I remember a show that was on in the afternoon, right after school, in the late 60's. It was a series of cartoons hosted by a man who talked to puppets. I think one of these puppets might have been a penguin. I remember one of the cartoons was about Hercules and had a character named Helena. Was this show ever part of something like that?
shareIn Northeast Ohio it was part of the "Barnaby" show. I'm watching Mighty Hercules right now on Time Warner Cable "In Demand". I didn't think I would ever be able to find this cartoon again after almost 40 years.
shareI bet you could download it off the Internet from somewhere.
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on Demonoid.com, they have some episodes of Mighty Hercules.
That's where I got mine.
I remember this show as a kid, when they replayed them here in Canada during the 80's, always on Saturday afternoon, then after it would be Rocket Robin Hood.
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I remember it as well here in Canada in the 80's and maybe early 90's. Granted I was born in 84, but we used to always record tapes full of stuff like this and watch it for years after. Hercules. Bucky o Hare, You Can't Do That On Television, etc, etc.
The only episode I remember from those tapes is Hercules being sent to the underworld and maybe becoming blind (or it's really dark?).
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If you lived in the Midwest (namely Chicago) the show was called Garfield Goose and Friends hosted by Frazier Thomas. Garfield Goose was a goose, then there was Romberg Rabbit, Macintosh Mouse, Granny and Boregard Bernside the Third.
There were also other cartoons like The Funny Company, Clutch Cargo, Space Angel and serials like Journey To The Beginning of Time.
I believe it was on in the mornings in the Boston area in the early sixties. It was one of my favorites at the time...
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OK, you meant, was the cartoon run on a kid's show, along with other cartoons, rather than, an integral part of some other show, a la "The Arabian Knights" and "The Adventures of Tom Saywer" on "The Banana Splits"?
I don't think it was run by a hosted show in our area (Philly and SE PA), I remember that the local UHF station, Channel 48, ran it as part of the afternoon lineup.
Our afternoon kids' show, though, was Bill Webber's "Wee Willie Webber Show", on Channel 17 (UHF). It ran for 3 hours, I think, and he showed classic Japanese cartoons: "Kimba the White Lion", "Prince Planet", "Tobor the Eight Man", and "Marine Boy". In between segments of the cartoons, he did various bits with a live audience of kids, including birthday announcements. Bill Webber was also a DJ on the local AM top 40 station, WIP (which in the 90's changed to all-sports talk, and now, the company moved from AM to FM, taking over the former rock station WYSP's band, 94.1). I think "Ultra Man" followed WWWS, too.
Most of what you say is right but Kimba was on Channel 48, usually at 12:30 pm and Hercules was on at noon. I remember in the early 70's coming home from "Bible School" in the summer and having lunch (usually a cup of soup and a grilled cheese) and watching Hercules. On Channel 48, Hercules was a stand alone show, with three episodes plus commercials in a half hour. "Wee" Willie hosted cartoon clubhouse or something like that on channel 17. He would show stuff like (at least in the early 70's anyway)Tom from T.H.U.M.B., King Kong, Johnnie Soko's Robot, Marine Boy, Ultraman, and the king of channel 17's lineup; Speed Racer.Channel 48 had The Banana Splits, Kimba, Hercules,The Hanna Barbara stuff like Wally Gator, Magilla Gorilla, later in the 70's they got Woody Woodpecker and the Lantz studios stuff, The Monkeys, and later they were famous for The Little Rascals, The Flintstones, and The Brady Bunch. I spent many a day after school watching an hour of the Flintstones at 4 and an hour of The Bradys at 5 and finished with an hour of The Monkeys. Channel 29's lineup I don't remember that well I think they had the Stooges on at some point but obviously I didn't like 29's other shows, I think it might have been Bugs Bunny or the Warner Bros. stuff.
Last point about Bill Webber, when I remember him from the early 70's he was working at WFIL am, he may have started at WIP am but he had left long before I remember him on air for WFIL.
There are times I wish I could go back once more and watch an afternoon of Philly TV with my mother working in the kitchen waiting for my father to come home from work. They are both gone now and I miss them both.