WFUT-TV (The station formerly known as WHSE-TV) 11-9-01

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Cartoon Arcade

All Mighty Mouse Cartoons:
The Disorient Express
The Great Space Chase- Ended very abruptly. I think the cartoon didn't even finish.
The Maltese Mouse

Cartoon Junction

Casper- The Friendly Ghost (Famous Studios)
Happy Harmonies- To Spring (MGM)

[Argus Sventon]

Did Casper have the NTA opening or did it have Paramount original titles, perhaps restored?

Did "To Spring" have the MGM lion?

[Tintin]

It's probaly "To Spring" (MGM) was i already watch on a public domain video and not "September in the Rain'. The list are:

"Fresh Hare" - uncut
"Falling Hare"
"???"

Please, are you the pictures of "To Spring" for have sure? :)

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Originally posted by Argus Sventon
Did Casper have the NTA opening or did it have Paramount original titles, perhaps restored?

Did "To Spring" have the MGM lion?

The Casper one I'm not sure of because I missed the opening credits. I knew what cartoon it was because I have it on a public domain tape. To Spring had the Happy Harmonies logo and the MGM lion. (I think. I have a bad memory)

[Geezil]

Originally posted by DarkEJ310
Cartoon Arcade

Mighty Mouse:
The Great Space Chase- Ended very abruptly. I think the cartoon didn't even finish.


Well! It's good to see that Cartoon Arcade isn't totally gone from WFUT Land, and thanks again, sir!

FYI, "The Great Space Chase" was a weekly Mighty Mouse chapter serial, at the time (1979-ish) a very radical idea for Filmation (not to mention CBS), and may later have had its distinguishing chapter numbers lopped off for the syndication package. (This briefly confused the fudge out of me, too, on the one other occasion I know of when WFUT/HSE's run of Cartoon Arcade diverged from its usual Heckle/Quacula/Jeckle sequence.)

But then, I'd never have known about that quirk either, except that back when Filmation still had that whole curious brew in production (as Paul Terry accordingly spun in his grave), Writer's Digest magazine did a feature story about how to crack the TV cartoon writing market (such as it was in 1979), which included a Filmation storyboard from guess what? and accompanying commentary. Perhaps Filmation's finest hour (no, not the show, the article!) ...

All that said, here's to the eventual return on home video of genuine Terrytoons studio vet Ralph Bakshi's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which of course, (a) left that decade-earlier treatment in the dust, (b) first showed the world what John Kricfalusi could do, and (c) even included at least one cameo each by Heckle & Jeckle and James Hound! Cheers.