Mark Y
Screenwriter
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Thanks, Aaron!
Yes, too bad about Jeff... :frowning:
I am in the process of trying to reassemble the site, but I am pretty much "website illiterate" and it's kind of difficult transferring all the stuff into the format of the server I'm using. But it's coming along. One of the most frustrating things, though, was after Mike gave the site up, I took it over, but even though I had the passwords etc., I never had access to the program he'd been using to upload things, so I couldn't update anything or make any changes or corrections. Anything I wanted to add or revise, I had to send it to Mike and ask him to do it...and Mike did incredible work, and is a very talented artist, but after a while he just didn't have the time and/or energy to do it. Which I can understand. It's called "life."
I'd like to add a links page, and I'll reciprocate by putting your T&J site in there too...thanks! Good job on the T&J site...I watched the Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape and/or Mumbly show when it was originally on, so I have kind of a "guilty pleasure" fondness for it...I note that in the early 1990s when Turner did some kind of a retrospective on Hanna-Barbera that aired on TNT, they had a scene where a bunch of Hanna-Barbera characters appeared together (I think they were playing in an orchestra or something) and T&J were depicted as they appeared in the 1975 series, Jerry had the bow tie and everything. I never expected that!
So does anyone actually have any concrete information regarding what WB *does* have on the Banana Splits? I've read a cryptic comment that the shows will be difficult to piece back together...I also have read they "can't find" the first season opening and/or closing (I have them, I've posted that fact publicly before, and whoever would be working on such a hypothetical project is welcome to the footage...don't you dare release it with the wrong opening and then make excuses saying no one offered it to you)!
Obviously Turner had access to some really nice master material when they did the recreations of the half-hour cutdowns for Cartoon Network in the early 1990s. (They had to re-edit the butchered syndicated opening, and some of the edits didn't match the syndicated version...try comparing them some time. I guess it never occurred to them to include the complete original opening, rather than try to rebutcher it all over again.) Some things weren't quite exactly the same...some of the effects in the song segments were different or absent...I never knew the "Three Musketeers" cartoons ever had an ending title card...
A few Season 2 clips were in that Liz Phair/Material Issue "Tra La La Song" music video...I want to know what the deal is with that. WHY haven't those (Season 2) shows been available since their network runs?
I have most of the Season 2 scripts. Maybe one thing I could do...if I ever have the time...would be to post summaries and add them as kind of an appendix to the episode guide. They are not in the format of the entire shows, though. All the "gag wall" scripts are together, all the "Super Drooper" scripts are together, all the "Great Fleegali" scripts are together, etc. I am assuming they were shot this way, so that's why they are grouped this way. There isn't any information regarding which bits are in which specific episodes...but they are individually numbered, though that could have no relevance to which shows each segment was in.
Well, I'm getting way off the subject...