, there's a mountain

[@1jotun136]

A bowl of cap'n crunch and a pillow and blanket in front of the TV was a wonderful Saturday morning.

[@sniper712]

you can see a lot of the cartoon art inspirations and whatnot that made it to other popular ones back then. i never seen any of those, but i always love a nice history for things long forgotten.

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

I remember on the show Martin, the main character is insulted by the character Pam by being called “Inch high private eye.” I had no idea this was a reference to an actual cartoon.

[@blackamerican40]

As someone born in 68, I remember Groovy Ghoulies and Inch High Private Eye very well. 😊😊

[@shoutingstone]

Maybe it just had a lot of reruns when I was growing up but I thought Space Sentinels was much more popular than that. I could even hear the intro narration in my head as you played the footage despite not having seen it in nearly 40 years :)

[@alexarias8721]

I vaguely remember some of these shows but loved Inch High Private Eye!! I used to watch it on USA Cartoon Express!

[@israelvaldez26]

Thanks!

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Thanks for the support!

[@CmotDribbler]

Love your content, as a person of a similar age going through some life finding myself I want to say I appreciate everything you do!

[@LostRanger87]

Thanks for highlighting these shows! Only heard of Pole Position, but now I wanna see the others

[@ericjefferson6249]

I literally thought I had imagined the Space Sentinels out of thin air until I found it on KZbin a couple of years ago and realized it was something I watched as a kid.

[@jameslandry5604]

The amount of research is amazing. I can not wait till you do 5 more lost/forgotten cartoons!

[@christophermerlot3366]

Anyone else remember the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon? Where I lived in southern Ontario we also had the Barbapapas, which was very weird.

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

IDK how long it was produced, but I do remember that when Saturday morning cartoons were in decline, D&D was one of the last few to linger on.

[@gspendlove]

There's a reference to that cartoon in Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

[@christophermerlot3366]

I haven't seen Honor Among Thieves but I'll look for it when I do. Thanks for the heads up.@@gspendlove

[@graemesmith6721]

I remember The Groovy Ghoulies, probably from when it was syndicated, since 1970 is a bit early for me. I remember Inch High Private Eye existing, but I don't think I ever watched it. I never even heard of the other three. The video mentions cartoons that were based on successful live-action TV series, such as Gilligan's Island and My Favorite Martian. There were quite a few of those. One that I remember was The New Adventures of Batman, from 1977. It was produced by Filmation, and was basically a continuation of the 1960s live-action Batman series, with Adam West and Burt Ward reprising their roles as Batman and Robin. It also includes Bat-girl (though not voiced by Yvonne Craig), and a pint-sized green-skinned imp with magical powers from another dimension named Bat-mite, voiced by Filmation head honcho Lou Scheimer. Bat-Mite is actually a character from the comics, introduced in the late 1950s. He's basically a prototype for Orko from Masters of the Universe, another Filmation product, who was also voiced by Scheimer. A lot of classic Batman villains show up, all voiced by Lennie Weinrib, though Riddler and Scarecrow are missing, since those characters were licensed to Hanna-Barbara for Superfriends, which was running concurrently. Another cartoon based on a live-action show I remember was Houndcats from 1972, produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. It was based on a short-lived action series called Bearcats!, in which Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole played a couple of mercenaries traveling around the southwestern U.S. in 1914 in a Stutz Bearcat, a high-end sports car of the time. DFE apparently thought Bearcats! was going to be a thing, so they made Houndcats, which was also set in 1914 and had five animal secret agents (two cats and three dogs) and a sentient car, who were given assignments for the government by their unseen Chief using devices such as grammaphones and player pianos, that would then self-destruct, Mission: Impossible-style. Oddly, they seemed to be the only anthropomorphic animals in a world full of humans, but nobody ever remarked on this. Each of the five had a specialty: Stutz was the leader/strategist, Mussel Mutt (voiced by Aldo Ray) was strong, Putty Puss (voiced by Joe Besser) was a master of disguise, Rhubarb (voiced by Arte Johnson) was an inventor, and Ding Dog was stupid. Basically, it was a mash-up of Bearcats!, Mission: Impossible, and Wild Wild West, but since Bearcats! flopped and westerns were on their way out anyway, it only lasted 16 episodes before riding off into the sunset of cancellation.

[@Jaykilljoy-tt9tt]

LOL "No, this is not a series about Josh Hadley." Hey, Cecil! Josh Hadley has never ever been wrong about anything in his entire life. Including Halloween [1978], and those Richard Stanley films.

[@juanvillanueva-mt4he]

Bro I remember some of these cartoons and I was born in 81. You should do some 90’s forgotten cartoons now that will give everyone some awesome nostalgia.

[@SuprousOxide]

Weird that they named the heroes after the Pinkertons, who had a well deserved reputation as thugs working for big business

[@theOneOnlyTed]

There was this shoe, on fox I think, with a kids camp of monsters and one with a group of I think 5 frogs. Would have to have been 86 or 87

[@MikeAshkewe]

*slaps hood* Now this is amazing content right here

[@dsandoval9396]

I was a 90's Saturday morning cartoon kid. I always got my Saturday morning fix.

[@JenMistress]

Well, I've heard of Groovie Ghoulies and Inch High Private Eye, but the other 3, not familiar with. Found playlists of the 4 that are KZbin, so have them saved to check out later. Thank you for this.

[@nathan_tasker]

Absolutely fantastic work Cecil. Some very interesting cartoons that I had forgotten about. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@sterling7]

There were a lot of tricks to make television animation cheaper in the era, but it still impresses me immensely how good a lot of it looks, especially as far as things like character designs. I remember as a kid getting a bit exasperated when some of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons came on later in the morning; as an adult, I just think "they did all of that, by hand, without a single computer."

[@rjspires]

Saw most of these in the late 80’s, early 90’s in the UK. It was good to be reminded of them.

[@TheStrykerProject]

I loved Inch High Private Eye! I must have watched it in syndicate, though, in the late 70's.

[@DLDX]

Thanks for a great episode. I actually remember most of the shows featured in this video.

[@evilone543]

I remember all of these. A true blast from the past! I actually have Groovie Ghoulies on disc.

[@Hannibal_Grim]

Nice! I remember some of these but never caught Space Sentinels or Pole Position.

[@mazer375]

Great video. Good mix of decades and types of shows.

[@gypsybluewaves580]

I was born in 79. Thank you for this.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

You're very welcome!

[@TariqOmar-zh4st]

Dear Cecil, Please don't you EVER stop making videos

[@CrazyRoundMan]

Can earnestly say I missed all these. Love these videos.

[@DistantThunderworksLLC]

Loved Pole Position as a teen. Own it on DVD. Still pull it out, along with Mighty Orbots now and then.

[@bearianna]

I LOVE cartoons (I'm still one of the biggest fans of Scooby Doo- don't know if I should be embarrassed about that. 😅 but it's such a comfort show to me) so it's interesting to hear about some older ones! 📺

[@dbsommers1]

I loved Saturday morning cartoons when i was a kid. This brings back memories.

[@gregoryvn3]

Was not expecting so many Star Wars connections. Neat. Only one of these that I've seen before was Pole Position, and had forgotten it was even a thing.

[@Lynxan]

The Pole Position theme is forever stuck on my head.

[@irwin3381]

Goolies theme tune was brilliant growing up, remember watching it in the 80’s , along with many other Saturday morning cartoons, Ulysses 31 , Thundercats , He-man , Mask , Bots Master , Captain N , and all the other classics.

[@mesicek7]

Most of these cartoons were shown in reruns in Europe in the 90s - German tv and Cartoon Network

[@chrisc6085]

I always love Inch High Private Eye, I caught it on Boomerang in the late 90’s/early 2000’s.

[@Shadowmanxiii]

I saw your post the other day and wanted to do my part and post. Cheers

[@allright]

Oh boy, that's my favorite GBF video series, I'm so happy we're getting this. I'm not going to threaten you over not doing a video on Invasion USA.

[@GoodBadFlicks]

Hey! I meant to write about that in the community post but forgot. Essentially, I was planning on doing that for the last video of the year. Unfortunately, my wife and son got sick, they gave it to me and it set me back about 2 weeks. So I had to pivot and give the Eight Crazy Nights video priority since I had been talking to the director and needed to get it out in December. I'm now planning on Invasion USA for Dec 2024. :)

[@allright]

@@GoodBadFlicks You mean I have to wait 341 day's kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYjEfat8fruLZ9Usi=v7OXGsJGztB6JlPS

[@VerdantRange]

For one that few people remember, I'd recommend The Smoggies, AKA, Stop the Smoggies. Also, surprised you didn't mention the weird crossover Groovey Ghoulies had with Looney Tunes where a lot of the voices were messed up.

[@krs4976]

Ah man the Smoggies I remember that it used to be on straight after the raccoons here in the Uk good times 😁

[@twilightman2816]

You never got back to me, so I just thought I'd ask one last time if the next episode is going to be Five Forgotten TV Shows --- Post Super Bowl Edition All the way back in Part 16 --- Alien Invasion Shows, I mentioned that we had just found out that a brand new show called "Tracker" was going to premiere after the Super Bowl. So, to recap................................ The post Super Bowl show is the coveted spot all year long for TV shows. It is sometimes reserved for "special" episodes of already successful shows like "All in The Family" (35.4 million viewers), "Third Rock From The Sun" (33.6 million), "The X-Files (29.1 million). "Survivor" ( 2nd season premiere -- 45.3 million, All-Star season premiere ---- 33.5 million ), and don't forget "The One After The Super Bowl" ---- 52.9 million viewers!!!!!!!!!! Yep, back in the 90s, everyone wanted those six people to be their "Friends". When you have the biggest amount of viewers the entire year handed to you on a silver platter, sometimes the network decides to premiere the very first episode of an all new TV show right after the Super Bowl. Sometimes, it obviously works and the show becomes a long-running hit.......... The A-Team (22 million), The (first) Wonder Years (29 million), Airwolf (27.8 million), Homicide: Life on The Street ( 28.1 million), Family Guy ( 22 million), American Dad ( 23 million ), Undercover Boss ( 38.6 million ) When this happens, your show can't fail??? Right??? RIGHT?!?!?!????? The "World" is handed to you on a silver platter, and you still manage to screw it up. Welcome to Five Forgotten Shows ---- Post Super Bowl Edition MacGruder and Loud The series stars John Getz and Kathryn Harrold as married police officers Malcolm MacGruder and Jenny Loud in a Los Angeles Police Department-styled police agency (where strict anti-fraternization policies were in effect). They fought a battle every day to keep it a closely guarded secret from their boss. Despite the pilot airing after the Super Bowl, ABC kept changing its timeslot during the season, and it was canceled after only fifteen episodes. The Last Precinct Batman's Adam West and Ghostbuster's Ernie Hudson co-star in a 45 minute sitcom about a group of misfit police academy rejects. Despite 39 million people watching the pilot (after the Super Bowl), it lasted only eight episodes. Grand Slam John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard) and Paul Rodriguez are bounty hunters in San Diego. 30.7 million people watched the pilot. Eight episodes were filmed, but it was canceled after only six were aired. The Good Life a family sitcom starring John Caponera as the patriarch and a very young Drew Carey as his "best bud". 23 million viewers watched the pilot. It was canceled after 13 episodes, and Drew went on the following year to his own sitcom, and we all know what happened after that. Extreme James Brolin starred in an action/adventure show about a search and rescue team which operated in the Rocky Mountains. 22.5 million viewers watched the pilot. Thirteen episodes were filmed, but only seven aired before cancellation. Let's find out if "Tracker" is going to become a long-running show like "The A-Team" or "The Wonder Years", or a forgettable flop like "Grand Slam" and "The Last Precinct". Stay tuned.

[@MoonspiderHugs]

As someone who cover Saturday Morning Cartoons, this is awesome work

[@joelkirk6930]

Never watched _Pole Position,_ but I always liked the theme song. And I revisit the song every now and then here on KZbin. (Yes, I was familiar with the arcade game as well). I was also familiar with _The Groovie Ghoulies,_ catching an episode here and there.

[@scotf.5893]

I remember Pole Position. I used to watch that one all the time and almost always had that catchy theme song stuck in my head.

[@bbybear712]

Yes! Sometimes i miss Saturday morning cartoons and do my own mini block or watch a KZbin upload