Doc Carter is back and this time... ... he left the kids at home! Micro Ventures ran briefly as an animated segment on the Hanna-Barbara Banana Splits show. The 4 minute segments were about Professor Carter and his teenaged kids Mike and Jill who used a shrink ray to shrink themselves and their dune buggy to get a bug sized view of the world. The threats tended to be distant ones as the Prof lectured his kids on bug life to downplay how the Professor would transform the safety of the yard for his kids into an alien jungle looming with the threat of fatal encounters with any of the thousands of giant insect monsters out there. It could not compete with the thrills and action of the show's other segments, Arabian Knights and 3 Musketeers and lasted only 4 short episodes. Great potential never realized. I think with a little refomatting to up the thrill factor, it might have enjoyed great success. *update: mixed in a little rendered motion blur.
Thanks for the comments, everybody! Yeah, my immediate thought for this contest was Jonny Quest but then I remembered model age limit policy so I went with Micro Ventures instead although I did try to add a bit more of that Jonny Quest and Land of the Giants style as well.
Great scene for another short-lived show. I, too would have liked to see it furthered, along with Jonny Quest and Land of Giants...and the original Land of the Lost, too. But anyway, cool influence, cool scene!
I don't remember this at all as I didn't really watch it, but my brother did in reruns, still can't recall it though. Anyhow, This is a fantastic scene that really sets the mood for such adventures. Very awsome,Pijon!