Do you remember this show....

[The Frankster]

I remember when I started on this forum a few years ago there was a topic called favorite overlooked tv shows. 

About earlier this year I stumbled on retrojunk.com and stumbled across this ad. And since most of the people on the forum are older than me I was hoping they would remember this cartoon better than I was. This website proved I was going insane being that there was a Donkey Kong cartoon with Mario back in the 80s.

The show was called Saturday Supercade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmfT-YPXo4M


The was done by Ruby-Spears and is follow up to Pac-Man cartoon.

The Show aired from 1983 - 1985
It was based on classic arcade games including:

Frogger


Donkey Kong

which was the 1st cartoon that featured Mario (this is 6 years before the super mario supershow)


PitFall


Q*Bert


Donkey Kong Jr.

Who was voiced by Frank Welker and if you thought Scrappy Doo's "Puppy Power" wasn't enough he had to go and come up with "Monkeyyyyyyyyyy Muscle ooh ohh ahh ahh"

When I got the classic NES system for Christmas of 88 I had the poster of games to get next and my dad pointed Donkey Kong and when I saw it and heard the name I knew it from the show which I had to be about 3 when I saw it.

In the second season of this show Frogger, Donkey Kong Jr. and Ptifall dint make it to season 2 and were replaced by Kangaroo and Space Ace

(unfortunately Don Bluth had no involvement with the show

I wonder why?????)

I e-mailed Ruby Spears several months ago to ask if we will ever see it on DVD and they sed that Saturday Supercade will not be seen in it's entirety ever again cause once the show ended all cartoon segments went to it's rightful character owners.

Sad but i eventually got to see an episode of Donkey Kong
http://www.platypuscomix.net/videos/kongtoon.html

and Donkey Kong Jr.
http://www.platypuscomix.net/interactive/kongcartoon2.html

I know it may be lame but it was a thrill to see it once more.

I would like to hear your comments if you remember this show or your thought or possible history. and feel free to post a show of yours on here too.

[The Frankster]

I have always been a big Popeye fan but there is one show I will never forget and I tend to watch these shows religiously on YouTube.




In 1960, King Features Syndicate commissioned a new series of Popeye cartoons, but this time for television syndication. The artwork was streamlined and simplified for the television budgets, and 220 cartoons were produced in only two years, with the first set of them premiering in the autumn of 1960, and the last of them debuting during the 1961-1962 television season.
For these cartoons, Bluto's name was replaced by

Brutus.  A more shaggier version of Bluto.

Many of the cartoons made by Paramount used plots and storylines taken directly from the comic strip sequences-as well as characters like King Blozo and the Sea Hag.

I watched this when I was a kid and it stopped airing on tv around like 1990.

Some of these episodes actually came out on DVD years ago


It would be nice to get but I'd love to get my hands on this baby....

It's like $65 but I've been trying to convince Meredith to get me it for Christmas.