Old and forgotten Cartoon series

Dravokivich · 07-08-2020 11:30am

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Duckula
Danger mouse

My 6 year old son loves both of them! It's great to watch them with him and think, wow these kids cartoons are a bit smart.

Thundercats ROAR is such a let down, when you compare it to Thundercats.

IAMAMORON · 07-08-2020 11:30am

Bod and Farmer Barlemow.

jjmcclure · 07-08-2020 11:34am

G Force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07P5f6TY9RQ

Dungeons and Dragons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JjhQ1Oi_3k

Princess Calla · 07-08-2020 11:35am

Gummi bears.

Godzilla the cartoon

The Jetsons

Sharkey and George.... Crime busters of the sea

joeguevara · 07-08-2020 11:38am

Sport Billy. Had a magic bag where he could get any piece of sport equipment from. Absolute cracker of a kids cartoon.

odyssey06 · 07-08-2020 11:40am

Deleted User wrote: »

Once upon a time, Life.

There was a whole series, 'Life' was just one season.
Others were from historical periods such as cavemen, Romans, Greeks and then there was one season set in the future.
The same characters played similar roles through the ages such as 'Maestro'.

Sometimes I see episodes from it on Virgin channel TV5 Monde Europe without subtitles though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time...

Once Upon a Time… Man
Once Upon a Time… Space
Once Upon a Time… Life
Once Upon a Time… The Americas
Once Upon a Time… The Discoverers
Once Upon a Time… The Explorers
Once Upon a Time… Planet Earth

ianob7 · 07-08-2020 11:40am

Wild West Cowboys of moo Mesa anybody ?

Tabnabs · 07-08-2020 11:41am

From Ivor the Engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHMHC4GN5s8

to Willow the Wisp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE3ULzR_AMg

to Bravestar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUfJuOp7Dck

to having my young mind blown by Super Channel showing the Robotech TV series. That was from a land far removed from Dempsey's Den.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWlcZRuiVI

Yester · 07-08-2020 11:43am

Remember Maya the Bee? I hated that bee and kinda hoped the spider would get her. That spider was very scary.

unhappys10 · 07-08-2020 11:44am

I'd happily pay for a subscription service that had all of these.

ianob7 wrote: »

Wild West Cowboys of moo Mesa anybody ?

The cowboys were cows in this or am I raving?

recyclops · 07-08-2020 11:45am

actually a shout out to mr benn aswell

felt like there were hundreds of episodes turns out to be less than twenty

ianob7 · 07-08-2020 11:46am

On the money !!

ianob7 · 07-08-2020 11:47am

Biker mice from Mars
The Tick

unhappys10 · 07-08-2020 11:47am

As for Sharkie and George, we have 2 labs, Enzo and George, I sing this tune at them all the time replacing Sharkie with Enzo

circadian · 07-08-2020 11:48am

ianob7 wrote: »

Biker mice from Mars
The Tick

"By the speed of lint!"

Cyrus · 07-08-2020 11:50am

awesome thread, the show about the workings of the body was one weird cartoon, remember watching that

funny thing is my 6 year old (girl) mostly watches older cartoons, Fireman sam and Thomas the tank engine in the main.

joeguevara · 07-08-2020 11:50am

I presume it has already been mentioned but Pinky and the brain was one of my favourites in college.

As a kid I loved Penelope Pitstop cartoon. And anything with Pepe Le Pew.

07-08-2020 11:55am

unhappys10 wrote: »

No mention of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs?
Also one of my childhood faves The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers

https://youtu.be/n8sOc2T_Ckc

What the hell happened to cartoons, things are supposed to get better as time progresses not worse, some of the drivel that passes for cartoons these days.
My daughter will be shown all of this old stuff for sure.

Best animated show has to be Batman the animated series.

Not just cartoons, toys too. I remember as a kid talking with a friend and saying toys in the year 2000(:eek:) will be phenomenal. When the first transformers movie came out, I bought a couple of the transformers toys. If my transformers toys from when I was a kid in the 80's fought the current/recent toys, the modern autobots would be decimated. Light, flimsy, cheap yokes.

I don't agree that Batman TAS was the best animated show, simply because, there were so many great cartoons in the 80s and 90s.

Ducktales
Tailspin
The Racoons(which I especially loved)
Chip'n'Dale: Rescue rangers
Ghostbusters

A few I remember but don't remember the names of:

Intro was real cats and dogs in a garden and then it switched to a cartoon, with a different theme each week, sort of like day dreaming to be a different hero, like Robin Hood, possibly a star trek scenario?

An action cartoon, with 3-4 heros, one might have been black panther?

Count Duckula I never liked as a kid. Saw it recently and loved it. Thought it was hilarious. I think most of it just went over my head.

07-08-2020 11:57am

Cyrus wrote: »

awesome thread, the show about the workings of the body was one weird cartoon, remember watching that

funny thing is my 6 year old (girl) mostly watches older cartoons, Fireman sam and Thomas the tank engine in the main.

Try and find The Tugs for your daughter. Similar animation to Thomas the Tank engine. I used to love it.

Edit: Here's the first episode:

07-08-2020 11:59am

David the Gnome.

Did anyone mention He-man yet?

circadian · 07-08-2020 12:00pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Not just cartoons, toys too. I remember as a kid talking with a friend and saying toys in the year 2000(:eek:) will be phenomenal. When the first transformers movie came out, I bought a couple of the transformers toys. If my transformers toys from when I was a kid in the 80's fought the current/recent toys, the modern autobots would be decimated. Light, flimsy, cheap yokes.

I don't agree that Batman TAS was the best animated show, simply because, there were so many great cartoons in the 80s and 90s.

Ducktales
Tailspin
The Racoons(which I especially loved)
Chip'n'Dale: Rescue rangers
Ghostbusters

A few I remember but don't remember the names of:

Intro was real cats and dogs in a garden and then it switched to a cartoon, with a different theme each week, sort of like day dreaming to be a different hero, like Robin Hood, possibly a star trek scenario?

An action cartoon, with 3-4 heros, one might have been black panther?

Count Duckula I never liked as a kid. Saw it recently and loved it. Thought it was hilarious. I think most of it just went over my head.

The 80's and 90's have a wealth of amazing cartoons and some may have been more enjoyable than Batman TAS but it stands out for quality of animation, sound design, voice acting and scripting. In my opinion Batman was a work of art for the medium.

07-08-2020 12:01pm

joeguevara wrote: »

Sport Billy. Had a magic bag where he could get any piece of sport equipment from. Absolute cracker of a kids cartoon.

Thank you, someone else that knows Sport billy. I call my wife sport billy when she produces another random object from her handbag, usually anti venum or similar. No one ever gets it!:mad:

murphthesmurf · 07-08-2020 12:01pm

Nobody's mentioned Batfink yet ðŸ™„ðŸ™„ðŸ™„
"my wings are like a shield of steel"

If you have watched any of the modern Tom and Jerry it would break your heart, they've pillaged it.
Road Runner was the best, my mom and dad would sit and watch those too. The only shows that would have us all laughing.

odyssey06 · 07-08-2020 12:03pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Ghostbusters

the Real Ghostbusters

Cyrus · 07-08-2020 12:03pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Try and find The Tugs for your daughter. Similar animation to Thomas the Tank engine. I used to love it.

Edit: Here's the first episode:

might try her on postman pat as well

she is very funny, she is convinved fireman sam is real and when she finishes in college we are all moving to pontypandy where she will work as a firefighter

07-08-2020 12:03pm

circadian wrote: »

The 80's and 90's have a wealth of amazing cartoons and some may have been more enjoyable than Batman TAS but it stands out for quality of animation, sound design, voice acting and scripting. In my opinion Batman was a work of art for the medium.

Work of art, absolutely. it was a genius idea to use the theme music from Batman(1989) as the theme music for the cartoon.

joeguevara · 07-08-2020 12:11pm

Although not a series per se, I remember being mesmerised by a cartoon type mini movie of a family of kids who fall down a hole and into a magical land where the creatures only communicated by using the word 'og'. Amazingly after a few minutes I could completely understand (well I thought I could anyway) what they meant when they were going og og og og og og og og og og. Tried it on my parents after, fcuckers must be morons as they hadn't a clue what I was saying.

07-08-2020 12:19pm

Any mention of the Tennage Mutant Hero Turtles original? Terrible animation but i loved it

joeguevara · 07-08-2020 12:24pm

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Any mention of the Tennage Mutant Hero Turtles original? Terrible animation but i loved it

I remember when it was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but needed to change the name as it was too violent. That was the start of it.

el_gaucho · 07-08-2020 12:26pm

joeguevara wrote: »

I remember this cartoon about inside the human body. How blood would be attacking viruses etc. It was fcucking amazing.

We bought the series on DVD in Italy a few years ago. Still brilliant. It has a set of books too.

How Soon Is Now · 07-08-2020 1:40pm

Rewatched every episode of TMNT recently with my son. I've shown him loads of old and new cartoons.

Mental how ridiculous the show got as it went on. Especially when they started changing voices *Original Shredder was the best!! *
Plus bringing these annoying characters in. I mean the less I say about Shreeka the better hahaha!
The last season or two when they changed to darker theme was bit meh as well.

Gonna jump on YouTube later and I'm sure I'll come across a ton of stuff again haha.

unhappys10 · 07-08-2020 2:05pm

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

Rewatched every episode of TMNT recently with my son. I've shown him loads of old and new cartoons.

Mental how ridiculous the show got as it went on. Especially when they started changing voices *Original Shredder was the best!! *
Plus bringing these annoying characters in. I mean the less I say about Shreeka the better hahaha!
The last season or two when they changed to darker theme was bit meh as well.

Gonna jump on YouTube later and I'm sure I'll come across a ton of stuff again haha.

Wasn't Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince the voice of Shredder?

The Mulk · 07-08-2020 2:16pm

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Thank you, someone else that knows Sport billy. I call my wife sport billy when she produces another random object from her handbag, usually anti venum or similar. No one ever gets it!:mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-C0SOmWeQ

Never knew he was an alien

I also loved the theme tune to "Amigo and Friends"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzT7kJOOW6E

How Soon Is Now · 07-08-2020 2:43pm

unhappys10 wrote: »

Wasn't Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince the voice of Shredder?

Yup he had some class back and forth with Krang threw out the first few seasons. Like two auld ones haha.

cruizer101 · 07-08-2020 2:45pm

BonnieSituation wrote: »

DIPLODOS!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplodos

I had completely forgotten about this cartoon until now, the song and the black circle faces on the dinos brought it back though, it was great.

BonnieSituation wrote: »

and of course the king of all theme tunes:
Mysterious cities of Gold

Great song, I don't actually remember the cartoon much mainly just the theme song.

Here is another great from that era I havn't seen mentioned, Spartakus and the Sun beneath the sea

Edit to add: Above is the show intro, there is also a full version of the song which is twice as long, great tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxeKLy-Yz38

skooterblue2 · 07-08-2020 3:07pm

Deleted User wrote: »

No mention of Starcom either. Great cartoon with brilliant toys.

Knew about the toys but never saw the cartoon

skooterblue2 · 07-08-2020 3:21pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

the Real Ghostbusters

Actually there was two.
The Ghostbusters were a hannabarbera cartoon like scooby doo.
The Ghostbusters film wanted to use the name and piad them.
Then Marvel and Dic did a cartoon but didnt want to pay royalties. So they called it the Real Ghostbusters.

skooterblue2 · 07-08-2020 3:22pm

el_gaucho wrote: »

We bought the series on DVD in Italy a few years ago. Still brilliant. It has a set of books too.

Congratulations on getting the books.
But F^&k me the price of those DVD!!!!!

07-08-2020 4:48pm

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Knew about the toys but never saw the cartoon

Most of them are on YouTube. It hasn't aged well. The toys were brilliant though.
M. A. S. K. Was the best thing ever when I was small, watched some recently and thought I was easily entertained as a child. It's still better than the stuff on nowadays though!

unhappys10 · 07-08-2020 5:11pm

Does anyone remember a cartoon about a giant dragon type creature, I think it was turned to stone and was trapped in a huge cave but could communicate somehow. It was evil and wanted to escape and had minions working towards that goal.

I can't remember any more details about it

skooterblue2 · 07-08-2020 7:48pm

unhappys10 wrote: »

Does anyone remember a cartoon about a giant dragon type creature, I think it was turned to stone and was trapped in a huge cave but could communicate somehow. It was evil and wanted to escape and had minions working towards that goal.

I can't remember any more details about it

Dragon lance or Fable

Eduard Khil · 07-08-2020 7:52pm

Dungeons and Dragons and M.A.S.K were two.of my favourites always thought Eric was a dick loved Uni and Presto.

The J Stands for Jay · 07-08-2020 7:53pm

skooterblue2 wrote: »

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (season 1&2)
Dogtanian

These 2 were made for binge watching. If you missed an episode or two it got confusing.

odyssey06 · 07-08-2020 7:55pm

I remember Flight of the Dragons, cartoon but think it was a once off TVM rather than series.

unhappys10 · 07-08-2020 7:56pm

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Dragon lance or Fable

Had a Google there and neither seem to be it

el_gaucho · 07-08-2020 8:16pm

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Congratulations on getting the books.
But F^&k me the price of those DVD!!!!!

I’m not sure how much they cost. They were released one by one as a series in the newsagents.

mistersifter · 07-08-2020 8:18pm

Here Comes the Grump

The J Stands for Jay · 07-08-2020 8:19pm

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Any mention of the Tennage Mutant Hero Turtles original? Terrible animation but i loved it

Some of it was animated in Ireland.

skooterblue2 · 07-08-2020 8:41pm

McGaggs wrote: »

Some of it was animated in Ireland.

It was Don Bluth studios (obviously here for tax reasons), they went burst on friday I remember (vaguely) and were taken over by Disney by Monday morning. I think they have some animation connections with Stillorgan college as regards internships.

Don Bluth? Fiefel Mouse, Land before time (childrens dinosaur cartoons), teenage mutant hero Turtles, All dogs go to heaven....... they were quite busy. Now all the cells are gone and its 3d animation.

Ko Chow · 07-08-2020 8:42pm

McGaggs wrote: »

These 2 were made for binge watching. If you missed an episode or two it got confusing.

Yes, the scheduling sometimes wouldn't be great so the next episode wouldn't always be in order. Few other series never really had an ending.

Had a brainwave and looked it up a few years ago, Inspector Gadget never did catch up with Dr Claw...

Few more I liked

Heathcliff
Ovide
Rude dog and the Dweebs

Old and forgotten Cartoon series

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