Herculoids - alternate opening

Does anyone know how this opening came to be? I saw this on Boomerang one day. It seemed to show up from out of nowhere. I don't remember this at all from the original 1967 network run (yes, admittedly, I'm that old). Certainly sounds like it could be Hoyt Curtin music, doesn't it? One of those strange curiosities.

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• Herculoids
• opening
• 1967
• cartoon
• Hanna
• Barbera

[Nabelnoir]

@Shappy2000 WRONG....The opening from Space Stars was a series opening which introduced all the shows. During the Space Stars program the individual series never had their own specific openings just their own specific title cards that told you the name of the episode pertanent to each chapter of the show.

[johnRc1963]

I used to watch the herculoids and Mighty Mightor before going to school in the 70's

they were my favourites. They don't make cartoons like that anymore, probably because

it is not politically correct to display violence anymore.

[thejimdoherty]

I watched this show in its original run in the '60s. I remember this theme well. As a matter of fact, I remember it with lyrics!! The only part I can remember was the last line or so. Starting at about 0:43 in the clip, as the music starts to modulate to the final part, the lrics went "...and energy rocks. Somewhere in the future live the Herculoids". I have never EVER been able to find this anywhere.

[thejimdoherty]

I watched this show in its original run in the '60s. I remember this theme well. As a matter of fact, I remember it with lyrics!! The only part I can remember was the last line or so. Starting at about 0:43 in the clip, as the music starts to modulate to the final part, the lrics went "...and energy rocks. Somewhere in the future live the Herculoids". I have never EVER been able to find this anywhere.

[stonethrower88]

@Adom

That is pure money! LOL

[Adom]

Everybody had a special descriptive intorduction except the kid. They couldn't think of ANYTHING to say about him?

...Dorna, who isn't particularly special or interesting at all...

[MONGOOSE1ful]

This Alternate Opening credit of Hanna-Barbera's "THE HERCULOIDS" was

from the 1968-69 season on CBS-as the network also preformed other diffrent

openings for the other HB shows,left over from the previous season(67-68)-and

actually,this was a pretty good credit opening,and an adventuresome theme,too!

it was on,right after "THE BATMAN-SUPERMAN HOUR"-which debuted that season.

[stardolphin2]

Sorry Shappy2000, but this is an original CBS show opener from 1967. For about the first 8 weeks of the series, it used the no voice-over 'alternate opening,' also available on YouTube. 'Moby Dick and Mightor' and 'Shazzan' also had re-worked openers appearing that same Saturday, re-worked closing credits also for Mightor, no change to Space Ghost..

The change was an improvement for those shows, but a step down for The Herculoids, IMHO. I was 13/14 then, but I remember it well.

[Shappy2000]

This is the opening from SPACE STARS from 1981 when HB recycled all of their sci-fi stuff to cash in on the Star Wars craze. They did make a dozen or so new Herculoids cartoons at this time. This is the new 80's intro, hence the weird robot character cameo.

[blorgensteen]

I watched this as a kid, and never did like this opening.

I liked the original better.

Just another example of uptight grown ups screwing up a good thing.

Not much has changed in 42 years.