Robot Factory.

Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!

After starting out as a married couple in 1946's THE TALKING MAGPIES (see my upload from two weeks ago), then being re-imagined later that year as a pair of male troublemakers in THE UNINVITED PESTS (last Saturday's upload), HECKLE & JECKLE went on to star in another fifty theatrical shorts produced by Terrytoons. When Paul Terry sold his outfit to CBS in the mid-1950s, these were packaged as one of the very first Saturday Morning Cartoon shows on American network television.

By the mid 1970s, Terrytoons was defunct. So Filmation Studios licensed MIGHTY MOUSE and the mischievous magpies for an all-new show in 1979. Despite the duo having been a fixture on television for nearly two dozen years by that time, these were their first cartoons actually produced for the medium.

I've already posted the heroic rodent's first cartoon from THE NEW ADVENTURES OF MIGHTY MOUSE AND HECKLE & JECKLE. The hour-long show also featured a new back-up segment with a vampire duck. And, being late '70s Filmation, some obligatory 'educational' content. (Blech!)

So here, from October 1979, is a H&J segment from the show. These Filmation shorts are a bit hard to dig-up, but nobody misses 'em too much.

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