Fabulous Funnies
| Fabulous Funnies | |
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| Genre | Cartoon series |
| Voices of | June Foray Jayne Hamil Bob Holt Michael Mandy Alan Oppenheimer |
| Composer(s) | Dean Andre |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Norm Prescott Lou Scheimer |
| Running time | 22 min. |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 9 – December 2, 1978 |
Fabulous Funnies is a Filmation cartoon series on NBC that ran for one season in 1978; it features animated versions of newspaper comic strips and attempted to teach moral lessons to children.
Overview
Like the earlier series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, this series placed more emphasis on teaching the audience moral lessons than on entertaining them. Each half-hour episode consisted of animated versions of newspaper comic strips, including Alley Oop, Nancy, Broom-Hilda, Emmy Lou, The Captain and the Kids, and for a while, Tumbleweeds; acting as a "master of ceremonies" for this show was Foozy, a character from Alley Oop who always spoke in rhyming verse. Topics covered in this series included honesty, alcoholism, prejudice, and safety, among others.
This wasn't the first time Filmation used animated comic strips in a cartoon series; they first did this in Archie's TV Funnies, which featured some of the above comics and others, and placed more emphasis on entertainment than on moral lessons.
Fabulous Funnies ran for one season of 13 episodes.
Episodes
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| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Animal Crack-Ups" | 9 September 1978 |
| 2 | "School Daze" | 16 September 1978 |
| 3 | "Comic-ition" | 23 September 1978 |
| 4 | "Bods and Clods" | 30 September 1978 |
| 5 | "Save Our World" | 7 October 1978 |
| 6 | "But, Would You Want Your Sister to Marry an Artist?" | 14 October 1978 |
| 7 | "Money Madness" | 21 October 1978 |
| 8 | "Fear" | 28 October 1978 |
| 9 | "Different Jokes for Different Folks" | 4 November 1978 |
| 10 | "Death" | 11 November 1978 |
| 11 | "Safety Second" | 18 November 1978 |
| 12 | "Drinking" | 25 November 1978 |
| 13 | "Shot in the Light" | 2 December 1978 |
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Fabulous Funnies at IMDb
- Fabulous Funnies at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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