Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles
Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles title card.
Format	Animated
Created by	William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Starring	Ted Cassidy (voice of Frankenstein, Jr.) Dick Beals (voice of Buzz Conroy) Don Messick (voice of Multi-man) Hal Smith (voice of Coil Man) Paul Frees (voice of Fluid Man/Big D/Narrator) John Stephenson (voice of Professor Conroy)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	18
Production
Running time	approx. 0:30 (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 10, 1966 – September 7, 1968

Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles was an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1966. It premiered on September 10, 1966, and ran for two seasons.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Adaptations 3 Episodes 4 External links

[edit] Overview

The program contained two segments, which each served as a middle ground between Hanna-Barbera's traditional cartoon early output and its superhero-based late-1960s cartoons.

• Frankenstein, Jr.: Buzz Conroy, a boy scientist, and his father Professor Conroy fight supervillains with the aid of a powerful heroic robot named "Frankenstein, Jr." "Frankie", as Buzz usually referred to him, was more than a little reminiscent of the title character in Gigantor; Buzz built "Frankie" and activated him through an energy ring.

• The Impossibles: The title characters are a trio of superheroes (Multi Man, Fluid Man, and Coil Man) who pose undercover as a Beatlesesque rock music band. The characters' names are descriptive of their powers: Multi-Man can create identical copies of himself; Coil-Man can form into a super-springy coil; and Fluid-Man can transform his body into any fluid. The heroes receive assignments from "Big D", who contacts them via a receiver in the base of Coil-Man's left-handed guitar. During the development of the show, this group was called "The Incredibles," but was changed to "The Impossibles" by the time of production.

The show was the target of complaints about violence in children's television, and was canceled in 1968. The Frankenstein, Jr. segments were later recycled in the 1976 series Space Ghost and Frankenstein, Jr., which aired on NBC from November 27, 1976 until September 3, 1977, replacing the canceled Big John, Little John.

[edit] Adaptations

A single issue of a "Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles" comic was released by Gold Key as a tie-in to the TV series, and the contents were reprinted in "The Impossibles Annual" by Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd, UK in 1968. The two "Frankenstein Jr." comic stories were titled "The Image Invasion" and "Frankenstein Jr. Meets the Flea Man". A new text-based story, especially written for the annual, was "A Spook in his Wheel".

[edit] Episodes

1x01 - The Electrical Monster

1x02 - The Sypder Man

1x03 - Menace from the Wax Museum

1x04 - Alien Brain from Outer Space

1x05 - The Unknown Shock

1x06 - UFO

1x07 - Unearthly Plant Creatures

1x08 - Deadly Living Images

1x09 - Colossal Junk Monster

1x10 - The Incredible Aqua-Monsters

1x11 - Gigantic Ghastly Genie

1x12 - The Birdman

1x13 - Invasion of the Robot Creatures

1x14 - The Manchurian Menace

1x15 - The Mad Monster Maker

1x16 - The Monstermobile

1x17 - Pilfering Putty Monster

1x18 - The Spooktaculars

[edit] External links

• Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles at Toonopedia
• Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles at the Internet Movie Database
• Frankenstein, Jr. at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles at TV.com

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