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From: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Trying to identify an old "space" cartoon
Message-ID: <4048@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 00:38:10 EST
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.4048
Posted: Sat Feb 23 00:38:10 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Mar-85 05:55:18 EST
Reply-To: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (Rich Wales)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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I would like some help in recalling the identity of an old "space"
cartoon series I watched on Saturday morning TV when I was young --
probably sometime during the early 60's.

Here is what I remember (not very much, unfortunately):

(1) I believe it was one of the first cartoon series which made heavy
    use of the cheapo "only the lips move" animation technique on the
    close-ups.

(2) There was a small group of "heroes" who were continually fighting
    one or more groups of enemy aliens.  I think one of the good guys
    had a bushy full beard.  There were lots of space ships, high-tech
    weapons, etc., etc.

(3) The only episode I have any extended recollection of involved a
    quasi-gladiatorial combat between one of the heroes and one of the
    enemy.  The last "event" in the combat had the two of them in vehi-
    cles with elevated cockpits (kind of like futuristic construction
    cranes :-}), each armed with a disintegrating-ray gun and a mirror
    shield for protection.  The "fight to the death" took place in a
    large arena.

    The hero, through lack of experience with this particular weapon,
    got his ray gun vaporized by his enemy, and all appeared lost -- but
    he was able to manipulate his mirror into place so that when the bad
    guy tried to zap him, the ray bounced off the hero's mirror and the
    bad guy ended up disintegrating himself with his own weapon.

(4) I remember a scene from another episode (or maybe it was the same
    episode) where the bad guys were showing off their latest execution
    device.  There was a chair in a hemispherical plexiglas booth, and
    at the push of a button (or pull of a lever -- I don't remember),
    some kind of ray came out of the ceiling and the chair just sort-of
    faded away.  Presumably, anyone sitting in the chair at the time
    would have faded away in like manner.

Anything anyone might remember about this astounding contribution to
sci-fi :-} would be most welcome.
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                                                             Rich Wales
                           University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
                                            Computer Science Department
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