saturday morning cartoons-related stories
Posted Jun 6th 2009 5:02PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, OpEd, Reality-Free
SciFiWire has a list of
10 Saturday morning TV series that inspired movies and the list seems to be, to say the least, a bit skewed. To begin, the title is misleading. Most of the examples they use rose to fame as something else before they were even shown on television. And once shown, they weren't necessarily on Saturday mornings.
Popeye started as a comic strip and then cartoon shorts shown at theaters.
The Addams Family started as a comic strip in
The New Yorker then a somewhat unique sitcom.
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Posted May 25th 2009 6:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-Free
Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.I'm not usually a big fan of these DVD box sets that take one genre and give you a variety of various series episodes (such as the sets that have a bunch of TV westerns in them). But the
Saturday Morning Cartoon sets look like fun. The 1960s set includes
The Flintstones,
The Jetsons,
Top Cat,
Secret Squirrel,
Atom Ant, and
Quick Draw McGraw, while the 1970s set includes
Josie & The Pussycats,
Speed Buggy,
the Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour, and
Hong Kong Phooey. OK, the 60s set is much better than the 70s set. And the 70s set for some reason also includes
The Jetsons, which is odd (it ran in 1962). Still, both sets look good.
- The Closer - Season 4
- Designing Women - Season 1
- Gangland - Season 3
- Gunsmoke - Season 3, Vol. 2
- Jeeves & Wooster - Complete Series
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