7 /10 1 Votes
7.2/10 No. of episodes 18 | 6.7/10 Country of origin United States Final episode date 7 January 1967 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by William HannaJoseph Barbera Starring Ted CassidyDick BealsDon MessickHal SmithPaul FreesJohn Stephenson Producer(s) William HannaJoseph Barbera Running time approx. 0:30 (per episode) Cast |
Frankenstein jr and the impossibles the complete series available now on dvd
Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles is an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1966. It premiered September 10, 1966 on CBS, and ran for two seasons.
Contents
- Frankenstein jr and the impossibles the complete series available now on dvd
- Frankenstein jr and the impossibles strike
- Overview
- Adaptations
- Voices
- Production credits
- Other appearances
- DVD release
- References

Frankenstein jr and the impossibles strike
Overview

The program contained two segments, which each served as a middle ground between Hanna-Barbera's traditional cartoon early output and its superhero-based late-1960s cartoons.Each episode would feature two segments with The Impossibles,with Frankenstein JR sandwiched inbetween.


The show was the target of complaints about violence in children's television, and was canceled in 1968. The Frankenstein Jr. segments were later recycled in the 1976 series Space Ghost and Frankenstein Jr., which aired on NBC from November 27, 1976 until September 3, 1977, replacing the canceled Big John, Little John.
Adaptations
A single issue of a "Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles" comic was released by Gold Key Comics in 1966 as a tie-in to the TV series, and the contents were reprinted in "The Impossibles Annual" by Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd, UK in 1968. The two "Frankenstein Jr." comic stories were titled "The Image Invasion" and "Frankenstein Jr. Meets the Flea Man". A new text-based story, specially written for the annual, was "A Spook in his Wheel". The character reappeared in the comic Hanna-Barbera Presents #8 published by Archie Comics in 1996.
A Big Little Book titled Frankenstein Jr.: The Menace of the Heartless Monster was published in 1968.
The Impossibles' heroic identities were re-used for a later Hanna-Barbera production, The Super Globetrotters (which also featured a similar concept—in this case, the famous Harlem Globetrotters as undercover superheroes):
Voices
Production credits
Other appearances
DVD release
On April 26, 2011, Warner Archive released Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.