This animated series was fantastic, and just recently I bought a DVD set from this guy in the UK on dual layer DVDs with great extras - not sure about the others but this was great - Click here! The DVD brought it all back, the sense of adventure, the technology and the funny guys Pedro and Sancho... you must see this!

Reviewing long gone cartoons is often tricky because usually all you'll have to go on are faded memories and nostalgia. However, since I have the good fortune of owning all 39 episodes of this show in reasonably good quality, I can confidently say that this cartoon holds up exceedingly well even in the face of today's fancier cartoons(and sometimes especially in the face of them). The animation may be outdated, but the storytelling is top notch. This show possessed a mix of Spanish and South American influences, high fantasy and science fiction, a Prince Valiant feel, and brilliant music, some with a South American flavor and some with an otherwordly feel. The characters were brilliant and fleshed out, even the villains, who while evil, weren't over the top. True to the form of the 80s, this show had to have two bumbling sidekicks, but thankfully they weren't intrusive. And practically extinct from today's cartoons is a style of plotting seen in this show. No episode was a complete and self-contained story. While every episode had a coherent point, each episode ended with an invitation to join the show again next time to see what happened. This kept things moving briskly by tying everything together, end to end. It literally defined the old saying "Tune in next time for our next exciting episode". Even if it didn't invent this technique, for the child of the 80s, this was the equivalent of The Lone Ranger. And what excitement this show provided! Even though it was a kids show, it never talked down to them like many of today's cartoons do. It was never afraid to show real danger or kill off good characters. Mysterious Cities of Gold was, and still is, just too brilliant to describe in words. Like Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, it combined characterization, brilliant vistas and storytelling, and the right mix of history and mythos. Even as anime upon anime come out these days, with flashier graphics and heftier plots, I still consider this show to be the greatest cartoon, nay, the greatest animated adventure of all time.