Curse you all... for the rest of the week I will have that theme tune in my
head...
la la la la... 1 banana... 2 banana... 3 banana... 4... 5 bananas make a
-----Original Message-----
From:Philip Ayres [SMTP:payres@]
Sent:02 May 2002 11:27
To:chat@
Subject:Re: banana splits
Someone I know is after the names of all the banana splits can anyone
help.
But of course.... from www.tv-cream.org
BANANA SPLITS (late '60s)
HANNA-BARBERA
H-B LIVE ACTION costume musical of legend. Right. Let's see if we've got
this
right -
Fleagle, sort-of leader, droopy-eared dog in fireman's helmet;
Bingo, grinning, be-shaded orange gorilla;
Drooper, put-upon, Texan lion thing;
Snork(y), wibbly honking elephant.
Don't ask us what instuments they played, please. Anyway, anarchic format
had
these elements, in various combinations - arriving on trapeze/bent
fireman's
pole etc., Fleagle banging outsize earthquake-producing gavel to call
"meeting"
to order, Drooper "taking out the trash" unsuccessfully,
light-bulb-festooned
moose head and cuckoo clock making with the wisecracks, the "sour grapes
bunch"
(is that right?) - basically a load of kids in T-shirts (sworn enemies of
da
Splitz), the one kid who, on opening the shutters in the "apartment" would
be
sat outside singing the 'tarara-boom-dee-ay' song on acoustic guitar and
the
psychedelic song (often quite good, as these things go) at the end,
complete
with location shots and the Banana buggies going over hill and highway.
Oh, and
of course, the interspersed cartoons - The Four Musketeers
(self-explanatory -
D'Artagnan a dead ringer for Mark Hamill); The Arabian Nights (donkey
which
turned into a whirlwind when "the emperor's guards" pulled its tail, and
of
course, "Size of an elephant!"); and some thing with shrinking kids that
wasn't
on much. First series featured live action sideshow Danger Island, the
amazing
adventures of some shipwrecked bods stuck on a, er, dangerous island with
lots
of dangerous natives, dangerous animals and other dangerous dangers.
Starred a
young JAN MICHAEL VINCENT, pre-AIRWOLF. Er, that's it. If we missed owt,
bung us
a mail...
TV CREAM immortality rating -
...MAKING UP, AS THEY SAY, A "MESS" OF FUN.
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