From a business standpoint, CBS missed out on a grand opportunity not greenlighting this cartoon. Sally Sergeant Merchandise I.e. Dolls, accessories, books, etc. would've been a game changer at the height of the women's lib movement.
The unsold animated series pilot is still owned by CBS Broadcasting,Inc.,its parent company ViacomCBS and its sister divisions CBS Studios,CBS Media Ventures and Paramount Pictures Corporation. SALLY SARGENT had a lot of potential and there's no way of knowing how successful it would've been if CBS hadn't closed down(translation:"KILLED")Terrytoons. But still, we can always dream,can't we?
@@coreylevine3856 UPDATE ON PREVIOUS REPLY: ViacomCBS, the parent company of CBS Broadcasting,Inc. and Paramount Pictures Corp., has since become PARAMOUNT GLOBAL. The CBS and PARAMOUNT names might well be used interchangeably since CBS and Paramount are now one and the same.
Yea they did HB was pretty powerful back then.And that Gary Owen's boiling the senator.I think CBS aired this one time.I was a small child back then.The only other studio was filmation.Coming off of the superman show.Using voice actors from the radio show.
They probably said no because of "vIoLeNcE". I remember that being the reason why the Scooby Gang always runs from the Monster of the Week instead of fighting for their lives.
I never knew this pilot existed...it's too bad this didn't become a series; it looks like it might've been a good show;I think the potential was certainly there.
Perhaps so. By the way, Kim Possible's actress, Christy Carlson Romano, currently has a RU-vid channel: ru-vid.com/show-UC1JLTAiy0P7wBcWlPPndU6g. I recommend checking it out! Plus, her birthday is this coming Friday, and it'll also be the birthday of the late Fred Rogers, star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
This sounds like a cute idea. "Sally Sargent" could have been a hit animated series had CBS not said no to this pilot from 1968. She'd be a fave of boys because of her looks and also could have been the prototype for the future Disney Channel show, "Kim Possible". And the perfect voice would be the voice actress who did the first teen queen in an H-B cartoon show,Judy Jetson,the late great Janet Waldo.
Bear in mind while ABC,NBC, or syndication could had aired it as well, the reason I specifically said CBS, is because they owned Terrytoons at the time. And once again after the split between Viacom and CBS. Though when Viacom was created they took over the Terrytoons ownership. But Viacom didn't exist in 1968.
And if the series would have gotten the go ahead, the voice cast should have been extended with names such as Don Messick, John Stephenson, Daws Butler, Henry Corden and a few others.
Its a shame this didn't last very long in the late 1960s. I still kind of wish this show did lasted even longer than one single episode and Hanna-Barbera somewhat working on this cartoon.
I think so as well, now that you mention it. When I saw this video's thumbnail, I thought she looked quite similar to Daphne, especially when you consider all those face close-ups of her in the original Scooby Doo shows.
1:05 I agree with that lyric, as her design does make her look rather pretty. And those cheerleaders at that one other part are pretty cute too, even Mary Louise in a way.
This Terrytoon employed some of Hanna Barbera's cartoonists (taking a guess). The cartoon design reminds me of Alice In Wonderland and Where's Huddles?.
This was a good idea for a cartoon,and the theme song was classic. Too bad it didn't make it into a series. She would have sold more toys then Barbie if this was a hit.
Back then, the animation community was a small world, and what was left of Paul Terry's Terrytoons was now in the hands of CBS, and "SALLY SARGENT" was among one of the many "hopefuls" that was passed, especially since the three TV networks were just getting into full-gear with their cartoon lineups while enduring backlash from angry and concerned parents complaining about the cartoon violence, especially following the assassinations of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr & Robert Kennedy Jr in 1968, so it wouldn't be too much of a huge surprise over why "SALLY SARGENT" was passed by, but it sure had the look and feel of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, especially with the Jerry Eisenberg and Iwao Takamoto-type designs, demonstrating the fact that the cartoon business in the 60s was a small world, back when studios like Hanna-Barbera, Filmation Associates, DePatie-Freleng, Rankin-Bass/Videocraft Ltd., Hal Seeger Productions, and numerous other cartoon studio entities thrived and flourished!
Another neat HB Terry Toons show. I would have loved to have seen this as a full on show. I would of bought the DVDs or wouldn't mind seeing it as a newer updated one too. I think WB (or HB since WB owns all HB stuff) needs to start making newer types of HB shows now in stead of the newer Scooby Doo stuff. Now don't get me wrong I LOVE just about any thing Scooby Doo related but I want it to go back to the older style of HB. I want newer shows to start being produced. COME ON WB! We NEED NEW!
One of the things I like about this cartoon is that it featured Gary Owens providing the narration as well as the voice of Sally Sargent's father, and Janet Waldo as Sally herself. Unfortunately, none of the other voices have never been mentioned anywhere, although I can only assume that they may have been provided by those who also did voices for Hanna-Barbera at the time. The only voice actors mentioned online are Gary Owens and Janet Waldo which is interesting as they both had worked on Hanna-Barbera's Penelope Pitstop. I also think that the look and style of this cartoon is very similar to that of Hanna-Barbera. If it had been picked up by CBS as a series, it probably would've lasted two seasons.
Three things: 1. Looks like a Disney character. (Designed by Iwao Takamato.) 2. Daphne Blake in a nutshell. 3. Warner Bros. and the first version of Kim Possible.
Maybe they thought there were too many teenage mystery-solving cartoons around at the time, especially from this same company. Frankly, there probably were.
Sally Sargent Created by Butch Hartman and Ken Bruce Directed by Meghan Mccartney and Amy Keating Rogers and Tom Minton Written by John R Dilworth and Tom King
I've seen lots of Hanna Barbera cartoon, but this is the 1st time I've heard of this babe. I wonder if this is where Disney got the idea for Kim Possible?
The Hanna Barbera sound effects were added. Terrytoons was the studio that made the pilot. Though some of the Hanna Barbera animators, Gary Owens and Janet Waldo was involved.
@@grimscraggletag6799 Yeah, she seems to have elements of both the Hanna-Barbera Alice and Daphne Blake! She even has the same voice as Alice, the late Janet Waldo!
Well like the new prime-time shows at the time, didn't the new Saturday AM shows for the 1968-69 season have to go through a violence check? (Go-Go Gophers (originally a segment on the Underdog show and Space Kidettes/Young Samson), Archie Show, Wacky Races, Batman/Superman Hour, Banana Splits, Adventures of Gulliver, Fantastic Voyage etc...) this probably wouldn't have made it past the violence check.
The guy who does the voice of the villainous Rico would do voice work on SESAME STREET when the series started in 1969. SESAME STREET cartoon quickies that is.
This came out a half century ago? Don't think I remember it at all. Didn't think Martial Arts was popular till the following decade, the '70s. Must be at least a 3-degree black belt by judging her moves.
Terrytoons had a Charlie Chan cartoon series pilot in development as well in the 1960s but it was never made to series or pilot. One does wonder how similar it would have been to the Hanna Barbera "The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan" series if Chan had his family of meddling kids or just his Number One son. I remember a one-shot cartoon short by Terrytoons that aired on local tv in the 1970s with a teenage Arabic prince and princess and a pet tiger investigating a mystery in a tomb or pyramid. Seemed like an unsold pilot cartoon...can't remember the title.
The episode was called "The Ruby Eye Of The Monkey God." No idea what the proposed series was called. (I just missed out on a 16mm print on eBay a few weeks ago. It sold for a big fat seven bucks...)
Found it...The Ruby Eye of the Monkey God with a 1968 Copyright. Animation subcontracted to Fred Calvert Productions which animated the Emergency +4 series and then I Am The Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali. I think Calvert might have animated the Sally Sargent pilot. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gwyc57yumpU.html
She's also got traits of Alice from Hanna-Barbera's "Alice in Wonderland" TV special from 1966 (whom Janet Waldo, Sally's voice actress, also voiced) and a bit of Princess Aurora as well! (Iwao Takamoto actually designed Aurora when working at Disney on "Sleeping Beauty" in the 1950s.)
All the evidence suggests that SALLY SARGENT was contracted out to Hanna-Barbera Productions,Inc.(which is now owned by Warner Bros. Animation and AT&T/Warner Media). It turned out that I was only partly right about who owns the film. Technically,it's a CBS property but it's actually owned by Paramount Pictures(though both labels are owned by ViacomCBS).
+Jack Betz Not with the anti-violence climate that year (following the MLK Jr. and RFK assassinations), Pres. Johnson appointed a National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (NCCPV) which ordered curbs on violent shows.
It wasn't Hanna Barbera the uploader only added the Hanna Barbera sound effects. Terrytoons was behind this one. Though some of the Hanna Barbera animators did work on this pilot.
Yep; she even resembles Hanna-Barbera's take on Alice in Wonderland. Her face and hair also reminds me of Princess Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty" when in her "Briar Rose" outfit, and Iwao Takamoto actually designed Princess Aurora there, so...
Might as well. Sally's design reminds me of Alex Toth's female designs, especially Daphne from Scooby Doo, and the animation looks so much like Hanna Barbera.
This cartoon was done by Terrytoons , not by Hanna-Barbera. Someone else on RU-vid has this exact cartoon uploaded and he explains the origin of this never shown cartoon pilot.
If Hanna Barbera created this animated show....we would have heard a blend of the Johnny Quest soundtrack and the pre-Scooby Doo soundtrack (1968 was when Hanna Barbera started to transition themselves away from the secret agent/science fiction music). That being said....it doesn't mean that the Hanna Barbera cartoonists/sound effect specialists weren't involved in this project
@@ZakWolf There is also The Ruby Eye of the Monkey God which is similar to this, you could add Hanna-Barbera sound effects to make it sound like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon and reupload the original cartoon if you like without it. m.220.ro/desene-animate/The-Ruby-Eye-Of-The-Monkey-God/KeShgbdckl/
Hey guys, I just had me a crazy idea! How about doing a mashup of the Wally Gator theme song with scenes of Louis from the Princess and the Frog movie? That would give me laughs all day long!
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