Fabulous Funnies
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Fabulous Funnies was a Filmation
cartoon series
on NBC
that ran for one season in 1978; it featured animated versions of newspaper
comic strip
s and attempted to teach moral lessons to children.
, 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.
Filmation
Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963...
cartoon series
Cartoon series
A cartoon series is a set of regularly presented animated television programs with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes typically share the same characters and a basic theme...
on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
that ran for one season in 1978; it featured animated versions of newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
s and attempted to teach moral lessons to children.
Overview
Like the earlier series Fat Albert and the Cosby KidsFat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985...
, 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
Alley Oop
Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip, created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the popular and influential strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association...
, Nancy, Broom-Hilda
Broom-Hilda
Broom-Hilda is an American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Russell Myers. Distributed by the Tribune Media Services, it depicts the misadventures of a man-crazy, cigar-smoking, beer-guzzling, 1,500-year-old witch and her motley crew of friends....
, 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
Archie's TV Funnies
Archie's TV Funnies is a Saturday morning cartoon animated series produced by Filmation which appeared on CBS from September 11, 1971 to September 1, 1973...
, 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
| № | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Animal Crack-Ups" | 1978·Sep·09 |
| 2 | "School Daze" | 1978·Sep·16 |
| 3 | "Comic-ition" | 1978·Sep·23 |
| 4 | "Bods and Clods" | 1978·Sep·30 |
| 5 | "Save Our World" | 1978·Oct·07 |
| 6 | "But, Would You Want Your Sister to Marry an Artist?" | 1978·Oct·14 |
| 7 | "Money Madness" | 1978·Oct·21 |
| 8 | "Fear" | 1978·Oct·28 |
| 9 | "Different Jokes for Different Folks" | 1978·Nov·04 |
| 10 | "Death" | 1978·Nov·11 |
| 11 | "Safety Second" | 1978·Nov·18 |
| 12 | "Drinking" | 1978·Nov·25 |
| 13 | "Shot in the Light" | 1978·Dec·02 |
External links
- Fabulous Funnies cartoon info at the Big Cartoon DataBaseBig Cartoon DataBaseThe Big Cartoon DataBase is an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows and cartoon shorts....