The New Casper Cartoon Show (1963)

Genre

animation, kids

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 26 episodes

Rated

L

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a 1960s Saturday morning cartoon featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost and his ghostly friends like Wendy the Good Little Witch, the Ghostly Trio, and Spooky. It mixes new episodes with older theatrical shorts where Casper has mild adventures and helps others.

playfullightheartedwhimsicalgentlecheerfulfamily-friendlybouncy

What happens

The New Casper Cartoon Show is a 1963–1964 animated television series that appeared on ABC's Saturday morning schedule, based on the Famous Studios cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper's co-stars included his friends from the Harvey Comics stories: Wendy the Good Little Witch, the Ghostly Trio, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, and the ghost horse Nightmare. The show premiered on October 5, 1963 and is one of the earliest Saturday morning cartoons. The show included a mix of 26 new Casper cartoons created for this show by Paramount Cartoon Studios, who had previously sold the characters to Harvey, as well as a selection of 1959–62 cartoons from the aforementioned Paramount, which were mostly the later Modern Madcaps and Noveltoons (the latter series repackaged as "Modern Madcaps"). Most voices in the newly-produced Casper episodes were performed by Norma MacMillan and Bradley Bolke. All of the new material was created for the first season in 1963-1964, but the show continued airing in reruns on ABC for six seasons, ending on January 30, 1970. Later, in early 1976, the 26 episodes were packaged for syndication along with the theatrical Casper shorts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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