Post by Mike on Jan 23, 2010 17:33:53 GMT -4
COMIC LEGEND: Two episodes of the 1960s' Spider-Man animated series were made up of re-used footage from the cartoon series "Rocket Robin Hood."
STATUS: True
As you all likely know by now, cartoons have not always been the place to go if you want good production values. We, as viewers, have been spoiled by the Bruce Timm and Paul Dini level of quality on recent superhero cartoons.
In the 1960s (heck, in the 1980s! Heck, some of the shows in the 1990s weren't exactly anything to write home about), the key to many productions was to do a show as cheaply as possible.
After a fairly high quality first season, the original producers of the show, Grantray-Lawrence, went bankrupt. Krantz Films did the last two seasons at a highly reduced budget, and they commonly re-used older Spider-Man footage to create "new" episodes of the series.
But that was one thing (however annoying it was), but for two episodes in the last two seasons of the show, they went even farther than that - it not only used footage from another cartoon series, it used practically ALL OF THE FOOTAGE from another cartoon series!
Rocket Robin Hood was another show by Krantz Films that ran from 1966 to 1969. It was produced and aired in Canada (although a few United States stations also carried it).
The concept of the show as as delightfully simple as the name might suggest...
It was stories starring Robin Hood and friends...only in SPACE!
Well, in the episode "Phantom From The Depths Of Time" of the Spider-Man series (season 2), they practically lifted the entirety of the Rocket Robin Hood episode, "From Menace to Menace."
So one approach was to use as much stock footage from previous episodes as possible.
This was a common practice with the popular Spider-Man series that ran from 1967-70.
Go here for pics and two other Comic Book Legends Revealed!
STATUS: True
As you all likely know by now, cartoons have not always been the place to go if you want good production values. We, as viewers, have been spoiled by the Bruce Timm and Paul Dini level of quality on recent superhero cartoons.
In the 1960s (heck, in the 1980s! Heck, some of the shows in the 1990s weren't exactly anything to write home about), the key to many productions was to do a show as cheaply as possible.
After a fairly high quality first season, the original producers of the show, Grantray-Lawrence, went bankrupt. Krantz Films did the last two seasons at a highly reduced budget, and they commonly re-used older Spider-Man footage to create "new" episodes of the series.
But that was one thing (however annoying it was), but for two episodes in the last two seasons of the show, they went even farther than that - it not only used footage from another cartoon series, it used practically ALL OF THE FOOTAGE from another cartoon series!
Rocket Robin Hood was another show by Krantz Films that ran from 1966 to 1969. It was produced and aired in Canada (although a few United States stations also carried it).
The concept of the show as as delightfully simple as the name might suggest...
It was stories starring Robin Hood and friends...only in SPACE!
Well, in the episode "Phantom From The Depths Of Time" of the Spider-Man series (season 2), they practically lifted the entirety of the Rocket Robin Hood episode, "From Menace to Menace."
So one approach was to use as much stock footage from previous episodes as possible.
This was a common practice with the popular Spider-Man series that ran from 1967-70.
Go here for pics and two other Comic Book Legends Revealed!
