![]() ![]() There is nothing like a little toddler running around the house yelling "Ping-Ping-Ping!" all day long. He was a sheriff, he was fast, he was in the west - he was cute and fuzzy, he was fantastic to little old me. But Magilla wasn't my favorite of "The Magilla Gorilla Show". There was no need to know, just accept and have fun. Never did it occur to me why a small pet shop would have a gorilla with a hat - and that's the joy of being a child. Peebles Pet Shop' couldn't get rid of the silly thing, no matter how many times he put the Gorilla in the window. She was adorable - just as adorably-obnoxious as she should be for wanting a GORILLA as a pet. ![]() And Magilla had an admirer who couldn't afford him but wanted to own him, Ogie. Hanna Barbera was on a roll in the sixties with "night-time" cartoons: The Flintstones, The Jetson's, Top Cat and Magilla Gorilla. 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.Magilla Gorilla was a night-time cartoon from Hanna Barbera. 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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