Cartoon Planet

Cartoon Planet was an animated variety show that ran from 1995 to 1999 on Cartoon Network. It was a spin-off of the successful ' talk show, in which Space Ghost recruited Zorak and the virtually then-unknown Brak to assist him in hosting. Brak, a former member of the Council of Doom (a team of villains from the original 1960s Hanna-Barbera Space Ghost action cartoon), served as comic foil to Space Ghost and Zorak, with a personality somewhere between childlike and stupid. (His loss of intelligence since the 1960s was explained as the result of radiation incurred when he went through the "Pirranhamyte Nebula".) Missing from the Space Ghost: Coast to Coast line-up is Moltar, who still appeared on Space Ghost: Coast to Coast as the producer.

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1995 - 1999 - Cartoon Network - Space Ghost - Brak - 1960s - Hanna-Barbera - Moltar

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Cartoon Planet guised itself almost like a hokey public broadcast after school special: the clichéd "mailbag", in which Space Ghost displayed his hard time of reading; classic cartoon interludes; and strange conversations among the hosts. The humor was a toned-down version of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, but still bizarre, e.g. the cast would break out into song with strangely edited music videos. These songs spawned two soundtrack albums, Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Que: Featuring 25 Hickory-Smoked Harmonies and Space Ghost's Surf & Turf: With 22 Tiki-Torched Tunes. Both albums were very well-known amongst an early Space Ghost / Brak cult following.

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In 2005, Cartoon Network announced that the show would return September 24, 2005 on its Adult Swim block of shows, airing Mondays-Thursdays and Saturdays at 5:30am.

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September 24 - Adult Swim

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