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29-450: Reruns of the show ran during the 1972 season and, briefly, in 1980, as part of Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla series. Trying to find shelter from a storm while driving their "Looney Duney" dune buggy , three teenagers — brainy redhead Skip Gilroy, beautiful blonde April Stewart, and Skip's brawny dark-haired best friend, Augie Anderson — and his dog Elmo, entered an old house where a grandfather clock displayed an incorrect time. Upon setting

58-429: A comic foil role in the show. Godzooky can clumsily attempt to fly using the small wings under his arms. Whenever Godzooky tries to breathe fire, he usually just coughs up smoke rings. The group often call upon Godzilla by using a special signaller when in danger, such as attacks by other giant monsters. Also, Godzooky can roar to summon Godzilla. Godzilla's size in the animated series shifts radically, sometimes within

87-614: A brief time on Saturday mornings between 2015 and 2016. The first 13 episodes from the first season were released on DVD, in three separate volumes titled Godzilla: The Original Animated Series . Volume 1 contains the first four episodes, Volume 2 contains the next four and Volume 3 contains the last five. As of November 9, 2011, all episodes from the first season became available for streaming on Netflix and Hulu . The second-season episodes of Godzilla have never been officially released on any home media format. On August 9, 2021, Toho on their official Godzilla YouTube channel has released

116-504: A certain similarity to the 1946 Abbott and Costello film The Time of Their Lives , in which two Revolutionary War-era ghosts are also held earth-bound due to a secret hidden in a clock. The character voice of Mudsy was provided by Daws Butler and was identical to his voice work for Snagglepuss , down to the use of Snagglepuss's catchphrase, "...even". Butler's Snagglepuss voice was originally an impersonation of comedian Bert Lahr . Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in

145-408: A mask (like Scooby-Doo ), in some of the original comic stories, the villains would often turn out to be other ghosts from on or around the colonial era (the show never addressed why it seemed that there were no other ghosts besides Mudsy and Boo). The comics even did a twist on the series when the gang traveled back to colonial times via an erratic time machine, only to find out that the kids are now

174-445: A single episode or even a single scene. For instance, Godzilla's claws can wrap around a large ship, and only minutes later the team of scientists fit rather neatly on Godzilla's palm. In addition, Godzilla's trademark atomic breath is altered so he breathes simple fire. He can also shoot laser beams from his eyes much like Superman 's heat vision. Toho Studios had considered adapting Godzilla for American TV animation as far back as

203-651: A while. I liked the monster thing, and the way it looked, and I thought we could do a lot with it. So I contacted Hank Saperstein , who was a very good friend and we got talking about it. Then there was an executive at the network who wanted to get into the act, and urged us to lighten the storyline up. So, I came up with the character Godzooky, who was like his son. The show had a sort of father-son relationship, which we had done before on shows like Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy and Jonny Quest ." Doug Wildey , creator of Jonny Quest , came on board as producer. DePatie–Freleng Enterprises had initially been slated to produce

232-503: Is also available in Digital media format at iTunes Store for Apple . In the 1970s, comic books of The Funky Phantom were released by Western Publishing and Gold Key Comics . The comics were both original stories as well as adaptations of some of the TV episodes. The stories in the comics, however, took a different turn from the TV episodes. While on the show, the "ghost" was always a villain in

261-460: Is essentially a female version of Tarzan who traveled to the rain forests of South America in search of her lost father. Her father vanished in a boating accident when she was still a child, but the introduction shows that he survived. She is very beautiful, has long blonde hair, wears a dress made of animal skin and a necklace which doubles as a throwable weapon and makes a high-pitched resonating sound when thrown, given to her by her father before

290-440: Is one of the very few Hanna-Barbera series that has yet to be seen on either Cartoon Network or Boomerang ; however, one of the episodes, "The Cordillera Volcano", was available for a limited time on WB's Hanna-Barbera online stream. In January 2007, Dynamite Entertainment launched a comic book, with plot by Frank Cho and script by Doug Murray , called Jungle Girl , featuring a blond female character called Jana. She

319-807: The Godzilla series while Hanna-Barbera was to produce The New Fantastic Four , but when DePatie–Freleng acquired the rights to the Fantastic Four NBC brokered a deal between the studios wherein DePatie–Freleng would produce The New Fantastic Four while Hanna-Barbera would produce Godzilla . Barbera said that he wanted the series to be more-or-less a straight adaptation of the movie series, but, "When they start telling you in Standards and Practices , 'Don't shoot any flame at anybody, don't step on any buildings or cars,' then pretty soon, they've taken away all

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348-542: The retronym of Godzilla: The Original Animated Series for its DVD release. The series follows the adventures of a team of scientists on the Calico , a hydrofoil research vessel, headed by Captain Carl Majors. The rest of the crew include scientist Dr. Quinn Darien, her nephew Pete Darien and her research assistant Brock Borden. Also along for the ride is Godzooky, the "cowardly nephew" of Godzilla and Pete's best friend, in

377-492: The 1970s, the show contained a studio-created laugh track , and indeed, it was one of the first such productions to do so. Syndicated versions, on Cartoon Network and Boomerang have the track muted. On October 26, 2010, Warner Archive released The Funky Phantom: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection . This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com. The series

406-485: The Jungle was originally broadcast in these following formats on NBC : A total of 13 original episodes of Jana of the Jungle were produced in 1978, with the first eight broadcast as part of the second half of The Godzilla Power Hour from September 9 to October 28. In November 1978, when The Godzilla Power Hour was expanded to 90 minutes (with the addition of Jonny Quest reruns) and re-titled The Godzilla Super 90 ,

435-651: The Phantom appeared in a backup story in the DC comic Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey Special #1; in this story, Jason Blood conjures Muddlemore's ghost so that some reporters and citizens can ask Mudsy what he thinks about the Second Amendment . Godzilla (1978 TV series) Godzilla is an American animated monster television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Henry G. Saperstein . The series premiered on NBC on September 9, 1978 with

464-645: The Thing . Two months later, episodes of Godzilla and The Super Globetrotters were packaged together as The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour which ran until September 20, 1980. On September 27, 1980, after 26 half-hour episodes, the show went into reruns and Godzilla was once again teamed up with other Hanna-Barbera characters: the first was The Godzilla/ Dynomutt Hour (also appearing in this series were reruns of 1971's The Funky Phantom ), which ran until November 15, 1980, followed by The Godzilla/ Hong Kong Phooey Hour which ran until May 16, 1981. On May 23,

493-467: The addition of Jonny Quest reruns and retitled The Godzilla Super 90 . Split off into its own half-hour, the show aired in its own half-hour timeslot as simply Godzilla on September 8, 1979, and then as The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour on November 10, 1979, before another repackaging as The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour on September 27, 1980, and then The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour until its cancellation on May 16, 1981. The series acquired

522-427: The boating accident. She also has a yell that is a slightly altered version of Tarzan’s which she uses to call many types of animals. Besides her animal friends (Ghost, a sleek white jaguar and Tico, a pesky water opossum ), Jana has two human friends: Dr. Ben Cooper (voiced by Michael Bell , who would also work with B.J. Ward on various other animated series in later years), a young wildlife biologist who maintained

551-600: The clock to midnight, it released two Revolutionary War -era ghosts: an American patriot named Jonathan Wellington Muddlemore, whom the kids call "Mudsy", and his cat Boo. The two explained that, during the Revolutionary War, they had stumbled upon two Redcoats so they hid inside the clock. They evaded discovery, but they were unable to get out of the clock and eventually died inside. After being freed by their new friends, Mudsy and Boo have accompanied them on many mysteries, providing invisible assistance. This set-up shows

580-537: The entire series in a set of three parts per episode. Jana of the Jungle Jana of the Jungle is an American animated television series created by comic strip artist Doug Wildey and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC from September 9 to December 2, 1978. It was originally broadcast as a half-hour segment of The Godzilla Power Hour (1978) and its later expanded form The Godzilla Super 90 (1978–79). Jana (voiced by B.J. Ward )

609-442: The first eight airing as part of The Godzilla Power Hour . On November 4, 1978, the show was expanded to 90 minutes with the addition of Jonny Quest reruns and retitled The Godzilla Super 90 . For the second season beginning on September 15, 1979, the show was separated from its package programs and aired in its own half-hour timeslot as simply Godzilla . The original plan was to keep it as part of another 90-minute arc, only it

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638-552: The five remaining episodes of Jana of the Jungle continued on this new format until December 2. The Jana character also made a cameo appearance piloting a rocket-car in an episode of Yogi's Space Race in 1978. Jana of the Jungle officially resurfaced in January 1984 (preview on December 18, 1983) as part of USA Cartoon Express . The show has not been aired on American television since at least 1994, when its five-year association with The Program Exchange came to an end. This

667-415: The ghosts (the machine could only transport spiritual matter) and Mudsy is once more inside his original flesh-and-blood body. Also, the comics introduced a new regular character who never appeared in the show. Priscilla Atwater, a ghostly matron from Mudsy's time, who lusted after Mudsy and pursued him actively, although she tended to flirt with just about any other ghost who happened to come along. In 2018,

696-455: The late 1960s when they entered negotiations with Filmation for an animated series based on the property that was intended for air during the 1969-70 television season, however the deal ultimately collapsed. In regard to the origin of the series, Joseph Barbera came up with the idea of licensing Godzilla. He explained in a 1990s interview, "My job back then was to dig up new characters, new ideas, new shows, and I had wanted to do Godzilla for

725-500: The preserve started by Jana's father and helped in her continuing search for her father; and Montaro (voiced by Ted Cassidy ), a descendant of a lost warrior tribe armed with a supernatural weapon known as the Staff of Power that can cause earthquake shockwaves when it strikes the ground. Montaro rescued Jana from the boating accident in which her father disappeared. These are some of the jungle animals Jana called to, many for help: Jana of

754-460: The show returned to the half-hour format as Godzilla and the last regular showing aired on September 5, 1981 (to be replaced by The Smurfs , which would last three times as long as Godzilla did). Throughout the 1980s until the late 1990s, the series rested in limbo (with the exception of a limited VHS videocassette release of two episodes). Since 1993, it has been rebroadcast on TNT , Cartoon Network and Boomerang , as well as on Retro TV for

783-457: The stuff he represents. That became the problem, to maintain a feeling of Godzilla and at the same time cut down everything that he did. We managed to get a fair show out of it. It was OK. Godzooky kind of got the kids going." Godzilla originally aired in these following formats on NBC : The Godzilla Power Hour consisted of half-hour episodes of Godzilla and Jana of the Jungle . A total of 13 original episodes were produced in 1978, with

812-412: The title The Godzilla Power Hour . The series continued to air until 1981, packaged with other series under various titles. The Godzilla Power Hour consisted of half-hour episodes of Godzilla and Jana of the Jungle . A total of 13 original episodes were produced in 1978, with the first eight airing as part of The Godzilla Power Hour . On November 4, 1978, the show was expanded to 90 minutes with

841-468: Was to be paired up with episodes of The New Shmoo and The Thing . The planned title was Godzilla Meets the Shmoo and The Thing . However, these plans dissolved and the show was simply aired on its own in its own half-hour timeslot. Hanna-Barbera would pair episodes of The New Fred and Barney Show with the Shmoo and the Thing instead as both Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo and Fred and Barney Meet

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