The Herculoids was a GREAT Saturday cartoon adventure! Loved it. Thanks for the reminder about Fantastic Voyage. Johnny Quest was the KING of the adventures, though!
Being a kid in the 70's, the only two on this list I remember watching were Fantastic Voyage and The Herculoids. I forgot all about Fantastic Voyage until this video, I seem to remember liking it a lot. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
"The Herculoids" was cool. Years later, it was packaged with other action cartoons in a show called "Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure." That series seemed to be the "Wide World of Sports" of adventure cartoons: a grab-bag of short features that presented the best of many prior, excellent shows, including "Fantastic Four."
That was so cool. I remember watching these particular science fiction cartoons when I was very young. I didn’t remember the names, only images. Thank you for posting this. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I grew up watching the Saturday morning cartoons (Scooby Doo, Space Ghost, Jetson's, Jonny Quest, Herculoids, Warner Brothers (Bugs Bunny & crew), and Star Trek: The Animated Series). The "Boob Tube" was definitely my babysitter (I have 4 older siblings). My favorite is still Jonny Quest (even the later series was good), and some of the stories could be made into movies today if they wanted to. The one that would be really good to make into a movie is the one called "The Invisible Monster". That thing gave me nightmares, and the sound the creature would make just sent chills down your spine.
@@mikejankowski6321, Not exactly. In Forbidden Planet the "Creature of the Id" was generated from the mental/psychological energy from the Krell or Dr. Morbius via the planets power generation systems. The planets power system enhanced the "Id" of a being to form the creature. For Jonny Quest the creature was created from pure energy during an experiment gone wrong and was its own living being. But yes, both were pretty terrifying for their time.
@@calkelpdiver Totally. I was addressing the design of the creature, and to some extent its behavior. Having seen JQ first, the Id monster was a real “aha” moment.
I'm 64, and I grew up watching Saturday Morning Cartoons. Of the ones you featured, "The Herculoids," and "Fantastic Voyage" were my favorites. That said, this is the very first I'm hearing about "Johnny Cipher in Dimension Zero," and "Rocket Robin Hood." I guess none of the local networks where I lived decided to pick those up. I'll have to check those out . . . . While I liked the artwork for "Space Angel," "Clutch Cargo," and "Captain Fathom;" the 'Syncro-Vox' animation technique always gave me the creeps to the extent that I couldn't watch the intro to "Sponge Bob" with my son, or the commercial for Quizno's, either. As a sidebar, I'm an avid plastic model builder, and in 1969, a 1/72nd scale kit of The Voyager from the "Fantastic Voyage" cartoon was made by (who else?) Aurora - complete with a full interior and figures of all the characters - but was only available for that year. Then, after a 40 year absence, this model kit was reissued by Moebius Models in 2010 in a reproduction of the original 1969 box. (Interestingly, the box artwork depicted the Voyager "dogfighting" what looks a lot like the COVID 19 virus . . . .) Thanks for sharing this with us! 386th Like.
Don't forget one of my all time favorites...Valley Of The Dinosaurs! I was.nuts for dinosaurs when I was a kid in the 70's and with VOTD and the live action Land Of The Lost, I was in heaven on Saturday mornings!
Loved the Herculoids! How strange that before you played the sound clip, my memory could also recall the sound of a Hanna - Barbera laser! So distinctive! Thanks!
It's nice to see ROCKET ROBIN HOOD get some love here. I get a kick out of the cross over between ROCKET ROBIN HOOD and the sixties animated SPIDER MAN, reusing the same animation, characters, and weird psychedelic style.
!!THANK YOU!! for mentioning 'Space Angel'! I would talk about that cartoon and people would just scratch their head. And now I know why it was so weird! Truly, Thank you! I now know I wasn't nuts!............... Stop looking at me like that!
I loved Space Angel back then, and it's predecessor Clutch Cargo. At six of seven years old, it never occurred to me how creepy the whole Synchro-Vox thing was. 😄
I recall the beloved Fantastic Voyage being on VERY early Saturdays and usually mixed in before or after the Journey to the Center of the Earth cartoon (which was also pretty good).
I think my favorite cartoons from the 60s were The Jetsons, Space Ghost, Marvel Superheroes Show, Herculoids, Johnny Cypher and Scooby-Doo Where Are you! (I have almost all of the last one in my collection)
I had never heard of most of these until I started going to pop culture conventions. (They were all before my time). They are all imaginative and of wildly varying quality (total effect, not cost of animation or writing talent).
The only two I never heard of were Johnny Cipher and that Robin Hood. One of the local children's show picked up "Space Angel" when it went into syndication.
In the U.S., loved 8th Man, Jonny Quest, The Herculoids, Gigantor, and Speed Racer (was bored by Journey to the Center of the Earth). Surprised I never heard of the others.
I recently rewatched what’s available if Space Angel on YT. While the animation odd very limited, the stories are mostly well written, and the comic book style drawings are generally very good. I’d had only a vague memory of this show from childhood, so was very pleased to rediscover it.
Saturday January 27,2023 I finally found a clip of one of my favorites cartoons when I was like 5 or 6 years I'm talking 1973 Johnny Cypher its all I remembered from the theme song Thanks Terry and TH-cam for making this possible It was part of my childhood in El Salvador that was missing Thank You so much.❤
Excellent! I don’t think some of these have zapped a neurone with me since Harold Holt was in The Lodge. One thought: What was with all the eye patches? Moshe Dayan made them fashionable but that wasn’t until 1967.
That was a fun list. I never saw Rocket Robin Hood until I was on a school trip to Canada but it seemed fun. Herculoids to me is right up there with Space Ghost and you can't have Fantastic Voyage without Journey to the Center of the Earth.
I don't know how I missed this video... I grew up in Canada and Rocket Robin Hood was a staple. I was tickled to see it on this list! Silly as it was, my friends and I loved it. The voice of the narrator, Bernard Cowan, would be instantly familiar to anyone who watched CBC tv in the 60s and 70s.
This was great. Thanx! Was looking for the underground digging machine that was like a submarine with a big cone shaped screw on the front. Seemed to be used in several of these cartoons
I remember back when I was a kid growing up during the 70's. Saturday 🌄🌄Saturday🌄Mornings🌄🌄 were absolutely the best time of the week! I can remember waking up about 6-7am, and off to the kitchen I went. A bowl of Fruity Pebbles, Lucky Charms, Alpha Bits, Frosted Flakes, or if Mom was mad, Cheerios.....lol. Or we'd get those 6-pack, 8-pack, or 12-pack Variety Boxes. Kellogg's and Big G had them. I'd have my blanket on the couch, my cereal set and ready to go, and a few Mego Superheroes action figures. Then for the next 4 to 5 hours it was CARTOONS!! The Superfriends, Scooby-Doo, Hanna Barbera's shows. Land of the Lost, the 🍌🍌Banana🍌Splits🍌🍌, and my all-time favorite cartoon, The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Show!! Then at 11am we'd switch over the station to WVTV Channel-18 and they then aired AWA's All-Star Wrestling show. My Mom and I loved watching wrestling. Saturdays were such an amazing time when we were kids. Nowadays Saturday mornings are nothing even close to what we had back then. And that is SAD!! They have no idea what they are missing!
I'm a little surprised you didn't include _Space Ghost,_ another Hanna-Barbera cartoon, contemporary with _The Herculoids._ That for me had more imaginative adventures, since they could roam the galaxy instead of being stuck on one planet. And SG had some kick-ass powers. Good overview of these cartoons in any case.
@@terrytalksmovies Well, it was pretty popular in the USA along with the other H-B cartoons. I pretty much grew up on H-B cartoons, not just those on Saturday mornings either.
1' Johnny quest ( more action adventure than sci fi ) 2' thunder birds 3' marine boy , 4' sting ray , 5' captain scarlett , 6' planet of the apes , 7' star trek ( both were really from the 70's based on movies and series from the 60's ) 8' speed racer , 9' marvel super hero hour with stan lee as host , 10' the herculoids , 11' the jetsons
Ralph Bakshi also was in charge of the last season of the 60s Spider-Man cartoon. And several episode’s stories got used between it and Rocket Robin Hood; they’d just insert the cels of the different heroes and left everything else pretty much unchanged.
Rocket Robin Hood especially brought back memories!The same company also produced the Spider-Man cartoon,and for the third season,they were literally taking the more crazy RRH episodes and putting Spidey in them to save a buck!
Thanks Terry, watched the Top five at the same period on Channel 9, Channel 7 and the ABC, so Cartoon Corner with Skeeter the Paper Boy in the after noon and Hey, Hey Saturday original morning show. Channel 10 was pretty much a cultural desert for kids LoL, actually Fantastic Voyage was Channel 10 sorry with Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Loved all your secondary mentions as well!!. Would welcome some follow ups' as you mentioned.
I've got Fantasic Voyage on DVD lined up on my 'to watch on a rainy day pile'. I think something similar appeared as a cartoon break in The Banana Splits as well as the Arabian Knights. Also have memories of watching 'The Sentinels'. 3 Superheores living on a spaceship in a volcano with a sidekick robot but I don't remember any stories but I always remembered the rotating logo of 'Lou Schemer, Norm Prescot'. As memorable as having Fred Quimby, as producer of the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
This video was well put together. Thanks for posting it I learned a lot. And I'm the same age as you. I was 6 years old in 1968 so I know all about TV and cartoons.
"Johnny Cypher" and "Rocket Robin Hood" came immediately to mind when I saw the title of the video. "Fantastic Voyage" brings good memories, too. I may have watched "Space Angel", as I remember the weird synchro-vox thing, but I can't say for sure. I wouldn't have thought of "The Herculoids" as Science-Fiction, but technically it is, I guess. I would have put "Journey to the Center of the Earth" on the list, instead.
Fond memories of 'The Herculoids'. That's the only one I got into though I did spend a weekend watching 'Space Angel' on a station that was running back-to-back episodes. It had superior artwork ruined by SynchroVox, IMO. The episodes were pretty good as I recall.
@@terrytalksmoviesThat is so absolutely right. #1 favorite music in my life is soundtracks. I'm a vivid collector. Movies,Tv shows and cartoons. I also love a good composition in Tv commericals. And believe me there are some great music in Tv commericals. Thanks for your comment (from 976-CREOLEMAN).
Awww, ickle Terry, so cute! Great video. The only one I’ve seen is The Herculoids, maybe they were the only ones that got repeated in the following decades. The lip thingy is still used, The Annoying Orange is one but that is eyes also.
Space Angel - I loved Space Angel! My first retro-future experience. Okay, the Synchro-Vox is a little weird. But the spaceships were Very Cool, and there was a real effort to create a viable SF universe (Each of the nine planets had their own insignia on the tail section of their ships.) No Saturday morning cartoon after it was ever quite as authentic - Thanks!
I never saw Rocket Robin Hood, but I have the DVD box set of the 1967 animated Spiderman which after Bakshi took over RRH, he also took over Spiderman, and actually to save money incoroporated elements of RRH with Spiderman.
Somehow, I missed out on Johnny Cypher (I suspect the alien may have been voiced by the same person who did Spritle Racer). I remember Rocket Robin Hood but, for some reason, it never got into my regular rotation. Fascinating that Fantastic Voyage only has seventeen total episodes. I certainly remember it well, especially that dramatic opening. I liked Space Angel but it seemed like it took forever to get through an entire adventure. I liked the Herculoids as well but, in retrospect, it was very formulaic, same basic plot with a different evil alien each week.
I'm familiar with almost all of these from my early years, but don't think I've ever heard of Rocket Robin Hood or Captain Fathom. Terry, there's a large number of cartoons by lesser known studios, like Harveytoons (Heckle and Jeckle (sp?) the magpies, Dinky Duck who flew with his feet, Baby Huey, Casper the Friendly Ghost) as well as Terrytoons (Mighty Mouse, the Terry Bears, Farmer Alfalfa). _I may have mixed a few of those up by studio!_ There were also others like Batfink and Roger Ramjet, and the educational show The Funny Company. Almost forgot to mention, I had a plastic model kit of the Voyager from Fantastic Voyage. Unfortunately it and a lot of others didn't survive into my adulthood.
In the 70s I watched Casper, Bugs Bunny roadrunner hour and Looney tunes, Underdog, Josie and the pussycats, scooby doo, dastardly and muttely, woody woodpecker, Mr. Magoo, deputy dog, Hercules, rocky and bullwinkle , I didn't see the Science Fiction and superhero cartoons much, except Hercules!
I did have a Prince Planet t-shirt ten years ago. Love that stuff. Phantoma is based on Ogon Batto, and I have the live action movie version of that, starring Sonny Chiba.
I really miss cartoon corner and Heye hey its Saturday. Loved Marine Boy. These are just a bit before my time LOL. OK Hercules women look fine LOL.Great insights thanks Terry, stay safe,
I have Marine Boy on DVD for the nostalgic fun of it. Eventually our entire childhoods will be able to be purchased. We're staying safe here. Half way through lockdown and plenty of coffee.
@@terrytalksmovies Nick S & I watched a couple of episodes on his couch a few years back - it made no sense! Everything was always trying to shoot that family. And none of them ever wore pants!
He mentioned many familiar cartoons i enjoyed growing up in the 60's. But as the best, only one i recognize Space Angels. I can not say it was the best but all of the other i can not know even to titles let alone their quality. I do not know if it qualify as cartoon but things not live action shows. But things like Supercar or Stingray. I guess these are qualified as animated. But he mentioned like Johnny Quest That was great and i remember to my years i grew up. I confess there are shows I loved but could not tell titles. If i saw a list what was on, I would instant remember things I loved and the quality they were. But for shows even I can not remember the title is not close to be the Top.
I don't recall that Dorno was ever specifically described in series as Zandor and Tara's "son", nor that Zandor and Tara were husband and wife. The relationship among them always seemed confusingly nebulous and unspecified to me at the time. I took them to be a "family" of choice and purpose (defending their planet) rather than blood (and surely there was no hanky-panky going on between Zandor and Tara!) 🤣
The Herculoids was a GREAT Saturday cartoon adventure! Loved it. Thanks for the reminder about Fantastic Voyage. Johnny Quest was the KING of the adventures, though!
And that theme music is a real banger.
The Herculoids was great. My favorites were Gloop and Gleep.
Hanna Barbera had more influence on kids than elementary school.
And good influence, too.
To this day I avoid treadmills as much as possible!
😂😂😂 Yes it did and we did not go out and killed our fellow classmate or a bunch of people.
In 67-69 I was 3 to 5 years old, brn 64 - and I remember watching Herculoids -- that's how cool the show was.
The Herculoids were equal best in the Hanna-Barbera cartoons along with Jonny Quest.
Being a kid in the 70's, the only two on this list I remember watching were Fantastic Voyage and The Herculoids. I forgot all about Fantastic Voyage until this video, I seem to remember liking it a lot. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
My pleasure. Fantastic Voyage retains its grooviness. 😀
"The Herculoids" was cool. Years later, it was packaged with other action cartoons in a show called "Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure." That series seemed to be the "Wide World of Sports" of adventure cartoons: a grab-bag of short features that presented the best of many prior, excellent shows, including "Fantastic Four."
Just drop on bluray.. And is awesome ....
Fantastic voyage was my favorite cartoon as a kid. I forgot all about it until you just put the show up. Thank you.
It looks good on DVD, too and the soundtrack really works.
"Fantastic Voyage" was an awesome cartoon. I never realized there were only 17 episodes. I saw reruns on Sunday mornings many years later.
That was so cool. I remember watching these particular science fiction cartoons when I was very young. I didn’t remember the names, only images. Thank you for posting this. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it. You can find a lot of them on TH-cam if you search around.
I grew up watching the Saturday morning cartoons (Scooby Doo, Space Ghost, Jetson's, Jonny Quest, Herculoids, Warner Brothers (Bugs Bunny & crew), and Star Trek: The Animated Series). The "Boob Tube" was definitely my babysitter (I have 4 older siblings). My favorite is still Jonny Quest (even the later series was good), and some of the stories could be made into movies today if they wanted to. The one that would be really good to make into a movie is the one called "The Invisible Monster". That thing gave me nightmares, and the sound the creature would make just sent chills down your spine.
Jonny Quest rocked. Great music, good character design, groovy story and the voice actors were superb. Lightning in a bottle.
@@terrytalksmovies,
The voice actor for Jonny was Tim Matheson. He later went on to be Otter in Animal House.
They did make a movie about that monster - Forbidden Planet! Johnny Quest borrowed heavily from the 1956 classic.
@@mikejankowski6321,
Not exactly. In Forbidden Planet the "Creature of the Id" was generated from the mental/psychological energy from the Krell or Dr. Morbius via the planets power generation systems. The planets power system enhanced the "Id" of a being to form the creature.
For Jonny Quest the creature was created from pure energy during an experiment gone wrong and was its own living being.
But yes, both were pretty terrifying for their time.
@@calkelpdiver Totally. I was addressing the design of the creature, and to some extent its behavior. Having seen JQ first, the Id monster was a real “aha” moment.
I'm 64, and I grew up watching Saturday Morning Cartoons. Of the ones you featured, "The Herculoids," and "Fantastic Voyage" were my favorites. That said, this is the very first I'm hearing about "Johnny Cipher in Dimension Zero," and "Rocket Robin Hood." I guess none of the local networks where I lived decided to pick those up. I'll have to check those out . . . .
While I liked the artwork for "Space Angel," "Clutch Cargo," and "Captain Fathom;" the 'Syncro-Vox' animation technique always gave me the creeps to the extent that I couldn't watch the intro to "Sponge Bob" with my son, or the commercial for Quizno's, either.
As a sidebar, I'm an avid plastic model builder, and in 1969, a 1/72nd scale kit of The Voyager from the "Fantastic Voyage" cartoon was made by (who else?) Aurora - complete with a full interior and figures of all the characters - but was only available for that year. Then, after a 40 year absence, this model kit was reissued by Moebius Models in 2010 in a reproduction of the original 1969 box. (Interestingly, the box artwork depicted the Voyager "dogfighting" what looks a lot like the COVID 19 virus . . . .)
Thanks for sharing this with us!
386th Like.
I tried model building in my youth. My lack of skill with glue and my woeful painting of the models put me off.
I miss the Aurora models! I had most of the monsters.
Glad Rocket Robin Hood is here.
Dimentia 5 is 1 of the greatest science fiction concepts I've seen.
Rocket Robin Hood I've started to rewatch three years after I made this video. That theme song is a banger.
Don't forget one of my all time favorites...Valley Of The Dinosaurs!
I was.nuts for dinosaurs when I was a kid in the 70's and with VOTD and the live action Land Of The Lost, I was in heaven on Saturday mornings!
I was more a Mighty Mightor guy. 😉😀
Loved the Herculoids! How strange that before you played the sound clip, my memory could also recall the sound of a Hanna - Barbera laser! So distinctive! Thanks!
Hanna - Barbera sound effects were first rate.
So that's how Clutch Cargo was talking - Synchro Vox!
Yep
Also the "Space Angel"!!!
Jonny Quest was the best and should be on this list
I covered it in another video.
It’s great to be reminded of that cartoons I enjoy as a kid , watching them now really excites the memories from the past, thank you.
It's always a pleasure. I'm glad you enjoyed them.
It's nice to see ROCKET ROBIN HOOD get some love here. I get a kick out of the cross over between ROCKET ROBIN HOOD and the sixties animated SPIDER MAN, reusing the same animation, characters, and weird psychedelic style.
The makers of RRH really tried to do a lot with the thin resources they had.
!!THANK YOU!! for mentioning 'Space Angel'! I would talk about that cartoon and people would just scratch their head. And now I know why it was so weird! Truly, Thank you! I now know I wasn't nuts!............... Stop looking at me like that!
I'm happy to help. 😀📽
I loved Space Angel back then, and it's predecessor Clutch Cargo. At six of seven years old, it never occurred to me how creepy the whole Synchro-Vox thing was. 😄
I recall the beloved Fantastic Voyage being on VERY early Saturdays and usually mixed in before or after the Journey to the Center of the Earth cartoon (which was also pretty good).
Also Shazan and Mighty Mightor.
Loved Marine boy as a child. Remembered Rocket Robin Hood and had previously looked for it on TH-cam with no luck.
Some of these things are tragically difficult to find.
I think my favorite cartoons from the 60s were The Jetsons, Space Ghost, Marvel Superheroes Show, Herculoids, Johnny Cypher and Scooby-Doo Where Are you! (I have almost all of the last one in my collection)
I had never heard of most of these until I started going to pop culture conventions. (They were all before my time). They are all imaginative and of wildly varying quality (total effect, not cost of animation or writing talent).
As a child my Saturday mornings were cartoons and my afternoons were double features in a cinema. 😀😉
@@terrytalksmovies I was a sickly child so I watched far more TV than I should have growing up. My Saturdays were the same as yours.
The only two I never heard of were Johnny Cipher and that Robin Hood. One of the local children's show picked up "Space Angel" when it went into syndication.
In the U.S., loved 8th Man, Jonny Quest, The Herculoids, Gigantor, and Speed Racer (was bored by Journey to the Center of the Earth). Surprised I never heard of the others.
8th man was great, so was Gigantor, Speed Racer and Prince Planet.
I recently rewatched what’s available if Space Angel on YT. While the animation odd very limited, the stories are mostly well written, and the comic book style drawings are generally very good.
I’d had only a vague memory of this show from childhood, so was very pleased to rediscover it.
It's also on Tubi if you can get it where you are.
Saturday January 27,2023 I finally found a clip of one of my favorites cartoons when I was like 5 or 6 years I'm talking 1973 Johnny Cypher its all I remembered from the theme song Thanks Terry and TH-cam for making this possible It was part of my childhood in El Salvador that was missing Thank You so much.❤
My pleasure. Johnny Cypher is out on DVD if you look on Amazon. It may be worth getting if you want the whole series. 😀📽
I remember the Space Angel lips freaking me out as a kid. Used to love the Herculoids & Marine Boy.
I remember those lips from Clutch Cargo also.
SPACE ANGEL - my absolute favorite. Great adventure cartoons.
That Alex Toth production design really makes it pop.
Great Saturday morning memories!
Saturday morning was cartoons, Saturday afternoon was double features at the Regal in Liverpool.
I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen *any* of these before. Thank you for bringing these to my attention, and as always, for a great channel!
My pleasure. Enjoy!
Tundro must have been the beginning of my love for rhinos. They are my spirit animals. Loved how Zok shot a laser from his tail.
I'm an Igoo guy myself. He had some charisma.
Excellent! I don’t think some of these have zapped a neurone with me since Harold Holt was in The Lodge. One thought: What was with all the eye patches? Moshe Dayan made them fashionable but that wasn’t until 1967.
It was an adventure fiction trope in the 60s. Maybe Moshe Dayan inspired it.
I love Hanna Barbara super heroes that appeared in the late 60s and also Jonny Quest… The Herculoids was a favorite! Also Young Samson…
Mighty Mightor, too. 😀
You had me at “The Herculoids”.😁
Top TV cartoon action!
Great memories kids today don't know what they are missing Honorable Mention....Jonny Quest
Jonny Quest rocks.
How did I miss this one!?! I STILL lament the loss of Sat AM Cartoons!
You have to check out the playlists. It's all there.
That was a fun list. I never saw Rocket Robin Hood until I was on a school trip to Canada but it seemed fun. Herculoids to me is right up there with Space Ghost and you can't have Fantastic Voyage without Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Keeping the list to five was difficult.
Great opening song for Rocket Robinhood. Im sure I could still sing it.
Go for it! Let your geek flag fly! 😀
Never heard of half of these and I grew up then!
It's always fun to find new things in old formats.
I don't know how I missed this video... I grew up in Canada and Rocket Robin Hood was a staple. I was tickled to see it on this list! Silly as it was, my friends and I loved it. The voice of the narrator, Bernard Cowan, would be instantly familiar to anyone who watched CBC tv in the 60s and 70s.
Voice actors are really underrated. It's like hearing John Vernon in the old Marvel Super Heroes cartoons.
This was great. Thanx!
Was looking for the underground digging machine that was like a submarine with a big cone shaped screw on the front.
Seemed to be used in several of these cartoons
It's also in At The Earth's Core, which is a hoot.
It was "surprising" how many shows invented the same machine.
Some of these are from before I was born or before I was 4. But the ones I do remember, this takes me back.
They're worth tracking down.
I loved the classic look of Space Angel
Absolutely. Alex Toth's designs are beautiful.
I remember back when I was a kid growing up during the 70's. Saturday 🌄🌄Saturday🌄Mornings🌄🌄 were absolutely the best time of the week! I can remember waking up about 6-7am, and off to the kitchen I went. A bowl of Fruity Pebbles, Lucky Charms, Alpha Bits, Frosted Flakes, or if Mom was mad, Cheerios.....lol. Or we'd get those 6-pack, 8-pack, or 12-pack Variety Boxes. Kellogg's and Big G had them. I'd have my blanket on the couch, my cereal set and ready to go, and a few Mego Superheroes action figures. Then for the next 4 to 5 hours it was CARTOONS!! The Superfriends, Scooby-Doo, Hanna Barbera's shows. Land of the Lost, the 🍌🍌Banana🍌Splits🍌🍌, and my all-time favorite cartoon, The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Show!! Then at 11am we'd switch over the station to WVTV Channel-18 and they then aired AWA's All-Star Wrestling show. My Mom and I loved watching wrestling. Saturdays were such an amazing time when we were kids. Nowadays Saturday mornings are nothing even close to what we had back then. And that is SAD!! They have no idea what they are missing!
For me, Saturday morning now is promoting my TH-cam video, TH-cam comments and watching the latest videos from my favourite YT channels.
Excellent video. Saved in my playlists
I appreciate it Cris. Welcome aboard.
I remember rocket Robin Hood. That and the 1967 spiderman series were my favourite. Broadcast at 6:00am in my hometown in Canada
Both worthwhile.
I'm a little surprised you didn't include _Space Ghost,_ another Hanna-Barbera cartoon, contemporary with _The Herculoids._ That for me had more imaginative adventures, since they could roam the galaxy instead of being stuck on one planet. And SG had some kick-ass powers. Good overview of these cartoons in any case.
Space Ghost didn't hit big here until he got a talk show.
@@terrytalksmovies Well, it was pretty popular in the USA along with the other H-B cartoons. I pretty much grew up on H-B cartoons, not just those on Saturday mornings either.
Wonderful work dudes!!
Glad you like it!
1' Johnny quest ( more action adventure than sci fi ) 2' thunder birds
3' marine boy , 4' sting ray , 5' captain scarlett , 6' planet of the apes , 7' star trek ( both were really from the 70's based on movies and series from the 60's ) 8' speed racer , 9' marvel super hero hour with stan lee as host , 10' the herculoids , 11' the jetsons
I still think so much of Jonny Quest is science fiction, it passes. 😀
Ralph Bakshi also was in charge of the last season of the 60s Spider-Man cartoon. And several episode’s stories got used between it and Rocket Robin Hood; they’d just insert the cels of the different heroes and left everything else pretty much unchanged.
Yep. Low budgets really b0rked a number of animated series in those days.
I was born in 1954. I watched "Fantastic Voyage" and "Space Angel" (didn't see the 3rd synchro-vox series), and the Herculoids.
The Herculoids are still my favourites. That one and Jonny Quest were peak Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
@@terrytalksmovies Remember watching "Jonny Quest" on prime time?
I had a model of the cartoon version of the Fantastic Voyage vessel. It looked nothing like the movie version, but it was pretty cool.
The whole thing was really hip and cool and had a great 60s vibe.
Space Angel is the only one I saw, and I loved it for the big, beautiful, blindingly white delta-winged spaceships.
The production design in Space Angel was fantastic. Nothing else like it at the time.
Rocket Robin Hood especially brought back memories!The same company also produced the Spider-Man cartoon,and for the third season,they were literally taking the more crazy RRH episodes and putting Spidey in them to save a buck!
Cheap bastards!
I remember watching the Herculoids as a kid here in the USA
I have them on DVD now and I'm happy with that.
Definitely remember Space Angel and Fantastic Voyage and Herculoids partial memory
Herculoids are out on DVD, too. Great fun.
Thanks Terry, watched the Top five at the same period on Channel 9, Channel 7 and the ABC, so Cartoon Corner with Skeeter the Paper Boy in the after noon and Hey, Hey Saturday original morning show. Channel 10 was pretty much a cultural desert for kids LoL, actually Fantastic Voyage was Channel 10 sorry with Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Loved all your secondary mentions as well!!. Would welcome some follow ups' as you mentioned.
I will get there eventually. 😀
I can still taste the brown sugar pop tarts I ate while watching Space Ghost.
Strangely, we never had them in Australia. 😀
The only one of these I saw was Space Angel. Really enjoyed the superimposed lips.
Synchro-Vox was a weird aberration in cartooning.
Synco-vox was also satirized on the Incredibles DVD as an extra, with Mr. Incredible and Frozone offering commentary ... mostly in the WTF category.
Synchro-Vox was fun because it was so WTF. It was also scary to some kids.
I've got Fantasic Voyage on DVD lined up on my 'to watch on a rainy day pile'. I think something similar appeared as a cartoon break in The Banana Splits as well as the Arabian Knights. Also have memories of watching 'The Sentinels'. 3 Superheores living on a spaceship in a volcano with a sidekick robot but I don't remember any stories but I always remembered the rotating logo of 'Lou Schemer, Norm Prescot'. As memorable as having Fred Quimby, as producer of the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
So many great 60s cartoons. I still ❤️ them.
This video was well put together. Thanks for posting it I learned a lot. And I'm the same age as you. I was 6 years old in 1968 so I know all about TV and cartoons.
I miss Saturday morning cartoons. Now I watch Saturday morning TH-cam channels! 🙂
Never saw any of these toons. But I used to play outside a lot as a kid.
So did I. I learned to multitask at an early age.
"Johnny Cypher" and "Rocket Robin Hood" came immediately to mind when I saw the title of the video. "Fantastic Voyage" brings good memories, too. I may have watched "Space Angel", as I remember the weird synchro-vox thing, but I can't say for sure. I wouldn't have thought of "The Herculoids" as Science-Fiction, but technically it is, I guess. I would have put "Journey to the Center of the Earth" on the list, instead.
Lots of choices there. A pity so many of them aren't available.
Fond memories of 'The Herculoids'. That's the only one I got into though I did spend a weekend watching 'Space Angel' on a station that was running back-to-back episodes. It had superior artwork ruined by SynchroVox, IMO. The episodes were pretty good as I recall.
The plots worked well, too.
I myself love the beginning and the end of Fantastic Voyage music theme. Awesome music (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!
There was so much great music in 1960s US cartoons.
@@terrytalksmoviesThat is so absolutely right. #1 favorite music in my life is soundtracks. I'm a vivid collector. Movies,Tv shows and cartoons. I also love a good composition in Tv commericals. And believe me there are some great music in Tv commericals. Thanks for your comment (from 976-CREOLEMAN).
I grew up in the 60's and remember Marine Boy, as well as some that you didn't mention, such as Gigantor and Astro Boy.
Yep and Tobor the 8th Man.
Space Angel, was great along with Johnny Quest, Clutch Cargo. They still occupy space within my 65 yo brain. 😉
All our childhood favourites are still in our heads and always will be. 😀
Never heard of any of these and I was born on 60. Except for the herculoids
All worth checking out. 😀😉
Awww, ickle Terry, so cute! Great video. The only one I’ve seen is The Herculoids, maybe they were the only ones that got repeated in the following decades. The lip thingy is still used, The Annoying Orange is one but that is eyes also.
I'm still cute, thank you very much. BTW I may have bought one of the other series on eBay yesterday. Already had The Herculoids.
Buen video, sin estas series no existirían las caricaturas actuales de ciencia ficción.
Eso es cierto.
Space Angel - I loved Space Angel! My first retro-future experience. Okay, the Synchro-Vox is a little weird. But the spaceships were Very Cool, and there was a real effort to create a viable SF universe (Each of the nine planets had their own insignia on the tail section of their ships.) No Saturday morning cartoon after it was ever quite as authentic - Thanks!
The production design by Alex Toth was first rate.
I never saw Rocket Robin Hood, but I have the DVD box set of the 1967 animated Spiderman which after Bakshi took over RRH, he also took over Spiderman, and actually to save money incoroporated elements of RRH with Spiderman.
Rocket Robin Hood was a childhood favourite of mine.
The only ones I knew were "Fantastic Voyage" (Busby was my favorite character on that show, btw) and "The Herculoids".
The Herculoids were so ultimately cool.
Somehow, I missed out on Johnny Cypher (I suspect the alien may have been voiced by the same person who did Spritle Racer). I remember Rocket Robin Hood but, for some reason, it never got into my regular rotation. Fascinating that Fantastic Voyage only has seventeen total episodes. I certainly remember it well, especially that dramatic opening. I liked Space Angel but it seemed like it took forever to get through an entire adventure. I liked the Herculoids as well but, in retrospect, it was very formulaic, same basic plot with a different evil alien each week.
The Herculoids and the other Hanna-Barbera action shows have been turned into comic books recently. Look up Future Quest. Still fun.
I'm familiar with almost all of these from my early years, but don't think I've ever heard of Rocket Robin Hood or Captain Fathom.
Terry, there's a large number of cartoons by lesser known studios, like Harveytoons (Heckle and Jeckle (sp?) the magpies, Dinky Duck who flew with his feet, Baby Huey, Casper the Friendly Ghost) as well as Terrytoons (Mighty Mouse, the Terry Bears, Farmer Alfalfa). _I may have mixed a few of those up by studio!_ There were also others like Batfink and Roger Ramjet, and the educational show The Funny Company.
Almost forgot to mention, I had a plastic model kit of the Voyager from Fantastic Voyage. Unfortunately it and a lot of others didn't survive into my adulthood.
The Seaview is the best part of Voyage. It looks plausible.
Fantastic Voyage was an engaging, clever series.
It had a groovy vibe about it.
Great intro. I luv yr humour
Thanks. Me, too. 😉
What a great video!
Thanks so much. 😀
Great list, sir! I enjoyed the editing, too!
Thanks Anthony. I'm playing with it.
I can't believe you totally forgot Johnny Quest!!!!!!
I've covered it on other videos. 😀
In the 70s I watched Casper, Bugs Bunny roadrunner hour and Looney tunes, Underdog, Josie and the pussycats, scooby doo, dastardly and muttely, woody woodpecker, Mr. Magoo, deputy dog, Hercules, rocky and bullwinkle , I didn't see the Science Fiction and superhero cartoons much, except Hercules!
The Mighty Hercules was fun. In a modern context, it appears his sidekick was a twink.
Terry you must remember Prince Planet and even more obscure - Phantoma!
Favorites. Trust me I was only six at the time!
I did have a Prince Planet t-shirt ten years ago. Love that stuff. Phantoma is based on Ogon Batto, and I have the live action movie version of that, starring Sonny Chiba.
I vaguely recall some of those, but I think I was too busy watching Thunderbirds are Go and Gigantor the Space Age Robot (AKA Tetsujin 28)
Both good choices, though all of those things were on at different times. 😀
I wasn't a fan of "Space Ghost".... until he got his talk show!!!
Birdman was a bit underwritten in his first iteration. 😀
I really miss cartoon corner and Heye hey its Saturday. Loved Marine Boy. These are just a bit before my time LOL. OK Hercules women look fine LOL.Great insights thanks Terry, stay safe,
I have Marine Boy on DVD for the nostalgic fun of it. Eventually our entire childhoods will be able to be purchased. We're staying safe here. Half way through lockdown and plenty of coffee.
OMG - The Herculoids!!
Yep. I bought the boxset a month ago. Totally worth it!
@@terrytalksmovies Nick S & I watched a couple of episodes on his couch a few years back - it made no sense! Everything was always trying to shoot that family. And none of them ever wore pants!
@@catrionasparks6681 True. As it happens the graphics novels deal with the constant invasion issue, but not the pants.
Great video Terry. The Herculoids is one of my all time favorites. Haven’t seen Rocket Robin Hood since I was a kid. Almost forgot about that one.
When I Retire I'm Gonna Get All These on DVD and Be a 1060s Kid Again. (smile)
Go for it!
@@terrytalksmovies Touche' (smile)
I had 3 brothers and we fought over which Herculoid we were!
Igoo would be the one to go for.
Born in 5, Herculoids s oneb of the first cartoons I remember, though I'm sure it was mainly through repeats. I
The Herculoids were fantastic. Great worldbuilding and design work, terrific music...
He mentioned many familiar cartoons i enjoyed growing up in the 60's. But as the best, only one i recognize Space Angels. I can not say it was the best but all of the other i can not know even to titles let alone their quality. I do not know if it qualify as cartoon but things not live action shows. But things like Supercar or Stingray. I guess these are qualified as animated. But he mentioned like Johnny Quest That was great and i remember to my years i grew up. I confess there are shows I loved but could not tell titles. If i saw a list what was on, I would instant remember things I loved and the quality they were. But for shows even I can not remember the title is not close to be the Top.
I 💕 Supercar and Stingray.
I don't recall that Dorno was ever specifically described in series as Zandor and Tara's "son", nor that Zandor and Tara were husband and wife. The relationship among them always seemed confusingly nebulous and unspecified to me at the time. I took them to be a "family" of choice and purpose (defending their planet) rather than blood (and surely there was no hanky-panky going on between Zandor and Tara!) 🤣
According to the Future Quest graphic novels, Dorno is their son.
They're reairing marine boy. I'll make sure to watch.with my bowl of cereal.
Nice! Having the DVD lets me watch it when I like.
Space Angel was fine as long as he didn’t have to parallel park, same as Leela.
Space Angel's spaceports were very well organised. 😉😀
Zippy the Pinhead on synchrovox: "Their mouths look like little oysters!"
Yep but I love that stuff!
I remember watching all of these when I was a kid. But where is "Prince Planet" or "Eighth Man"?
I kept them for a later video I did on the same subject. 😀
Never heard of the first one and the fourth but know of the rest
Track them all down. It shouldn't be too difficult on YT.
Space Angels first came out in 1960 not 1962. Remember seeing it then as a small boy. Great cartoon though.
My sources say 1962.
Guess you didn't get the 1967 HB animated version of The Fantastic Four.
The Fantastic Four was okay but not fantastic. 😀
Maybe you could do another list, including "Jonny Quest" and "Jouney to the Center of the Earth".
I'm thinking about it.
I Want All Five on DVD.
P.S. #6. 1964 Hanna Barbera Jonny Quest, Too.
They're all still watchable, which is a great achievement.