Saturday Morning Cartoons: Lancelot Link Secret Chimp

Yes it is Saturday morning and time for the Saturday morning cartoons. Up today is one show that you either love or hate. It is Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp. Someone had the idea to take the TV show Get Smart and do it on Saturday morning with chimps in all of the roles. Growing up I hated this show. The only thing I liked was the opening credits. Lancelot sounded like a bad impersonation of Humphrey Bogart and would much rather watch the drawn cartoons. Halfway through I would always turn the channel. Still watching them in small doses brings back a smile to me. Here is Lancelot Link Secret Chimp in the Royal Foil. The first video is the great opening and the other is the story.

Dinky The Elf Out Nov. 14th

Dinky the Elf will arrive for Christmas before Santa. It is scheduled for publishing on November 14th. You can buy it on line at Morning Sun Publishing. Above is the new cover art for the book. It was changed from the previous one that was shown before.

Monkees Images

Well yesterday's post got me in a Monkees kind of mood. So here are some Monkees related images. Below is an ad for their album "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd."
Below is a page from TV Guide from September 1968. Highlighted is the description of the latest Monkees episode. The important part of it for Monkees fans is that it also tells how it is the last episode of the series and "I Dream of Jeannie" takes over the slot next week.
I know this photo was used yesterday but I got in here by accident. Still if you are a Monkees fan you won't mind.
Below is the cover to the Monkees script for the movie "Head." As you can see it was almost called "Changes." Eventually that became one of the titles of their albums.
A Monkees Halloween costume of Davy Jones. Which also came with a Monkees photo.
I never saw this photo before so I couldn't help but post it here. A different version of the Monkees walk.

The New Monkees...Again?

Over at The Sun it is reported that Simon Fuller, the man behind such groups as the Spice Girls and S Club 7,will put together another group based on the Monkees. Click on The Sun to read the article. It tells how he plans to make it more raunchy then the original. It also gives an error filled background on the show. First they say the Monkees started out as a drama and became a reality-variety production. It was never a drama. It was always a comedy. They did try to make it a variety show but failed. They say that they starred for 5 years. The show only lasted from the fall of 1966 to spring of 1968. However, I will cut them some slack on that as the search started in 1965 and the group lasted till 1970.

I first heard of this in an alert from The Monkees Home Page.


Will this be as big a hit as the first series? Will it tank like the New Monkees did? I don't know but it will be fun to see.

For President

I found these fictional characters on e-bay who had runs for out highest office. Some were bigger then most but their companies or publicity agents threw their hats in the ring for them. Remember today is election day. So go out and place your vote.

Video trouble

Wondering if anyone is having trouble watching the videos I place on this blog. I am.  It only plays 2 secnods and then stops.  I can't find the help in bloggers helps screens or on you tube.  Let me know if you are having problms or not so I know if it is just me. If you know of a way to fix it please tell me. Thanks!

Monkees Promo from 1966

Let's Rap With Cap Contest

If you are a reader of my blog, Let's Rap With Cap, then you may already know about this contest. If not then I want to tell you about it now. Unless I have already scheduled something on my blogs I will be taking most of November off. I will post something if I feel you need to know it but this contest is ending on Nov. 30th. the book above is the prize as it is signed by writer and artist Mark Waid and Ron Garney.
Here are the specifics. The size is that it must be 759 pixels wide and 230 pixels high. It must look Christmas like and have baby Jesus in it somewhere. You can also include Santa, Frosty the Snowman or others if you wish. You can e-mail your entries to me at originalcaptainatom@ gmail.com Pass this info on to anyone you think would be interested in entering.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: The World of Commander McBragg

It's Saturday and time for the Saturday Morning Cartoons. Today it is the World of Commander McBragg. One of my favorite short cartoons.

Woolworth Halloween Commercial

Here is a Halloween commercial from the late 1970's. I remember Mom and Dad taking me to stores like Woolworth to buy my Ben Cooper costumes. This commercial brought back some good memories.

Alfred is selling Batman and Robin Posters

Digital Radio

On the left I have added the gadget for digital radio. With this gadget you can listen to music while you read my blogs. Depending on the icon you click you can hear music from a pre-designated page or music you have on your own computer. All of this is to make your browsing and reading of my blogs a more pleasant experience.

The Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show On DVD

I just heard from David of SupermanFan.net, a reader of my blogs who even won a contest over at Mail It To Team Up. It seems that he was at TV Shows On DVD.com and he saw this article. He e-mailed me a link to it. The article tells how Mark Evanier of News From ME recently added an interview to the DVD's for the season he worked on the show.
So the series could be out next year. Keep your fingers crossed. Usually information like this follows news that a movie will be released around the same time. Perhaps we will see the Wachowski Brothers version of Plastic Man very soon. I hope so. What the world needs now is...more Plastic!!

The picture of Plastic Man that you see above I got from this site about musician and artist Richard Farina. This is the first I ever heard of him but he must have had good taste as it says his favorite comic book was Plastic Man.

Video of the week: Batman can dance!

I just saw this video

on
It is pretty cool to see him dance and while it doesn't ask for it I urge you to pray for him after you read what is on the end of the video.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Go Go Gophers

Not one of my favorite cartoons but someone I am sure will like it. So here is today's Saturday Morning Cartoon..."Go Go Gophers!"

On My Mind's Third Anniversary

Can you believe it was three years ago when Booksteve told me about blogspot and used it to set up On My Mind? Now over 46,000 visitors later we are all celebrating 3 years on the internet. Frankly at one point I didn't know much of what to put on and almost didn't make it to the second anniversary. I don't know what happened but suddenly everything clicked and suddenly I have other sites like Comic Book Letterheads Museum ,The Picture Sleeve and Album Art Museum,For God So Loved ,Let's Rap With Cap!,Mail It To Team Up, Plastic Man Platitudes and Millie the Model. Now come on in and join the party. Booksteve is taking the coats and hats and talking about Robert Wagner's new book. Kent of Forgotten Hits is spinning the tunes in the family room.
I can't believe that all of the Monkees came. Peter, Micky, Davy and Mike are over by the punch bowl talking about their classic TV shows and music.
Well there is my wife calling us all to dinner. Hope you like turkey.

Who Ya Gonna Call?

The real Ghostbusters that's who. Now thanks to Time/Life you can get the complete Saturday Morning cartoon series on DVD. Just click on this icon
to pre-order it from them. On this set you will get over TWELVE HOURS of bonus features, including:

- The original promotional pilot for The Real Ghostbusters, NEVER BEFORE AIRED
- 21 on-camera commentary tracks with producers, voice actors, writers, animators and production personnel
- 5 exclusive documentaries
- 86 episode introductions
- 16-page booklets include episode synopses, trivia and art for every episode!
- Plus scripts, storyboards, image galleries, music & effects audio tracks, and much more!
- Interviews with J. Michael Straczynski (Writer & Story Editor), Maurice LaMarche (Voice of "Egon Spengler"), Laura Summer (Voice of First "Janine Melnitz"), Kath Soucie (Voice of Second "Janine Melnitz") and many others!
Don't delay. Order today.

Video of the Week: Archie Live Series

Thanks to Pop Culture Safari I was directed to the above video at Classic Television Showbiz. Does anyone remember another Archie live series? It was in the 1970's and kind of a variety show but focused mostly on comedy. It was more like Archie's Joke Book on TV. If you know where there is any video on this please tell me and direct me to it. Thanks.

This Day In Music History: Elvis and Jailhouse Rock/Treat Me Nice

On this day in music history, October 21, 1957 , Elvis hit the #1 spot on the billboard charts with his double sided hit "Jailhouse Rock/Treat Me Nice." It was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who wrote many hits before for Elvis.
Mr. Leiber said "The love songs were a great problem, because I really can't write love songs. But that was the least of it. I certainly would never have written a song line 'Jailhouse Rock,' for example, if somebody hadn't said, Look, there's going to be a big production number in a jail."

That production number became the highlight of his third film Jailhouse Rock. Elvis himself choreographed the scene. It is one of the best remembered scenes from any of Elvis' films. The movie also opened today and became one of his biggest films in his acting career.

1951 Martin and Lewis Ad

I just saw this ad where Martin and Lewis are selling the public on Magnavox and had to share it with my readers here.