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Covers: Amy Mebberson (regular), Jay Fosgitt (subscription), Tony Fleecs (Jet Pack), Agnes Garbowska (Books-A-Million)
Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are invited to a reunion at flight camp. While Rainbow Dash is excited, Fluttershy's memories of her time there aren't quite as fond. But, instead of sticking by her friend, Rainbow is eager to prove her continued awesomeness to her former camp mates.
GRADE: A. A short and sweet story from Christina Rice about facing your fears and being true to yourself. The story introduces some new characters, specifically Flutershy's chief bully Cirrus Cloud, and gives a bit of an expansion on Fluttershy's past given many moons ago on the show. There were also some callbacks to other episodes via Rainbow Dash's exploits. The middle part, specifically Fluttershy's freak-out, was a bit clunky in its execution and probably would have worked better in animation. Jay Fosgitt's artwork doesn't exactly match the established Pony style, but it does have an air of Chuck Jones about it which gives the book a unique-yet-familiar look when compared to other books in the line.
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In the future, a
perfect society would be forged through the music of two men known as The Great
Ones. Of course, first a representative from that future would have to travel
back in time via a phone booth to ensure The Great Ones passed their history
exam. That was the premise of Bll & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, a 1989 comedy starring Alex
Winter and Keanu Reeves as the titular
characters, with George Carlin as
the representative named Rufus. The movie had a long, rocky road towards
release, but it managed to become a box office success.
The following year,
the movie was adapted into an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera
Productions for CBS television. Getting their
own piece of the action, Ralston-Purina
acquired the rights to produce a cereal based on the cartoon. Produced between
1990 and 1991, the cereal featured cinnamon-flavored toasted oat squares and
marshmallows in the shape of musical notes. The commercial for the cereal
closely matched the style of the cartoons, but the actual voices (being the
movie actors) weren’t featured.
The boxes promoting the various promotions.
The cereal came with
a number of themed premiums. The first was a cassette
tape tote meant to look like the phone booth. What was interesting about
these was instead of being a mail-away premium or located inside the box like
most others, it came shrink wrapped to the front of the box. The back panel
featured four “historical hysterical” post cards depicting Bill &
Ted interacting with some famous people throughout history as only they could. The
next promotion was a “Dial-A-Dude”
inside the boxes, which was them in the phone booth that featured a pull out
list kids could write names and numbers on and see in a special slot at the
bottom of the booth. 3 luggage tags, dubbed Time Travel
Tags, were the final released premium. The cereal was pulled before the
last premium, pencil
toppers of Bill, Ted and the phone booth, could be released.
In July of 1991,
Winter appeared on the first incarnation of the Arsenio Hall Showto promote the Bill & Ted sequel Bogus Journey. While
discussing Winter’s projects, Hall
brought up the cereal to Winter, who claimed to love it. Hall proceeded to
bring out several bowls of the cereal and had selected an audience member to
come down and try it.
When the future is in
peril who can save it? Two dudes from San Dimas, that’s who.
Poster for the first movie.
Rufus (George Carlin), a resident of the utopian year 2688, was tasked by
his leaders to travel back to 20th Century San Dimas, California, to
ensure the two Great Ones responsible for their society successfully passed
their history class. Those Great Ones? Bill S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and
Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves); the slacker best friends of the garage
band Wyld Stallyons. Traveling back in a phone booth-shaped time machine,
Rufus’ offer of helping them write their paper on how historical figures would
view the present was rejected until a future Bill and Ted arrived in the phone
booth and convince them otherwise. They traveled back in time to round up
historical figures for their report, but ended up running into difficulties
when the phone booth began to go haywire.
Bill, Rufus and Ted from the Hanna-Barbera version.
During an improv workshop in 1983, Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson came up with the
characters of Bill and Ted: two ignorant teenagers who had no clue about
anything they said. They had such fun creating and acting as the characters
that they revisited them over the next year. By 1984, they had crafted a script
and began shopping it around. Several studios expressed interest in the script
and Solomon and Matheson rewrote them to each studio’s specifications.
Ultimately, it landed at Warner Bros.,
who brought it to the attention of director Stephen Herek; but they
eventually opted out of the deal, citing the death of the teen comedy genre.
Rufus getting the royal Roman treatment in a production drawing.
Dino De Laurentis’
De
Laurentis Entertainment Group picked up the option and partnered with Interscope
Communications, and the film was put into pre-production. Alex Winter and Keanu
Reeves were cast as Bill and Ted, respectively (although initially they were
cast in the opposite roles). With their casting, the characters were altered
from their original envisioned state as being 14-year-old skinny guys who were
despised by the popular kids as it would be hard to believe given how cool
Winter and Reeves appeared to be. The final lead role of Rufus went to comedian
George Carlin after producer Scott
Kroopf saw him at a Comic Relief
concert. Initially, they were looking at for a more serious actor in the role.
The Dudes and Bill's step-mom Missy.
Filming ran through 1987, but De Laurentis’ company went bankrupt before
its release after a series of box office bombs. The film sat in limbo until Orion Pictures picked
up the theatrical distribution rights with De Laurentis’ Nelson Entertainment handling
home video production. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventurewas finally released on February 17,
1989 to negative reviews, but the movie ended up grossing over $40 million
against its $10 million budget, becoming a box office success.
The most unusual aspect of the show was that unlike other movie-to-TV
adaptations, the actual movie actors provided their voices for the main
characters. That came about at the insistence of Judy Price, the Vice President
of Children’s Programs and Daytime Specials at CBS, as a way to maintain a
degree of credibility with the project. Ralston also secured
the rights to produce a cereal
promoting the series, although different actors provided the characters’ voices
in its commercial.
The changes didn’t sit well with
fans and the show only lasted eight more episodes; one episode longer than its
live-action counterpart, which also flopped. When the show began airing in the
United Kingdom, episodes were adapted along with original stories in comic form
in the magazine Look In!In 2005, the first episode was released as a special feature in
the Bill and Ted’s Most Excellent CollectionDVD box set. In 2013, TGG Direct, LLC released a “best
of” collection on two discs, which omits five episodes from the first
season. Originally a Wal-Mart exclusive,
it was soon made available nationwide. In 2014, both discs were released individually.
EPISODE GUIDE:
Season 1:
“One Sweet & Sour Chinese Adventure” (9/15/90) – The dudes go to
ancient China to replace a vase they broke and meet Marco Polo.
“The Birth of Rock ‘N Roll or Too Hip for the Womb” (9/22/90) – Bill
and Ted are flunky music appreciation and given an assignment about classical
music.
“A Most Excellent Roman Holiday” (9/29/90) – The dudes head to ancient
Rome and end up saving Julius Caesar from being assassinated.
“Model ‘T’ For Ted” (10/6/90) – Ted accidentally wrecks his father’s
car and they head back in time to help fix it.
“The More Heinous They Are, the Harder They Fall” (10/20/90) – The
dudes head back in time to find a bigger bully to deal with their bully at
school.
“Birds of A Feather Stick to the Roof Of Your Mouth” (10/27/90) – The
dudes head into time to try and find a replacement for a rare bird they allowed
a cat to eat.
“A Black Night in San Dimas” (11/3/90) – Bill and Ted face expulsion
unless they can improve their grades.
“Pocket Watch Full of Miracles” (11/10/90) – The dudes head into time
to find an antique pocket watch for Mr. Preston’s birthday.
“The Babe Ruth “BABE” is A DUDE, Dude” (11/24/90) – After accidentally
washing a signature off Coach Sweatsock’s baseball the dudes head into time to
get it resigned.
“When the Going Gets Tough, Bill & Ted Are History” (12/1/90) –
Fed up with no applause, the band breaks up causing a breach in time security.
“Never the Twain Shall Meet” (12/8/90) – The dudes search for someone
to bring to Career Day.
“A Job, a Job—My Kingdom For a Job” (12/15/90) – Bill & Ted must
find a job.
“A Grimm Story of an Overdue Book” (12/22/90) – Ted has a very overdue
library book so the dudes head back in time to try and find a copy to replace
it.
Season 2:
“Now Museum, Now You Don’t” (9/14/91) – Bill and Ted have to try and
replace the Mona Lisa and Venus De Milo.
“The Totally Gross Anatomy of a Gym Teacher” (9/21/91) – A new phone
shrinks Bill and Ted and they take a journey through their gym coach’s body.
“The Star Strangled Banner” (9/28/91) – Music is threatened when Missy
sings a horrible rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” at the opening of a
baseball game.
“Leave It to Bill & Ted” (10/5/91) – Bill and Ted head into TV
land in order to change the outcome of their favorite shows, Leave it to Badger.
“Goodbye Columbus…And America” (10/20/91) – Bill and Ted accidentally
discourage Columbus from discovering America.
“It’s A Bogus Day in the Neighborhood” (10/26/91) – Bill and Ted must
keep their childhood idol Mr. Radish from quitting.
“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure in Babysitting” (11/2/91) – Bill
and Ted go back in time to find Mr. Preston’s old guitar and end up babysitting
themselves.
“The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Phone Booth” (11/16/91) – Bill
and Ted learn Mr. Logan wasn’t always as disciplined as he wants Ted to be.
What would it be like to meet your parents as kids? Would they live up
to their recollections and stories, or would their real personalities surprise
you? That’s what writer/producer Bob
Gale wondered when he posed the concept of Back
to the Future to collaborator and director Robert Zemeckis.
Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale on the set of Back to the Future.
The film was centered around a time machine created by Doctor Emmett “Doc”
Brown (Christopher Lloyd), an eccentric scientist who conceived of the device
that would make time travel possible—the flux capacitor—after hitting his head
on a sink and squandered his entire family fortune over the course of 30 years
to create it. A DeLorean was chosen as the
vehicle to house this device due to its mobility and futuristic look, with the
on-screen explanation that the car’s stainless-steel construction aided in “flux
dispersal”. Unfortunately, to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of power needed to
run the time machine, it required the use of a miniature reactor powered by
plutonium. As plutonium wasn’t readily available, Doc stole his supply from
terrorists enlisting his aid to build a bomb.
Marty in 1955 trying to introduce his teenaged future parents to each other.
When those terrorists came calling, Doc’s teenaged compatriot, Marty
McFly (Michael J. Fox), was forced to use the DeLorean to escape. He
accidentally initiated the time circuits and, after achieving the required 88
miles per hour for activation, was shunted back to the year 1955 (a time
entered by Doc as he reminisced about conceiving the flux capacitor). There, he
inadvertently interrupted the meeting of his parents, Lorraine (Lea Thompson) and George (Crispin Glover), and caused Lorraine to
fall for him instead threatening his very existence. Tracking down a younger
Doc, Marty enlisted his help finding a way back home due to a lack of extra
plutonium and to ensure his parents fell in love at the upcoming school dance
so that he and his siblings could be born. Unfortunately, bully Biff Tannen (Thomas
F. Wilson) kept getting in the way as he wanted Lorraine for himself and loved
beating up on George.
The posters for the trilogy.
Back to the Future was released on July 3, 1985 and was the most
successful film of the year. As a result, it gained two sequels filmed
back-to-back. 1989’s Back to the Future Part IIsaw Doc and Marty travel to the year
2015 to help Marty’s future family avoid legal trouble in dealings with Biff’s descendants,
but ended up leading to Biff stealing the time machine to go back and his past
self rich and powerful. The DeLorean also gained a hover conversion allowing it
to fly, and a Mr. Fusion ® Home Energy Reactor, which replaced the need for
plutonium by converting trash into fissionable fuel. Back to the Future Part IIItook the crew to 1885 after the DeLorean was struck by lightning and
stranded Doc there. Marty, with the help of 1955 Doc, went back to save 1985 Doc
from being killed by Biff’s ancestor, Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen (also Wilson). In
the process, they met schoolmarm Clara Clayton (Mary Steenburgen), with whom
Doc fell in love.
Ad for the series.
While it’s not unusual for a studio to want to milk a successful
franchise for all it’s worth (heck, the existence of the sequels at all are a
testament to that as the first was considered a one and done), Gale and
Zemeckis have been adamant in no further films in the franchise will be made
during their lifetimes. But Universal found a workaround: how about an animated
series? They approached Gale about the idea. Gale agreed, with the caveat that
it be educational in the vein of Mr. Wizardsince he had a 2-year-old daughter at the time and worried about
what she would be watching on television. Universal agreed, and the series
entered production with Gale serving as a very hands-on executive producer.
The Browns: Clara, Doc, Jules and Verne in their kitchen.
The animated series took place following the events of Part III. Doc (Dan Castellaneta) and
Clara (Steenburgen, reprising her role) had settled in 1991 Hill Valley,
California (the fictional setting from the movies) with their children named
after their favorite author Jules Verne, Jules
(portrayed as a genius like Doc, voiced by Josh Keaton) and Verne (a
troublemaker inspired by Dennis the Menace, voiced by Troy
Davidson), and their dog, Einstein (named for the noted
scientist and made more anthropomorphic for the show, voiced by Danny
Mann). Doc, despite wanting it destroyed in the movies and it being destroyed
in Part III, had rebuilt and improved the DeLorean with new features
including voice-activated time circuits, the ability to travel anywhere in
space as well as time (whereas in the movies they ended up in the exact same
location from which they jumped) and the ability to fold up into a suitcase for
easy portability (plus whatever else the plot would require of it). Together
with college-aged Marty (David Kaufman), they had misadventures through time
usually featuring an encounter with one misbegotten relative of Biff Tannen
(who sported his 1955 look rather than his 1985 one) after another (all
featuring some play on Biff’s name and voiced by Wilson). Also carried over was
Doc’s time-traveling train from Part III and Marty’s hoverboard (a hovering
skateboard that he somehow used in the present day without incident) from Part
II. Making appearances was Marty’s girlfriend, Jennifer (now depicted as a pure
blonde, voiced by Cathy Cavadini),
and James Tolkan would also
reprise his role as strict school official Mr. Strickland from the movies, now
dean of Marty’s college, as well as ancestors from the Strickland family in
several episodes. Additionally, Biff was given a son, Biff Jr. (Benji Gregory), who continued the
family’s bullying ways against classmate Verne.
Marty and Doc check out the new DeLorean.
John Loy and John Ludin were tapped to
develop the show and serve as the head writers and story editors. Initially they
were going to make Marty the center of the series as he basically was in the films,
but CBS vice president Judy Price wanted it to have more appeal for kids. Loy
and Ludin decided to shift the focus over to Doc’s kids, who only appeared briefly
at the end of Part III. They conceived of several creative directions,
but ultimately found that the show worked better if two impulsive kids got into
trouble and needed the older characters to help them. Gale originally rejected
the kid-centric focus, but after discovering that their other ideas limited the
show too much, he conceded that they needed to be central.
A family holiday spent in Victorian England.
The production was careful to be as historically accurate as possible,
which kept them from getting heavily involved with major historical figures
(except for Ben
Franklin) or key events. Because of time travel shenanigans, the series had
an unusual amount of production work that needed to be done: new backgrounds,
characters, props and costumes for the main cast needed to be designed for every
era. Character designs were handled by James
S. Baker and John
Stevenson, who alternated
episodes after the first, along with assists from Gayle Middleton.
While the main cast had to look a particular way and go through a rigorous
approval process, Baker and Stevenson were allowed to have fun and stretch
their creative muscles with the designs of the other characters.
For the first season, the intro featured Doc traveling through time to
pick up his family, introducing the characters and devices to the audience. The
second season changed the intro to feature clips from various episodes
intermixed with some of the original footage. Clara’s design was slightly
modified for the second season, the only character to have this done. The
series marked the first time Doc’s middle name, Lathrop, was used on screen
having previously only appeared in full in the novelization
for Part III by Craig Shaw Gardener
and solely as an initial throughout the trilogy. Gale made mention that it was
Doc’s mother’s maiden name in the feature commentary on Part III. Doc
was given two new catchphrases to compliment his customary “Great Scott!”: “jumpin’
gigawatts!” and “oucha magoucha!” (the latter typically when Doc sustained some
kind of injury). A post-credits scene during the first season would feature
Biff telling a joke in relation to the episode’s plot, possibly alluding to
Wilson’s own stand-up career. Biff’s trademark insult, “butthead”, was limited
by the network censors to only one instance per episode.
The live-action Doc returns to enhance your brains with science!
The most notable feature of the program was the inclusion of live action
segments that bookended the episodes, handled by ZM Productions. Christopher
Lloyd reprised his role as Doc to introduce each episode and narrate a
scientific experiment that pertained to the main theme of the story. The actual
science was performed and supervised by Bill Nye, whom Ludin knew from a local
sketch show in Seattle. Not only did it keep up the Mr. Wizard inspiration, it also fulfilled the FCC’s mandate
that children’s programming have some element of educational value. The segment
proved so popular that Nye received his own educational science show from 1993-98
called Bill Nye the Science Guy. These
segments written and directed by Peyton
Reed during the first season, with Gale taking over directorial duties in
the second with staff writers.
Biff Tannen: a butthead throughout history.
Despite the popularity of the film trilogy, returning stars, high praise
from Spielberg to the production crew, and winning four Daytime Emmy Awards, the series never received
great ratings. Ludin
asserted that people decided to write it off as “a cash-grab because it was
based on a movie, regardless of how good it was or how much work we put into it.”
Some were also put off by the Jules and Verne-centric approach, expecting a
greater focus on Doc and Marty. CBS honored its commitment for two seasons, but
significantly slashed the show’s budget for the second and promptly cancelled
it at its conclusion. The series briefly returned to television from March 22-August 30,
2003 as part of Fox’s FoxBox
programming block.
Numerous toys, books
and props may have been made in relation to the movies--particularly in the
years leading up to the franchise’s 30th anniversary--but the show
itself didn’t have much in the way of merchandise. Several episodes were adapted into comic book form by
Harvey Comics along
with some original stories
between 1991-93. The comics were written by notable comic writer Dwayne McDuffie and drawn by Nelson Dewey. McDonald’s produced the
only toys related to the series for inclusion in their Happy Meals in 1991. At Toy Fair 2019, it was announced that a new
wave of merchandise would be released for the franchise’s 35th
anniversary in 2020. Among them was a set of
action figures by NECA featuring
Marty, Biff, and Doc with Einstein, and a DeLorean vehicle. While the figures
were released, the DeLorean had never materialized.
The French DVDs.
Nine VHS
collections and three laserdiscs
were released, featuring a collected 18 episodes of the series. Originally the
series was only available on DVD in France, but it was released both individually
and as part of the 30th
anniversary box set on October 20th, 2015 (the day before the
future date of the second movie). In 2016, the animated series was re-released
as individual
season sets and a separate
DVD showcasing “A Dickens of a Christmas” with “A Family Vacation” as a
special bonus feature, as well as part of a new version of the complete
collection.
Verne wearing a coonskin cap in the Back to the Future comic from IDW.
Even though the series has been said by Gale to be non-canonical, Telltale Games included several
references to it in its Back to the Future: The Gamein 2010-11. Amongst them included
Marty’s middle name, “Seamus”; Biff’s ancestor Beauregard Tannen from
“Brothers”; Verne being a gamer; and a mention of the Tannensaurus from
“Forward to the Past.” IDW Publishing’s
Back
to the Future comics would also feature several references and nods to
the cartoon; utilizing similar characters such as Clara’s family, locations like
Hill Valley Elementary School, or visual gags like Verne wearing a coonskin
cap.
EPISODE
GUIDE: Season 1: “Brothers”
(9/14/91) – A brotherly spat pits Jules and Verne on opposite sides of the
Civil War. “A Family
Vacation” (9/21/91) – Doc wants a vacation from technology and takes the family
to medieval times without their consent, which leads to Clara being kidnapped. “Forward to the
Past” (9/28/91) – Doc heads to prehistoric times to safely test an invention,
and ends up causing dinosaurs to rule the Earth in the present. “Witchcraft”
(10/5/91) – The Browns end up stuck in Puritanical Salem and Marty is accused
of being a witch when he travels back to help them. “Roman Holiday
(a.k.a. Swing Low Sweet Chariot Race)” (10/19/91) – Doc and Marty head to
ancient Rome to return overdue library books and end up in a mess of trouble
with the locals. “Go Fly A Kite”
(10/26/91) – Jules’ taunting leads to Verne using an invention that makes him
believe Benjamin Franklin is his real father. “Time Waits for
no Frog / Einstein’s Adventure” (11/2/91) – Doc and Marty travel to ancient
South America to find a cure for Marty’s athletes’ foot. / Crooks steal the
DeLorean with Einstein in it and end up needing rescuing from an Australian
prison. “Batter Up”
(11/9/91) – Marty travels back to 1897 to help Pee Wee McFly win the National
League Pennant race. “Sole Sailors”
(11/16/91) – Jules gifts Clara and Doc with a space cruise in 2091, but a
future news headline machine reveals that very cruise has been sabotaged by
Ziff Tannen. “Dickens of a
Christmas” (11/23/91) – Doc takes everyone to 1800s London to celebrate a
“Dickens” Christmas and the key to the DeLorean ends up stolen by a pickpocket. “Gone Fishin”
(11/30/91) – Jules and Verne head back to prevent Doc’s fear of fishing,
causing him to become a famous daredevil in Hollywood. “Retired”
(12/7/91) – On April Fool’s Day, Jules and Verne sabotage Doc’s inventions
causing him to believe he’s used up his brain and retire from science. “Clara’s Folks”
(12/14/91) – Jules, Verne and Marty head back to 1850 to meet their
grandparents and their grandmother ends up falling for Marty. Season 2: “Mac the Black”
(9/19/92) –Verne goes to the Caribbean in 1697 to become a pirate so he can get
an earring while Marty is mistaken for pirate Mac the Black. “Put on Your
Thinking Caps, Kids! It’s Time for Mr. Wisdom!” (9/26/92) – Verne brings
science show host Mr. Wisdom to Doc’s lab, where he learns he was Doc’s
roommate and stole an invention from him. “A Friend in
Deed” (10/3/92) – Marty heads back to the 1800s to find out why Biff Tannen has
a deed for Jennifer’s family’s ranch. “Marty McFly
PFC” (10/17/92) – Marty and Verne travel back to the 40s to find blueprints for
a dance machine of Doc’s when Marty is accidentally enlisted in the Army. “Verne’s New
Friend” (10/24/92) – Verne makes a new friend and they head to the 30s to see
an old circus in its heyday, getting involved in trying to save it from
financial trouble. “Braveord and
the Demon Monstrux” (10/31/92) – Seeking to help a grounded Verne play his
favorite game, Marty and Jules cause the game to invade reality and get Doc
stuck inside. “The Money
Tree” (11/7/92) – Jules attempts to become popular by creating a money tree,
leading to a lot of trouble. “A Verne by Any
Other Name” (11/14/92) – Teased for his name, Verne travels back to attempt to
either get Jules Verne to change his or to convince his parents to pick a new
one. “Hill Valley
Brown-Out” (11/21/92) – Doc upgrades the town power plant after blacking the
town out again, but unfortunately makes it so that nothing can ever be turned off. “My Pop’s An
Alien” (12/5/92) – Biff finds a craft he saw 25 years earlier in Doc’s bushes,
and believes Doc is an alien that arrived with the comet Kahooey. “Super Doc”
(12/12/92) – Verne goes back to ensure Doc enters a wrestling match, but a conk
on the head has Doc believing he’s a super hero and uses his inventions to
fight crime. “St. Louis
Blues” (12/19/92) – Marty uses an imperfect hairstyle machine that leaves his
hair a fright and causes him to be put into a freak show at the 1904 World’s
Fair in St. Louis. “Verne Hatches
an Egg” (12/26/92) – Verne brings back a dinosaur egg for show and tell, which
unfortunately decides to hatch.
As America celebrates
its birthday, we here celebrate the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future. That’s right, on
July 3rd, 1985 one of the greatest time travel comedies of all time was
released to theaters. So, to commemorate the occasion, Saturday Mornings
Forever will be dedicating the month of July to shows based on feature films in
something we call Movietoons Month.
Since Hollywood is obsessed
lately with reboots, remakes and decades-after sequels, we’ve decided to make
this month’s line-up reflective of movies that have been recently returned to
the public consciousness.
We open the month up
with the guest of honor in BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE ANIMATED SERIES. Keeping the
time travel theme, and with talks of a new sequel, we follow that up with BILL
& TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES.
It took two tries,
but America finally made a Godzilla movie people actually liked, so what better
time than to look at the original GODZILLAcartoon? And keeping with the murderous animals makes us RETURN TO THE PLANET
OF THE APES.
One is a machine for justice. The other is a mystical world where anything can happen. It's ROBOCOP and THE WIZARD OF OZ.
With the Governator
returning to the role of Conan next year, we close out the month with two shows
about warriors. It’s THE KARATE KID and CONAN THE ADVENTURER.
