PaddedDeist said:
Now that is a classic. There were quite a few of those great Saturday morning live action shows. Sigmound the Sea Monster was another good one.
Too bad the Banana Splits were just slightly before my time but I saw a few of the syndicated episodes. That had some good cartoons and shows on it.
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Fun horror movie fact. The guy who created the Phantasm series wanted to do Something Wicked but he discovered that Disney got the rights first. So he made his own horror movie and now we have The Tall Man as one of the scarier movie 'monsters' created.
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When I was young, I loved watching JP Patches-one of those local kids shows that had a cool host and played cartoons. He was on a Seattle station and I think you can see him on YouTube.
I also loved Speed Racer and Marine Boy-two cartoons that got me into anime way back in the early 70s.
Some of the other live-action stuff was decent too. There were quite a few of them. Land of the Lost, Ark II, and Jason of Star Command are a few.
I also liked a lot of the Hanna-Barberra toons and other cartoons like the 70s Flash Gordon and Tarzan cartoons.
I have Season 2 of "Land of the Lost" on DVD.
I also have ARK II, The Secret of Isis, Space Academy, and Jason of Star Command on DVD.
Some of George Lucas's ILM FX people worked on Space Academy and Jason of Star Command.
Years before, some of them worked for Gerry Anderson Studios on stuff like:
SPACE:1999
UFO
Joe 90
Captain Scarlet
Thunderbirds
Stingray
Fireball XL-5
Etc.
I also have the Tarzan Cartoon and Flash Gordon Cartoons on DVD, along with the animated Star Trek series from the 1970's.
Actually, the animated Star Trek series, is really "Season 4" of the original Star Trek 1960's live-action TV show.
Another old cartoon I have is the "Return to the Planet of the Apes" from the mid 1970's on DVD.
I also have season 1 of "Tale Spin" from the 1980's on DVD, which is really, an animated version of the 1980's live-action TV show, "Tales of the Gold Monkey" which only went 1 season before getting axed and cancelled permanently.