Trivia / The Godzilla Power Hour

• Accidentally Correct Zoology: The Time Dragon (which closely resembles a Tyrannosaurus rex) is depicted with two-fingered hands rather than three as was common at the time. Although at least one paleontologist had speculated this as early as 1914, it wasn't confirmed that T. rex had just two fingers until 1989, more than a decade after the episode first aired.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The first season was released, except Toho dragged their feet to deliver the last volume, and now that they are out of print, there are a lot fewer copies of volume 3 out there than volumes 1 and 2.
  • Season 2 has still gotten no release at all.
  • As another point here, this show in itself apparently had a strange legal arrangment. As for many years Cartoon Network kept the show in circulation. As they had gotten the rights to it from the purchase of Hanna-Barbera. But that license ended after 25 years and reverted to Toho, who now owns the entire show. So it's Toho calling the shots of why the show is not out on DVD or on TV.
  • Finally averted starting in August of 2021, when Toho started uploading all of the episodes to their official YouTube channel, albeit partitioned into three clips per episode.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Joe Barbera and Doug Wildey (creator of Jonny Quest) both wanted to have the series be more true to the original film's dark tone by setting the series after the events of Godzilla Raids Again, but NBC would only allow them to create a more family-friendly one.
  • Then we get into the dealings with Toho where Hanna Barbera learned why there's the old saying, "the only thing scarier than Godzilla are his lawyers." If accounts are to be believed, Barbera and the HB staff were probably just as confused then as the tropers are reading about it.
    • Apparently, Hanna-Barbera were unable to use Godzilla's trademark roar. This sounds truly bizarre considering that H-B secured the rights from Toho to have their character in an animated adaptation, but not the sounds he makes. H-B were forced to cast Ted Cassidy to voice the character instead. There was an urban legend for years that Godzilla's roar was present in the series' Japanese dub.
    • H-B also wanted Godzilla to fight other classic monsters from the franchise's Shōwa Era. Toho refused. H-B were forced to come up with their own monsters. Which of course in the 1970s Monster of the Week creating at HB was per the norm to soften the missed opportunity.
    • They also wanted Godzilla's son, Minilla, to star to make the show more 'family-oriented'. Again, Toho refused. So the cartoon's creators had to come up with Godzooky instead as a distant relative.

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