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Mighty Hercules
Topic Started: Oct 4 2011, 10:39 AM (879 Views)
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I've been watching the new DVD of one of my favorite cartoon shows of the early '60s, The Mighty Hercules (you know, the guy with "thunder in his thighs" per the theme song by Johnny Nash). I'm quite happy that the disc (for which I paid $5.99 new) contains 20 cartoons and the opening theme is on all 20 of 'em. (Most people think that was the best part of the scarcely-animated show.) I love it.

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I didn't realize you were my son's age; now I understand several things.
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Tempted, but I have a backlog of never-quite-in-the-right-mood DVDs including Tennessee Tuxedo, Clutch Cargo and the Filmation series of Flash Gordon. I like to remind myself I got those on clearance.

Trivium: On "Superman: The Animated Series," the show's creators quite consciously borrowed the heroic chin off Hercules for their more stylized version of the Man of Steel.
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I remember buying these on VHS off Ebay about 10-15 years ago for $40 if I remeber correct.

This along with Tom Terrfic and Mighty Mouse were my favorites...

Still are!

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CLUTCH CARGO?????

Ya mean there actually IS someone who liked this program?? Always gave me the creeps!!
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See below:
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Oct 9 2011, 06:47 AM.
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mort, we'll never get the folks who love 'em to see how bad those pseudo-animated series are. They see through the rosy clouds of nostalgia, just as I see puppet shows like Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, etc. One thing I learned owning a bed and breakfast was that people will buy any "antique" lunchbox about any TV show that was on Saturday morning TV when they were kids. That's any as in ANY, so that's why I talk about "lunchbox nostalgia." Some of the ones who were mad for it also liked to talk about how awful their childhoods were. So I figure that for some (but not all), TV was the Great Place of Escape, and still operates as a buffer against reality. For others, it was fun then so it still is fun, plus you get to check your brain at the door.

Alas, whoever handed out that gene didn't give me enough for the long haul. Now something has to be interesting to interest me. My loss I guess.
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Well, I'd say most of us are into nostalgia. I know I am.

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panzer the great & terrible
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mort, we'll never get the folks who love 'em to see how bad those pseudo-animated series are. They see through the rosy clouds of nostalgia....
You're telling me???

The favorite Christmas present I ever gave my son & his late wife was a boxed set of Speed Racer.
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I'm with ya, LG, fun show and a great theme song. Enjoyed seeing it again on DVD.


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I was too young for the heyday of TV cartoons - by the time I was cognizant of such things, Yogi Bear, Huck Hound, Pixie & Dixie and the rest had been carved up and were shown on live TV host shows, and let me say it's a damn shame such things no longer exist - but I remember a great fondness for Ruff 'n' Reddy, King Leonardo and his Short Subjects, Mighty Hercules, Felix the Cat, and my particular favorite, the mighty Astro Boy. And don't even get me started on Spunky and Tadpole.
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Born in '55, and in my memory the live cartoon hosts were almost extinct by the time they broke the Huckleberrys and Yogis zz9by then ancient) into single shorts for really cheap local stations. New and near-new Hanna-Barbara product was everywhere.

While Hanna-Barbara and their rivals were conquering Saturday morning and weekday afternoons with hostless half-hours, the live hosts tended to feature old theatrical cartoons, Stooges, and syndicated TV toons that only occasionally got a show of their own:
-- Mighty Hercules
-- Spunky and Tadpole (a slightly creepy attempt to clone Rocky and Bullwinkle)
-- The Funny Company (heavy on educational live action clips; there was actual merchandising)
-- Q.T. Hush (comic detective serial)
-- Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero (early near-anime)
-- Marvel Super Heroes (the ones with the snappy songs and nearly non-existent animation)
-- The New Adventures of Pinocchio (Rankin-Bass stop motion before Rudolf)
-- Assorted weird serials cut up from what seemed to be Russian animated features
-- The second-string King Features toons (Beetle Bailey, Snuffy Smifh, Kazy Kat)
-- Gumby (before the first revival with Prickly and Goo)
-- Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy (animated by Hanna-Barbara) and Three Stooges (animated by who knows)
-- Max the 2000-Year-Old Mouse (educational stuff)

In time, local cartoon shows tended to consist just of a title card and three or four shorts -- Old theatricals, carved-up series, and syndicated items including the titles listed.
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I loved Mighty Hercules when I was a kid and I sat in awe as he took that ring out of his wrestling belt and all of the lightning bolts and such flashed on the screen. I haven't seen it since then and it probably isn't very good, but I loved it then.

In a somewhat related note--I was reading Dumas' The Three Musketeers a few weeks ago and whilst doing that I had a flashback of a cartoon featuring the four cavaliers; I Googled it and saw it had 18 episodes in 1968 during The Banana Splits show.

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