teem wrote:
} Anyone dicussed these yet? I watched them
} on those fabulous New York stations, I
} consider myself lucky/privledged to be
} there at that time.The episodes from the
} toons are too faded to recall, but, I must
} of liked them, as a 7-8 year old kid.
I have only faint memories of the cartoons on TV. I watched very few of them,
and was confused by the character names: why do they call each other Stan and
Ollie if their names are Laurel and Hardy? Seriously, I was only about 5 years
old, and I didn't understand that Laurel & Hardy were their last names!
About 2 or so years ago, I bought a used VHS tape of about 8 or 9 of the
Hanna-Barberra L&H cartoons. They're not bad, but of course could never come
close to measuring up to the real L&H. One cartoon on the tape seems to be an
unofficial re-working of "Laughing Gravy": it's about L&H trying to hide a puppy
from their landlord.
I have also bought a small handful of L&H comic books: one by Gold Key, one by
DC, and two by Blackthorne. The two Blackthorne comics are the most recent, and
the most affordable: just do a search on ebay for "Laurel Hardy comic book". The
Blackthorne series lasted only two issues, but were good because although they
were never side-splittingly funny, they very faithful to the original source.
James Finlayson, Walter Long, and even the Little Rascals made appearances in
these two issues! A H.M. Walker-style "Mister Laurel and Mister Hardy" joke
opens one story, and there is also a "tell me that again" gag.