 This is the SF Productions podcast network From the pop culture bunker. I'm Mindy and I'm Mark You can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife three comics on iTunes or on our website SF podcast network comm So DC Comics has announced that a new line of comics will reboot many of the old Hanna-Barbera characters Including a comic featuring all the old HB Action stars. Yes, so I thought we could talk, you know, you could go on for every 20 episodes about Hanna-Barbera Overall, yes, so we're just talking about the action stars in a very short period here mostly in the mid 60s Okay But Hanna-Barbera was actually formed in 1957 originally Hanna and Barbera partnered on time and Jerry theatrical cartoons back in the 40s And basically created limited animation making cartoons created specifically for TV financially feasible Yeah, they weren't as complex. You wouldn't see all the action that you saw on the big screen Yeah, they'd set it up So they could move like just parts of a character's body and the rest of it wouldn't move the background would stay static Or it would go in it like a scroll as it were And they concentrated on funny animals at first and then moved in animated sitcoms like Flintstones and the Jetsons When the Adam West Batman series hit it was clear there was a pin-up desire for action and adventure shows and superhero shows Now filmation had DC Comics sewn up right and Hanna-Barbera would pursue Marvel to some extent They did a fantastic for title, which is probably one of the worst cartoons ever But it made for more sense to create their own heroes because there's no licensing costs. Yes, they own them outright Yep, now they'd already had success with Johnny quest in 1964 This was an attempt originally to license the radio show Jack Armstrong all-american boy But it fell through so at the last minute they tweaked the concept into Johnny quest. Okay 11 year old Johnny goes around the world with his father Benton bodyguard race bodyguard and friend Haji and dog bandit fighting evil There were 26 episodes originally aired in prime time. I did not know Yeah, I believe ABC prime time and then the syndication and Saturday morning, and that's where I saw them Saturday morning Yes, and there were multiple extensions and reboots in the 80s and the 90s And then there was the Harvey Birdman episode where we learned that Benton and race were Harvey Birdman Partners And the current venture brothers cartoon series is a take-off on Jenny quest apparently I've actually not watched the venture brothers. I should probably watch it at some point But the big push came in 66 and 67 starting with space ghost and dinoboy not space ghost coast to coast No came later right classic artist Alex Toth who had a long-run DC comics in the gill in the golden age Was brought in to create many hanabata barbaric characters and space ghost was kind of like Batman in space His teenage companions Jan and Jace never explain how that happened get captured by criminal of the week But nobody needs to know how that happens. No space ghost comes to save them He's gotten a death trap then he uses his power bands to do whatever is needed to save the day He could also fly and become invisible hence the ghost moniker Okay, and they also have pet space monkey blip you had always had to have an animal in there somewhere There were only 20 original episodes and this happened a lot of cartoons because kids don't notice and So they don't they make like one season of it and just rerun it over and over and over and over and over It's kind of like to see the same things over and over again Now they also got an additional 22 episodes as part of a series called space stars in 81 and 82 Then as you mentioned space ghost got a new lease on life on adult swims space ghost coast-to-coast a bizarre talk show Using old footage with new voice work Zorak of these are all these of old villains where was his band leader? Maltar was his director and Brack was well His original run included episodes In the original 60s run included episodes of dino boy Where a kid escapes a crashing plane finding himself in the Lost Valley where it's still prehistoric times. That was a pretty Rampant kind of phase there with people finding themselves in ancient dinosaur time land of the lost the original Run on in again 60s television it ended Where there was a saga where all the villains got together so it was like six episodes was like this big Saga and those featured crossovers with other Hanna-Barbera heroes will discuss in a minute Next was Frankenstein jr. In The Impossibles I have no recollection of this show This is more cartoony than the other HB action stars. It's another show with only 20 episodes Frankenstein jr. Is a giant robot controlled by buzz Conroy a scientist son who built the robot Controlled with a ring and of course they fight crime basically Johnny Sacco and his flying robot The Impossibles is a Beatles-esque band and also superheroes Okay, multi-man could crank out copies of himself now It's that been moved over into DC comics or something now because wasn't there a multi-man? Do they call him something I think they call him something else, but it's same concept Coil man could become a human spring and fluid man could change into Fluid was it any fluid like could he be water or it was always like some greenish Generic fluid. Yeah, they would sing a song after fighting crime Somehow this show and not the other action shows got complaints about violence and kids TV and Later the super globe draughters which was a knockoff of the Harlem globe draughters would later copy the Impossibles powers Bird man in the galaxy trio another 20 episode run bird man's a regular guy given powers by the Sun God Rock What's he a lawyer? No, not at that point. Okay. It was all off-screen never explained flight power beams from his hands solar shield unfortunately needed the Sun to charge up which is foes Constantly used against him got his orders from Falcon 7 a tuxedoed guy with an eyepatch His his pet Falcon Avenger and later sidekick bird boy saved him a lot and he always say Like space ghosts bird man got a second life on adult swim in Harvey Bird man attorney-at-law Yes, action detective show with reused footage of new voices Harvey works at 7 and 7 for Phil Ken 7 Falcon 7 Defending other Hanna-Barbera stars in court with his old enemies as judges And the best episodes of that Scooby and shaggy brought in for drug possession Flintstones as a supremus parody the the una the you know boo boo And the Jetsons suing the past for global warming. Yeah There was also the galaxy trio, which was basically an adult version of DC's legion of superheroes Vapor man who could turn into or create gases Meteor man could grow in size and gain superhuman strength Did he get his powers from a meteor is that why never none of this has ever explained just he has his powers Because he's from a planet where they do that Okay, and he can actually like I'll just grow one arm and that arm will have super strength Okay gravity girl could control gravity and fly Then we have The Herculoids basically the concept of overwhelming firepower in a prehistoric context 18 original episodes then 11 more in 1981 as part of that space star series They appeared to be alien savages fighting local and galactic bad guys, but understood modern concepts Think space Luddites What I would call them Xandor the leader Tara his wife Dorno their son plus five creatures Zock a flying dragon who could shoot energy beams from his eyes and tail Igoo a huge space ape made of rock Tundro a hybrid rhinos triceratops that could shoot energy rocks from his horn And gloop and glee two balls of protoplasm that can absorb attacks and protect the others Basically as a group they were ridiculously powerful. He would win every time And then they made a cameo in space ghost final original saga on his show Shazam not shazam. Shazam This got a 36 episode run. Wow. Yeah They were short episodes though Modern siblings chuck and Nancy find a broken ring and when they put it together They're transported to the time of the arabian knights and meet shazam A basically un omnipotent genie almost omnipotent because he can't send them back to modern times Because apparently they have to find the person whose ring it was and he can send them back Which never happens during the series. Okay The kids get in trouble the genie saves them lather rinse repeat Oh, and they have a magic flying camel named kabooby Hmm And they also got a cameo in space ghost original series saga Moby dick and mighty mitre despite the billing mitre was the star There were 36 mitre episodes and 18 moby dick episodes with moby dick a whale. Uh, yes Okay, mitre is captor morrow me tea man. Okay Teenage caveman torr is given a magic club and turns into a prehistoric superhero With flight strength and energy bolts from the club. Okay He had village chief pondo his daughter shura her younger daughter little rock And winged pet dinosaur tog are along for the ride. There's always a winged pet dinosaur pretty much And then moby dick There's no a hab. There's no p quad here. None of that Tom and tub these two boys are saved by the classic literary whale and they fight crime And there's a pet seal scooby and they all get a cameo in space ghost final saga Oh goodness now I was thinking about this last night I thought you know, they really could go farther with this concept taking old literary characters You know it'd be like you know little women where they can shrink them to tiny size and fight crime Okay I think that I don't think we're gonna talk about it anymore I think that in the meantime everybody should check out our audio podcast how I got my wife to read comics on itunes Or on our website as a podcast network.com from the pop culture bunker. I'm indy and I'm mark. Thanks for watching