Garp
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BONUS: 'The King Kong Show' [1966] [TV]
Is Godzilla in it? No. Godzilla connection: Inspiration for Toho's 'King Kong Escapes'
I'd never heard of this show before, never seen it and, if not for the Toho connection, wouldn't have been curious to watch it otherwise. It's a run-of-the-mill Saturday morning kids cartoon. The animation is a mixed bag, ranging from crude and basic (Professor Bond looks the worst) to surprisingly intricate, albeit usually briefly. Voice work is passable, very much in line with the Rankin-Bass stop-motion Christmas specials. The pilot is similar to the 1933 original film, with Kong scaling the Empire State building with damsel in hand. The rest of the episodes are self-contained stories, with Kong extricating young Bobby Bond from some scrape, usually on Mondo Island (AKA Skull Island in some episodes), though they also venture to the North Pole, Egypt and San Francisco. Dr. Who (not the one I grew up with) is the main villain - a short, mad scientist with a malformed head - who wants to rule the world, either with Kong or in spite of him. The DVDs I purchased teased the episode with MechaniKong but didn't show it; MechaniKong and Dr. Who will both reappear in the spin-off film 'King Kong Escapes'. The episodes are short, colorful, easy to follow and probably would entertain the little ones when the internet is down.
Is Godzilla in it? No. Godzilla connection: Inspiration for Toho's 'King Kong Escapes'
I'd never heard of this show before, never seen it and, if not for the Toho connection, wouldn't have been curious to watch it otherwise. It's a run-of-the-mill Saturday morning kids cartoon. The animation is a mixed bag, ranging from crude and basic (Professor Bond looks the worst) to surprisingly intricate, albeit usually briefly. Voice work is passable, very much in line with the Rankin-Bass stop-motion Christmas specials. The pilot is similar to the 1933 original film, with Kong scaling the Empire State building with damsel in hand. The rest of the episodes are self-contained stories, with Kong extricating young Bobby Bond from some scrape, usually on Mondo Island (AKA Skull Island in some episodes), though they also venture to the North Pole, Egypt and San Francisco. Dr. Who (not the one I grew up with) is the main villain - a short, mad scientist with a malformed head - who wants to rule the world, either with Kong or in spite of him. The DVDs I purchased teased the episode with MechaniKong but didn't show it; MechaniKong and Dr. Who will both reappear in the spin-off film 'King Kong Escapes'. The episodes are short, colorful, easy to follow and probably would entertain the little ones when the internet is down.