The Mighty Hercules

An old episode of the cartoon The Mighty Hercules.

[@oddcyd]

I remember watching this episode 30 years ago!!!!

[@MrStereo10]

For those interested - some of the music from the series was done by Hans J. Salter. It was literally lifted from several of his movie soundtracks. The ones most used were "The Black Shield of Falworth" and "The Creature from the black Lagoon". The cue where Herc puts on his ring and the lightning strikes it-that's from the former of the 2 films.

[@ferociousgumby]

I found some of this! Especially in the Black Shield of Falworth, where one of the Hercules themes appears over and over again. How on earth did they get away with this?? Or did Hans give permission? A little lazy of him.

[@stevenlewis9543]

This is great watch old cartoons

[@HughMacEachern]

113. Friend or Foe of Centaur 114. The Young Olympians

[@GernotArmbruster]

Winston Sharples' music was also heard in Beetle Bailey, Snuffy Smith, Baby Huey, and many, many others. His compositions were VERY much in demand, and for GOOD reason. :)

[@lajmh]

I can't tell you how many people have never heard of this one. Even though I was very young, I wish I saw this when I was studying Greek mythology in high school...some 15 years later.

[@diddymuck]

timon, dedonis, mertus (aka the Mask), Zeus and Theseus

[@Fgrandinetti]

The music by Winston Sharples was also heard in 'Popeye', 'Casper' and 'Felix the Cat'.

[@zazelby]

Much of the music was straight-up lifted from the old movie The Black Shield of Falworth without credit. (And then, amusingly, I heard the ring music used in a later live-action Hercules film. I forget which one, but I believe it's Hercules and the Captive Women. I can't check because the film is now blocked on KZbin in Europe thanks to Studiocanal releasing a DVD of the film in December. Even the MST3K version is blocked)

[@ferociousgumby]

Timon is my favorite. A founding member of the Caledon chapter of LGBTQ

[@ferociousgumby]

I honestly wondered if King Dorian and Timon were the same person. Do you ever see them together? Maybe Timon is his alter ego so he can leave the cares of monarchy behind for a while.

[@ferociousgumby]

I can see Timon and King Dorian riding double on Pegasus. That is, unless they're the same person.

[@ferociousgumby]

Hmm, as the song sez, "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone". My memories have a dreamlike quality, but maybe they ARE dreams to a large extent.

[@teedup8995]

Helena,s hot, She's hot! 😍

[@poperichard]

Another episode here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqjaept7nLlgaJo