Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt
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Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt, were a series of 5-minute adventures, which originally aired between 1965-1966, produced by Hanna-Barbera studios, and were shown during a half-hour cartoon.
Sinbad Jr.(the voice of Tim Matheson) is the son of Sinbad, the famous sea explorer. He becomes superhuman getting his power from his magic belt. His first mate is the funny and loyal assistant Salty the Parrot (voice of Mel Blanc of Bugs Bunny fame). Matheson and Blanc were the voices used in the Hanna-Barbera versions.
Sinbad Jr., the Sailor was originally titled The Adventures of Sinbad, Jr. and produced for American International Television by Sam Singer, who had produced 1957's The Adventures of Pow Wow the Indian Boy, a very limited animated cartoon for CBS-TV's Captain Kangaroo series. In an effort to improve the quality of the animation, production of the 1965 syndicated cartoons was taken over by Hanna-Barbera. Thus it became one of the few cartoons to be produced by two different studios.
It was renamed Sinbad Jr., the Sailor out of deference to the 1962 Toei Studios feature length cartoon, Adventures of Sinbad.
[edit] Stations
Alphabetized by city.
- WNEW-TV / Channel 5• New York, New York
- KOGO-TV / Channel 10• San Diego, California
