Searching for "Lost" opening titles

[Doyng]

:confused:

Hello out there toon town...

I need your help in describing the following opening titles with any narrations/summaries (if you know them by heart or from an excellent memory). They are:

The All New Popeye Hour (main title from 1978-80)
The Popeye and Olive Oyl Show (1981)
Saturday Supercade (from the second season 1984-85)
C.B. Bears (full title from NBC, 1977 version, not the CN/Boomerang version)
The Puppy's New Adventures (1982)
The Puppy's Further Adventures (1983)
Smurfs (1981 network version that aired on NBC)
The Mork and Mindy/Laverne and Shirley/Fonz Hour

If there's any video/audio clips out there, please let me know so I can search on the web for it. I know Boomerang won't air much of these treasures until in the near future. It's sad to let them sit in the vaults when they're still available. Don't be fooled... The owners have them but refuse to air them because of "marketing and property" issues. Boomerang and CN have resurfaced their toons before, and contuinues to do so.

Thank you for your great knowledge of these rare and obscure toons. Perhaps I may help anyone else out there describing an opening title they're looking for sometime.

[A.Magik]

:confused:
Smurfs (1981 network version that aired on NBC)
Here's the best I can do (Don't have the tape with me)

Like the syndicated version, we see the crane flying over a kingdom.
Cut to a shot of the forest with Lazy Smurf waving to the crane.

Narrator: "Once upon a time in a faraway land, there lived tiny blue creatures deep in the forest. They called themselves smurfs. They were good..."

Smurfs orchestrated theme kicks into gear with shot of the Smurfs village, and its inhabitants having fun.
-Cut to Greedy unwrapping Jokey's gift, with explosive results.
-Cut to a bat flying to a nasty house (Schubert's symphony kicks into gear).

Narrator: "And then there was the evil wizard Gargamel. He was bad..."

-Cut to Gargamel looking through his window.

Gargamel: "Oh! I hate Smurfs!"

-Cut to a close-up of Azreal, clawed and grinning.
-Cut to the Smurfs running from a net-bearing Gargamel.

Gargamel: "I'll catch you, you little beasties!" (or something like that)

-The Smurfs head for a tree trunk, coming out the other way. Gargamel follows but gets stuck. His standing up fails to free him from the trunk.

Gargamel (walking away in his wooden 'suit'): "Drat you little smurfs! I'll make you sorry! I'll find your village...someday."

-Cut to a relieved smurf, looking from his hiding place.

Narrator: "But the forest is still there. And if you are wise (or something like that) you might hear Gargamel's rage..."

-Cut to a smurf hiding behind the title credits. Eyes peek out from the shadows behind it.

Narrator: "And if you are good, you might be able to catch a glimpse of the smurfs."

A.Magik

[AarHan3]

Here are more "lost" opening titles from Hanna-Barbera series which have yet to be seen again:


The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (NBC, 1968-70)
The Flintstones Comedy Hour (CBS, 1972-73)
The New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show (ABC, 1975-76)
The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (ABC, 1976-77)
Skatebirds (CBS, 1977-78)
The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show (ABC, 1982-83)

Gargamel: "I'll catch you, you little beasties!" (or something like that)

-The Smurfs head for a tree trunk, coming out the other way. Gargamel follows but gets stuck. His standing up fails to free him from the trunk.

Gargamel (walking away in his wooden 'suit'): "Drat you little smurfs! I'll make you sorry! I'll find your village...someday."

-Cut to a relieved smurf, looking from his hiding place.

Narrator: "But the forest is still there. And if you are wise (or something like that) you might hear Gargamel's rage..."
I remember this Season-1 opening of Smurfs very well. :D Here's how it really went:


Gargamel: "I'll get you! I'll get all of you, if it's the last thing I ever do! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!"


-The Smurfs head for a tree trunk, coming out the other way. Gargamel follows but gets stuck. His standing up fails to free him from the trunk.

Gargamel (walking away in his wooden 'suit'): "Drat you little smurfs! I'll find your village someday! You'll be sorry!"

-Cut to a relieved smurf, looking from his hiding place.

Narrator: "But the forest is still there. And if you listen, you might hear Gargamel's rage!"

[Dub]

This leads me to a different question - What WERE all of the Smurfs openings. Wasn t there a new opening for each season? I distinctly remember several actually.

I'd kill to see them all again =\ It sucks that theyve never been restored properly

[CookieS]

Sometime through the 70's and 80's many of the cartoons were chopped up and stripped of their openings to either be put into syndication or as a cartoon short within another "new" show. My talks with the guys at Boomerang basically resulted in them scouring their own library for openings that haven't been attached in more than 20 years.

[AarHan3]

Sometime through the 70's and 80's many of the cartoons were chopped up and stripped of their openings to either be put into syndication or as a cartoon short within another "new" show. My talks with the guys at Boomerang basically resulted in them scouring their own library for openings that haven't been attached in more than 20 years.
The original opening titles to Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (ABC, 1977) and end titles to Scooby's All-Stars (ABC, 1978) were resurrected for the anthology of Turner VHS tapes of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics released in 1996 (Yippee For The Yogi Yahooeys, On Your Marks, Get Set-Go Scoobys!, Heavens To Hilarity, and Something Smells Really Rotten). And right here (http://whittakill.tripod.com/skatesounds.htm) is where you can find RealVideo and RealAudio files for the original opening and closing titles for Skatebirds (CBS, 1977-78). :cool:

[STARTOUNZ]

The original opening titles to Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (ABC, 1977) and end titles to Scooby's All-Stars (ABC, 1978) were resurrected for the anthology of Turner VHS tapes of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics released in 1996 (Yippee For The Yogi Yahooeys, On Your Marks, Get Set-Go Scoobys!, Heavens To Hilarity, and Something Smells Really Rotten).The original opening theme and end credits of LAL could be seen in the Quebec/Baghdad Laff-a-Lympics, which is the actual pilot episode despite the fact it was sixteenth in airing order. Episodes of the series are airing this month as part of the mega Scooby-Doo marathon this month. If you look at Boomerang's schedule, you might be able to catch it. But note that because Boomerang is commercial-free (save for its own network and CN plugs), the episodes will start much earlier than scheduled.

[Doyng]

:)

That episode you're talking about, I've recorded it on Boomerang, 1978. The opening was the actual 1977 (2 hr.) version which aired on ABC. The closing was from the second season (1978) when it was changed to "Scooby's All Stars."

If you watch "Captain Caveman and The Teen Angels" (which premiered on LAL) closing credits, you'll see that most of the original credits are from the first season of Laff-A-Lympics, with the same "explosion" background. The closing music was taken from other HB shows, "C.B. Bears" and "Skatebirds" (half hour version, of course). Both premiered in 1977. ;)

[AarHan3]

About 40% of what we currently watch on Boomerang is shown without opening titles. :sad:

[jermainemack]

I been miss a lot the opening title with the original versions of cartoons that I can hear it on wav format and mp3 so I like to some opening versions from a cartoon title like The Godzilla Power Hour, Fred and Barney Meet the Thing, The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show, The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour, Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo, The All New Superfriends Hour, The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour with the Funky Phanton, The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour, The Scooby and Scrappy Doo/Puppy's New Adventure Hour and all the other lost cartoon theme titles that I like to hear them!