11 Classic 80s Movies With Awesome Animated TV Shows You Forgot Existed

9. Back To The Future

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The Back to the Future cartoon series picked up things pretty much where the third and final film let off, with Dr. Emmett Brown now happily ensconced at a farm in Hill Valley with his wife Clara and two sons Jules and Verne, who both briefly appeared at the end of the last movie.

That setup gave this series a pretty neat entry point into some animated shenanigans with the two Brown offspring taking center stage, alongside Marty McFly, in a series of time travel adventures that saw the creators get seriously creative with trips to prehistoric times, ancient Rome and even the Salem Witch Trials, using a modified voice-activated DeLorean that rather conveniently folded into a suitcase.

Biff Tannen and Marty’s love interest Jennifer Parker also returned while Mary Steenburgen and Biff actor Thomas F Wilson also returned to lend their vocal talents to proceedings. In an added bonus, Christopher Lloyd even turned up as Doc Brown in a series of live-action, in-episode experiments related to the episode’s plot, though The Simpsons voice artist Dan Castellata voiced the character in the cartoon itself.

Created by franchise gatekeepers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis and thoroughly ensconced in the Back to the Future lore, the show is also famous for featuring Bill Nye’s first TV appearance as Dr Brown’s lab assistant during the in-episode experiments.

Popular among fans and critics as part of a parallel timeline in the history of the movies, unfortunately weak ratings saw the show cancelled after just two series.

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