12 Insanely Underrated 80s Cartoons That Ended Too Soon!
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- The 80s was a sacred decade for cartoon enthusiasts. Kids growing up in that era would eagerly wait for the Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons for some of the best cartoon shows ever created. These shows shaped an entire generation and are terribly dear to the fans even after all these years.
In this video, we will take you for a heavy dose of nostalgia as we bring you some of the lost gems from that era. The following cartoons are criminally underrated and ended sooner than they should have. They might not have been on for very long, but they did provide some of the best memories of our childhood. Enjoy a slice of the golden history of cartoons!
0:00 Intro
1:23 M.A.S.K. (1985-1986)
3:09 Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (1987)
5:09 Rambo (1986)
7:14 Robocop (1988)
8:49 Silverhawks (1986)
10:32 Dungeons & Dragons (1983)
12:13 Ulysses 31 (1981)
14:00 Thundarr the Barbarian (1980)
15:51 Dino-Riders (1988)
17:43 InHumanoids (1986)
19:23 Sectaurs (1985) - Розваги
Dungeon and Dragons hurt the most. This was hands down one of the best cartoons in the 80's.
Both me and my sister loved watching it on Saturday mornings. I ended up buying the complete dvd collection a while back but I still wanna bluray release of it.🙂
Yeah I was so upset as a kid, they never got a chance to go home!
It was shame we didn't get a ending or few more seasons hope someone picks it up for a movie franchise
Definitely deserves a movie. There is an unofficial ending floating around on UA-cam based on the actual final script apparently.
@@hiroooooooo4656 here’s the link to the episode based on that script. ua-cam.com/video/m1_6SeRRflo/v-deo.html
SilverHawks, Go Bots, GI Joe, Thundercats, Battle of the Planets, Voltron, He-Man, Transformers, Thunder the Barbarian and Rambo, and BraveStarr.. these were and are some of my favorite cartoons
Always liked braveStarr
Don't forget Robotech!
Blackstarr.. Starblazers
Voltron was easily one of the greatest cartoons of all time
You named most of my favorites!
Dungeons and dragons did have an ending but it was in comic book and audio form. It turns out that the dungeon master actually brought those kids to that world of dungeons and dragons, and when he was giving them ways to escape in riddles and they failed escaping it was actually his plan that they didn't escape. He needed them there in order to rescue his son who turned out to be venger... Which was a surprise to me, but in the end the dungeon master got his son back (venger looked totally different when he was no longer venger) and he sent the children home. It was a very moving and sweet, exciting ending.
When I was a kid, I was very lucky to have watched great cartoons like Thundercats, Bionic Six, The Mighty Orbots, Jonny Quest, Pirates of Dark Water, Robotech, Speed Racer, Battle of the Planets, He Man, TMNT, The Herculoids, Young Samson and many more over the years when saturday morning cartoons ruled the earth.
yes yes and YES. Robotech , TMNT, Thundercats were AMAZING. i can still remember missing the episode when rick hunter gets injured...like in my mind i can still remember the gravity of it. LoL
Thundercats was so good because 3rd Earth was so weird and diverse.
YALL FORGOT STREET SHARKS THAT WAS A CLASSIC
Robotech is what caused my addiction to anime xD
Yep Pirates of Dark Water was a lot of fun, I wish it had a proper ending though
Mighty Orbots
Damn straight. When Dungeons and Dragons got cancelled before the kids found thier way home, I was seriously P.O.ed!
There is a final episode. An officially written, but never produced and thusly was fan-made. Dungeons and Dragons: Requiem; here on YT!
I don’t think Josie and the pussycats in outer space got home either, as well as the animated cast of happy days
Thought there was an episode where some got home, but decided to return so they could bring everyone home.
YES !!!
Yup
I know now we have several cable channels and streaming services that provide animated shows, but I feel that the Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons of the 80s and 90s provided so much more.
right, we had some wild and wacky commercials and segments that fit in between toons, at least we have ways to still watch cartoons, but those who grew up on Saturday mornings, there just is no replicating that feeling.
@@UltimateGamerCC School House Rocks was so fun!
Hurry off the bus just to catch cartoons
@@coreywuertz715 i was homeschooled, so i didnt have to worry about that. XD
@@shallendor it wasnt bad, i was willing to watch it in between shows.
Ulysses may be gone but not forgotten, 40 years later and I can still remember all the words to the intro song, it was a show that truly captured my young imagination.
Same
Finally someone acknowledged cartoons aired on weekday afternoons and not just Saturday mornings.
Yes to Dungeons and Dragons, underrated gem.
I loved it growing up it was my favourite
Yes it was.
Yes, I even wish I had learned to play the board game of Dungeons and Dragons while I was still a kid.
A lot of people don't even know their living in the dungeons and dragons cartoon!!!!
Ahead of it's time
Shout out to Peter Cullen who voiced a character in almost every series on the list. The man voiced my childhood.
Optimus Prime
@@kaliburgos6055 Koran, Voltron, lion force.
Frank Welker and Chris Latta(RIP) Are also part of this
Don’t forget Mel blanc as well as Jack angel and later on, Cree summer
@@yell0wberry Jim Cummings, too.
Dungeons and dragons has got to be my favorite cartoon of all time! So good!
The Silverhawks theme song goes way harder than it needs to. I loved that show when i was a kid
I'm still hoping they do a movie
Had to buy it on DVD for my collection 😁
Dungeon and Dragons by far my favorite on this list. The music, the story line just epic.
I didn't even think it should make the list, it was dreadfully awful.
Did it not drive you insane watching the same episodes over and over again?
here... the final episode of D&D, obviously a fan animation, but following the original script.
Truly a spectacular creation.
It really feels like it's original.
Enjoy
ua-cam.com/video/m1_6SeRRflo/v-deo.html
@@YoshioAtelier not bad for a fan made and it does a good job of finishing the story
@@wadewilson5712 finally we can get that closure that we were craving since childhood 😅
I’m so glad I was born in the 70’s and grew up in the 80’s to witness some cool cartoons and 80’s horror!. I feel for my teen sons generation, they will never know!!.
Same here, even though I have no children.
I was born in 81. I remember these. I'm right there with you.
@@christinaflibotte6446 I was born in 1974.
@@christinaflibotte6446 I was born in 83; remember most of this^^
Even though I was born in 1981 I was still able to be exposed to all the great cartoons of the 80s. My personal favorites that I grew up watching were Voltron, The Real Ghostbusters, Bionic Six, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, The Inhumanoids, Defenders of the Earth, and the Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. Those were the cartoons that really spoke to me. My second favorite tier of cartoons that I liked were MASK, Bravestar, the Centurions, Cops, and Thundercats. Even though I loved Transformer toys and I owned quite a bunch of them, I didn’t care for the cartoon all that much. I also really liked the Gobot toy line but I also didn’t care for that cartoon either. When I look back at the 80s, I think of the best cartoon shows and the best toys that had a whole lot of play value. For anyone who was a child in the 80s we know that we experienced the coolest stuff and we got to live and play in a much simpler time that was also much more fun and relaxed unlike nowadays.
How did Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors not end up on this list. That show was way before its time. Sadly it had to compete against some of the truly great 80's cartoons so it got overlooked and forgotten. Lordy do i miss the 80's. Plopping down in front of the TV on Saturday mornings with a big bowl of cereal and just watching my favorite cartoons for hours. Or racing home from school to just barely make it in time for the afternoon cartoon block to start. And MTV played nothing but music videos lol. Good times man good times indeed.
You and me both! The 80's were the BEST decade!
I remember jayce and the wheel warriors but couldn't remember the name. Thanks
MASK is one of my favorite cartoons and toy lines of all time. I also loved Silverhawks, Thundar, and D&D. We had such great cartoons back then!
To be born in the mid 70s and be a kid in the 80s was great! No Cyber Bullying and the Best cartoons ever made! Who agrees?
soft
Bullies back then beat the shit out of you. Atleast with cyberbullying it's just words!!!
@@MrBigwhite20 True, but there were no nihilist black pilled school shooters then. Ass whoopin is survivable. Words stick longer.
Just bullies irl 😂
No cyberbullies, just regular old real life bullies being complete assholes
Dungeons and Dragons cartoon made a huge success in Brazil, recently there was a brazilian commercial where they did a live action version of the cartoon (the kids went back to home this time hehehe)
I saw that commercial, and so loved it. The casting was so perfect!
I've seen that commercial very well made ^_^ Then again there is that radio drama on youtube,for what would have been the d&d cartoon final episode.
They actually posted the last one where they went home. Look up requiem.
@@Progearspec If you look up Requiem fan made, someone illustrated to the radio show recording that was written by the original writer of the show. It was a awesome ending and gave closure 35 years after the show went off air.
i have the dvd set and in the extras they do a reading of the final script for when the they defeat venger and get home.
M.A.S.K was flooded my memories with good vibes.
D&D and Thundar were my favorites! Never missed an episode as a kid. Times were so much better back then.
Dungeons and Dragons is the only cartoon that every episode made you think one of the main characters might actually get killed.
Maybe so, but I found Ulysses 31 much more bleak and depressing than Dungeons & Dragons. Dungeons & Dragons inspired me to play the game of the same name. 😀
Ever heard of robotech?
@@SimonAshworthWood I didn't even remember Ulysses 31 until you replied to my comment. When I looked it up on youtube I still didn't remember it until the theme song played and remarkably...I still remembered the song. I can't really comment on it except to say that I barely remember it...but I could never forget Dungeons and Dragons. I guess it's safe to say that for me one show left way more of an impression than the other.
@@fanboy98 I definitely remember Robotech. It was one of my favorites. Who didn't like Robotech? It was up there with Transformers and Voltron as one of the all time greatest. But I think watching Robotech...even as a kid it felt like a show for adults. I didn't really look at is as a cartoon like Transformers or Voltron. Even though those cartoons were smarter than most cartoons...they were still meant for kids. Robotech was on a different level. And yes...if I remember right whole squadrons use to get blown away every episode. But I never really believed that any of the main characters were going to die. If I remember right...it was kinda like Star Trek always killing the random guy on a mission...all the other ships that went out on a mission would get blown up on Robotech...but somehow the main characters always make it through. But it's been years since I've seen Robotech.
@@fanboy98 .....watching people getting killed every episode...that was a hot cartoon
the 70's and 80's were a special time for animation indeed. The times waking up for school and watching a little bit of cartoons, then racing home to watch the afternoon block of toons. Saturday mornings were really special. New shows would be on all the time. Sunday mornings were a hidden gem. And when you got the random Garfield and Charlie brown specials at night. I actually feel bad for kids that never got to experience that.
Hey what was so special about Sunday? I came up in the 70s and Sunday only had Davey and Goliath, a clay-mation show made by the Lutheran church! In my city it was all religious shows until 11:00 when football came on. No cartoons at all.😕
@@josebrown5961 i guess it depends where you were in the country. On the west coast, there was bionic six, marvel action hour, galtar and the golden lance, and even, for a very short time, dragon quest. There were multiple cartoons peppered on different channels on sunday mornings. Most would be over by 10 or 11 in the morning. Usually would start around 7 or 8. It really varied, and was super random at times. One of the great things i loved about growing up in the 80s for sure. One of the best things was superbook also!
Being a midwestern Bible Belt kid cost me cartoons on Sunday 😕 Thanks for letting me know.
@@josebrown5961 Sundays had the inhumanidoids. Which was an incredible cartoon. It only had like 13 episodes. It was pretty dark also.
Only lame cartoons came on Sundays in chicago. They pretty much killed all cartoons around year 2000. Network TV really sucks ass hard now
Visionaries was a massive favourite of mine growing up. I was so sad when it wasn't giving a season 2, it had so much potential. Maybe a movie of this would work, the mix of tech and magic was cool and with today's CGI, it could be made to look very convincing.
Yeah such a shame was a classic series I had quite a few of the action figures wish I had kept in boxes now
Pound puppies also ended too soon too.
I wouldn't mention this idea outside of the chat, new cartoons are aight but way too woke and inclusive of issues we suffer today
Visionaries is the one, although the series started damn amazing in the first few episodes but started to even fade during the first season.
A few other notable mentions from my childhood:
- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
- Defenders of the Earth
- Centurions
- Flash Gordon
- Around the World in 80 days
Maybe some edged out of 80’s into 90’s?
The above and the Visionaries series were epic!
My all time faves were Silver Hawks and D&D. I cried when they got cancelled.
THUNDAR THE BARBARIAN
Ore bots 😞
Silver Hawks and Thundercats were my favs. SH had the all time BEST music intro of ALL TIME! But I have to admit, the storyline got lazy in the final episodes.
@@genlaz1 It was Mighty Orbots,... and I miss that one too.
@@darrenbent7601 yea. After I searched for it I found that out. Wasn't even 10 when it was on tv. Lots younger. Just remembered part of the hook but I watched it religiously. Kinda sad most of the shows we used to watch were only on tv to sell toys. Thanks for the reply though. Kinda odd it hasn't been remade yet. Can't imagine the IP costing a great deal.
A good chunk of the 80s cartoons were basically extended toy marketing campaigns lol. That probably helped contribute to the overall success of this golden era of cartoons. Saturday morning was the best. And then, after lunch we all went outside to play >'insert favourite show with appropriate toys'< with our friends.
That actually goes for cartoons going back to when they jumped off the movie screen onto television in the late 40s - on. All were selling something (ads, toys, cereal, other than just being entertainment for children.
Visionaries was awesome. I had them on VHS and loved watching them back to back. I vaguely remember an action figure with a hologram on it’s chest too.
It had a comic book to
Many years ago I walked into a comic book store in NYC and they had all the Thundar shows on dvd which I have to this day. It was underrated and I still love watching them to this day. Every morning before school and Saturdays in the late 70s, but especially the early 80s was amazing for animation.
Thundarr the Barbarian is a true one-of-a-kind classic.
Totally agree. It had everything! Post-apocalypse, super science, sorcery, barbarians, sword fights, creatures, etc.
Best cartoon ever
It would be an awesome video game
@@ralphpal and now its on bluray
I agree
I wont forget dungeons and dragons in my whole lifetime.. So many emotions and memories attached to it from my childhood.
Fox kids ?
@@abc_cba CBS saturday mornings
Nikhil Sawhney What's your favorite episode? "The Dragon's Graveyard" where the kids almost kill Venger is a superior piece of children's TV.
Dungeons And Dragons was the bomb!!! My whole family would watch it every Saturday morning!! We felt so let down when they canceled it!!!
M.A.S.K. was later retconned as being a secret part of G.I.Joe. Matt Trakker is listed on Joepedia as Specialist Trakker, and Mayhem was a former member of Joe Colton (the original JOE) who went rouge and joined Cobra with his own secret division.
VISIONARIES was so good.
And it had a consistent story line for all 13 episodes.
One of the few shows that still holds up as an adult. Great show.
The toys killed it, because all the hologram stuff was too expensive to keep producing. But yeah, it was a great show. "I know the magic! I *control* the magic. I AM THE MAGIC!!"
The arrow turn, the sword repel, let nothing pierce this mortal shell.
@@sklim4081 my favorite... "By natures hand by craft by art, what once was one now fly apart!"
@@mcflyguy8873 ah yes the good old destruction.
I used to love watching Ulysses 31, what an amazing show and awesome intro! 👍👍
Silverhawks, Ulysses, Visionaries, MASK, D&D were some of my favourites as a child.
I had some episodes on VHS
I remember being a kid and on Saturday Morning I would watch all of these cartoons from 7am-1pm. Good ol days I tell you.. BTW Bionic Six always deserved a movie.
Almost the only 80's property that is ready for this new world of diversity and strong female characters without a need to bend or blend the material.
That show was indeed ahead of it's time and does deserve a live action adaptation.
Well done.
Great show! 👍
10:34 The Dungeons and Dragons cartoon was a HUGE hit here in Brazil, at the time most of people didn't know the table RPG, but every 80's child saw the cartoon.
I had a friend from Brazil, and yeah she watched it as a kid and said the dungeon master character was the devil in the Brazil version....I was pretty surprised to find out she knew the series...she also taught me "tudo bem".
@@JasonChapmanwoofdog dungeon master character being the devil in Brazilian version is not accurate, this was just an urban legend that only die hard fans of the show would "know". Back in the day with no internet and zero access to information everything was a mistery and eventually some fake stories would build up in the underground somehow.
The story was just like you know in the us, but tudo bem.
And I might be wrong but I think the show was a hit worldwide...
Yes, dungeons and dragons was huge hit back in the 90s and 80s in Brazil.
Dungeons & Dragons was one of my all-time favorites. Extremely underrated
The last episode may have been cancelled, but we can still see what it would've been like on UA-cam.
Mine too. It was good.
The only thing I didn't like about it was that it was the last cartoon of the day on Saturdays. Other than that it was great.
It made me start playing D&D in 1992.
@@PozerAdultRacingTeam Lucky you, I never even knew the cartoon of D&D was based on the board game at that time. I wish I did know it sooner, then I would've wanted to learn how to play it.
Absolutely. Had my Saturday planned out from 8:30 AM to 1 PM, I was watching cartoons. Dungeons and Dragons, Thundar the Barbarian, uhhh.. that guy who had half a sword and the bad guy had the other half… and of course the mainstream stuff like Transformers before they went to week days. What a time to be a kid.
How visionaries only got 1 season is a crime against humanity. What a tv show. For it’s time the animation was impressive
the 80´s had a lot of excellent cartoons, I liked a lot also "Pole Position", "Jayce and Wheeled Warriors", "Defenders of the Earth", "The Gobots",
Wheeled Warriors was a toy promo but it was so much fun!
@@matthewmagda4971 lol the first 'Transformers' movie was the biggest, longest, and most expensive, toy commerical of all time.
Gobots were a cheap ripoff of the Transformers
@@matthewmagda4971 And had one of the best opening themes for a cartoon
Turbo teen and Danger mouse, Land of the lost, Herculoids, Dragons lair and "V" (the reptilians in human skin)
Siilverhawks was one of my favorites cartoons ever. Did not know it was underrated. What a shame. Great cartoon.
I am delighted that you included Visionaries on this report, but a significant one that you (and it seems a great many people) forgot was SPIRAL ZONE! Intelligent concept, excellent characterization, solid and impressive writing and action, and a very decent toy line.
I really want to believe the narrator is into these cartoons too.
Thanks for the memories!
It's an AI Reading a script
I’m 45 and loved all these toons!! ..and still live within that reality. Creative thought can go many directions.. best to follow them all. Growing up through 80s was amazing!! So much creativity.
I'm 48 so do i
Costco Guac?
Same 45 in 2022. The song that stucked in my head since is...
" Earth’s most powerful solider, the Earth's last chance to fight the Spiral Zone"
I'm 48 and I'm convinced the world sucks now. We have been in a downwards spiral since the 90s. They don't even show cartoons anymore for the last 20 years or so
"and still live within that reality" lol couldnt have said it better myself , great times
Absolutely loved visionaries! Defenders of the earth, raccoons, mask, turtles, he-man, jayce and the wheeled warriors, thundercats, silverhawks
"A whim, a thought, and more is sought. Awake my mind; thy will be wrought!"
@@sklim4081love this ❤
I can't believe most of these only lasted a single season. I remember them as a much bigger part of my childhood than that. I had most of the toys. Great memories.
What a delightful trip down memory lane thank you. And you got an immediate like because you started off with my favorite cartoon as a kid. I even remember having many of these toys.
THE CENTURIONS was very underrated also.
I rate Centurions up there with Transformers, Robotech, M.A.S.K., Battle of the Planets and Starblazers.
@@Magpieboy1 MASK toys were the thing back then. i have one too
You damn straight. :D
Power extreme
@@Magpieboy1 after Star Blazers came Force Five where I lived. I loved those cartoons as well. It was 5 different series under one title.
You know this was gonna be good when M.A.S.K. and Visionaries are the first two out of the gate. Nice to see Silverhawks and Dino-Riders getting some love too. I would have added Central Organization of Police Specialists (1988-'89) to the list.
Lol miss demeanor … I always thought missy got her name from Cops
The dialogue and animation on Visionaries was *chef's kiss*
Thanks for the trip down memory lane Do miss the afternoons & Saturday morning cartoons.
I own Silverhawks on DVD, I loved how they correlate Thundercats into the series and made it the same Universe.
I actually just bought that a week or so ago. I watched it decades ago on tv and have been buying shows and movies for nostalgia. Silverhawks is in my watch queue and now I'm gonna have to watch for the correlation with Thundercats when I get to it. Thanks 👍
How did they correlate it.
@@marcuscarr123 Its been a internet discussion since the invention of the internet lol Thundercats, Silverhawks, and Tigersharks are they in the same universe lol. The similarities are endless and I believe the creators did a great job of creating a culture where to our imagination depending on the person can make that assumption. But the argument will always be that they themselves did not say yes, also they did not say no either.
G.i. Joe, Inhumanoids, Jem & Transformers are linked due to the fact that all the original cartoon series had the same reporter character Hector Ramirez played by the same voice in all of them.
@@d9daprogrammer I don't know about the original series, but remake of Thundercats showed a Cameo of TigerSharks.
WOOOOOOOOO!!!! AFTERSCHOOL AND SATURDAY MORNINGS!!!! THIS WAS LIFE!!!!! SILVERHAWKS, THUNDERCATS, THUNDAR THE BARBARIAN, THE HERCULOIDS, BATTLE OF THE PLANETS, STAR BLAZERS, GARGOYLES, GOBOTS, SPAAAAACE GHOOOOST!! Man, I can go on forever. I grew up in this era and I will proudly say that I still dig around for these classics and when I find them...Im im heaven!!! Thanks for this ultimate flashback, guys!!!!😁😁😁
Same here I do it now
Oh yes, oh yes…..
You cant forget Tranzor Z
The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
Great piece! Great memories. Nostalgia, every thing a kid should see. Dino Riders was one of my favs...
Thank you for putting this together you brought back a lot of childhood memories for me anybody watching this knows what it was like to get up early with a big bowl of cereal and camp out in front of the TV
It was nice being a kid in the 80's and 90s, after school and Saturday morning cartoons were a big part of that. My favorites were Bravestarr and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors was the best.
Oh, my God, nobody where I’m at remembers Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors!!
@Philip Bolin I couldn’t agree more!
I always remember the evil enemy plant-type guys had circular saws for limbs…..quite traumatizing for a six year old. Awesome cartoon which I always looked out for
Sarah Jane!
Easily the best time for cartoons!!! I’m now 45 and I still try to find those oldies to remember my childhood
I'm always surprised how few people remember SilverHawks! Probably my most favorite childhood cartoon, along with GoBots, ThunderCats, and G.I. Joe!
Where I lived, SilverHawks came on right after Thundercats and G-Force right after Star Blazers.❤
I bought Silver Hawks this past year and I can't believe I never noticed how similar the song is with that of Thundercats
i know it wasnt the 80's but ExoSquad is one the best animated things i ever watched. the storytelling and characters are incredible. that it didnt get a 3rd season and ended on a cliffhanger will always haunt me.
I was going to add this but figured I'd look through the comments first. Great show and the toys! 😍
I now realize my entire childhood was just one long commercial. I had all these toys.
I know the feeling…
I only wish i still had the toys. They go for good money now.
That was the marketing departments goal. It worked.
Me too.
I still have every transformer made in the '80s and '90s. They're in mint condition so I feel you when it comes to commercials in the toys. I was going to give them to my son but I never had one or at least not yet.
Dungeons & Dragons was HUGE here in Brazil, even without a proper ending...
It was big in the UK too
Look up Dungeons and dragons Requiem fan made. The guy who wrote the series did a recorded ending a few years ago with the woman who did Sheila reprising her role. Someone actually took the time to illustrate a cartoon to the recording and kept it loyal to the cartoon.
@@markgoldsmith4209 found it. Thanks for the heads up.
I was going to say, after the last episode of D&D, Cave of the fairy dragons, they didn't know if the show would be re-commissioned, but they scripted Requiem to act as either an absolute finale, or a "bridge" episode if another season was given the go-ahead. As we know, it wasn't, and Requiem was never made, but a third party took on the script and finally uploaded it last year, the channel is Zetavio Deloryan
@@RoqueFortStu The guy who wrote the cartoon actually wrote Requiem. The woman who played Sheila reprised her role and it was an audio recording. A fan took it up himself to illustrate a cartoon to the recording.
80's was the golden age of cartoons. NO doubt. Mask was so awesome. Can't believe it only lasted two seasons. Silverhawk was so freakin amazing and ended way too soon. Only one season I could have sworn it lasted longer. Dungeons and Dragons was so good as well. Remember watching all of these cartoons.
D&D and Thundarr the Barbarian were the two best and should have run much longer. Loved those shows.
i am always excited when i see Visionaries with intact holograms at thrift stores
It managed to last longer than the comic book did, I think the comic only managed two or maybe three issues at best.
M.A.S.K. and SILVER HAWKS had the best intros ever🤘😈🤘.
M.A.S.K.yes, but Ulysses 31 actually has the better intro..Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors and Kidd Video are others best intro.....
mask and ulysses were my fave intros as a kid :P
And Cops
Yes. YES! :)
@@drewstar412 Jayce too :)
Dungeons and Dragons had an ending of sorts. A radio show was done some time later with most of the original cast with a script written by the writers. A copy of that radio show episode was included with the dvd box set of the tv show.
Visionaries and Ulysses 31 are by far the best entries on the list. D&D sadly hasn't aged well, I bought the boxset and ended up selling it to a mate.
Worst part, when shows were cancelled, it wasn't announced... Just disappeared 🤫😟
Hay man how are you?I'm to a 80's cartoons fun,and i could use a little help here.Today i have begun to watch Brave Starr Christmas Special,and i get interupted every four minutes with commercials,and movie is 90 minutes long.So can you recommend a web page with all 80's cartoons,that don't have commercials,and its world wide.PS:Or can we start online petition to ban commercials on youtube,and others entertainment online web pages like dubbed anime etc.
@@slavenarkaimovski3897 install a ad-blocker
Yeh but we soon forgot about then once a new and intriguing cartoon would come on the air the following week.
Even the Flintstones got canceled without an announcement
Left us hanging
Ah the 80s, when graphically violent movies had cartoon tie ins for kids! Imagine if someone today made a John Wick cartoon for Saturday mornings. Actually that's not a bad idea...
Cartoon John Wick could have a talking dog! They could travel the world solving mysteries!
If John Wick was made in the 80s it would totally be a cartoon (and video game, cereal, pajamas, etc) except in the cartoon no bad guys would actually get shot lol
Williest1 or they become robots, you slaughter scores of robots.
No blood, no bullets. But yep you could do things. 90's Fox Spiderman was under the same restrictions and made a wonderful show. You can imply a lot and with quick edits you think you saw what you never did. The punches never seen conecting. You just switch to baddies going flying. Can work.
We now have adult swim, so cartoons can have violence in them again
Growing up in the 80's I thought school was just something we did when we are not home watching these excellent cartoons. I would get up super early on Saturday mornings and watch cartoons bc they came on like at 7am every Saturday. Then around 4pm came kung fu cinema.
I was obsessed with Dino Riders back in the day! Would love to see it come back!
MASK’s mask designs were crazy good. They matched the characters and fashion making them recognizable and distinct., and the division of factions too. Crazy good detail.
I had the motorcycle-helicopter toy when was in elemetry school...
I was born and raised in Cincinnati and some of the kids I grew up around had parents that worked at Kenner. They would always have shelves and shelves of boxed Kenner toys in the basement like it was a museum
I didn't remember MASK, until I saw an episode, a few days ago.
I was so psyched when I got the Boulder Hill play set to go with my Matt Tracker flying Trans Am lol! I always wished the scale went with my GI Joes-- I had way more of them, lol!
@@sauditate4562 I had the semi . Now I cry at what it cost to replace one . 😭
Inhumanoids deserved so much better. They actually had toys designed for another wave, and then they got the sales numbers. Pulled the entire series, including plans for a 2nd season. Shame too as they had prototypes for Blackthorn's new armor, Doctor Mangler, Tank, and Gagghoul... all fan favorites that would have sold.
Inhumanoids may been stopped by prude parents or the expenses from making their toys. It was developed under Sunbow/Marvel entertainment behind G.I. Joe and Transformers.
It had such an amazing story with so much depth. It was ahead of its time.
Great Vid! What Memories!!! 😊
Although not exactly on par with some on this list, I used to LOVE Galaxy High and Kidd Video! Granted Kidd Video had live action scenes in addition to the animated scenes, I still loved it.
Damn...this whole video gave me goosebumps...I’m glad I got to be a part of all that in real time...shaped my world...
Me too
Ok to be clear, cartoons in the 80's where simply a vehicle to sell toys. If the toys didn't sell, the cartoon got the boot.
Also, I'm literally incapable of saying silver hawks without singing it like the cartoon.
I don't think any of us can help it. 😂😂😂😂😂
Anyone else piss their parents by only whistling at them, lol
They sang it every 2 mins in the episode that’s why. We all do.
You hit the nail on the head!!! I relate every cartoon with the toys connected. Some others were also based on live show ticket sales and new viewers for other shows as well. Like WWF cartoon and Bigfoot and the muscle machines. Also I have to do the hawk screech, every... single... time!!
By today’s standards, all the toys from those cartoons are now worth thousands of dollars easily. They also sold boxes of cereal based on those cartoons as well
Nice video 😊. Brings we back. Good memories 😉
Even though it had a finale The Mighty Orbots was a very underrated cartoon. It had great animation and music.
Calling Dungeons and Dragons underrated is like calling Robert Downy Jr a little known actor.
Sooo...what you're saying is that D&D received all the acclaim it deserved?
it's like the difference between saying New York is cold in the winter and New York is the coldest place in the world.
The same with M.A.S.K. and Silverhawks. These people must be late born millennials or Gen Z. Marvelous Videos is so pretentious with these videos. Calling things ;'Insanely underrated' lmao.
Who's Robert Downy Jr ?
the guy who got 70 million for Avengers Endgame so they couldn't afford to add half the characters they wanted to for the big end battle.
I remember waking up early Saturday morning eager to start watching all those cartoons on the TV. Absolutely loved Dungeons & Dragons and Silver Hawks. Crazy to think I grew up in a time before cell phones and tablets existed. Good times
Sure you did, the Zack Morris cell phone was around if you felt like paying $.89 a minute for a call, and the best tablet we had was something called Etch-a-Sketch
@@yell0wberry good times 🤘
I cannot believe that Mighty Orbots didn't make this list. The animation was absolutely amazing and the storylines were incredible. It was an early Japanese precursor to Go Lion/Voltron. Great list overall despite the exclusion.
Mighty Orbots was an amazing series with fantastic animation. Not a precursor to GoLion/Voltron, however. GoLion was released in Japan in '81, Mighty Orbots debuted in September of '84 (two days before Voltron).
Loved Might Orbots, don't know how that didn't make the list.
1980s has the most high quality animation since it is hand drawn and the details are really astonishing they really use more of shiny and great visual effects.
Dungeons and Dragons was one of my all time favorite cartoons. Loved the characters and group dynamic. And the Silverhawks intro is awesome! I didn't get to watch it a lot, but I thought the characters were cool and the imagery is great.
I still remember the theme song of Silverhawks.
I could never watch the last half of silverhawks because that's when it was time to leave for kindergarten.
Oh my gosh! I loved so many of these. I especially enjoyed Silverhawks, M.A.S.K., Dungeons and Dragons, Thundarr, and Inhumanoids.
Same
Galaxy High!
Venger was dungin masters son
Thanks you for the trip down memory lane. :)
Truly the golden age of cartoons
Jace and The Wheeled Warriors is another underrated gem of the 80s.
Yesssssss, i always thought they were going to show the reunion with his dad on the next episode. never happened.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors aired on Univision for a while, so my brothers and I watched it in Spanish for a bit. 😆
Marshall bravestarr just totally skimmed past
I liked the show but the show was ruined for me because I despised the main character. Has that ever happened to anyone? Have you had one character of a cartoon ruin the whole thing for you?
Great video - just want to mention on Thundarr... you had mentioned a couple of great comic book writers, but it’s extremely worthy to note that the character design was done by Jack Kirby and then taken over by Alex Toth! Comic book legends all around.
Thundarr is still one of my favorites, I was 5 when it came out, and was the coolest thing a 5 year old ever saw. I still have it as a ringtone.😂
I was stoked you started with Mask! I LOVED IT!!!!!
They missed out on Jace and the wheeled warriors... Loved that one, and Pirates of dark water. 2 of my all time faves that ended prematurely.
Pirates of dark water. That monkey bird😂
@@dpt6849 Niddler I think his name was. "The evil pirate lord Bloth" what a villain lol.
@@LunaNatsume Niddler yes. Thank you😁
And Bloth 😂
Visionaries and Inhumanoids kick ass!
...Also Thundarr is pure gold.
Incredible list , thank you
The music was also on point!
PLEASE DO "BIONIC 6" next, and rare Robot Cartoons shows were they don't Transform.
A lot of great cartoons from the 80s......very underrated. Brings back the memories.
You just brought back so AWESOME AND AMAZING memories!!! GI JOE, THUNDER CATS AND ESPECIALLY MASK... MASK was so freaking awesome. I even remember having some of the action figures. One cartoon it was also pretty cool was called TURBO TEEN...
Pole Position was pretty good too, as was Battle of the Planets (just to name a couple - I set my boom box up next to the TV speaker to record the theme songs on Saturday mornings 😁).
OMG....MASK and Visionaries! I'm so glad you mentioned both of those first. I had ALL the toys. Greatness well ahead of their times and shutdown way too soon.
OH WOW!! MY GOLDEN YEARS!! Thank you!
MASK! RAMBO!! Miss them! THere were a few more gems from that era like CENTURIONS, BRAVESTARR, Blackstar, Heathcliff, The Littles, Pole-Position, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Turbo Teen etc.