The "Lost" Banana Splits

[dynagravitomagnetic]

no skunks were harmed during the filming of this skit.

[Crunchie5566]

why was this in my "recommended for you" ? LOL

[Beautifulmusiclistnr]

I was looking at the credits, and I saw the name Allan Melvin, and I knew it was him! We all know him as Sam, the butcher, on the Brady Bunch. I thought it was him. The Banana Splits were always fun and lovable! I also thought the Arabian Knights was a cool cartoon. Thanks!

[israelajayi]

I've seen almost every Banana Splits episode when they were recently on Cartoon Network, but I miss watching them now that they are on Boomerang. Could somebody kindly upload every full episode of all the Banana Splits shows please? I really like to see every one of those episodes again. And also, if you have the full episode of the Banana Splits Adventure Hour from 1968 on NBC, please upload that too so I can watch it. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

[ToonORama]

All the Cartoon Network/Boomerang versions of the shows are available on DVD from Warner Bros. in the UK. Check it out. Just get yourself a multi-region DVD player and you're good to go.

[GroverKent]

I thought the particular laugh at 1:00 wasn't recorded/added to the laugh track until like 1972 or so... I heard all the time during the first five seasons of M*A*S*H.

[regency98us]

Wow, they were driving a 1968 Chevrolet Impala convertible! Fun memories!

[MelodyThePussycat]

Gosh, how did you got these clips??? I watched ALL Banana Splits shows here in Brazil and I never saw them!

[SnugglySara]

The Banana Splits were to Saturday morning what the Who are to rock & roll, baby!

[13disneylover]

my brother's favorite show =)

[HollywoodDerek3]

0:42- Snorky Has A Spray In His Hand (He Wore A Vest At The Time)

1:17- While Snorky Was Honking At Bingo At The 2nd Fan Letter Time (He Was Buck Naked)

[wilek209]

Actually, that Hanna-Barbera closing logo is from 1968; it's most likely the original closing logo used to end the episodes back in the original airings! I remember also seeing it on "The Adventures of Gulliver" and "Wacky Races" (both 1968), the "Harlem Globetrotters" and the second season of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" (both 1970).

[ToonORama]

About the closing H-B logo -- Hanna-Barbera started using that particular end logo around 1966 or so when they were acquired by Taft Broadcasting. It was in use until around 1973 or 1974, I believe -- and there are different color variations; in some versions the H-B slides up and down and in others it zooms towards the screen, etc. I believe the "sliding" version would have been seen originally with this closing, but the "zooming" version may have been tacked on for international syndication.

[ToonORama]

It's such a slight difference one might wonder why mess with it at all -- yet on some 16mm film prints I can see what look like splice marks originating from whatever master or negative they used. I know, extreme minutae...

[kresblain]

@ToonORama Actually, to add to the information provided so far, it is confirmed that the "zooming" version shown here was used, for the most part, between 1968-1974. IIRC, this version debuted in the 1968-69 season, as seen on other shows. The Banana Splits was the only series using the red/blue sliding HB its first year. Two previous variants appeared on "Jack and the Beanstalk" in Spring 1967 (yellow over orange) and "Huckleberry Finn" (red-orange over yellow with Taft byline) also in 1968.

[Spongebob1000]

Where did you get this video and do you have any more of the Banana Splits videos.

[ToonORama]

Season 1 is coming out on DVD in September in the UK. You can get a cheap Cyberhome DVD player at Target that can easily be reprogrammed to play multi-region DVDs. (I don't know of any plans to release the shows in the US.) There are lots of other clips from the show on You Tube -- another member has posted a few other Season 2 clips (which I don't have, and you won't see those on TV). Do a search for "Banana Splits second season."

[ToonORama]

Update: The Season 1 UK DVD set is just the edited half-hour syndicated shows as seen on Boomerang. WB just put out the second volumes of their "Saturday Morning Cartoons" series -- the 1970s Vol. 2 includes the first Banana Splits Adventure Hour in its one-hour Saturday morning format -- however, it is a repeat version with some edits and Season 2 opening, closing and bumpers on a Season 1 show. (Still much better than the half-hours.) The closing as seen here is the original Season 1 closing.

[garrisonskunk]

Directed by none other than Richard "Superman - The Movie" Donner! :)

[ToonORama]

You are correct -- also Richard "Lethal Weapon" Donner -- or were those movies directed by Richard "Banana Splits" Donner? (Since he did the Splits first.) Actually, though, the closing credits are from Season 1. The attached clips are from Season 2, and they have a different director (Tom Boutross). But all the shows you see on Boomerang, those were directed by Richard Donner.

[crispycritterz]

Actually, Donner directed the "Danger Island" series.

[ToonORama]

Yes, Richard Donner directed "Danger Island" as well as all the live-action scenes of the Banana Splits in the first season (see above). Ironically, Donner did not direct these particular segments (which are from Season 2) -- but he is properly credited as the show's overall director in the Season 1 closing credits.

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

@ToonORama: Season 1 still exists complete on 2" Quad videotapes while Season 2 was apparently destroyed by NBC (but brief clips like what's on your video survive).

[MelodyThePussycat]

Wow! I never saw this before! Many thanks for posting!

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