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Brainiac
06-23-2002, 04:11 AM
I was looking at the TV Guide earlier today, and it said that Fantastic Four was scheduled to be on at 5:30 AM on 6/23 (today) and 6/30 (next saturday). Is this the newer series, or the older '60's one? Thanks.....


~Brainiac
PeppeRaskell1
06-23-2002, 08:38 AM
It's the first "Fantastic Four" series from the 1960's.
Joe Tully
06-23-2002, 08:40 AM
You probably have seen the show by now and know the answer, but it was the 60s version. There's no Herbie, either.
Brainiac
06-23-2002, 07:41 PM
Yup...saw it this morning. Thanks, though.
Red
06-23-2002, 07:48 PM
It was just something Boomerang was doing.
Dub
06-23-2002, 08:11 PM
Would somebody PLEASE educate me on just what the heck herbie was?
Leaping Larry Jojo
06-23-2002, 08:25 PM
Originally posted by Jon "WB" Gray
Would somebody PLEASE educate me on just what the heck herbie was?

A robot. I think the Human Torch was eliminated from the 80s (?) animated FF because the networks thought that kids would set themselves on fire. So they replaced him with Herbie, a really dopey talking robot...

I think that's how it goes. I haven't seen this version since I was 5.
zimbach
06-23-2002, 08:30 PM
Originally posted by Jon "WB" Gray
Would somebody PLEASE educate me on just what the heck herbie was? Herbie the Robot was part of a late '70s animated incarnation of the FF (sort of an R2-D2 clone. see also: 7-Zark-7). He replaced the Human Torch, because the BS&P gods of the day thought he was too immitatable. They thought that kids would see the show, douse themselves in gasoline, and then "flame-on"!
Dub
06-23-2002, 08:54 PM
Coolness. Only complete and total idiots would do that sort of thing. Go fig...


**goes to secretly find some matches and gas** :D
Anarky
06-24-2002, 12:59 AM
Originally posted by Jon "WB" Gray
Coolness. Only complete and total idiots would do that sort of thing. Go fig...


**goes to secretly find some matches and gas** :D

or a protesting Buddhist monk
ouch!!! RIP to any demonstrators who torched themselves for their cause.
B.W.H.
06-24-2002, 11:52 AM
They put HErbie IN Ff because human toruch was bought by Universal to have his own series that never got off the ground. :)
Joe Tully
06-24-2002, 01:12 PM
Originally posted by Idiotman
They put HErbie IN Ff because human toruch was bought by Universal to have his own series that never got off the ground. :)

Yup, that's what I've heard. From what I've read, the other story is supposedly just a rumor. The Human Torch's rights were held by someone else, so they had to introduce Herbie.
Kolbar
06-24-2002, 08:01 PM
Herbie the Robot was a character substituted for Human Torch in the Marvel 60's series.