Filmation Metamorpho Cartoon?

[BlackoutCreature]

I apoligize if I'm posting this on the wrong board, but I've been doing some exploring on wikipedia for the last hour or so and I came across an interesting nugget of info that I was wondering if anybody could expand for me.

Apparently back in the late 60's, Filmation got an order from CBS to make the Batman/Superman Hour show. But CBS ordered it pretty late and Filmation had to rush to complete it. To try to get it done on time, Filmation started pulling in animators they had working on other shows. They actually left one show so understaffed that CBS had to cancel it entirely, even though 6 episodes were supposedly completed and ready to air. That show was Metamorpho, The Element Man. Other then saying CBS shelved them, no mention was ever made on what happened to those 6 episodes.

Now I like to consider myself fairly knowledgable on DC animated history (not as knowledgable as some people on the board though), but I have never heard anything about a Metamorpho cartoon. Does anybody else know anything about this? Were the 6 episodes ever aired or released on video or anything?

[Bat Bruce]

You have to remeber that wikipedia is as reliable as the bus service, but I had a look round and found 2 versions of this:

1. you already mentioned
2. CBS and ABC passed on it

It's an odd choice for a series though, is metamorpho a lot more popular than I give him credit for?

[EazyV]

You have to remeber that wikipedia is as reliable as the bus service, but I had a look round and found 2 versions of this:

1. you already mentioned
2. CBS and ABC passed on it

It's an odd choice for a series though, is metamorpho a lot more popular than I give him credit for?


Dude, when has wikipedia been unrealiable? Yeah, it's written by everyone, but the info is pretty much right on.

:::::has gotten A's on many college papers thanks to wikipedia:::

[BCVM22]

Dude, when has wikipedia been unrealiable? Yeah, it's written by everyone, but the info is pretty much right on.

:::::has gotten A's on many college papers thanks to wikipedia:::

To use information from Wikipedia as a legitimate academic source without citing it is plagiarism, any college professor who accepts Wikipedia as a legitimate academic source for a research paper should be fired and any student who cites Wikipedia as a legitimate research source should fail the assignment. Any college professor I've ever had has made a specific point to single out Wikipedia as an unreliable and unaccepted resource, with some even going so far as to promise major grade deductions for anyone weisenheimer enough to try.

If a Wiki entry cites sources for all of its important information, that's all well and good, but simply because something is written on Wikipedia is not at all reflective upon its accuracy. It's unreliable precisely because it's written by anyone. I could edit the entry for, to use a relevant example, Metamorpho to say something outrageous and chances are it wouldn't be caught or changed back for several days if at all.

[Toddman]

I've read somewhere (I wish I could remember where, either in one of Les Daniels books or maybe a magazine published bt Two Morrows, I'll have to dig around and see if I can find it) that the six completed episodes of Metamorpho rumor is just that - a rumor. Apparently it was optioned for a cartoon series in the 60's (as were the Blackhawks and even B'wana Beast if I recall) and although there might have been some preproduction work done for the show, no animation was ever produced.


As for Metamorpho's popularity...well, if his own solo cartoon series had ever aired, he would have probably become pretty popular, right? One could argue that the popularity of a character like Aquaman is a direct result of his exposure from his solo cartoon from the 60's and his starring role on Superfriends. Before that, he really wasn't that much of a "big" star.

Toddman

[HaagenDas]

To use information from Wikipedia as a legitimate academic source without citing it is plagiarism, any college professor who accepts Wikipedia as a legitimate academic source for a research paper should be fired and any student who cites Wikipedia as a legitimate research source should fail the assignment. Any college professor I've ever had has made a specific point to single out Wikipedia as an unreliable and unaccepted resource, with some even going so far as to promise major grade deductions for anyone weisenheimer enough to try.

If a Wiki entry cites sources for all of its important information, that's all well and good, but simply because something is written on Wikipedia is not at all reflective upon its accuracy. It's unreliable precisely because it's written by anyone. I could edit the entry for, to use a relevant example, Metamorpho to say something outrageous and chances are it wouldn't be caught or changed back for several days if at all.
Youre absolutely right, but it's good for casual and general knowledge though, which this would fall under.

[adreed24]

I had heard about a proposed "Metamorpho" cartoon show and I found an article discussing it.

I posted some information from the article on this website, and it is located here: http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=174427&highlight=adreed24 (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=174427&highlight=adreed24)

It is located at number 17.

[J'onn J'onzz]

I was reading a '70s DC Comic (Steel #3, to be exact...) and in the Extra Daily Planet section in the back's "Answer Man" column someone brings this up... "Who played Metamorpho in the pilot made some years ago?" The answer was "The Filmation art department gave shape to DC's Element Man in the 1968 animated pilot." That's a really vague answer as this was a stand-in Answer Man, but this seems to indicate that Filmation made a pilot if not a whole six episodes. I'm not sure where the person asking the question, "Scott Laucius", got his information about this. Unless he was an animation insider or something, I don't know where he would have heard about the Metamorpho cartoon as I don't believe it ever aired.

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[Rick Jones]

It would have been awesome if any of the Metamorpho stuff they did ever turned up but I think it's lost for the ages, along with H-B's Teen Titans PSA and other things. I wonder how popular Metamorpho might have been now if the show aired and was a success. He'd probably be a second tier DC character alongside Flash and Green Lantern.