Hanna Barbera's Biggest Flops of the 1970s

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• MA

  @markmckay7897 · 4 months ago (edited)

  As a nine year-old child in 1974, I remember seeing a commercial for “These Are The Days” and thinking “There’s no way I’m spending my Saturday morning watching an old-fashioned show about old people being old.”    I wanted to see spaceships and cowboys and superheroes.

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• DA

  @DanOles-p9u · 4 months ago

  I love that there’s an episode of Sealab 2021 which is literally a recreation of a Sealab 2020 episode, played completely seriously…up to the very ending credit gag.

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• RA

  @RacerC45 · 5 months ago (edited)

  I think a lot of us remember Sealab 2021. For the longest time I had no idea that was an re-edit/parody of an already established show.

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• DA

  @darkwolfknight8293 · 5 months ago

  I can’t believe that some of them flopped so hard.

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• MI

  @michaelturner2806 · 5 months ago

  Wow, Skatebirds looks like what would result if Sid and Marty Krofft didn't inhale.

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• DA

  @daccrowell4776 · 5 months ago

  The best explanation that I&apos;ve ever heard about this period of H-B&apos;s work was from one of their animators from this period:<br><br>&quot;They just didn&apos;t care anymore.&quot;

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• SK

  @skeletal13 · 5 months ago

  I loved Jana of the Jungle as a kid. Shame it’s never gotten a proper release. Love the Doug Wildey designs.

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• GE

  @georgewatts6790 · 5 months ago

  I watched all of these shows when I was younger

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• ER

  @EricH1982 · 5 months ago

  I remember seeing Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch and Yogi&apos;s Space Race on the USA Cartoon Express

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• JA

  @jackbusby9602 · 5 months ago (edited)

  I actually used to record &quot;These Are the Days&quot; on videotape. I like it. I&apos;d buy &quot;These Are the Days&quot; and &quot;Sealab 2020&quot; &nbsp;in a heartbeat. &nbsp;If &quot;Jana of the Jungle&quot; came on TV, I&apos;d watch it.

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• TA

  @tamaraclaw · 5 months ago (edited)

  HB even recycled &nbsp;their theme songs...The Mumbly show theme is the same tune as &nbsp;the Tom &amp; Jerry show; the opening to &quot;Fred &amp; Barney meet the Thing&quot; is a variation of the &quot;Superfriends&quot; theme.

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• CR

  @craigstjohn4470 · 1 month ago

  We want, ALL the series of the cartoon on DVD!!

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