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READ MORE ABOUT THE MIGHTY HERCULES! Hercules Ruled! Easily my favourite animated series for weeks if not months. Rounding out your character roster, I'll mention Herc's girlfriend Helena, Newton's sidekick "Toot" who communicated via pan-pipes alone. Besides Daedalus, Hercules had to worry about "The Mask" and the sultry yet evil Wilamena.

Give me three or four jerky frames a minute of The Mighty Hercules over the steroid-bloated, effeminate Disney clown any day.

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- Steve

Thank you for printing the lyrics to the Hercules theme. My brothers and I used to watch it everyday after school. It was shown as one of the segments on a local kid's program called "Johnny's Follies" on WVUE in New Orleans.

I didn't think anybody else remembered this cartoon until I heard it mentioned on the Canadian comedy series, "The Kids in The Hall." During a monologue about gay couples by Buddy (Scott Thompson), the last pairing he mentions is "Hercules and Newt." When the audience laughed, I knew even people in Toronto were familiar with the show.

- David Bush

When I was a kid, Mighty Hercules used to play on a show called "Boomtown" starring Rex Trailer, which was a western-type kid's show. My sister and I used to love that cartoon and would play-act it all the time. Now, some 30 years later, it was always lingering in the back of my mind, when I happened to pick up a toy selling newspaper and the Mighty Hercules board game was being auctioned off for a minimum bid of $650!! So much for that . . .

- Ken Paruti

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My first experience with Hercules was as an oft-stoned college student in Dallas in the mid-1980s. Channel 27 had a Felix the Cat / Mighty Hercules hour, which fit in nicely with my strict regimen of blowing off classes while watching mindless television. Of course, the best thing about it is the utter cheesiness. This was lost on my girlfriend, who thought I was just sitting around watching stupid cartoons, when in fact I was, um, well, OK, that's what I was doing. But still. Hercules was the beginning of the end for that relationship, but even though she still doesn't get it, we remain friends to this day.

- W. Evans

The original Mighty Hercules show was a popular staple in the lunchtime line-up of Montreal's CFCF-12 station in the early-mid 70s. A single 5-minute Herc segment was shown each weekday at 12:00 noon just before The Flintstones. I suppose one of the reasons for its popularity was the fact that local Montreal TV & radio personality Jimmy Tapp provided the voice of Hercules himself! Knowing that Mr.Tapp was about as far removed in real life from the character of Herc only added to the charm of the show. :)

Around 1976, the series disappeared entirely from the airwaves in Montreal and wasn't seen again until channel 12 dug out the grainy old prints and ran them at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings in 1992.

Thankfully, a company called "Alan Enterprises" bought the series shortly thereafter and re-syndicated it with crisp, clean new prints. Herc never looked so good! YTV (Canada's national cartoon cable network) picked up the series aound 1994-95 and broadcast it from coast-to-coast for the first time in nearly 20 years which gave me a chance to re-live some truly wonderful childhood memories.

- Daren Gleason

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