Grape Ape is Hanna-Barbera, as is Godzilla, which was packaged with others. "The Godzilla Show" "The Godzilla Power Hour" "Godzilla and the Super 90" although the show itself was just called "Godzilla." I do have more info on this. I have a second season ep. on tape, too. "Allan D. Campbell" wrote: > At 05:29 PM 10/19/00 EDT, HR Greenberg wrote: > >For ongoing research into a piece on monster films, does anyone recall > >whether KING KONG was eventually made into a TV cartoon series, with > >obviously a much more user friendly KONG? I seem to recall something like > >this, but cannot place it precisely. > > Not officially part of the KING KONG franchise, GRAPE APE, a > Saturday-morning cartoon about a giant purple ape (the title character, of > course) and his talking canine friend, Beagle Beagle, ran on US network > television in the 1970s, on ABC I believe, with a Hanna-Barbera feel to it > (though I'm even less sure about the production company). Contemporaneous > with the official 1976 theatrical film remake, Grape Ape's resemblance to > his forebear is striking, but this cartoon character is a much gentler > creature, scaring animated humans mostly on the basis of his size and > species. ("Help! It's a gorilla-illa-illa!" I think was the usual > refrain.) Television reference books perhaps can fill in the details more > precisely; my writing is based solely on childhood memory. > I also recall another Saturday-morning cartoon series, GODZILLA SUPER 90, > which ran around 1979-80, on NBC I believe (in, yes, ninety-minute > episodes), with Godzilla in a friendly partnership with a group of humans, > who, I believe, were all white Americans. Again, it's another lead to pursue. > Allan > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu