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Arabian Knights

Arabian Knights – 1968->
Directors
Joseph Barbera
William Hanna

Cast
Paul Frees
Frank Gerstle
Shari Lewis

Review by g1mez

Originally part of the Banana Splits show, The Arabian Knights later was seen in syndication (c. 1977) before disappearing off radar. Typical HB adventure ‘toon, a strong guy, a magic using guy, a beautiful princess who needed rescuing and the token ‘freak’, in this case, a burro that became a lightning-spewing dervish if you pulled it’s tail. Set in Arabia, camels, Sultans and the like populate the landscape. Stock HB voice talent (I think they employed about 4 people to do voices in their toons in the ’60s) Specifics elude me as it’s been 25+ years since I’ve seen it, but I do recall it being entertaining to me at the time.

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What an amazing piece of kit our telly was. Can you imagine having to change channel by turning a knob to tune in BBC2 and forever getting up to realign the aerial and contrast, and the only way to stop the picture from rolling was to give the set a good thump? Do you remember that we only have three channels to watch? Thinking about it, the conversation was better at school next day as everyone seemed to be watching the same thing unlike nowadays where we have too much choice. Aye, the quality of programmes seem to have dwindled when you think back to what we had in our days.

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