So I'm trying to explain to my daughter why the "Star Trek" animated series was such an incredibly awesome thing to people who were starved for "Star Trek" (or any TV SF taken seriously) in a world before VCRs and DVDs and DVRs and cable and the like.
Having only seen one episode of it ("More Tribbles, More Troubles"), she just wasn't getting it.
Which made me come up with the analogy of a "Lord of the Rings" animated series, of all-new stories, half-hour in length, with really crude Filmation animation, and all the content restrictions of Saturday morning cartoons.
That got the picture across to her. And also gave her an incurable case of the giggles. "That means they couldn't do the drinking contest. Mwah-ha-ha-ha!"
Bingo. But she'd still watch it. Heck, so would I. #ddtb
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[edit] Production. The series was produced by Filmation in association with Paramount Television and ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974 on NBC, airing a total of twenty-two half-hour episodes. An e…