Space Ghost is an animated

Animation

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 television

Television

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 series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions

Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...

. It first aired on CBS

CBS

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 from September 10, 1966 to September 7, 1968. The series was composed of two unrelated segments, Space Ghost and Dino Boy in the Lost Valley. An alternative title, Space Ghost and Dino Boy, is used in official records to differentiate it from Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network (United States)

Cartoon Network is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting which primarily airs animated programming. The channel was launched on October 1, 1992 after Turner purchased the animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1991...

's late-night talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Space Ghost Coast to Coast is an American animated parody talk show hosted by the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost. The show premiered on April 15, 1994 on Cartoon Network...

. The series was created by Alex Toth

Alex Toth

Alexander Toth was an American professional cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but is known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Space Ghost, The...

 and produced

Television producer

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 and directed

Television director

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 by William Hanna

William Hanna

William Denby Hanna was an American animator, director, producer, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of people for much of the 20th century. When he was a young child, Hanna's family moved frequently, but they settled in Compton, California, by...

 and Joseph Barbera

Joseph Barbera

Joseph Roland Barbera was an influential American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....

.

Space Ghost

Space Ghost

Space Ghost

Space Ghost is a fictional superhero created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and designed by Alex Toth for CBS in the 1960s. In his original incarnation, he was a superhero who, with his sidekick teen helpers Jan, Jace, and Blip the monkey, fought supervillains in outer space...

, along with teenaged sidekicks Jan and Jace and their monkey Blip, fights villains in outer space. Usually Space Ghost's sidekicks would get captured or trapped by the villains and Space Ghost would have to defeat the villains and save the day. His villains included Zorak

Zorak

Zorak is a fictional character who first appeared in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost. Zorak appeared as a 7 foot tall green mantis and is a foe of the show's titular superhero.-Space Ghost:...

, Brak

Brak (character)

Brak is a supervillain on the 1966 Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost, portrayed as a catlike alien space pirate trying to conquer the galaxy...

 and his brother Sisto, Creature King, Black Widow (aka Spider Woman), Lokar, Moltar, and Metallus.

Voice cast

• Gary Owens
  Gary Owens
  Gary Owens is an American disc jockey and voice actor. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offers deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Owens is equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and is...
  
   — Space Ghost
  Space Ghost
  Space Ghost is a fictional superhero created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and designed by Alex Toth for CBS in the 1960s. In his original incarnation, he was a superhero who, with his sidekick teen helpers Jan, Jace, and Blip the monkey, fought supervillains in outer space...
  
  
• Ginny Tyler
  Ginny Tyler
  Ginny Tyler is a Native American voice actress who appeared in dozens of cartoons and animated films from 1957 to 1992. In 2006, she was inducted into the Disney Legends program.-Life and work:...
  
   — Jan, Black Widow
• Tim Matheson
  Tim Matheson
  Tim Matheson is an American actor, director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth-talking Eric 'Otter' Stratton in the 1978 comedy National Lampoon's Animal House and has had a variety of other well-known roles, including providing the voice of the lead character...
  
   — Jace
• Don Messick
  Don Messick
  Donald Earl "Don" Messick was an American voice actor best known for his work for Hanna-Barbera. Perhaps his most well-known voice creations include Scooby-Doo, Papa Smurf, and Dr. Benton Quest....
  
   — Blip, Moltar, Zorak
  Zorak
  Zorak is a fictional character who first appeared in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost. Zorak appeared as a 7 foot tall green mantis and is a foe of the show's titular superhero.-Space Ghost:...
  
  , Sisto
• Keye Luke
  Keye Luke
  Keye Luke was a Chinese-born American actor. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed with RKO, Universal and, later, MGM and is generally acknowledged as the leading Asian-American actor of this era of American cinema.-Background:...
  
   — Brak
  Brak (character)
  Brak is a supervillain on the 1966 Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost, portrayed as a catlike alien space pirate trying to conquer the galaxy...
  
  
• Ted Cassidy
  Ted Cassidy
  Theodore Crawford Cassidy , known as Ted Cassidy, was an American actor who performed in television and films. At 6 ft 9 in in height, he tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction series such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie...
  
   – Metallus

Dino Boy in the Lost Valley

Dino Boy is a young boy called Todd who parachuted out of a crashing plane with his parents still on board. He lands in an unknown South America

South America

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n valley where dinosaur

Dinosaur

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s, cavemen

Caveman

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 and prehistoric mammals somehow have survived. Dino Boy then meets the caveman Ugh (who saves Dino Boy from a saber-tooth tiger

Smilodon

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 when he first arrives) and his pet Brontosaurus Bronty who become his friends in the episodes to come.

The Dino Boy segments were similar in many ways to the 1960 film Dinosaurus!

Dinosaurus!

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, which also features a young boy befriending a caveman and a Brontosaurus.

Ugh appeared in a Cartoon Network Promotional Bumper with Edd from Ed, Edd n Eddy

Ed, Edd n Eddy

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.

Voice cast

• Johnny Carson
  John David Carson
  John David Carson was an American actor. He was born in North Hollywood, California. Carson began his career at a young age, acting in television advertisements, and later doing cartoon voice-acting for Hanna-Barbera. He attended Los Angeles Valley College where he played a lead role in their 1969...
  
   (who soon reverted to his full name, John David Carson, because of the talk show host) — Todd (Dino Boy)
• Mike Road
  Mike Road
  Mike Road is a voice actor and a Warner Bros. television series contract player whose career dates back to the 1950s....
  
   — Ugh
• Don Messick
  Don Messick
  Donald Earl "Don" Messick was an American voice actor best known for his work for Hanna-Barbera. Perhaps his most well-known voice creations include Scooby-Doo, Papa Smurf, and Dr. Benton Quest....
  
   — Bronty

Episodes

With the exception of the final two half hour shows (the "Council of Doom" episodes), each episode featured two Space Ghost segments with one Dino Boy segment between them.

#	Airdate	Plot
1	September 10, 1966	The Heat Thing: A lava monster attacks Jace on Jupiter. Space Ghost must save him from the monster. Marooned: Zorak: Zorak, one of Space Ghost's enemies, escapes from prison and kiddnaps the twins in a revenge plot against Space Ghost.
2	September 17, 1966	The Lizard Slavers: Lizard-like slavers capture Jan and Jace for stumbing across their base. The Moss Men: The Web: Black Widow lures Space Ghost to her planet so she can kill him with her insect monsters.
3	September 24, 1966	Creature King: After suffering a reactor burnout, Jan and Jace land on a planet where huge animals live and are controlled by Creature King. The Treeman: The Sandman: The Sandman has attacked military units to draw Space Ghost to him, in order to destroy his mind and conquer the world.
4	October 1, 1966	The Evil Collector: The Evil Collector shrinks people to use in a real-life cat-and-mouse game. The Fire God: The Drone: A mysterious figure uses a robot to steal the Phantom Cruiser. Space Ghost and the twins must retrieve it.
5	October 8, 1966	Homing Device: Metallus threatens to destroy Earth with a missile unless Space Ghost surrenders to him. The Mighty Snow Creature: The Robot Master: Metallus uses a robot fleet to take over Space Ghost's planet.
6	October 15, 1966	The Iceman: Zeron attacks Space Ghost by using a powerful ice ray. The Wolf People: Hi-Jackers: Jan and Jace are captured by Tansut after they witness his hi-jacking of a ship.
7	October 22, 1966	The Energy Monster: Space Ghost must fight a monster created by Dr. Soonev in a lab accident. Valley of the Giants: The Lure: Brak kidnapps Jan so Space Ghost won't interfere in his robbery plans.
8	October 29, 1966	The Cyclopeds: Space Ghost must rescue the twins from Cyclo and his robots. The Ant Warriors: The Schemer: Space Ghost is ensnared in the Schemer's plan to kill him.
9	November 5, 1966	Lokar - King of the Killer Locusts: Lokar lures the twins to him to be captured by his killer locust robots. The Bird Riders: Space Sargasso: The Lurker and his partner One Eye have been preying on ships that pass close by and now they have their sights set on the Phantom Cruiser.
10	November 12, 1966	Brago: Brago's bandits attack an outpost, and the twins must defend them until Space Ghost arrives. Giant Ants: Revenge of the Spider Woman: Staying true to her word, Black Widow/Spider Woman tries to kill Space Ghost again.
11	November 19, 1966	Attack of the Saucer Crab: Space Ghost must defeat a UFO from another galaxy that could act as a vanguard for an invasion. The Rock Pygmies: Space Birds: An evil genius is using metal birds to attack satellites and destroying them.
12	November 26, 1966	The Time Machine: Jace's time machine invention accidentally sends Jan back in time where she is taken captive by a Viking named Tarko the Terrible. When Jace also gets captured trying to save her, it's up to Space Ghost to rescue them. Danger River: Nightmare Planet: Dr. Nightmare is planning on taking Space Ghost's brain for his mechanical monsters.
13	December 3, 1966	Space Armada: Space Ghost and the twins must stop Metallus' new, powerful missiles. The Vampire Men: The Challenge: Zorak resurfaces and has created a metal monster that he thinks will defeat Space Ghost. When Space Ghost's Power Bands somehow fail him, Jan and Jace get to the bottom of this.
14	December 10, 1966	Jungle Planet: The Mind Taker is abducting people to steal their knowledge. The Terrible Chase: Ruler of the Rock Robots: The twins and Space Ghost are forced to battle Zorket and his rock robots.
15	December 17, 1966	Glasstor: Glasstor captures the twins in order to force them to work in his glass mines. The Sacrifice: The Space Ark: Creature King is planning on using his monsters to conquer Jupiter. Space Ghost must stop him from reaching that goal.
16	December 24, 1966	The Sorcerer: The Sorcerer is using his powerful magic for evil and plans to challenge Space Ghost. The Marksman: The Space Piranhas: Piranor wants to use space piranhas to take revenge on Space Ghost.
17	December 31, 1966	The Ovens of Moltor: Moltor is planning on using molten men and ships to take over the universe. The Spear Warriors: Transor - The Matter Mover: Transor plans on using Jan and Jace as specimen in his zoo.
18	January 7, 1967	The Gargoyloids: Space Ghost must stop a rogue planet inhabited by Gargoyloids from causing problems in the galaxy. The Worm People: The Looters: Brak is using sleeping gas to rob gold shipments, and Space Ghost has to stop them.
19	September 9, 1968	The Meeting: Space Ghost's most powerful enemies unite to form the Council of Doom. Metallus uses a fleet a robots to attack Space Ghost. Clutches of Creature King: After defeating Metallus, Space Ghost is forced to land on Creature King's world. The Deadly Trap: Zorak plans to destroy Space Ghost using monsters. He also jettisons the twins when try to rescue him.
20	September 16, 1968	The Molten Monsters of Moltar: After escaping Zorak, Space Ghost and the twins are captured by Moltar. Two Faces of Doom: The Final Encounter:

(The final two half-hour shows only feature Space Ghost. Additionally, they feature cameos from characters that would eventually appear in their own series the following season.)

DVD release

Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...

 released Space Ghost and Dino Boy: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 on July 17, 2007.

The DVD edition presents the episodes on two double-sided DVDs, but alters the order from the original air-date order.

Disc 1

Side A

1 - The Heat Thing / The Worm People / Zorak

2 - Creature King / The Treemen / The Lizard Slavers

3 - The Web / The Sacrifice / Homing Device

4 - The Drone / The Moss Men / The Sandman

Side B

5 - The Robot Master / Marooned / The Energy Monster

6 - Hi-Jackers / Giant Ants / The Lure

7 - The Schemer / The Rock Pygmies / The Evil Collector

8 - Lokar - King of the Killer Locusts / Danger River / Brago

9 - The Cyclopeds / The Fire God / Space Sargasso

10 - The Iceman / The Vampire Men / The Time Machine

11 - The Space Birds / The Wolf People / Attack of the Saucer Crab

12 - Nightmare Planet / Valley of the Giants / Space Armada

Disc 2

Side A

13 - Ruler of the Rock Robots / The Bird Riders / The Challenge

14 - Jungle Planet / The Marksman / Revenge of the Spider Woman

15 - The Space Ark / The Terrible Chase / Glasstor

16 - The Space Piranhas / The Spear Warriors / The Sorcerer

17 - The Ovens of Moltar / The Ant Warriors / Transor - the Matter Mover

18 - The Looters / The Mighty Snow Creature / The Gargoyloids

The Final 2 episodes are a six-part Space Ghost story called "The Council of Doom"

19 - The Meeting / Clutches of the Creature King / The Deadly Trap

20 - The Molten Monsters of Moltar / Two Faces of Doom / The Final Encounter

Side B
Feature-Length Profile Simplicity:
The Life and Art of Alex Toth

Alex Toth

Alexander Toth was an American professional cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but is known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Space Ghost, The...

Cover Art	DVD Name	Ep #	Release Date
	The Complete Series	20	July 17, 2007

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