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The Herculoids
The Herculoids is an American Saturday-morning animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, created and designed by Alex Toth. With plotlines rooted in science fiction and fantasy, the show debuted September 9, 1967, on CBS. While Hanna-Barbera produced one season for the initial airing, the original 18 episodes were rerun during the 1968–69 television season. Eleven new episodes were produced in 1981 as part of the Space Stars show.
On the planet Amzot (renamed Quasar in the revival), the space barbarian family Zandor, Tara, and son Dorno fight alongside their giant pets—laser dragon Zok, space rhinoceros Tundro, rock ape Igoo, and the shape-shifting duo Gloop and Gleep—to keep their planet safe from invaders. The Herculoids' pets understood human speech and often displayed various emotions. The Herculoids team battled against many different villains: invading robots, mad scientists, and mutants, including "the Faceless People, Destroyer Ants, Raider Apes, Mutoids, Arnoids, Zorbots, the Mekkano mechanical men and the Ogs, a strange form of vegetable life."
There are eight regular characters who make up the Herculoids:
The three humans were the only ones who could communicate in English.
The five creature characters of The Herculoids are:
After the success of Space Ghost, CBS' head of daytime programming, Fred Silverman, commissioned Hanna-Barbera to develop three new action-adventure series in the same vein for the 1967–68 fall schedule consisting of The Herculoids, Shazzan, and Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor.
After its initial run, The Herculoids was featured in several anthology wheel series produced by Hanna-Barbera including Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure, Space Stars (for which 11 additional episodes were created), Power Zone on Cartoon Network, and both the Cartoon Network and Boomerang incarnations of Super Adventures. The series has also influenced other artists across various media. In common with a number of other action-adventure cartoons from the 1960s, The Herculoids was pulled from reruns in the 1970s due to increased complaints by parents' groups over perceived violence in children's cartoons.
Award-winning video game designer David Crane has stated that he enjoyed the series as a child and that the character of Blobert from the A Boy and His Blob franchise was directly inspired by Gloop and Gleep. Jamaican-American DJ DJ Kool Herc at one time employed a backing band which also drew its name from the show, fictionalized versions of which appear in the Netflix period series The Get Down.
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The Herculoids
The Herculoids is an American Saturday-morning animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, created and designed by Alex Toth. With plotlines rooted in science fiction and fantasy, the show debuted September 9, 1967, on CBS. While Hanna-Barbera produced one season for the initial airing, the original 18 episodes were rerun during the 1968–69 television season. Eleven new episodes were produced in 1981 as part of the Space Stars show.
On the planet Amzot (renamed Quasar in the revival), the space barbarian family Zandor, Tara, and son Dorno fight alongside their giant pets—laser dragon Zok, space rhinoceros Tundro, rock ape Igoo, and the shape-shifting duo Gloop and Gleep—to keep their planet safe from invaders. The Herculoids' pets understood human speech and often displayed various emotions. The Herculoids team battled against many different villains: invading robots, mad scientists, and mutants, including "the Faceless People, Destroyer Ants, Raider Apes, Mutoids, Arnoids, Zorbots, the Mekkano mechanical men and the Ogs, a strange form of vegetable life."
There are eight regular characters who make up the Herculoids:
The three humans were the only ones who could communicate in English.
The five creature characters of The Herculoids are:
After the success of Space Ghost, CBS' head of daytime programming, Fred Silverman, commissioned Hanna-Barbera to develop three new action-adventure series in the same vein for the 1967–68 fall schedule consisting of The Herculoids, Shazzan, and Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor.
After its initial run, The Herculoids was featured in several anthology wheel series produced by Hanna-Barbera including Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure, Space Stars (for which 11 additional episodes were created), Power Zone on Cartoon Network, and both the Cartoon Network and Boomerang incarnations of Super Adventures. The series has also influenced other artists across various media. In common with a number of other action-adventure cartoons from the 1960s, The Herculoids was pulled from reruns in the 1970s due to increased complaints by parents' groups over perceived violence in children's cartoons.
Award-winning video game designer David Crane has stated that he enjoyed the series as a child and that the character of Blobert from the A Boy and His Blob franchise was directly inspired by Gloop and Gleep. Jamaican-American DJ DJ Kool Herc at one time employed a backing band which also drew its name from the show, fictionalized versions of which appear in the Netflix period series The Get Down.