The Space Kidettes is an American Saturday morning animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, originally airing on NBC during the 1966–67 season. In the show, junior rangers Snoopy, Jenny, Countdown and Scooter patrol the cosmos from their space-capsule clubhouse, with help from their dog Pupstar.[1] Twenty episodes were produced.[2]
| The Space Kidettes | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Created by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Directed by | Joseph Barbera William Hanna |
| Voices of | Chris Allen Lucille Bliss Daws Butler Don Messick Janet Waldo |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Joseph Barbera William Hanna |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 10, 1966 – February 4, 1967 |
Plot
editSet in outer space, the series followed the adventures of a group of child astronauts,[3] who have acquired a treasure map and have to keep it away from their space pirate nemesis Captain Skyhook and his sidekick Static.[4]
Episodes
edit- Molemen Menace[5]
- Jet Set Go
- Space Indians
- Swamp-Swamped
- Space Heroes
- Space Witch
- Tale of a Whale
- Space Giant
- Space Carnival
- The Laser-Breathing Space Dragon
- The Flight Before Christmas
- Beach Brawl
- Dog-napped in Space
- Secret Solar Robot
- King of the Space Pirates
- Planet of Greeps
- Cosmic Condors
- The Space Mermaid
- Haunted Planet
- Something Old, Something Gnu
Voice cast
edit- Chris Allen – Scooter (freckled kid, blue suit)
- Lucille Bliss – Snoopy (kid with white hair, orange suit)
- Daws Butler – Captain Skyhook
- Don Messick – Countdown (leader / kid with glasses, green suit), Pupstar (dog), Static[6]
- Janet Waldo – Jenny Jet (girl with cap and dress)
Production
editOriginally airing for one season on NBC as a half-hour program and sponsored by General Mills, The Space Kidettes episodes were later edited down to ten-minute episodes and paired with other General Mills-sponsored shows such as Tennessee Tuxedo and Go Go Gophers to form a full half-hour for syndication.[7]
Edited further, it was later paired with edited reruns of cartoons from another NBC Hanna-Barbera program, (Young) Samson & Goliath to form the syndication package The Space Kidettes and Young Samson.[4] The original master elements for both programs were lost, leaving the syndicated edits as the only extant broadcast quality versions.[4]
All 20 episodes of The Space Kidettes and Young Samson were released on DVD via the Warner Archive Collection manufacture-on-demand program in 2011.[4]
See also
edit
References
edit- ^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press. p. 265. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 770–771. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.), pg. 777. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- ^ a b c d Sinnott, John (March 27, 2011) Review of Space Kidettes and Young Samson Archived 2014-02-24 at the Wayback Machine. DVDTalk. Retrieved 2013-05-07
- ^ See https://archive.org/details/the-space-kidettes/ for an archive of all twenty episodes.
- ^ "Behind The Voice Actors - Space Kidettes". Archived from the original on 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
- ^ "Digital Digest: The Space Kidettes/Young Samson DVD Review - SitcomsOnline.com News Blog". Archived from the original on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
External links
edit- The Space Kidettes at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 23, 2017.