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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