We, Robots! (Part 18): Still Hope For H-B
Robots in 1980s and 90s Hanna Barbera cartoons.
Robots in 1980s and 90s Hanna Barbera cartoons.
This week, we return to elements from the heyday of the Disney Afternoon and concurrent Saturday morning telecasting, for more robotic adventures.
Focus this week is on two studios who more or less got in on the ground floor of the 80’s-90’s animation resurgence.
The 70’s were a decidedly fallow period for robots, with Hanna-Barbera still primarily in command of the airwaves.
Time to close out the prolific 60’s, and move on.
Here’s another not-necessarily chronological look at some random leftovers from early television focusing on mechanized metal men.
Hanna-Barbera LOVED robots! Following is an array from their later series, all taking their respective jumps onto the mechanical bandwagon.
What do Astro Boy, Gigantor, Dynomutt, The Robonic Stooges and the Gobots have in common? The answer: I never watched them.
Today, a random sampling of rampaging robots from non-Hanna-Barbera television shorts, mostly from the 1960’s.
Today, we’ll take a special sidetrip concentrating on two series of the late 50’s and early 60’s which obtained a reputation for regularly featuring mechanical men.