I wasn’t planning on a theme week but that seems to be how we ended up. First I looked at Fangface, a terrible intro from Ruby-Spears. I followed it up with The Centurions, a good example from the same company on how to do a narrated exposition. However, that was an adventure show and the other show was a comedic adventure show. While getting cleaned up for bed last night I happened to think of a good example of a comedic adventure, but not from Ruby-Spears. None of them were even good, including Plastic Man. No, the best example of what Fangface should have done it came a year earlier…and from their former bosses.
In 1978 Hanna-Barbera gave us Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels. While it still borrows from the Scooby formula I think they changed enough things to ignore that. The Angels didn’t always fight fake monsters and just straight up solved a mystery. Plus they had a superhero. The show began as one of the segments of Laff-A-Lympics before getting their own show in season three…at least according to Wikipedia (question the source). I first saw it as part of USA Network’s Cartoon Express if not in syndication or after getting its own show on ABC so I wouldn’t know. I was pretty young then, about five years old when the show started. Cavey has since showed up in a couple different Flintstones series and most recently in an altered form in the Scoob! movie. So how did they do the same thing Fangface did and get it right?
