classic Cartoons from the 80's

Engine No.9

There doesn't seem to be anywhere more specific for this so here I go.

Recently I downloaded a few series of 80's cartoons so the kids would know what decent (kids) cartoons were like so when they come up in conversations with mates while they're around, they wouldn't feel totally lost. I got He-Man, M.A.S.K., Dungeons and Dragons and Ulysses 31. couldn't get a decent download of bravestarr and wasn't really interested in Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors or Transformers. Dogtanian and the.Muskehounds is currently downloading.

Which shows am I missing which are just painfully obvious?

Slime Princess

I loved SHE-RA as a kid, though it used to terrify me. (I used to watch it whilst hiding behind the couch!)

Recommendations would be Teddy Ruxpin, The Smurfs, Ducktails, Super Ted, Count Duckula, The Raccoons, Gummi Bears, Garfield, Heathcliff and the Catalitic Cats, Mr Benn, the Jetsons, the Muppet Babies, New Adventures of Johnny Quest. Also the Animals of Farthing Wood, though I think thats a 90s one not a 80s one.

I assume you've got from your avatar that you've obtained a copy of Thundercats too.

melbite

Captain planet - he was totally awesome. battle of the planets.

melbite

my apologies captain planet was 1990, but he was so cool

chainsmoker556

She-ra is cool!

Archeron

Inspector gadget

Alf Veedersane

Thundercats.

Saturday mornings were invented for it.

lazybones32

Gummi Bears; Super Ted; The Turtles; The Care Bears; Babar; The Snorks; Danger Mouse (never liked it but watched it); Talespin; Alvin + the Chipmunks...;Ch-ch-ch-Chip and Dale...Rescue Rangers and the Smurfs.

Saturday and Sunday mornings were great.

geotrig

The great grape ape ,it was probably earlier ,mask ,the ghostbusters and the real ghostbusters ,one of them was probably a bit older as it was a bit trippy ,
Around the world with willy fog ,Dino riders ,i think there was A GI joe cartoon as well. Denver the last dinosaur ,sing it, he's ...cant remember it ! and tail spin, i have one or 2 more i cant think of there name ..arrrrghhh

there was a transformers knock off cartoon as well...or maybe it was just transformers :think: ****ing gobots

Captain Chaos

Loved Battletech, the CGI was great for the time but some of the animation was a bit dodgy here and there. I wish they carried on the story after the 12 episodes.

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors was another, loved the intro track to that.

Watched the Mysterious Cities of Gold recently and currently on a Ulysses 31 binge. It's striking how much more mature and darker the writing in these shows was back then, especially when you compare to todays over pc mollycoddled tripe my wee one is going to grow up seeing

I'm not quite old enough to have seen the original runs of them but old enough to have seen them repeated in the mid 80's

OP Mysterious Cities of Gold is a must it's aged very well,

Does anyone know if the sequel from a few years ago was any use? I watched one episode of it after my run through the original a few months back and couldn't settle on the updated voices and visuals.

lazybones32

geotrig wrote: »

The great grape ape ,it was probably earlier ,mask ,the ghostbusters and the real ghostbusters ,one of them was probably a bit older as it was a bit trippy ,
Around the world with willy fog ,Dino riders ,i think there was A GI joe cartoon as well. Denver the last dinosaur ,sing it, he's ...cant remember it ! and tail spin, i have one or 2 more i cant think of there name ..arrrrghhh

there was a transformers knock off cartoon as well...or maybe it was just transformers :think: ****ing gobots

The transformers spin-off was Mask. Youtube it...

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Watched the Mysterious Cities of Gold recently and currently on a Ulysses 31 binge. It's striking how much more mature and darker the writing in these shows was back then, especially when you compare to todays over pc mollycoddled tripe my wee one is going to grow up seeing

I'm not quite old enough to have seen the original runs of them but old enough to have seen them repeated in the mid 80's

OP Mysterious Cities of Gold is a must it's aged very well,

Does anyone know if the sequel from a few years ago was any use? I watched one episode of it after my run through the original a few months back and couldn't settle on the updated voices and visuals.

MCoG is a must watch for the Intro alone! forgot all about it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy3RTFFhSYs 30 odd mins but definitely worth watching.

mARKsv23

This may be from the 90's but I loved the Uncanny X-Men cartoon as well as Spiderman TAS. Jem was good to. Let's see, Visionaries, Centurions, Bionic Six, She-ra, He-Man, Silver Hawks etc. so many to choose from!

Ragnar Lothbrok

Some great memories in this thread

Some of my favourites were: Tarzan Lord of the Jungle; Jana of the Jungle; Hong Kong Phooey; Wacky Races; Penelope Pitstop; Hair Bear Bunch; Arabian Knights; Valley of the Dinosaurs; He-Man & She-Ra.

Most of the above would have been shown originally in the mid- to late-Seventies but would definitely have been shown in the Eighties too.

Funnily enough, in my memories Jana of the Jungle was a black girl but after I checked her out in Wiki, it seems my memory was playing tricks and she was actually blonde haired, blue eyed and most definitely not Afro-American

Maybe I was muddling her up with another character? Anyone have any ideas?

me_irl

Captain N: The Game Master... Technically 80s!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096554/

Oh! And C.O.P.S.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163438/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

EDIT: zombiethread! :eek: