Frankenstein, Jr. and The Impossibles

infobox television
show_name = Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles


caption = "Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles" title card.
rating =
format = Animated
runtime = approx. 0:30 (per episode)
creator = William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
starring = Ted Cassidy (voice of Frankenstein, Jr.)
Dick Beals (voice of Buzz Conroy)
Don Messick (voice of Multi-man)
Hal Smith (voice of Coil Man)
Paul Frees (voice of Fluid Man/Big D/Narrator)
John Stephenson (voice of Professor Conroy)
country = USA
network = CBS
first_aired = September 10 1966
last_aired = September 7 1968
num_episodes = 18
imdb_id = 0059984
tv_com_id = 4923|

"Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles" was an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1966. It premiered on September 10, 1966, and ran for two seasons.

Overview

The program contained two segments, which each served as a middle ground between Hanna-Barbera's traditional cartoon early output and its superhero-based late-1960s cartoons.

*"Frankenstein, Jr.": Buzz Conroy, a boy scientist, and his father Professor Conroy fight supervillains with the aid of a powerful heroic robot named "Frankenstein, Jr." "Franky", as Buzz usually referred to him, was more than a little reminiscent of the title character in "Gigantor"; Buzz built "Franky" and activated him through an energy ring.

*"The Impossibles": The title characters are a trio of superheroes (Multi Man, Fluid Man, and Coil Man) who pose undercover as a Beatlesesque rock music band. The characters' names are descriptive of their powers: Multi-Man can create identical copies of himself; Coil-Man can form into a super-springy coil; and Fluid-Man can transform his body into any fluid. The heroes receive assignments from "Big D", who contacts them via a receiver in the base of Coil-Man's left-handed guitar.

The show was the target of complaints about violence in children's television, and was canceled in 1968. The "Frankenstein, Jr." segments were later recycled in the 1976 series "Space Ghost and Frankenstein, Jr.", which aired on NBC.

Adaptations

A single issue of a "Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles" comic was released by Gold Key as a tie-in to the TV series, and the contents were reprinted in "The Impossibles Annual" by Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd, UK in 1968. The two "Frankenstein Jr." comic stories were titled "The Image Invasion" and "Frankenstein Jr. Meets the Flea Man". A new text-based story, especially written for the annual, was "A Spook in his Wheel".

External links

* [http://www.toonopedia.com/frank-jr.htm "Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles" at Toonopedia]
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