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The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie

All Episodes 1972 - 1973

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  • 1972-09-09T04:00:00Z
  • 43m
  • 19h 43m (20 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Animation
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie is the umbrella title for hourlong animated telefilms broadcast over ABC on Saturday mornings in 1972 and 1973. It was the first anthology series of first-run animated telefilms produced for a network. Intended as a "movie of the week" for kids, this series was produced by several production companies, including Hanna-Barbera, Filmation and Rankin/Bass. Mostly this series 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 features served as pilots for new TV shows.

20 episodes

Series Premiere

1972-09-09T04:00:00Z

1x01 The Brady Kids on Mysterious Island

Series Premiere

1x01 The Brady Kids on Mysterious Island

  • 1972-09-09T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1972-09-16T04:00:00Z

1x02 Yogi's Ark Lark

1x02 Yogi's Ark Lark

  • 1972-09-16T04:00:00Z1h

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" (i.e., a land free of pollution, deforestation and other forms of mankind's despoilment).

1972-09-23T04:00:00Z

1x03 Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters

1x03 Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters

  • 1972-09-23T04:00:00Z1h

An animated film in the same vein as the 1967 theatrical film Mad Monster Party?.

1972-09-30T04:00:00Z

1x04 Nanny and the Professor

1x04 Nanny and the Professor

  • 1972-09-30T04:00:00Z1h

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.

This animated film stars the famous San Francisco Giants baseball player Willie Mays, who voices his own character. A guardian angel named Casey (named after legendary Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, New York Yankees and New York Mets baseball manager Casey Stengel (voiced by Paul Frees)) agrees to help Willie win the National League Pennant if he agrees to be the godfather of an orphaned girl named Veronica.

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.

1x09 The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik

  • 1972-11-04T05:00:00Z1h

A retelling of the legend of Robin Hood, with a cast of all-anthropomorphic animal characters.

Based on the tremendously popular Lassie character, this was the pilot film for the 1973-75 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.

Animated film in which the characters from the 1965-66 TV series Gidget run afoul of seagoing gold smugglers. This film also known as "The Odd Squad".

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.

Animated film in which Tabitha and Adam Stephens, the children from the 1964-72 TV series Bewitched (depicted here as teenagers), use their magical powers to save a circus.

1972-12-09T05:00:00Z

1x14 The Red Baron

1x14 The Red Baron

  • 1972-12-09T05:00:00Z1h

This animated film casts the Red Baron as a hero in a world of heroic anthropomorphic dogs and villainous anthropomorphic cats.

The Groovie Goolies help Daffy, Porky and the other Looney Tunes to solve a spooky mystery (in the style of Scooby-Doo Where Are You!). Mostly animated, but includes a live-action segment.

Season Finale

1973-01-06T05:00:00Z

1x16 Luvcast U.S.A.

Season Finale

1x16 Luvcast U.S.A.

  • 1973-01-06T05:00:00Z1h

A mini-anthology film loosely based on the 1969-74 TV series Love, American Style.

1973-01-13T05:00:00Z

1x17 That Girl in Wonderland

1x17 That Girl in Wonderland

  • 1973-01-13T05:00:00Z43m

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.

Season Premiere

1973-09-08T04:00:00Z

2x01 Lost in Space

Season Premiere

2x01 Lost in Space

  • 1973-09-08T04:00:00Z1h

An animated version of the much loved 1960's TV series. This time the Jupiter 2 is a space shuttle on its way from Earth to Saturn, commanded by Commander Craig Robinson and crewed by Robon the robot. The passengers are Linc Robinson, Craig's brother, Geologist Deanna Carmichael and Professor of Biology, Dr. Zachary Smith, who is not a stowaway this time.

1973-10-27T04:00:00Z

2x02 The Mini-Munsters

2x02 The Mini-Munsters

  • 1973-10-27T04:00:00Z1h

Second (and final) of two animated films in which the cast of Nanny and the Professor get involved in a mystery about a traveling circus.

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