When one thinks of cartoons from the 60s, titles like The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo quickly come to mind. But the show that had me riveted to my television set during that time, was the amazing Jonny Quest, an action series with a kid hero.
Tag: Hanna-Barbera
The Banana Splits (2019) – Review
If you need proof that the 60s were a trippy-weird time, you need only to take a look back at the fantasy shows created by the legendary Sid and Marty Kroft, with such bizarre programs as The Bugaloos, Lidville, Sigmund and the Sea Monster, and H.R. Pufnstuff to their credit — this was the live-action arm…
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000) – Review
Scooby-Doo and the gang have encountered many supposed supernatural threats over the years — though most of them were revealed to be hoaxes perpetrated by criminals — but fake or otherwise, they tended towards being ghosts or monsters with science fiction elements and threats being quite rare. Even back in the day, with the likes of the…
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) – Review
In five decades of Scooby-Doo mysteries, there is one show that really stands apart from the other incarnations and that would be the 1985 series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo — not to be mistaken for William Castle’s 13 Ghosts — and it stands apart not because it had the gang encountering real ghosts and…
Scooby-Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019) – Review
In 1985, Hanna-Barbera aired their seventh incarnation of the Scooby-Doo show, where Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Scrappy-Doo and a young con artist named Flim Flam teamed up with renowned magician and warlock Vincent Van Ghoul, to tackle real ghosts and Ghoulies, in a short-lived series called The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, but that show was cancelled after…