Before closing its doors, Filmation produced some of the most beloved shows of my youth. With the last of the founders passing away I felt the need to do another huge tribute. Lou Schimer has been the most well known of the trio (perhaps by adding his and his kids’ voices) but Hal Sutherland and Norm Prescott did just as much to make Filmation what it was.

Filmation used to have some great stories from licensed work to original ideas and by searching for Filmation in BW’s search engine you will find a bunch of them. However, there are some that, due to rights issues or just not getting to them, that I can’t bring you through legal channels. There are some posted that are technically “illegal” postings like some of the superhero shows. Then there are the select few that I’m lucky if I can find an intro for much less an episode, at least in English. I couldn’t do a proper Showcase of them and there aren’t enough episodes on DVD that I’m aware of to do a video review of. In our final installment of the Filmation tribute we will look at those intros of forgotten Filmation.

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