Ruby-Spears: What's your favorite show?

[SF4Ever]

The last time we've heard from either Joe Ruby or Ken Spears was when they were interviewed around the same time Warner Bros. live action Scooby-Doo hit the theaters. They started their own animation studios in the 1970's, spinning off from Hanna-Barbera. Since then, they've produced Fangface, Mighty Man and Yukk, Rickety Rocket, Plastic Man, Heathcliff/Dingbat/Marmaduke, Thundarr, Puppy's Adventures, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Mr. T, Saturday Supercade, The Centurions, Rambo, Police Academy:the Series, Dink the Little Dinosaur, Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa, Skysurfer Strike Force, and most recently, Mega Man. Both Ruby and Spears have been working primarily on internet projects. In fact, they have their own website, Ruby-Spears.com. Keep in mind, back in 1982, Hanna-Barbera gave Scooby-Doo over to Ruby-Spears because H-B was overbooked with work that season. It's time we come to appreciate the contributions that Joe Ruby and Ken Spears made as far as classic cartoon shows are concerned. Perhaps, Ruby-Spears Productions will produce at least one more program before too long. Personally, my most favorite Ruby-Spears program would have to be Mr. T. If you have a favorite Ruby-Spears show, please post now.

[Prophet Wing]

I think "Dragon's Lair" was one of my personal favorites from them, if only just because of the connection to the game of the same name. It was innovative for its time, and the formula of having the viewers play along with the adventure (double-meaning intended) was later used by other shows, including "Where's Waldo?" in the early `90s.

[PC!]

I loved the old Mega Man show back in the day. I remember seeing it on VHS one day, so I picked it up. Man, I'm glad the complete series is on DVD.

[Chris Wood]

I don't know if that list is supposed to be comprehensive, but I think there's a title or two missing. For example Goldie Gold and Action Jack:
http://www.toonarific.com/pics_root//00001490/goldie8.jpg


My favorite is easily Thundarr, with Rambo a distant second.

[GuardianKid13]

From the ones you listed, I pick Alvin & the Chipmunks (I used to watch it on cartoon network)

[Viper]

As for myself, I loved Goldie Gold & Action Jack. She's drop-dead gorgeous and he makes a fantastic ally for her!:D I thankfully managed to record almost all the eps when they were on Boomerang.:D

I also thought Skysurfer Strikeforce was pretty good too.:) So was '90's Megaman.:)

[Chris Wood]

As for myself, I loved Goldie Gold & Action Jack. She's drop-dead gorgeous and he makes a fantastic ally for her!:D I thankfully managed to record almost all the eps when they were on Boomerang.:D

I also thought Skysurfer Strikeforce was pretty good too.:) So was '90's Megaman.:)

Man, I'd love to see Goildie Gold again. It's been a long time. As I recall the concept was Barbie meets Indiana Jones.

I've never seen Skysurfer, but it sounds interesting.

[The Weed Of Cri]

The Centurions was my favorite Ruby-Spears show. The superheroics, the super-science, the character designs by Jack Kirby and Gil Kane, some pretty good voice acting, and that awesome kick-butt theme music by Udi Harpaz (who also did the theme music for Airwolf). Man, the '80's didn't get any better than that.

[Chris Wood]

The superheroics, the super-science, the character designs by Jack Kirby and Gil Kane, some pretty good voice acting, and that awesome kick-butt theme music by Udi Harpaz (who also did the theme music for Airwolf). .

Wow, I didn't know about those connections. I think Centurions is OK, but doesn't quite measure up to the excitement or animation quality of the cool opening credits. Plus the villains rather obviously resemble toys.

[Kevin the Geek]

My favorite Ruby-Spears series is Mega Man.

Despite the show being different from the video games (Proto Man being on Dr. Wily's side, some of the robot masters looking slightly different from their video game models, and Eddy Flip Top being green instead of red), I found the series to be very enjoyable. I even own both volumes of the show on DVD.

[mammy2shoesfan]

I would have to go with Alvin and the Chipmonks and Mr. T.

[hobbyfan]

This one's easy:

Thundarr
Mr. T
Plastic Man
Goldie Gold & Action Jack
Alvin & the Chipmunks
Fangface

[rmarti3926]

Rambo: The Animated Series

[STARTOUNZ]

For me, it's Thundarr the Barbarian, the best post-apocolypic series ever!

[dtemplar]

Thundarr the Barbarian
Saturday Supercade
Mr.T
Turbo Teen
Plastic Man
Superman
Centurions

[Toon Capone]

My favorite Ruby-Spears cartoons are:

Goldie Gold & Action Jack
Thundarr The Barbarian
Rambo: The Force of Freedom
Centurions
Superman
Dragon's Lair
Chuck Norris's Karate Kommandos (NORRIS!)

[trayguy]

Alvin and The Chipmunks .:)

[LordTerminal]

The 90s Megaman show. Which I believe is also the first Megaman show to use Ocean Group as voice actors. Come to think of it, it started a trend: Megaman NT Warrior uses Ocean Group as do the X games 7 (I think) and 8. (And Command Mission) I don't think there's ever been another piece of Megaman related VA cast that hasn't been handled by Ocean Group recently. (Recently being the key word. Though I could be wrong with that.)

Outside of that, it's also enjoyable in the sense that it had it's great hard-core fan apprieciated moments. It's the only time we see old-school original Megaman side-by-side with Megaman X. (Though I don't agree with Dr. Cain being a 20-year old man. Or Spark Mandril being Russian.)
The only bad thing I saw with it was that they made way too many radical changes to some character designs. Airman had a head instead of just having his eyes attached to his shoulders, Toadman had a visible mouth (and some nasty teeth too), Roll was a valley girl, and pretty much everyone else had muscles.