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The Get Along Gang is a group of characters created in 1983 [1] by Tony Byrd, Tom Jacobs, Ralph Shaffer, Linda Edwards, Muriel Fahrion, and Mark Spangler for American Greetings' toy design and licensing division, "Those Characters from Cleveland" [2] (now Cloudco Entertainment), for a series of greeting cards.
Hallmark Cards released the homonymous line of greeting cards with animal characters wearing T-shirts upon which was a message. Those cards were among Hallmark's best sellers at that time, which led the company to team with Hanna-Barbera Productions to adapt the Shirt Tales into a Saturday morning cartoon, which premiered on NBC on September 18, 1982. [2]
Produced by DIC Audiovisuel (and later DIC Enterprises), it was the second animated series based on the Heathcliff comic strip (after Ruby-Spears' Heathcliff from 1980). 65 half-hour episodes aired in first-run syndication in the fall of 1984, followed by a second season of 21 episodes in 1985 and continued to air in syndication until 1988.
The Get Along Gang: 1984 CBS: DIC Audiovisuel: Care Bears: 1985 Syndication: DIC Audiovisuel LBS Communications: The Care Bears Family: 1986–1988 Global Television Network: Nelvana: Retitled Care Bears for third series My Pet Monster: 1986–1988 Global Television Network: Nelvana: Popples: 1986–1988 Syndication: DIC Enterprises: Lady ...
1984 April 16 Blue Thunder: April 27 Masquerade: 1983 April 30 That's Incredible! 1980 May 15 Oh Madeline: 1983 May 19 Fantasy Island: 1978 May 22 Hart to Hart: 1979 May 28 One Day at a Time: 1975 June 1 Tattletales: 1974 June 2 Whiz Kids: 1983 June 14 Lottery! July 4 Real People: 1979 July 11 The Duck Factory: 1984 July 27 Hollywood Squares ...
The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band (Named Kidd, Carla, Ash, & Whiz) of the same name (played by live action performers in the first half of the title sequence) were practicing in a storage unit when an animated villain named the Master Blaster appeared, and transported them to the Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called the Flipside.
McCann emceed the series alone because Ashley did not live long enough to see the show, having died on September 3, 1984. In the 1980s, McCann reprised a number of his best sketches from his New York television days as interstitial material for a two-hour presentation of cartoons on KCOP-TV , Channel 13 in Los Angeles, assisted by Bob Ridgely.
Donald Earle Messick (September 7, 1926 – October 24, 1997) was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. [1]His best-remembered voice roles include Scooby-Doo, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in The Flintstones, Astro in The Jetsons, Muttley in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, Boo-Boo Bear and Ranger Smith in The Yogi Bear Show ...