Super Sunday (also called
Super Saturday) was a 1980s animated television series produced by
Sunbow ProductionsSunbow Entertainment is an animation studio, founded in 1980 and owned up until 1998 by Griffin-Bacal Advertising in New York. The first animation efforts by Griffin-Bacal were producing the animated commercials for Hasbro's G.I. Joe toy line....
and
Marvel ProductionsMarvel Productions Ltd. was a television and motion picture studio division of Marvel Comics, based in Hollywood, California. Originally an animation studio, Marvel produced such notable animated shows and specials such as Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, The Pink Panther in: Pink at First...
.
It was a half-hour block with four six minute matinée segments of
JemJem, also called Jem and the Holograms, is an American animated television series that ran from 1985 to 1988 in U.S. first-run syndication...
,
Bigfoot and the Muscle MachinesBigfoot and the Muscle Machines was a special animated TV mini-series that was aired on the animated half-hour TV series "Super Sunday" and Super Saturday" containing 9 segments that ran for 6 minutes each and every weekend, along with Jem, Robotix, and Inhumanoids. The segments were combined and...
,
RobotixRobotix may refer to:* Robotix, a 1986 cartoon produced by Sunbow & Marvel Productions* Robotix , a robotics competition organized by the students of IIT Kharagpur...
, and
InhumanoidsInhumanoids was an animated series and Hasbro toy property in 1986. In the tradition of other Hasbro properties such as Transformers, G.I. Joe and Visionaries, the show was produced by Sunbow and Marvel Productions and animated in Japan by Toei Animation...
. It aired on various television stations in syndication on Sunday mornings from October 6, 1985 to October
1986The year 1986 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1986.For the American network television schedule, please see 1986-87 American network television schedule.-Events:...
. In markets that the series aired on Saturday, the series was retitled
Super Saturday.
It aired originally as
Super Week--this was a five-day tryout that featured the first five chapters of
Robotix while beginning
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines at the tug of war.
The series were cycled through, and only two or three of the four different segments appeared in a given episode.
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Super Sunday (also called
Super Saturday) was a 1980s animated television series produced by
Sunbow ProductionsSunbow Entertainment is an animation studio, founded in 1980 and owned up until 1998 by Griffin-Bacal Advertising in New York. The first animation efforts by Griffin-Bacal were producing the animated commercials for Hasbro's G.I. Joe toy line....
and
Marvel ProductionsMarvel Productions Ltd. was a television and motion picture studio division of Marvel Comics, based in Hollywood, California. Originally an animation studio, Marvel produced such notable animated shows and specials such as Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, The Pink Panther in: Pink at First...
.
Format
It was a half-hour block with four six minute matinée segments of
JemJem, also called Jem and the Holograms, is an American animated television series that ran from 1985 to 1988 in U.S. first-run syndication...
,
Bigfoot and the Muscle MachinesBigfoot and the Muscle Machines was a special animated TV mini-series that was aired on the animated half-hour TV series "Super Sunday" and Super Saturday" containing 9 segments that ran for 6 minutes each and every weekend, along with Jem, Robotix, and Inhumanoids. The segments were combined and...
,
RobotixRobotix may refer to:* Robotix, a 1986 cartoon produced by Sunbow & Marvel Productions* Robotix , a robotics competition organized by the students of IIT Kharagpur...
, and
InhumanoidsInhumanoids was an animated series and Hasbro toy property in 1986. In the tradition of other Hasbro properties such as Transformers, G.I. Joe and Visionaries, the show was produced by Sunbow and Marvel Productions and animated in Japan by Toei Animation...
. It aired on various television stations in syndication on Sunday mornings from October 6, 1985 to October
1986The year 1986 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1986.For the American network television schedule, please see 1986-87 American network television schedule.-Events:...
. In markets that the series aired on Saturday, the series was retitled
Super Saturday.
Super Week
It aired originally as
Super Week--this was a five-day tryout that featured the first five chapters of
Robotix while beginning
Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines at the tug of war.
The series were cycled through, and only two or three of the four different segments appeared in a given episode. It begin with
Robotix and
Bigfoot, then added
Jem, then dropped
Robotix for
Inhumanoids then dropped
Bigfoot after the rerun of the final segment (
Bigfoot was significantly shorter than
Robotix, which aired only once.)
Life after Super Sunday
Despite all four shorts being collected into stand-alone made-for-TV movies (as was done with previous Sunbow/Marvel collaborations
G.I. Joe and
Transformers), only
Inhumanoids and
Jem went on to be expanded into independent full-length shows.
Jem was the most successful of the four shorts and still retains a dedicated and powerful fanbase over twenty years after its premiere.
Inhumanoids had a far shorter lifespan, but is regarded as something of a cult classic today.
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