Cartoons Of The 70s – Hong Kong Phooey
Who is this Super Hero? Sarge? No. (Come on, join in with me.) Rosemary, the telephone operator? No. Penry, the mild-mannered janitor? Could be… Surely this has to be one of the best remembered...
View ArticleCartoons Of The 70s – Captain Pugwash
Captain Pugwash first appeared in The Eagle comic in 1950 and later, also as a strip cartoon in the Radio Times around 1957. John Ryan who created Pugwash then produced a number of black and white...
View ArticleCartoons Of The 70s – Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
Well done to all the meddling kids who have already spotted that Scooby Doo, Where Are You? was actually first broadcast in the 1960s. But seriously, come on. It was September 1969, we’re talking about...
View ArticleCartoons Of The 70s – Roobarb
Come on then, be honest… hands up who thought it was called Roobarb And Custard? To be fair, in the past ten years there has been a remake on Channel 5 that does bear the pink cat’s name, but the …...
View ArticleCartoons Of The 70s – Wacky Races
With an original run that started in September 1968, Wacky Races is one of the most recognisable Hanna-Barbera cartoons for a number of reasons, the biggest being that the characters instantly became...
View ArticleCartoons Of The 70s – Captain Caveman
Hanna-Barbera had achieved such a massive hit with the ‘Scooby Doo’ franchise that the formula was reused to create Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels. Together, the quartet travelled about in a...
View ArticleCartoons Of The 70s – Help!… It’s The Hair Bear Bunch
1971 brought Hanna-Barbera’s, Help!… It’s The Hair Bear Bunch to our screens. Very loosely based on the 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, HITHBB featured three bears and was set in the fictitious Wonderland...
View ArticleCartoons Of The 70s – Mr Benn
Residing at 52 Festive Road, somewhere in Middle England (but allegedly based on 52 Festing Rd, Putney where creator David McKee resided), the suited and bowler-hatted Mr Benn first hit British TV...
View ArticleCartoons Of The 70s – Barbapapa
Originally a series of books created by French writers/illustrators Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, the name comes from the French for candy floss, known as barbe à papa or literally, ‘dad’s beard’....
View ArticleDanger Mouse
In the words of the opening titles, “He’s the greatest, he’s fantastic, wherever there is danger he is there. He’s the ace, he’s amazing, he’s the strongest, he’s the quickest, he’s the best!” First...
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