Obscure Cartoons From Years Past

I remember that show! It was a take off of the Beatles if I remember correctly. You're right..I doubt they'll take the time and money to transfer the series.
 
Don Cyote, Fantastic Max, Family Dog, The Maxx and WildC.A.T.S are all shows that people look lost about when I bring them up. While we all here may know them I guess the general television watcher may not know what they are but some of these shows were very good and are worth checking out if your an animation fan. The best known show on this list would probably be The Maxx because of it's MTV fame, but it was run for such a short time that if you blinked you may have missed it.
 
The Maxx was a fantastic cartoon, perhaps the highlight of MTV's animated output - and in my eyes, that's really saying something. I saw the debut episode of Family Dog - is the rest of the series as depressing?
 
Man Wild C.A.T.S.! I remember watching it on Teletoon in the first year or so. It was on a special adult block with Savage Dragon and Highlander the Animated Serie. I would go to bed really late to watch it every week if I could, it was just that cool to me.
 
Interesting this would come up, but sometime last Sunday, while going through YouTube, I found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imvgc8-nRlM Part 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSPtkTTkI4c Part 2 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi6k_3s2caE Part 3 of 3

Probably one of Rankin/Bass's more obscure titles, the Coneheads animated series, with the voices of Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin as Beldar and Prymaat Conehead.

While we're on the subject of Rankin/Bass, I will also add the Comic Strip -- The TigerSharks, Karate Kat, Street Frogs and Mini-Monsters, as hardly anybody remembers them.
 
Possibly the most depressing cartoon of the `90s. You'd think a collaboration between Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, and Brad Bird would be, you know, better! Although the episode from Amazing Stories was very good.
 
Technically, The Coneheads wasn't a series; it was just the pilot for a series which was never bought. That was the only episode produced. Yeah, it's pretty obscure. Laraine Newman also reprised her role from the SNL sketches as Connie Conehead.
 
Clone High, anyone? Lasted one 13 episode season in Canada, didn't even get the full run in the US, even ended on a cliffhanger that never got resolved. Too bad, the writing was top notch. I was lucky to catch it, I was just surfing through the channels when I saw it on MTV.
 
Maybe it's obscure in Canada, but not in the States. The reason behind the cancellation was due to controversy. So, the show got a lot of press attention. Maybe it's obscure to today's tweens because they were too young to be aware but older folks remember.
 
Waynehead: All I really remember of this show was the designs of the characters and the three legged dog.

Brothers Flub: the shortest lived show on Nick ever

Happily Ever After: It takes fairy tales and tells them with another culture. Kind of an interesting concept.
 
That show was cancelled due to poor ratings, yet in my urban neighborhood it was quite popular. So, whether or not it's obscure, it depends on who you ask.
 
Here's two that aired incredibly early around here:

Monkey Magic, a pretty cool retelling of the story of the Monkey King, sadly never finished... I really like that show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCEuNqofDM4

It had a surprising ammount of Chinese mythology hidden in there, like the peaches of immortality and Nataku (who also appears in Fengsheng Yanyi, AKA Hoshin Engi).

and for something I didn't particularly found good Van-pires. A weird mix of CGI and live action where a meteorite gives life to old cars and turn them into evil monsters while teenagers in their car turn into 'Motor Vator' (or something like that) where they can merge with the car's engine to become flying engineblock people. It was really a weird concept... one thing I like was how all damage they would get into battle would transfer to the car when they returned to normal so they would need to repair them to get back to full strength. Nice touch.

Anybody else remember those two?
 
I used to watch a show on FOX Family called What's With Andy, about a kid who loved to pull pranks on his hometown. I'd watch it everymorning before school, and I really liked it. Don't know how it'd hold up with me now though.
 
Nice to find info on The Magician. I didn't even think to check the French side :p

Marc du Pontavice again? Man that guy got a HUGE resume oO he's produced so many things its insane. The Gaumont animation studio broke off and became Xilam a few years ago. The did the latest Lucky Luke movie and it was AWESOME. Marc du Pontavice was once again producer on that one.



What's With Andy aired for years on Teletoon and even got a revival season years after it ended (though it wasn't as clever as the original IMO). I'd say it holds up remarkably well, Andy was pretty clever and it was always enjoyable to see his pranks play out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5XTIS5iMZA

Here's another obscure one: Mot. A show about a purple monster who had the power to travel through time and space by creating portals in all manners of doors and who would always show up in suburban kid Leo's closet causing trouble for the poor kid.

Here's the French opening(still looks awesome!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKH9d9y6Zbs

Another show from that time is Orson & Olivia; about two street urchins in Victorian London. It could be just as sad a Dickens novel but it also had lots of touching and heartwarming moments. I was lucky and found the Christmas episode on a VHS tape at Zellers for 99 cents and I think it holds relatively well even if the animation hasn't age as graciously as the story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC784SvSsV0

I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers Ned's Newt :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD-RrBwZa_I

And while we're on the subject of old Teletoon mainstay, anybody else remember Stickin' Around? This genius show about a couple of imaginative kids was design to look like it was drawn by its protagonists. This is another show that is still incredibly awesome today! I found an old tape at a rental place's clearance sale a while back and boy was I happy to find it was still as good as I recalls. Really clever and charming!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCTBHLI4IhY

I think that's enough for now ;)
 
Those shows didn't really have the same "feel" as earlier MTV animation though. The original animation department had closed down, if memory serves right. You could also add Undergrads to that list.
 
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