> On Feb 12, 6:03 pm, Chris Sobieniak
gmail.com> wrote:> On Feb 12, 10:45 am, Galen nekomimicon.net> wrote:>>> But it was made by TMS, so I'll post to raam anyway.
>
> SAYS HOWARD FEIN: Yes, GALAXY HIGH played out its thirteen episodes in
> the standard four-run cycle from September 1986 through September 1987
> and did not reappear in the fall 1987 schedule in new episodes or
> reruns. In March or April 1988 CBS placed the show back its schedule
> (to replace RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY or somesuch) and reran the same
> thirteen episodes through the following September. In the early
> nineties, reruns of GALAXY were carried as part of Sci-Fi's Saturday
> AM ANIMATION STATION umbrella. (TV GUIDE and newspapers never listed
> the specific components. Word-of-mouth of fortuitous channel-surfing
> was the only way to know.)
Pretty much on and off over a period of a decade at least.
> NYC network affiliates generally carried an entire network feed.
What did you expect, it was WCBS after all!
But
> many smaller markets would substitute their own programming. Circa
> 1981 Rochester NY's CBS affiliate ran its own package of syndicated
> post-48 WB cartoons in the Saturday AM BUGS BUNNY-ROAD RUNNER slot.
My CBS affiliate (WTOL in Toledo) would often opt out of a half-hour
around 10-12PM for something like Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom,
losing me a good chance to watching something locally and having to
see if WJBK up in Detroit had that particular show on or not (since
they like doing that a bit too, but WTOL was infamous for it's network
preemptions). I probably didn't see Galaxy High locally because of
that, but I don't feel like leafing through old TV program listings to
know for sure what was missed then.
>> At this point I'm more inclined to say, what the hell! It was
> another
>
>> nice attempt from a Japanese studio's U.S. subsidiary to get a show
>> going on Saturday morning much like with Mighty Orbots a couple years
>> before (if only to help fund for the production of Little Nemo movie
>> perhaps I thought).
>
> If one didn't peruse the credits, it wouldn't appear that GALAXY HIGH
> was made by a Japanese outfit.
That was true.
Unlike contemporary 1980s DIC (and some
> Marvel asnd Ruby-Spears product) the animation looked downright
> American. ORBOTS had more of an anime look. BIONIC SIX, which TMS made
> for syndication the following season, looked somewhat less anime than
> ORBOTS but more anime than GALAXY.
If anything, taking Osamu Dezaki out of the loop proved the best in
the end. :-)
> Abundant use of 'H-B SFX' (Sam Horta is listed as SFX editor) and a
> pop/rock underscore (the otherwise unknown Don Felder) made GALAXY
> HIGH seem more like a Ruby-Spears or Film Roman series. So too did a
> high-profile American voice cast, including up-and-comers Nancy
> Cartwright and Neil Ross, durable character actors Pat Carroll, Henry
> Gibson and Gino Comforti, and longtime H-B staples John Stephenson and
> Howard Morris. Morris had been largely absent from animation for
> nearly a decade prior.
>
> The animation and graphics certainly seemed 'domestic' rather than
> anime as well. Some familiar names are present in the credits. H-B vet
> Allen Wilzbach (a huge studio presence in the sixties) is listed in a
> supervisory role. Some of the founding fathers of UPA and TV-era
> Disney- Dave Hilberman, Bill Hurtz, Floyd Gottfredson- receive various
> technical credits. And as previously mentioned, John K soujourned here
> between his self-despised stint on the JETSONS revival and his
> groundbreaking MIGHTY MOUSE revival.
Pretty good who's who in the industry. Of course one could say the
same for the Little Nemo movie I mentioned before as often I noticed
some viewers thought that was from Disney despite being a co-
production (American talent in the writing, voicing, design and
music). It's opening credits also bear a lot of great talent to spot
(though I find it nice to see Yasuo Otsuka worked on this too)....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69637mM5-vM
>> If Galaxy High have had a more suitable pilot of such made-
>
> At least there WAS a cohesive pilot setting up the premise to this
> show, a rare occurrence in TV animation except for some of the
> syndicated Disney shows that would open with full-hour previews.
Being reminded of the one for Tale Spin that I once downloaded an AVI
of (since it's pilot contained some differences and changes to what
was seen in the separate episodes afterwards).
But
> first episodes of most other cartoons just aired 'midstream' as if
> everything had been going on as seen for years- with maybe a tiny bit
> of exposition in the dialogue. The only other shows I can recall off
> the top of my head having canonical premiere episodes are THE
> ADVENTURES OF GULLIVER, JACKSON 5IVE, 13 GHOSTS OF SCOOBY-DOO and TINY
> TOON ADVENTURES. Feel free to chip in with others.
Remembering Tiny Toon's one for having saw it on CBS as a prime-time
special (and having taped it too, noticed one or two things that were
edited later on in it's syndie run).
> HOWARD: Which just goes to prove that stereotypes are truly
> 'universal'. For all of its cleverness, GALAXY contained a huge number
> of comic stereotypes, many touching on ethnicity:
>
> -Prof. Icenstein is your basic Teutonic genius/instructor, played to r-
> r-rolling 'R' perfection by Howard Morris.
>
> -Pizzeriest Luigi LaBounci is your basic "atsa'matta'you"
> temperamental Italian, even drawn with a few noticeable body hairs on
> his shoulders. Morris again.
>
> -The female gym teacher, depicted as a Cyclops, is your basic- well,
> Butch, just like every female gym teacher featured in a comedy. (Kim
> Cattrall in PORKY's is a notable exception.) She isn't listed in most
> published credits of the show, so I don't recall her name or who
> voiced her.
>
> -Ollie Oilslick has your basic Noo Yawk cabbie accent (well done by
> Comforti), which was pretty much an anachronism by 1980. By that time,
> cabbies could be comedically lumped in with convenience store workers
> as being overly polite Indians.
>
> -Recurring in some, but not all episodes, were squabbling middle-aged
> couple Sam and Myrt, who despite not being Earthlings, spoke in time-
> tested Jewish/longtime smoker/Noo Yawk dialect. ("Mind your own
> business, Moit!")
>
> Various episodes featured guest characters who were obvious
> caricatures of popular entertainers- a staple of sound animation since
> its inception. Clint Eastwood, Marlon Brando, Mick Jagger and the STAR
> TREK crew got their due here.
>
> BTW, I can't seem to edit my profile so my NAME rather than my E-mail
> address shows up in the tree- and I really don't feel like re-
> registering. Repeated inquiries to Google Groups have led nowhere.
> Anyone got any ideas?
I've got nothin'! (canned laughter)
