The Herculoids

The Herculoids
The Herculoids title card.
Genre	Animated series
Created by	Alex Toth
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Voices of	Mike Road Virginia Gregg Ted Eccles Don Messick
Composer(s)	Ted Nichols
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	18 (36 segments, 1967–1969) 11 (1981–1982)
Production
Producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Running time	22 min. - two 11 min. segments (1967–1969) 6 min. segments of Space Stars (1981–1982)
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor	Taft Broadcasting (original) Worldvision Enterprises (former) Great American Broadcasting (former) Turner Program Services (former) Warner Bros. Television (current)
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 9, 1967 – January 6, 1968
Chronology
Related shows	Space Stars
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The Herculoids is an American Saturday-morning animated-cartoon television series, created and designed by Alex Toth, that was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show debuted on September 9, 1967 on CBS. Hanna-Barbera produced one season for the original airing of the show, although the original 18 episodes were rerun during the 1968–69 television season, with The Herculoids ending its run on September 6, 1969. Eleven new episodes were produced in 1981 as part of the Space Stars show. The plotlines are rooted in science fiction, and have story direction and content similar to Jonny Quest and Space Ghost.

This series is set on the distant planet Amzot (renamed Quasar in the later series Space Stars, with which it otherwise shared a continuity). The name "Amzot" was first mentioned in the Space Ghost episode "The Molten Monsters of Moltar" (in which the Herculoids made a brief guest appearance) and in the series proper in the "Time Creatures" episode.

There are eight regular characters who make up the Herculoids:

The three humanoid characters were the only ones who could communicate in English.

The five creature characters of The Herculoids are:

After its initial run, The Herculoids was featured in several anthology wheel series produced by Hanna-Barbara including Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure, Space Stars (for which 11 additional episodes were created), and both the Cartoon Network and Boomerang incarnations of Super Adventures. The series has also influenced other artists of various mediums. Award-winning video game designer David Crane has stated that he enjoyed the series as a child and that the character of Blobert from the A Boy and His Blob franchise was directly inspired by Gloop and Gleep. Jamaican American DJ DJ Kool Herc at one time employed a backing band which also drew its name from the show, fictionalized versions of which appear in the Netflix period series The Get Down.

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