Tarzan and the Super 7 Opening

[rasheobob]

wheres tarzan?

[redbuick]

There aint a dam thing on saturday mornings anymore. no super hero's, not one. no more cartoon blocks on regular tv. when i have kids i hope they like the dvds of spiderman and his amazing friends they will be watching. no hannah montanna shit for them. shame this country has gotten so tech savvy they forgot what a saturday morning was supposed to be.

[vardiss22]

1975 to about 1985...this had to the "golden age" of saturday morning cartoons if you were a kid growing up at this time ...personally i born in 1970....so yeah i'm grateful that i was there to enjoy pretty much all of this stuff

[BernieGolgo13]

Agreed.. Space ghost would come in and blast every single stupid toon today.. Thank you Clinton for passing a law that regulated after school toons as well as Saturday morning cartoons....

[gorn779757]

0:06 two crimefighters who use the powers of incest? Jeez....

[Scarletspeedster68]

@gorn779757 He said insects.

[creoleDJ]

It puzzles me that Bommerang won't show any of these comics. (That includes the old Isis, Shazam, Fat Albert, and other Filmation cartoons.) Hell, TV Land could show them on Saturday mornings, istead of a 18 hour long Andy Grifith marathon all the damned time!

[FILMATION1981]

thats because bommerang only shows classic HANNA-BARBABA cartoons. if you want to see flimation cartoons you have to buy them on dvd!!

[JohnnyDrama34]

Maybe they can't get the rights to air them. It seems boomerang focuses on just hannah-barberra cartoons

[newstart2009]

@creoleDJ Because Boomerang is owned by Turner , who has the Hanna Barbera library... TV Land DID try and run Filmation cartoons, but inexplicably it wasn't well recieved. Probably they didn't advertise too much...Now TV Land is a shell of what it used to be and Boomerang sneaks newer cartoons more and more.

[rockhopper10r]

How are we counting so we get seven? This has always bothered me. There are four segments here. If we add the Tarzan and Batman segments it's six. Do we count individual characters as one, but the Freedom Force counts as a team as one? Thirty years later I still can't figure it out.

[midknightryder13]

And I can never remember which came first -- was it "Tarzan and the Super 7" or "Batman and the Super 7" which came first? And you're right -- I also could never figure out how you get to 7. I kind of made it work by counting Isis as 1 and the rest of the Freedom Force and another 1 -- but that's stretching it -- no pun intended. Quite frankly, I think they just liked the sound of "Super 7" and figured the viewers wouldn't care. (And they were basically right.)

[2199]

Tarzan came first. Then the next season it was Batman.

[acholl980]

There missing Jason of Star Command. A live action follow-up to Space Academy (1977) was no. 7

[filipeflower]

You're still a kid, detchuck.

[TONYBINATL]

I'm not sure why I don't rememeber the Super 7. Loved the Batman/Tarzan hour which I think came on either before or after Bugs Bunny on CBS. I'm rediscovering Lone Ranger and Zorro too.

[scorpio3738]

I would rather watch GSN on Saturdays today than Hanna Montanah

[starwarsrebel2006]

The narrator keeps saying "The Super 7." I don't think my mind is going yet, but I'm sure I always heard him say "Tarzan and the Super 7." Maybe this cartoon was before Tarzan got added and it became "Tarzan and the Super 7."

[jermainemack]

The List of all the Batman and the Super 7 Segments that ran on NBC from 1980-1981

The New Adventures of Batman

The Freedom Force

Web Woman

Manta & Moray

Superstetch & Microwoman

[jermainemack]

The List of all the Tarzan and the Super 7 Segments

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle

The New Adventures of Batman

The Freedom Force

Web Woman

Manta & Moray

Superstretch & Microwoman

Jason of Star Command

[IG2HI]

Still waiting for those to be collected on DVD. This was a part of my childhood.

[MKUltra3]

web woman: brazen saturday morning sexuality

[IG2HI]

Filmation was good at designing sexy women. That was their strongest point.

[metasource]

check out herculoids and blackstar

space ghost and thundarr the barbarian.

[DBNHellspawn]

Wow! I don't remember this show at all and I was a Saturday morning junkie. Looks like I definitley would have liked it. I don't know how I missed it.

[jermainemack]

CBS's 1980 Saturday Morning Line-Up

8:00am The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle

9:00am The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show

10:30am The All New Popeye Hour

11:30am The New Fat Albert Show

12:00pm Shazam!

12:30pm Tarzan and the Super 7

1:30pm 30 Minutes

[brw9284]

wow, the good ol days....

[warlaker]

THAT was how I kicked it back in the day.

[BurrBattle]

Anybody remember when you could watch cartoons from 6 till 12 on saturdays and they were all great. You get maybe two hours worth of cartoons nowadays and they stink, nothing but "Hanna Montana" and "That's so Raven" Disney crap. It's not worth getting out of bed.

[ratesforless]

Folks would've stormed the houses of TV execs with pitchforks and torches if they had replaced Fat Albert or the Superfriends with that Hanna Montana/Spongebob/That's so Raven mess.

[iamdeprogram]

Batman and the Super 7 was exactly like this except with Batman instead of Tarzan, so, you're looking at it.

[Tages72]

Super-stretch used to really freak me out when I was a kid, but I loved these old shows! Vintage 70's Saturday Morning cartoon goodness.

[mike584]

Does anyone have any clips of Batman and the Super 7 at all? that would be awesome.

[DarklingSprite]

Almost everyone I knew hated "Web Woman", but I thought she was cool!

[jermainemack]

Does Anyone have the closing credits from Tarzan and the Super 7 because I would love to see the closing credits!

[jermainemack]

Next, Another Interesting Story that's In The News!

[ttfn101]

Wow. What great memories! First there was 'Batman and the Super 7' series, then a year later, it was 'Tarzan and the super 7'.

I only wish these shows were on DVD.

Does anyone have this Tarzan series on DVD?

Let me know

[bunnymen418]

If you go to MegostoreClick on DVD Then click on cartoons You fing it.I have purchased some 1966 Lone Rangers cartoons and other DVD's from this site.They're copies but very good quality as in picture and sound.I hope this helps you-bunnymen418

[kpowers]

Flimation has been pretty good about putting theie stuff on dvd such as flash gordon/freedom force- space sentinals/Isis/Shazam/ark 2/space accademy/jason of star command. I know they have a few more. But yeah they nee to but all these shows on dvd web woman/super stretch/ jana of the jungle/ batman/lone ranger/tarazan. Flimation if your out there please put this on dvd and I'll be more than happy to buy it.

[2199]

Where can I find these old school cartoon that I loved as a kid on Saturday mornings? Are they really on DVD?

[jermainemack]

CBS's 1979-1980 Saturday Morning Line-Up

8:00am The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle

9:00am The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show

10:30am The All New Popeye Hour

11:30am The New Fat Albert Show

12:00pm Jason of Star Command

12:30pm Tarzan and the Super 7

1:30pm 30 Minutes

[bigbill1991]

All day cartoons on CBS saturday mornings were the bomb at least until the mid 80's I believe.

[tightmadnesss]

One of the best fuking line ups in tv history!

[landrykkb]

@jermainemack I don't mind Bugs Bunny,but an hour and a half is overkill.

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[TheMikester307]

"Superstretch and Microwoman" had to be a wink at both "The Elongated Man" and "The Thin Man" type of husband and wife sluething, er, superheroing. Iwasa in college when this was on, I'd forgotten about it! Thanks for posting!

----mikey

[jermainemack]

CBS's 1978-1979 Saturday Morning Line-Up

8:00am The All New Popeye Hour

9:00am The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show

10:30am Tarzan and the Super 7

12:00pm Space Academy

12:30pm Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

1:00pm Ark II

1:30pm 30 Minutes

[cubbi1977]

I was really young in 1978, but I still remember that block. How has Saturday Morning cartoons fallen.

[bigbill1991]

Totally Agree!

[ratesforless]

Yep, back when Saturday mornings used to MEAN something in this country. You didn't have 24/7 of Nicktoons and Cartoon Network; you had one shot and that was it.

There's not enough words in Webster's to describe my disgust of today's cartoons compared to 25-30 years ago. Spongebob wouldn't have even gone past the pilot stage, let alone cracked CBS's lineup back then. Wanna compare Chaotic to Star Blazers, anyone?

The dumbing down of America; the effin' sadness continues...

[manictigger]

I am with you 10000%

[Richardisdorky]

@ratesforless I respectfully disagree. The cartoon of 25-30 were crap. The animation was substandard all the story lines were cheep rip offs of early fifties comedy shows. Most modern car to are marketing devices for products sure, so were the one of that time period. Yet you have a lot of brilliantly written original idea's. Ben Ten, Young Justice and Generator Rex just to name a few are very well written. Oh and Chaotic and Star Blazer are both garbage.

[bingbong35]

This is a classic series. I remember them rotating the individual cartoons under this umbrella title. I don't remember which network it was on-I'm guessing CBS. It was obviously competing with "SUPERFREINDS" which was on ABC. Notice the "bionic" sound effect was used in the "MICRO WOMAN" segment of the opening titles.

[lobo81865]

Great stuff!! I haven't seen these in years. I hope the Tarzan of the Apes Filmation cartoons will ever see the light of day on DVD. I have them all transcribed from VHS that I bought on Ebay, but I'd love to have them in the proper DVD format.

[gloriana5tenebrae]

Cool! Really uber-cool!

[Scarletspeedster68]

Too bad Manta and Moray, Web Woman and Superstrech & Microwoman won't make it onto DVD due to legal troubles between Filmation and Marvel Comics back in the late 70s, but it would have been nice to have them available today for viewing. *sigh* Oh, well, thank goodness for You Tube.

[palitoy]

yes, I'll get to that hopefully soon.

[connieplankghost]

Dou you have any Manta & Morray Cartoon?

[juancardenes]

I have the Freedom Force cartoon, it is included on the Space Sentinels DVD. I hope to see the others on a DVD soon.

[oldmill86]

can you get hold of any space sentinels videos?