Hal Sutherland

writer
Cartoon

The Brady Kids

The kids, sans Alice and parents, starred in their own cartoon show with magical adventures including at least one time-travel incident where Marlon the wizard bird changes places with Merlin—all directed by Hal Sutherland, the soon-to-be director of the animated Star Trek.
Boys: ♫Meet three sisters,
Girls: ♫Now meet their brothers,
Marcia: ♫Greg’s the leader and a good man for the job.
Jan: ♫There’s another boy, by the name of Peter,
Cindy: ♫The youngest one is Bob.
Boys: ♫See our sisters: They’re all quite pretty.
Greg: ♫First there’s Marcia, with her eyes a sparklin’ blue.
Peter: ♫Then there’s Jan, the middle one, who’s really groovy,
Bobby: ♫And sister Cindy, too.
Boys: ♫Let’s get set now, for action and adventure, as we see things we never saw before.
Girls: ♫We’ll meet Mop Top and Ping and Pong, the pandas, and Marlon who has voices by the score.
All: ♫The Brady kids, the Brady kids, it’s the world of your friends the Brady kids!♫♫♫
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Cartoon

Star Trek

This series has a special place in my heart because of the day in 1974 when Dan Dorman and I visited Hal Sutherland north of Seattle to interview him for our fanzine, Free Fall. He treated the two teenagers like royalty and made two lifelong fans.

I think the series had only one time-travel story, “Yesteryear” (written by D.C. Fontana), which was the second in Sutherland’s tenure. In that episode, Spock returns from a time-traveling mission to find that he’s now in a reality where he died at age 7, and hence he returns to his own childhood to save himself.
Captain’s Log, Supplemental: When we were in the time vortex, something appears to have changed the present as we know it. No one aboard recognizes Mr. Spock. The only answer is that the past was—somehow—altered.
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Cartoon

Archie

There were Archie cartoons when I was a kid: The first ones I remember had the Riverdale teens as a pop band (“Sugar, Sugar!”) around the same time as the Monkees, but I don’t recall any time travel then, even if it was directed by Hal Sutherland, soon-to-be director of the animated Star Trek. However, I did spot a later three-part time travel story in Archie’s Weird Mysteries that ran in 2000 (“Archie’s Date with Fate,” “Alternate Riverdales,” and “Teen Out of Time”).
Free will and predestination aside, I vow to completely redesign my time travel invention to make it safer.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel