The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie — retitled The New Saturday Superstar Movie for its second season — is a series of one-hour animated made-for-television films (some of which also contained live action sequences), broadcast on the ABC television network on Saturday mornings from September 9, 1972 to November 17, 1973. Intended as a version of the ABC Movie of the Week for kids, this series was produced by several production companies — including Hanna-Barbera, Filmation and Rankin/Bass — and mostly contained features based on popular cartoon characters and TV shows of the time, such as Yogi Bear, The Brady Bunch and Lost in Space. Some of the films served as pilots for new TV series. The theme music and main titles were composed by Steve Zuckerman. (en)
Animated film in which the characters from the 1965-66 TV series Gidget run afoul of seagoing gold smugglers. (en)
First of two animated films in which the cast of the 1970-71 TV series Nanny and the Professor get caught up in a mystery involving a microdot. (en)
This film unites a wide range of newspaper comic strip characters — including Popeye, Blondie, Hi and Lois, Snuffy Smith, Beetle Bailey, Jiggs and Maggie, Steve Canyon, The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, The Little King, and The Katzenjammer Kids — against a common enemy. (en)
Based on the tremendously popular Lassie character, this was the pilot film for the 1972-73 animated TV series Lassie's Rescue Rangers. Someone is trying to frighten the Native American people of Thunder Mountain away and Lassie has to get to the bottom of it. (en)
Animated film in which Tabitha and Adam Stephens, the children from the 1964-72 TV series Bewitched , use their magical powers to save a circus; an intended pilot film for an animated TV series that was never made. (en)
Continuation; see Part 1 above. (en)
Second of two animated films in which the cast of Nanny and the Professor get involved in a mystery about a traveling circus. (en)
Animated film based on the 1964-66 TV series The Munsters involving a car that is "fueled" by music. (en)
This animated film casts the Red Baron as a hero in a world of heroic anthropomorphic dogs and villainous anthropomorphic cats. (en)
In this ecologically-minded film, dozens of Hanna-Barbera animal characters — led by Yogi Bear — and a park custodian named Noah Smith travel around the world, and even into outer space, in a flying version of Noah's Ark in search of "the perfect place" . The pilot film for the 1973 animated TV series Yogi's Gang. (en)
Based on the characters from the 1969-74 TV series The Brady Bunch, this was the pilot film for the 1972-73 animated TV series The Brady Kids. The Brady kids enter a balloon race, but they end up accidentally going to a mysterious island. They meet some strange people there, along with a talking myna bird named Marlon with magical powers and twin giant panda brothers named Ping and Pong, and even though they have a fun time with them, they have to find a way to get home. (en)
This animated film stars the famous San Francisco Giants baseball player Willie Mays, who voices his own character. A guardian angel named Casey agrees to help Willie win the National League Pennant if he agrees to be the godfather of an orphaned girl named Veronica. (en)
An animated/live-action film starring The Banana Splits. The Splits give Susie, a little girl, a tour of an amusement park. They follow a balloon that goes into a billboard and they chase after it. In it is a witch that kidnaps Susie and the Splits have to save her. (en)
In this unusual cartoon crossover film, for which Filmation obtained the rights to use many of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes characters, the Groovie Goolies help Daffy, Porky and the other Looney Tunes to solve a spooky mystery . Mostly animated, but includes a live-action segment, which can be seen here. (en)
An animated sequel to the 1838 Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. Oliver is adopted by Mr. Brownlow. When Mr. Brownlow dies, his will cannot be found, so his nephew Sniperly tries to just take the money. Oliver has to stop him. Meanwhile, the Artful Dodger now helps children escape from workhouses. (en)
An animated film in the same vein as the 1967 theatrical film Mad Monster Party?. (en)
A mini-anthology film loosely based on the 1969-74 TV series Love, American Style. (en)
Based on the 1965-68 TV series Lost in Space, this was meant to be the pilot film for an animated version of the series, but it was never made. (en)
A retelling of the legend of Robin Hood, with a cast of all-anthropomorphic animal characters. Broadcast one year before the release of Disney's 1973 animated film Robin Hood. (en)
In this animated film, the main character from the 1966-71 TV series That Girl imagines herself in the stories Alice in Wonderland, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Wizard of Oz and Cinderella. (en)
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie — retitled The New Saturday Superstar Movie for its second season — is a series of one-hour animated made-for-television films (some of which also contained live action sequences), broadcast on the ABC television network on Saturday mornings from September 9, 1972 to November 17, 1973. The theme music and main titles were composed by Steve Zuckerman. (en)