Space Ghost is an American Saturday-morning superhero animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , first broadcast on CBS from September 10, 1966, to September 16, 1967, and continued reruns until September 7, 1968. The series was composed of two unrelated segments, Space Ghost and Dino Boy in the Lost Valley . The series was created by Alex Toth and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera . Sometimes, it is alternatively called Space Ghost & Dino Boy to acknowledge the presence of both shows.
30-713: The Space Ghost segments were seen again in the 1976 series Space Ghost and Frankenstein Jr. (which replaced the Dino Boy segments with the Frankenstein Jr. ones from fellow Hanna-Barbera show Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles ), which aired on NBC from November 27, 1976, to September 4, 1977, after NBC put The Kids From C.A.P.E.R. on hiatus. Space Ghost , along with teenaged sidekicks Jan and Jace and their pet monkey Blip, fight villains in outer space. Usually, Space Ghost's sidekicks would get captured or trapped by
60-617: A 10-year multinational joint-venture. In North America, their physical distribution operations were merged into a company named Studio Distribution Services, LLC. Internationally, Universal will distribute Warner Bros.' titles in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan; while Warner will distribute Universal's titles in the United Kingdom, Italy (until 2024) and Benelux. On April 7, 2020, the European Commission approved
90-562: A joint venture between WBDHE and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment . The company was founded in 1978 and launched in the United States with twenty films on Betamax and VHS videocassettes in late 1979. The company later expanded its line to include additional titles throughout 1979 and 1980. Warner Bros. began to branch out into the videodisc market, licensing titles to MCA DiscoVision and RCA's SelectaVision videodisc formats, allowing both companies to market and distribute
120-400: A launch title for the region there. Warner Bros. executive Warren Lieberfarb is often seen as "the father of DVD". Lieberfarb's successor, Warner Bros. executive James F. Cardwell was recognized in paving the way for WHV's strategic positioning in next generation technologies such as High Definition DVD ( HD DVD ), electronic sell-through and portable video. In 2003, Warner Home Video became
150-548: A major role in the DC Comics series Future Quest , that also featured characters from various animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera such as Jonny Quest , The Herculoids , Birdman and the Galaxy Trio , Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles and Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor . In October 2023, it was announced a new Space Ghost comic is currently in the works from Dynamite Entertainment . The first issue
180-523: A method also used by 20th Century Fox for their first release of Star Wars in 1982. Two known films released in this manner were Superman II and Excalibur . Other films released for rental use include Dirty Harry , The Enforcer , Prince of the City , and Sharky's Machine . In 1990, Warner Home Video acquired the worldwide home video rights to the MGM/UA catalog. The $ 125 million purchase
210-404: A middle ground between Hanna-Barbera's traditional early output and its superhero -based late-1960s cartoons. Each episode would feature two segments with The Impossibles , and Frankenstein Jr. in between. The show was one of several that were the target of complaints about violence in children's television in the late 1960s, and was pulled from reruns in 1968 (its initial run had already ended
240-453: A pre-existing licensing deal with MGM, was originally expected to expire in 2001. On December 20, 1996, Warner Home Video was one of the first major American distributors for the then-new DVD format, by releasing the films Assassins , Blade Runner: Director's Cut , Eraser , and The Fugitive on DVD in Japan and on March 24, 1997, in the United States with Blade Runner also being
270-456: A wave of similar superhero themed action-adventure shows across all three major networks between the years of 1967 through 1969. Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions . It premiered on September 10, 1966 on CBS , and ran for two seasons on Saturday mornings. The program contained two segments, which each served as
300-502: Is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com. Warner Home Video Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, Inc. ( doing business as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment ; formerly known as Warner Home Video and WCI Home Video and sometimes credited as Warner Home Entertainment ) is the American home video distribution division of Warner Bros. Discovery . It
330-851: The Moss Men, the Rock Pygmies , the Worm People and the Vampire Men, amongst others. Dino Boy then meets the caveman Ugh (who saves Dino Boy from a Smilodon when he first arrives) and his pet baby Brontosaurus Bronty who become his friends in the episodes to come. The cartoon also features a woolly mammoth named Tusko whom Ugh would enlist in certain episodes to help him, Dino Boy, and Bronty out. The series came about because of then head of CBS daytime programming, Fred Silverman , had enjoyed superheroes such as Superman and wanted to incorporate classic superhero iconography with
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#1732780733913360-538: The Council of Doom. Additionally, they feature cameos from other characters ( The Herculoids , Moby Dick, the Mighty Mightor , and Shazzan ) that would appear in their own Hanna-Barbera series broadcasts on CBS the following (1967–68) season. Space Ghost & Dino Boy were released on multiple VHS tapes in the 1980s put out by Worldvision Home Video and later re-released by GoodTimes Home Video under
390-574: The Kids Klassics label. The episodes on the VHS tape for Space Ghost were "The Heat Thing", "Zorak", "The Creature King" and the Dino Boy episode "The Worm People". Worldvision released another VHS tape, Space Ghost and Dino Boy: Ghostly Tales ; this contained the episodes "The Robot Master", The Energy Monster", "Hi-Jackers", "The Lure", and "The Schemer". The Dino Boy episodes were "Marooned" and "The Red Ants". These same episodes were released in
420-534: The UK by The Video Collection. Warner Home Video (via Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment ) released Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 on July 17, 2007. The DVD edition presents the episodes on two double-sided DVDs, but alters the order from the original air-date order. This episode order is also present on Blu-ray and digital sell-throughs. A Blu-ray set of
450-635: The companies that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment distributes include Max , Warner Bros. Pictures , New Line Cinema , Warner Bros. Television , Warner Bros. Animation , Warner Bros. Pictures Animation , DC Entertainment , DC Studios , Viz Media , HBO , CNN , Cartoon Network , Adult Swim , TBS , TNT , TruTV , Turner Classic Movies , Rooster Teeth (until its closure in May 2024), Discovery Channel , Animal Planet , TLC , HGTV , Food Network , Amazon MGM Studios and among others. Their releases are currently distributed by Studio Distribution Services ,
480-610: The emerging interest in space travel and the Space Age for the Saturday morning lineup under a broader initiative of "superhero morning" which also included Filmation 's The New Adventures of Superman . The shift towards more action oriented animated formats proved a challenge for Hanna-Barbera as up to that point the studio's Saturday morning output had consisted primarily of short form funny animal comedies such as The Yogi Bear Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show . Many of
510-406: The films under their labels. By 1985, Warner was releasing material under their own label in both formats. Titles from Warner Home Video were and continue to be distributed and manufactured by Roadshow Home Video worldwide except for Australia and New Zealand because of its film counterpart's films released by Village Roadshow . Warner also experimented with the "rental-only" market for videos,
540-705: The first home video releasing company to release movies only on DVD with no VHS equivalent. In 2009, Warner Home Video introduced the Warner Archive Collection , which allows the public to order custom-made DVDs of rarely seen films and TV series from the Warner and Turner libraries. The films are also available as digital downloads. Warner Archive DVDs and downloads can be ordered online on Warner's website, on Amazon.com or one-time Turner Classic Movies -affiliated DVD website MoviesUnlimited.com. In June 30, 2020, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment returned
570-527: The home video rights to the MGM calalog after 21 years. Starting in 2022, due to the finalization of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, WBHE started distributing the television libraries of Discovery-owned networks including the flagship Discovery Channel and Animal Planet . On January 14, 2020, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment announced that they would partner on
600-519: The idea of an adult animated parody talk show using the Space Ghost character to Cartoon Network . Voice actors George Lowe , C. Martin Croker , and Andy Merrill joined the project, which Cartoon Network would soon air as Space Ghost Coast to Coast . The series premiered on April 15, 1994, and originally ended on December 17, 1999. The series was revived on May 7, 2001, and was moved to
630-519: The merger. Since June 1, 2021, SDS' logo took the WBHE logo's place on the back covers of the home releases; while there have been several exceptions that had the WBHE logo in place, mainly manufactured on demand titles, including 4K (including steelbooks) and Blu-ray releases. It is unknown whenever SDS uses an on-screen logo; as where Warner releases by SDS use the 2017–present Warner Bros. Home Entertainment logo. On June 24, 2024, it
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#1732780733913660-421: The new Adult Swim late-night programming block on September 2 of that year, where new episodes premiered until April 12, 2004. Two final seasons were released on GameTap from 2006 to 2008. 10 seasons, 108 episodes aired. The show gained spin-offs in the form of The Brak Show (2000–2007) and Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2000–2015), and has been cited as inspiration for a variety of Adult Swim programming in
690-473: The previous year). The Frankenstein Jr. segments returned to television in the 1976 series Space Ghost and Frankenstein Jr. , which aired on NBC from November 27, 1976 to September 3, 1977, replacing the canceled Big John, Little John . On April 26, 2011, Warner Home Video (via the Warner Archive Collection ) released Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection . This
720-687: The scripts for Space Ghost and future action adventure shows would be written by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears . Brainstorming sessions for the series would typically involve Silverman and William Hanna throwing out character descriptions and concepts while Joseph Barbera and Alex Toth translating them as rough sketches and doodles. With the exception of the final two half-hour shows (the "Council of Doom" episodes), each episode featured two Space Ghost segments with one Dino Boy segment between them. The final two half-hour shows only feature Space Ghost as he takes on
750-434: The series was released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (under the Warner Archive Collection label), on October 13, 2020. The release is a two-disc set containing all 20 episodes. The TV series was adapted into a comic strip by Dan Spiegle , distributed by Gold Key Comics . He has also appeared in comics published by Marvel Comics , Comico and Archie Comics . In 2016, Space Ghost and his allies and Dino Boy played
780-677: The villains, and Space Ghost would have to defeat the villains and save the day. His enemies included Zorak , Brak and his brother Sisto, the Creature King, the Black Widow/Spider Woman, Moltar, and Metallus. Voice cast Dino Boy is a young boy called Todd who parachuted out of a crashing plane with his parents still on board. He lands in an unknown South American valley where dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, and cavemen have somehow survived extinction and now live alongside some strange creatures and various tribes like
810-410: The years since its debut. In a 2014 interview, Eric André spoke about the show's influence on The Eric Andre Show , saying, "Before we started shooting, I rented as many seasons I could get my hands on and did a Space Ghost marathon by myself in my house, just so I could absorb as much Space Ghost as I could." Space Ghost proved considerably popular on its initial run and is credited with spurring
840-523: Was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (as a division of Warner Communications, Inc. ). The company launched in the United States with twenty films on Betamax and VHS videocassettes in late 1979. The company later expanded its line to include additional titles throughout 1979 and 1980. It is responsible for distributing the film and television library of Warner Bros. Discovery and other companies on various home media formats, such as DVD, Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray, Digital, and streaming platforms. Some of
870-547: Was published in May 2024. According to Comicscored.com , the Space Ghost series received a "Very Good" rating, with a Comicscore Index of 85 based on 94 ratings from critics. A manga adaptation by Kentaro Nakajo was serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday by Shogakukan in 1967. The manga was compiled into one volume. In 1994, nearly three decades after the finale of the original series, Mike Lazzo pitched
900-577: Was used to finance MGM/UA's acquisition by the Pathé Communications Corporation . The intended 12½-year-long deal was cut short in February 2000, with MGM paying Warner Home Video $ 225 million to regain video rights to a number of its films. In exchange, Warner Home Video gained full control over the video rights to MGM's pre-May 1986 library, an asset the studio had acquired outright from Turner Entertainment Co. , but due to
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