Cartoon Quest was the name of a block of mostly animated television shows that aired on the
Sci Fi Channel
Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable channel owned by the NBCUniversal Television and Streaming division of Comcast's NBCUniversal through NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. Launc ...
starting in 1992. Similar to
USA
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's ''
Cartoon Express'', it featured reruns of various older cartoons interspersed with interstitial segments; in this case, focusing on a live-action family (all clad in loincloths) exploring a strange region. During its run, the block aired every Saturday from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST.
This block ended in 1995, and was replaced by ''
The Animation Station
The Sci-Fi Channel's Animation Station was a block of animation or puppetry-related television shows on the Syfy, Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). Some of the shows shown were ''Ronin Warriors'', ''Star Wars: Droids'', ''Star Wars: Ewoks'', ''The Transfo ...
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Programming
Shows aired the first season of ''Cartoon Quest'' are:
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
''Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons'', often shortened to ''Captain Scarlet'', is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company Century 21 Productions for distributor I ...
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Defenders of the Earth
''Defenders of the Earth'' is an American animated television series produced in 1986, featuring characters from three comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate—Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Mandrake's assista ...
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Fantastic Voyage
''Fantastic Voyage'' is a 1966 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. The film is about a submarine crew who are shrunk to microscop ...
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The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
''The New Adventures of Flash Gordon'', also known as ''The Adventures of Flash Gordon'', is a 1979-1982 animated television series. The series is actually called ''Flash Gordon'' but the expanded title is used in official records to distinguish ...
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Return to the Planet of the Apes
''Return to the Planet of the Apes'' is a 1975 Saturday morning animated series, by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises in association with 20th Century Fox Television, based on the 1963 novel ''Planet of the Apes'' by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel had ...
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Star Trek: The Animated Series''
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Stingray
Stingrays are a group of sea rays, which are cartilaginous fish related to sharks. They are classified in the suborder Myliobatoidei of the order Myliobatiformes and consist of eight families: Hexatrygonidae (sixgill stingray), Plesiobatidae ( ...
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The Transformers''
The following year and further on:
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Back to the Future: The Animated Series''
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Bionic Six
is a 1987 animated television series. It was produced by Universal Television and animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha (now TMS Entertainment) and distributed, through first-run syndication, by MCA TV, years before the latter company became NBCUniver ...
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The Funny Company
''The Funny Company'' is an American animated cartoon produced in 1963 and seen in syndication. Ken Snyder and Charles Koren produced 260 six-minute-long episodes (they later would create the cult favorite Roger Ramjet). The Mattel Corporation pr ...
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Galaxy High
is a science fiction animated series that premiered on September 13, 1986 on CBS and ran for 13 episodes until December 6, 1986. The series was created by Chris Columbus (filmmaker), Chris Columbus and featured music and a theme song composed b ...
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Here Comes the Grump
''Here Comes the Grump'' is an animated cartoon series produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970. It was later shown in reruns on Sci-Fi Channel's Cartoon Quest.
Structured as a battle between good and evil, the ...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (french: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles ''A Journey to the Centre of the Earth'' and ''A Journey into the Interior of the Earth'', is a classic science fiction novel ...
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Land of the Lost Land of the Lost may refer to:
* Land of the Lost (1974 TV series), ''Land of the Lost'' (1974 TV series), the original 1974 children's television series
* Land of the Lost (1991 TV series), ''Land of the Lost'' (1991 TV series), the 1991 remake of ...
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Lazer Patrol''
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Little Shop
''Little Shop'' is a 1991 animated fantasy comedy television series that aired on Saturday morning cartoon, Saturday mornings on the Fox Kids, Fox Kids TV network, about a teenager and a giant talking plant. ''Little Shop'' was based on the 1960 ...
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The New Adventures of Gigantor
is a 1980 Japanese Mecha Animated series produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, and a modern style remake of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga ''Tetsujin 28-go''. It was directed by Tetsuo Imazawa and produced by both Shigeru Akagawa and Toru Horikoshi. It a ...
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Robotech
''Robotech'' is a science fiction franchise that began with an 85-episode anime television series produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production and first released in the United States in 1985.
The show was adapted from t ...
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Ronin Warriors
''Ronin Warriors'', known in Japan by its original title , is a Japanese anime series created by Hajime Yatate and animated by Bandai Namco Filmworks, Sunrise. The television series, co-produced by Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Nagoya TV, a ...
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Star Wars: Droids''
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Star Wars: Ewoks''
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Terrahawks
''Gerry Anderson & Christopher Burr's Terrahawks'', usually referred to simply as ''Terrahawks'', is a 1980s British science fiction television series produced by Anderson Burr Pictures for London Weekend Television and created by the product ...
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References
See also
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The Animation Station
The Sci-Fi Channel's Animation Station was a block of animation or puppetry-related television shows on the Syfy, Sci Fi Channel (now Syfy). Some of the shows shown were ''Ronin Warriors'', ''Star Wars: Droids'', ''Star Wars: Ewoks'', ''The Transfo ...
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S.C.I.F.I. World
Television programming blocks in the United States
Syfy original programming
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