(Liverpudlian poet Roger McGough would be brought on later to scouse things up his lack of proper credit for giving the film a regional sense of cheekiness is still a point of contention.) It was Jenkins who suggested adding Heinz Edelmann, a Czech-German graphic artist best known for his work on the magazine Twen and who’d be the person most associated with the movie’s fluid, lysergic look. So Brodax began gathering together a team of creative collaborators, including Canadian animator George Dunning, visual effects director Charles Jenkins, The Beatles cartoon vets Jack Stokes and Mike Stuart and several screenwriters, including Latin professor and future Love Story novelist Erich Segal. It’s still a hell of a lot weirder than you remember it being. screens in a new restored version right now.) It doesn’t matter whether it’s been decades or merely days since you’ve seen it last. Meet the Beatles (sort of) that star in Yellow Submarine, the psychedelic caricatures that graced the 1968 animated feature which, 50 years ago today, made it’s premiere on U.K. Specifically, between themselves and detonating clowns, apple-bonking henchmen, a giant killer glove and your run-of-the-mill Blue Meanies. No, these Fab Four are currently locked in a battle between good and evil. And they aren’t bickering in a studio or playing the single most bittersweet rooftop gig ever – that’s still in the near-future. Nor are they charming Ed Sullivan and the American press corps, or comically falling down together in the snow while locked arm in arm, or walking to the armored car that will take them out of Candlestick Park after their last public performance – we’re way past all of that now. Those shows were The Addams Family (1973), Jeannie (1973), which actually bared little resemblance to I Dream of Jennie My Favorite Martians (1973), Star Trek (1973 to 1974), The New Adventures of Gilligan (1974 to 1977), Partridge Family 2200 A.D. (1974 to 1975), in which the family Partridge is propelled into the future and The Oddball Couple (1975) with The Odd Couple’s Oscar and Felix replaced by, respectively, a dog and cat.They aren’t sprinting through a narrow street, laughing and tumbling over one another as they’re trailed by what appear to be hundreds of rabid teenyboppers. ![]() Other shows that were inspired by live action, most (not all) of which had scripts that could have been on the originals. In two separate episodes, they also randomly met Superman and Wonder Woman. Oh, and those adventures included a mynah bird named Marlon who spoke and happened to be a wizard (don’t ask us), their dog Mop Top (which raised the question of what had happened to their live-action dog Tiger, who mysteriously disappeared), and a pair of panda cubs named Ping and Pong. ![]() While The Brady Bunch was still in the middle of its network run on on ABC, the kids voiced their cartoon counterparts as they got in all sorts of adventures. ‘The Brady Kids’ (1972 to 1974) and Other Cartoons From Live Action They take him home and have to try to hide his existence from everyone. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973 to 1975): Johnny Whitaker( Family Affair) and Scott Kolden play brothers Johnny and Scott Stuart, who come across a friendly sea monster named Sigmund (yes, the premise is that simple), who has been abandoned by others of his kind, because he refuses to scare people. Lidsville (1971 to 1973): Butch Patrick (little Eddie Munster on The Munsters) plays a kid named Mark, who falls into the hat of Merio the Magician (played by Charles Nelson Reilly) and finds himself in Lidsville, a land of living hats - who act the way that humans wearing them would. A good word for the show itself, which was certainly different from anything else on Saturday mornings. Their enemy on the show is Martha Raye’s Benita Bizarre. The Bugaloos (1970 to 1972): The title characters are a musical group consisting of four British teenagers - three guys and a girl - dressed in insect-like costumes who can not only sing, but fly as well. In 1970, Universal Pictures released a big screen version. ![]() Like many of the Krofft efforts, very surreal, driving home the real meaning behind the name of the show. He’s also helped by other members of the community. Helping him once he gets to the island is the Mayor, H.R. Pufnstuf’ (1969 to 1971) and Other Sid and Marty Krofft Showsīritish actor Jack Wild plays Jimmy, a boy lured to a living island by an enchanted boat, which is being manipulated by Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes), who is desperate to get her hands on a magic flute that is in Jimmy’s hands.
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