Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp

Posted by Stacy in Everything Else, Video Clips on December 31, 2008 at 1:25 pm


Children of the ’70s might remember this Saturday morning show on ABC; apparently Nickelodeon also aired reruns of it in the ’80s. That’s my demographic, but I don’t remember it. Anyway, it’s a bunch of chimps (with dubbed human voices) running around solving mysteries and fighting crime. It’s strangely riveting. Lance Link sounds like Humphrey Bogart and his partner, Mata Hairi, sounds sort of like Fran Drescher mixed with Ruth Gordon.


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9 comments to "Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp"

  1. Jack Harrison
    December 31st, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    How could you forget Lancelot Link! Laaaannnceeelot, you’re right, she did sound like Fran Drescher!

  2. Brian
    December 31st, 2008 at 2:42 pm

    Thank you so much for posting this. I was just thinking about him the other day but couldn’t remember the name of the show!

  3. Tiny Dancer
    December 31st, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    So sorry you missed out, Stacy, I remember this silliness well, thanks. Now, if I could just get my hands on “Hammy Hamster” vids, I’d be in my ’70s animal cruelty masquerading as entertainment glory!

  4. pete
    January 1st, 2009 at 12:06 am

    mata hairi hahahahahaha brilliant. makes up for being poorly and sleeping thu new year

  5. Buns and Chou Chou
    January 1st, 2009 at 12:23 am

    wE LOVE Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.

  6. liphttam1
    January 1st, 2009 at 2:34 am

    We will never no how hard this was to film.

  7. monolith
    January 1st, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    Yes! I thought I was the only person who remembered this show! Seriously. I thought I was going crazy.

  8. Madman Erik
    January 1st, 2009 at 6:38 pm

    I remember this from the time of the Banana Splits show.
    They were my two favorite shows at the peak of the psychedelic TV era….and I was only 9! This show spoofed James Bond to Secret Agent Man to I Spy and everything in between. Awesome!

  9. Michelle
    January 11th, 2009 at 9:22 am

    I remember it in the 80s. It was on Nick at Nite, either just before or after The Monkees. Seriously.


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