Throwback Thursday: Nostalgic cartoons of old
By Abimbola Mohammed
If you watch some of these cartoons in this list then you are old school. These evergreen animated TV shows are to relive special memories of your childhood. Cartoons had a great impact on shaping our childhood memories. Right from the charismatic, Alice in the wonderland, Scooby-Doo, SuperTed, Tom & Jerry etc, these old cartoons gave us our animated heroes to choose from. And the list goes on.
So, if you want to be hit by nostalgia and relive those golden days when we used to sit back, munch on snacks, and enjoy the best cartoons with our families (most times alone, because parents won’t let us watch too much TV) then let me take you on an emotional roller-coaster ride.
Tom and Jerry: is an American animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Best known for its 161 theatrical short films by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series centers on the rivalry between the titular characters of a cat named Tom and a mouse named Jerry. Many shorts also feature several recurring characters.
In its original run, Hanna and Barbera produced 114 Tom and Jerry shorts for MGM from 1940 to 1958. During this time, they won seven Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film, tying for first place with Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies with the most awards in the category. After the MGM cartoon studio closed in 1957, MGM revived the series with Gene Deitch directing an additional 13 Tom and Jerry shorts for Rembrandt Films from 1961 to 1962. Tom and Jerry then became the highest-grossing animated short film series of that time, overtaking Looney Tunes. Chuck Jones then produced another 34 shorts with Sib Tower 12 Productions between 1963 and 1967. Three more shorts were produced, The Mansion Cat in 2001, The Karate Guard in 2005, and A Fundraising Adventure in 2014, making a total of 164 shorts.
Alice in Wonderland: is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The thirteenth release of Disney’s animated features, the film premiered in London on July 26, 1951, and in New York City on July 28, 1951. It features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter. Walt Disney first tried to adapt Alice into a feature-length animated film in the 1930s and revived the idea in the 1940s. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film, but Disney decided it would be a fully animated film.
Scooby-Doo: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You goes the familiar line in the animated film! It is an American animated comedy television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of the network’s Saturday morning cartoon schedule on September 13, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. In 1978, a selection of episodes from the later series Scooby’s All-Stars and The Scooby-Doo Show were aired on ABC under the Scooby-Doo, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo introduced a whole new generation to the ‘roveable’, er, lovable Great Dane. Even though the gang are all kids in this series, the monsters are still as scary (and absurd) as the original cartoon. There are just not as many marijuana innuendos.
SuperTed: is a Welsh superhero animated television series about an anthropomorphic teddy bear with superpowers, created by writer and animator Mike Young. Originally created by Young as a series of stories to help his son overcome his fear of the dark, SuperTed became a popular series of books and led to an animated series produced from 1983 to 1986. An American-produced series, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, was produced by Hanna Barbera in 1989.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: (initially known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in some European countries) is an American animated television series based on the characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It is the first animated series in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The pilot, was shown during the week of December 14, 1987 in syndication as a five-part mini-series, and the show began its full-time run on October 1, 1988. The series ran until November 2, 1996, when it aired its final episode.
Transformers: The Movie is an animated science fiction series. It was about a team of extraterrestrial robots who can turn into cars, trucks and pretty much anything else, and they fight each other! That is the definition of awesome. It was released in North America on August 8, 1986, and in the United Kingdom on December 12, 1986. It was co-produced and directed by Nelson Shin, who also produced the television series. The screenplay was written by Ron Friedman, who created Bionic Six a year later.
The Smurfs (syndicated as Smurfs’ Adventures): is an animated fantasy-comedy children’s television series that originally aired on NBC from 12 September 1981 to 2 December 1989, and lasted for eight years. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, it is based on the Belgian comic series by the same name, created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo (who also served as story supervisor of this adaptation) and aired for 258 episodes with a total of 419 stories, excluding three cliffhanger episodes and seven specials.
Danger Mouse: Danger Mouse is a British animated television series produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television. It features the eponymous Danger Mouse who worked as a secret agent and is a parody of British spy fiction, particularly the Danger Man series and James Bond. It originally ran from 28 September 1981 to 19 March 1992 on the ITV network.
Winnie the Pooh: is a fictional animated teddy-bear created by English author A. A. Milne. It is one of the most popular characters adapted for film and television by The Walt Disney Company. Disney first received certain licensing rights to the Winnie the Pooh stories, characters, and trademarks from Stephen Slesinger, Inc. and the estate of A. A. Milne in 1961.
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