Editing Filmation (section)

=== Live-action shows ===
Filmation incorporated live-action into some of its animated series. Series like ''The Hardy Boys'' and ''Archie's Funhouse'' featured live-action footage of an audience watching the bands perform and ''Fat Albert'' had segments featuring series creator [[Bill Cosby]]. ''[[The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!]]'', was more of a hybrid—a live-action variety show with animated segments. Actors appeared as characters from the ''[[Hero High]]'' portion of the series, singing songs and telling jokes.

Filmation made six fully [[live-action]] series, including ''[[Space Academy]]'', its spin-off ''[[Jason of Star Command]]'', ''[[Ark II]]'', ''[[Shazam! (TV series)|Shazam!]]'' (based on the [[DC Comics]] character [[Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel]]), ''[[The Ghost Busters]]'' and ''[[The Secrets of Isis]]''.

==== ''The Ghost Busters'' ====
Filmation produced a live-action series called ''[[The Ghost Busters]]'' (1975), starring former ''[[F Troop]]'' stars [[Larry Storch]] and [[Forrest Tucker]], with noted science-fiction fan and collector [[Bob Burns III|Bob Burns]] as "Tracy the Gorilla".<ref name="fls750512"/> The characters worked as paranormal investigators, working for an unseen "Chief" named "Zero" who delivered their "Ghost Busting Assignments" in whimsical disguised recording devices as in ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]''.

Nine years later, [[Columbia Pictures]], who produced an unrelated 1984 movie of [[Ghostbusters|almost the same name]], had to obtain the rights to the title from the company. Filmation capitalized on the popularity of the film by producing [[Ghostbusters (1986 TV series)|a new cartoon]] based on their earlier series. Like its other shows, it used stock footage heavily; in one episode, character designs and animation sequences were recycled from the ''[[Groovie Goolies]]'' series of nearly 15 years earlier.

To avoid confusion, the animated series based on the film was called ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''. As a dig on the Filmation series, an episode was written about a group of fraudulent ghost fighters, trying to steal the "Real" Ghostbusters' business and thunder.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=5561|title=Interview: Lou Scheimer: A Candid Conversation with Filmation's Founder|last=Carter|first=R.J.|date=2007-06-11|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120525111532/http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=5561|archive-date=2012-05-25|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==== Looney Tunes/Groovie Goolies crossover ====
Also of note is ''[[Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies]]'', a special featuring several of [[Warner Bros.]]' ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' stars (except [[Bugs Bunny]]) paired with Filmation's own ''[[Groovie Goolies]]'', a group of classic monsters. Directed by Sutherland and written by [[Len Janson]] and [[Chuck Menville]], it aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] as part of ''[[The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie]]'' on December 16, [[1972 in television|1972]]. While most of the Warner Bros. characters were drawn well (veteran Warners animator [[Virgil Ross]] was working there at the time, along with other animators that had worked for Warner Bros. Animation in the late 1960s, such as [[Laverne Harding]] and [[Ed Solomon]]), and were voiced by veteran voice actor [[Mel Blanc]], the special is not liked by many fans of classic Warner Bros. animation because of its limited animation, as well as a weak storyline.

This was not Filmation's last dalliance with classic cartoon characters; in the late 1970s the company produced new series based on the characters from the [[Terrytoons]] archive ([[Mighty Mouse]] and [[Heckle and Jeckle]], titled ''[[The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle]]'') and a new ''[[The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show|Tom and Jerry]]'' series as well.