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…
Tag: science fiction
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 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…
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) – Review
Film adaptations of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe date back to the silent era and since then there have been numerous versions from Walt Disney comedic take on the story starring Dick Van Dyke as a Navy officer, who meets a beautiful island girl he names Wednesday Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. to the gender-swapped version back…
The Herculoids (1967-1969) – Review
In the late 1960s, Saturday morning cartoons were populated by flashy superheroes or teen sleuths, not to mention whatever animal sidekick they had on hand, but in 1967 there was one particular show created by legendary American artist Alex Toth which stood apart from the rest. For those not in the know, Alex Toth worked…