Hanna-Barbera 1970 to 1979 - Dr. Animaction's Studio Retrospectives
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- Hi everyone! This one took a while, but I finally got it out. Welcome to the second part of my first studio retrospective where I'm taking a look at Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1970 through 1979! This video is a little bit of history, some anecdotes, a lot of cartoons, and whatever else I felt fit the topic, so I hope you enjoy!
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The ghost in Funky Phantom was from the American Revolutionary War, not the Civil War. In the theme song, he even mentions the year 1776.
@MrLeoni2 Yep, my bad. I definitely misspoke on that one. Thanks for the correction!
@@dr.animaction It happens and you're welcome. I'm just happy to have been alive when the show started (born in 1961) to remember that song. :)
I'm at minute 5:34 and I'm impressed for the effort it should have taken to research and edit this. I'm totally binging this channel.
Is amazing the quantity of shows HB was responsible for during this time period and some are very memorable.
@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 Thanks for the awesome feedback! I'm glad you're enjoying the content and happy to have you here!
Hanna Barbera & Rankin-Bass were my favorite studios. They both have a storied history that exemplified the potential & creativity of small U.S. start-ups that seems to be missing these days.
@Straightened-Slinky. Not sure when I'll get to Rankin-Bass, but I plan on doing Filmation once I finish Hanna-Barbera!
Ah, the glut of Mystery solving group cartoons formula that kinda dominated the 70’s, only a few stuck a landing while many fell to the wayside.
Challenge of the Superfriends was my favorite of the DC adaptation Hanna-Barbera did.
@mindwipe8788 Couldn't agree more about Challenge of the Super Friends. The JLA vs. the Legion of Doom was some great superhero action!
Holy cow. I guess I never realized that Hoyt Curtin did almost ALL of the music for Hanna-Barbera. That would make him one of the most prolific composers of television music of all time. My favorite of his will always be the Super Friends theme, though.
For the 2k subscriber video, why not do a live stream? I always enjoy those, especially with others that share a particular interest.
@Dorelaxen Yeah, Hoyt's credits are truly impressive! As for a live-stream...that's a possibility. We'll have to see if I can figure out how to do an interesting on lol!
Thanks to USA, I watched so much classic Hanna Barbera. Of course I loved the Flinstones and Scooby Doo but the action cartoons were really fun. I love what Hanna Barbera became in the 80s but those classic cartoons were magical.
@JMan1380 Same here, but I think I caught most of them on Cartoon Network/Boomerang!
This is definitely my era of Hanna Barbera... One of the big ticks for me were the awesome theme tunes of this period.. So many ear worms... for me the one that sticks the most was Butch Cassidy closely followed by Jabberjaw
@raybearoz Definitely some solid tunes in there. Hoyt Curtin was a composing machine!
even to this day, "up from the depths, ten stories tall..." is a injoke
The 200th episode should be the Best Action/adventure cartoons of the 60s to the end of the 90s.
@pocketmego6764 That's definitely a possibility, but there are so many!
@@dr.animaction Then how about an study of Sunbow/Marvel
@pocketmego6764 Both are definitely on the list for future studio retrospectives!
The 70s HB cartoons were cool as well as the box and the rainbow logo. Good old days
@JohnnyHousno Definitely some good stuff from that era!
Josie and the pussycats were pretty hot for a Saturday morning kids show in the 70's
@joshuamountz6891 Yeah, a bit!
Not a fan of the leather one piece on Jana of the Jungle? LOL
@@TenNoZeorymer72 I was too young to remember that one. I only saw josie and the pussycats because of boomerang
@@TenNoZeorymer72 Tara wore it better on Herculoids. :)
Josie and the Pussycats spawned some catgirl cosplay fetishes all right. "Long tails and ears for hats..."
@richmcgee434 And Sheena outdid them both!
man a lot of memories! Superfriends, hong kong fooey, and loved the globe trotters! Loved Josie s1, When theyw ent into outer space diidn't like it that much! Now sealab 2020 was one of my all time faves! Godzilla too! Oh a bit of trivia about the amazing chan and the chan clan, or specifically keye luke. he's no stranger to Charlie Chan! He played #1 son back n the chan films in the 30's and 40's. Love chan clan! So many great shows! Man I love this! And yes, do a deep dive on Josie and the pussycats!
Or maybe all things Archie? So, the original series, Sabrina, Josie, and the tween Archies. They were unheard of where I grew up. Mainly cause our grocery stores and drug stores were so tiny and limited in stock that they didn't have the digest comics like you can find today.
@mikevivian3648 Thanks for the Keye Luke info, and glad you enjoyed the video! I'll start adding some of these other decades to the Deep Dive topics lists!
@TenNoZeorymer72 An Archie-verse retrospective would be cool. Thanks for adding yet another idea to my ever-growing list lol!
@@dr.animaction #@&! it!!
8:15 Worth mentioning that getting Keye Luke for Charlie Chan was a fantastic catch for H-B, as he was arguably the most important Chinese actor in Hollywood throughout the 1930s and 40s and remained enormously popular for decades thereafter, working right up until 1990 and dying in January of 1991. His filmography is amazing to look through and as a founding member of the Screen Actors' Guild he did a lot to start breaking down the racial prejudices he spent his early career laboring under. Guy's a legend in Hollywood history, and he showed up in all sorts of films, shows, and voice acting - including a previous role as Brak in Space Ghost.
Most relevant to Chan Clan show, he was Number One Son to Warner Oland's Charlie in seven films, and it would have been eight if Oland hadn't died, leaving the studio to rewrite the last film into Mister Moto at Ringside, with Keye playing opposite Peter Lorre's Moto. Finally playing Chan Senior must have been an interesting experience for him, and probably a bit of an homage to Oland (who he got along very well with, as well as his frequent comedic partner Manton "Birmingham" Moreland) - it had been over 20 years since he'd last played as Lee Chan.
He also has some uncredited VA credits in the later Scooby and Scrappy show, voiced Genju in the Sunfire episode of Spider-Man and His Aamazing Friends, worked on a couple of episodes of both Thundarr and the original Jonny Quest, and did VA work for 13 episodes of the 1983 Alvin & Chipmunks show. He voiced Zoltar in every episode of Battle of the Planets.
@richmcgee434 Digging deeper into some of these performers' histories and filmographies is definitely something I'd like to do at some point, because there were so many interesting and important people involved with animation through the ages. At some point I'd love to start putting together some actor Deep Dives!
@@dr.animaction Keye Luke would be hard. They did a whole biopic on his life and career back in the 2010s and it still couldn't touch on everything. He and Mantan Moreland are 100% why I remain an apologist for the Chan films - yes, yellowface is obviously bad and the racial stereotypes hurt, but two of the biggest non-white talents in Hollywood got major exposure through those films for all their faults. And Keye Luke did get his back when they let him do the remake of Mister Wong in Chinatown, taking the gross performance Boris Karloff had done with character and showing him (and the world) how to do it right, so there's that. He likely wouldn't have gotten that role without his time as Number One Son.
@richmcgee434 Well I certainly wouldn't do any documentary level examinations (except for my normal quasi-documentary style), but I'd still like to take on the project with a focus on their work specifically in animation!
@@dr.animaction Maybe you could figure out which characters he voiced on the ones where he wasn't given a specific credit. There's a few of those, presumably all bit parts.
I'll say one thing for him, he sure didn't get an ego about what parts he'd take. He did small appearances on random TV shows and minor VA jobs as happily as feature films or important parts like Master Po on Kung Fu. That show was huge back in the 70s, what with the martial arts craze - although it's yet more yellowfacing, something Keye seems to have been cursed to run into even in his later years.
@@richmcgee434 Funny how that worked. The martial arts craze heavily fueled by Bruce Lee, who got his first American role as Kato in the 60s Green Hornet. A role that Keye Luke played himself in the '39-'41 Universal film serials. Up here in the Seattle area, he was known more with his art before leaving for Hollywood to work on the murals at Grauman's Theatre.
5:54 Civil War era ghost?? Someone get the Doc a history book! LOL
I always felt that Superfriends '73 was part Scooby-Doo and a bridge from the Filmation JLA shows from the '60s. Why else get Ted Knight to do the VO? Don't seem to remember why they couldn't get Adam West and Burt Ward to do SF'73 after they had done Filmation's first Batman, unless there was a contract conflict since they would come back for The New Adventures of Batman.
C.H.O.M.P.S. was a personal favorite as a kid. It had Wesley Eure from "Land of the Lost" and Valerie Bertinelli from "One Day at a Time" and involved a robotic dog. Being the huge "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" fan (which meant that I wanted a bionic German Shepherd like Max...still do as a matter of fact!), C.H.O.M.P.S. was right up my alley.
But yeah, the 70s was the decade of Scooby and milking a cash-cow to the last drop.
Should do a drinking game where you take a shot every time Frank Welker's name shows up. LOL
@TenNoZeorymer72 Yep, I definitely mis-spoke about the Funky Phantom. I blame my ADHD for randomly swapping out words LOL
Also, if I took a shot every time I saw Frank Welker's name as I researched these videos then:
1. They'd never get finished.
2. The channel would come to a stop when I dropped from liver failure!
@@dr.animaction Yeah, Frank definitely has earned his spot in the Top 10 in most roles. On a side note, I think some of the names are a little inflated as the number of available roles has vastly increased since the days of Mel Blanc, Paul Frees and Daws Butler.
@TenNoZeorymer72 True enough, especially since Frank has diversified into video games as well.
It would be so cool if you could do the 80s and 90s for hanna barbera then a cartoon network retrospective for the 90s, 2000s, and 2010s.
@bingosadventures934 I'm trying to get Hanna-Barbera part 3 out by this weekend, so keep an eye out!
@@dr.animaction ok it would be also cool if you could cover how hanna barbera soon shifted into cartoon network. I did hear that the hanna Barbera is making newer reboots recently.
First Animated Seventies!
@chrisrj9871 Kind of, especially considering how much animation they produced!
Part 3 will probably be from 1980's to the changing from Hanna Barbara to Cartoon Network Studios...maybe.
I wouldn't bet against that.
@stanleyteriaca2184 Part 3 will be as much as I can fit that doesn't do me in!
3:50 The Josie comic had swapped out Pepper for Val in 1969, and by 1970 the group was "on tour" all over the planet with the lineup of main characters that the cartoon used. The same years also saw Pepper's boyfriend Socrates ("Sock") vanish and Josie's original boyfriend Albert replaced with Alan, who was a folk singer she bumped into and joined up for the tour.
You've also inverted Alan (blonde) and Alexander (black-haired like his sister). Alan is effectively the roadie and plays a Fred-like role as well as looking like him, while Alexander is the ludicrously cowardly manager. In the comics he's a bit less chicken-hearted and even more inept as a manager, since his wealthy father won't front him any money for the band so he's always cutting corners to save money. Note that the comic originally had Alexander drooling over Josie (even back when she was with Albert) the same way Alexandra stalks and sex-pests Alan, making for an awkward jealous mess all around. Thankfully the cartoon ditched that altogether - having two stalkers in the cast would have made the show completely unwatchable.
And before you ask, I actually did a paper in college on the comic and shows, mostly as a lark - hence the absurd level of trivia on the subject. It was a lot harder looking this stuff up back in 1984 than it is these days. :)
@richmcgee434 I don't doubt that! Thanks for the extra info though, I always appreciate it!
@@dr.animaction The Internet is simultaneously the Best and Worst Thing Ever. :)
The Hot Wheels cartoon 1968 also had a black character Kip. Funky Phantom was Revolutionary war ghost
Yep, I absolutely mis-spoke about Funky Phantom. I think Kip in the Hot Wheels cartoon was supposed to be Middle Eastern though (based on his Fez and accent). Admittedly it's hard to tell, especially as he's voiced by Albert Brooks.
Amid all the Scooby-Doo clones (which culminated in the Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated episode "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals"), the best Hanna-Barbera series was Challenge of the Superfriends. I prefer the consistency of using the Legion of Doom, and Zan and Jayna were so much better than Wendy and Marvin. I also remember watching Charlotte's Web after reading the book in school.
@Rhomega Challenge was my favorite version of the Super Friends as well, and one of the best superhero shows overall up until the 90s!
I always enjoyed C.H.O.M.P.S. It was a fun movie.
Same! Was always a favorite of mine as a kid. Gotta rewatch it sometime soon.
@AdamSnyder1234 I don't remember ever actually seeing it, but it's definitely on my list after this video!
No Tim Curry Space quote for Josie and the Pussycats?
@marteen2718 Not this time, sorry!
@@dr.animactionare you going to get done with the 90s or not
@matthewrios7549 Not tonight, unfortunately. I'll have a 1996 video out tomorrow.
@@dr.animaction ok cool
Oh, 2k subscriber episode? How about top 10 most influential action series of the 20th century?
Spread the word, everyone!!
@TenNoZeorymer72 That's a definite possibility. I'll have to start working on some criteria to judge by and see what I come up with!
I just stumbled across this video
@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 Cool, I hope you enjoyed it!
@@dr.animaction Thanks
If not becoming a major empire to compete with Disney? Taft could've bought Worldvision Enterprise in the early 60's to merge with that company, before buying Hanna Barbera they've could've also bought Screen Gems from Sony in the early 80's to compete with Warner Brothers instead. However if they did Taft could've been bought by Turner, then Turner would have Worldvision New Line Cinema and Castle Rock to release darker movies under any of those 3 banners. That's another thought if Hanna Barbara doesn't want to become a distributor company to create another division distributaring company.
Scooby-Doo is awesome 😎
@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb That he is!
When the 80s came around I know Hanna-Barbera in an attempt to try and make the next hit Voltron-like show some Japanese production company that helps make Anime made a deal with Hanna-Barbera to make some Anime shows. The Japanese would animated shows and Hanna-Barbera like Sky Commanders. It failed with an Ultraman animated film. Jeff Segal would rite for all those projects as well as Challenge of the GoBots. Then later ended up working as the head of Universal Animated Studios and creating Exosquad in the 90's. Playmates was just handed the license to make those toys.
@thisithis The 80s is definitely going to be a more interesting decade, as in the 70s H-B just kind of cranked out new material with no real shake-ups. That next video should be a fun one to dig into!
Back then, before Hanna-Barbera still would be bought by Turner, H-B could've become a distributor company to create a division company of their own so they could buy Screen Gems from Sony, Then Worldvision Enterprise from whoever and probably New World Pictures to make R-Rated Non-Hanna-Barbera movies releasing them under any these banners Screen Gems, Worldvision Enterprise, and probably the New World banner while keeping the brand more kid family friendly. However, Taft could've also let Hanna-Barbera buy them to become a major empire competing with Disney all the way
@themeparkreconnoiter9787 H-B is definitely an interesting "What could have been" tale.
Great video 📹
I hope you can do similar videos on Filmation and Sunbow Production. 😊
I've only seen the reruns and/or DVD 📀 released version of some of the series from this decade, mainly because I wasn't alive during that time.
@jrr2480 That's the plan!
@jrr2480 Same here, but they're still just as fun to watch that way!
Hanna-Barbera in the 70's was excellent. 😀👍
@jamesmoss3424 That it was!
Y'know, I was born in mid-1966 so the Seventies really should be the cartoon decade I remember most, but honestly for me it's the Sixties that really stand out most. The Seventies were sorely lacking in action cartoons (for reasons noted in the start of the vid) compared to the ones both before and after, and the endless Scooby knockoffs mostly leave me cold.
@richmcgee434 Well I plan on doing content back into the 60s and before, so hopefully I'll be covering a lot of that!
@@dr.animaction To be fair the Seventies did have a few standouts for me. Sealab 2020, Valley of the Dinosaurs (and the Land of the Lost live action), the Star Trek Animated Series, and to a lesser degree the Superfriends stuff. But I still found myself wishing for syndicated reruns more often than not, despite being the target audience in terms of age range.
@@richmcgee434 those are the very action cartoons I remember. Action was more to be found with live action stuff from Sid and Marty Krofft and Filmation.
Jana of the Jungle, a Hanna-Barbera animated series from the 1970's, appears in the thumbnail, but not in the summary of the studio's output for that decade. Any information on that series, please?
@isabeld.paredes4923 Yeah, I unfortunately couldn't go too in-depth on everything here, but once the Animated 90s series is done I'll be covering the 70s, so I'll definitely talk more about it there. I can also add it to the list for a potential future Deep Dive!
@@dr.animaction Thank you
That Australian animation studio did an incredibly poor job on that Lost in Soace tv animation special. It was if they never watched an episode of the clsssic series!
@3dartistguy Poor adaptations are the fastest way for me to lose interest in a show...
Hypothesis: Josie and the Pussycats would have taken off and wound up as big as Scooby Doo *if* they'd left Alexandra out entirely. They couldn't owing to the licensing agreement, but they didn't just include her, they took her jealousy and creepy stalking that pre-existed in the comics and dialed them up to eleven. She went from being pretty unlikeable already to being so consistently obnoxious and useless that her presence drags the whole show down, and that's why neither the initial show nor the reboot caught on. They even removed one of her few interesting traits from the comic - Sebastian the cat was a reincarnated ancestor of hers who'd been a Salem warlock and she could use magic while holding him, although some snag always made her schemes go awry. Very, very Sabrina-esque (which is why the comic downplayed it over time) but it was certainly better than "most petty and spiteful human being that ever lived" as character traits go.
Other than that the show had everything going for it the original Scooby did - attractive character designs with distinct personalities, a solid soundtrack, innovative storylines, plenty of location changes form episode to episode. Josie could have and should have been that second lightning strike H-B spent the whole decade looking for. But nope, they just had to make Alexandra intolerable. The only other show I can think of that self-sabotaged as badly with one hateful character was Fantastic Voyage. Even Doctor Smith on Lost In Space had the occasional redeeming moment, few as they were.
@richmcgee434 It's always been interesting to me how a single character or component in an otherwise very fun and interesting property can drag the whole thing down. That would probably be a great topic for a list or Randimated Thoughts video though!
@@dr.animaction I nominate Doctor Smith of Lost In Space. Busby Birdwell of Fantastic Voyage is already and obvious one. I suspect many "mascot" characters would make other folks' lists as well. Must admit I still wonder what Jonny Quest would have been like with a much less-used monkey instead of Bandit eating up a few minutes every episode. :)
The only saving grace for Alexandra was that she was voiced by Sherry Alberoni. Although almost all her roles sounded similar (Alexandra, Wendy from Superfriends '73, Bo from Mighty Orbots), she owned the personality (strong female protagonist/antagonist).
I forgot about her connection to magic when holding Sebastian. They left it out for so long before bringing it back in the recent revamp. Would have made for great crossovers not only between the Cabots and the Lodges in being the top financial powerhouse in Riverdale but bring Sabrina back to her roots instead of the more well known standalone. I'll have to look into back issues to see if there was ever a "Cats Night Out" where Salem and Sebastian talk about their issues and how modern witches are compared to past ones.
@richmcgee434 Definitely some solid choices, and ones that could be joined by the likes of Scrappy-Doo and Scott Trakker!
Part 3
@stevenlisten It'll be coming, but I need a break after this one. For some reason it just beat me down!
I wish that Australian ANIMATION STUDIO DID A BETTER JOB WITH THE LOST IN SPACE SUPERCADE MOVIE. tHE Only recognizable character was dr Smiith. They turned the Jupiter 2 into a rocket ship. The Robot was badly drawn and animated. It was as if the animators had never seen an episode of the series.
@3dartistguy My guess is they were going for cheap and fast, and it showed in the final product.
@@dr.animaction I’ve seen their early preproduction sketches which looked more accurate to the classic series which greatly contrasted with the final product..If anything Josie a d the pussycats in outer space was a lot closer to the original series. But I’m glad Hanna Barbara ditched that Eric porter animation studio. Obviously someone at HB saw the extremely poor quality animation they were producing.
@3dartistguy There was definitely an increase in quality when H-B opened their own branch in Australia instead of outsourcing.
@@dr.animactionthere must have been especially with the debut of the all new Superfriends in 1977. Even as a child, I noticed the upgrade in animation quality from their earlier attempt at Superfriends in the early 1970s with Wendy, Marvin and Wonderdog which must have been done by that Eric Porter studio. How they got contracted to do any animation is beyond me.