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RIP, Jack Warden
…year 1972 heard the actor’s voice in Dig, known as the first network Saturday morning cartoon special. Later, Warden could also be found as the voice of Rocko in 1986’s… |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume One
…NBC Saturday morning cartoon called Birdman And The Galaxy Trio. This was the year after Space Ghost And Dino Boy became a Hanna-Barbera hit for ABC (along with Filmation’s New… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys
…by Filmation into a Saturday morning cartoon in 1969.) Careful negotiations were made, resulting in a list of instructions for the Disney people, concerning how the boys were to be… |
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The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series
…until Jamie Summers and Diana Prince came along the following year, giving young girls a hero of their own to idolize. Saturday morning TV was criticized often in those days… |
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Josie And The Pussycats: The Complete Series
…Valerie, the real brains behind the team and the first African American main character to appear on a Saturday morning cartoon (beating The Harlem Globetrotters only by one half-hour time… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season
…offered. It’s good for a Saturday morning cartoon, but nothing too special. No other languages are offered, and only English subtitles for the hearing impaired. Final Cut: Something finally clicked… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season
…this show is. It careens from the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever seen, to some of the darkest stuff that ever found its way to Saturday morning. All these types… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
Two masked icons of the American West stand up to the forces of oppression in this set of Filmation cartoons that finishes off their respective Saturday morning series…. |
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Wizards
…played on Saturday morning TV, and the similarities between these and The Ren And Stimpy Show are no coincidence: Bakshi’s Mighty Mouse collaborator was John Kricfalusi, creator of those later… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…paranormal practitioners, remember – return to DVD for the promised second, and final, collection of their animated adventures. The Filmation studio, were justly famous for its wealth of Saturday morning… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…that was part of the current wave of serious superhero cartoons with season-arching storylines” and packing in much info on the comic book origins and the topics the episodes tackle…. |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…DVD set, 455 mins plus supplements, $30 Don’t get excited for Paul Terry’s original, undervalued TerryToon series, or even Filmation’s late 1970s/early 80s Saturday morning television revival, but be energized… |
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M.A.S.K.: Volume One
…not receive the complete series set for review, but you may be interested to know that that set does include featurettes entitled Unmasking M.A.S.K. and Saturday Morning Crusaders. Case Study:… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…least some consideration. First up is the eighteenth episode from the 1985 Saturday morning TV seriesThe Charlie Brown And Snoopy Show, which has three stories. The Play recalls A Charlie… |
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Help! …It’s The Hair Bear Bunch!: The Complete Series
…things considered. This would potentially make a nice little purchase for curious Saturday Morning TV fans looking to fill out a purchase during a sale. Animated Classic or Back To… |
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Mickey And The Roadster Racers
…until it eventually abandoned the format entirely. More impoartant was the quality of the show, which had almost shockingly great animation and lively, Saturday morning-style adventures. Jake was sadly cancelled… |
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Tangled: Before Ever After
…division, there was real concern that the proposed programs look better than anything seen on a Saturday morning from the likes of DIC Entertainment, for example. “We can’t go out… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…unique amidst an onslaught of other releases from the comic book genre (even if Harley’s iconic cosplay-friendly Suicide Squad outfit is kind of missed here). Essentially a live-action Saturday morning… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…positive side for home video, Warner Archive put out a few Saturday morning shows on sparkling Blu-rays, including fan favorites The Herculoids and Thundarr The Barbarian, plus a welcomed third… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…must have been smiling throughout the whole film, feeling like a kid watching Garfield And Friends on a Saturday morning once again. On the small screen, Bluey [right] once again… |
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Boomerang welcomes Batman, Superman with marathons
…of Steel Each to Launch with Five-Hour Marathons on August 20th and 21st, 8pm – 1am Saturday, August 20th, and Sunday, August 21st, mark the date when two of DC… |
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Pencils to Pixels to Prominence
The following is a press release regarding a special panel discussion entitled “The Indian Animation Industry: Pencils to Pixels to Prominence” to be held this coming Saturday, April 22, as… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
Good morning! It was my birthday yesterday and the only reason that I bring it up is that one of the gifts I received was a book long on my… |
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Blow me down! Popeye Volume 2 reviewed, plus Shrek The Halls details!
Welcome to a new week! We’ve official word from DreamWorks this morning, on that stand-alone release of Shrek The Halls on DVD, the cover art for which can be seen… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…of Stephen Hillenburg, who created one of the most popular cartoons of all time with SpongeBob SquarePants. And, speaking of getting older(!), you all probably know that 2018 saw the… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…the other thing is they asked for sketchbook support from my films, so I had a lot of anti-Nixon, anti-Ford cartoons in there and then the response was, “Well, you… |
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Boomerang readies Captain Planet unseen episodes
Next Saturday, April 22nd, the Boomerang network will air 13 episodes of Captain Planet and the Planeteers. The episodes set to air compose a sixth season of the classic series,… |
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Nickelodeon keeps focus on animation
…Swears by Cartoons,” which explains the importance of cartoons for the network. As Cyma Zarghami, the president of Nickelodeon, explains, “Animation really is the heart and soul of our business.”… |
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The Jetsons: The Complete First Season
…on Saturday mornings, where it became a sensation. The show spawned a popular comic book, toys, books, and other popular memorabilia (something that Hanna-Barbera has always managed to do well)…. |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…my films, so I had a lot of anti-Nixon, anti-Ford cartoons in there and then the response was, “Well, you oughtta get out of animation entirely and do political cartoons.”… |
