Kids of the 80s Which Long Running Cartoon?

[Jez_Gafys]

So for all you lot that grew up in the '80s in the UK, when cartoons actually had plots and a seemingly never ending story, which one did you aim to make sure you watched every week and couldn't wait to get home from school to watch the next one ?

The main ones I can think of are below (rember these are not just 80s cartoons but ones that had long running strories), but im sure there are others that you would have watched?

Dungeon and Dragons
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Willy Fogg, Around the World in 80 Days
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Ulysses 31

[wizard1974uk]

Battle of the Planets

[Jez_Gafys]

hmmm that Japenese crap, didn't think it ever got aired in the UK in the 80s at all?

And did that cartoon actually have a following story each episode?

[Silk75]

Dungeon and Dragons
The Mysterious Cities of Gold

[Manic]

Dungeon and Dragons
Willy Fogg, Around the World in 80 Days
Ulysses 31

[Rich]

Was TMNT 80s or 90s? That was my all time fave, every episode hoping that the technodrome would rise and shredder would win :D

[Jez_Gafys]

I reckon it was the 90s cause my little sisters were addicted but back then it was TMHT :P. And I don't think that actually hada following story each week. Oh and you shouldnt admit to like that :D

[Big Giant Head]

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors - I actually have a few eps on vhs somewhere, gotta love ebay ;)

Dungeons and Dragons also hugely pleasing
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/149381/Dungeons_And_Dragons_Complete_Box_Set/Product.html

[Jez_Gafys]

I have dungeons and dragons and uyleses on dvd.

In Jayce did he ever find is father and the series ended? This was a cartoon I used to watch on sunday mornings I never remember him getting home

[Big Giant Head]

he never found him, it ended on some random episode

[Cabe]

also, did anyone else think Star Trek : DS9 was a complete rip of Ulysees31?

[Red Plague]

Ulysees31
Mysterious Cities of Gold (gotta love that theme tune...)
Transformers

[porsche]

Dungeon and Dragons
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Willy Fogg, Around the World in 80 Days
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Ulysses 31

I wouldn't really count Dungeons and Dragons in that lot. It was just like Heman, Transformers, Thudercats etc where the plot didn't follow from one episode to another. You could watch them in any order...

Anyone found this City of Gold on Google Earth yet?

Mysterious Cities of Gold (gotta love that theme tune...)
It's not as annoying as Dogtanian's theme tune, but then the theme tune wasn't the worst thing about that cartoon was it...

-Porsche-

[Cabe]

one for all and all for one.....

[Jez_Gafys]

If you watch the dvds for D&D there is plot between episodes and references to previous encounters, shame they never did get home with so many chances. During the time each of them could have made it home seperatly a few weeks apart

[shred_dog]

\/oLTron FTW!!!!! never missed it. they FINALLY released it here in the states on DVD. It was very primative "japan-imation", which they got away with calling it on our local channel. Not quite as primitive as StarBlazers, but it was no Disney animation either.

Also Transformers and G I Joe.

Was Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors the one with the Vehicles that had like Buzz saws coming over the top? The heroes were nice shiny white ones and the villains were organic, swampy black ones with no people, just brains inside them?

[Baroness]

Dungeons & Dragons
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Willy Fogg
Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds

all rocked.

[[TRS]Scotteh]

Willy Fogg, Around the World in 80 Days
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Ulysses 31
Dogtanion
Transformers
Thundercats
He-Man
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Danger Mouse


i used to watch loads of them lol, willy fog always stands out as my favourite tho i think :D

[Hg]

for me it was
Thundercats,
He-man,
Denver the last dinosaur,
The raccoons,
Tranformers,
MASK

[Big Giant Head]

Was Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors the one with the Vehicles that had like Buzz saws coming over the top? The heroes were nice shiny white ones and the villains were organic, swampy black ones with no people, just brains inside them?

Yes.

The lead hero's one had like a grabbing arm on top of it

RING OF LIGHT MAGIC MIGHT IF EVER I NEED YOU NOW IS THE TIME!

ahhhh memories :)

[Jez_Gafys]

lol move onto cartoons of the 80s now more then story based ones.

if so I also loved to watch ... Gummybears :D, David the Gnome, muppet babies, centurians, pole position to name a few :d

[Jingles]

Dogtanian
Thundercats

:D

[Zatoichi.uK]

The racoons... :)

[Bonkers]

http://www.80scartoons.net/toons/index.html

[Excalibur]

Willy Fogg, Around the World in 80 Days
Thundercats




Ohhhhh the memories!!! :D

[Neon]

Danger Mouse!
Racoons, He-Man and Thundercats were all favs. Then there are the others like Super Ted, Terrahawks and the like.

(granted, terror hawks wasnt a cartoon, but similar ilk, man that was a scary show!)

[Elbonio]

The animals of Farthing Wood

[shred_dog]

Im sure you've all heard them by now, but if not, here's a link to the now-famous thundercats audio bloopers...

"what the **** is a samoflange???"

http://www.fugly.com/audio/19/thunder_cats_bloopers.html

BTW - that link is NSFW - bit of swearing so unless you have headphones or whatever, be careful!!!!!!

[Omnituens]

Thundercats, paws down.

[butlershouse]

The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Willy Fogg, Around the World in 80 Days
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Ulysses 31


According to the Canon on Ulysses he does get home and there are two unaired episodes from Japan which detail this.

Jayce also has a final battle in which he defeated the Mind, whatever it was.

See the internet is really really great ....


Meanwhile Ive not met anyone who remembers watching Star Maidens.

[Jez_Gafys]

I have Ulysses 31 on DVD can't remember if they find their way home, i'll watch the last episode to tell you if he gets home (finds the kingdom of Hades).

[TheDon]

Denver the last dinosaur

Such a great show.

"Denver, the last dinosaur, he's my friend and a whole lot more!"

They dont make them like that anymore :(

Anyone else notice the theme tunes to kids tv suck these days as well?

Gone are the days of amazingly catchy jingles, like "sharky and george, crimebusters of the sea, sharky and george, clear up any mystery!" and "captain planet, he's our hero, gonna take polution down to zero" and not forgetting "bond, james bond jr. No one can stop him but scum always tries, young bond cuts through each web of spies. He learnt the game from his uncle james now he's heir to the name, james bond"

Kids tv these days is just far too bland :( I miss the days when tv in the holidays was actually good to watch.

[catbeef]

Was TMNT 80s or 90s? That was my all time fave, every episode hoping that the technodrome would rise and shredder would win :D

oooh 1990. but quite frankly through to 92 it was still pretty 80s.

my parents got married then and i am wearing a ninja turtle tshirt in the video and not responding to anyone unless they call me donatello.

i like inspector gadget :( and dangermouse yeah.

[Jez_Gafys]

U remember the Turtle Song that came out?

Im sad I still kinda remember some of the words

T.U.R.T.L.E POWER, T.U.R.T.L.E POWER, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Splinters the teacher so they are the students, Leonardo, Michagalo, and Donatello , make up the team with one other fella Raphael...
He's the leader of the group transformed from that norm by the nuclear goop, pizza's the food that sure to please these ninjas are into pepperoni and cheese

Well summit like that anyways :D

[shred_dog]

a lot of terrible cartoons came out in the 80's in the same way many of our fave movies were destroyed -

with prequels.

read: muppet babies, Tom and Jerry as kitten and well, whatever a young mouselet is called... scooby do kids, scrappy doo for that matter, and i believe there was like a young warner brothers thing, too.

awful. I agree on the theme music comment. Today's cartoons have all the same 'street fighter' music. The exception of course are the shows found on cable/satellite: spongebob, Fairly Oddparents, all the ones done by Devo (rugrats, etc) and even Bob the Builder has stayed with me for hours...

[Shazz]

Danger Mouse

[Hg]

at the endo of the 80s/ early 90s i watched Attack of the killer Tomatoes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes:_The_Animated_Series

[|HSO|Tetrahydro]

not sure, i think this was more 70's = "hongkongfoey"

was it the janitor?

[Silk75]

Its not a cartoon, but Fraggle Rock anyone?

[rikoko]

Even though I did not live in the UK, we also had this HIGH TECH ADVANCED CARTOON THINGEH,

MASK was tha best!
Transformers
He-man
GI JOE

-edit- And for now seeing the second page, I also have to count in Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles :D god did that pwn

[Rich]

hahah attack of the killer tomatoes. They don't make em like they used to. I'm doing my bit today by wearing a thundercats T shirt to work.

[Elbonio]

Sorry to resurrect but I am re-watching the Mysterious Cities of Gold atm and it is excellent.

I was very young when it was first shown on CBBC so my initial memories of it are sketchy but I am entirely hooked.

Big thumbs up from me :) If they had an English version on DVD I would buy it immediately as the video I have is terrible quality :( (but watchable)

[Squeeb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maBNpy5wZV4 GI JOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Jez_Gafys]

Sorry to resurrect but I am re-watching the Mysterious Cities of Gold atm and it is excellent.

I was very young when it was first shown on CBBC so my initial memories of it are sketchy but I am entirely hooked.

Big thumbs up from me :) If they had an English version on DVD I would buy it immediately as the video I have is terrible quality :( (but watchable)


Always one of my favourites, I have about 6 episodes in divx afaik my brother as the rest I could ask him. They are the originals recorded from TV and divx encoded. They are good quality otherwise my brother would have binned them.

[Elbonio]

I have it all thanks, and the documentory that accompanied it :p

[SystemId]

The new adventures of He-man
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light
Skeleton Warriors

Sharky and George, I had completely forgotten about this cartoon. I used to watch it all the time.

Actually I wonder if you can name this kids show for me, it feature puppets in a swamp and aired on channel 4 very early weekday mornings. I think the theme-tune was the song about the biyou(spelling?).