When Fred Silverman was president of daytime programming for CBS, he commissioned Hanna-Barbera to produce action cartoons for the Saturday Morning schedules in the late 1960s (1966 had the premiere of "Space Ghost" and 1967 had the "Herculoids" premiering). Silverman also added a H-B mystery solving show titled "Scooby Doo" in 1969.
Fred Silverman joined NBC as chief of programming and had the original 60s "Space Ghost" reruns (along with "Frankenstein Jr" segments without "The Impossibles") added to the schedule to boost ratings around 1979. "The original "Herculoids" program were added to the NBC schedule around 1980 when the cartoon studio employees for H-B, Filmation, and Ruby-Spears went on strike. Seeing the good ratings from both H-B classics, he commissioned Hanna-Barbera to create new episodes for the 1981-1982 schedule under the umbrella title of "Space Stars".
Also adding to the comfortable feel of the new show was that many of the original series voice actors (Gary Owens as Space Ghost; Mike Road as Zandor, Igoo, and Tundro; Virginia Gregg as Tara; Don Messick as Gloop, Gleep, and Zok) were still in good vocal acting form to reprise their original roles.
I enjoyed the show although my local NBC station in San Francisco pre-empted the series for most of its network run in favor of local kids shows or for NBC Major League Baseball and sports coverage (East Coast games aired in the morning on the West Coast).
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Fred Silverman joined NBC as chief of programming and had the original 60s "Space Ghost" reruns (along with "Frankenstein Jr" segments without "The Impossibles") added to the schedule to boost ratings around 1979. "The original "Herculoids" program were added to the NBC schedule around 1980 when the cartoon studio employees for H-B, Filmation, and Ruby-Spears went on strike. Seeing the good ratings from both H-B classics, he commissioned Hanna-Barbera to create new episodes for the 1981-1982 schedule under the umbrella title of "Space Stars".
Also adding to the comfortable feel of the new show was that many of the original series voice actors (Gary Owens as Space Ghost; Mike Road as Zandor, Igoo, and Tundro; Virginia Gregg as Tara; Don Messick as Gloop, Gleep, and Zok) were still in good vocal acting form to reprise their original roles.
I enjoyed the show although my local NBC station in San Francisco pre-empted the series for most of its network run in favor of local kids shows or for NBC Major League Baseball and sports coverage (East Coast games aired in the morning on the West Coast).