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So while Margie was sleeping off her all-nighter<\/a>, I gave Kitten an early Christmas gift — the Bird Man\u00a0and the\u00a0Galaxy Trio<\/em> DVD collection.\u00a0 Woot!\u00a0 Yes, the classic 1967 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, collected on two DVDs.<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s inutterably goofy, but in a charming, retro, nostalgic way.\u00a0 And Katherine just ate it up like candy.\u00a0 My plans to raise a little geek proceed apace …<\/p>\n

The two different serials (which ran on a single show, with a Birdman ep, a GT ep, then a Birdman ep) were part of the Alex Toth-designed era at HB, when (goofiness aside), the adventures were taken fairly seriously.\u00a0 Birdman is a solar-powered flying hero (duh), vaguely associated with the sun god Ra, but now working for an international police organization against various other super-powered threats.\u00a0 The plots were simplistically formulaic — villain threatens, Birdman is called to the rescue, they fight, Birdman runs short of solar energy, Birdman regains solar energy to escape near death, Birdman defeats the villain — but still fine, and the art design, and classic HB music \/ sound fx \/ voice artists all make it a quality production for the period.<\/p>\n

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The Egyptian connection shows in the show’s visual design, mostly.\u00a0 There’s one very brief allusion to it in the show, and in some promotional materials, but it was seriously downplayed in production, for whatever reason.\u00a0 On the other hand, the show did a nice job of establishing that there was<\/em> a back story to all this — villains were often someone Birdman had faced in the past, etc.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy Trio are a bit more interesting — a trio of super-powered future space cops, sort of a mini-Legion of Super-Heroes crossed with Space Ghost<\/em>, and with a lot of visual influence from Star Trek<\/em> (which was on its third season when this premiered).\u00a0 The plots and their resolution are a bit more varied than Birdman, since the mix of powers and personalities were more varied, too — but there’s nothing here that’s particularly ground-breaking.\u00a0 Just good fun.<\/p>\n

More on info on both sets of heroes\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, yes, I choose to consider the later incarnation as Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law<\/em>, however amusing, to be non-canonical.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Actually, Birdman wasn’t my favorite HB super-hero from that era — but that’s another gift for Kitten this Christmas …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So while Margie was sleeping off her all-nighter, I gave Kitten an early Christmas gift — the Bird Man and the Galaxy Trio DVD collection.  Woot!  Yes, the classic 1967 Hanna-Barbera…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,852,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/26\/twas_the_day_af.html","url_meta":{"origin":11999,"position":0},"title":"‘Twas the day after Christmas …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Dec-02 9:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"... and Dave's at work. 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