Sometimes the best Saturday morning cartoon characters got upstaged by the "Filler" cartoon in the middle. A situation that almost happened with "The Underdog Show" in 1964.

Total Television, (T-TV) did something cool, instead of using the same filler cartoon every Saturday, they rotated filling duty using every cartoon in their library. Commander McBragg, Klondike Kat and the Go-Go Gophers!

Remember my old friend Jerry, the comic book king of my childhood? Jerry never liked Underdog, he only watched the Go Go Gophers. Have to admit, my mom and dad liked the G-3 too!

Here's the episode called, "Root Beer Riot", and if you guys remember Sergeant O'Rourke and Corporral Agarn - I'm sure you will see more than a little "F-Troop" in this cartoon!

For me, it's Garfield and Friend's filler cartoon Orson's Farm/U.S. Acres.

Ha - I remember "U.S. Acres", good call!

Here's another middle-man cartoon that was worth waiting for. While all the other kids loved "George of the Jungle", Jerry and I waited for the filler cartoon, "Super Chicken".

I don't know if this is a filler cartoon, but Scrat always trying to store his acorn in the Ice Age movies was always fun to watch.

Here's one that I remember from 1968,

Hanna-Barbera was cranking out cartoons as fast as the networks could broadcast them.

"Moby Dick & Mighty Mightor" was a sandwich cartoon series that did an unusual flip-flop.

Mighty Mightor proved so popular that H-B made a swap, and turned the "Super Whale" into the filler!

Simple fact, Mightor was waay cool and the guy just had style - Moby didn't stand a chance!

Captain Caveman & Son

The filler cartoon from The Flintstone Kids.

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Captain Caveman & Son

 

The filler cartoon from The Flintstone Kids.

 

 

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Ya know what's weird MM?

I can't stop thinking about all the cartoons that didn't have fillers!

I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how many shows have filler cartoons.

The Riff-Raff cartoon that always came on after the Heathcliff cartoon was usually amusing.

Yeah, I know what you mean. The only difference between us is that I go all the way back to "King Leonardo and His Short Subjects" from 1960. This was another cartoon from Total Television, the same producers of "Under Dog".

The filler between the two King Leonardo cartoons was "The Hunter", of course I was so little that I didn't understand the dynamics between, "the fox & the hound", unlike the whole, "cat & mouse", plot that's way easier to understand.

Sure am glad these old cartoons are still around!

There's some more that deserve mentions: The cartoons in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends.

Fractured Fairy Tales

Aesop and Son

Peabody's Improbable History

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There's some more that deserve mentions: The cartoons in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends.

 

Fractured Fairy Tales

 

Aesop and Son

 

Peabody's Improbable History

 

 

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Yes . . . I was just looking at a few "Fractured Fairy Tales" the other day.  There's a few that really stand out to me. One of them is "Cinderella", the whole thing turns into an infomercial instead of a love story.

Take a look: