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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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.
I loved SHAZAM! and ISIS. I thought she was the coolest EVER!
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.
Doctor Smith/Jonathan Harris was one of the Three Musketeers.
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!
"DAKTARI"
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.
Gen X never had a problem with diversity. And that is really apparent when you look at our kids’ schools. The hippies weren’t the only ones down with peace and love. ✌️❤😘
UH OH! CHANGO!!!!!!!!!!
I've got Ghost Busters on DVD!
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.
Wow! So many memories!
This was before my time, I was born in 75, I'm a baby Gen X.
I remember The Banana Splits, what about The Great Space Coster? That is my deep memory. And it wasn't Sid and Marty . But I'm not sure if it was Saturday morning.
Isis appeared in the animated super seven as part of the freedom force
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.
There are so many of those that were new to me! Thank you for opening my eyes to all of the cheese.
"One season united colors of Benetton ad" 🤣🤣🤣
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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
" Uh oh! Jungooooo!"
Listening to bgm. Hmm, someone must be a fan of Gerry Anderson's UFO!😅
OMG THE GHOST BUSTERS!!!! YES!!!
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.
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.
Animation just got too expensive.
Banana Splits was more of a late 60s show that crossed over into 1970 then reran for years. Loved Danger Island, I think Ronee Troup was my first crush.
'Electra Woman and Dyna Girl' deserves its own episode!
I dug Shazam, but I gotta say Jason of Star Command was my favorite as a kid. Probably because I was born at the perfect time to be a life long Star Wars junkie.
Besides The Banana Splits, all of these are pretty bad but my vote goes for The Secrets Of Isis the woman with the fake glasses before she changes.
Don’t poop on our childhood! I loved the Shazam/Isis hour , yea, the story lines were cheesy and a bit corny , but when you’re 11 or 12 in the 1970s , you think they’re amazing.
The Ghost Busters was pure gold! A DVD collection that goes for big bucks these days.
"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.