Fabulous Funnies

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fabulous Funnies
Genre	Cartoon series
Voices of	June Foray Jayne Hamil Bob Holt Michael Mandy Alan Oppenheimer
Composer(s)	Dean Andre
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Norm Prescott Lou Scheimer
Running time	22 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	September 9, 1978 (1978-09-09) – December 2, 1978 (1978-12-02)

Fabulous Funnies is a Filmation cartoon series on NBC that ran for one season in 1978; it features animated versions of newspaper comic strips and attempted to teach moral lessons to children.

Overview

Like the earlier series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, this series placed more emphasis on teaching the audience moral lessons than on entertaining them. Each half-hour episode consisted of animated versions of newspaper comic strips, including Alley Oop, Nancy, Broom-Hilda, Emmy Lou, The Captain and the Kids, and for a while, Tumbleweeds; acting as a "master of ceremonies" for this show was Foozy, a character from Alley Oop who always spoke in rhyming verse. Topics covered in this series included honesty, alcoholism, prejudice, and safety, among others.

This wasn't the first time Filmation used animated comic strips in a cartoon series; they first did this in Archie's TV Funnies, which featured some of the above comics and others, and placed more emphasis on entertainment than on moral lessons.

Fabulous Funnies ran for one season of 13 episodes.

Episode titles

"Animal Crack-Ups" / 1978.09.09
"School Daze" / 1978.09.16
"Comic-ition" / 1978.09.23
"Bods and Clods" / 1978.09.30
"Save Our World" / 1978.10.07
"But, Would You Want Your Sister to Marry an Artist?" / 1978.10.14
"Money Madness" / 1978.10.21
"Fear" / 1978.10.28
"Different Jokes for Different Folks" / 1978.11.04
"Death" / 1978.11.11
"Safety Second" / 1978.11.18
"Drinking" / 1978.11.25
"Shot in the Light" / 1978.12.02

External links

Fabulous Funnies at the Internet Movie Database
Fabulous Funnies cartoon info at the Big Cartoon DataBase

v t e Children's programming on NBC in the 1970s

First-run animated series	Here Comes the Grump The Pink Panther Show (1969–1978) The Underdog Show The Further Adventures of Dr. Dolittle The Houndcats The Roman Holidays The Barkleys Sealab 2020 Around the World in 80 Days Inch High, Private Eye The Addams Family Emergency +4 Butch Cassidy Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975) Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975–1976) CB Bears The Young Sentinels The New Archie and Sabrina Hour (1977) I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali Baggy Pants and the Nitwits Yogi's Space Race Galaxy Goof-Ups The Godzilla Power Hour Fantastic Four Fabulous Funnies The New Fred and Barney Show Buford and the Galloping Ghost Casper and the Angels Fred and Barney Meet the Thing The Super Globetrotters The New Shmoo The New Adventures of Flash Gordon (1979–1980)

First-run live-action series	H.R. Pufnstuf The Banana Splits Adventure Hour Barrier Reef The Bugaloos (1970–1972) Mr. Wizard Runaround Lidsville Sigmund and the Sea Monsters Go Run, Joe, Run Land of the Lost (1974–1977) Westwind McDuff, the Talking Dog Monster Squad Big John, Little John (1976–1977) The Kids From C.A.P.E.R. Muggsy Thunder Search and Rescue The Red Hand Gang The Krofft Superstar Hour

Rebroadcasts	The Heckle and Jeckle Show The Flintstones The Woody Woodpecker Show Deputy Dawg The Jetsons Josie and the Pussycats Speed Buggy Space Ghost and Frankenstein Jr. Hong Kong Phooey The Go-Go Globetrotters Alvin and the Chipmunk The Daffy Duck Show Jonny Quest

Schedules	1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80

Related programming and topics	Animation in the United States in the television era

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.