Mission Magic TV Cartoon Intro

[WizzoPro9476]

Dam! Filmation had money back then, Real Talk!

[subestimado]

If you are a Rick Springfield fan, you should get his book "Late, late at night". It is a really good read. Especially because it seems like he wrote it without a ghost writer. It feels like a buddy writing to you about his life. You can hear his voice the entire time. I never made the connection between this cartoon and Rick until I read the book. This clip sure brings back memories of a time when the phrase "Saturday Morning cartoons" meant something.

[KartoonKompany]

WOW! I remember this cartoon! I loved it!! Thanks for posting this!!!

[distortion20]

This was my favorite cartoon.... Kids TV was o trippy in the 70's....the best part, is I tell my friends ' I remember when Rick Springfield was Austrailian" . (They don't believe me)

[shycuteguy35]

I liked this show as a kid, but as I recall, it seems that Rick wasn't in every episode, or was in only briefly.

[frankscan65]

And this theme began life as a Song Rick Wrote called Walking The Floor On My Hands, which was recored by Fellow Australian Pop Star ohnny Farnham.

[revbear777]

Order the DVD set for this series just this week.

[SultanChase]

@carycomic1 ??? I didn't say anything about when the cartoon aired.

[johnalang]

Think of this cartoon as The Magic School Bus on LSD

[revbear777]

The reason I have a crush on red headed witches LOL

[witchman67]

@revbear777 me too.

[johnalang]

Miss Tickle was HOT

[cjjrtoronto]

I,too,watched this TV show when it was on the ABC network.I still like the theme song. (Although,I don't like parts of the opening sequence.) Unfortuneately,I can't remember any of the songs RS sang during each episode.(Did a record [or two] of all these songs get sold from circa 1973 to circa 1976?) MOREOVER,I knew-before I saw the first episode-that the title of the TV show was related to the not-made-for-kiddies TV show "MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE".But did M;I also debut (and conclude) on ABC?

[HowieP]

This show is related to The Brady Bunch, believe it or not. It was a spinoff of the animated The Brady Kids.

[er6789er]

C'mon! - This show kicked ass when we were kids!!!

[pumbaaj]

I have the complete series on dvd. I seriously do.

[catchersmitt0]

It's such a product of its time... post Andy Warhol, post PAter Max, and post Earth Day.

[HeyMrKong33]

That clip of Rick hold the guitar would make a great blacklight poster. Do they still have blacklight posters.....or a I just showing my age?

[SultanChase]

This was tragically bad, but somehow compelling.

Rick Springfield - WTF?!

[thiagodmm]

Thank you, I was trying to remember this cartoon that I watched in childhood. The opening song was buried deep inside my memories.

[flamingviolets]

No thank you we're glad to be rid of him!

[zabadazidit]

Hey, I'll take Rick - you Aussies can have Kanye West in exchange.

[dabble778]

Rick's been in the States so long I forgot he is an Aussie ;-) (like Errol Flynn)

[hotpinkcheetahh]

@zabadazidit i agree 100%

[bkrbyex4339]

@zabadazidit they made him look like a cross between a rock star, and a super hero

[sniktawtt]

Actually, It's Filmation. The Lou Scheimer/Norm Prescott logo appears during the end credits.

[RatedJpG]

Thanks for clearing that up. Just like the end credits of "The New Adventures of Gilligan".

[RatedJpG]

Isn't this a Filmation cartoon? Where is the Lou Scheimer/Norm Prescott rotating logo?

[SaviorGabriel]

Miss Tickle > Ms. Frizzle

[CrankyOldster]

This show rules. Miss Tickle rules, all the songs rule, and even the fat kid who falls on his butt during every astral flight rules.

[nuwavevidspud]

This is a really cool cartoon Thank you.

[TheMikester307]

Always loved that "t'zingging" magic sound effect!

[emmeenchanted]

I remember watching this as a young child. :)

[HATERICHFUX]

Rick Springfield was an Aussie..he played lead in a band called Zoot...he was Jealous of David Cassidy....he should have stayed in Australia

[jzerony]

When I was a kid I didn't know Rick Springfield from a hole in the ground - and yet I liked this song. I had an old cassette recorder and I recorded this song off the TV one day and played it over and over... I always like the part where it gets all "flanged" at 0:40 - - horrible cartoon though... but a lot of them around this time were bad - thanks in large part to the kings of limited animation, Hanna/Barbera. Daaaamn themmmm!!!