Jerod
Registered: December 1901
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Posts: 3,353
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Mon November 21, 2011 6:51am
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Rating: 10.00
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Tim
Registered: May 2006
Posts: 13,258
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Mon November 21, 2011 7:37am
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Rating: 10.00
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Awesome, you brought the characters to life. Be a neat movie. Personally, I've only seen this cartoon a few times. It's pretty rare I guess. Seen it on Boomerang a couple of times I think when I had it. It's a pretty cool cartoon just like most of Hanna Barbera's action 60's cartoons.
I found it on DVD. I might have to order this one later.
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Hannah Barbera Classic Collection: Space Kidettes/Young Samson
From wiki
Samson & Goliath (also known as Young Samson & Goliath) is a 30-minute animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC in 1967, and primarily sponsored (and owned) by General Mills. It was later shown in syndication with The Space Kidettes as The Space Kidettes and Young Samson.
The show follows the adventures of a teenager named Samson and his dog, Goliath as they ride around the country on a motorbike. Whenever trouble arise, usually in the form of a menacing super villain or evil scientist, Samson transforms himself into a superhero version of the biblical Samson by hitting his golden wristbands together. A second slam transforms Goliath into a super-powered lion. Samson has great strength, endurance, and agility, as well the ability to leap so well he appears to be flying. He can also direct shock waves from his wristbands, and by twisting his bracelets, can increase his and Goliath's powers to far greater levels.
Goliath, in addition to having similar strength and leaping powers, has "power beam" rays that emanate from his eyes, apparently making him more powerful than Samson. The pair's reverse transformation is never depicted. Though Goliath derives his name from the Biblical villain Goliath, a giant warrior for the Philistines, the two characters otherwise have nothing in common.
This show is very similar to a 1980s cartoon show, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Like Samson, teenage Prince Adam turns into the adult, muscular superhero He-Man by way of a magical artifact. Like Goliath, his pet tiger Cringer also turns into the bigger, stronger and tougher Battle Cat. Both Samson & Goliath and He-Man (along with Mighty Mightor) bear similarities to an earlier property, the Fawcett Comics (later DC Comics) superhero Captain Marvel. Samson hitting bracelets on his wrists to transform himself is identical to how Rick Jones summons the Marvel Comics version of Captain Marvel in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.
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