Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon
ginger_hammer
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Did anyone else watch this cartoon as a kid? When a group of friends are on a rollercoaster and end up getting sucked into fantasy land? I remember an an invisible woman, a kid with a club, a guy with sword and shield and a girl with a fire bow and arrow. Oh and that annoying unicorn thing! The bad guy had one horn, and I remember them in a dragon bone graveyeard or something. Was my favourite cartoon back as a kid.
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You forgot about the kid wizard with the magical hat though. And Dungeon Master! of course. Damn he was annoying.
Hm hm hm, the girl had an invisible cloak, but she only ever used it a handful of times. Assuming it was 1/day, I would have abused it every day! O.O
It’s too bad, they never returned home either. >.< The series ended mid-way through the adventure. I remember it was building up to a climax, and suddenly the show was just cancelled.
And that for only 27 episodes. But as a kid it did impress a lot.
Only thing I remember is that one kid was from a wealthy family and was supposed to be a cavalier. He was the snotty brat of the bunch, kinda like a cartoon Blair Warner or Cordelia Chase.
Every time I hear 'cavalier,' especially in a DnD context, I think about that kid.
The Bad Guy's name was Venger, and I believe they based the mortal form of Paladine on the Dungeon Master character, who like all really wise and powerful characters, could only speak in riddles and allusion, making the players grind their teeth into powder. And they did get to go home in one episode, but Venger followed them, and they had to lure him back into the portal by going in themselves.
And no, I haven't watched it in ages. Why do you ask? (Takes off nerd hat). B-b
Ah, how excited I would have been if I could have looked into the future, and seen promotional trailers for Hercules, Xena, Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Smallville, Star Trek: TNG, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and so many, many others.
The early 1980's were such a desert of slim pickings for hi-fantasy and sci-fi fans! Was there *anything* worthwhile back then?
In the 1970's, we had Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, and Wonder Woman. Then, the '80's. Almost nothing. Besides this D&D cartoon, I remember He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Nothing else.
I wonder if the amount of imaginative, supernatural high-fantasy on TV in any given Zeitgeist/decade has to do with politics? (Kennedy, lots of fantasy TV. Nixson, Ford, deadly serious TV. Carter, lots of fantasy TV. Reagan, Bush I, almost nothing. Clinton, fantasy TV makes a comeback. Bush II, so ineffective he doesn't make any impact, thank goodness. Obama, the presence of fantasy TV proliferates). Something to think about. LOL.
There was the Man from Atlantis...
The Incredible Hulk...
The Fantastic Journey...
The Invisible Man...
The Magician, about a stage magician who solved crimes...
Battlestar Galactica (The original)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Salvage 1, with Andy Griffith
Quark
And there were tons of Anime (although no one called it that back then). Star Blazers, G-Force/Battle of the Planets, Speed Racer, Captain Harlock, Galaxy 999, and lots of stuff from the 60's still floating around.
And don't forget the Spiderman TV shows starring Nicholas Rowe, Logan's Run, and Future Cop. Not all of them lasted very long, but they were there. And that's just the 70's! The 80's had programs like Manimal, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Phoenix, Q.E.D., Voyagers, Automan, Photon (based on the game), Blake's 7 (British), The Transformers cartoon, Tripods, V, Starman, Max Headroom, Star Cops...
As for sci fi, seriously? In the US, 1982 had Blade Runner, The Thing, Tron, ET, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and The Road Warrior. Several of those movies debuted within two weeks of one another during the summer!
And there was the Fire and Ice film, based on art by Frank Frazetta:
The animated version of the Hobbit, of course, with rotoscoped animation. And the Rankin-Bass Return of the King.
In defense of what I said, I was referring mostly to TV, not the movies, and the "dry spell" I meant was the (middle and late)1980's, not the 1970's. But I was probably a bit careless in the comment. Thanks for reminding me of all that great entertainment that us "old folks" had.
Has anyone mentioned Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? I watched that one, too. I had a bit of a crush on Gil Gerard.
Let's see, the late 1970's also had a show called "The Fantastic Journey", where a family from the futuristic 2000's got caught in an interdimensional teleportation network managed by, of all things, a big throbbing brain in a glass case (it was the main villain - it was trying to catch them and kill them, which was why they kept fleeing through the gates, but could never figure out how to set one for home.) It only lasted one season.
Sorry, I didn't mean to derail the thread. It was supposed to just be about the D&D cartoon. But I thought that the topic kind of logically leads to wanting to talk about other related shows in the genre.
EDIT: I was reviewing all the posts, and I see now that @LadyRhian did in fact post the Buck Rogers show. Wow, what a memory trip!
My favorites were some of these:
Yeah, I watched Waaaaaaaaaaay too many Saturday Morning Cartoons when I was younger.
Good retro cartoon skills
But my favorite was probably the Galaxy Rangers. The main Ranger, Zachary Fox, was voiced by the same actor who played Lenny Briscoe in Law and Order. It was a fun series- the old West among the stars.
as a quick aside, the animated Hobbit & The Return of the King were both Rankin-Bass; the first Lord of the Rings movie was done w/ rotoscope...
my favourite cartoon was....
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this gem seems to have been forgotten...
&, lastly...
I have to admit, though, my favorite show was British and could only be seen on UHF stations.
And ended at this:
The 70s turned EVERYTHING into a cartoon:
The intro to this one was sung by Menudo. Remember them?
You may think I am joking when I say EVERYTHING. I'm not:
And this was another series from the minds of Sid and Marty Kroft. Sometimes, i think everyone in the 70's was on drugs. It would make this TONS easier to explain...