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
>
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