Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor

The Mighty Mightor was a prehistoric human who could change into a masked superhero by raising a stick in the air and shouting "Mightor!" He was magically transformed into a being with great strength who could fly with the aid of his club. His dinosaur pet would also morph into a dragon. He'd take on a T-Rex or anything else that threatened his tribe. The program had many of the same sound effects and feel of Jonny Quest. While it may not have been higher quality animation, the mixture of a superhero, dinosaurs, cavemen, and fierce battles looked pretty cool to a 9 year old back in the 1960s and an old baseball bat was the perfect "club" to imitate The Mighty Mightor. I never could get mine to fly though.

First of all, everything that neutrino68 said in his review is completely untrue. I find it hard to believe that he has ever seen the show at all. If he had seen more than one episode he would know Little Rok is not related to Mightor. One thing he did get right is that the story is always the same. That story is that someone wants to take over the village. One good thing about both of these shows is that they have a 10 second origin story at the beginning. That was rare for Hanna Barbera. Though the origin for Moby Dick fails to mention a seal that is always there. The Moby Dick cartoon isn't as bad as you would think. In every episode the kids just get into random undersea danger for absolutely no reason but it's not boring.

for many years, I had this image of a flying caveman superhero, stuck in my head. Other folk only ever came up with "Captain Caveman", when asked about it, but I knew it wasn't that. The first time I ever got to see Cartoon Network, there Mightor was, amongst similar Hanna-Barbera heroes of the time, and it all made sense again. Honestly, my vague memories were more fun, because this was mostly leftover sound effects from "Jonny Quest", and the typical vocal processing of the day, for the hero

Still, it's a painless 12 minutes or so. Don't remember "Moby Dick" at all, though my fond memories of "Mightor" could be clouding my memories. My favorites at the time, would have been "Shazzan", and an obscure "Lone Ranger and Tonto" cartoon, featuring Tonto's trained hawk, "Taka". Cartoon network would earn an even more special place in my heart, if they ever excavated this Lone Ranger, since I had an inflatable hawk for years, also named Taka. But I haven't seen a hint of that show, since I was 8, and am prepared to survive on my memories. Still, in this modern age, I can't believe Cartoon Network/Boomerang, hasn't brought these back yet. I think this "Lone Ranger" was a Filmation product, but can't be sure. Maybe one day....

"Mightor" is god-awful in every respect: animation, story, voice acting, sound, music, etc. Each episode is nearly identical: some bad thing kidnaps the chick, then Ken-doll caveman turns into Mightor, while his kid brother (son? whatever?) puts on a Mightor mask and pretends to be the hero. The kid attacks the bad guy and his Mightor mask covers his eyes. Whilst he can't see, the real Mightor defeats the bad guy. The kid lifts his mask and thinks he did it himself. Rinse, repeat, show after show.

HOWEVER. There is an entity that makes "Mightor" look good: "Moby Dick." This show is too awful to even discuss. Its very existence will depress you like a rainy Sunday after the funeral of a close friend. Cheap, eye-straining (from the constant blurry underwater effects seemingly achieved by wiggling the lens around while printing the film), and soul-draining. If you must watch this, keep some Prozac or St. John's Wort around so you don't kill yourself.

Moby Dick And Mighty Mightor is one of the many superhero-themed cartoons released by Hanna-Barbera, and these two are the standard two-pack of adventure in the vein of Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles, as they focus on heroes and adventures.

The main draw with the two segments is that unlike the previous show, each segment has an opening that explains the origins of each show. Mighty Mightor is set in the prehistoric era, where a teenage caveman named Tor saves an old hermit while on a hunting trip, and is granted a club that allows him to transform into Mightor, and change his dinosaur friend Tog into a dragon. Using his new powers, Mightor protects his village from all threats, and even save love interest Sheera or her brother, Little Rok, whose habit of pretending to be Mightor sometimes gets the kid into a situation.

Moby Dick is set in present time, as teenagers Tom and Tubb befriend the great white whale after he saves them from being shark food after a typhoon sweeps the two far from their uncle's sea vessel. Together with a pet seal named Scooby, Moby Dick protects the boys as the four take on the perils of the deep together.

Each of the 18 episodes contains two Mightor adventures and one Moby Dick episode. Each of the shorts chronicles a random adventures the heroes have. I prefer the Mightor shorts, mainly the ones without Little Rok, as I found that character to be a prehistoric pain in the neck made to always need rescuing and never learns to stay out of danger. The Moby Dick shorts I do not care about, as they are more light-hearted and are boring compared to the Mightor ones. I recommend this for those who are into classic cartoons.