1980's Saturday Morning Historical Preservation Society

Drak Pack was an action/comedy cartoon that aired on CBS Saturday Morning between September 6, 1980 and September 12, 1982. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera for a total of 16 episodes before it was mercilessly cancelled.

The series centers around three young men: Drak, Frankie and Howler, descendants of Dracula, the Frankenstein monster, and a werewolf. To atone for their ancestors' wrongdoings, the three are recruited by the REAL DRACULA (who they call "Big D") to be a kind of under-cover super hero team that saves the world from Doctor Dred and his assorted henchmen who go under the collective name of "OGRE" which may have stood for something but I forget. The Drak Pack look like regular young folks (college age maybe?) until they do a three-person high-five ("High Fifteen?") known as the "Drak Whack", which allows them to transform in to their monstrous forms.

This, more than any other show, is the one I am afraid to revisit because I loved it so much as a child. Part of my love for it was because I only ever got to see ONE EPISODE, and then never saw it again because of stupid College Football (aka "Saturday Morning's Arch Enemy"). But this show stayed with me all my life as the motivation for getting in to animation history and whatnot.

Do you hav any memories of this show? Was it really as epic as my memories seem to think it was? Leave a comment below!

In the interest of saving myself a bit of time, I'm going to group all the Looney Tunes package shows in this one post and try to tag it accordingly.

Why? Because look at this list:

• The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show
• The Daffy Duck Show
• The Sylvester & Tweety / Daffy & Speedy Show
• The Bugs Bunny / Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
• The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show

Every single one of those shows was the exact same show; recycle some of the hundreds of hours of Looney Tunes cartoon shorts from the past (then) 30 years for consumption of the masses. But unlike the Hannah-Barbara repackaging hours (discussed elsewhere in this community) where they just took last year's cartoons and smashed them together to make a "Power Hour", The Looney Tunes were a special cross-over cartoon that was important to the success of Saturday mornings in general. Grammy and Grampy remembered watching the cartoons in the theaters, Mom and Dad remembered seeing them on TV as early as the 1960's, and now the kids of today had something in common with the previous generations to talk about and make everybody feel good about Saturday :)

So let's here it for Bugs and his pals! Share your thoughts, memories, and other discussion points in the comments below! Oh and hey! If this was one of your favorites? Don't forget to go and vote for it in our Best Cartoon of 1980 Poll! I *think* 1980 is the only year that will have Bugs Bunny represented, even though the Looney Tunes were a staple of Saturday Mornings all through the 1980's just because I don't have the space to list them every year :)