Cheesiest 70s Saturday Morning LIVE ACTION "Cartoons" | 7 Live Action NON-Sid & Marty Kroft Series



1970s Live Action “Cartoons” that played alongside our favorite Saturday Morning Animation. Shazam, Isis, Ark 2, Banana Splits, and MORE were just part of our 70s Saturday Morning Cartoon Line Up. 70s Saturday Mornings included Live Action TV Shows along with all of our cartoons, some even with Action Figures and toys.

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  1. I remember seeing The Banana Splits theme on Boomerang (when they still cared about their older shows), I haven't seen it in years, and I STILL can't get that theme out of my head.

    I do know my dad was a fan of the show as a kid. I haven't been able to bring myself to tell him about the horror movie.

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  2. I had the Space Academy big blonde guy. He served as Giant Man alongside my Mego heroes and Star Wars figures because he was relatively huge. I also had the biggest crush on Pamela Ferdyn.

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  3. That's the first time I've seen Robbie with the soup can head on The Banana Splits! He actually sported that head in an episode of the original Twilight Zone (with the glass dome over it). Robbie was sold at auction several years ago, and the soup can head was indeed included among the accessories!

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  4. Marty Krofft (RIP) remembered that once the costumes for The Banana Splits were completed for Hanna Barbera, he and Sid looked at each other and Marty said, "They're going to make a fortune on this, and we just got the cost to make the costumes."

    But, of course, they would eventually get more later when they were approached to do HR Pufnstuf, and the Krofft Empire began.

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  5. One reason why shows with after-show messages or shows that taught life lessons to young viewers were so common: During the 70's the "Big Three" networks were required to have so many hours of children's programming per week, and X number of hours of that had to be "educational." If the show taught some sort of lesson (or paused the action to include a brief safety or life lesson message) the network could count it as part of their "educational" programming.

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  6. A lot of people don't know that the reason why Sony's "Real Ghostbusters" couldn't legally stop the Filmation version is because the Filmation one is based on the 1970s Ghostbusters that came first.

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  7. When Cartoon Network first became a thing, I remember them playing Banana Splits. Loved the cartoon shorts in between and who could forget that awesome theme song. I think their song had a little resurgence when the movie Kick Ass came out

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  8. There was a kid named Marty Issa in my grade school at the time Mighty Isis was playing on TV. He use to catch hell at recess with all the other kids screaming, "OH MARTY ISSA, ISSA, ISSA" at him.

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  9. I didn't watch most of the live action stuff as at the time I was more about the animation, but I loved the superhero shows thanks to me starting off with the Adventures of Superman and Batman. Awesome episode, but one small correction. It was Columbia pictures, now Sony, that produced the Ghostbusters.

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  10. "Ark II" came before "Space Academy". A lot of props, and sound effects, were recycled for the latter, including the Ark itself. They just lifted the fiberglass Ark II body off the Ford truck used in Ark II, did some fiberglass work to close off the wheel wells, added some "space trim" and viola, an inexpensive, full-size "Seeker" space craft for when they needed to show it on a planet with cast getting on and off. Sure looked better than a Star Trek shuttle, which kinda screamed "plywood" even to a seven-year-old kid back in 1969. A little more trim upgraded it to the "Starfire" in "Jason of Star Command".

    That was not "a knock off version of Robby the Robot" in "Space Academy". It was the real Robby, just with a different dome.

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