Old cartoons that you want to watch, but can't find.

We all come across little bits of nostalgia, or just plain old cartoons that sound interesting. Anyone heard of something that sounds interesting to you, but you can't find on Youtube or any other video site?

HBO's non-Spawn animated output from the 1990's.

A lot of the Columbia Cartoons are stuff i've been wanting to watch, but i don't have Antenna TV (which airs them) and there's no official DVD release...

Samurai jack

I've been looking for some sort of pirate cartoon (at least I think it was about pirates) for years now. I can't remember the title and I have no idea what it was about, I only have brief flashes about it. I've asked around the internet and pretty much turned everything upside down in my quest to find something but nobody seems to know anything about it.

are talking about The Pirates Of Dark Water? And I'd really like to rewatch Alvin And The Chipmunks, but the episodes aren't on youtube, and I don't want to download them.

The animated series for Disney's Aladdin

edited 19th Jun '11 11:05:28 AM by Enzeru

Nope, I've gotten it as a suggestion many times before though.

Fox's old Peter Pan tv series.

Mysterious Cities of Gold.

Maya the Bee.

David the Gnome.

The Little Prince tv series.

...why yes, I do have fond memories of the 80s. Sadly, most of this stuff is stuck in rights limbo. :(

edited 19th Jun '11 4:53:04 PM by Karkadinn

I would post torrent links to both Samurai Jack and The Aladdin series, but the fun police would ban me for a week.

Dog City, Crocadoo (90's Australian animated series) and Splat! (Old Canadian documentary series about lesser known animation, it pretty much taught me everything I know)

edited 19th Jun '11 5:21:32 PM by truteal

Let me think...

The last 3 seasons of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears

Belle and Sebastian Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates

Might you be thinking of Mad Jack the Pirate? Or the episodes of Eek the Cat featuring the Whining Pirates of Tortuga?

Maybe you're talking about "La famille Pirate". It was kind of a family sit com featuring pirates. Pretty crappy animation, but it was pretty funny to me. Yeah I know, it's a french show. Loved it though.

I can't help but notice that some of the cartoons mentioned are actually out on DVD (though, sometimes only in Britain or Australia, and not always complete).

Specifically:

Samurai Jack - the first season at least is out. I could swear I heard about a "Complete Series" release not too long ago but you may have to look into that.

The Little Prince - I've heard there's a complete series release. Also, this is technically anime so it may be available in Japan, though I would expect a Japanese release to only have the Japanese soundtrack.

Alvin and the Chipmunks - They can't do complete series because of rights issues, but select episodes have been released on DVD. I recall there being a 14-episode set called "The ALVIIIIN! Edition" around the time the first movie came out.

Mysterious Cities of Gold - I'm pretty sure I heard an announcement about this.

Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates - There was one DVD, in the UK, featuring five episodes. Supposedly a complete series is in the works, but so far that's just rumor (I'm keeping an eye out though). Also, there is a complete series in France, but it only includes the French soundtrack.

edited 20th Jun '11 2:20:48 AM by MoeDantes

@Gray 64, Ilichburger: Thanks, but none of them really fit the description. It was a lot more serious from what I remember... apart from the talking parrot at least.

Mysterious Cities of Gold is on Hulu

The Wild Thornberries (only because of Nigel)

When I was littler, Cartoon Network had an Ivanhoe cartoon and a Robin Hood cartoon. The striking memory I have of the latter was the hilarious villainy of Prince John's henchmen ("Let's take this money to our "good" king! HAHAHAHAHA!" and so forth). They weren't terribly good, but I'm curious to see them purely for the sake of nostalgia.

edited 20th Jun '11 3:02:07 PM by TheGloomer

Edit: I THOUGHT THIS THREAD WAS ABOUT DVD RELEASES. I APOLOGIZE.

edited 21st Jun '11 11:02:02 AM by TacoWiz

@The Gloomer - The Robin Hood cartoon was probably Young Robin Hood. I remember watching that myself on Boomerang and actually kind of getting into it.

Mysterious Cities of Gold is available on Netflix streaming service. I watched a few episodes of it the other day but unfortunately it hasnt withstood the test of time. It could really use to be remastered :(

If you don't want to buy this stuff but would still want to watch it whenever you want, a lot of it is on Youtube.

To those who said any of the 90's Disney animated shows, each of them always has at least one person who has the full series on their profile at any given time, and a couple who have fragments.

I know someone has most of Alvin And The Chipmunks, with one or two holes per season (and most of the Chipmunks At The Movies missing).

Samurai Jack is a problem. It's difficult to track down but usually up there. Sadly, I'm still looking for "Jack Learns To Jump Good."

Generally, for whatever I can't find on Youtube I try vbox. However slow-ass the loading is.

Curiosity is on me for this one, to find the original uncut episodes of Winx Club that also includes the original voice acting(which I have found out a few days ago that it was butchered to death by 4kids). Not to mention that from what I've read about these cuts were not that big of a deal to censor.

Rocket Robin Hood. I know it's horrible, but I still want to watch it again!

Oh, and the ALF and ALF Tales animated series.

Fantastic Max. There are a few episodes online, but only a couple I've been able to find.