Super Sunday (TV series)
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Sunbow Productions
Sunbow Entertainment was an animation studio, founded in 1980 and owned up until 1998 by Griffin-Bacal Advertising in New York. The first animation efforts by Griffin-Bacal were producing the animated commercials for Hasbro's G.I...
and Marvel Productions
Marvel Productions
Marvel Productions Ltd. , last called New World Animation, was a television and film studio subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment Group , based in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, then New World Entertainment and News Corporation/Fox...
.
Format
It was a half-hour block with four six minute matinée segments of JemJem (TV series)
Jem, also known as Jem and the Holograms, is an American animated television series that ran from 1985 to 1988 in U.S. first-run syndication...
, Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines is a special animated TV mini-series that was aired on the animated half-hour TV series Super Sunday and Super Saturday containing 9 segments that ran for 6 minutes each and every weekend, along with Jem, Robotix, and Inhumanoids...
, Robotix
Robotix
Robotix may refer to:* Robotix * Robotix, a 1986 cartoon produced by Sunbow & Marvel Productions* Robotix , a robotics competition organized by the students of IIT Kharagpur...
, and Inhumanoids
Inhumanoids
Inhumanoids was an animated series and Hasbro toy property in 1986. In the tradition of other Hasbro properties such as Transformers and G.I. Joe, the show was produced by Sunbow and Marvel Productions and animated in Japan by Toei Animation...
. It aired on various television stations in syndication on Sunday mornings from October 6, 1985 to October 1986
1986 in television
The year 1986 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1986.For the American network television schedule, please see 1986-87 American network television schedule.-Events:-Debuts:*September 6 –...
. In markets that the series aired on Saturday, the series was retitled Super Saturday.
Super Week
It aired originally as Super Week--this was a five-day tryout that featured the first five chapters of Robotix while beginning Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines at the tug of war.The series were cycled through, and only two or three of the four different segments appeared in a given episode. It begin with Robotix and Bigfoot, then added Jem, then dropped Robotix for Inhumanoids then dropped Bigfoot after the rerun of the final segment (Bigfoot was significantly shorter than Robotix, which aired only once.)
Life after Super Sunday
Despite all four shorts being collected into stand-alone made-for-TV movies (as was done with previous Sunbow/Marvel collaborations G.I. Joe and Transformers), only Inhumanoids and Jem went on to be expanded into independent full-length shows. Jem was the most successful of the four shorts and still retains a dedicated and powerful fanbase over twenty years after its premiere. Inhumanoids had a far shorter lifespan, but is regarded as something of a cult classicCult Classic
Cult Classic is a Blue Öyster Cult studio recording released in 1994, containing remakes of many of the band's previous hits.-Track listing:# " The Reaper" - 5:05# "E.T.I...
today.