Fantastic Four on CN?

[Brainiac]

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]

It's the first "Fantastic Four" series from the 1960's.

[Joe Tully]

You probably have seen the show by now and know the answer, but it was the 60s version. There's no Herbie, either.

[Brainiac]

Yup...saw it this morning. Thanks, though.

[Red]

It was just something Boomerang was doing.

[Dub]

Would somebody PLEASE educate me on just what the heck herbie was?

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

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]

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]

Coolness. Only complete and total idiots would do that sort of thing. Go fig...


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

[Anarky]

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**

or a protesting Buddhist monk
ouch!!! RIP to any demonstrators who torched themselves for their cause.

[B.W.H.]

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]

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]

Herbie the Robot was a character substituted for Human Torch in the Marvel 60's series.