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Title |
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Air date |
1 | "The Brady Kids on Mysterious Island" | Filmation Paramount Television | September 9, 1972 (1972-09-09) |
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Based on the characters from the 1969-74 TV series The Brady Bunch, this was the pilot film for the 1972-73 animated TV series The Brady Kids. The Brady kids enter a balloon race, but they end up accidentally going to a mysterious island. They meet some strange people there, along with a talking myna bird named Marlon with magical powers and twin giant panda brothers named Ping and Pong, and even though they have a fun time with them, they have to find a way to get home. |
2 | "Yogi's Ark Lark" | Hanna-Barbera Productions | September 16, 1972 (1972-09-16) |
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In this ecologically-minded film, dozens of Hanna-Barbera animal characters — led by Yogi Bear — and a park custodian named Noah Smith travel around the world, and even into outer space, in a flying version of Noah's Ark in search of "the perfect place" (i.e., a land free of pollution, deforestation and other forms of mankind's despoilment). This is the pilot film for the 1973 animated TV series Yogi's Gang. |
3 | "Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters" | Rankin/Bass Mushi Production | September 23, 1972 (1972-09-23) |
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An animated film in the same vein as the 1967 theatrical film Mad Monster Party?. |
4 | "Nanny and the Professor" | Fred Calvert Productions 20th Century-Fox Television | September 30, 1972 (1972-09-30) |
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First of two animated films in which the cast of the 1970-71 TV series Nanny and the Professor get caught up in a mystery involving a microdot. |
5 | "Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter" | Hal Seeger Productions King Features Syndicate | October 7, 1972 (1972-10-07) |
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This film unites a wide range of newspaper comic strip characters — including Popeye, Blondie, Hi and Lois, Snuffy Smith, Beetle Bailey, Jiggs and Maggie, Steve Canyon, The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, The Little King, and The Katzenjammer Kids — against a common enemy. |
6 | "Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid" | Rankin/Bass Topcraft | October 14, 1972 (1972-10-14) |
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This animated film stars the famous San Francisco Giants baseball player Willie Mays, who voices his own character. A guardian angel named Casey (named after legendary Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, New York Yankees and New York Mets baseball manager Casey Stengel (voiced by Paul Frees)) agrees to help Willie win the National League Pennant if he agrees to be the godfather of an orphaned girl named Veronica. |
7 | "Oliver and the Artful Dodger Part 1" | Hanna-Barbera Productions | October 21, 1972 (1972-10-21) |
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An animated sequel to the 1838 Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. Oliver is adopted by Mr. Brownlow. When Mr. Brownlow dies, his will cannot be found, so his nephew Sniperly tries to just take the money. Oliver has to stop him. Meanwhile, the Artful Dodger now helps children escape from workhouses. |
8 | "Oliver and the Artful Dodger Part 2" | Hanna-Barbera Productions | October 28, 1972 (1972-10-28) |
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Continuation; see Part 1 above. |
9 | "The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik" | Hanna-Barbera Productions | November 4, 1972 (1972-11-04) |
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A retelling of the legend of Robin Hood, with a cast of all- anthropomorphic animal characters. Broadcast one year before the release of Disney's 1973 animated film Robin Hood. |
10 | "Lassie and the Spirit of Thunder Mountain" | Filmation | November 11, 1972 (1972-11-11) |
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Based on the tremendously popular Lassie character, this was the pilot film for the 1972-73 animated TV series Lassie's Rescue Rangers. Someone is trying to frighten away the Native American people of Thunder Mountain and Lassie has to get to the bottom of it. |
11 | "Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection (a.k.a. The Odd Squad)" | Hanna-Barbera Productions Screen Gems | November 18, 1972 (1972-11-18) |
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Animated film in which the characters from the 1965-66 TV series Gidget run afoul of seagoing gold smugglers. |
12 | "The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park" | Hanna-Barbera Productions | November 25, 1972 (1972-11-25) |
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An animated/live-action film starring The Banana Splits. The Splits give Susie, a little girl, a tour of an amusement park. They follow a balloon that goes into a billboard and they chase after it. In it is a witch that kidnaps Susie and the Splits have to save her. |
13 | "Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family" | Hanna-Barbera Productions Screen Gems | December 2, 1972 (1972-12-02) |
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Animated film in which Tabitha and Adam Stephens, the children from the 1964-72 TV series Bewitched (depicted here as teenagers), use their magical powers to save a circus; an intended pilot film for an animated TV series that was never made. |
14 | "The Red Baron" | Rankin/Bass Topcraft | December 9, 1972 (1972-12-09) |
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This animated film casts the Red Baron as a hero in a world of heroic anthropomorphic dogs and villainous anthropomorphic cats. |
15 | "Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies" | Filmation Warner Bros. Television | December 16, 1972 (1972-12-16) |
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In this unusual cartoon crossover film, for which Filmation obtained the rights to use many of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes characters, the Groovie Goolies help Daffy, Porky and the other Looney Tunes to solve a spooky mystery (in the style of Scooby-Doo Where Are You!). Mostly animated, but includes a live-action segment, which can be seen here. |
16 | "Luvcast U.S.A." | DePatie–Freleng Enterprises | January 6, 1973 (1973-01-06) |
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A mini-anthology film loosely based on the 1969-74 TV series Love, American Style. |
17 | "That Girl in Wonderland" | Rankin/Bass Topcraft | January 13, 1973 (1973-01-13) |
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In this animated film, the main character from the 1966-71 TV series That Girl imagines herself in the stories Alice in Wonderland, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Wizard of Oz and Cinderella. |