Pocoyo, Peppa Pig or La Patrulla Canina are today some of the favorite cartoons of the smallest of the house in Spain. But long before them there were others. Other old cartoons that you will remember and that even today, some, you can see again thanks to the internet and streaming platforms. Classic cartoons from the seventies, eighties and nineties that are available online for those moments of nostalgia in front of the television.
From the Filmin collection “What you saw ” to the classics on Disney +, there are many old cartoons that we can see again today with children or if you want to go back to your childhood. Classics from the seventies like Marco or Heidi, from the eighties like Los Diminutos or from the nineties like La banda del patio. If you are 30 years old or older today, you can rewatch those cartoons from your childhood, old cartoons that we can watch again in streaming thanks to the different platforms and subscriptions or “reboots” that have brought back classics like Carmen Sandiego. We review all the platforms to see which are the best and essential old drawings that you can return to vet.
There are many that are not on this list , that we miss today online. The Snorkels, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Dragons and Dungeons, Dragon Ball or Sailor Moon. We cannot find them on any streaming platform but we will update this list if any platform or website decides to bet on them so that we can see them again.
Mozart’s band
Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi and Chopin are four children with the names of famous composers and with a different favorite instrument: the violin, the guitar, the drums and the piano respectively. A BRB Internacional series broadcast in Spain in the 1990s with the aim of bringing classical music closer to the smallest of the house. In each of the episodes we will follow the lives of these children (with apparently current stories) and their day-to-day life will help us understand how some work by the protagonists with whom they share a name emerged. A problem or an experience that will lead them to create some of the most relevant pieces of classical music today.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1995
Chapters : One season, 26 episodes
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : Music / Animation
Recommended age : For all audiences
See The Mozart Band in Filmin
Vicky the viking
The Japanese series was broadcast in Spain in the famous program Un Globo, Dos Globos, Tres Globos during the seventies, although we have seen it many more times on television. Follow the adventures of Vickie, the main character, a Viking boy who is the son of the village chief. He takes us to Flake, a Viking village between Sweden and Norway, in a series in which each episode tells a different story in which some kind of problem has to be solved. Thanks to Vicky’s ingenuity and intelligence , it always gets done.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1975
Chapters : Two seasons, 52 episodes
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : Adventures
Recommended age : For all audiences
See Vicky the Viking in Filmin
Doraemon
Although Doraemon was first released in 1979 it has been a mythical series for children of many different generations. The Japanese cosmic cat , the blue cat that lives in Nobita’s room. Lazy and infatuated Nobita , will always ask his “brother” Doraemon for help to get out of all his problems. To cope with homework, so that his mother does not punish him, to get Shizuka’s long-awaited love. Inventions of the future from Doraemon’s magic pocket that don’t always go well. A classic that we can still see today on HBO or on the Boing application.
Platform : HBO / Mitele
Year : 1979
Chapters: Two seasons available on HBO, 79 episodes
Duration: About 23 minutes per chapter
Theme: Japanese children’s series
Recommended age: For all audiences
See Doraemon on HBO
Ruroni Kenshin
The best known samurai warrior in anime series is also part of some of the childhood series of boys and girls of the eighties and nineties. Maybe not considered an “old cartoon” but one of the classic series that you can see again today. Kenshin Himura is a samurai who wants to leave behind his past as a cruel assassin and has his reverse-edged sword capable of wounding, but not killing. He will try to start a new life despite the fact that many of his enemies will seek him out to take revenge for everything he did.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 1996
Episodes : A 94-episode season
Duration : About 23 minutes per chapter
Theme : Samurais and action
Age : Over 13 years old
Watch Rurouni Kenshin on Netflix
The three Twins
Another old educational cartoon that we can see again today is Las Tres Mellizas. There are two seasons in Filmin, some 60 independent episodes in which each one deals with a different story, a tale or a character. Released in the 1990s, these Catalan cartoons starred Ana, Elena and Teresa. Each of the episodes has an identical scheme: the girls get bored or misbehave and are punished by The Bored Witch, transferring them to another moment in history or fiction . This is how they come to star in adventures with Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote de la Mancha, Mozart, Gutemberg or Van Gogh. Characters in history are sent to these stories or moments where they will have to help the main characters.
About 25 minutes per chapter that we can see practically in the order we want and according to what we want the boy or girl with whom we are going to see it to learn or know. A review of stories, literature and history that was released almost thirty years ago but still today can be a good, fun and educational idea.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1995
Chapters : Two seasons, about 60 episodes
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : History / Literature / Animation
Recommended age : For all audiences
See The Three Twins in Filmin
Jackie and Nape
Among the oldest cartoons on this list are Jackie and Nape. They were issued during the seventies and take us to El Bosque de Tallac. The protagonists are the two little cubs that give the series its name, Jackie and Nape. Both will meet Sena and Olga and will star with these children in all kinds of adventures . One of the most valued old cartoon series on Filmin and that you can watch again to relive your childhood.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1977
Chapters : One season, 26 episodes
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : Children’s animation / Classic drawings
Recommended age : For all audiences
See Jackie and Nape in Filmin
Frame
Isao Takahata, film director at Studio Ghibli , is also the creator of one of the most important cartoon series in history and whose song you will surely know how old you are. Marco is a boy we met in the seventies and who decides to travel the world from the Apennines to the Andes in search of his mother, who has emigrated to Argentina and who he has not known about for a long time since she has stopped writing. . Marco will embark on the adventure of traveling the world with his Amedio mode to meet his mother again in a tear-jerking series of about 50 episodes that we can see again today.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1976
Chapters : One season, 52 episodes
Duration : Twenty minutes per chapter
Theme : Drama / Adventures
Recommended age : For all audiences
See Marco in Filmin
Heidi
If you know Marco, you will also know who Heidi is. One of the most mythical old cartoons in history and which has been passed from generation to generation since the seventies. Heidi is a happy girl who lives together with her grandfather, with her friend Pedro, with Clara. A classic story with 52 episodes and available on Filmin if you want to see the original series.
Also, on Netflix you can see an updated version with the same characters, but with a more modern design, but with the essence of the usual. According to Netflix’s own description: “an intrepid little orphan has to go live with her people in the mountains. There he discovers a new world full of adventure and wonderful things ”.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1974
Chapters : Two seasons, 52 episodes
Duration : Around 24 minutes per episode
Theme : Classic drawings
Recommended age : For all audiences
See Heidi in Filmin
Watch Heidi (new version) on Netflix
The Tiny
Los Diminutos is another of the children’s series of the eighties and that we can see again in Filmin to reconnect with the kind little beings based on the novels of John Peterson. They live underground , nobody knows they exist and they hide under a house trying to go unnoticed, to hide from Professor Cepo. Only Quique knows about them. An adventure series with two seasons in Filmin and one of the mythical old cartoons that we can see again to reunite with the family of Tom, Lucy and the others.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1983
Chapters : Two seasons, 30 episodes
Duration : About 23 minutes for each episode
Theme : Classic animation drawings
Recommended age : For all audiences
See Los Diminutos in Filmin
The Fruittis
The world of Fruittis, you know, is very funny. If you don’t stop singing the song from the Spanish animation series, it’s because you know Pincho, Gazpacho, Mochilo and the others. The series was broadcast in Spain at the beginning of the nineties: specifically, we were able to see Los Fruittis on RTVE from 1990 to 1992 although the reruns have been continuous and surely you still have a BETA or VHS tape at home. Also, you can watch it again on Filmin and Prime Video.
The fruit community lives next to a volcano and it doesn’t seem like it will be a habitable place anytime soon, so Gazpacho, Mochilo and Pincho decide to go out and explore another place where they and their friends can settle. On their way they will meet Kumba, a girl who will join them in all the episodes of the series where they will live all kinds of adventures.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1991
Chapters : One season, 26 episodes
Duration : About five or six minutes per chapter
Theme : Comedy / Children’s cartoons
Recommended age : For all audiences
See Los Fruittis in Filmin
See Los Fruittis on Amazon Prime Video
The backyard band
Much more current than others on this list but that you will also remember if you are between twenty and thirty years old. Available in full on Disney + we can see the cartoons of TJ or Spinelli and the others again. As its name suggests, we will follow the day to day in the schoolyard of its protagonists where there are unwritten laws, gangs, ranks.
Platform : Disney +
Year : 1997 – 1999
Episodes : Three seasons, 65 (for two episodes each)
Duration : About 24 minutes per chapter
Theme : Animation / Youth
Age : For all audiences
See The Backyard Band on Disney Plus
The Super Chicks
The usual ones are no longer available, but you can watch the new episodes of The Powerpuff Girls. Cactus, Petal and Bubble are the protagonists and superheroines of the city of Townsville. They have been created as sisters with the secret ingredient and “many beautiful things” and now they must face all the villains of the city and mainly the terrible Mojo Jojo. On HBO we can see the new episodes of The Powerpuff Girls released in 2016 and not the classic series of your childhood, but they are the usual characters in new fights and adventures and with new giant monsters for all audiences, to remember that episode ending in the one that the city “has been saved again thanks to The Powerpuff Girls”.
Platform : HBO
Year : 2016 (new episodes)
Chapters : One season, 39 episodes
Duration : 10 minutes per chapter
Age : For over seven years
Watch The Powerpuff Girls on HBO
Around the World of Willy Fogg
Phileas Fogg is a character created by Jules Verne for the novel Around the World in 80 Days. Drawing on the original story of the French writer, Willy Fogg is a refined English gentleman who belongs to the Reform Club of London. There he will make a bet: he assures that he will be able to go around the world in eighty days and return in time. Bet half his fortune and set out on the journey together with his friend Tico and his faithful butler, Rigodon. A trip around the world in 26 episodes in which we will travel all the countries and in which the character and his friends will have to face all kinds of unforeseen events and problems that endanger their bet. Not only one of the classics among old cartoons but a good series with whichwe can travel the world , learn customs from other countries, learn about traditions, improve geography … A classic available on Filmin.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1981
Chapters : One season, 26 chapters
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : Childish / Nostalgic
Age : For all audiences
See Around the World of Willy Fogg in Filmin
Don Quijote of La Mancha
Antonio Ferrandis or Fernando Fernán Gómez gave voice to one of the most ambitious Spanish cartoon series. A classic in our country that was launched at the end of the seventies in order to publicize Cervantes’s book in a version adapted for all the boys and girls of the time. TVE prepared this series of 39 episodes of about 25 minutes that cost eleven million of the current euros, becoming a great bet on television.Today we can see her again in Filmin. Despite being over forty years old, Don Quixote de la Mancha is still one of the most recommended old cartoons if you are looking for something more than a simple series: it will allow you to bring the classic of literature not only to children but to an audience of all ages.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1979
Chapters : One season, 39 episodes
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : Classic / Book-based
Age : For all audiences
See Don Quijote de la Mancha in Filmin
Once upon a time the man
The first series of “Once Upon a Time …” to come was Once Upon a Time … man. Although perhaps the one you remember the most is that of the human body, before this production came that sought to tell us everything about history. There are about 26 episodes available of half an hour each and that seeks to tell us the history of man from its beginnings until today . It may not be the series that has aged the best (we find scenes and dialogues with which you may not agree today) but you can watch again in Filmin this journey through history from the time the earth was born to the present day to know a little more about different civilizations, about the Vikings or the Romans, about the belle-epoque or the French Revolution.
Platform : Filmin
Year : From 1978
Chapters : 26 episodes
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : History / Children / Didactics
Age : for all audiences
See Once upon a time … the man in Filmin
Once upon a time the human body
On Filmin or on Netflix you can rewatch Once Upon a Time … The Human Body. The French series arrived at the end of the eighties but it has been broadcast over and over again on television and even today it continues to be an excellent option for children thanks to the fact that it will help to familiarize them with everything related to anatomy, health, and diseases . A series of 26 episodes of about 25 minutes in which we learn why it is important to wash your hands, why it is important to get vaccinations or how wounds we make are healed. Easy to understand and follow at whatever level you remember if you are over twenty years old.
Platform : Filmin / Netflix
Year : 1988
Chapters : One season, 26 episodes
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : Infant / Didactics
Age : for all audiences
See Once upon a time … the human body in Filmin
See Once upon a time … the human body on Netflix
Once upon a time … the explorers
Although the best known are the above, they are not the only ones. In Filmin you can see the series Once upon a time … the explorers. As its name suggests, each episode introduces us to an explorer (or several, like Los Hermanos Pinzón) important in the story. We will know who he is, what he did or how he marked the rest of the story. With the already known characters we can learn more about Vasco de Gama, Magallanes, Los Hermanos Pinzón or Alejandro Magno.
Platform : Filmin
Year : 1996
Chapters : One season, 26 episodes
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : Infant / Didactics
Age : For all audiences
See Once upon a time … the explorers in Filmin
Once upon a time … the inventors
Similar to the previous one, but with another theme: inventions, experiments. In the same French saga as the previous series, we also find this series from 1995 in which we meet Gutemberg, Archimedes, Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci … Episodes of less than half an hour in which we will learn more about science and relevant characters of history.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 1994
Chapters : One season, 24 episodes
Duration : About 25 minutes per chapter
Theme : Infant / Didactics
Age : For all audiences
See Once upon a time … the inventors on Netflix
Pokemon
Although there are thirty years of difference between Jackie and Nape (and others on this list) and Pokémon, for many it is also considered as childhood cartoons. At the end of the nineties came the series of cartoon creatures that would mark generation after generation until today. There were only 151 Pokémon in a series that began airing in Spain in 1999 on Fox Kids and that featured young Ash Ketchum and his Pikachu. Today we can see Pokémon on Netflix in Pokémon Indigo League where we will continue the same adventure that we saw twenty years ago and that even today may seem current.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 1999
Episodes : One season with 52 episodes
Duration : 22 minutes per chapter
Theme : Adventure
Age : For over 7 years
