Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits: Jessie's Girl (1981)

I don't know if Rick Springfield had appeared on American Bandstand in the 70's, particularly to promote his American debut and/or Mission: Magic, but in 1981, Springfield was appearing on General Hospital as Dr. Noah Drake, and landed a record deal with RCA. The first single from "Working Class Dog", "Jessie's Girl", landed Springfield on Bandstand in May.

This video also includes an interview conducted by host Dick Clark:

Toon Legends: Popeye in I'm in The Army Now (1936)

Popeye and Bluto have served in the Navy. But when Olive Oyl sees a recruitment poster at an Army office, she swoons, and coaxes the guys into enlisting. The usual chaos follows, of course.

Here's "I'm in The Army Now":



I remember seeing this back in the 70's, and couldn't wrap my head around why they went to a clip show episode so soon (this was the 42nd short in the series), let alone Popeye & Bluto, two Navy men, thinking they could jump to the Army.

Then again, it was a one-shot, after all.

Rating: B.

You Know The Voices: Maurice LaMarche & Rob Paulsen (2019)

Scope this out from Postmodern Jukebox:

The theme from Pinky & The Brain gets a cabaret workout from singer Emily Goglia. Meanwhile, Rob Paulsen (Pinky) & Maurice LaMarche (Brain) are the bartenders, and get to do some schtick in between!



Makes ya wonder if they'd do that with Animaniacs or Tiny Toon Adventures.......

Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits: The Four Legged Zoo (1973)

"The Four Legged Zoo", written and sung by Bob Dorough, was one of the first Schoolhouse Rock entries, from February 1973. Yes, this was a mid-season debut, believe it or else.

Saturtainment: Go Go Gophers in Root Beer Riot (1966)

The Go Go Gophers present another curiosity.

Running Board and Ruffled Feather discover that the soldiers have cut off their water supply. Having a faucet in the teepee is one thing, but a water pipeline? Anyway, the Gophers have a solution. They always do. Here's "Root Beer Riot":



There's always a bad apple in the bunch, the army's being Criff.

Rating: B.

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: Isis in Year of The Dragon (1976)

From season 2 of The Secrets of Isis:

Isis (Joanna Cameron) helps a Chinese-American teen reconnect with her father and overcome the shame of his old world ways. Victor Sen Yung (ex-Bonanza) guest stars in "Year of The Dragon":



Standard fare of the period.

Rating: B.

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: A complete episode of Moby Dick & The Mighty Mightor (1967)

Finding episodes of Moby Dick & The Mighty Mightor are increasingly hard to find.

This particular show was uploaded to YouTube in 2018:

Little Rok (Norma McMillan) headlines the two Mightor shorts, "Rok & His Gang" & "A Big Day For Little Rok". We'll assume that he would be the equivalent of an elementary school student, so enamored of his hero, Mightor, that he fancies himself to be Mightor's sidekick, but trouble always follows.

In between, Moby Dick and Scooby the seal (who predated Scooby-Doo by two years, both voiced by Don Messick) have to rescue Tom & Tub from "Toadus, Ruler of The Dead Ships":



You have to take what you can get.

Rating: B+.