The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie

The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie — retitled The New Saturday Superstar Movie for its second season — is a series of one-hour animated made-for-television films (some of which also contained live action sequences), broadcast on the ABC television network on Saturday mornings from September 9, 1972 to November 17, 1973.

Intended as a version of the ABC Movie of the Week for kids, this series was produced by several production companies — including Hanna-Barbera, Filmation and Rankin/Bass — and mostly contained features based on popular cartoon characters and TV shows of the time, such as Yogi Bear, The Brady Bunch and Lost in Space. Some of the films served as pilots for new TV series.

The theme music and main titles were composed by Steve Zuckerman.

List of episodes

Season 1

Season 2

For the second season, the series was retitled The New Saturday Superstar Movie.

Home video

Five of the above films have been released on VHS videocassette:

• "Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters"
• "Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid"
• "Oliver and the Artful Dodger"
• "The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park"
• "Lassie and the Spirit of Thunder Mountain", along with the Lassie's Rescue Rangers episode "Lost".

"Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters", "Yogi's Ark Lark" and "The Brady Kids on Mysterious Island" have been released on DVD, the latter two on the complete series releases for Yogi's Gang and The Brady Kids, respectively.

"The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik" and "Oliver and the Artful Dodger" have been released on DVD as part of a two-disc set titled Hanna-Barbera Specials Collection.

"Lost In Space" was included on the Lost In Space complete series Blu-ray set.

See also

• Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10
• The New Scooby-Doo Movies (another hour-long Saturday morning cartoon "movie" series on CBS)
• ABC Weekend Special

References

External links

• The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie at IMDb
• Toon Tracker: The ABC Saturday Superstar Movies
  • Filmation features
  • Hanna-Barbera features
  • Features by other producers

1. List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
2. Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid
3. ABC Weekend Special
4. Jon Walmsley
5. Yogi's Gang
6. Lassie's Rescue Rangers
7. The Brady Kids
8. Mad Mad Mad Monsters
9. After school special
10. Yogi's Ark Lark
11. Nanny and the Professor (film)
12. Judy Strangis
13. Maureen McCormick
14. Henry Gibson
15. The Mini-Munsters
16. The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park
17. Eve Plumb
18. Susan Olsen
19. ABC Afterschool Special
20. List of Rankin/Bass Productions films