Journey to the Center of the Earth, Filmation HQ Bumper + Intro

[retrocleo]

Loved this cartoon as a kid. It was shown at 6am back in the late 70's here in melbourne. I would get up before the rest of the family and sneak into the lounge and watch it with the volume right down.

[RatBatSpiderCrab]

I remember in the 60s movie version Gertrude the duck became someone's dinner.

[superlego23]

... And his duck LOLWUT?

[deuvs123]

awesome. thank you.

[mjniemela]

Same thing here, asshole! This creation is MINE! Delete it or make note that it came from ME!

[GilbertSmith]

@mjniemela You can't claim ownership to something that you have no legal right to in the first place.

[STP43FAN1]

Count Saccnussen bears a striking resemblence to John Colicos. 

[ccie12933]

Great, great intro by Ted Knight. Like "Fantastic Voyage", the cartoon itself wasn't that great, but you can't beat that intro.

[MRMOGAVERO]

Fantastic series to bad it was only 17 episodes!!!!

[TheSpelldoctor]

After watching this. My friends and I would play Journey to the center of the creek. Or some variation of that. Well when you're a kid fun is fun. Thanks for posting this.

[jkoskov]

If you notice, the voice is Ted Knight.

[jkoskov]

If you notice, the voice in the intro is Ted Knight. He had done a number of those for for Filmation before he was cast in the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

[dynagravitomagnetic]

There's a lore that vast subterranean expanses exist throughout the world. A large opening at the South pole was called "New Swabenland" by Germany during WW2. Another is said to be in the ocean near Alaska. Different models of the Earth trough time have held that the world was the center of the universe, that it was flat, that it has a molten iron core, and that it has large passages through it. None are proven. Please look up "the hollow earth" for more information.

[tellusorbit]

I was a big fan of this cartoon series when it premiered back in 1967. I have all of the episodes on videocassette and will transfer them to DVD when I get the opportunity. Seeing this brings back many pleasant memories. I agree with Infinite Mushroom and tarheeltiger that it is a great pity that kids don't have anything like this to watch on Saturday mornings nowadays.

[tarheeltiger23]

this was back when cartoons actually had some thought put into it. its a shame that doesn't happen anymore

[InfiniteMushroom]

Cartoons like this were for the Gemini generation, where it was important to cultivate scientific fantasy and see realistic humans animated in character

Today's kids have only mindless serfdom to look forward to. Such cartoons with characters that look like humans doing interesting things just doesn't play out well in a stupefied mind. It would only create cognitive dissonance for today's kids to see quality entertainment and then look up and see a destitute anomic police-state all around them.

[zebracardeath]

your saying that they didnt put any though into the familyguy "Chicken Fight"?

common really.

[pcjohn0308]

Did anyone notice that the A.S. engraving

goes from the size of a post-it note to a poster

in the following scene ?

[TheFlyattractor]

...and his duck...lol

[Spruill605]

I Love The Intro Of Journey To The Center Of The Earth Cartoon Made By Filmation, Because It Has More Animation Than The Outro. From: Spruill605.

[Scarletspeedster68]

Actually, that's Jules Verne a Issac Asimov.

[Evsondey]

@Scarletspeedster68 Actually, that's Jules Verne and Issac Asimov.

[Scarletspeedster68]

@Evsondey I know, I misspelled "and".

[eurastus]

Watch this cartoon when I was a boy made me curious about Julio Verne then I started to read their books. After I moved to another writers like H.G.Wells, Issac Assimov and others and don't stoped untill now. Many thanks for post it! It brings me sweet memories.

[chasxyz1234]

@eurastus Verne was a great writer. JTTCOTE made me almost believe the fantastic was possible. 20,00 Leagues is another excellent adventure.