Dragon's Blood (1985 Cartoon)
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Dragon's Blood's was an adaptation of the Jane Yolen book of the same name, about a world of bonded slaves, dragons, and pit-fighting. It was part of "The Pit Dragon" series, and adapted for television for the CBS Storybreak. Of the cartoon adaptation, Yolen once remarked that "it looked as if someone had waved the book in the direction of the camera" and done little else.
I'm sure I'm not the only one, however, who was inspired by the cartoon to go out and read the actual book. While the cartoon does take more than a few fanciful excesses with the material, I really quite enjoyed it all the same.
As far as I can tell, this is one of the many abandoned relics of 80's television, and not likely to ever get a DVD or digital release. I've placed it here solely for archival and nostalgia purposes, all due credit to the appropriate content owners. Please don't sue me.
Jane Hyatt Yolen (born 11 February 1939) is an American author and editor of folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She has written over 280 books, the best known of which is the Holocaust novella The Devil's Arithmetic. Her other works include the Nebula Award-winning short story Sister Emily's Lightship, the novelette Lost Girls, Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, the Commander Toad series and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight.
CBS Storybreak is a Saturday morning anthology television series that originally aired on the CBS network during the 1985 season. Hosted by Captain Kangaroo's Bob Keeshan (and in its 1993 return by The Cosby Show's Malcolm Jamal-Warner), the episodes are half-hour animated adaptations of some of the most beloved children's books published at the time of airing.
Southern Star Productions, Hanna-Barbera Australia, CBS Entertainment Production
Distributed by: Columbia Broadcasting System
Voice Actors: Stephen Spears, Mel Welles.
Directed By Gordon Kent, Chris Cuddington.
Produced By Steve Lumley, Buzz Potamkin, Paul Bogrow.
Written By Jane Yolen.
First Aired on May 25, 1985.
Originally Aired on CBS Television CBS-TV
This book trilogy was pure magic and inspiration as a teen. Re-reading as an adult. Still holds up. Didn’t realize Yolen wrote a 4th book in this series. I will hunt it down. Thanks for posting.
Read the first book in middle school not knowing it was a series. This past year I've read the first 2 and I'm on the 3rd. The 3rd has been big change
After 30 years this show still teaches me some things. This soundtrack has stayed with me after all this time, it's epic. Skill not slaughter, beware of Fool's Pride and keep your bag full, my friends
I worked on this cartoon at Hanna Barbara when they were in St Leonards Sydney. I had the task of animating the washing of the dragon scene with the broom mop. I was an Inbetweener. :D
Oh wow, that is so cool! You know, I don't know why, but the music stuck with me so much I hunted down the original composer and wrote to him, and he pulled out the music from his archives and sent me a raw copy!
Nice cartoon.
@@AdrianForte no way. Care to share???
Please what’s the soundtrack
@@AdrianForte i messaged him myself but didn't get a response. consider posting yours?
Still trying to find the soundtrack to this day
Same! It's such a good soundtrack it's stuck with me until this day!
My memories of this go back pretty far. I saw this cartoon when I was little and loved it, so my mom checked Janoe Yolen's whole Pit Dragon Trilogy and read them to me. Then later I read them to myself when I was a teenager. I love dragons and I love those books.
So again, thank you. This brought back loads of nostalgia.
I only wish this music was available in a soundtrack. I still love it.
It is good! The tapes must be somewhere...
@Shivadasa I just came on to look for the music to this. It played in my head as I was writing. The mystique lives on.
The kind of soundtrack you want playing when you start a new project, discover a new soundtrack , standing up for yourself, or walking through a dark alley
...scratch that dark alley.
Inspiring soundtrack nonetheless.
Growing up in the 80's, I remember watching the CBS Storybreak. I don't remember this episode specifically but the irony is that 15 years later I'd pick up the exact same book from the local library and completely fall in love with the Dragon's Blood/Heart's blood series. This is just so cool to find out that your favorite book actually had a cartoon adaptation.
This cartoon looks like it took some of its insperation for setting and music from the video game called Shadow of the Beast series. Mainly the amiga version and the second one.
I remember this was my favorite Storybreak episode, led to my reading the entire "Dragons's Blood" series. Thank you for find and uploading this!!
Same thing for me. I totally get why Jane Yolen herself doesn't like this, but... it still drove a lot of people to her books. And, I admit, I do have a fondness for it as a kid's story on it's own. It's nothing like the book, but then again, when you have to pack a whole back into 22 minutes, tone it for children, and still cover the major plot points.... well, it's good for what it was.
I just found out that a 4th book of the series was finally released. I remember when I was 10 years old I wrote to Yolen to have a 4th book. I guess 15 years later my request was granted! I'm re-reading the 1st 3 books before the 4th and was REALLY happy to stumble across this video - this is what got me to read the books in the first place!
Thank you so so much for posting this! I have been searching the internets forever trying to find it.
Hooray! Thanks posting this! I read this book as a kid because of this special. It was one of my favorite books of all time.
THANK YOU!!! I've been looking for this since I've originally seen this decades ago!!
Thank you!!! I found this for my husband and he was talking about this episode ever since we met!
Thank You Loader. Reminds me of my baby brother. He's gone now, before he crossed. He took my dog's name as his own "Dragon" An name a chilli I made Dragon's Blood. It was the only thing next to my brisket he love. I miss him. We love this short story and wished it had been made into a series.
OH MY GOD! THANK YOU !!!!!!! i've missed this so much this was my favorite ep and books as a kid
OH MY GOD! I've been looking for this forever!!
Fantastic! I remember this since childhood, including the music and their visual depiction of the Link between dragons and their masters.
I loved this cartoon as a kid and watched it to death, and yes, it did inspire me to go out and read the original book & the rest of the series when I got older. Its a shame that CBS Storybreak and its many episodes aren't available on streaming or physical media anywhere, it was a fun show that introduced kids to abbreviated versions of some solid books they could go read for themselves. Thanks for sharing this episode!
Thanks for posting. I saw this once when I was a little kid, wished I could see it again, but that was before cartoons were even being released on VHS. This was a good story.
I have never heard nor knew about this gem from 80´s! Thanks for sharing it :)
My God, I have been looking for this for YEARS! Thank you!
Even if the author wasn't a fan of the adaptation, after seeing this episode I now want to read these books. Which I guess was the whole point of the series! :)
Yeah, ditto. The cartoon made me aware of the books as well.
Thank you for the upload. This was my favorite book series when I was growing up!
I've been looking for this foverer! It's my FAVORITE story from this show! thanks so much for putting this up!
Childhood memories! Loved the music to this episode. They don't make cartoons like this anymore! All computer animated stuff nowadays!
+Frankie Leon DUDE! Thank you! I LOVED this music so much. Remember that time when you had a choice switching channels and there was a new cartoon on, but then THIS was on... And y'know... Yeah, it was the music that won out! :)
+Pharoh Khan Especially the bass rifts.
+Frankie Leon I loved the music a lot too. I honestly wish I could find a copy somewhere, or even get someone to re-create it, just because of the fond memories I have of this.
its ALL computer animated now? all of it? all? all of it? oh well some guy on youtube seems to think saying things makes it true.
Corpse Circus there is a lot of flash but your right there is a few good handrawn works from Disney and warner, if you like Japanese cartoons most of them are handrawn. Handrawn works are more expensive and time consuming but has a nicer effect.
I love this book. I had no idea that there was ever a cartoon for it. I wish that it will someday find its way to DVD. This could become a timeless family classic.
dragons movin' their feet to the poptart beat.
THANK YOU. I have been looking for this on RUclips for years hoping someone would finally upload it. Its a dream come true. This was my favorite episode of my favorite show when I was young, You made my night.
My pleasure. I'm honestly surprised to see how many people have been looking for this!
Thank you so much. I've been on the hunt for this episode for years.
awesome old skool saturday morning cartoon. I have been waiting to watch this for years thank you for posting Adrian.
36 years later and I remember this like it was just on yesterday.
Brains are weird.
I even remember the commercial jingles! (Thanks for including those, by the way.)
In some ways, this is a little slice of personal history for everyone who was there back in the day. The commercials were part of that. When I recorded this, years ago, I had no idea I was preserving something that would otherwise have been completely lost.
I will have to admit that the Drac's screech was one of the more frightening monster sounds of the era. But it does make me curious as to how the sound was created.
I remember catching the end of this ages ago. Got it mixed up with the Chronicles of Pern. So glad to have finally found it again.
I know what you mean. I have read the whole series of Anne McCaffrey's The Dragon Riders of Pern, and when I first watched this iconic episode years ago, I immediately thought of them. So lovely to see this episode again. And the lovely music!
This was how I got first introduced to the book series
I love RUclips! I read the book as a kid , and I remember this cartoon. Thanks for posting this!
My memory isn't so good. However, it is a great assistance to me when people post these old programs. It's only then that I remember with fond memory. I'm like, "Oh, my god! I remember that!" Thank you so much.
It's cool that you included the commercials, it's really valuable for anyone trying to understand the time, so thanks for keeping them
Thank you so much for posting this! I've been looking forever and had very vague details to put in the search. I was very young when this came out, but I always wished I knew the book series this was from. Just bought the ebook and going to read it! I just crossed a childhood quest off my bucket list!
I love dragons
I remember this as the end to my Saturday morning cartoons. CBS Storybreak was the best.
I can't believe I never saw this back then as a kid. This is so cool. I love the music!!!
I'm glad you found it! I've been doing some digging to try and find out who did the music, and if it's even possible to get a copy of said music, though I highly doubt anything will come of it.
Well, amazingly. I found the creator of the music. It took a lot of digging, a LOT, but I found him. His name is Chris Neal, and he also did the music for Farscape, including the famous theme. He's a composer living in Australia. After writing to him, he went through is archives and dug up a copy of the theme out of his archives!
Wow! Thanks Adrian Forte, that is good news! Did Chris Neal indicate if he would be willing to re-release it somewhere? It is a Classic piece. As is this lovely episode, which is so appreciated. Interestingly, in my estimation, it gives a nod to the Anne McCaffrey science fantasy book series on The Dragon Riders of Pern. Even with reference to Darkafter. Thank you so very much for posting this! I have always remembered this. So lovely to see it again! God Bless you!
@@AdrianForte that is AMAZING!!
Of all the storybreak this is my favorite story of all and the music.
I was 6 years old when i seen this in 85, so many memories! Loved this episode, I always remembered this cartoon but couldn't remember what it was called, now i know!
I have been looking for this for a long time too. The internet has come full circle. I now feel like there is nothing from my past that I can't access.
For as much as Holywood loves remakes, I'd have more respect if they remade something like this, that's so old and under the radar that it's basically new.
Can't argue with that logic!
Really glad I posted this, then!
And now that I have rewatched it, it makes me sad my memories of how awesome this was were much better then it was. Ah well.
I loved it as a kid myself, and had many fond memories of it. It doesn't hold up well, but it still inspired me to read the books!
How to Train Your Dragon before How to Train Your Dragon existed.
I really liked and enjoyed this shows I wish that they would air them again and I wish that they would go to DVD soon
This was fun to watch! I actually never saw this back during then, but I'm glad I checked it out. :)
I love it
OMG! AT LONG LAST!!!! Do you have any idea how long I've been looking for this episode? Not a scrap of it on the Internet as far as I could look. It was my favorite, and I loved the book. Thank you so much for posting it! You have no idea how much this means to me!
My favorite too
So glad you found it, then!
you had no idea how hard was to find this episode too, an entire afternoon and finally, thanks a lot!!!
riveto Heh. I've been looking for it for years, though. Since perhaps 1995.
I saw this when it was first aired... I, too, have been searching for years! so glad I found it and can show my kids what I've been talking about all this time. lol
I remember some of the books they adapted, "Mama Don't Allow", "Chocolate Fever", "How to Eat Worms", and even a very dark Pied Piper book.
Those were based off scholastic books. My favorite was "Tales of a forth grade nothing".
This was my first exposure to the book series as a toddler - finally read the books in my elementary school years and enjoyed them a lot. Thanks to this production my love for reading was enhanced as a young child.
While I understand why the original author had issues with it, I like it for what it is- about as good as an adaption as you can get when crammed into a half hour and with the kid unfriendly material (more explicit violence, institutionalized prostitution) removed. Still, it does look more alien than the setting actually should look.
I remember how jarring the difference was when I went to go read it.
@@alcosmic It was very different... but the animation here was enough to help me visualize what I was reading as a young child. Definitely a plus.
let's also not forget Likkarn's drug abuse.
Never knew about this! Read the books as a kid. Loved them. Randomly thought of them today and just searched to see if someone was ever looking into a Dragon's Blood movie... I gotta say, this is cute, but a pretty sad representation of a fantastic trilogy that was part of what fostered my love of books.
elraver I'm not arguing with your statements. But this cartoon was an attempt to get me interested in reading and this book series on both points they succeeded. What we need to make your proposal a reality is someone that has money and people that genuinely love this series.
i loved this show back in the day.
Good memories. Thank for posting it. They should do a show like this again
I loved watching CBS Storybreak as a kid. So many great memories.
Man this brings back memories.
I'd forgotten about this story's awesome background theme music for far TOO long..! T_T
For some insane reason, I've decided to completely do the captions for this. I'll post again when they are completed!
I loved this episode of CBS Storybreak (even if Jane Yolen hated this rendition of her story)... and I keep coming back to this link on RUclips.
Also, I've finally able to have found the book to read it, last year... so many things different (for starters, the book is more for young teenagers, than for kids. Lol).
damn they make sci Fi fantasy cartoons like this anymore, remember this when I was 10, now I'm 41years old!
Teddy Walker no I wish. They had a pilot for one on adult swim that got turned down. Search for Korgoth of Barbaria on RUclips it’s good for a laugh if you like this kind of stuff 😀
I remember watching this, I think it was in 92 or 93. (I can place the time because I was obsessed with Link to The Past at the time), anyway, in my 8th grade literature class's textbook there was a bit of Anne McCaffery's "Dragonriders of Pern" and when I saw this cartoon, I totally created a connection between them in my head, lol.
Oh my goodness! I did exactly the same! I have read all the books in The Dragon Riders of Pern series, and immediately made the link in my mind when I first saw this iconic story many years ago. They could have expanded this into a series, it had the potential. Also, they were originally going to make a movie on Anne McCaffrey's series of books, but sadly never did, as she did not like what she saw of the adaption they started on, not long before she passed away.
I am so glad you recorded this when it was on TV and then uploaded it here thank you
I'm sort of shocked that nobody else had this. Ironically, this isn't even the first airing. I loved it so much that I spent months watching for it to come back in reruns so I could grab a copy.
@@AdrianForte thank you so very much I have thought of this episode many many times throughout my life when I was younger and even sometimes now I could relate to jaqen
Michael Reaves was *the best* writer for Dungeons and Dragons the Animated Series. He wrote the epic Dragons Graveyard episode in which the kids actually captured Venger, and when faced with the opportunity to slay the devil once and for all, they chose forgiveness and let him go (away with Dungeon Master). Slowly from this point we begin to find out that Venger was the Son of Dungeon Master! Very cool for a Saturday morning cartoon! Excellent screen writter! 😉 👍
I too really liked Michael Reaves, for all the same reasons!
Thank you for uploading this.
I wish this was the pilot of an animated crossover series involving all the dragon species from the how to train your dragon franchise.
Sorry to hear that someone stole this from you, giving credit where credit is due, you're awesome for uploading this.
oh man i just spent like two hours looking for this, i cant believe its here thank you
My pleasure!
@@AdrianForte came back to watch it again :)
I like that there are commercials .. I mis them with other videos ..
When I recorded this, I'm sure I wanted to cut out the commercials, not I wish I had left them all in.
this could've been a series
Dragon's Blood🐲
Holy @!#$#@$# I been wanting to see this episode for the longest time now. I didn't think a copy existed anymore.
Omg i just read this series! I didn't know there was a cartoon!!!
Dude! is that captain kangaroo?? I loooved that show lol thnx for uploading these I also had this book :) forgot about the cartoon tho.
Amazing animation.
this cartoons looks great!!!
I cannot believe I found the exact broadcast I was randomly remembering from 32 years ago.
Glad you found it. I was obsessed with this as a kid back in 1985 and kept a copy on VHS for all those years. So, this particular video is my rip of the VHS tape. I have yet to find anyone else with a cleany copy, or any copy at all, really.
@@AdrianForteI was just looking online and found that there are d v d copies of this available now
THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting this video. Never take it down. I briefly remember seeing this as a kid and could only remember the part where the dragon grows it sheds it’s scales and walks out of it. Lol I have one of the books and hope to get the other three. They have a lot more detail and stuff but this cartoon I will always love. It’s a shame a soundtrack was never made. I have this saved in my favorites. Please never delete it or take it down.
My distinct pleasure. Yes, a soundtrack was never made, but.... I did hunt down the person who made the soundtrack, and he dug into his archives, and gave me a copy. I should really put it up here soon.
@@AdrianForte lol totally you should. It would be so cool if they made a live action series of the books! It would be amazing!
@@Kipper4937 Go look at the discussion page on your channel. :)
@@AdrianForte lol I feel really bad that I don’t know how to locate that. But I’ll check online instead of the app.
@@AdrianForte nope, don’t have the option. Unless it’s something I’m totally not seeing. I even googled it to find out and didn’t really find any thing.
Oh the magic of the internet. I was just thinking about how I saw the animated version of Dragon's Blood one time when I was 10 years old and here with a couple clicks I found it! I had actually read the book before I saw this show and I was not a fan of how alien the characters were but I did enjoy the show otherwise. I never knew it was a series until a couple years ago, I need to read the rest of the books.
I never knew this had an animated adaptation!
I'd forgotten about this.
I have good news for you this video is available on DVD if you wish to get it as are the other CBS storybreak episodes
Sort of. You can buy black market DVDs that are just VHS rips that have been "remastered". Sort of. Scrubbing a VHS rip through a de-noise filter is not remastering. But they look "good enough". I haven't done this with Storybreak, but I have bought other videos from these 3rd party sources and they're usually watchable, but nowhere even remotely close to what an official release off the original masters would be like.
AT LAST!!!
I remember to have seen this on "super vacaciones" a section dedicated to children during the august vacation on my country
I was eight years old when this book and cartoon was released
Thanks. I wasn't sure if I'd ever see this again; I thought it was a Reading Rainbow.
I read this book in middle school (mid 2000s). I really enjoyed it and regretted not finishing the the other two installments in this trilogy. I didn't even know this existed but I may be too old to get into it at this point.
I know I'm four years late, but if I could offer you a bit of advice, it would be to never fall into the trap of thinking you're too old to enjoy something. No harm in giving it a try, anyway (assuming you haven't already at this point).
"Imagine a world where slavery still exists" lol I guess this guy wasn't very worldly back in 1985.
+MrCarter'sRods For a kid's show in the 80's, no, they weren't going to be very worldly, both because of the age of the audience, and the thinking of the people at the time.
You do realize this was based on a book, right?
katphoti
No. Nor does that matter in relation to my comment.
I don’t think talking about human trafficking would make it past the censors.
I don't believe slavery.
My God.....I haven't seen this since I was a little kid.
God! I still have this on an old video somewhere. Though this is the first time I've seen it from the begining, my experience is from the hatchery scene to the end. I didn't even know it was based of a book.
I don't remember this cartoon, but I do remember Bob Keeshan, AKA Captain Kangaroo!
He got replaced with Malcolm Jamal Warner later in the series. That was weird!
Thank you.
and thank you for uploading
"a world where slavery still exists"
yeah jeez, y-oh jeez, I'd have a hard time imagining that, oh boy, what a concept
I loved this show as a kid. Loved the books too. Only thing about this that ever irritated me was that they kept referring to Heart's Blood as a He, when Heart's Blood was a She...
I remember this as a Kid those where the Days Saturday Morning Cartoons.
this cartoon was awsome
I would say that he really made his master very proud
I remember this!
A slave and his dragon with full commercials. #poptart #rainbowbrite #mylittlepony
+trevor brown The books are set in the far future, on a desert planet called Austar IV, which has a history and climate similar to that of Australia. The planet was originally a place where convicts would be exiled. For many generations the outcasts had adapted to their new environment and even formed a functioning society, focusing on a caste system of paid "bonders" and their debt-holders. Use of the word "slave" only ever comes up in the opening narration, not in the animation itself, or in the books. It's also worth noting that in later books, the two main characters become involved in a rebellion against this practice.