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DuckTales was an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. Based on Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge comic book series, it premiered on September 18, 1987 and ended on November 28, 1990 with a total of four seasons and 100 episodes. Do you remember following the adventures of Scrooge McDuck and his three great-grandnephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie? Remember who else

The Great Grape Ape Show was a Saturday morning cartoon that was broadcast on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The title character was a 40-foot-tall purple gorilla (voiced by Bob Holt) with the mind of a child. His catch phrase is saying his name twice ("Grape Ape, Grape Ape") after anything anyone says, usually as a form of agreement or acknowledgement of what was said.

Dynomutt, Dog Wonder was an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera about a Batman-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon and his assistant, a bumbling yet generally effective robot dog Dynomutt, who could produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body.

Land of the Lost ran from 1974 to 1976 and was a children's television series co-created and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. During its original run, it was broadcast on the NBC television network. Land of the Lost was about the adventures of the Marshall family (father Rick, his son Will, and younger daughter Holly) who are trapped in an alternate universe inhabited by dinosaurs.

Keeping the sound and spirit of Curly Howard from The Three Stooges alive, Jabberjaw was a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired from September 11, 1976 to September 3, 1978 on ABC with it's main character sounding and acting like the classic slapstick comedy star.

The Smurfs was a Belgian comic and television franchise centered on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, created and first introduced as a series of comic strips by a Belgian cartoonist in 1958.

Muppet Babies, also known as Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, was an American animated television series that aired from September 15, 1989 to November 2, 1993 on CBS. The show portrays childhood versions of the Muppets living together in a large nursery in the care of a human woman called Nanny.

TaleSpin was a half-hour American animated television series based in the fictional city of Cape Suzette, (now I'm hungry for Crepe Suzette), that first aired in 1990 as part of The Disney Afternoon. The name of the show is a play on "tail and spin" The two words in the show's name, are a way to describe telling a story and spinning it into a positive direction.

M.A.S.K. or (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) was an animated television series directed by several uncredited Japanese studios and produced by the French-American DIC Enterprises. There was also the toyline of the same name sold by Kenner. Was this the beginning of the Transformers?

Here is another classic cartoon series realsed by Hallmark Cards. The Shirt Tale line of greeting cards was animal characters wearing T-shirts with their name on or a cuddly message on it. The Shirt Tale cards were among Hallmark's best sellers at that time, which led the company to team with Hanna-Barbera Productions to adapt the Shirt Tales into a Saturday morning cartoon, which premiered on NBC

Boy I was thrilled when I heard in August of 2008 that Warner Bros. was going to run classic Banana Splits episodes on the cartoon network. I set my DVR recorded a few and very quickly thought, "I liked this silly show?" The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an hour-long television program that featured both live action and animated segments of zany goofy fun for kids.

Perhaps inspired by the Maxwell Smart comedy series of the 60's starring the late Don Adams, Inspector Gadget was a famous policeman and detective with a seemingly endless amount of gadgets he can summon by saying "Go-Go-Gadget". After two attempts at the characters voice, producers decided to hire Don Adams himself to get the full effect of the voice, and found that he fit the role perf