Old Cartoons (the unusual ones)

guinnessdrinker

Someone already briefly mentioned Galaxy High, this was a cool cartoon that I used to enjoy watching on Saturday mornings, i forget which channel but i cant believe they only made 13 episodes of it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_High

Also another poster mentioned the music for the Racoons cartoon was pretty good, it was too!, the main theme at least, here's the lyrics:

http://www.gilsinan.com/raccoons/songs/run_with_us.shtml

abetarrush

Dungeons and Dragons
He-man
She-ra
The Turtles



No wonder kids these days are so thick, the crap they watch! like them Floobie things or whatever they're called

layke

http://www.obiwobble.btinternet.co.uk/trapdoor/trapdoor.html

Not so much a cartoon, none the less one of my faves.

Trode

matu wrote:

Great little blog for cartoons found this little find on another forum
go on bring out the kid inside you once again.

http://digguser.blogspot.com/2006/06/cartoon-index-full-length-episodes.html

I watched the Chuck Norris cartoon linked on that site, and frankly it may just be the most awesome thing I've seen in my life. He fights waves of the world's worst ninjas every four minutes! He hosts a gala charity dinner attended only by him and his four gaudily-attired friends, but it's interrupted by ninja attacks anyway! He punches flying ninjas out of his way as he calmly walks to the lift, which he later randomly destroys before he has any reason to! He chases a private jet in a wooden biplane! He survives having this same biplane hit with a cruise missile! He does all of this without displaying anything even approximating an emotion or non-neutral facial expression! SUPER-NINJA!

Archeron

layke wrote:

http://www.obiwobble.btinternet.co.uk/trapdoor/trapdoor.html

Not so much a cartoon, none the less one of my faves.

Classic. I just played the "BERK, FEED ME" Wav file on full volume in the office and scared the bejibbidies out of everyone. LOL

matu

Trode wrote:

I watched the Chuck Norris cartoon linked on that site, and frankly it may just be the most awesome thing I've seen in my life. He fights waves of the world's worst ninjas every four minutes! He hosts a gala charity dinner attended only by him and his four gaudily-attired friends, but it's interrupted by ninja attacks anyway! He punches flying ninjas out of his way as he calmly walks to the lift, which he later randomly destroys before he has any reason to! He chases a private jet in a wooden biplane! He survives having this same biplane hit with a cruise missile! He does all of this without displaying anything even approximating an emotion or non-neutral facial expression! SUPER-NINJA!

yeah i watched that one last night but I dont remember seeing it as a kid, maybe I was better off as I may not have enjoyed it as much.

Trode

matu wrote:

yeah i watched that one last night but I dont remember seeing it as a kid, maybe I was better off as I may not have enjoyed it as much.

Yeah, me neither, although I did own a Chuck Norris toy I now think was based on that show. If I had seen it, it probably would have challenged my entire religious understanding God being God the Father, God the Son and Optimus Prime.

YeAh!

Anyone remmember this childrens programme where the main character lived on earth but was from another planet and used contact her home by putting her finger up to her forehead and a light would come out and through the galaxy to her planet?

Also, anyone remmember a cartoon where the main characters were young and they used travel around on hovering boards? I have a vague memory of it that came to me when I came to this thread....

the Shades

Ooh.. the hoverboards somehow brought my mind to another classic old cartoon: Muppet Babies! Not going to help you remember what that cartoon was but MB used to have me up early every Saturday morning and then later watching it every day after school on the Den. Absolutely loved it.

Archeron

the Shades wrote:

Ooh.. the hoverboards somehow brought my mind to another classic old cartoon: Muppet Babies! Not going to help you remember what that cartoon was but MB used to have me up early every Saturday morning and then later watching it every day after school on the Den. Absolutely loved it.

Brilliant I think thats the first time I've remembered the muppet babies since the last time I watched it on TV. They rocked.

Dudess

Oh, Muppet Babies was my reason for getting up early on a Saturday morning. Fantastic!

YeAh!

Wow I remmember that too! see here

L

Trode wrote:

I watched the Chuck Norris cartoon linked on that site, and frankly it may just be the most awesome thing I've seen in my life. He fights waves of the world's worst ninjas every four minutes! He hosts a gala charity dinner attended only by him and his four gaudily-attired friends, but it's interrupted by ninja attacks anyway! He punches flying ninjas out of his way as he calmly walks to the lift, which he later randomly destroys before he has any reason to! He chases a private jet in a wooden biplane! He survives having this same biplane hit with a cruise missile! He does all of this without displaying anything even approximating an emotion or non-neutral facial expression! SUPER-NINJA!

Wow. That's possibly the greatest cartoon ever

Nmsis

What was great in the 80's were all the Chalopin's cartoons. Jean Chalopin and his fellows Bernard Deyriès and Bruno Bianchi were (are) great guys.
The list of Chalopin's cartoons on imdb.com isn't even complete (he did live shows too like the Hitchhiker but he isn't even credited for that):

Creator of DIC (he was 21 then), author, scenarist, director, producer of many shows.
Inspiring model (hair and beard stuff) for Ulysses and Audric, the father of Jayce (they look pretty similar, don't you think :eek: :cool: ) ... and also said to be Inspector Gadget's model in some ways.:D

At the begining of the 80's, he brought fresh air to animation, stopping the Hannah & Barbera monotony. He worked with the japanese, moving to Japan (Ulysses 31, Mysterious Cities of Gold, the 2 masterpieces), then with the americans, moving to the US, combining the best of the 3 countries. French DIC became american due to major US investment and produced great cartoons (Jayce and the Wheelie Warriors, Inspector Gadget, Pole Position, Rainbow Brite, Popples, Heathcliff, the Littles, Mask ...., all created or writen or produced by Chalopin, directed by Deyriès and Bianchi). DIC was the 1st cartoon producer in the world. He was regularly appearing on the french kids' show and is a part of our childhood memory as "Ulysses' and Jayce's Dad".

At the end of the 80's, he was pushed to sell DIC to american hands. Then to leave the artistic control of the company. So he left the US and came back to home country, and created a new company which produced :
- the Diplodos
- Heroes on Hotwheels
- King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
- Bot's Master
- Sophie and Virginie,
- The Twins of destiny....

But at the begining of the 90's, the french channels who were now Chalopin's only funders didn't want to invest into animation any more and the french cartoons disapeared. The Chalopin's and the other french cartoons (like "once upon a time....Life/Space/Man...", "Spartakus and the Sun beneath the Sea", "Clementine", "Seabert", "Rahan"...) were gone. Along with the japanese and most of the american ones.:(

It was the end of the golden age where animation and kids shows were huge on French TV. I haven't really heard of DIC's shows since Chalopin left. If the french animation suffered hell in the 90's, US animation suffered too, from having called off such a great creative guy.:mad:

What was wonderfull in the 80's was the diversity of the animation available for kids. Typical entertaining american animation (I looove Captain Caveman and Scoubidou), great french/ japaneses and french/ american (japanese execution) coproductions, serious/educational but entertaining French animation and great quality Japanese animation (we had tons of it during this golden era of japanimation, unllike today's average production).

The good news is that french TVs are getting interested in animation again and that french shows and coproductions are back. Some french shows are ... too american (I mean they are just meant for fun like "totally spies") or too japanese (like Code Lyoko) so they don't really have that "something different" but some are really great like the franco-japanese Oban Star Racers or the stylish Skyland which are both sailing to your shores along with the Renaissance movie. And Chalopin could come back with the Mysterious Cities of Gold as the project seems now on track. Diversity may be coming back. And I think US animation and japanese animation may benefit from this emulation like in the 80's since I'm pretty sure cooperations will occur.

Chalopin is the 80's animation "Pope" but he isn't credited anywhere for his wonderful job. It's a real shame. Even in France, he is not credited. But all the 20-35 have heard of him. The nostalgia generation which is getting mature (we had such great programs then, I mean real quality, that current shows for our kids seem shamefull). If Chalopin comes back with the Mysterious Cities' movie, I'm pretty sure he will finally get the tribute he deserves (at least in France ...:p ).

Nmsis

YeAh! wrote:

Anyone remmember this childrens programme where the main character lived on earth but was from another planet and used contact her home by putting her finger up to her forehead and a light would come out and through the galaxy to her planet?

Was it japanese or US ? Could it be Gigi ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv-jBO4rs1A&search=gigi

Do you have more memories about the 2nd one ?

Trode

L wrote:

Wow. That's possibly the greatest cartoon ever

The best part is that twenty minutes of culturally-stereotyping, ninja-punching madness is somehow supposed to teach you a lesson about bullies being cowards or some damn thing. Like being picked on by purple ninjas with 80s hair and cruise missiles was such a serious concern for Americas youth that Chick Norris felt he had to speak out against it.

Grimlock

Vicky the Viking.....all summer first thing in the morning on ITV.
wikipedia - Vicky_the_Viking

Pole Position

and Victor and Hugo which I thought was the funniest cartoon ever.

Has anyone watch a Count Duckula since they grew up? There's so much tongue in chhek and sexual inuendo in that cartoon.

o1s1n

i dunno if i'll get given out to for this, but, i saw someone mention The Racoons..so here you go!

http://theraccoons.ru/images/video.php

enjoy

cushtac

Myth wrote:

Anyone remember Battletech? Was a mechwarrior cartoon ages ago. I think the battles were in '3-D' or else I'm confusing it with something else!

No, you're spot-on. It was standard animation until they went into battle & used their 'enhanced imaging' then it went to 3D :

http://www.battletechuniverse.org/somerset/

There's episodes on YouTube too IIRC

Trode wrote:

Also, has anybody mentioned Defenders of the Earth yet? Classic, Flash Gordon plus a couple of nobodies from old comics(Phantom, Mandrake the magician), a token black guy whose name I forget, and their children/sidekicks who always ended up saving everyone. And MING!

Yer man's name was Lothar & he was Mandrake's mate, Dubs might remember the two of them from the Mandrake strip in the Evening Herald (donkey's years ago).

The Chuck Norris thing sounds a bit like the Mr. T cartoon. He'd drive around the US with a bus full of kids (for some reason) solving crime & beating up bad guys. At the end or every episode, T himself (not a cartoon) would give a moral message and say 'take it from me, Mr. T'

DéiseGirl

One of my favourite cartoons ever was "Once Upon a Time...The Americas". Eacdh episode was about a different event/period in American history.

Spartakus was some depressing cartoon.

Loved the Racoons! Cyril Sneer always reminded me of Charlie Haughey when I was younger

Doctor Snuggles flying away to the stars!

This is not a cartoon, but does anyone remember a programme called Storybook International. The "storyteller" in the opening credits was fair annoying...."In Germany I'm Johann, in England I am John" oh feck off!!

Dudess

Absolutely loved Storybook International. Never missed it. It was class.

sturgo

Who remembers Here Comes The Grump? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063910/

Flukey

Does anyone remember The Space Sentinels?
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/spacsent.htm

Flukey

Another very similar one of the 70s also, was Battle of the Planets.

L

sturgo wrote:

Who remembers Here Comes The Grump? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063910/

Best show ever. Forgot about this till I got digital- one of the channels was showing it.

uncle ernie

the moomins, not the cartoon the stop motion one.
dogtanion too

Kooli

uncle ernie wrote:

the moomins, not the cartoon the stop motion one.
dogtanion too

I was obsessed with Dogtanian. And I fancied one of the Muskahounds, the one with the long ears, the poetic one.
There, I said it.

DéiseGirl

Kooli wrote:

I was obsessed with Dogtanian. And I fancied one of the Muskahounds, the one with the long ears, the poetic one.
There, I said it.

LOL, had a bit of a crush on him myself. For shame!

2Poc

Anyone remember any of these:

Rude dog & the dweebs
King Rollo
Mr. Ben

No idea what made me think of them...

jessica_m

So many classics mentioned here, i loved Jem!

Can anyone remember a cartoon about a group of kids, who when they went to sleep, all travelled to a 'dream land' where there was a king who slept on loads of matresses? Its been doing my head in for ages!

Ruadan

...and they had flying pillows with wee clouds coming out of them instead of cars? and a dog taht could talk in the dreams?

jessica_m

yeah! but what was it called!

Dudess

jessica_m wrote:

i loved Jem!

Oh yeah! That was fantastic! It was about an all-girl rock group. It was pretty popular - even a range of dolls was brought out. They kicked Rock Star Barbie's ass!

c - 13

jessica_m wrote:

So many classics mentioned here, i loved Jem!

Can anyone remember a cartoon about a group of kids, who when they went to sleep, all travelled to a 'dream land' where there was a king who slept on loads of matresses? Its been doing my head in for ages!

Was it Potsworth and Company by any chance ?

Aidan78

Loved some of the cartoons previously mentioned by other posters, including Thundercats, Gummie Bears (I always wanted some of the Gummie berry juice ), Captain Planet and Girl of Tomorrow (She was hot!).

Some other memories from childhood include Top Cat and Bananaman (that geeky kid Eric, who ate a banana and turned into an adult superhero) and also Round The Twist (I know it wasn't a cartoon, but it was still good)

dabbler2004

monkeyfudge wrote:

Anyone remember Pandamonium?

It was about 3 pandas who could merge together into one big panda who had super powers.

Yes yes yes!! someone else who remembers this cartoon....I get the funniest looks when I ask people if they know it. Tbh I only have vague memories of it but I know I did make a point to watch it if it was on. God I'm gettin old

Yes! I knew I didn't dream up Battletech!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqzEssjkMeU

Ruu_Old

Aidan78 wrote:

Loved some of the cartoons previously mentioned by other posters, including Thundercats, Gummie Bears (I always wanted some of the Gummie berry juice ), Captain Planet and Girl of Tomorrow (She was hot!).

Some other memories from childhood include Top Cat and Bananaman (that geeky kid Eric, who ate a banana and turned into an adult superhero) and also Round The Twist (I know it wasn't a cartoon, but it was still good)

Brilliant one alright, intro here.

Sizzler

Me aul mate Ulysees ! TOP of the range!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1UyldazDcg

Ph3n0m

you just cant beat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vSD8DliZ1w - M.A.S.K
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1c1G24GWDg - Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrPRsgeNcs - Earthworm Jim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEsHUel04dY - He-Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouR69ZIC-jM - Inspector Gadget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC_Z-ebp9Es - Voltron (anyone guess who is doing the voice over )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbPxRAeClJA - Bananaman


man I could do this all day

k8sca

YeAh! wrote:

Vagely remmember it actually! Was very very wierd for a 10 year old. Certainly wasn't something i'd wake up at 7am to watch.

Anyone remmember that cartoon. There were this crowd that spread pollution on a boat I think, and there were these others trying to stop them. Only very barely remmember it.

I think it was called smoggy island??? and there was a witch living on the boat or something??? ive been asking loads of people if they remember it but no one did!! i know i wasn't making it up!!!!

Capt'n Midnight

Has anyone mentioned Noggin the Nog yet ?

http://www.nogginthenog.co.uk/