Marineboy OP (1968)

[eskimospy77]

Now that's what I call a marne!

[grassy00]

love the theme song.used to watch this before going to school of a morning.

[TheRayzar]

Loyal friend of the sea to the end ....is our marine boy ...

do do do do do......do do do do

[Karloff12969]

WDCA in Washington, DC in the 1970s was an awesome channel to watch when I was a kid! Ultraman, Johnny Sockko and the Giant Robot, Speed Racer, Kimba, and of course...Marine Boy!

[clintonearlwalker]

@Karloff12969 I watched WDCA TV in the 1970's, still do.

[Redcoat66]

Fuck Yeah!!!!!!

[BedBugAcres]

This is the theme I remember!

[TheTraineficionado]

Anime? I think so

[mrmoore1970]

Ahhh the memories...I remember this used to air mornings and afternoons on WPHL-17 in Philadelphia (in syndication) back in the 70's and 80's. Thanks for posting this classic cartoon!!!

[BedBugAcres]

@mrmoore1970 Wee Willie Webber's Cartoon Club!!!! Astroboy, 8th Man, Ultraman, Prince Planet, Speed Racer, and on and on!

[darkphoenixe]

wow I used to love this show. I remember watching when I was fairly young, it doesn't seem like it was on in a lot of places I also get some blank stares when I mention it. . It was on one of the DC area stations near either speed racer or kimba.

[celaya4ever]

Sometimes I think that Marine Boy was on steroids. Once, he carried a stone of 80.000 tons, he turned on its own axis quickly with the help of his boots without feeling sick and he survived a trap with water under pressure considering that his head and his hands were unprotected.

[7Beyonder]

Philadelphia...WPHL 17 or some UHF station....

This is almost bringing me to tears.....back to the time when things were simple.

[KUTVgroucho]

@7Beyonder 'PHL 17, yes you are correct, part of the Wee Willie Webber Show, watched after Dark Shadows was over at 4:30!

[theseus27]

This takes me back to my childhood days, as I remember watching this animated series, and absolutely loved it.

I preferred the instrumental theme to the lyric based one myself.

A shame that it's not shown on television anymore!! :(

Bring Marine Boy back to our screens I say!!!

[the60sKid]

The non lyric opening can be found elsewhere on YT

[Boosteroid]

I remember watching this when I was very young (<5, I would think) but the theme tune was different... there were no English lyrics, just non-verbal singing of the melody. But that was 40-something years ago and 4000 miles away in the UK so goodness knows it must have been a different version.

[the60sKid]

@Boosteroid There was 2 themes. One was instrumental (in the beginning)and then it changed to have lyrics. Being in the Uk you may have just had the instrumental only.

[MisterTrimble]

@the60sKid I remember both theme tunes from the series, as it was shown in the early 1970's on BBC One here in the UK.

[GlowWorm1962]

@the60sKid

I'm in the UK and I remember the tune with words - I think they kept the instrumental for the closing titles.

I'm sure I also read somewhere, that the English scripts had to be written from scratch, as none were provided with the series when it was bought from Japan.

[Atlantisfirefly]

this has always been good

[eiipla]

@Boosteroid there were two theme tunes, i think. lyrics at the start and just the tune at the end. if i remember :-)

[jerseymom69]

I had such a crush on Marine Boy!

[barnfresh60]

Marine Boy yes,,, a great cartoon from 1960s, cant believe seeing this after 40 years or so, wow,and to think mum brought me the batmobile, and the james bond car same time, all along vietnam was going down,in anycase this was a must got to see cartoon every day,no Computer,s back then thank god for that, Phew!!!!!!

[TheOceans674eva]

Sgt. Sacto (The Sgt. Sacto Show that ran Marine Boy) in the San Francisco was played by Mike Cleary, who was also a local radio announcer for KNBR 68 for a time. He up until recently wrote articles/editorials for the Alameda Newspaper Group in the East Bay. I least heard he was living somewhere up in Marin Co. CA.

[bottlebrusher]

Watched this as kid way back in the late '60's early '70's in L.A. It created in me a love for the ocean. I later became a scuba diver and hummed the theme song to myself many times underwater, keeping an eye out for Neptina, you know just in case. Thought I saw her silhouette in the bluish distant a few times though...I know she's out there somewhere under the waves playfully swirling around with dolphins and seals and...one day Neptina, one day...

[SASunDog]

Neptina was ok, but I was a tomboy, and wanted to be Marine Boy. I cut little slips of paper into oxygum-sized pieces, and wrote 'Oxygum' on them in pencil, and I would chew them. :3

[joninray]

This cartoon came on right before Speed Racer and it was when I was little and lived in Seattle...about 1973.

[the60sKid]

I watched it in 69-70 on KTXL 40 Sacramento right before Speed Racer and Ultraman came on after that.

[infidelpuppy]

@the60sKid OMG, so did I. We were watching the same shows at the same time!

[vanbriesen]

@joninray I lived in Seattle (well, Kirkland WA) then as well. I don't know this this ever got much farther than that. Nobody in the Midwest (where I moved later) ever seemed to know what I was talking about. Great stuff. As a surfer later in life I don't know where I would have been without my Oxygum.

[joninray]

@vanbriesen Yes! I always chewed so much gum my parents thought I was crazy! Oxygum allowed me to almost get down to the bottom of the Puget Sound. 8^) Never was shown down here in OK (where I live now).

[vanbriesen]

@joninray See.. now my wife was born and raised in Tulsa and she had no idea who Marine Boy was! Ponyboy and The Outsiders...she's all over it. She did learn to be a helluva good surfer in CA though. Okies adapt, man.

[joninray]

@vanbriesen My wife was born in T-town, too...she wants to go to Seattle soon. Wish I could go back to old Seattle though.

[vanbriesen]

@joninray It's not the same as the 70's. The Californians moved in and wrecked it in the 80's. Fantastic place to be a kid! Ruined me though. I listen to old rock (K-I-N-G the king!), watched old animation and now I draw comic books for a living. Hopefully the underground city hasn't been turned into condos yet...

[Spencer4luv]

I agree with all of you kids show today ar just not the same, I remember watching it on Saturday morning.......Now I know where they got the idea for Pokemon.........

[sluffsteve]

I loved the theme tune, I still hum it today if i'm doing something around the house, in my 40's now!! I loved marine boy.

[CapitolStepsDC]

How many kids, like myself in the 70s, went in their summer camp pool with some Double Mint in their mouth pretending it was called Oxygum and suck in a half gallon of pool water instead. Good Times.

[braindead1097]

When I was a kid this cartoon made me wish I was an ocean Biologist seeing it now makes me wish I'd have followed that dream well so much for dreams but memorys of childhood are bitter sweet

[wallooga]

LOL

I just wanted to get my hands on some oxygum....at least your vision was a bit more sensible - - and dont worry about it now - - you'd need a Phd in Pastics to study whats in the cean nowadays.

[michaelcsm]

Re. DJnewsagent. ROFL! Best feedback I have ever heard..

[ld217]

i loved this cartoon when i was a kid, (ahhhh the 70's lol). my friends and i even chewed gum during swim team practice because we were impressed with marine boy's 'oxy-gum' which allowed him to breathe underwater. great memories!!! thanks for posting!

[hinomura2001]

Thank you for posting-- brings back good memories

[4freespeech]

Its amazing just how incredibly LAME

that was! But Japan offered it to us

anyway, and it was striking in comparison

to the professionally-done Bugs Bunny

and Woody Woodpecker we were used to.

It was ALWAYS good for belly-laughs.

[jay55also]

takes me back to the old days as a kid,when I first discovered UHF tv stations.

[gigantor62]

Abig thankyou to channel GO for putting this back on Aussie television.

[reticulan5]

Yeah I have been watching Mrine Boy on the GO channel aswell beautiful new prints aswell.The

swimsuit Marine Boy wears is red.But with the old scratched up faded copies it was a orange.Hope Go brings back Gigantor,Prince Planet and others.

[prettybionic]

did he used to eat oxygen sticks,?.....or was that some other cartoon dude?

[the60sKid]

It was called Oxygum.

[fstop77]

thanks! This brings back memories of channel 17 philadelphia and wee willie webber.

[zebbie2000]

I guess thats why a lot of people I ask if they remember this cartoon look at me like I'm nuts. Because maybe PHL 17 was the only channel that played it. I've lived all over the country and it may be that certain areas didn't broadcast it. I'm originally from Camden, NJ and remember Wee Willie Webber's shows.

[knollbang]

Channel 17 in Philadelphia was awesome! The had BlackBelt theatre on Saturdays and I remember the logo was "17 the Great Entertainer".........they were one of the last UHF stations to fall.........

[Jazzy9964]

It's Marine Boy, Brave and Free Fighting evil with the Sea He is a Boy, a very special boy Powered by Propeller Shoes Flying self Ahoy! Whooshing through the water on his friendly dolphin back Racing to the Rescue of Victims of Attack In a Flash, He'll Foil a Foe With a Quick Boomerang Throw. Loyal friends of the Sea till the end It's Our Marine Boy Doo doo doo doo doo... Ha ha Love it!!! Marine Boy, Ultraman, Gigantor, 8-man.. Love the Japanese

[harvestmoonlight]

thanks for posting the lyrics, never knew what they were saying..

[Jazzy9964]

Yeah, I had problems with the lyrics also, but Corrine Orr, (The Voice of Marine Boy) was kind enough to send it to me from her Website years ago...

[Mermaid1962]

I'm so glad that other people remember this show!! We got our first t.v. in 1969 (to watch the moon landing) when I was seven years old, and so it must have been showing in Canada after then; we didn't have cable t.v. at that time. No-one else my age remembers this program.

[LadySierraSays]

throw it underwater ,,,no !!! there was'nt enoughf room in my bathtub...LOL, just kind gave up on that plan...I guess I'm just not like marine-boy was , I was too Marine Gal ...

[paoolyrebecca]

one of my first memories in life.

[LadySierraSays]

I even tryed to make myown boomarang like his outta wood....LOL...Good times !!!

[deepseadirt]

did you try to throw it underwater?

[LadySierraSays]

Ditto , I used to eat my cerial and watch this show !!!

[bottlebrusher]

Man, this takes me way back, I'm 48 and I still have a crush on Neptina, she's my muse. I'm still searching for her. Marine Boy and Jacques Cousteau lured me into becoming a SCUBA diver at I was 15 in '75 (the min legal age at the time). They romanticised the ocean and opened a new world for me. I still hum the theme song, even underwater, it takes on a surreal perspective there though. I catch myself often humming unaware that I'm doing it. Neptina, Neptina, wherefore art though my Neptina....

[wolfmans46]

Great it inspired you and all fans are with you.However if you see Neptina i would check your oxygen level gauge.

[g0thmoth]

I loved this show and it was a favourite (along with Kimba , Ultraman , and wacky racers.) So funny how we covet or emulate what we see when we are so young. I loved Neptina too - when I was very little I used to run around the house with a Christmas ball tied around my neck and beg my Mom to part my hair down in the middle before each show.I even asked for gum, just in case. I don't think I've changed hairstyles much since and I still love the ocean.

[Mandi7882]

I enjoyed reading your memories. Reminds me of beggin my dad for his glass cigar case to use as a "beta capsule" so I could call Ultraman. Ya gotta wonder..especially reading A LOT of these recent posting from the young ones... where did all the children's imaginations....go?

[DJnewsagent]

Neptina and I married in 1984. I was pretty young and she was a few years older. We were very much in love but over the years the magic just faded to nothing. I started drinking and seeing other mermaids behind her back. She never quite forgot Marine Boy and I hated her for that. One night we had a big argument over the fact we couldn't have children and she left. I haven't seen her since. I still miss her but I'm sure she's out there somewhere with Marine Boy and has long forgotten me.

[snowbop]

@DJnewsagent - Neptina was a better swimmer than I was. Still, I admired her...

[sinister066]

@DJnewsagent memaids...can't live withe 'em, can't live without em..lol.

[HighCalm]

@DJnewsagent

Neptina didn't go back to Marine Boy right away, she hit the dating circuit for a while. I mether at a bar. She still felt really bad about her break up with you. I sympathized, but wanted some tail, so I went for it. It was, frankly, pretty fishy - you know how it is, no need to tell you. Actually, I think that Marine Boy was in the same boat as you and I (being human), and that he couldn't have children with Neptina either. She's around though, check out her facebook page.

[fillzup]

after school '68 marine boy, prince planet back to back.

[DjCreole1]

WOw....I remember this cartoon !

[charliejazz64]

I thought I had written a song about Herbie The Lovebug when i was about 5. But I always thought I had used the music from HERBIE. When I went to this site and listened I found I had used this theme song singing "herbie,herbie herbie herb etc....I had adapted the Marine boy theme to fit Herbie.I know this probably means nothing to anyone but me, but its mylittle story anyway

[Joyriser]

I used to love watching this as a child. Neptina? is she....was my first real crush :)

[ignchinsm]

love the series. Used to run to my neigbour's house to watch it on TV black and white. Thanks

[yerkeskid]

Watched MarineBoy back on WPHL 17 in Philadelphia around 1973-74, one of the first cartoons I ever watched regularly. Thanks for this post!

[buzzlewie]

I remember the line up.  At 4:30 Ultraman, 5:00 Marine Boy, and 5:30 Spiderman.

[yerkeskid]

Yup, Channel 17 had a great afternnon lineup back in 1973/74

[frc1968]

buzzlewie- Yep. Those were the best days to be a kid laying on the floor in the living room in front of the TV. What great memories I have of those shows.

[deepseadirt]

hey buzzle, didn't you have Johnny Sokko also?

[PrinceAndrew100]

Loyal friend of the Sea till the end, is our Marine Boy - real hero. Top stuff use to watch this back in the 60's when it was first on.

[DRbiohazard]

I remember seeing Marine Boy on KBHK channel

44 San Fransisco in 1971.

In 1972 they replaced it with Speed Racer and

I never saw Marine Boy again on TV.

[the60sKid]

Yeah. I use to watch it on KTXL 40 in Sacramento. First they showed Marine Boy, then Speed Racer and after that Ultraman. MB ran for awhile then it went off the air and I never saw it again.

[DRbiohazard]

Hey 60skid, remember talkin' to ya at Bob

Wilkins site a few months ago!

Do you remember Cap'n Mitch on KTXL TV 40?

[the60sKid]

Ya. I remember. You bet I remember Cap'n Mitch. Even when he was Cap'n Delta over at KOVR 13 in the mid-sixties. Boy I wanted to be on that show.

[DRbiohazard]

I'm 42,so I did'nt see him in the 60's.

I was watching him between 1972-75.

KBHK 44 San Fransisco was my favorite of the

big three Northern CA. cable channels (KTVU 2,

TV 40, and 44).

There was a guy that hosted weekday afternoons

on 44 (Rocket Ron?) I can't remember his name

anymore. Did you ever watch 44?

[the60sKid]

Sounds familiar. We could get some of the Bay Area station during clear days on our UHF rotor antenna but mostly only at night.

I got Creature Features sometimes when KTVU 2came in clear.

[JPMProd]

This is it!! I remember!! Yippee!!

[intrepidlikes]

This is not how I remember this. The theme song was mostly humming as I recall with no lyrics.

[the60sKid]

There was 2 different themes. The 1st one was humming the 2nd is this one.

[2721101669]

thanks for the great post.. i still remembered the lyrics.. lol.. thanks for bringing back such fond childhood memories...

[rftc700]

Terrific post. I actually only recall the version with the lyrics.

[DianaDeLuna]

Good info, sidelines. I like both versions, though when I was a child the lyrics were fun to sing to myself on the school bus.

[fromthesidelines]

The initial episodes of the series {first syndicated in the U.S. in September 1966} used this version of the theme {lyrics by Norman Gimbel- he also wrote the words to "The Girl From Ipanema" and co-wrote the themes for "LOVE AMERICAN STYLE", "HAPPY DAYS", "LAVERNE & SHIRLEY", etc.}; eventually, the "funkier" instrumental version replaced it.

[DRbiohazard]

The other theme to this show is WAY BETTER!!!

[VideoJunkei]

This was weird to watch for me...I had NO idea what it was, then dim memories flooded in...the mermaid, the shot of the torpedos exploding...I did see this before, when I was VERY young (I am pushing 40 now)

[crispycritterz]

WOW! I loved this. This was one of the first anime I saw as a kid. Thanks for posting it.

[CHANNELOMD]

fuck that take s me back