Cartoon Series They Should Have Made (but didn't)

Hmm well i'll put some ideas i've had over the years for cartoons that i would have liked to have seen but which for one reason or another or five billion weren't made.

Cartoons based on Live Action Series-

Dr Who (i think it would do well in animated format, perhaps as a alternate universe with a different doctor for continuity's sake)
Get Smart!
Are You Being Served?
Fawlty Towers
Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em
Keeping up Appearances
Round the Twist

Cartoon Spin Offs

Daria (college years)
Kim Possible (ditto)
The Simpsons (with Bart and Lisa as teenagers, and Maggie NOt being a tomboy)
Pepper ann (high school years)
Hey Arnold! (with the kids a year or so older, really more of a Disney's Doug style continuation)
Doug (high school years)
The Weekenders (ditto)
Stickin Around (high school years)

cartoons Based on Books, Comics, Other Cartoons Etc.

Emily Strange (Daria type cartoon)
Sherlock Holmes
Miss Marple
Poirot
 
Buck Rogers
Blues Brothers
Coneheads
Naked Gun/Police Squad-the Series
Beastie Boys
The New Adventures of Robin Hood
Quantum Leap-The Animated Series
Superboy (the telekinetic Superman clone)
Pocahontas the series
Lewis and Clark the Animated Series

I'd like to see an animated Honeymooners series-perhaps updated for the new millenium.
 
I'm not hatin', mind you, but why do so many people believe that cartoon characters are so much more interesting when they're turned into teenagers? Do we really need more teen-centered cartoons?

(While I'm blown away that someone else remembers Stickin' Around, those characters would lose all of their appeal if they were turned into teenagers; the whole deal with SA was to show the whimsical imaginations of children.)

Can't speak dor the folks behind Daria, but Disney would never do a Kim Possible in College spinoff, since they generally have an aversion to college as a setting.

And Pepper Ann already did a series finale showing P.A. and the gang as adults, so a high-school series would technically be a flashback, not a spinoff.
 
Add to that BattleToads, Toejam and Earl, Awesome Possum, and Rocket Knight Adventures, and you got yourself a deal.

Yes, I played all of those games obsessively as a little brat.
 
Just a suggestion, Mavericker: Your information would seem a tad more credible if you would actually mention your sources instead of just saying "they" all the time. Saying "I heard that 'they' were going to do this" makes it sound like you just heard it from some guy off the street. Personally, I have an easier time believing things when they come from a reliable source, since internet news is extremely easy to fake.

Back to topic: I have to agree with Shawn. A Fantasy Island for kids would be lame. What would kids fantasize about? Kids already have it pretty sweet. They don't have to work or pay bills or rent. It would just be kids not having to go to school or lording over their parents or getting even with bullies. Personally, the only reason I ever tuned in to Fantasy Island was to check out the hula girls in the opening title sequence, so without the "jiggle" factor, there would be no reason for me to tune in.

And how does Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island prove your point in any way? That movie's "premise" served little purpose other than to be a hodgepodge of LT/MM shorts that were made at different times by different directors. I don't how that proves that a Fantasy Island for kids would work. That's the kind of thinking that led to nonsense like The Storybook Squares (a kiddie version of The Hollywood Squares, with the gimmick being that the B-celebrities all wore funny costumes). Why not suggest a kids' version of The Love Boat while you're at it?

Well, personally, I've always preferred the Marx Brothers, but I think one reason why we never got a Laurel & Hardy animated series was because network execs tend to think that kids wouldn't want to watch a cartoon starring adults who aren't superheroes, spies or detectives. Heck, the only way we could get the 3 Stooges on Saturday morning TV was for Hanna-Barbera to turn them into bionic superheroes. There was a New 3 Stooges series of animated shorts, which had a very low budget and the violence was extremely watered down.
 
There was a special animated Dr.Who done by Cosgrove-Hall who featured David Tennant in animated form as well another special featuring an alternate doctor and 2 lost episodes of the Patrick Throughton era called "The invasion" redone in animated version



I'm surprised they didn't do a Get Smart animated version, I think it would had worked well. As for Sherlock Holmes, Miyazaki did an animated adaptation called Sherlock Hound.

EDIT: Maybe the reason they didn't get a animated version of Get Smart. There was 2 cartoons at the same era who spoofed James Bond the same way then Get Smart did, Cool McCool and Terrytoon's James Hound.
 
That'll never happen since WB/DC lost any and all rights to the character in the lawsuit with his creators. That's why the Superboy Filmation shorts were omitted from the DC Super Hero DVD releases and was killed off in the comics.
 
Yeah, but with a Jetsons babyfication, you'd only have 2 main characters. What would be the point?

Once again, I have to say this:



I mean no offense to anyone, but I just feel that babyfications are a played out genre, and one that wasn't outstandingly great to begin with.
 
I mean they can have George and Jane, and Mr. Spacely, and Mr. Cogswell as teens.

The show can explain how they met and what led up to the regular Jetsons show.

There's no reason why Astro can't be a puppy.
 
I'd settle for the original Supercade airing in its' entirety on Boomerang. Sure, it would get old after a few weeks, but for a while it would be interesting to see something else besides just Space Ace for a change.
 
You know, one day I'd really like to learn the identities of this "they" that you keep referring to.

And if "they", whoever "they" might happen to be, made a Fantasy island cartoon like what was described above, I wouldn't watch it, so this mysterious organization known only as "they" need not waste their time.
 
No-The Flintstones and Yogi Bear are riffs on the Honeymooners.

An actual animated series on the Honeymooners with the Honeymooners characters.
 
A. I heard they got the Superboy rights back recently.

B. He was killed because they needed a fairly known character to die after the decision not to kill off Nightwing.
 
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