1980's Saturday Morning Historical Preservation Society

Thundarr & Friends really enjoy a good watch-along

Remember how I lways told you folks that you'd know when the next 1980's Saturday Morning Historical Reenactment Society Live-Stream Watch-Along was coming because I'd give you a solid week of non-stop Spam Posts about how the next 1980's Saturday Morning Historical Reenactment Society Live-Stream Watch-Along was coming up?

Well guess what?

THE NEXT 1980'S SATURDAY MORNING HISTORICAL REENACTMENT SOCIETY LIVE-STREAM WATCH-ALONG IS THIS COMING SATURDAY!!! SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2013!!!

Starting at 7am (West Coast, 10am East Coast) and going till a bit past noon, it'll be an entire Saturday Morning Experience full of vintage cartoons, commercials and chatting with your fellow 1980's SMHRS members about your memories and observances! It'll also be an excellent excuse to stay in your jammies all day eating sugary cereal and playing with your Legos :)

We do this through Livestream.com so you should probably go set up an account there *now* for watching and chatting along with us; we'll post the link for our channel once we're closer to the actual day of the event. We chose Livestream.com because it allows us all to be at approximately the same spot in the broadcast (biggest lag between watchers we've seen so far was about 10 second), has an integrated chat client, is available Internationally and (supposedly) works on ios and Android devices WOO!!!

Now, regarding that super-cute image of Thundarr & Friends sitting on the couch watching Saturday Morning Cartoons together... anybody interested in having that on a T-Shirt? Weighing my options here, it would be somewhere around $25 per shirt if I did it through one of those Print-On-Demand websites like Cafe Press, but if I had an order for 50 or more I could get them made locally for around $15, keeping it under $20 shipped PLUS I would then have extra shirts to sell at conventions and/or give away in contests we hold in this community... what say you?
[Poll #1934191]

Tune in to your local ABC affiliate at 10:30 on Saturday morning in 1980 and you'll see the HOLY GRAIL OF COMIC GEEKDOM, "Thundarr The Barbarian". That video embedded above is en espanol because all the US versions I could find have had embedding disabled... but the voice-over is perfect at setting the tone for the show:

The year: 1994. From out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction! Man's civilization is cast in ruin!
Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn...

A strange new world rises from the old: a world of savagery, super science, and sorcery. But one man bursts his bonds to fight for justice! With his companions Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous Sunsword against the forces of evil.

He is Thundarr, the Barbarian!

This cartoon has a pretty impressive comic book background! Created by Steve Gerber (the guy who created "Howard The Duck" which is SO MUCH BETTER than the movie would have you believe) with character design and story concepts from Alex Toth (Space Ghost, Super Friends) and Jack "King" Kirby (Fantastic Four, Captain America, Thor, Nearly Every Marvel Comics Character)!

Ruby-Spears Productions would go on to make two full seasons of Thundarr before it went off the air in 1981, and if you've never watched it you really owe yourself a favor. Swords-n-sorcery-n-apocalyptic-dystopia has never looked better!

(Also aired at 10:30 in 1981)