Friday/Saturday comment contest winner named
Oops. I forgot to do a Friday comment contest post. Here is the winner, a day late: Yup, John Philips, again, for the third time in the history of the blog.
He wins for his response to my Tuesday item referencing the long-ago animated series about the Harlem Globetrotters:
"In addition to the Globetrotters, there was a 90 minute cartoon with a sports theme that appeared on ABC in 1972. ABC had a show called the "Saturday Superstar Movie" which was a 90 minute cartoon made by the Rankin Bass people. Rankin Bass was most famous for it's animated puppet holiday specials (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer the most famous), but they also created some very poorly animated cartoons for television.
These cartoons were broadcast in 1972-73 and the only one that I ever watched was one about Willie Mays called "Willie Mays and the Say Hey Kid." I can't remember the plot other than there was some little kid with a guardian angel called "KC." Anyway, the cartoon was made after Willie's trade to the Mets and it was about Willie helping out the kid (who might have been an orphan) and the angel helping the Mets win the pennant. The ending of the cartoon saw Mays hitting homeruns and making incredible catches while leading the Mets to the World Series title. I never admitted to any of my 6th grade friends that I watched this thing, but I was desperate to see the Mets win another World Series - be it real or as part of a badly animated cartoon. Ironically, the "You Gotta Believe" Mets won the pennant the year after this cartoon premiered. If only the real Willie Mays played like the cartoon Willie Mays . . . "
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I am incredibly impressed with the your ability to uncover that still image from that terrible cartoon. I did have another flashback to that cartoon the other day and remembered that the actor who voiced KC the angel was Paul Fries, the man who did Boris Badanov on Rocky and Bullwinkle. I believe the voice he used for KC was the same voice that he used for Lt. Peter Peachfuzz - an occassional ally of the moose and squirrel. Having shared that with you, I'm going to cleanse my mind and read something by Charles Dickens.