Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor
Just finished watching "Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor" released by Hanna-Barbera.
Once upon an earlier time, animators Hanna-Barbera ruled the airwaves when it came to Saturday Morning Animation. All three networks during the 1960s-1980s depended on the Hanna-Barbera animation studios to supply each of the networks with shows for their Saturday morning lineups and this gave the animation studio an unheard of, but virtual monopoly. It's hard to believe, but before the 1990s, Disney didn't rule animation on television.
Now while Hanna-Barbera had half-hour shows like Johnny Quest and Scooby-Do Where Are You?, it also had a mix of animated shows that featured two unique characters having their own separate adventures in 10-minute segments.
The Great White Whale Moby Dick, was the protector of Tom and Tub, cousins or brothers - the relationship is never defined, who got lost a sea during a storm but were rescued by Moby Dick who must have provided them with some special abilities to swim at depths that would normally kill real people. Of course this is a cartoon. And The Mighty Mightor is a prehistoric superhero from Earth's past - as established in the comic series Future Quest - though in the original cartoon series there are hints that Mightor takes place on another planet or alternative timeline.
What kind of shocked me about this show is the kill ratio that both Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor rack up. Cartoon physics and explosions aside, Tom and Tub are rather casual about the lives they helped Moby Dick to take - human and alien. So is Mightor. All in the line of duty, I guess.
Great Classic Cartoon Fun!
Highly Recommended!
Ten Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Moby-Dick-Migh...
Once upon an earlier time, animators Hanna-Barbera ruled the airwaves when it came to Saturday Morning Animation. All three networks during the 1960s-1980s depended on the Hanna-Barbera animation studios to supply each of the networks with shows for their Saturday morning lineups and this gave the animation studio an unheard of, but virtual monopoly. It's hard to believe, but before the 1990s, Disney didn't rule animation on television.
Now while Hanna-Barbera had half-hour shows like Johnny Quest and Scooby-Do Where Are You?, it also had a mix of animated shows that featured two unique characters having their own separate adventures in 10-minute segments.
The Great White Whale Moby Dick, was the protector of Tom and Tub, cousins or brothers - the relationship is never defined, who got lost a sea during a storm but were rescued by Moby Dick who must have provided them with some special abilities to swim at depths that would normally kill real people. Of course this is a cartoon. And The Mighty Mightor is a prehistoric superhero from Earth's past - as established in the comic series Future Quest - though in the original cartoon series there are hints that Mightor takes place on another planet or alternative timeline.
What kind of shocked me about this show is the kill ratio that both Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor rack up. Cartoon physics and explosions aside, Tom and Tub are rather casual about the lives they helped Moby Dick to take - human and alien. So is Mightor. All in the line of duty, I guess.
Great Classic Cartoon Fun!
Highly Recommended!
Ten Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Moby-Dick-Migh...
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