Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure

[Stablemable2]

Get goosebumps at the part " from fun-tastic to the fantastic".

[xasthur502]

lol Galactus looks so weird in this. 

[RoFLqKFTW]

WTF ?!

[blkron3]

i remember this coming on the afternoon weekdays at 3pm back in the early 80's in my hometown of st.louis,may that was the bomb wonder if i can find that on dvd anywhere!

[JackNDianeNKyle]

They don't make em like that anymore! I remember my eyes glued to the screen when this would play thinking I had hit the mega TV jackpot! lol Thank god for Boomerang! :D

[albatani27]

I grew up with this on weekday afternoons in the late 70s. Hanna Barbera and escapist fun at their finest!! God, I love that I was a kid when I was!

[notfarfromhome]

Damn, back in the day, early Saturday mornings were the shit! Cartoons and Captain Crunch cereal! I miss those days! Thanks for the upload, lots of memories!

[kascnef82]

would be cool if they remix it in stereo.....that would sound funtastic.

[msm2you]

As much as I am a Hoyt Curtain fan ( I adore the man) I don't think he did the music for this intro. I checked on IMDB and Ted NIchols did the music for all the series in the Promo. (Hanna Barbera took the credit, of course).

Actually it is easy to pick out a Curtain score from a Nichols score. Curtain was a brass man (see Jonny Quest/Jetsons), Nichols like to use electronic sounds (Space Ghost/Herculoids).

[LeinaStol]

@msm2you Compare this song to Hoyt Curtain's opening theme and background tracks from Battle of the Planets -the theme to World of Super Adventure sounds like it came straight from the same composer, same musicians, some of the same elements. I think the confusion is easy to grasp: World of Super Adventure was made of older stock cartoons that Ted DID do. Perhaps all Hoyt did was the package theme. Truly awesome song, 

[citizenterryk]

@msm2you indeed!!........Curtin was notorious for inflicting torture on trombonists!!

[mnap128]

My favorite cartoon EVER!!!! Set the alarm for 6am mom!!!!

[kascnef82]

This was on the now-defunct CTN channel, which was funded by the New Jersey Government as a cable channel to attract local cable fans. They also showed a college show called "Tellerific" which originated from what is now Rowan University. It's theme song was the Debbie Gibson pop hit "Electric Youth", whose video played in the beginning of the show.

[Adom]

I used to LOVE this show as a kid. Was always disappointed if it turned out to be Shazaam or the one based on the 3 Stooges though.

[mnap128]

@Adom haha yup it was NEVER Herculoids or Fantastic Four like WTF!

[Adom]

@mnap128 Right?! Fantastic Four was like catching lightning in a bottle. Especially in the summer it seemed to be the cool shows even less often, which was fine when the kids down the block got a pool.

[PeterPiperBoy]

I AM SPEECHLESS!!! I HAD READ MOST OF THE COMMENTS FROM MY FELLOW BLOGGERS...AND I HAVE TO SAY...THIS INTRO FAR BY NONE...IS THE GREATEST SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON INTRO EVER!!! HANDS DOWN!!! THIS IS WHAT SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS ARE SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE...FEEL LIKE...AND SOUND LIKE!!! WHEN YOU HEAR THE THEME MUSIC FROM THIS ACTION-SHOW...YOU ALREADY KNOW...YOU WERE IN FOR THE BEST SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON THRILL-RIDE EVER!!! I HAVE TO AGREE...THEY DON'T MAKE CARTOONS LIKE THIS ANYMORE!!!

[logan1966]

@PeterPiperBoy Without a doubt...THE BEST INTRO EVER ON SATURDAY MORNINGS back in the day !!!!!!!!!

[voicemaster71]

The announcer was the late Stanley Jones, who not only narrated the intro of Challenge of the SuperFriends, but he was also the voice of Lex Luthor as well.

[aweboy]

0:08 - 0:15 In order shown: Birdman Space Ghost w/ Jan, Jace, & Blip Mightor & Tog Gravity Girl, Meteor Man, & Vapor Man (The Galaxy Trio) Todd (aka Dino Boy) & Bronty Little Rock & Ork Shazzan w/ Chuck, Nancy, & Kaboobie Moby Dick w/ Tom & Tub Coil Man, Multi Man, & Fluid Man (The Impossibles) Frankenstein Jr. & Buzz Conroy Invisible Girl, Human Torch, Mr. Fantastic, & The Thing (Fantastic Four) Zok, Tundro, Zandor, Tarra, Dorno, Gleep, Gloop, Igoo (The Herculoids) Phew!

[rrbaratheon]

God does that bring back memories... Kids nowadays have NO idea what they're missing... Saturday morning goodness indeed

[Metlhd313]

Look at all those cool alex toth designs.

[perkdaddy06]

This has got to be the coolest intro ever!! Sends me right back to the mid 70's when it was still cool to be a kid and Saturday morning's were made for Captain Krunch and cartoons. I weep for kids nowadays. They just don't know and have no clue. Anybody remember Voltron, Battle of the Planets or the Secret Life of Waldo Kitty?

[MightySaturn5]

always loved this intro, especially at 1:12

[designbydre]

Trully amazing! Brings back a thousand memories. Love that triceratops thing shooting out of his horn. The most amazing heroes ever assembled forever!! I cant imagine anything coming close to the build up in the intro nowadays lol.

[thugg79]

from funtastic to the fantastic has got 2b the coolest line ever

[MightySaturn5]

@thugg79 -agreed, when they show the Thing going through his transformation it really adds to the narration

[Astraldragon1]

@MightySaturn5 , the Narrator does a great job drawing you into it. along with the great intro music.

[MightySaturn5]

@Astraldragon1 -thats exactly right...I shouldn't say things were better then but its not like I'm seeing cartoon intro's such as Young Sampson or especially Jonny Quest any more

[yogthulhu]

Unless there's footage of Clint Eastwood fighting Bruce Willis somewhere, this is probably the most badass thing ever.

[henryvrgl]

My god....the electricity and swell of emotion when I heard this again transported me to days of my youth. This is what kids got up early on Saturday mornings at the crack of dawn for. Those four or five hours were pure magic. Captured my imagination and had me GLUED to my seat 'til noon. Don't you dare try and change the channel of even stand in front of the TV. You'd get an action figure thrown at your head. How dare you?!?!? Do you know how important this was?!? This is what Saturdays were.

[designbydre]

exactly, no truer words have been spoken. brought tears to my eyes

[boofdfast]

This music is EPIC, not like cartoons nowadays. Early Saturday morning goodness. Back when Birdman was a cool superhero, not a bufoon like he is on Harvey Birdman on Adult Swim. Love Zok the flying dragon on the Herculoids, and Shazann. Love it. :)

[Colierrannd2]

@boofdfast someone might have to correct me but I think it's composed by Hoyt Curtain, who also did the "Battle of the Planets" theme among others. I think he composed most of the shows in this intro's themes.

[boofdfast]

@Colierrannd2 Yeah, that name does ring a bell. If he is the same guy, that did BOTP... than that man knows how to make good intro music. lol

[msm2you]

@Colierrannd2 @boofdeast I expect that you are correct.  Curtain did the themes for Johnny Quest, The Flintstones, The Jetsons and BotP. The heavy use of brass is usually the give away - he was mad for brass.

[viliguns]

@boofdfast, I made a comment about 3 teens with super powers who rode on space scooters. One turned into a comet, the other guy was like a milky way galaxy, and the girl had electric powers. I know you thought it was Galaxy Trio (Vaporman, Meteor man, and Gravity Girl), but I believe they were called Teen Force & would work with Sapce Ghost sometimes.

[Kuahmel]

@viliguns That was NBC's Space Stars, a later show that kinda went by that same format. Teen Force were new characters for that 80s series and united Space Ghost (with a new Phantom Cruiser) and the Herculoids under one shared universe. There was also an unrelated Astro and The Space Pirates for comic relief on that one show.

[MrJamie1932]

@boofdfast ... That's right!!............ nothing like Zok & Shazzan!! Some of the best of their times!!!

[Astraldragon1]

@boofdfast , The Cartoons were great and the music really drew you into the show. It was great times and great memories.

[GREATGARLOO1]

I don't think I've ever seen this big cartoon anthology show. I've seen the characters seperately on their own series, but never like this.

[designbydre]

The music was key

[SuperheroesOnline]

They were called the "Teen Force" (Elektra, Molecu-Lad, & Kid Comet). They were part of the "Space Stars" cartoon block. I hope to have them some time in the future on my blog.

[boofdfast]

That's Galaxy Trio, not Teen Force. lol :)

[HOTDOLLAZ23]

Herculiods, Mightor and Space Ghost was the shit.

[boofdfast]

That would be the Galaxy Trio. :)

[TheIronSheikSociety]

Dedicated to protecting the BEASTS!!! That sounds like one of the lines in this intro segment. This announcer was used in the Challenge of the Superfriends intro in 1978 as well.

[TheGhostPlanet]

LOL!! What the announcer says is "Protecting the Peace".

[justinbig9]

Boy the music just gets you amped up like they're really gettin ready to do some heroic sh*t don't it?!

[MightySaturn5]

@justinbig9 lol...well fuc*%ng said

[rbg2819]

@justinbig9 word! lol.

[gus4u2c]

@justinbig9 The theme music ROCKS!!!

[rbg2819]

@justinbig9 im with u on that shit. i wish that backgruond could play when im mad, lol

[ncc7609]

This intro is one of the coolest of any cartoon show ever! The music and voice-over have that classic old-school way of getting kids really psyched up for superhero action... especially the line "and now it's take-off time..." like something out of Captain Video and his Video Rangers.

I wonder if anyone considered some of these in live action movies. Imagine the Herculoids, Space Ghost, or Mightor in live action. Who would play them?

[blackwunk2]

A beefed up Tom Cruise as Zandor. John Cena as Mightor. Gerard Butler as Space Ghost. CGI for Igoo, Zok, Tundro, Gloop and Gleep. Went to Deviantart com and saw all the ways it could be done. I almost cried at all the possibilities!

[boofdfast]

What actress to play Zandor's wife, Tarra?

[KCOliver1960]

@boofdfast Her name was Virginia Gregg.

[shugo29]

This was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Astraldragon1]

Great Classic shows , great times lots of memories. The announcer really draws you in with that intro and music in the background.

[jcp1977]

I wish they do a resurrection of all them SUPER ADVENTURES from Hanna Barbera minus FANTASTIC FOUR(With all due respect to MARVEL)

[TheGhostPlanet]

Actually this intro came from WNEW Channel 5 in NY in 1980

[jcp1977]

I remember this intro well too bad other Hanna-Barbera shows like Flintstones,Tom & Jerry and Scooby Doo get all the credit.

[textronox]

@TheGhostPlanet

Thank You , You are like me that remember that those people at wikipedia are misinformed

[moxie96]

@TheGhostPlanet for me it was KICU Channel 36 in san francisco/san jose back in the early 80's until about 1988 at first at three in the afternoon then moved to the mornings before it disappeared for good. my sister has bootleg fantastic four episodes from a station in texas that aired this show

[MightySaturn5]

@TheGhostPlanet Yeah.... although I've seen those cartoons I've never seen any kind of "all inclusive" intro until channel 5 seemed to get a hold of the lot ...perhaps this is a custom intro made to showcase WNEW's 1980 "stable of cartoons"

[mtdinstrumentals]

@TheGhostPlanet i think it was always the intro, but wnew just re-introduced it to the kids in the early 80's. my brothers and sisters used to talk about this show and they we're kids in the late 60's, early 70's.

[shugo29]

WOW........... I've not seen this since I was a kid. This stuff is hot yo...

[Lfdjake91]

Awesome intro.

[TVSuperMax]

Cartoon Network mid 90's ftw!

[rocketdude1979]

I loved these cartoons, I wish they were still on other than on boomerang.

[ssosmcin]

God this went on forever. No intro would be this long now. great stuff, though.

[Ruffrob]

I have every one of these on DVD,and go in to kid mode,every once and I while. It's fun to go back

[Cavillier1970]

I know what you mean, I can't wait to share these with my nephew when he's old enough. Hes only 18 mths now, so I got time to get them all on DVD

[TIPTON340]

This was the syndicated opening of the herculoids, frankenstien jr., birdman, space ghost, shazzam, mightor, incredibles, moby dick, and the fantastic four.

[dimitribeta]

the 3 characters at 0min 9sec, who are they? I rememember them vaguely...

[supa250]

the Galaxy Trio......the female is gravity girl, the other two names escape me at the moment

[dimitribeta]

Thank you supa20,

yes, a quick search reveals that they are Birdman's friends. I forgot that (well its been 20 years!). The guys' names are Vapor man and Meteor man.

May I ask, does the following ring a bell?

3 main characters:

the main hero, yellow costume, white male, I think he had 'solar' powers and could fly,

and 2 sidekicks, 1 girl, african-origin, big afro hair, could turn into any animal,

and another guy, far asian (ie Chinese, japanese etc) who was really fast..

thanks

[supa250]

sounds like the space sentinels......if not, it sounds like you might have combined characters from different shows actually.....now there's a search for ya :)

[supa250]

yep, just had it confirmed....the show you're asking about is the Space Sentinels.......damn, I dont know whether to be impressed with myself or scared that I actually remember stuff like that :)

[dimitribeta]

thanks yes it is them,

though I got the main character all wrong, clearly cause of mixing them all up withother shows!

Its good that you remember, least for us who saw these cartoons translated in other languagesd, so didnt have a tite to go by and look.

[supa250]

glad I could help.......and Hanna Barbera was/were the greatest

[johnny10301968]

The opening to this is the Jetsons opening.

[ec40268]

I loved the intro and the show. But what bothered me back then was that Young Samson and Goliath was not included. The Herculoids and Samson Goliath were my favorite superhero cartoons as a kid.

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

Young Samson wasn't included due to ownership issues (the show's sponsor General Mills still owned the rights to this and Space Kidettes; they are the only two Hanna-Barbera 'toons not to be syndicated by either Turner or Warner Bros. [Program Exchange still distributes 'em in barter syndication]

[citizenterryk]

never knew that!!.....now that i think about it, i recall seeing promos for both those cartoons on the boxes of Big G cereals back then(relying on memory being able to go back about 40 years)......thanks for the info!!

[realswellguy]

I remember watching the majority of

these cartoons when I was a kid, back

in the 60s, when they were first shown

on NETWORK T-V; before they went into

syndication! AHH! The Good Stuff!

[Liniud]

The Impossibles were awsome. And don't laugh any who remember them.

[lojikmagnus]

To this day, my favorite cartoon intro. "Defend the weak, right the wrong, and battle against the forces of evil everywhere," says so much about the basics of what the superhero genre is all about.

[Cavillier1970]

you're right, but anyone who gets hooked into this and wrapped up like most of us I bet, would love to a superhero. fast poll; how many folks out here watch heroes? LOL

[Kuahmel]

Great to find this intro.  Reminds me of watching channel 11 here in L.A. at 6am before school. And my sister getting mad because I cracked open an orange Crush in the morning.

[Liniud]

I believe the Thundercats intro was #1. But this one beats it for the variety contained. It was made with much heart.

[mlg73]

AH yeah...I remember. I used to watch this on Channel 11 too! This brings back some memories. It's still one of my favorite show opens.

[justinbig9]

Even though most if not all of these characters would get there asses kicked by most superheroes, you have to admit that as far as themes the only shows that came close in theme is Beast wars, The new Batman dark knight theme, and the theme from Superman the movie.

[mrshow1]

yeah, the problem is this intro is so awesome that nothing else can follow it.

[lavverlylad]

Who are the three characters at 0:09? With the white-haired Spock-like guy with the fist?

[lavverlylad]

'Scuse me ladies and gents, just found the answer to my own question - it's the Galaxy Trio.

[Liniud]

Toonopedia my friend, where all toon questions are answered.

[HOTDOLLAZ23]

This was the shit back in the day.

[2199]

Why on earth is Lex Luthor doing voice over work for heroes?

[mnap128]

Wow this was the best shiznat ever!

I remember this in the early 80s, of course it was reruns from back in like 67'. Still best intro ever...I recorded close to all these episodes, especially herculoids and fantastic four. Old School Rocked it!

[Krazy3912]

I'm blessed to be born in 1967. :-)

[Astraldragon1]

great classic cartoons I got to watch....thru out the 70's and 80's..not to mention all the classic cartoons of the 60's (in repeats)..I all so was born in 1967.

[designbydre]

I was born in 1981 and I caught the tail end of it

[LukeCage2099]

Thanks for posting this! Even though it's a little before my time, I really enjoy seeing old shows in the way they were originally presented, especially the cartoons like this that are shown on the Boomerang channel often without the original lead-ins and intros.

[justinbig9]

A real cartoon with stories to boot! Now every thing looks like yu-gi-o, pokemon, or power rangers, which all suck!

[jsheuer]

I haven't seen these since I was a kid. I remember when they were taken off the air because all the parents thought they were too violent. I didn't think so, I loved every one of these shows.

[320k]

Compared to the utter #$%& that passes for cartoons these days, this was classic.

Just shows how much parents know, huh?

[oceanbelow]

The absolute greatest theme song to any cartoon show, or live action show--EVER!

[320k]

Absolutely!

[oceanbelow]

Right on, friend! From 0:42 to 0:56 you know the s**t is going down! Sends chills up my spine.

[320k]

Gives me goose bumps every time I watch it

[mnap128]

HAha that is the best part

From Funtastic to the Fantastic!

[Tages72]

I couldn't agree more. I lived to watch the opening credits alone. Superfriends tried but couldn't quite match this!

[SuperCruiser72]

>>>>>"Superfriends tried but couldn't quite match this!"

Yes Superfriends did match this, you urine slurping bastard!

*swiftly splits Tages72 into eighths with an ax*

[Actionguy1]

Sorry friend! As much as I love Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman, "Superfriends" never even came close to these shows! Some thought and preperation actually went into "The Herculoids", "Space Ghost", etc.

Superfriends dropped the ball with Wendy, Marvin, and Wonderdog from the onset of the show!

But, that's the difference between the 60's and the 70's! Peace!

[Kuahmel]

Yeah, it's funny, because the Super Adventure shows required nowhere near the suspense of disbelief that Superfriends did. But it was all a wash with us being kids.

[bull705]

In all fairness,Superfriends was a victim of the watchdog groups.H-B didn't have the same freedoms they had in the sixties when most of these were made.

FWIW,Igoo pwning the two robots...still friggin awesome after all these years.

[LeinaStol]

The theme is by composer Hoyt Curtin who did many of the H-B songs. This particular song is extremely similar to the music he did for Battle of the Planets which was not from H-B. Some of Hoyt's music is on CD. Look for it!

[Bdr213]

This is the intro to the show. I haven't seen

this since I was a kid. They used to show it

on Channel 5 in New York back in the days.

[kascnef82]

not to mention on CTN, which was on Cablevision during the 1990's and was later absorbed into the major Local Programming channel for Cablevision.

[paisano5000]

Solo los ignorantes y estúpidos pueden creer las historias de la Biblia, y desafortunadamente en pleno siglo XXI el mundo sigue lleno de ellos. Si de verdad creen en un diós, por favor: Pídanle un cerebro... Si algún día lo consiguen dejarán de creer tantas estupideces.

[osotoron]

Creemos porque Dios mismo nos ha dado esa medida de fe, para creer en el. Pero la Biblia dice que la fe no es para todos. Muchos son llamados, pocos escogidos. Tenemos la mente de Jesucristo, y pensamis todo lo verdadero, justo, puro, noble, de buen nombre, honesto, si hal ago digno de alabanza o con virtud. No tenemos sabiduría animal, hipócrita y diabólica. Hemos recibido un lavado de cerebro con la sangre de Jesucristo. ¿Tu cerebro tiene algo del de nosotros?

[osotoron]

Algùn dìa, Jesucristo vendrà como Rey de reyes y Señor de señores, con sus ejèrcitos de ànegels y de todos aquellos que durmieron en El, para vencer al Anticristo y sus ejèrcitos terrestres pero motivados por Satanàs, en el Valle de Armagedòn. Todos estos superhèroes son figura de los que hemos de venir en gloria en Aquel Dìa. Estèn perparados y sean parte de ese ejèrcito, recibiendo a Jesucristo hoy como su Señor y Salvador

[CRCavazos]

Espero que para el municipio donde vivo venga el Trío Galaxia, porque Gravitania está rica.

[SuperCruiser72]

Amen, osotoron. Those are some great words.

[steve2848]

I remeber they used to show these shows on Cartoon network. Nothing better than these old classics.

[QBCNetwork]

KRIV-26 in Houston had the show. But I always looked forward to The Impossibles!

[salanh]

I watched it on KRIV, too. This brought me waay back when I was in the fourth and fifth grade. This was the highlight of my afterschool TV watching. Thanks for posting GhostPlanet.

[TechnoNubian]

i watch this way back!!!

[cubbi1977]

I remember watching this before school.

[heine71]

Did you know some reference books on cartoons and vintage late 1970's-1980's local TV Guides say the 1978-1980's "Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure" syndication package was also known indirectly as "Super Adventure Show", "World of Hanna-Barbera", "Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera", "Super Adventures" (This title was later adopted by Cartoon Network), and "Captain Invetory"?

[LongBeach2SanDiego]

rza used this in a rhyme or his:

"encyclopedia brittanica/hanna-barbera world of super adventure couldn't get a proper word from the scripture of my mana"

[TheGhostPlanet]

Youtube pulled all the Samson & Goliath clips via WB

[citizenterryk]

what's sad(maybe pathetic is a better word)is that WB is shooting itself in the foot by pulling stunts like that....almost seems like some greenie attorney at WB is trying to justify his/her existence on the payroll by going after fans who just wanna keep the memories of their fave cartoons alive...gotta "impress the boss" somehow, i guess....

[djseriousbizness]

Man you've got to be kidding me. I ain't seen this since I was like 8 or 9. That disco intro used to get me so hype when I was a kid(or maybe it was the endless bowls of Super Sugar Crisp). Space Ghost, Mighty Tor, Fantastic Four, and Great Samson were my favorites. Anybody seen any Great Samson cartoons posted?

[heine71]

WDCA 20 in Washington, D.C. carried the H-B Super Adventure syndicated package 1978-1980.

[KPCarter2000]

They don't make cartoons like that anymore

[Murdock005]

i agree with Leoneo

[exequiel21]

muy bueno el robot pelotudo

[Leoneo]

Ah, the good of days!