The Timeline of Horror Kid's Cartoons

[@Darkworldinc1313]

Mummies Alive, Darkstalkers, Creepy Crawlers, Fang Face, Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles, little Dracula, Vampirina, and Zombies: The Re-Animated Series.

[@wadew3623]

I love how softly they sing "And Godzooky" in that Godzilla theme. It's so cute and odd.

[@roostergriffin]

There was also Gravedale High, in which Rick Moranis voiced a teacher who found himself transferred to a school where all the students were descendants of the classic monsters.

[@20FreeWill]

😎

[@Ravenite456]

When the trend used to be to take horror movies and turn them into kids shows now the trend is to take kids stories and turn them into horror movies.

[@peterdanior4538]

Oh wow that’s right

[@theartcrusader759]

@@Ravenite456 It's all come full circle

[@nathanwallace3337]

Everyone mentions Count Duckula, but no one ever brings up Quackula part of Heckle and Jeckel about a decade earlier

[@LUVBOTZ]

I loved that show when I was little.

[@animefan25]

poparena did mention Quackula in his video on Count Duckula.

[@StanleyTeriaca]

I would consider it odd to mention him at all, considering the concept of the video but...Universal monsters so...

[@Garch-the-Great]

@nathanwallace3337 5 or 6 years ago, I wrote a complete Quackula episode guide for Wikipedia. Last year, I discovered someone had deemed Quackula insignificant and deleted the whole page.

[@matthewmartin4394]

What about Count CHOCULA? A forgotten relic, & the only Count I have a vested interest in. Heh

[@StevenFnBell]

Dude, you forgot Rick Moranis in Gravedale High from 1990 on NBC. Rick Moranis was a normal teacher at a high school full of teen versions of classic monsters. I watched it regularly while it lasted. I always remember it had a great theme song. Great video and cool idea, as I've come to expect.

[@peterdanior4538]

I remember that, I don’t think it lasted that long on Saturday Mornings

[@StevenFnBell]

@@peterdanior4538 Pretty sure it only ran the original 13. Apparently we were the only ones who watched it.

[@peterdanior4538]

@@StevenFnBellthe funny thing is, at least in my mind, I always counted that show as the “Little Shop of Horrors” cartoon because of Morannis

[@scottgillespie8011]

Horror adjacent: The Funky Phantom and Fangface - think Scooby-Doo with supernatural mascots.

[@warbunny13203]

@@peterdanior4538 i lasted 1 season sadly🤔🤔😞😞😞😞🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲

[@propane_salesman]

I want to visit the universe where we got "Army of Darkness: The Animated Series".

[@unclecreed2986]

Feel like that is where they got the idea for Skeleton Warriors.

[@TheAntiSanta]

You can't visit that timeline any longer. This went very bad. I have no idea how a simple children's cartoon changed events so much for the worst, but they had to delete that universe.

[@restionSerpentine]

@@TheAntiSanta The words were said wrong

[@MrShadloo]

Darkstalkers had a cartoon on the USA Network. Granted, it's based on a video game, but the game was inspired by the Universal Monters, so it kinda fits

[@MrRedgrin]

The second season of Tales From The Cryptkeeper had all three EC Comics hosts; Cryptkeeper, Vault Keeper, and Vault Keeper

[@bloodofmyenemies]

@@MrRedgrin The Old Witch.

[@JCIce007]

There is a completed season of an Alien vs Predator anime that has been kept under wraps since Disney bought Fox. I actually had Swamp Thing action figure as a kid, along with villains, think it was the bat guy. I also had Toxie...he went in the same bin as all the Ninja Turtle toys since they were the same scale. And they just made sense as a team up.

[@timothysatyr6674]

Im going to have to look for this AVP animated series, thanks! I had almost all of the swamp thing collection as a kid with the exception of a few vehicles. I also threw toxie in with my ninja turtles, he made sense, but never really used him.

[@jessiemartinez3056]

@@JCIce007 where can we see the AVP series

[@JCIce007]

@@jessiemartinez3056 it's never been released.

[@JanetStarChild]

Great video! Though, I would include Scooby-Doo, Inhumanoids, Bump in the Night, Martin Mystery, and maybe even Archie's Weird Mysteries. Oh, and the Hilarious House of Frightenstein!

[@MrTimshellscherber]

@@JanetStarChild Don’t forget Toonsylvania.

[@GreasyFilms-qc1xo]

It's great to see that all that 80s/90s environmentally aware kids media really turned our planet around and we don't have to worry about that now.

[@the50ftnerd98]

When I was young here in Liverpool, UK they had a whole Cosgrove Hall museum and visiting the Count Duckula section was one of my favourite things to do. I didn’t care about Wind in the Willows or Danger Mouse that much, but Duckula was my jam. Also Gravedale High, while not based on a specific horror franchise, was great and I still maintain you could do a decent YA movie on it (I mean, Twilight proves high school monsters bring in the bucks).

[@krs4976]

So pleased you included groovie goulies, one of my favourite cartoons as a kid

[@Spartigus]

Mutant League was a fun cartoon that ran from 1994-1996 with 40 episodes. Use to watch it in the morning before school.

[@Sweetestsadist]

Didn't care much for the cartoon, but Mutant League Football is still my favorite video game of that sport.

[@clukinvar]

Fun fact: the Toxic Crusaders toys are back, at least Toxy and the main villain, anyway. I was shocked to see them at my local Walmart yesterday.

[@jammin2575]

Yep! I saw Toxy in a toy store last week, was quite a surprise and took me right back to my childhood. I was very tempted to buy it but I’ve stopped myself for the moment.

[@danwhitehead6228]

There was a Toxic Crusaders video game last year, and the live action Toxic Avenger remake is finally coming out, so probably related to a marketing push for those.

[@JohnPannozzi]

@@danwhitehead6228 The new Toxic Crusaders game is still forthcoming.

[@zombiebassman]

I'd like to mention Little Dracula, Mummies Alive!, Mighty Max, Skeleton Warriors, and Creepy Crawlers.

[@StanleyTeriaca]

Ok. What film franchise are they spun off from?

[@zombiebassman]

@StanleyTeriaca Dracula, The Mummy, and various horror themed toy lines

[@StanleyTeriaca]

@@zombiebassman Ok. I accept that. They don't have to be directly related. Or else Grovie Ghoulies wouldn't be mentioned.

[@rayrae204]

"Where ya going, little ghoul" was this awesome song from the Groovy Ghoulies that has stuck with me my WHOLE LIFE ...

[@glenmcculla6843]

It tool decades to get the Groovy Goolies theme out of my head and now it's crammed in my cranium once again.🧛

[@MoteofLobross]

I honestly think Lloyd Kaufman actually saw the irony when he signed off on Toxic Crusaders.

[@bloodofmyenemies]

He saw dollar signs.

[@razorblademask]

Ghostbusters the movie wasn’t a horror, but the series definitely was.

[@peterdanior4538]

I definitely watched 90% of these. Real Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, & “American” Godzilla were the best ones. But growing up I always wanted a cartoon about monsters that was still trying to be scary.

[@JonathanBarnard-r4p]

When you were in the middle of saying beetlejuice an ad came on and it cut you off perfectly and you said beetlejew. Idk why i laughed so hard at that 😂

[@DerivativeWorker]

Although it wasn't a movie there was a cartoon series for the Mutant League videogames.

[@unclecreed2986]

I had the action figures from that they were awesome

[@nathanforester5993]

Speaking of animated horror anthologies for kids...Freaky Stories and Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids. The latter is based on a series of British children's books by Jamie Rixx and in almost all of them a bad/rotten kid would get told off in a supernatural and karmic manner.

[@cheddarcheese7928]

Few things in life are better than that Godzilla theme song from 78..🎵”And Godzooky”🎶

[@Dominik1986]

A lot of bangers in this list, I remember watching them as a child, thanks for the memories 👍

[@Rogers1000]

I loved toxic crusader, count duckula was a staple of my youth as a UK person, i have seen nearly all these programs Conan was brilliant as well

[@deepfriedhamsters3273]

I always wondered how no matter where in the ocean Godzilla rose up from the fucking water only ever came up to his knees !

[@Ravenite456]

Godzilla Minus One finally answered this. He floats.

[@SaturdayAdventures]

The Godzilla/Davey and Goliath Power Hour was my jam.

[@peterdoa1]

Grave dale high, it had a lot legacy monsters in it

[@LUVBOTZ]

Drak Pack was my favorite cartoon when I was 7. You did omit a couple of old Ruby Spears favorites of mine from the '70s: Fangface and Dingbat and the Creeps. Fangface was like Scooby Doo if Shaggy and Scooby were the same person, and Dingbat and the Creeps was part of the Heathcliff and Dingbat Hour. Fangface was also part of the Plastic Man Comedy Show. Oh, I didn't see Mummys Alive, Tutenstein, or Darkstalkers mentioned, either. I think Inhumanoids should count too as horror adjacent at the very least. And Monster High! Children of monsters going to high school together! They had loads of animated webisodes that made it to Netflix, not to mention a whole bunch of movies. And there's the reboot G3 show that was on Nickelodeon. You might have to do a part 2 for this. 😅

[@alexplorer]

I'm just old enough to dimly remember seeing "Drak Pack," and for years I thought I had a very distorted memory of what "The Groovie Goolies" show was like. Thank you for finally clarifying that I hadn't totally made it up in my head. Incidentally, I actually thought "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" were the same show for a few years. I know that sounds far-fetched if you're familiar with either or both series, but I was in college and only went to movies; I wasn't watching much tv for several years around that time, and all I knew of either was they were an eponymous blonde who dealt with the supernatural. It didn't click that they were different series until I was in a Suncoast (remember those?) and saw a rack of calendars with one for Buffy next to Sabrina's calendar. Ironically, they later reinvented "Sabrina" as seemingly an update of "Buffy" in a way. (Or at least that's how it looks. I've never watched that version either.)

[@TheOnslaught616]

Toxic Crusaders has a new beat ‘em up game out recently

[@AnnieBananie316]

There was a live action show in the early 90’s “Wake rattle and roll”. On of the cartoons shown was called ‘Monster Tales’, where Universal style monsters where portrayed by cats and dogs. Pre Cartoon Network Hanna Barbara was weird.

[@unclefrank8568]

I think Gravedale high is a valid addition. Also some of the episodes of Mighty Max particularly their zombie episode was full horror homages. Also Mummy’s alive was a cool animated super mummy team up

[@wratched]

"Little Shop" can at least boast the distinction of being the only cartoon based on a movie based on a musical based on a movie. At least that I've heard of. The "Mr and Mrs Smith" TV show might beat it, provided you accept that a remake of a movie that ripped off "True Lies", which was a remake of "Le Totale", which was inspired by James Bond, applies.

[@Robert-ht7om]

There was also a very short lived Monsters in My Pocket, a group of evil monsters in an attempt to escape their prison shrink as well as the good monsters keeping them imprisoned, the good monsters team up with a human girl in order to catch the evil monsters.

[@RaimarLunardi]

I know MIB isn't really horror, but it should be on the list! Also, Mutant League and Gargoyles...

[@Sweetestsadist]

I'd say MiB is close enough. It's about on par with Little Shop of Horrors.

[@MrDman21]

Anybody remember Mummies Alive? 😆

[@maryanndexter8362]

​@MrDman21 yes!

[@painterfox]

"The Mini-Monsters is one of the four segments of the 1987 Saturday Morning Cartoon The Comic Strip" - Because there are even more Universal Monster ones.

[@ManFromThePits]

I remember Alienators. It was one of the few shows on at the time that my dad enjoyed watching with me, and we still have a lot of fond memories of it. Shame it didn't last longer. And of course, 78's Godzilla was my introduction to the character. 98's follow-up to the movie still gives me chills every time I hear the intro.

[@MarkDemeo]

The Ghostbusters movie came out in '84 not '85.

[@MrDman21]

"A descendant of Frankenstein's monster." 🤣

[@alexplorer]

Gross, but still family-friendly since he did have a bride. Technically, everyone is made from other people's parts.

[@MrDman21]

​@@alexplorertrue

[@harrybehemoth2751]

Arguably, you could include Robocop.

[@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats]

10:46 Lydia was still Goth. She was just more upbeat about things.

[@brettpugh7898]

No one remembers Little Dracula, it had a toy line and merch. I absolutely loved this incredibly short lived series

[@bannedfreespeech]

The swamp thing figure was a leftover from the kenner super powers line

[@sethbrundels]

Little Rosie

[@psn-nightmarez_tk-fanboy5899]

Great vid, you hit all the important ones that mattered and had some spot in the cartoon horror realm. The only one id have put on here was Jumanji but its easy to see why its not.

[@martinsear5470]

The map at '23:58' proves that this was a US show. Scotland does not cover anywhere near that much territory in the UK, folks from Liverpool and York definitely do not think of themselves as Scottish.🤣

[@josephschminkey5717]

I thought maybe Mummies Alive would have made the list.

[@jessiemartinez3056]

Right I thought the same thing...weird

[@warbunny13203]

Fang Face, Inhumanoid, Gravedale High, and Mummies-Alive were missed🤔🤔😁👍😁👍🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲

[@jessiemartinez3056]

But those weren't based off movies though?

[@warbunny13203]

@jessiemartinez3056 if basing it off movie horrors then all but Inhumanoids still apply🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲

[@jessiemartinez3056]

@warbunny13203 yeah wish they made a movie bout Inhumanoids

[@moreaboutmovies]

Thanks! Now I have the Groovie Goolies theme in my head!

[@billsimonis]

dungeons and dragons cartoon, although it is fantasy it still has monsters in it.

[@asukalangley6494]

You didn't mention fangface. a teenage werewolf who helps fight crime.

[@ryanhunter530]

Starship Troopers was left out completely 😢

[@Mr3DPrintWizard]

@@ryanhunter530 that’s sci-fi not horror.

[@MrDman21]

I guess Gargoyles could be considered a gothic horror cartoon since gargoyles themselves have a Gothic origin.

[@peterdanior4538]

Gargoyles was not horror, if anything it’s fantasy, much closer to stories like Beauty and the Beast

[@MidBoss666]

Seen most of these, but never heard of either of the Long ones, so will have to check that out ^^ Loved the Drak Pack too, by the way ^^

[@JoshuaBarrio]

Gargoyles 3 Seasons

[@bloodykev13]

I remember all of these cartoons. Brings me back memories. However, the Ghostbusters film came out in 1984. Not 1985. Still, it's a great retrospective video on these cartoons.

[@bftvclips8925]

There was a cartoon with Rick Moranis teaching at a monster high school that would of fit in here

[@369frequencyandvibration]

Slimer is based on John "Bluto" Belushi 👻

[@GodzillasaurusJr]

I loved Drac Pack when I was a kid and bought it on DVD a few years ago.

[@tripleh3b]

The Wolf-Man was totally a good guy in Monster Force. I think his name was Luke Talbot. I remember having his action figure because it was so cool. Lol!

[@Sweetestsadist]

Why no Funimation "Ghostbusters", "Gravedale High", "My Pet Monster", "Darkstalkers:, "Mummies Alive", "Ahhh, Real Monsters", or "Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy? Seriously, I can forgive all those, but how could you miss the scariest children's cartoon ever made: "Inhumanoids"?

[@peterdanior4538]

Yes Inhumanoids was awesome, and it’s probably the only 80’s cartoon I want I want a live action movie for. However those probably aren’t included since they aren’t based off of movies, not even the Universal monsters

[@Sweetestsadist]

@@peterdanior4538 I still remember the nightmare I had where D-Compose took my brother and put him in his chest. I think it's the only cartoon that effected me that badly.

[@psn-nightmarez_tk-fanboy5899]

​@@Sweetestsadist what blockbuster movie was ahh real monsters and Billy and Mandy based on? When you can answer that question, then you'll have your answer.

[@danwhitehead6228]

Extreme Ghostbusters even had a Hellraiser episode! Not officially, of course, but the "Deadliners" episode opens with a pizza delivery guy strapped to an operating table by "The Surgeon" and his mutilated torture demon sidekicks. kzbin.info/www/bejne/npemgISgZ9N0h9k

[@ChrisMorey]

Great video, but I’m kind of surprised there was no mention of Christopher Lee voicing the Butler on Duckula….

[@danwhitehead6228]

He didn't. Igor was voiced by Jack May.

[@aaronkelly1762]

Correction with the King Kong one, King Kong vs Godzilla was already made when the animated series came out, and despite interest in making another King Kong movie, it wasn't until Rankin- Bass talk to them that they made King Kong Escapes, which featured a villain from the cartoon named Dr. Who (no relation to the British sci-fi series)

[@Quackenspiel]

This unlocked a memory I'm pretty sure I had a swamp thing action figure as a kid

[@jimmyju76]

the new Godzilla cartoon was pretty good

[@jamesiagulli1482]

What about Monster In My Pocket? They did have versions of universal monsters, but more closely resembling their original non movie versions. In that same vein you could possibly fit Mummies Alive and Darkstalkers in there.

[@jamieclubb6901]

Anyone remember “Fangface”? There were also a few one-off animated specials that seem like dreams now. I recall something called “Canal-agator” (sp?) that appeared to be based on “Alligator”. There was also “The Vampire Rabbit”. Over the UK we had a Fraggle guest presenting our children’s television during weekday and he made a big deal about being scared of this show.

[@jpbishi]

Poor Gravedale High gets no love 💗💗

[@gerdmatt7]

Not sure if you would count it as horror, but I believe Creepy Crawlers had a cartoon in the 90's.

[@JustinStewart-g7r]

Didn't The Addams Family have a cartoon in the 1970s? There was a comic book about a goth couple in the 1960s that I think had some cartoons based on it. (. If no one can name it, I will search for it later. ). And I'm surprised you did not mention the Flintstones neighbors who popped up once a year and had a name like The Creepies.

[@StephanKorollocke]

mr. and mrs j evil mad scientist, got reworked into the gruesomes on the flintstones, then there was the flintstones meet rockula and frankenstone, then later a series about the flintstones living next door to the frankenstone family.

[@sjmhadsock4586]

Loved the beetlejuice cartoon

[@robertwronski2352]

I didn't know about the Evolution cartoon. I enjoyed the movie, but I was an adult living out of country so I wasn't watching Saturday Morning Cartoons at the time.

[@SegaCDUniverse]

My dad and I watched the Rambo cartoon a ton when I was a kid! Nice memories

[@jacksprat9226]

Drak Pack! Takes me back.

[@rhaimusg5785]

I feel like it wasn't that odd that these were made to be honest. Most kids I knew were watching horror or R rated action movies with their parents or on their own.

[@peterdanior4538]

Yeah I remember eating pizza with my family on Saturday nights watching horror & action movies that we rented. I was also the youngest so my older siblings usually picked the movies. But I quickly was the one wanting to watch the latest Friday the 13th & Elm Street

[@glenhayman8722]

Gravedale high, filmation's Ghostbusters, and I would say men in black the series also would be wonderful to talk about

[@miroslavzima8856]

Tales from the cryptkeeper as cartoon series had few which startled me as a kid. And few episodes from Hey Arnold. And one episode from All grown up - can't remember the name, but it was settler themed. And boy, that was a tad darker than usual.

[@lordofmorgul]

Ah yes, the Swamp Thing theme song. I remember singing that around the house at the time. And then many years later I heard the actual Wild Thing for the first time.

[@CarlisleCultCinemaClub]

Aagghh Real Monsters was another good one so was Mummies Alive

[@danielborg6411]

Man I used to rent the Atlantis Kong DVD a lot back in the day of blockbusters.

[@salliewagenblatt5188]

Would the various Adam's family cartoon shows count? as they are a gothic family which has lurch who was clearly based on Frankenstein's monster and thing who is just a hand and cousin It a fur ball creature.

[@peterdanior4538]

But the cartoons tend to based on the comic series, not the movie

[@MomocloCloverZetto]

a fav of mine was Fangface, from Hanna Barbera

[@tss6824]

Some of these shows bring back memories but didn't know some of these didn't last that long on TV when a kid u not paying attention to seasons lol

[@DaveJackson-y3w]

I won't lie. I always preferred Captain Planet And The Planeteers over The Toxic Crusaders. (I do like the Toxie movies) Also it's funny that Josh looks like he's starting to blend into the background. All in all not a bad list. I would like to see a sequel to it

[@magicalpasta5462]

Drac from the Drack Pack is kinda hot tho, and no reference to the Buffy animated series that should have been 😢

[@jacksprat9226]

I look forward to the sci-fi version of this!

[@tster]

Did ya mention Rick Morris gravedale high?

[@Heavymetalpunk]

I for sure watched the original King Kong cartoon and Godzilla with godzookie. Also the drac pack and groovy ghoulies. Probably a few others but those were the stand out shows for me

[@StanleyTeriaca]

You didn't mention Darkstalkers. There was a one season mXe in America season. And also the only related by source material two part ova Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge. And the four part Unzimaki (sp) series which used the art style of the source material (the manga by Junji Ito), but was shown on the Toonami block on cartoon network and there was a live action Japanese movie, so... And only slightly related is the two Junji Ito series, both shown on Netflix. What actually ties this anime to your topic is the episodes relating to Tomia, a strangely beautiful teenage girl who has the powers of mind control and can reproduce like a freaking starfish.. Of course the Junji Ito stuff wasn't made for kids so they might be excluded from the list anyways.

[@TheAntiSanta]

Look forward to the follow up of Kid's Horror Live Action Shows. Your Goosebumps and Afraids of Darks and Eerie, Indiana and Tales From The Crypt: The Game Show.

[@seanlynott9033]

First off, it was 1984 for GHOSTBUSTERS, and second, the female lead in "Toxic Crusaders" was Yvonne. Which reminds me; ever notice how whoever Kath Soucie spoke for, except perhaps for Minx in "Jem" and Fifi in the early 90s show, "Tiny Toon Adventures". she delivers a kind of giggle that's gives her away? "Yup", I'd say, "That's Kath Soucie".

[@eddiebranden1]

Not exactly horror, but Thundar The Barbarian. An ultra violent (for 1980) post apocalyptic landscape.

[@peterdanior4538]

Wasn’t it just a He-Man clone though?

[@eddiebranden1]

@peterdanior4538 Thundarr- 1980 He-Man- 1983

[@peterdanior4538]

@@eddiebranden1 wow, so He-Man ripped off Thundarr?

[@JamiJR]

Not having cable growing up I remember watching things like Groovy Goolies in reruns. And I vaguely remember Drac Pack. I was always rooting for Dracula.

[@bradmerilic6848]

Oh wow John Kashir (sp?) even voiced the Cryptkeeper on the cartoon? That’s pretty dope.

[@genkigirl4859]

Toxic crusaders was awesome and the toys were made by the same company that made the tmnt toys so you could include them in your own turtles playtime lol