TV Shows With Cartoon Versions

[Markxxx]

I was watching an old clip of the Brady Kids, which was just basically the kids heads stuck on the bodies of the Archies.

Anyway it got me wondering what other TV series have had cartoon versions made.

I know the Partridge Family had a take off where they were in outer space, basically a reworking of the Jetsons.

Others

Gilligan's Island -> Gilligan's Planet. I think Fonzie might have had a cartoon show, but I'm not sure if it was just him or the other people from Happy Days.

I'm sure there are lots of others

 

[bpatrick]

There was Fonz & The Happy Days Gang, also
an animated Laverne & Shirley, with the two of
them in the Army.

Some others:

My Favorite Martians
Jeannie
Emergency +4
Lassie's Rescue Rangers
The Oddball Couple (here, Felix became a cat named
Spiffy and Oscar, a dog named Fleabag)
and maybe the best of the lot: the animated
Star Trek

And I have to mention one that was not an animated version
of a primetime series per se but might have made it in primetime instead
of Saturdays at noon (ET) if the networks had been interested in
primetime animation in 1974. These Are The Days captured
the spirit of The Waltons and Little House On The Prairie in
its early-20th-century setting, with the artwork reminiscent of Currier
and Ives. Believe it or not it was a Hanna-Barbera show but I think they
put more care into this one than any other show they ever did, and, IIRC,
its audience was primarily adults. It would have made a great 8 PM show.

 

[Braves2005]

There was also a cartoon version of Mork and Mindy that aired along with the Happy Days Gang and Laverne and Shirley during the 1982-1983 season and The Dukes of Hazzard as well as The Dukes starting in January 1983 with the latter at first being Coy and Vance as regulars and when Bo and Luke came back to the regular Dukes of Hazzard Coy and Vance were replaced by Bo and Luke for the cartoon version too.

Add The New Adventures of Gilligan from 1974-1977 along with Gilligan's Planet from 1982-1983 that was mentioned.

 

[bpatrick]

I know I'm getting a bit off-track, since we're supposed
to be talking about primetime shows which had a cartoon
version but I can't help mentioning some shows which were
based (loosely) on a primetime hit. I've already mentioned
These Are The Days; two others, based on All In The
Family started in 1972: The Barkleys (1972-73 on NBC)
and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972-74, syndicated).

There was also at least one based on a movie: Butch Cassidy And
The Sundance Kids.

 

[Markxxx]

My Favorite Martians
Jeannie

I never heard of these. I looked them up on YouTube. They look bad even by cartoon standards ;D

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Besides "Fonz And The Happy Days Gang", there was "Heeeyyyy, It's The King!!!", featuring a lion patterned after Fonzie. (I think it might have been on the Krofft Supershow.)

Another one: "The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley", based on the Martin Short character from SCTV and SNL.

 

[mleach]

I believe NBC at one time in the early 80's had wanted to do a cartoon version of "Diff'rent Strokes" as I seem to remember reading in TV Guide in their old "Grapevien" section since back then since Gary in those days was very popular among young kids.

Of course Gary would end up having a cartoon show of his own..though it had nothing to do with Diff'rent Strokes.
Maybe Conrad Bain, Dana Plato and Todd Bridges vetoed the idea or NBC felt the whole idea of a catoon version of Storkes wasn't a good one. We may bever know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gary_Coleman_Show

 

[nightfly61]

The Beatles probably don't count, but they did have movies, not t.v...& a cartoon series
The Osmonds
The Jackson 5
Didn't the Harlem Globetrotters have a show, or was that just an episode of Scooby Doo?
Which brings to mind other stars (music and t.v) that were animated for one episode of Scooby Doo:
Adams Family
Mama Cass Elliot
Batman & Robin
Sonny & Cher
Ann Margaret(Margrock) made an appearance on the Flintstones
Col. Klink (Warner Klemperer) was on the Simpsons but that's opening a whole other can of worms.
I thought there was an old show called Archie Bunker in Outer Space with the ship named the "Dingbat II" that aired early, early on Sat. mornings 1979-80ish.
Inspector Clouseau was on the Pink Panther
Inspector Gadget was based on Get Smart

 

[nightfly61]

My Favorite Martians
Jeannie

I never heard of these. I looked them up on YouTube. They look bad even by cartoon standards

When I was a kid I thought the Jeannie cartoon character was hot-plus she had a bumbling male Genie sidekick named Babboo. "RAZZLE DAZZLE!"

 

[therealjm12]

Star Trek the animated series was not done by Hanna-Barbara (thankfully). It was done by Filmation -a production arm of Paramount.

 

[azumanga]

Besides "Fonz And The Happy Days Gang", there was "Heeeyyyy, It's The King!!!", featuring a lion patterned after Fonzie. (I think it might have been on the Krofft Supershow.)

"King" was part of Hanna-Barbera's "CB Bears", which was on NBC during the 1977-1978 season.

Star Trek ... was done by Filmation -a production arm of Paramount.

Actually, Filmation was owned by Teleprompter, a company known for cable television and, of course, teleprompters. Group W would get Filmation in 1982 with its purchase of Teleprompter.

 

[ixnay]

Whenever Lassie's Rescue Rangers, The Brady Kids, and These Are The Days (all ABC shows) aired in Philadelphia, it was an *event*! WPVI would usually preempt them for some public affairs show or such.

ixnay

 

[TexasTom]

Star Trek the animated series was not done by Hanna-Barbara (thankfully). It was done by Filmation -a production arm of Paramount.

As has already been noted, Filmation was not owned by Paramount -- so the cartoon was a coproduction between the two companies. It's fortunate that Paramount kept a set of the film prints for this show, since it has been noted that most other Filmation shows had the original film elements destroyed when Filmation was sold by Group W in the late eighties. AFAIK, "The Brady Kids" was also a Filmation/Paramount coproduction.

Another animated adaptation that is worthy of note is the "Planet of the Apes" spinoff, "Return to the Planet of the Apes", which was produced by DFS (the same folks that did the Peanuts specials and Pink Panther cartoons). The animation was limited, but the shows were well written, and the 13 episodes produced actually formed a story arc, which was pretty rare in the seventies.

Of les note was an animated take off on "MASH" featuring dogs -- and called (surprise!) "MUSH". This was part of an umbrealla series, and I can no longer remember what other segments aired as part of the same program.

 

[hipman2]

M*U*S*H plus Wacky & Packy and Fraidy Cat were cartoons shown during probably the biggest TV failure of the 70s, "Uncle Croc's Block" starring Charles Nelson Reilly. It was a 60 minute show in 1975, but was cut in half the next month, then gone by the following February.

Some other Saturday morning cartoons based on TV shows include:
It's Punky Brewster!

I'm thinking that Captain Caveman's Teen Angels were based on Charlie's Angels.

To answer another question, The Harlem Globetrotters were indeed a CBS cartoon series in 1970.

 

[mleach]

I know I'm getting a bit off-track, since we're supposed
to be talking about primetime shows which had a cartoon
version but I can't help mentioning some shows which were
based (loosely) on a primetime hit. I've already mentioned
These Are The Days; two others, based on All In The
Family started in 1972: The Barkleys (1972-73 on NBC)
and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972-74, syndicated).

There was also at least one based on a movie: Butch Cassidy And
The Sundance Kids.

For the record an episode of "Wait til Your Father Gets Home" did feature an episode with Monty Hall doing "Let's Make a Deal" with Harry Boyle's wife Irma appearing on the show.

Last year in Palm Springs, out of luck the group I was with had seen Monty at a local VONNS supermarket. He was very nice to all of us that is until I had asked him about his appearance on this show. Monty said..well lets just say that this site won't allow it uncensored since what he had said had contained a certain word that begins with "F" and ends with "K" and add the word "You" to it....ah I am pretty sure that you will get the idea as to what Monty Hall had told our group.

Maybe Monty Hall had a very bad experience with Hanna-Barbera, I dont know but he did leave in a hurry with his six pack of Diet Dr. Pepper and a box of Kelloggs Corn Flakes in tow.

 

[only1moore]

I'm surprised that no one brought up "Baggy Pants & The Nitwits," the latter based on the Gladys and Tyrone characters from "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In."

As for "The Gary Coleman Show," that was based on the TV movie "The Kid With The Broken Halo."

 

[ixnay]

The aforementioned Uncle Croc's Block aired on the Alphabet and was also from Filmation IIRC.

ixnay

 

[MattParker]

Gene Roddenberry declared the animated Star Trek is not canon.

Bob Clampett's Time for Beany became the animated Beany and Cecil (aka Matty's Funday Funnies starring Beany and Cecil).

 

[bpatrick]

Whenever Lassie's Rescue Rangers, The Brady Kids, and These Are The Days (all ABC shows) aired in Philadelphia, it was an *event*! WPVI would usually preempt them for some public affairs show or such.

ixnay

Just the opposite happened in Atlanta. WXIA, then the ABC affiliate, had been airing a noon newscast on Saturdays for two years when These Are The Days debuted in 1974. Possibly the fact that WSB had also started one after seeing how successful 11's was, and Atlanta viewers' loyalty to WSB being what it is, led WXIA to drop the newscast and pick up These Are The Days; they ran it when it was rerun on Sunday mornings in the 1975-76 season as well. As a matter of fact, These Are The Days, IIRC, had little problem getting cleared in the South; maybe the resemblance to The Waltons had something to do with it.

 

[azumanga]

Another animated adaptation that is worthy of note is the "Planet of the Apes" spinoff, "Return to the Planet of the Apes", which was produced by DFS (the same folks that did the Peanuts specials and Pink Panther cartoons).

The Peanuts specials were actually produced by another studio, Bill Melendez Productions. DePatie / Freleng produced Apes and Pink Panther.

Of les note was an animated take off on "MASH" featuring dogs -- and called (surprise!) "MUSH". This was part of an umbrealla series, and I can no longer remember what other segments aired as part of the same program.

"MUSH" was part of Filmation's ABC Saturday Morning variety series, "Uncle Croc's Block", which starred Charles Nelson Reilly as Uncle Croc and Jonathan Harris as the director, Basil Bitterbottom. That appeared in live-action wraparounds, taking place at a low-rent children's TV show, showing skits, along with cartoon shorts "MUSH", "Fraidy Cat" (about a cat on his ninth life) and "Wacky & Packy" (a caveman and his mammoth in modern times). The animated segments were later syndicated as part of "Groovie Goolies and Friends", featuring segments from that series.