This was a great cartoon. I built the model kit for the ship as a kid, now it's been reissued. Guru was the best character. The episode where they journey into his brain is fantastic.
I remember this show being on the air on Sundays rather than Saturdays. ABC and CBS used to show cartoons on Sundays during the late 60s and early 70s before the big dollar signs of sports took over the airwaves. This was a cool cartoon and music was great.
I agree with the fact that you never find those cartoons any where! I loved Fantastic Voyage! I used to get up on Saturday's, and look forward to the time when it was on. That, and I think around 11 a.m., there was Journey to the Center of the Earth. I loved those cartoons!
This was my favorite as a boy, I searched for this for years, Just could remember the name. I love the sound effects, and I made the ship out of clay also.
@punkrockpub I don't think FV has ever been released on DVD...and definitely not Blu-Ray. The ONLY version I have are several episodes on VHS, that I bought on eBay a few years back.
I've been trying to find and old cartoon that I used to watch when I was young. It should be from the early 90's it was about the Nautilus spaceship, and I think the captain was Nemo. I remember the evil guy was once Nemo's friend who was abandoned on an asteroid and stuff. Do anyone knows the name of it?
I enjoyed this as a kid, of course in a small black and white Philco. Spanish dubbed also (I live in Uruguay) This and Johnny Quest were really scary but I loved it. Thank You for nice memories!!
@14DaveHunter Thanks for the info! As I mentioned, I barely remember Fantastic Voyage. I do recall that they definitely wanted to duplicate the Spock-McCoy dynamic with the Indian mystic and the inventor glasses-guy.
The show your thinking of, is Micro Adventures. It involved a father and his two children shrinking and riding a dune buggy. It was a weekly science education program. The voice actor who played Benton Quest (not Don Messick), did the voice of the dad.
This show originally aired on ABC Saturday Mornings from 1968 to 1970..along other "little people" shows Hanna-Barbera's "Gulliver" and "Land of the Giants" on the same network. Don Bluth worked on "Voyage".
Ted Knight as Cmdr Jonathan Kidd and Professor Carter
Marvin Miller as Busby Birdwell, The Guru, and The Chief
Man... This is so cool! I built a model of the Voyager. I don't remember if Aurora or if it was another company that put it out. But next to George of the jungle, Superman/aquaman hour and yeah Bugs.This was one of the newer shows I looked forward to on Saturdays.
Go figure Ted Knight providing the voice of the announcer! Who would have funk the man had a natural ability to do voice over work. These days if you are an actor with the command of the word,and spoke it well enough, you get a pretty heftty paycheck!
Throughout the series' run, there were hints that Dr. Lane had a "thing" for Jonathan Kidd. Particularly in the episode with the giant crystal ball, when she daydreamed about marrying him!
@vibes101uk I could barely recall this one too. I must have been about four when it aired in new Zealand. I got this one confused with the Galaxy Trio. Thanks to YouTube, I see they are actaully different cartoons.
InfinateMushroom, you display a great deal of insight. Once again, just they have many times, the banking institutions are setting up a deal that can lead to demise. I`ll give another example, which as a U.S. citizen I was in a daze over. Major banking institutions in the U.S., England, and France quietly funded the upcoming activist Adolph Hitler in a secret plot to turn Germany into an attack dog the sick on the USSR...prior to WW2 . What a Frankenstien story.
Well you have the inter-generational gap that always leaves it's mark. What's new to the kids is old hat to us.
Kids today are denied the teachings of American history, our Constitution, our Bill Of Rights, and they are ultimately taught that we must "progress" and drop old things and ideas.
I'm glad to be in the middle to tail end of a demographic that enjoyed REAL TV and cartoons before cable came along, and kids today don't really know how good WE had it.
I totally agree with you! America is doomed with the blind stupidity of tv programs. These old cartoons did make you think! Now, it's "everybody gets a trophy day",
Cartoons like this were for the Apollo generation when America was king and space was ours for the taking. We had a formidable competitor in the Soviet Union. We needed to raise up the Best and Brightest to compete and win.
To that end, cartoons like this were designed to stimulate scientific fantasy and grandiose aspirations. It was a different America then.
Compare then to the deindustrialized police-state ruins of today. Cartoons today are designed to stupefy kids into mindless anomic blobs
That was the best opinion I've heard on Youtube to date! Very well said!
Also, today's "PC" crowd would take offense at the phrase about "combatting the unseen, unsuspected enemies of freedom."
One day we'll wind up and G.I. Joe will no longer be " A real American Hero."
Yet, a hopelessly optimistic yellow sponge and his braindead starfish friend can wander thru the ocean depths without a clue as to what the hell they're doing as they act like a pair of lost stoners...
I agree with you except about Sponge Bob. Now if he ever picks up an AK-47 and starts picking off the inhabitants of bikini bottom then I'll switch him off.
But until then, I figure as long as my grandkids are watching Sponge Bob they're not playing Grand Theft Auto. My son and I have gotten into many arguments about letting his 7 year old son play that game.
Yeah, I'm old. But at least I don't fantasize about killing innocent people for fun.
I will agree with you, that your son has no business allowing your grandson to play Grand Theft Auto at 7 years old. There's a problem there that the Ratings System was created to prevent.
As far as "killing innocent people for fun" your assessment of ALL gamers in general is way off base.
No disrespect to you, but please do not judge ALL gamers who engage in shooting games as potential killers.
You do not know the bulk of us, nor does the media or it's puppets speak for us.
Please forgive my somewhat defensive attitude...I've lived thru the 80's witch hunts, where heavy metal automatically meant you were a minion of evil, and if you were a guy with long hair you were gay, ect.
A lot of the shit I went thru in that day (and some of the more recent stuff) has me a bit sore, so I apologize to you and I totally agree with all you said previously.
Some games are NOT for kids. At the proper age, yes, but not before.
No big deal. I grew up in the 70's. I moved from a large city to a very small town. The culture shock when they met me still makes me laugh (and cry).
Kind of like the first time my parents saw a picture of Alice Cooper. It took quite a while before I was accepted.
I used to watch this in reruns in the 70's and think "If they have Guru, why do they need the other members of the team?" My fave episodes were the ones with Godfrey Seneca--the Master Spy
Dang, I just checked on IMDb, and Jerome Bixby was one of the writers on this. Jerome Freaking Bixby! Talk about pulling out your big guns for a Saturday morning cartoon!
I thought Busby Birdwell was just cool as hell. Of course, it probably helped to have been eight years old when this was on the air.
@airdriver Behind shows like Fantastic Voyage, Thunderbirds, etc, was a spiritual language that we all once understood during that time. To show such heroic programs today would fall flat because the spiritual language is utterly foreign to us, now. We have learned a new language that prepares us for bondage, poverty, Balkanization, and police state tyranny
F.V. was more than a scientific fantasy. It was part of the grand vision of Heroic Man. A vision that means nothing to 21st century slaves.
Very well put. I cringe when I see what the kids are watching today (yeah, I know, it makes me sound like an old crank). They've replaced curiosity and wonder with mind numbing violence.
Obama didn't act on impulse to kill the manned space program. That agenda has been in the works since Clinton committed high treason and gave China our rocket secrets. We built up China to take over our space program. India will be the engineering back office and NASA will do prototypes for a couple more years
America is under receivership. The bankers won't invest in a nation that is being towed away by the Global Repo Men. NASA will be probated to China and India
this was one of my favorite cartoons from my childhood (my mom and wife insist i NEVER got out of my childhood). ted knight was awesome! cartoon voices AND caddyshack! who was better than him?!
Great cartoon from my childhood. It there are any Star Trek fans out there, look at the building...it has a Vulcan IDIC on it "infinite diversity in Infinite combinations". Filmation also did the Animated start trek....
THANK YOU! This is one of my 3 fave non-franchise (bugs, etc.) cartoons ever and you can NEVER find any trace of it anywhere online, on tape, DVD, etc. Must be legal hassles somewhere. But it was so cool. I was a bit off but remembered that openng thing: "Da dum da duuuuuuum dow!..." and Tad Knight/Baxter's voice of course, two years before Mary Tyler Moore Show. Geek moment: I used to build the Voyager out of my Mattel TOG'L blocks..
To all the Fantastic Yoyage fans they now have a model kit of the Voyager.Yes,the cartoon version Voyager.I use to watch this and Journey to the Center of the Earth when it came on during the weekdays.I hope Boomerange will air this someday.
I loved this show!! It was one of my favorite cartoons growing up in central Indiana. I was five at the time. I remember the network previewing the Saturday morning line up and how excited I was to get up early and turn on the TV to see this and the other cartoons. Great stuff!!
I think this was my second favorite Filmation cartoon of the Sixties, after the JLA of THE SUPERMAN/AQUAMAN HOUR OF ADVENTURE. Guru, especially,kicked butt. He didn't have to recite those lengthy rhymes with the tongue-twisting names to peform his magic (like Dr. Strange of Marvel Comics). He literally just waved his hand!
"I think this was my second favorite Filmation cartoon of the Sixties, after the JLA of THE SUPERMAN/AQUAMAN HOUR OF ADVENTURE."
Can you remember if WNEW aired the JLA, Teen Titans and Superboy cartoons during the early '70s? I remember the Superman, Batman, Hawkman, Flash, Aquaman and Green Lantern cartoons, but not the others.
I do have a memory of the Superboy cartoons on WPIX on a weekend during the early '70s. I don't know if I'm right, however.
As a matter of fact, yes! They did. When I was in seventh grade, WNEW-5 aired the Filmation versions of the DC heroes between 3PM and 3:30. Along with the 1960's Lone Ranger voiced by Michael Bilsbury (who was later GL Jordan on SUPERFRIENDS). They were either preceded or followed by a half-hour of vintage Bugs Bunny cartoons, making for one entertaining hour!
Oh the memories ... I remember trying to figure out how a real minaturizer would work as a kid. I didn't help when, in a junior high school science class we learned that most matter was comprised of molecules with lots of open space in between. I always wondered if the distance between the molecules could be reduced thus reducing the size of something. I also wondered if we'd weigh the same or if decreasing the inter molecular distance would decrease weight.
A company called Moebius Models has re-issued the model kit of the ship 'Voyager' as seen in the "Fantastic Voyage" cartoon series. It was originally produced by Aurora Hobby Kit Co. back in 1968.
I remember watching Fantastic Voyage in the 1970's eating a bowl of sugary cereal...It was one of the most creative cartoons of our time. Who would have ever thought of miniaturizing an aircraft and the people in it ?.....scientifically that's awesome man !!!
I wonder what made the three "miniaturizers" work? I mean, when I watched the show as a kid, I wondered about the science behind miniaturization. Also, wasn't Busby part of the team that built the miniaturizer along with Professor Carter?
When I first saw this cartoon again in the late Seventies on WNEW, the only thing that I could recall from its original Saturday morning run on ABC was its cool and distinctive roll call in the show's opening. When I saw it again, it instantly clicked on a light of recognition.
So you're a WNEW 5 boy? So you probably remember Saturday night's thrills and chills with "Creature Features" at 8:30. I'm 43 and of all the things I miss, WNEW 5's CF is one of them. Great stuff.
I'm the same age as you, so you probably remember all of the same shows that I do. It was certainly a fun era, including "Creature Features," "Chiller Theater," "Thriller Theatre," "The 4:30 Movie," etc.
I remember those, too, Earl! "Creature Features," on old Channel 5 (WNEW-TV) every Saturday night, from 8:30-10PM. And, the "4:30 Movie" on old Channel 9 (WOR-TV), with classic Toho flicks seemingly every Friday!* *My favorite still being DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (Toho/1968).
Actually, no. WOR-TV was, and is still is, an independent station. Although, now based in Secaucus, NJ as WWOR. This is the same network where Joe Franklin (the interviewer who asks Dan Akroyd about Elvis in the original GHOSTBUSTERS movie) had a late-night talk show that occasionally telecast vintage silent movie-comedies. Piano accompaniment included!
Oh, I used to watch Joe Franklin all of the time during the '80s, as well as seeing his show during the '70s. What I meant in my earlier post was that "The 4:30 Movie" didn't air on WOR, but on WABC. "The 4 O'Clock Movie" (replacing "Thriller Theatre" around 1975) did air on WOR during the second half of the '70s and the early '80s, however.
Well, more power to you. At least, you know how to gather and download this stuff. If I was cyber-savvy as my youngest brother, I'd be working in Silicon Valley. Not Naugatuck Valley! ;-)
Ted Knight was very busy on this series. Not only did he do that narrating but he also did the voice for Commander Kidd and and Professor Carter. He was busy with Filmation that year doing other projects as well.
Wow it's hard to believe that it has been 40 years since I watched that show on ABC. They certainly weren't PC with Guru. Probably explains why I can't find a DVD set of this series on DVD. I liked the cartoon though.
It might not come to DVD as I believe that 20th Century Fox owns the licensing rights (as they made a film in 1966 with this same title). But one can dream, can't he?
I certainly remember this forgotten cartoon from the late 1960's when it was broadcast as part of a weekday morning group of shows on Chicago TV back in the 1980's.
Why is there a swami on the team? I mean, sure, why NOT? It's a cartoon, after all. But it just seems kinda random. Is this some sort of fallout from that whole Beatles-go-to-India thing?
No, just Fantastic Voyage, Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Batman and Robin and of course, Aquaman, The Atom, The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and The Teen Titans.
This is the first time that I've seen this in over 30years. WOW! INCREDIBLE!!
I remember the music being a little scarey. Loved to watch it though. Every saturday morning. Come to think of it, its also my first time seeing it in colour too!
If you want to see an episode of Fantastic voyage and Journey to the Center of the Earth go to (type Saturday Morning blog in your web browser)The browser will have Saturday morning blog, the best and worst animation...there are some great toons there.
Chiming in here too-a great part of my childhood. I watched it when in was on Tri-State area TV back in the mid-late 70's. It's still a cool as ever. Thanks for the memories!
I barely remember watching this...I was like, 5 or 6 at the time. But it left an impression. I also remember watching the original movie with Raquel Welch. I'm surprised they never remade it...C
As much as I deplore remakes, I would actually watch a remake of the Fantastic Voyage film. The original film's plot was so full of holes, and Asimov's novelization came too late to fix them.
I think the biggest problem(for me) would be "why miniturize humans when you could get nanites to do the job?" See "Prey" by Micheal C. But the original still stands up with the cinematography. And it's still a cool movie to watch, "holes" and all.
Ah yes, Jane Webb. The first lady of Filmation. She was also Batgirl in the first animated BATMAN series (where Catwoman wore a green jumpsuit and sounded lke an old hag) and Babs from THE BRADY KIDS (the redhead who had a crush on Greg).
And don't forget Hal's two other partners, Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott 91927-2005) as they were the co-producers for this and many other shows produced by Filmation. Hal Sutherland actually was the director for this series as well many other Filmation shows.
I used to love this show..that and Johnny Quest were great shows. Best voice actors ever
eahazell 3 days ago
I did four tours in Afghanistan with the CMDF.
needstoregister 1 week ago
come along and ride on a FANTASTIC VOYAGE!
Deathrunner554 1 week ago
That is indeed Ted Knight
vhejaderaith 1 week ago
very cool the way TK sez "Time Limit: 12 HOURS"
lAMRIGHTYOUAREWR0NG 1 month ago
This was a great cartoon. I built the model kit for the ship as a kid, now it's been reissued. Guru was the best character. The episode where they journey into his brain is fantastic.
NebulaStudios1 1 month ago
Who knew the enemies of freedom could be so small.
MrMeeples 2 months ago
Hey everybody Don t forget the Fantastic Voyage all 17 episodes are out on DVD at the end off this month.......wow i cannot wait...
rgm501 2 months ago
I remember this show being on the air on Sundays rather than Saturdays. ABC and CBS used to show cartoons on Sundays during the late 60s and early 70s before the big dollar signs of sports took over the airwaves. This was a cool cartoon and music was great.
timbabcock 3 months ago
One of the coolest cartoon series ever! The movie was good too.
auldsk8r 4 months ago
I agree with the fact that you never find those cartoons any where! I loved Fantastic Voyage! I used to get up on Saturday's, and look forward to the time when it was on. That, and I think around 11 a.m., there was Journey to the Center of the Earth. I loved those cartoons!
mom369222 5 months ago
Is that Ted Knight?
jwmellott 8 months ago 3
@jwmellott Yes. Ted Knight narrated most of Filmation's superghero/sci-fi shows.
STP43FAN1 7 months ago in playlist Television classics
@jwmellott
Yes, it certainly is!
BrooklynChivalry 4 months ago
@jwmellott It certainly is! He later went on to be Ted Baxter, on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.
GandSAfan 3 months ago
@jwmellott :Yes It is!
kstrat 1 month ago
@jwmellott Yes it is. Knight was Filmation's jack-of-all-trades voice artist.
STP43FAN1 3 weeks ago in playlist Television classics
Johnathan Kid = Falcon 7/Phil Ken Sebben without moustache?
CaptainTooner 8 months ago
Buzby Birdwell: Lifelong role model for ten year old Bill Gates, who will one day be the richest man in the world.
smellevision 8 months ago
This was my favorite as a boy, I searched for this for years, Just could remember the name. I love the sound effects, and I made the ship out of clay also.
rayjayfi 9 months ago
OMG I used to make Voyager out of clay!!!!! As well as the Miniaturization pad with those cool ray emitters over it!
thajr 10 months ago
"come along and ride on a- FANTASTIC VOYAGE!"
mysticx0 10 months ago
Erica Lane, fine piece of ass that can give great head while on mission.
jasong19711 11 months ago 3
Did Ted Knight get the call for every superhero show when William Conrad wasn't available? Always loved his "Flash" intro.
chasxyz1234 11 months ago
Loved this cartoon, made my own voyager out of paper, tape and a match book
jdb4759 1 year ago
Whoops! I meant to say, "Funny, I thought his name was Birdbrain when I was a child".
bcrkris 1 year ago
Busby Birdwell looks like Roddy McDowell.
ebf1957 1 year ago
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@ebf1957 He kind of does.
STP43FAN1 8 months ago
Does anyone know if this has been released on DVD or Blu-ray????
punkrockpub 1 year ago
@punkrockpub I don't think FV has ever been released on DVD...and definitely not Blu-Ray. The ONLY version I have are several episodes on VHS, that I bought on eBay a few years back.
smoothpoppa2007 10 months ago
I've been trying to find and old cartoon that I used to watch when I was young. It should be from the early 90's it was about the Nautilus spaceship, and I think the captain was Nemo. I remember the evil guy was once Nemo's friend who was abandoned on an asteroid and stuff. Do anyone knows the name of it?
UZiBLASTER7 1 year ago
come along and ride on the, fan-tastic voyage!
RawbThatPunk 1 year ago
That Buzby is actually a little bit buff and more of a hottie than I remembered. Funny how I though his last name was Birdbrain.
bcrkris 1 year ago
@bcrkris Birdwaell! Listen more closely! Peace!
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
I enjoyed this as a kid, of course in a small black and white Philco. Spanish dubbed also (I live in Uruguay) This and Johnny Quest were really scary but I loved it. Thank You for nice memories!!
JICABELLA 1 year ago
@14DaveHunter Thanks for the info! As I mentioned, I barely remember Fantastic Voyage. I do recall that they definitely wanted to duplicate the Spock-McCoy dynamic with the Indian mystic and the inventor glasses-guy.
BeckoningChasm 1 year ago
I barely remember this cartoon--I think it aired on the Banana Splits show--but I do seem to recall that the background music was great.
BeckoningChasm 1 year ago
@BeckoningChasm
The show your thinking of, is Micro Adventures. It involved a father and his two children shrinking and riding a dune buggy. It was a weekly science education program. The voice actor who played Benton Quest (not Don Messick), did the voice of the dad.
14DaveHunter 1 year ago
@14DaveHunter The voice actor in this case was John Stephenson (also the voice of Mr. Slate on "The Flintstones").
vinylrecord68 9 months ago
"Erica Lane, doctor, biologist"... and one hot MILF.
gingermol76 1 year ago
This show originally aired on ABC Saturday Mornings from 1968 to 1970..along other "little people" shows Hanna-Barbera's "Gulliver" and "Land of the Giants" on the same network. Don Bluth worked on "Voyage".
Ted Knight as Cmdr Jonathan Kidd and Professor Carter
Marvin Miller as Busby Birdwell, The Guru, and The Chief
Jane Webb as Erica Lane.
artytoons 1 year ago
0:34- Notice in the old cartoons-
Man with Eye Patch = Badass
messageofthemaker 1 year ago
Oh, I LOVED this one. This theme? Man, it would bring me to attention. Ted Knight rocked on this, and the other Filmation stuff.
rudypyatt 1 year ago
Aw, who let the nerd on the team? He's just gonna slow us down.
steveasat2 1 year ago
C.M.D.F
dont they sell that at homebase?
al3699 1 year ago
Man... This is so cool! I built a model of the Voyager. I don't remember if Aurora or if it was another company that put it out. But next to George of the jungle, Superman/aquaman hour and yeah Bugs.This was one of the newer shows I looked forward to on Saturdays.
TheSpelldoctor 1 year ago
Go figure Ted Knight providing the voice of the announcer! Who would have funk the man had a natural ability to do voice over work. These days if you are an actor with the command of the word,and spoke it well enough, you get a pretty heftty paycheck!
dxearlmarc 1 year ago
Throughout the series' run, there were hints that Dr. Lane had a "thing" for Jonathan Kidd. Particularly in the episode with the giant crystal ball, when she daydreamed about marrying him!
TammiWayKewl 1 year ago
OMG I thougth I imagined this show. But that intro brought it all back. Didn't it use to air on swap shop a few years later ???
vibes101uk 1 year ago
@vibes101uk I could barely recall this one too. I must have been about four when it aired in new Zealand. I got this one confused with the Galaxy Trio. Thanks to YouTube, I see they are actaully different cartoons.
bukster1 1 year ago
I've never heard of this cartoon. Where did it air?
TKGB2006 1 year ago
man i LOVED this show me an my bro watched all the time memories
supadee33 1 year ago
Loved this show as a kid, but always thought the intro was kinda creepy...
AngelsSuckBalls 1 year ago
IMHO, this show and Star Trek was Filmations best productions.
Steve17010 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing. Haven't seen this in decades. "Time limit...twelve...hours!" And they cut it close more than once!
colanderhead1971 1 year ago
R.I.P. Guru, April 20, 2010.
jcburns 1 year ago
Damn production values went down the tube since the 60s, didn't they.
ObiTrev 1 year ago
I have a plastic model of the Voyager. Loved the cartoon.
WyrdNet 1 year ago
Obviously every mission-team needs a "master of mysterious powers". xD
Shantari 1 year ago
It's axiomatic, Shantari. ;-)
starbasek 1 year ago
The builder of the Voyager Busby Birdwell looks exactly like Bill Gates! :-)
Bluuman 1 year ago
InfinateMushroom, you display a great deal of insight. Once again, just they have many times, the banking institutions are setting up a deal that can lead to demise. I`ll give another example, which as a U.S. citizen I was in a daze over. Major banking institutions in the U.S., England, and France quietly funded the upcoming activist Adolph Hitler in a secret plot to turn Germany into an attack dog the sick on the USSR...prior to WW2 . What a Frankenstien story.
dingane19 1 year ago
@InfiniteMushroom
@Shawnster65
Amen! It's nice to know there are a few intelligent people hanging around You Tube.
This was one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid. When I tried to tell my kids about it (and other toons) they thought I was nuts!
I think the only cartoon I grew up with that they enjoyed was Jonny Quest (although they laughed at the animation).
TomatoeAssassin 1 year ago
Well you have the inter-generational gap that always leaves it's mark. What's new to the kids is old hat to us.
Kids today are denied the teachings of American history, our Constitution, our Bill Of Rights, and they are ultimately taught that we must "progress" and drop old things and ideas.
I'm glad to be in the middle to tail end of a demographic that enjoyed REAL TV and cartoons before cable came along, and kids today don't really know how good WE had it.
Shawnster65 1 year ago 2
lol... 'FIGHT THE MICROCOMMUNISTS!' = making kids think
countrybluegrass 2 years ago
To Infinitemushroom,
I totally agree with you! America is doomed with the blind stupidity of tv programs. These old cartoons did make you think! Now, it's "everybody gets a trophy day",
wickedspring 2 years ago
Cartoons like this were for the Apollo generation when America was king and space was ours for the taking. We had a formidable competitor in the Soviet Union. We needed to raise up the Best and Brightest to compete and win.
To that end, cartoons like this were designed to stimulate scientific fantasy and grandiose aspirations. It was a different America then.
Compare then to the deindustrialized police-state ruins of today. Cartoons today are designed to stupefy kids into mindless anomic blobs
InfiniteMushroom 2 years ago 3
That was the best opinion I've heard on Youtube to date! Very well said!
Also, today's "PC" crowd would take offense at the phrase about "combatting the unseen, unsuspected enemies of freedom."
One day we'll wind up and G.I. Joe will no longer be " A real American Hero."
Yet, a hopelessly optimistic yellow sponge and his braindead starfish friend can wander thru the ocean depths without a clue as to what the hell they're doing as they act like a pair of lost stoners...
Shawnster65 2 years ago
@Shawnster65
I agree with you except about Sponge Bob. Now if he ever picks up an AK-47 and starts picking off the inhabitants of bikini bottom then I'll switch him off.
But until then, I figure as long as my grandkids are watching Sponge Bob they're not playing Grand Theft Auto. My son and I have gotten into many arguments about letting his 7 year old son play that game.
Yeah, I'm old. But at least I don't fantasize about killing innocent people for fun.
TomatoeAssassin 1 year ago
I will agree with you, that your son has no business allowing your grandson to play Grand Theft Auto at 7 years old. There's a problem there that the Ratings System was created to prevent.
As far as "killing innocent people for fun" your assessment of ALL gamers in general is way off base.
No disrespect to you, but please do not judge ALL gamers who engage in shooting games as potential killers.
You do not know the bulk of us, nor does the media or it's puppets speak for us.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@Shawnster65
When I said "killing innocent people for fun" I was talking about Grand Theft Auto.
I remember asking my grandson why he killed certain characters and he looked at me like I was some kind of idiot and said 'because it's fun'.
TomatoeAssassin 1 year ago
@TomatoeAssassin
Fair enough :-)
Please forgive my somewhat defensive attitude...I've lived thru the 80's witch hunts, where heavy metal automatically meant you were a minion of evil, and if you were a guy with long hair you were gay, ect.
A lot of the shit I went thru in that day (and some of the more recent stuff) has me a bit sore, so I apologize to you and I totally agree with all you said previously.
Some games are NOT for kids. At the proper age, yes, but not before.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@Shawnster65
No big deal. I grew up in the 70's. I moved from a large city to a very small town. The culture shock when they met me still makes me laugh (and cry).
Kind of like the first time my parents saw a picture of Alice Cooper. It took quite a while before I was accepted.
TomatoeAssassin 1 year ago
"Kind of like the first time my parents
saw a picture of Alice Cooper. It took
quite a while before I was accepted. "
Hah, I can imagine!
Whatever your hobby, whatever your musical interest, whatever it is, there's always SOME negative image attached to it.
If you love America, you're an extremist..if you support the war, you're a murderer, if you fly The Flag on your property, you're a hatemonger.
God Bless (DAMN) the Liberal Media..
Shawnster65 1 year ago
Amen
airdriver 2 years ago
me lembro de assistir nos 70's!!!!
dmdagnone 2 years ago
I used to watch this in reruns in the 70's and think "If they have Guru, why do they need the other members of the team?" My fave episodes were the ones with Godfrey Seneca--the Master Spy
towringer 2 years ago
TED KNIGHT VOICE FU! i CAN'T SLEEP! MOMMY, HELP!
bitzofdata 2 years ago
Dang, I just checked on IMDb, and Jerome Bixby was one of the writers on this. Jerome Freaking Bixby! Talk about pulling out your big guns for a Saturday morning cartoon!
I thought Busby Birdwell was just cool as hell. Of course, it probably helped to have been eight years old when this was on the air.
XD
racookster 2 years ago
I DIG the groovy music.
lAmRightYouAreWrong 2 years ago 2
Wish this was on DVD.
enigma413 2 years ago 4
I wish it was on tv.
airdriver 2 years ago
@airdriver Behind shows like Fantastic Voyage, Thunderbirds, etc, was a spiritual language that we all once understood during that time. To show such heroic programs today would fall flat because the spiritual language is utterly foreign to us, now. We have learned a new language that prepares us for bondage, poverty, Balkanization, and police state tyranny
F.V. was more than a scientific fantasy. It was part of the grand vision of Heroic Man. A vision that means nothing to 21st century slaves.
InfiniteMushroom 2 years ago
@InfiniteMushroom
Very well put. I cringe when I see what the kids are watching today (yeah, I know, it makes me sound like an old crank). They've replaced curiosity and wonder with mind numbing violence.
TomatoeAssassin 1 year ago
And Obama has now killed the Manned Space Program so you may be right about this.
Laceykat66 1 year ago
Obama didn't act on impulse to kill the manned space program. That agenda has been in the works since Clinton committed high treason and gave China our rocket secrets. We built up China to take over our space program. India will be the engineering back office and NASA will do prototypes for a couple more years
America is under receivership. The bankers won't invest in a nation that is being towed away by the Global Repo Men. NASA will be probated to China and India
YOU will go to a labor camp!
InfiniteMushroom 1 year ago
Oh man. I remember this from when it was new.
rudypyatt 2 years ago
the p[eople that gave us "HE-MAN & THE MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE" DID THIS CLASSIC CARTOON!!!
FILMATION1981 2 years ago
this was one of my favorite cartoons from my childhood (my mom and wife insist i NEVER got out of my childhood). ted knight was awesome! cartoon voices AND caddyshack! who was better than him?!
mess1102 2 years ago
Great cartoon from my childhood. It there are any Star Trek fans out there, look at the building...it has a Vulcan IDIC on it "infinite diversity in Infinite combinations". Filmation also did the Animated start trek....
damonandre 2 years ago 2
THANK YOU! This is one of my 3 fave non-franchise (bugs, etc.) cartoons ever and you can NEVER find any trace of it anywhere online, on tape, DVD, etc. Must be legal hassles somewhere. But it was so cool. I was a bit off but remembered that openng thing: "Da dum da duuuuuuum dow!..." and Tad Knight/Baxter's voice of course, two years before Mary Tyler Moore Show. Geek moment: I used to build the Voyager out of my Mattel TOG'L blocks..
larryn77 2 years ago 10
@larryn77 You're not alone, I built a Voyager out of Tog'l blocks too!
skippersquirrel 1 year ago
@larryn77 Wasn't FANTASTIC VOYAGE produced by Filmation, the same folks who did Archie and Journey to the Center of the Earth?
lp45cdwoman 1 year ago
@lp45cdwoman Yep. And Star Trek animated, and many of the superhero shows from DC ...
larryn77 1 year ago
@lp45cdwoman Yes it was!
Scarletspeedster68 1 year ago
@lp45cdwoman Yes. Filmation did a lot of DC superhero and sci-fi cartoons in the 1960s before beginning the Archie and Jerry Lewis series.
STP43FAN1 1 year ago
Buzby Birdwell looks like Bill Gates
jescynjosh2425 2 years ago 7
@jescynjosh2425 You know, I do notice the resemblance.
Scarletspeedster68 1 year ago
@jescynjosh2425 If I remember Buzby Had a Joe Pesci attitude.
filter021 8 months ago
And to think that Ted Knight did voice acting for various cartoons. I remember him best as Henry Rush from Too Close For Comfort.
Barnstormer1969 2 years ago
Doesn't this give you chills!? Ted Knight had the voice!
sigvoice 2 years ago 4
Is this based on a true story?
LostProphet1776 3 years ago
Uh...yes!
TheRebel2007 3 years ago
thanks for the reply; I kind of guessed it might be based on a true story.
LostProphet1776 2 years ago
Were these ever put on DVD?
SparkyLT 3 years ago
man that's the coolest intro
why can't they show this on nickelodeon like scooby doo is on cn.
Rip great cartoons
'20's- '05 cause of death
dumb cartoons to appeal to a dumb audience
cartoons used to be smart yet fun ex angry beavers scooby doo fat albert doug etc
ocmike34 3 years ago 2
I loved this show, I use to watch this show in Panama in Spanish. I never seen it in English till now.
tdrewman 3 years ago
To all the Fantastic Yoyage fans they now have a model kit of the Voyager.Yes,the cartoon version Voyager.I use to watch this and Journey to the Center of the Earth when it came on during the weekdays.I hope Boomerange will air this someday.
silverado2004 3 years ago
That voice is, I think, ted knight. He did a lot cartoon voiceovers. You may remember him as ted baxter
Daisyno2 3 years ago
No guessing about it. That is Ted Knight. :-)
AxisRedstone 3 years ago
I loved this show!! It was one of my favorite cartoons growing up in central Indiana. I was five at the time. I remember the network previewing the Saturday morning line up and how excited I was to get up early and turn on the TV to see this and the other cartoons. Great stuff!!
Hammerhead451 3 years ago 2
yes, I remember that crazy clock... with the voice. s' good and mesmerizing at age 5? good toon.
honeyjars 3 years ago
Did anyone notice that in "Fantastic Voyage"
Erica Lane looks like a grown-up version
of Betty Cooper from the "Archie" cartoon?
timmymylad 3 years ago 2
I can remember in a couple of episodes that he was called "Busby Birdbrain". lol! I truly miss Filmation cartoons from 1968-1973.
r3ds0x1 3 years ago
@r3ds0x1 I remember that episode. Some spoiled brat called him "Birdbrain".
Originalman320 11 months ago
Do you have any episodes of this great cartoon?
r3ds0x1 3 years ago
Dude. I was about to ask the same thing!
Freakin Busby Birdwell, lol!
This took me waaaayyyy back!
12 hours!
dominoize 3 years ago
Wait a minute...how long is their time limit??
bsj71 3 years ago
lol *holds nose* twaaaaallllve haaaauuursss
or 12 hours. lol
r0y02 3 years ago
this looks freaky
g3ko 3 years ago
I think this was my second favorite Filmation cartoon of the Sixties, after the JLA of THE SUPERMAN/AQUAMAN HOUR OF ADVENTURE. Guru, especially,kicked butt. He didn't have to recite those lengthy rhymes with the tongue-twisting names to peform his magic (like Dr. Strange of Marvel Comics). He literally just waved his hand!
Carycomic 3 years ago
"I think this was my second favorite Filmation cartoon of the Sixties, after the JLA of THE SUPERMAN/AQUAMAN HOUR OF ADVENTURE."
Can you remember if WNEW aired the JLA, Teen Titans and Superboy cartoons during the early '70s? I remember the Superman, Batman, Hawkman, Flash, Aquaman and Green Lantern cartoons, but not the others.
I do have a memory of the Superboy cartoons on WPIX on a weekend during the early '70s. I don't know if I'm right, however.
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
As a matter of fact, yes! They did. When I was in seventh grade, WNEW-5 aired the Filmation versions of the DC heroes between 3PM and 3:30. Along with the 1960's Lone Ranger voiced by Michael Bilsbury (who was later GL Jordan on SUPERFRIENDS). They were either preceded or followed by a half-hour of vintage Bugs Bunny cartoons, making for one entertaining hour!
Carycomic 3 years ago
Oh the memories ... I remember trying to figure out how a real minaturizer would work as a kid. I didn't help when, in a junior high school science class we learned that most matter was comprised of molecules with lots of open space in between. I always wondered if the distance between the molecules could be reduced thus reducing the size of something. I also wondered if we'd weigh the same or if decreasing the inter molecular distance would decrease weight.
Oh, was I a geek - but it was fun :)
semethis 3 years ago
You are so right! :-)
Carycomic 3 years ago
A company called Moebius Models has re-issued the model kit of the ship 'Voyager' as seen in the "Fantastic Voyage" cartoon series. It was originally produced by Aurora Hobby Kit Co. back in 1968.
MR1227 3 years ago 2
I <3 Ted Knight's narration! TWELVE....HOURS...!!
lordxur 3 years ago 2
Nice memories!!!!
gab1234 3 years ago
This show was the shiznit! One of the best shows of its time.
zuriyahe 3 years ago
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mg3Nome 3 years ago
I remember watching Fantastic Voyage in the 1970's eating a bowl of sugary cereal...It was one of the most creative cartoons of our time. Who would have ever thought of miniaturizing an aircraft and the people in it ?.....scientifically that's awesome man !!!
MOST550 3 years ago
I wonder what made the three "miniaturizers" work? I mean, when I watched the show as a kid, I wondered about the science behind miniaturization. Also, wasn't Busby part of the team that built the miniaturizer along with Professor Carter?
anthonygerald 3 years ago
Busby...BIRDwell? Inventor? BUILDER of the Voyager? :D
intrepidlikes 3 years ago
You forgot... SCIENTIST! :)
ccie12933 3 years ago
Oh, man. This really takes me back. I watched this show in the '70s. Glad it's not just me that remembers this show.
dma69nyc 3 years ago
love the music! :)
intrepidlikes 3 years ago
When I first saw this cartoon again in the late Seventies on WNEW, the only thing that I could recall from its original Saturday morning run on ABC was its cool and distinctive roll call in the show's opening. When I saw it again, it instantly clicked on a light of recognition.
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
So you're a WNEW 5 boy? So you probably remember Saturday night's thrills and chills with "Creature Features" at 8:30. I'm 43 and of all the things I miss, WNEW 5's CF is one of them. Great stuff.
Shawnster65 3 years ago
I'm the same age as you, so you probably remember all of the same shows that I do. It was certainly a fun era, including "Creature Features," "Chiller Theater," "Thriller Theatre," "The 4:30 Movie," etc.
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
I remember those, too, Earl! "Creature Features," on old Channel 5 (WNEW-TV) every Saturday night, from 8:30-10PM. And, the "4:30 Movie" on old Channel 9 (WOR-TV), with classic Toho flicks seemingly every Friday!* *My favorite still being DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (Toho/1968).
Carycomic 3 years ago
"And, the "4:30 Movie" on old Channel 9 (WOR-TV), with classic Toho flicks seemingly every Friday!*"
Do you mean the "4:30 Movie" on WABC?
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
Actually, no. WOR-TV was, and is still is, an independent station. Although, now based in Secaucus, NJ as WWOR. This is the same network where Joe Franklin (the interviewer who asks Dan Akroyd about Elvis in the original GHOSTBUSTERS movie) had a late-night talk show that occasionally telecast vintage silent movie-comedies. Piano accompaniment included!
Carycomic 3 years ago
Oh, I used to watch Joe Franklin all of the time during the '80s, as well as seeing his show during the '70s. What I meant in my earlier post was that "The 4:30 Movie" didn't air on WOR, but on WABC. "The 4 O'Clock Movie" (replacing "Thriller Theatre" around 1975) did air on WOR during the second half of the '70s and the early '80s, however.
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
I stand corrected! Which ought to be proof in enough, in itself, just how many decades I've been watching TV. ;-)
"Nurse! Where's my Geritol?"
Carycomic 3 years ago
LOL
Well, I'm only six years younger than you, so I won't laugh too hard. :-)
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
You mean, you've reached the Big Four-Three? :-O
Carycomic 3 years ago
Yep. :-(
EarlSnohomish 3 years ago
Well, more power to you. At least, you know how to gather and download this stuff. If I was cyber-savvy as my youngest brother, I'd be working in Silicon Valley. Not Naugatuck Valley! ;-)
Carycomic 3 years ago
Ted Knight was very busy on this series. Not only did he do that narrating but he also did the voice for Commander Kidd and and Professor Carter. He was busy with Filmation that year doing other projects as well.
timbabcock 3 years ago 2
Wow it's hard to believe that it has been 40 years since I watched that show on ABC. They certainly weren't PC with Guru. Probably explains why I can't find a DVD set of this series on DVD. I liked the cartoon though.
timbabcock 3 years ago
It might not come to DVD as I believe that 20th Century Fox owns the licensing rights (as they made a film in 1966 with this same title). But one can dream, can't he?
Scarletspeedster68 3 years ago
I certainly remember this forgotten cartoon from the late 1960's when it was broadcast as part of a weekday morning group of shows on Chicago TV back in the 1980's.
TimelordR 3 years ago
Narration: preposterous! Grammar: absent! Translation: simplified!
Why is there a swami on the team? I mean, sure, why NOT? It's a cartoon, after all. But it just seems kinda random. Is this some sort of fallout from that whole Beatles-go-to-India thing?
steveasat2 3 years ago
Like BlakeVII said, it's been over 30 years. Probably a lot closer to 40.
I used to make my own Voyager with the original Legos (not the highly specialized and themed ones they have today).
slybry1961 3 years ago
Qu emaravilloso volver a ver, aunque sea el intro de esta comiquita.
Tiburon690 3 years ago
Gee all that tech and the still can't find Cpt. Kidd a Bionic Eye! Maybe he shoulda' borrowed it from the Six Million Dollar Man!
Dreaded88 3 years ago
Wow I had forgotten about this one. Man youtube is bringing back all the memories!!!
slagit 4 years ago
Yes. I was five years old in 1968. This REALLY brings back memories. I actually LIKED these cheesy shows.
jpljr1 3 years ago
MAN! Did Ted Knight Narrated every Filmation cartoon in the 60's?
Jazzy9964 4 years ago
No, just Fantastic Voyage, Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Batman and Robin and of course, Aquaman, The Atom, The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and The Teen Titans.
Scarletspeedster68 3 years ago
MAN!!
Jazzy9964 4 years ago
This is the first time that I've seen this in over 30years. WOW! INCREDIBLE!!
I remember the music being a little scarey. Loved to watch it though. Every saturday morning. Come to think of it, its also my first time seeing it in colour too!
BlakeVII 4 years ago
I loved this show. Especially the opening narration by Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka.
ssosmcin 4 years ago
If you want to see an episode of Fantastic voyage and Journey to the Center of the Earth go to (type Saturday Morning blog in your web browser)The browser will have Saturday morning blog, the best and worst animation...there are some great toons there.
lazyel 4 years ago
takes me back,thanks.
booboooooooooooooo 4 years ago
Chiming in here too-a great part of my childhood. I watched it when in was on Tri-State area TV back in the mid-late 70's. It's still a cool as ever. Thanks for the memories!
Shawnster65 4 years ago
I barely remember watching this...I was like, 5 or 6 at the time. But it left an impression. I also remember watching the original movie with Raquel Welch. I'm surprised they never remade it...C
wevetra13 4 years ago
As much as I deplore remakes, I would actually watch a remake of the Fantastic Voyage film. The original film's plot was so full of holes, and Asimov's novelization came too late to fix them.
tuttt99 4 years ago
I think the biggest problem(for me) would be "why miniturize humans when you could get nanites to do the job?" See "Prey" by Micheal C. But the original still stands up with the cinematography. And it's still a cool movie to watch, "holes" and all.
wevetra13 4 years ago
Erica Lane looks almost exactly like Betty from EVERYTHING'S ARCHIE.
SellawEvets 4 years ago
Not surpising.
Both series were produced by Hal Sutherland and Filmation studios.
Also, both characters were voiced by the same actress, Jane Webb.
tuttt99 4 years ago
Ah yes, Jane Webb. The first lady of Filmation. She was also Batgirl in the first animated BATMAN series (where Catwoman wore a green jumpsuit and sounded lke an old hag) and Babs from THE BRADY KIDS (the redhead who had a crush on Greg).
SellawEvets 4 years ago
And don't forget Hal's two other partners, Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott 91927-2005) as they were the co-producers for this and many other shows produced by Filmation. Hal Sutherland actually was the director for this series as well many other Filmation shows.
Scarletspeedster68 4 years ago
They were a staple of my saturday morning cartoon fare. Busby was my favorite. He was cute (for a cartoon that is)
tuttt99 4 years ago
Guru was my favourite and I was always that character when we played 'Fantastic Voyage' at school. haha
BlakeVII 4 years ago
Good times.. I remember my childhood too. Thanks 4 posting this.
gringa50 4 years ago
i loved this show back in the day,it is a cool classic,thanks for posting
starfyre05 4 years ago 2
this show rocked when i was a kid.
Ted Knight's voice through reverb and delay is priceless- "TIME LIMIT: 12 HOURS!!!"
i think the Bushies must have been influenced by this-
if their mission is to "combat the unseen, unsuspected enemies of freedom"
thanks to whoever posted this, brings me back...
krispybmc 4 years ago