tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-365564334433777661.post8435048045459991208..comments2024-03-25T17:18:56.205-04:00Comments on Saturday Morning Archives: It Should've Been on a Saturday: The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968)hobbyfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08089664500077967952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-365564334433777661.post-88601775892505305392012-01-12T13:07:40.717-05:002012-01-12T13:07:40.717-05:00Lord only knows what the writers were thinking. I ...Lord only knows what the writers were thinking. I think the fish out of water concept may have been what ultimately killed the show. <br /><br />As for Injun Joe, I think the producers felt he was more appropriate as an antagonist, and as such was caught in the kids' collective consciousness, hence his recrurring.hobbyfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08089664500077967952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-365564334433777661.post-80675661080319166812012-01-12T04:41:24.699-05:002012-01-12T04:41:24.699-05:00I remember seeing this show when it was part of th...I remember seeing this show when it was part of the Banana Splits package. As a kid I thought it was kind of cool to see classic Mark Twain characters interacting with HB animation. The theme song was fun and the kids were likeable.<br /><br />I caught a couple of eps on Youtube and the show really doesn't hold up too well - mainly because the only thing it had gong for it was the live action/animation combo. The storylines themselves were rather weak and would have been undistiguishable had the entire show been animated.<br /><br />I couldn't help but wonder why "Injun Joe" always turned up as the villian, yet he always played a different character with a history, so it couldn't have been Joe in disguise each and every time. Could it be that the show was meant to be a group dream with Injun Joe as their collective fear?<br /><br />The show never did have a definitive ending, like so many adventure shows of its kind, so we never knew if the gang made it back to Hannibal, MO.magicdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10755186050643383954noreply@blogger.com