Created by Marvel Comics writer Steve Gerber and produced by animation house Ruby-Spears Productions the Saturday morning cartoon Thundarr the Barbarian may have only thrilled children for two years but forty years later and you will still find many fans of this animated classic, a series that could be considered the precursor to shows like…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Salvage 1 (1979) – Review
“Once upon a time, a junkman had a dream,” and that dream was to kick start a science fiction adventure series, of course, this was not actually the dream of a junkman but that of Salvage 1’s creator Mike Lloyd Ross, who had the notion of a program dealing with the wild adventures of a…
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) – Review
The fictional all-girl music group Josie and the Pussycats has had quite the storied history, with their origin dating back to the early 1960s as simple guest stars in Archie Comics, that is until eventually landing their own title and a competing Saturday morning cartoon in the 70s, but their rocky road to stardom wouldn’t…
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space (1972) – Review
When a film franchise starts running out of ideas it’s not uncommon for the solution to be “Let’s set the next one in outer space” but in the case of the original Josie and the Pussycats series from Hanna-Barbera, which only had one 16 episode season, it didn’t quite have enough time for anything to…
Josie and the Pussycats (1970-1971) – Review
With the popularity of their animated series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Hanna-Barbera Productions decided that if one group of teenagers running around thwarting criminals worked then creating a second team of youngsters was an obvious follow-up, and to ensure this came to fruition Joe Ruby and Ken Spears went to the Archie Comics spin-off series…