![]() The premise itself, in HB tradition, is spelled out during the theme song in 30 seconds by none other than Gary Owens. The three Angels don’t get much time to develop character aspects in the short episodes. I even have a card game that features Cavey, Taffy, Brenda and Dee Dee. ![]() A board game, coloring books, comics and other merchandise graced the store shelves. This is likely the way the series was packaged for syndication and cable.Ĭlearly this was a satisfactory, if not phenomenal, success for Hanna-Barbera and ABC. The DVD set pairs two stories into 20 half-hours 40 total cartoons. In Spring 1980, the Captain got his own half hour. I would suggest frying some bacon to make it a multi-sensory experience.Ī few more Captain Caveman shorts were made for the second season, retitled Scooby’s All-Stars.You could also root for Cavey and the Angels as competitors on the “Scoobie-Doobies” team in the Laff-A-Lympics segments. You can even find pretty much all of the Laff-A-Lympics on various DVDs, and can re-create your Saturday morning paradise. The Scooby segments have been released as the “lost” third season. In its premiere year, the two-hour block contained a segment of Laff-A-Lympics, a Scooby Dooadventure, a Captain Caveman and another Laff-A-Lympics. Such is the result of breakneck production speed at limited budgets, especially when you consider that Captain Caveman was a ten-minute segment sandwiched into the two-hour Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. Therefore, sometimes the Teen Angels look wonderful, striking the poses on the model sheets at one moment, but look awkward the next. Being composed of lines and scribbles, he was the seven dwarfs to the more naturalistic Teen Angels, who presented more of an animation challenge, as with Snow White (this may be the first time Captain Caveman has been compared to Snow White.) (You didn’t dream that, either.)Ĭaptain Caveman looks like one of the Slag Brothers from Wacky Races and must have been the most fun element of the show to animate. Even Yogi Bear eventually flew into the galaxy and visited floating space discos. Hanna-Barbera worked both into several cartoons of the era, including another series you may think you dreamed but really happened called Casper and the Angels (which I kind of liked anyway). In 1977, Charlie’s Angels was all the rage, along with disco music and Star Wars. ![]() ‘Scoob!’ Review: A Silly, High-Energy Introduction to the Wacky World of Hanna-Barbera
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