In the 1960s, Saturday morning TV was dominated Hanna-Barbera's animated adventure shows. Jonny Quest, The Impossibles, and The Herculoids delighted a generation of kids. The revivals of some of these shows kept me and my brothers entertained in the eighties. And in the nineties, Adult Swim revamped Space Ghost into a talk show host and Birdman into an attorney at law. Intended as assembly-line, throwaway entertainment, these character have somehow remained relevant, probably because their designers made them look so cool.
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