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[athena]

For the first time, we have the same number of profiles in TV series as we do in Feature Films... 223 in each.

Wish we had a few more TV reviews though... I don't think the Top 5s are as accurate or stable as they could be...

[lupercal]

If we can decide on the 'parent-child'* problem it would open up most of the 60's and 70's series (not that's an especially appealing thought, but anyway. There were some ok ones in the 60's.)

I'm leaning towards listing the 'child' program and then noting where it appeared under 'of interest' unless you can think of something better.

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* e.g. most 60's and some 70's shows were comprised of three or so different sub-shows, and many of them appeared in more than one parent program. Yogi Bear appeared in something else ("I forget what) before he got his own shows, and countless other ones after. Atom Ant appeared in 'Secret Squirrel', and then his own show, as well as a combined 'Secret Squirrel/Atom Ant' show. And the Atom Ant show also had 'Hillbilly Bears' and 'Precious Pupp'

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[starlac]

Yogi Bear appeared in something else

That's be the Huckleberry Hound show, for which Yogi Bear stared in a segment during it's first season. When Yogi got his own show Hokey Wolf took his slot on Huckleberry.

I remember that I've never ever seen any of the Atom Ant cartoons, only Secret Squirrel's; because when I saw it over here, it was as a standalone. If I hadn’t been read up on Hanna-Barbera’s history I would have never have guessed that those two shows were ever put together.

So I suppose we could put them as separate entries and put in the off interest section that they happened to be shown together. Then possibly link a show association.

Of course in a lot (not all) of these parent-child cases these shows happen to have been made by Hanna-Barbera anyway. I was going to go through my Hanna-Barbera book's complete chronology release history pages at some point, to see how many standalones I can find in it (if any).

Of course on some technicalities we are already profiling some child profiles, Yogi's Treasure Hunt was part of a larger show (although it was released as a standalone for syndication) and My Little Pony and friends neglects to mention any of the "friends" part of its show (Moon-Dreamers, Glo-Friends, etc).

Scooby-Doo has a more solveable problem: because apart from some title changes and running lengths, not much else ever really changed. So you could just list all the sequel series names like The Land Before Time has in it’s profile.

e.g.

Scooby-Doo, Where are you? (The original series) profile:

Off interest...

Put the list of other series and spin-offs here with some sort of short synosis for them-

The New Scooby-Doo mysteries – New series of mysteries with more villains to unmask.
Scooby and Scrappy-Doo – Scooby travels the world in the mystery machine, with Shaggy and his fearless nephew.
…
The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: Scooby and Shaggy have to hunt the thirteen ghosts that they have accidentally release into the world.
etc...


The only Scooby-Doo that is really different is those recent made-for-TV movies (the ones where the villians turn out to be real ghosts etc) and the "What's New Scooby-Doo" series. Both were all made by Warner Bros. not Hanna-Barbera.

[lupercal]

Over here we had the Secret Squirrel Show (which didn't have Atom Ant), and Atom Ant (which had 'Precious Pupp' and 'Hillbilly Bears')

Also on saturday mornings we would get a show which had 'Lippy the Lion and Har-Dee-Ha-Ha', 'Touche Turtle' and something else which had 'Squiddly Diddly' and... errr.... I forget* . Then there wrre 'The Catanooga Cats' in about 1970, which had 'It's the Wolf' and 'Around the World in (79?) days' and 'Motormouse and Autocat.' And let's not forget 'The Banana Splits', which was live action, but also had 'The Arabian Knights' and 'The Three Musketeers' which were cartoons, as well as'Danger Island' which wasn't, and to make things more confusing, 'Micro Adventures', which they only played about three times.

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(I used to have a Secret Squirrel LP)

* Magilla Gorilla