The Banana Splits and Danger Island were my favorite as well. Even now, over fifty years later, my family will look strangely at me when I go, "Uh oh, Chongo!"😆😁
We watched Isis, the Bionic Woman, Charlie's Angels, Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, etc because we found stories revolving around female protagonists much more interesting. They usually do not have to physically fight the villain but resort to more creative ways to beat them, which made them more interesting to watch than Shazam or the Six Million Dollar Man.
There is NOTHING cheesy about these shows! I grew up watching these shows when there was nothing else because these shows started Saturday morning cartoons as they used to be!
Yes, the never ending collection of “Sid and Marty Croft” shows. “HR Puff N Stuff”, “Sigmond the Seasick Sea Monster”, etc. etc. Those we a trip. But, thank you for reawakening my memories of other shows as well.
Thank you for sharing these. I was born in 1959 and remember when there were only three channels and TV went off the air each night at midnight. That test pattern and monotone sound would be something one would wake up to in the early morning hours after they fell asleep around 11 PM. LOL Joanna Cameron was the #1 goddess (pun intended) for me. Her career included at one point being recognized in the Guinness Book for having done more commercials than anyone else. Your video spurred me to see what she was up to today and sadly found out she passed away in 2021 from a stroke. RIP beautiful lady. 😞
I am 59 and i remember all of these great live action sci fi and adventure cartoons especially Danger Island from Hanna-Barbera, Shazam!, Jason of Star Command, Isis, Space Academy, Ark II, the Real Ghostbusters and the other live action cartoons of the 70's and 80's they were really great for me at the time and they still are thanks for the memories.🇺🇲📺📺🇺🇲
Would be good to review the Children's Television Act of 1990. It was 20 years later, but many shows simply ended up following the moral lesson format that had been used in the 70s as the way to ensure their 90s show lived up to the requirements. (And there was the advertising regulation component as well)
Southpark episodes almost always used to end with one of the kids saying: “I learned something today” as a way of referencing the children’s shows we grew up on.
I remember all of these! Banana Splits... I remember when I recognized the big slide they go down in the opening credits, it USED to be on the observation tower at Six Flags Over Texas. And, again, I'm counting this as 'my life flashing before my eyes'. GOD! You took me back to CHILDhood.
It was announced that The Banana Splits would be making an appearance at Six Flags. I begged my older sister to drive me over there and she refused. I offered her my allowance money for gas. Nope. Over half a century later and I still remind her of this!
RIP Sid Haig. You did forget one of my favorites, The Kids from Caper. I loved the Ghostbusters, but as a 7 yo watching Star Wars in the theater, any space show (Space Academy and Jason of Star Command) were must watch programs!
The best underrated gem of Hanna Barbara after Jonny Quest was 'The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' It was the best TV show combining live action kids in a cartoon universe. Probably hard to find now since it had a politically incorrect villain. "Injun Joe" aside, the series' animation rivaled Quest's, had a great cast and surprisingly good stories. Sure deserves its own episode! On Shazam: Love how few kids batted an eye about watching a superhero & his mentor going 'round fighting evil in a _Winnebago..._ 🤣
Gen X never had a problem with diversity. And that is really apparent when you look at our kids’ schools. The hippies weren’t the only ones down with peace and love. ✌️❤😘
For as much praise as Gen X likes to heap upon itself, we managed to do a crap job making the world a better place. We wanted to believe racial differences didn't exist, and in doing so ignored them. There's a lot to be said about our generation's ability to adapt, but to change...naw, man. Maybe my sentiment is coming from reading too many Xer comments about how friggin awesome we were. But we screwed the pooch big time. But music did peak in the 80s... I'll give you that.
@@chemistryguy depends on which content (and associated coments) you look at. Every generation can go over the top with how cool either they or their era was. The best thing about we Gen-Xers for a while was that we dodged the generational arguments altogether. But, of course, if we're talking 70s-80s pop culture, then we'll be as gushing as anything. Incidentally, I like 80s music because I was a teen then, but why do I like 60s music from before I was born? Could it be that it's _objectively_ amazing? ;)
Sad or not, watched all. Select episodes were watched from a lock bedroom with a big box of Klenex. Today, I am 60. And Cheetos are still a favorite. Isis and Mary Ann!
I'd give about anything to go back to the 70s. I'd love to raise my grandkids there. Our TV was the best on all fronts. As I write this on a Saturday my granddaughters are watching the ones we have been able to get get. They love these shows! They think they are the best! 😊 Better day's
You know what I remember most about the "Banana Splits"? Wanting an Amphicat, the vehicle used for the "Banana Buggies". Remember "Space: 1999"? The moon buggies were more Amphicats, and 15-year-old me still wanted one. It says a lot about the overall premise of TBS and S1999 that a 6x6 stole every scene it was in. It would be a few years before I saw "Blake's 7" and I still wanted an Amphicat. I later found out they were made locally, in Auburn Hills, Michigan about 30 miles from me and got to drive one. By that time, there were other 6x6's on my list. I had graduated to wanting one with a jet drive so it could do at least 10 knots in water, like a Wedge, Hustler, Snoopy, or Terra Jet.
That is some awesome details. I remember playing with the S1999 spaceship at home where you could remove the front and back for a smaller shuttle. GOOD STUFF.
@@GENXPERIENCE But did you add tubing to the thruster pods and connect an upside-down can of dust-off so you could make the proper rocket effects when you filmed it? (that's literally how they did it in the actual show. "Canned air".
i was 5 years old living in Boston watching on my parent's black n white Hitachi tv...saturday morning was incredble! Yes,, a whole lot of diversity in the 70's. Our live action saturday cartoons started at 6am.
NICE! I liked seeing so many different kinds of people in my cartoons. I lived for Saturday and if we didn't start at 6am, it was definitely 630am. Thanks for sharing.
All time favorite has to be The Banana Splits reruns were on in the afternoon and I would race home after school to watch them just seeing them on this list brought a huge smile to my face I really liked Shazam & ISIS too
It was cool watching banana splits first season. The first time my parents took me to six flags in Arlington, Texas they pointed out where it was filmed. It’s not far from where I live.
I remember seeing The Banana Splits theme on Boomerang (when they still cared about their older shows), I haven't seen it in years, and I _STILL_ can't get that theme out of my head. I do know my dad was a fan of the show as a kid. I haven't been able to bring myself to tell him about the horror movie.
@@GENXPERIENCE From what I heard, it was inspired by an attempt to make a Five Nights at Freddy's movie (which we eventually got, making this kinda pointless). Yeah, Hollywood's pretty much creatively bankrupt at this point.
What is it about "Islands" that make for great and truly entertaining TV and Movies? "Treasure." "Danger." "Gilligan's." "Fantasy." James Bond Movies where Miss Ursula Andress emerges from the Ocean!😂😍🏄♀️🏊♀️ Gas Station Commercials where the Pumps are situated on Concrete.🚏🚏There is something fascinating about them all.😉🎤💃🌊☀️🍊🌴📺🎥B.W.
I remember every single one of these shows!! Oh the wonderful memories I has of them. Being a huge sci fi fan,I loved the space adventures. My mom liked the second actor to play Shazam and thought that he would have made a great Superman!
Marty Krofft (RIP) remembered that once the costumes for The Banana Splits were completed for Hanna Barbera, he and Sid looked at each other and Marty said, "They're going to make a fortune on this, and we just got the cost to make the costumes." But, of course, they would eventually get more later when they were approached to do HR Pufnstuf, and the Krofft Empire began.
I was born in '74, so I was pretty young when I saw these for the first time, but I LOVED Saturday mornings. I watched most of the shows mentioned in the video. Endless chimps and recycled Robby the Robots. "Danger Island" and "Land of the Lost" were definitely treats.
It only ran for one season on the Kroft Supershow if I recall correctly. It was replaced by Magic Mongo. All the other live action segments ran the the whole time, but I think the whole time was only two seasons.
@@michaelleary9233 Bigfoot scared the bajesus out of me when I was a kid. And then they throw this show about a caring, friendly(somewhat) Bigfoot at the kids! It was just a lot of fun at the time. I remember boys in grammar school pretending to jump like Bigfoot at recess time!Funny, great times!😀😎👍
I remember Shazam and Isis. The rest I don't remember. But then, I was raised on a farm. Usually I only got to watch Saturday morning cartoons and shows when it was raining, snowing, or just too cold to go outside and work.
I LOVED The Banana Splits, & Danger Island... The Sour Grapes Bunch were COOL Cuties to me, (I, being a young lad back then). Never missed it, Saturdays. 😆 6:12 I never knew Larry Storch & Forrest Tucker were in another show together, after F-Troop. 11:38 Did you know, Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee's Playhouse was played by Laurence Fishburne, he was credited as Larry Fishburne back then. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 👍🏻
Yes, among other shows that featured different kinds of people. But it was done with dignity and without patting themselves on the back for it or saying shit like, "LOOK! We have an INDIGENOUS PERSON!" They were all superheroes, and that's all that mattered to us back then.
There was a kid named Marty Issa in my grade school at the time Mighty Isis was playing on TV. He use to catch hell at recess with all the other kids screaming, "OH MARTY ISSA, ISSA, ISSA" at him.
Back to simpler times, is what this made Saturday morning better. The banana splits theme is still playing in my head after all these years. Thank you for posting this video 🇺🇸
Bob Denver not only Starred on "Gilligan's Island" he CoStarred in a followup of sorts. A Seventies Comic Western called "Dusty's Trail" where Forrest Tucker took the "Skipper" style role from Alan Hale, Junior.😂😉🎤🌊☀️🍊🌴🐴📺B.W.
Adored Space Academy and especially Mighty Isis (huge crush) - I remember Brian Tochi showing up in a lot of the Tiger Beat-style magazines of the time!
I had a girl cousin that had a subscription to Tiger Beat, she had a lot of covers plastered all over her room. 😂 We still talk about that stuff 45 years later. Good times.
@@GENXPERIENCE I caught Banana Splits a lot on dish. His voice caught my attention after I came to appreciate the actor making Doctor Smith intentionally so annoying. I still can't tell Athos or Aramis apart to save my ass. 🤣
Hey, I liked Arc II. I do remember waiting for the test pattern to end and the shows to start. And dont get me started on the Banana Splits. Loved them.
Banana Splits was more of a late 60s show that crossed over into 1970 then reran for years. Loved Danger Island, I think Ronee Troup was my first crush.
I loved Shazam and Isis. Great stuff! Looking back on those images, I can still remember the visceral excitement that's normally only available to a child's eye.
Glad you shared that. Only when seeing something for the first time after so long does that feeling getting to relive in us. There are many of these I research and get a little melancholy over. Thank you for commenting.
I had the Space Academy big blonde guy. He served as Giant Man alongside my Mego heroes and Star Wars figures because he was relatively huge. I also had the biggest crush on Pamela Ferdyn.
Those were the only ones that I've ever watched, although I knew about the Ghostbusters and Bana Splits (I did see "Uncle Croc's Block" a couple times, but I don't remember it being on Banana Splits.)
I loved most of these shows (especially Isis). I did see in the TV Guide ad you showed in the video the show "Big John Little John" with Cousin Oliver from "The Brady Bunch". That show was on at 6am in Miami when I was a kid and kicked off my morning. I'd love to see you cover that one in a future video (as no one believes me when I tell them it was actually a show in the 70s!)
"Ark II" came before "Space Academy". A lot of props, and sound effects, were recycled for the latter, including the Ark itself. They just lifted the fiberglass Ark II body off the Ford truck used in Ark II, did some fiberglass work to close off the wheel wells, added some "space trim" and viola, an inexpensive, full-size "Seeker" space craft for when they needed to show it on a planet with cast getting on and off. Sure looked better than a Star Trek shuttle, which kinda screamed "plywood" even to a seven-year-old kid back in 1969. A little more trim upgraded it to the "Starfire" in "Jason of Star Command". That was not "a knock off version of Robby the Robot" in "Space Academy". It was the real Robby, just with a different dome.
First of all, KNOCK OFF is funnier even with just a different head. It's still not the OG Robbie. Great info on the Ark vehicle, though. I am guessing you watched pretty closely and knew I did not put any of these in order. Thanks for the details though.
Modifying the Ark into those shuttles was a brilliant move, but I never noticed till I read about it as an adult. You miss a lot of stuff at that age, and with one show replacing another, we could hardly compare them back-to-back like we can now. Indeed, my memory of some of that content got really mixed up. I thought that the chimp in Ark II was a robot, and that they were looking for something called Sanctuary. Once more, only as an adult with net access did I realize I'd just conflated Ark II with the TV version of Logan's Run.
“Danger Island”? I think this might be the TV show I watched as a child and have failed to find again for years, because I didn’t remember the title. Thanks for the video. 🤗
That's the first time I've seen Robbie with the soup can head on The Banana Splits! He actually sported that head in an episode of the original Twilight Zone (with the glass dome over it). Robbie was sold at auction several years ago, and the soup can head was indeed included among the accessories!
THat guy got around. He worked and appeared in so much. I would see him everywhere, even with slight modifications. Thanks for sharing that head came with his sale, that is hysterical.
I was a little kid growing up in the early 80 being born in the early 70'soved seeing the reruns of the 70's shows along with the 80's shows that i enjoyed watching. What a treat it was now being a 49 year old man remembering those days of old
I'm shocked to hear that veteran actor John Russell who was in the 60's Western LAWMAN, was in that show Jason of Star Command. Decades later, he appeared in the 1985 Clint Eastwood film Pale Rider.
I love the Banana Splits. All the sections of it were great. Sayings like, "Size of an elephant" and "Uh oh Trouble (I think it went something like that) were in my vocabulary.
Cool video. All of these shows were great! You didn't even mention the Monster Squad, Run Joe Run or the Skatebirds. Maybe that one doesn't count because it aired on Sundays. But that decade was the best for Live action trippy Saturday morning shows. If you haven't already done it, maybe you could do a video on the infocartoons of Saturday mornings too, like School House Rock, The Metric Marvels etc. Thanks again for posting this vid.
Amazing how they thought we wouldn't notice when they replaced Jackson Bostwick as Captain Marvel. We did, and we didn't like it. Not much we could do about it though. Boo.
Just finished binge watching your channel, Victor. You've come a long way and really seem to have made your mark these past 6 - 8 months. You're definitely a man of passion and I can tell you've been having so much fun gathering up and putting out this content. It's been a total thrill for me to relive so many memories and to make some new ones too. It was fun to watch your channel grow and evolve. Keep cranking out the great content. I'll definitely be here for the ride and memories. In regards to this video, Shazam/Isis and The Banana Splits were my favorites. Some of the others I do remembers, while others, I never heard of. Or maybe I just blocked them from my memory. Hahaha!
The actress who played Isis was simply stunning.
SUPER MODEL to me.
Isis made a whole generation of little ass kids have sudden onset puberty at 5 and 6 years old. 😆
#SheWasThatGorgeous
Very true.
I wanted to be her. (How did I not know I was gay until I was 20?!)
Being a girl tot, I loved Isis but even then figured my Dad watched with me because of Isis's million-dollar legs.
The Banana Splits and Danger Island were my favorite as well. Even now, over fifty years later, my family will look strangely at me when I go, "Uh oh, Chongo!"😆😁
That phrase still brings a smile.
Me too. 😅😅
I still say it whenever I'm doing something of a kamikaze nature. 😆
If only the Nutribullet commercials were out during the time of the banana, splits going up against the sour grapes
I use to say that when I was little me and my big sister use yell it outside.
'Electra Woman and Dyna Girl' deserves its own episode!
Especially with the movies (follow-up and reboot).
Well, I will get her into the Sid & Marty Kroft show, but they are iconic.
@@GENXPERIENCE
I'll be waiting for the "Krofft Kavalcade"! 🤣
YES EXACTLY OKAY @aisforapple2494.
We watched Isis, the Bionic Woman, Charlie's Angels, Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, etc because we found stories revolving around female protagonists much more interesting. They usually do not have to physically fight the villain but resort to more creative ways to beat them, which made them more interesting to watch than Shazam or the Six Million Dollar Man.
Speed Racer, The Banana Splits and Ultraman were my personal favorites growing up in the 70s.
They were the best of shows even now.
And we got to watch those shows five days a week and enjoyed the reruns for years.
I have to throw Kimba in there too
@@alisonelliott5117 I loved Kimba too, & The Adventures of Huck Finn. But Isis was the first girl superhero I saw.
@@alisonelliott5117 yes.kimba the white lion! back to back with Gigantor!
70s Saturday mornings were the absolute best!
Nothing like it again. Sadly
My favorite was Lancelot Link Secret Chimp. You didn’t just have one talking chimp, you had a whole world of them.
I totally remember that name, BUT only cause you said it, lol. Thanks
🎶THE EVOLUTION REVOLUTION!🎶
🤘😝🤘
Lancelot Link wasn't really Gen X though. 🤷🏾♂️
@@Sevrockyep it just skimmed in as baby boom. I was born the last year of the boom and I barely have memory of rhis
@@Sevrock
How do you come to that conclusion?
Generation X would like to know.
There is NOTHING cheesy about these shows! I grew up watching these shows when there was nothing else because these shows started Saturday morning cartoons as they used to be!
Banana Splits was soooo good ! Oh memories……One banana, two banana, three banana, four ! 😂
Sid and Marty Kroft and Hanna-Barbera is one heck of a combo! I loved all of these show!
I never missed Shazam, Isis, Wonder Woman, Jason Of Star Command or Land Of The Lost. They were some great shows.
THey were all too fun to miss. Loved them
Yeea, Land of the Lost, the best of them all
Quite true.
@@GENXPERIENCEI was born in 1980 but I love The Monkees.
Yup I miss them too Saturday Morning was great back then.
Having been a child in the 70s I remember every one of these shows. Even at a young age my mind was blown. Loved the ridiculousness of them all.
Me too. Even bat SH** crazy, they were awesome.
Yes, the never ending collection of “Sid and Marty Croft” shows. “HR Puff N Stuff”, “Sigmond the Seasick Sea Monster”, etc. etc. Those we a trip. But, thank you for reawakening my memories of other shows as well.
That is what I am here for. Thank you for enjoying them, now sit back and relax....and remember.
Thank you for sharing these. I was born in 1959 and remember when there were only three channels and TV went off the air each night at midnight. That test pattern and monotone sound would be something one would wake up to in the early morning hours after they fell asleep around 11 PM. LOL
Joanna Cameron was the #1 goddess (pun intended) for me. Her career included at one point being recognized in the Guinness Book for having done more commercials than anyone else. Your video spurred me to see what she was up to today and sadly found out she passed away in 2021 from a stroke. RIP beautiful lady. 😞
THank you for sharing some additional details on Joanna, and your memories. Love to read these.
Ditto. And we got lucky to get cable with TV stations in Los Angeles, so we got 12 channels plus our local one.
I grew up on cheesy and I love it 🥰
Me too love everything about it.
"Cheesy"? Each and every one of these were brilliant!
In their own 70s rightfully so cheesy. We loved them like that.
I remember all of these. These made Saturday morning awesome.
I am 59 and i remember all of these great live action sci fi and adventure cartoons especially
Danger Island from Hanna-Barbera, Shazam!, Jason of Star Command, Isis, Space Academy,
Ark II, the Real Ghostbusters and the other live action cartoons of the 70's and 80's they were
really great for me at the time and they still are thanks for the memories.🇺🇲📺📺🇺🇲
It is fun to look back. That is why I do this. Thank you
No modern show ever ends with "I've learned something today..." I remember all of these shows!!
Yeah, and many people could use it, lol.
Would be good to review the Children's Television Act of 1990. It was 20 years later, but many shows simply ended up following the moral lesson format that had been used in the 70s as the way to ensure their 90s show lived up to the requirements. (And there was the advertising regulation component as well)
Southpark episodes almost always used to end with one of the kids saying: “I learned something today” as a way of referencing the children’s shows we grew up on.
Being born in the sixties I remember almost all of these shows. ✌️🤠
The opening of the Banana Splits was filmed at Palisades Amusement Park, in New Jersey. It was an awesome park and was torn down for high rises.
I thought that was Knotts Berry Farm in CA.
It was actually filmed at Kings Island amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio.
I stand corrected.
😢
Those were the best Saturdays with some of the goofiest, yet coolest cartoons and shows ever!
I remember all of these! Banana Splits... I remember when I recognized the big slide they go down in the opening credits, it USED to be on the observation tower at Six Flags Over Texas. And, again, I'm counting this as 'my life flashing before my eyes'. GOD! You took me back to CHILDhood.
It was announced that The Banana Splits would be making an appearance at Six Flags. I begged my older sister to drive me over there and she refused. I offered her my allowance money for gas. Nope. Over half a century later and I still remind her of this!
As a little kid who didn't know his days of the week Saturday wasn't Saturday. It was Cartoon Day!
That's exactly what I called it.
I watched Banana Splits religiously as a small kid. I still know the theme song.
Danger Island, part adventure, part farce, part cheese! Fantastic.
All FUN. Thanks for watching.
RIP Sid Haig. You did forget one of my favorites, The Kids from Caper. I loved the Ghostbusters, but as a 7 yo watching Star Wars in the theater, any space show (Space Academy and Jason of Star Command) were must watch programs!
Same with any space show...me too. I didn't know the Kids from Caper. I will have ot look that up.
@@GENXPERIENCE5:39 It's right there at noon.
Buying the Archie Double Digest at the grocery store was my favorite thing age 10-12...
That was an easy by for my mom too while in the check out. I loved sitting in my room, on the bed before going to sleep reading those!
The best underrated gem of Hanna Barbara after Jonny Quest was 'The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' It was the best TV show combining live action kids in a cartoon universe. Probably hard to find now since it had a politically incorrect villain. "Injun Joe" aside, the series' animation rivaled Quest's, had a great cast and surprisingly good stories. Sure deserves its own episode!
On Shazam: Love how few kids batted an eye about watching a superhero & his mentor going 'round fighting evil in a _Winnebago..._ 🤣
Gen X never had a problem with diversity. And that is really apparent when you look at our kids’ schools. The hippies weren’t the only ones down with peace and love. ✌️❤😘
You got that right.
For as much praise as Gen X likes to heap upon itself, we managed to do a crap job making the world a better place. We wanted to believe racial differences didn't exist, and in doing so ignored them. There's a lot to be said about our generation's ability to adapt, but to change...naw, man.
Maybe my sentiment is coming from reading too many Xer comments about how friggin awesome we were. But we screwed the pooch big time.
But music did peak in the 80s... I'll give you that.
…and then AIDS ruined everything.
Frank Reynolds
@@chemistryguy depends on which content (and associated coments) you look at. Every generation can go over the top with how cool either they or their era was. The best thing about we Gen-Xers for a while was that we dodged the generational arguments altogether. But, of course, if we're talking 70s-80s pop culture, then we'll be as gushing as anything.
Incidentally, I like 80s music because I was a teen then, but why do I like 60s music from before I was born? Could it be that it's _objectively_ amazing? ;)
Gen X also weren’t assholes about diversity like the little woke losers of today.
Joanna Cameron (RIP) was one of my all-time favorites playing Isis (AKA Andrea Thomas)//Great moral tips @ end of each show!
"Tracy: Trained by Bob Burns" That always killed me.
Sad or not, watched all. Select episodes were watched from a lock bedroom with a big box of Klenex. Today, I am 60. And Cheetos are still a favorite. Isis and Mary Ann!
No reason to be sad. Great comment.
I was so in love with Joanna Cameron back then. OMG she looked so amazing.
Yes she grew up and became a Real Estate Agent in Hawaii...and sadly passed 3 years ago I think.
I'd give about anything to go back to the 70s. I'd love to raise my grandkids there. Our TV was the best on all fronts. As I write this on a Saturday my granddaughters are watching the ones we have been able to get get. They love these shows! They think they are the best! 😊 Better day's
Way better days, to be sure.
You know what I remember most about the "Banana Splits"? Wanting an Amphicat, the vehicle used for the "Banana Buggies". Remember "Space: 1999"? The moon buggies were more Amphicats, and 15-year-old me still wanted one. It says a lot about the overall premise of TBS and S1999 that a 6x6 stole every scene it was in. It would be a few years before I saw "Blake's 7" and I still wanted an Amphicat.
I later found out they were made locally, in Auburn Hills, Michigan about 30 miles from me and got to drive one. By that time, there were other 6x6's on my list. I had graduated to wanting one with a jet drive so it could do at least 10 knots in water, like a Wedge, Hustler, Snoopy, or Terra Jet.
That is some awesome details. I remember playing with the S1999 spaceship at home where you could remove the front and back for a smaller shuttle. GOOD STUFF.
@@GENXPERIENCE But did you add tubing to the thruster pods and connect an upside-down can of dust-off so you could make the proper rocket effects when you filmed it? (that's literally how they did it in the actual show. "Canned air".
I remember a show called "Run, Joe, Run"....abouut a German Shepherd "fugitive" ex-millitary dog on the run from his master. Wasn't on very long.
LOVE the U.F.O. theme in the background
Dude, your research and gathering skills are awesome! As I watched your video, even I was like, "Damn, I remember that one now! totally forgot!"
i was 5 years old living in Boston watching on my parent's black n white Hitachi tv...saturday morning was incredble! Yes,, a whole lot of diversity in the 70's. Our live action saturday cartoons started at 6am.
NICE! I liked seeing so many different kinds of people in my cartoons. I lived for Saturday and if we didn't start at 6am, it was definitely 630am. Thanks for sharing.
All time favorite has to be The Banana Splits reruns were on in the afternoon and I would race home after school to watch them just seeing them on this list brought a huge smile to my face I really liked Shazam & ISIS too
All these things brought me smiles too. How could they not.
Watched Isis , hopped on the old banana seat 5 speed after cartoons. Missed those simple days
It was cool watching banana splits first season. The first time my parents took me to six flags in Arlington, Texas they pointed out where it was filmed. It’s not far from where I live.
God, I had a thing for Ruth from Ark II. And watching her on DVD all these years later, I still do. Thanks for the fun video!
Loved the Banana Splits!!!
Cool topic for exploring 👏👏👏👏👏
And there are so many more, too. Thanks for watching.
I remember watching both Shazam & ISIS....Good Memories 😊😊👍👍
Fun Times, Fun Mornings.
I forgot how much I LOVED Danger Island! But I regularly find myself singing the Banana Splits song tho ……Na na na nana na na!❤❤❤
Who else was in love with the lady in ARK2
Danger Island, The Banana Splits, Isis, Electro woman and dyna girl, and all of Sid and Marty Krofft were my favorites
Danger Island!!! By far the best! Cheer's from Milwaukee 🍻
I remember seeing The Banana Splits theme on Boomerang (when they still cared about their older shows), I haven't seen it in years, and I _STILL_ can't get that theme out of my head.
I do know my dad was a fan of the show as a kid. I haven't been able to bring myself to tell him about the horror movie.
No kidding. How in the hell did that ever even get thought of as a horror movie. I'll admit I have thought about watching it, but haven't as of yet.
@@GENXPERIENCE From what I heard, it was inspired by an attempt to make a Five Nights at Freddy's movie (which we eventually got, making this kinda pointless).
Yeah, Hollywood's pretty much creatively bankrupt at this point.
Remember when Bob Marley "quoted" eight bars of the "Banana Splits" theme in "Buffalo Soldier". Oh, and the common initials "BS".
1 Banana, 2 Banana, 3 Banana 4......
And DON'T tell him. I COULDN'T Believe it when I seen it in Redbox WHAT A Shame to tarnish my childhood😢😢 like that.
I'm a Gen X er. And These were my favorite Saturday morning childhood shows. Thanks for showing this on TH-cam.🥰 plus my brother loves Danger Island.
I loved them all too. So much fun back then.
What is it about "Islands" that make for great and truly entertaining TV and Movies? "Treasure." "Danger." "Gilligan's." "Fantasy." James Bond Movies where Miss Ursula Andress emerges from the Ocean!😂😍🏄♀️🏊♀️ Gas Station Commercials where the Pumps are situated on Concrete.🚏🚏There is something fascinating about them all.😉🎤💃🌊☀️🍊🌴📺🎥B.W.
Born in 1970 , so I had to subscribe 😂👍
Thank you, that is awesome. There is all kinds of stuff here, and it runs the gambit from 70 to early 90s
Born in 68 I loved all these . I CANT JOIN YOUR SIGHT NOT TILL YOU SHOW BIGFOOT AND WILDBOY PLEASE
I had a crush on Wild Boy.
I remember every single one of these shows!! Oh the wonderful memories I has of them. Being a huge sci fi fan,I loved the space adventures. My mom liked the second actor to play Shazam and thought that he would have made a great Superman!
I love all those sci fi shows too. No matter how cheesy, they worked and we loved them. I thought the 2nd was pretty good too.
Oh my gosh,I almost forgot about some of those. Good memories. Why can’t they make shows like that today?
I loved Isis and Joanna as she was so cool (to me as a kid)
100%
Marty Krofft (RIP) remembered that once the costumes for The Banana Splits were completed for Hanna Barbera, he and Sid looked at each other and Marty said, "They're going to make a fortune on this, and we just got the cost to make the costumes."
But, of course, they would eventually get more later when they were approached to do HR Pufnstuf, and the Krofft Empire began.
HR was my first foray into their world, and that is why they need their own show, am I right?
@@GENXPERIENCE Have you done a show on them yet?
I was born in '74, so I was pretty young when I saw these for the first time, but I LOVED Saturday mornings. I watched most of the shows mentioned in the video. Endless chimps and recycled Robby the Robots. "Danger Island" and "Land of the Lost" were definitely treats.
Does anyone remember Bigfoot & Wild Boy??I want to say it was out @ 1977 As a 9 year old kid, I loved it!
I will have to look up.
It only ran for one season on the Kroft Supershow if I recall correctly. It was replaced by Magic Mongo. All the other live action segments ran the the whole time, but I think the whole time was only two seasons.
Yes I remember that. It was a good show.
My fave, especially since the Bigfoot on the Six Million Dollar Man was scary.
@@michaelleary9233 Bigfoot scared the bajesus out of me when I was a kid. And then they throw this show about a caring, friendly(somewhat) Bigfoot at the kids! It was just a lot of fun at the time. I remember boys in grammar school pretending to jump like Bigfoot at recess time!Funny, great times!😀😎👍
I remember Shazam and Isis.
The rest I don't remember.
But then, I was raised on a farm.
Usually I only got to watch Saturday morning cartoons and shows when it was raining, snowing, or just too cold to go outside and work.
I LOVED The Banana Splits, & Danger Island... The Sour Grapes Bunch were COOL Cuties to me, (I, being a young lad back then).
Never missed it, Saturdays.
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6:12 I never knew Larry Storch & Forrest Tucker were in another show together, after F-Troop.
11:38 Did you know, Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee's Playhouse was played by Laurence Fishburne, he was credited as Larry Fishburne back then.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it. And yes, Phil Hartman and Lawrence were awesome extras to Pee Wee's show. Thank you so much for watching.
WOW what a trip back to my childhood! I loved almost every one of these programs!!
So happy you enjoyed. That is the point of it all. Come back soon.
Forgot about Ghost Busters. Watch it because I was a F Troop fan.
Good ol days....just saw Joanna Cameron passed...RIP ... She was really pretty
Hell yeah, I've got Isis on DVD! Kids today don't know what they're missing.
You got that right.
Yes, among other shows that featured different kinds of people. But it was done with dignity and without patting themselves on the back for it or saying shit like, "LOOK! We have an INDIGENOUS PERSON!" They were all superheroes, and that's all that mattered to us back then.
There was a kid named Marty Issa in my grade school at the time Mighty Isis was playing on TV. He use to catch hell at recess with all the other kids screaming, "OH MARTY ISSA, ISSA, ISSA" at him.
Oh my. Sounds about right for bullying at the time.
We had an 8th grade music teacher who looked just like Isis. What a time to be a 14 year old boy.
Back to simpler times, is what this made Saturday morning better. The banana splits theme is still playing in my head after all these years. Thank you for posting this video 🇺🇸
Thank you, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I can still sing away at that song.
The Ghost Busters was pure gold! A DVD collection that goes for big bucks these days.
The Ghost Buster was great, but remember that the two main characters were also the stars of F Troop.
Bob Denver not only Starred on "Gilligan's Island" he CoStarred in a followup of sorts. A Seventies Comic Western called "Dusty's Trail" where Forrest Tucker took the "Skipper" style role from Alan Hale, Junior.😂😉🎤🌊☀️🍊🌴🐴📺B.W.
OMG I had totally forgotten these. I remember them now.
I opened up some dusty file cabinets for you, I hope.
I loved SHAZAM! and ISIS. I thought she was the coolest EVER!
I loved tuning into their shows. They were great fun on saturday.
She wasn’t the coolest, she was the hottest!
She was FAR, WAY & so MUCH HOTTER & SEXIER than Wonder Woman HERSELF EVER WAS too as well okay @KellieVV.
Me Too!! Loved those shows
Wanted a Wonder Woman/Isis team upbso badly back then.
One of my favorites was a show called run joe run , about a german shepherd wrongly accused of attacking someone
Funny, after this show people started to remind me of that. I USED TO WATCH IT. AND LOVED it. I will have to include it later.
I love being a Gen-X kid! I wouldn't change it for nothing! Good times back then!
Couldn't agree more. Nothing else like it.
@@GENXPERIENCE And that's Facts! 💯
I think I remember that the very first show that would come on after the Test Pattern was called: “The New Zoo Revue”.
GOod memory. I remember ours was Rocky & Bulwinkle.
Adored Space Academy and especially Mighty Isis (huge crush) - I remember Brian Tochi showing up in a lot of the Tiger Beat-style magazines of the time!
Isis was gorgeous. Oh, Tiger Beat, I have got to make those magazines a whole little show of their own.
I had a girl cousin that had a subscription to Tiger Beat, she had a lot of covers plastered all over her room. 😂 We still talk about that stuff 45 years later. Good times.
Thanks for the great memories!
Doctor Smith/Jonathan Harris was one of the Three Musketeers.
Really? I remember tuning out that show, lol. Still cool though. That guy did so much.
@@GENXPERIENCE I caught Banana Splits a lot on dish. His voice caught my attention after I came to appreciate the actor making Doctor Smith intentionally so annoying. I still can't tell Athos or Aramis apart to save my ass. 🤣
Hey, I liked Arc II. I do remember waiting for the test pattern to end and the shows to start. And dont get me started on the Banana Splits. Loved them.
Banana Splits was more of a late 60s show that crossed over into 1970 then reran for years. Loved Danger Island, I think Ronee Troup was my first crush.
1968 to 72 or something. Either way, still in the 70s and Still GEN X.
The show lasted 2 seasons, 1968-1970. Danger Island was filmed in '68.
I loved Shazam and Isis. Great stuff! Looking back on those images, I can still remember the visceral excitement that's normally only available to a child's eye.
Glad you shared that. Only when seeing something for the first time after so long does that feeling getting to relive in us. There are many of these I research and get a little melancholy over. Thank you for commenting.
Richard Donner directed the Danger Island segments. Rumor has it, the cast and crew were totally baked while shooting.
That wouldn't surprise me. It was the time and they weren't doing Shakespeare, am I right, lol.
my favorites were Ark II, Shazam and Isis and I also have them on DVD now thanks for the memories...
You bet. Love that you have them on DVD, a true fan.
I had the Space Academy big blonde guy. He served as Giant Man alongside my Mego heroes and Star Wars figures because he was relatively huge. I also had the biggest crush on Pamela Ferdyn.
Pamelyn was ADORABLE. When I saw the picture of blondie, he LOOKED huge, lol.
Watched most of these shows.
"Shazam!/Isis" was my favorite of those listed.
Loved catching those two. Just a lot of fun alongside the cartoons.
Yup. I LOVED these two shows!
I also read Archie rather than superhero comics. ☺️
Those were the only ones that I've ever watched, although I knew about the Ghostbusters and Bana Splits (I did see "Uncle Croc's Block" a couple times, but I don't remember it being on Banana Splits.)
I loved most of these shows (especially Isis). I did see in the TV Guide ad you showed in the video the show "Big John Little John" with Cousin Oliver from "The Brady Bunch". That show was on at 6am in Miami when I was a kid and kicked off my morning. I'd love to see you cover that one in a future video (as no one believes me when I tell them it was actually a show in the 70s!)
"Ark II" came before "Space Academy". A lot of props, and sound effects, were recycled for the latter, including the Ark itself. They just lifted the fiberglass Ark II body off the Ford truck used in Ark II, did some fiberglass work to close off the wheel wells, added some "space trim" and viola, an inexpensive, full-size "Seeker" space craft for when they needed to show it on a planet with cast getting on and off. Sure looked better than a Star Trek shuttle, which kinda screamed "plywood" even to a seven-year-old kid back in 1969. A little more trim upgraded it to the "Starfire" in "Jason of Star Command".
That was not "a knock off version of Robby the Robot" in "Space Academy". It was the real Robby, just with a different dome.
First of all, KNOCK OFF is funnier even with just a different head. It's still not the OG Robbie. Great info on the Ark vehicle, though. I am guessing you watched pretty closely and knew I did not put any of these in order. Thanks for the details though.
Modifying the Ark into those shuttles was a brilliant move, but I never noticed till I read about it as an adult. You miss a lot of stuff at that age, and with one show replacing another, we could hardly compare them back-to-back like we can now.
Indeed, my memory of some of that content got really mixed up. I thought that the chimp in Ark II was a robot, and that they were looking for something called Sanctuary. Once more, only as an adult with net access did I realize I'd just conflated Ark II with the TV version of Logan's Run.
“Danger Island”? I think this might be the TV show I watched as a child and have failed to find again for years, because I didn’t remember the title. Thanks for the video. 🤗
That's the first time I've seen Robbie with the soup can head on The Banana Splits! He actually sported that head in an episode of the original Twilight Zone (with the glass dome over it). Robbie was sold at auction several years ago, and the soup can head was indeed included among the accessories!
THat guy got around. He worked and appeared in so much. I would see him everywhere, even with slight modifications. Thanks for sharing that head came with his sale, that is hysterical.
I was a little kid growing up in the early 80 being born in the early 70'soved seeing the reruns of the 70's shows along with the 80's shows that i enjoyed watching. What a treat it was now being a 49 year old man remembering those days of old
You forgot about "Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp."
I barely remember that name. It is familiar, but I must not have had a connection. Thanks for bringing it up.
I'm shocked to hear that veteran actor John Russell who was in the 60's Western LAWMAN, was in that show Jason of Star Command.
Decades later, he appeared in the 1985 Clint Eastwood film Pale Rider.
I love the Banana Splits. All the sections of it were great. Sayings like, "Size of an elephant" and "Uh oh Trouble (I think it went something like that) were in my vocabulary.
Size of an Elephant...you just brought back memories with that.
Uh Oh, Chongo !
"Hoooolllld the bus!"
Hanna-Barbera resurrected Banana Splits as Skatebirds in 1977
UH OH! CHANGO!!!!!!!!!!
OMG. MEMORIES!
The Banana Splits were at Six Flags Over Texas. I've ridden that slide. Ok, just once, but I rode it.
"DAKTARI"
New to me. I will have to look up.
Cool video. All of these shows were great! You didn't even mention the Monster Squad, Run Joe Run or the Skatebirds. Maybe that one doesn't count because it aired on Sundays. But that decade was the best for Live action trippy Saturday morning shows. If you haven't already done it, maybe you could do a video on the infocartoons of Saturday mornings too, like School House Rock, The Metric Marvels etc. Thanks again for posting this vid.
"You'll have a fun time/ Eating Sunshine on a Stick!" The very young Jeff Dunham had to be taking notes...😂🤣😂😏🎤🍊☀️📺B.W.
Amazing how they thought we wouldn't notice when they replaced Jackson Bostwick as Captain Marvel. We did, and we didn't like it. Not much we could do about it though. Boo.
Of course we noticed, but it is funny how there was not even places to research what happened. It was what it was and we had to deal.
Beer Belly Shazam.
Neither one looked all that great.
First Shazam looked like Zac Efron.
Just finished binge watching your channel, Victor. You've come a long way and really seem to have made your mark these past 6 - 8 months. You're definitely a man of passion and I can tell you've been having so much fun gathering up and putting out this content. It's been a total thrill for me to relive so many memories and to make some new ones too. It was fun to watch your channel grow and evolve. Keep cranking out the great content. I'll definitely be here for the ride and memories.
In regards to this video, Shazam/Isis and The Banana Splits were my favorites. Some of the others I do remembers, while others, I never heard of. Or maybe I just blocked them from my memory. Hahaha!