Forgetten TV: Monster Squad

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Monster Squad was a 1976 NBC saturday morning series that married the classic monsters with the 60's Batman series ( Stanley Ralph Ross who developed Monster Squad wrote 17 episodes of Batman).
In a nutshell, Museum night watchman Walter (a pre Love Boat Fred Grandy) is an aspiring criminologist, his crime computer brings to life the figures of Dracula (Henry Polic 2), Frank N Stein ( Mike Lane) and Bruce W Wolf (Buck Kartalian) who decide to be crime fighters.
Below is an episode in 3 parts, this originally aired on December 4 1976.



Part 1



Part 2



Part 3
Despite it being a very memorable series, Monster Squad only aired for one year. Ideal Toys also cancelled their line of Monster Squad action figures, double whammy....

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[ThatBatmanGuy]

I watched every episode back in the day. Fun show! The only boot DVDs I've seen have only 4 episodes on them.

Fun fact: The vans of Monster Squad and Kids from CAPER are Evel Knievel's CB van. Also ALL of the bodies use EK's body too. Just look at the feet. I believe they have EK's belts on TOO.

Bob

[kennermike]

The monster Squad 1976

you know I never heard of the saturday morning series i must have been watching the Syd and Marty Krofft show but im going to watch now its sounds like a blast! I think theirs a new fan.Thank for the info oh yeah since the Ideal line never made to the toy shelvs was their any prototypes

[Bionic Joe]

I never heard of this show, must have came on the same time as DR SHRINKER/ ELECTRA WOMAN and DYNAGIRL

[The Toyroom]

I remember watching these regularly...sadly it wasn't around long.

[Sweep Secondhand]

I remember being really excited as a kid when I saw this show was coming out and then being dissappointed that the monsters were so goofy. I do remember a couple of years later when Love Boat premiered thinking there's Walt from the Monster Squad as one of the crew!

There was also a board game and a Frankenstein bop bag released for this series.

[palitoy]

[Keene]

We got to choose group names for our kindergarten reading groups. I successfully lobbied the other kids in mine to call ours the Monster Squad, in homage to the show...
-- KEENE

[Keene]

I just watched the first third...

Why did '70's TV executives hate children so?

[CoolLou]

These shows rocked! kids from CAPER..."When the Big Baloney, when the Big Baloney, when the Bg Baloney was blue!!" and "Don't ever say Bananas!!"

[CoolLou]

Notice they have the same bendy body style as Evl Kneival figures from Ideal. Taking the same ideas Mego to reuse old molds...?

[ThatBatmanGuy]

Notice they have the same bendy body style as Evl Kneival figures from Ideal. Taking the same ideas Mego to reuse old molds...?

Yep, that's what I said in my first post.

Bob

[Drain]

I remember watching it to as a kid, in the glory days of live action Saturday Morning programming. The Only Episodes, 4 total, I have seen lately, are the one ThatBatmanGuy mention in his post on either VHS or DVD. Fred later joined Cootier in Washington DC