In the late 1960s, Jim Henson and cartoonist Johnny Hart teamed up to produce a pilot for a TV series based on Hart’s and Brant Parker comic strip The Wizard of Id. According to the Henson Company blog, the response was pretty positive, but by the time ABC made the decision to move on it in 1970, Henson had already moved on himself to work on Sesame Street.
Take a look and see what you think. Although it does remind me a bit of King Friday Xiii from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, it works suprisingly well, doesn’t it?
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Hat tip: cartoonbrew.
Take a look and see what you think. Although it does remind me a bit of King Friday Xiii from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, it works suprisingly well, doesn’t it?
Click here to view the embedded video.
Hat tip: cartoonbrew.
- 3/28/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
The Johnny Hart comic strips B.C. and The Wizard of Id are being developed for both TV and feature film by the estate of the late Johnny Hart, animation producer Mark Simon, Creators Syndicate's Jack Newcombe and The Metropolis Talent Agency. Simon is reported as saying they are working on family-targeted movie adaptations of both properties, and tween-targeted animated TV series.
No word if or how the estate of Brant Parker, co-creator of The Wizard of Id, is involved.
(And yes, we are making "Every Comic Eventually Gets Adapted" into a semi-regular feature.)...
No word if or how the estate of Brant Parker, co-creator of The Wizard of Id, is involved.
(And yes, we are making "Every Comic Eventually Gets Adapted" into a semi-regular feature.)...
- 3/10/2010
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
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