Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 7, 2017 17:23:32 GMT

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Does anyone here have any information on the Hanna Barbera Led Zeppelin cartoon from 1975? I believe it aired on Saturday mornings right after the Grape Ape Show. From what I know about it, each episode was about Led Zeppelin going on wacky adventures, joined by a talking black dog named Gooky, and a song by the group would always be featured. That's all I know about the premise of the show. The Led Zeppelin cartoon came out when Hanna Barbera was just throwing stuff at the wall to see what would stick, and this show probably failed for a number of reasons. First off, kids didn't really know who Led Zeppelin was, so it didn't make sense to have a show about a band that the target audience didn't really know about. Second, the songs were kind of inappropriate at times, and were too long to fit into one episode. Third, and most importantly, I doubt Hanna-Barbera got permission from any of the group's members to make this cartoon. It ran for only a few episodes before its time slot got replaced with the Mumbly Show, another Hanna-Barbera cartoon. After that, the show just disappeared. If anyone happens to have any footage of the show, or even screenshots, please notify me.

Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 7, 2017 19:37:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2017 19:37:35 GMT Oddly enough, though I'm much too young to have been around when this first aired, I find the entire idea of this with Hanna Barbera familiar from somewhere. I'll try to help as best I can.

Yoda Full Member Posts: 148	Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 7, 2017 20:24:07 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Yoda on Dec 7, 2017 20:24:07 GMT Zeppelin had a cartoon? WTF! Making a cartoon about "The Beatles" makes sense, but Zeppelin.

sgtbilby Senior Member Posts: 401	Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 8, 2017 2:36:05 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by sgtbilby on Dec 8, 2017 2:36:05 GMT 1. There's no such thing 2. The only things musician related that H-B did but scrapped on record are a Beach Boys cartoon and a cartoon centred on Michael Jackson's animals

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 8, 2017 4:05:07 GMT

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Dec 8, 2017 2:36:05 GMT sgtbilby said:

1. There's no such thing
2. The only things musician related that H-B did but scrapped on record are a Beach Boys cartoon and a cartoon centred on Michael Jackson's animals

Making cartoons on bands is such a dumb idea. Good thing they scrapped them.

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 8, 2017 12:23:03 GMT via mobile

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Post by Lamb on Dec 8, 2017 12:23:03 GMT

Dec 8, 2017 4:05:07 GMT Yoda said:

Dec 8, 2017 2:36:05 GMT sgtbilby said:

1. There's no such thing
2. The only things musician related that H-B did but scrapped on record are a Beach Boys cartoon and a cartoon centred on Michael Jackson's animals

Making cartoons on bands is such a dumb idea. Good thing they scrapped them.

Aren't they making a Gorillaz cartoon?

afx6010 New Member Posts: 18	Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 8, 2017 12:58:27 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by afx6010 on Dec 8, 2017 12:58:27 GMT hope they're not making a gorillaz cartoon. lore was 100% ruined with humanz, and also the music they made.

Yoda Full Member Posts: 148	Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 8, 2017 17:54:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Yoda on Dec 8, 2017 17:54:17 GMT Question for OP: Where the hell did you hear about this anyway? I'm really curious.

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 8, 2017 21:35:19 GMT

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Dec 8, 2017 17:54:17 GMT Yoda said:

Question for OP: Where the hell did you hear about this anyway? I'm really curious.

My mom told me she used to watch it on TV before it mysteriously disappeared. Someone on YouTube was also talking about it as well.

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 8, 2017 21:37:08 GMT

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Dec 8, 2017 2:36:05 GMT sgtbilby said:

1. There's no such thing
2. The only things musician related that H-B did but scrapped on record are a Beach Boys cartoon and a cartoon centred on Michael Jackson's animals

How do you know that there's "No such thing"? Just because it's not on Wikipedia doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 9, 2017 18:45:17 GMT

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Dec 8, 2017 21:37:08 GMT hedabla99 said:

Dec 8, 2017 2:36:05 GMT sgtbilby said:

1. There's no such thing
2. The only things musician related that H-B did but scrapped on record are a Beach Boys cartoon and a cartoon centred on Michael Jackson's animals

How do you know that there's "No such thing"? Just because it's not on Wikipedia doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

I urge you to ask any cartoon expert and you'll see that they will tell you that there's no Led Zeppelin cartoon

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 9, 2017 21:25:24 GMT via mobile

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Post by Terry the Cat on Dec 9, 2017 21:25:24 GMT

Dec 9, 2017 18:45:17 GMT sgtbilby said:

Dec 8, 2017 21:37:08 GMT hedabla99 said:

How do you know that there's "No such thing"? Just because it's not on Wikipedia doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

I urge you to ask any cartoon expert and you'll see that they will tell you that there's no Led Zeppelin cartoon

They would also tell you Clock Man doesn't exist or (prior to two years ago) that Rapsittie didn't exist. But that's a different story.

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 10, 2017 0:27:16 GMT

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Dec 9, 2017 21:25:24 GMT Terry the Cat said:

Dec 9, 2017 18:45:17 GMT sgtbilby said:

I urge you to ask any cartoon expert and you'll see that they will tell you that there's no Led Zeppelin cartoon

They would also tell you Clock Man doesn't exist or (prior to two years ago) that Rapsittie didn't exist. But that's a different story.

Yes but at least with Clock Man or Rapsittie there were other fourm posts [Clockman, A fourm post from 2004 was found about it, and Rapsittie Street Kids, various fourm posts from its original airing in 2002] There are literally no other reports of this online, and Led Zeppelin was not the type of band Hannah-Barbara would make a cartoon of.

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 10, 2017 1:22:32 GMT via mobile

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Post by Terry the Cat on Dec 10, 2017 1:22:32 GMT

Dec 10, 2017 0:27:16 GMT Notelu said:

Dec 9, 2017 21:25:24 GMT Terry the Cat said:

They would also tell you Clock Man doesn't exist or (prior to two years ago) that Rapsittie didn't exist. But that's a different story.

Yes but at least with Clock Man or Rapsittie there were other fourm posts [Clockman, A fourm post from 2004 was found about it, and Rapsittie Street Kids, various fourm posts from its original airing in 2002] There are literally no other reports of this online, and Led Zeppelin was not the type of band Hannah-Barbara would make a cartoon of.

All that is true. Like I said, those are different. This reminds me of something like the Warm Scarf-Capade, where someone must have misinterpreted some information somewhere.

The point I'm trying to make is that, sometimes, the experts get it wrong. I used to think I was one.

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Hanna-Barbera's Led Zeppelin Cartoon Dec 10, 2017 3:44:09 GMT

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Post by hedabla99 on Dec 10, 2017 3:44:09 GMT

Dec 10, 2017 0:27:16 GMT Notelu said:

Dec 9, 2017 21:25:24 GMT Terry the Cat said:

They would also tell you Clock Man doesn't exist or (prior to two years ago) that Rapsittie didn't exist. But that's a different story.

Yes but at least with Clock Man or Rapsittie there were other fourm posts [Clockman, A fourm post from 2004 was found about it, and Rapsittie Street Kids, various fourm posts from its original airing in 2002] There are literally no other reports of this online, and Led Zeppelin was not the type of band Hannah-Barbara would make a cartoon of.

Like I said earlier, my mom remembers seeing it on TV when she was a girl. By 1975, Hanna-Barbera was REALLY desperate on ideas for new shows to fill the Saturday Morning programming block. They even went to the point of ripping off their own shows, like Scooby Doo and the Flintstones. So basically they were throwing stuff at the wall to see if it would stick. Considering they made cartoons about Charlie's Angels and the Partridge family, and due to the fact that there had already been cartoon series about the Beatles, the Osmonds and the Jackson Five, making a Led Zeppelin cartoon would make sense given the other cartoons of the time. There could have also been online discussions about the cartoon in the past, but the threads may have been deleted or the domains have expired.

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