Growing up, I used to watch a lot of cartoon shows. We all are familiar with the famous ones like Disney, Looney Tunes, He-Man, ThunderCats, TMNT etc. but I also have fond memories of a lot of other cartoons which didn’t achieve cult status or lasting success. Because of this there is not much info about them on the net or fan sites dedicated to them so I was just curious if anyone here remembers watching any of these shows:
Barbapapa - a show about shape-changing blobs
Rambo and the Force of Freedom - based on the Stallone character.
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle - made by Lou Scheimer (the animation did have a lot of familiarity with He-Man)
Superman cartoons - made by Fleischer
5. Ewoks cartoon - based on the Star Wars characters
Mr. T - featuring the titular character and his team of acrobats, solving crime.
Puff the Magic Dragon
I would love to hear your memories about any of these shows.
I loved the Ewoks cartoon. My favourite episodes were ‘Asha’ and ‘Home is where the Shrieks are’. I used watch and record it off TV back when I was 5 after school. If you haven’t seen Asha I really recommend you watch it. It is a brilliant episode.
I also had a couple videos with various episodes of the Fleischer Superman cartoon. The one I remember best was one where there was like a cult leader wearing something like a KKK uniform.
The local video shop in the village used to have a Mr T video with a couple episodes on it. That was the only episodes I ever seen. There was one about stolen medals I think. Although for some reason I used to have a Mr T cartoon duvet.
I only learned about the Rambo cartoon a few years ago when I was researching the toys as my friend when we were young used to have a Rambo figure which I always assumed was just from the movie as it was very similar to what he wore in the first film.
I’m very glad that at least someone replied to this thread.
I’ll surely try to get my hands on the “Asha” episode of Ewoks. I think I only watched one episode, “The Wish Plant”.
One of the things that always impressed me about the Fleischer Superman cartoons was the fluid and realistic motion of the characters. I think they used “rotoscoping” to trace movements of actors.
The Mr.T cartoons were rather standard crime solving/action cartoons. But it was fun to see Mr.T’s “amazing” feats of strength like lifting a car with ease!
The Rambo cartoons were one of my favorites! I really liked the opening sequence. The villain, General Warhawk was pretty cool. And Rambo’s partner Turbo was voiced by the great late James Avery.
All the Ewoks episodes are available on YouTube. There is a DVD with 2 collections / 8 episodes on one disc and one of the episodes is ‘Asha’. It is a good set but George Lucas being George Lucas changed some of the background music. I prefer the original music but it is still worth getting as it has most of the best episodes from season one.
About a month ago I was in an old book shop here that also sell vintage toys and on one of the shelves was a Turbo figure.
I think I saw them both in the 80s on VHS :). I didn’t know, until recently, that Puff was voiced by Burgess Meredith, known for his role as “Mickey” in the “Rocky” movies.
Thanks for that. I’ll definitely check out YouTube. Lucas wouldn’t be Lucas if he didn’t change something in one of his movies/series! LOL!
Wow! That is so cool! I think only 6/7 figures were produced in the Rambo cartoons toyline along with a couple of vehicles.
Whoa!!! That’s a lot of figures! :eek: Thanks for sharing the link. I had no ides that so many were produced in the Rambo toyline. I think I saw 4/5 in an old Argos catalogue and assumed that those were the only ones made.
In the book '‘Totally Tubular ‘80’s Toys’’ by Mark Bellomo it shows 7 figures and one vehicle and I was thinking you were right about only 7 figures being made but then I remembered the figure my friend had and it wasn’t one of the pictured figures so I looked them up and I was also quite surprised to see so many figures.
I think only 6/7 figures were produced in the Rambo cartoons toyline along with a couple of vehicles.