In 1972 and 1973, ABC had a neat little show on Saturday morning called The Saturday Superstar Movie. What it was was an anthology of hour-long cartoon specials, which I suppose were all pilots in someone's eyes, produced by an array of studios. Some were revivals of old characters. There was Yogi's Ark Lark, which brought back Yogi, Huck, Quick Draw and the gang after many years off the screen. (Hanna-Barbera was fighting with Columbia over who owned what.) There was a very strange Popeye special that guest-starred most of the King Features comic strip characters. There was even a show that crossed new characters with old…Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies.
There were also animated versions of live-action TV shows including The Brady Bunch, Nanny and the Professor, Lassie, Gidget, The Munsters and That Girl. And there were a few new things, as well. You'll see fast cuts from some of these shows in this, the main title for the series…