The Mysterious Cities of Gold - Nick Knacks Episode #055

One of my childhood favorites (along with Belle and Sebastian).

"as you probably know it as" = Are you having a stroke?

I loved Ulysses 81.
They don't make good television like that anymore.

Why do you say "exspecially" and "exscape"? Those aren't words.

How anyone could find the American accent "too strong" and opt instead for the Canadian accent (exactly the same accent) is beyond me.
"I can't stand this man's Glastonbury accent! Get me that guy from Wells!"

I have had this cartoon on my mind, since having my first. Couldn't figure out the name, just remembered images. Thanks for posting.

this was my favorite.

This is still one of the most beautiful cartoon series ever i watched this show when I was 13 still love it today 👍 cheers stevo 🍀🍀🍀🍀

The intro and melody to (mysterious cities of gold)that song is one of the most unforgettable tunes ive ever heard.

Its beautiful. I feel like a 7 year old again when I hear it.... special place in my heart there....

One piece brought me here 😮😮

As I child of the 80's, I loved the show.. I watch in on the BBC in the UK. I think it works as a child's anima, but as an adults.. clearly its easy for us to pick apart lol danger mouse was a UK staple

Thanks so much for producing this. I had a moment of reflection on the show that captured my imagination in its first run when I 7 years old, and wanted to refresh what I remembered and you didn't disappoint. In fairness to the show's perceived inaccuracies, what we know about the ancient past is still obscured by time, and by both missionaries admittedly destroying and suppressing evidences of culture, as well as researchers like the Smithsonian Institute, as well as forgers of artifacts, there is a lot that we do not know. Additionally, real people, such as Christopher Columbus, are complex and do not lend themselves to simple assessments, whether positive or negative. Many descriptions taken to praise him merely reflect his intentions, imperfect as he was. I recommend The Pilgrim Hypothesis by Tim Ballard for an equally important aspect of his story in context of his intentions. Thank you again. You did a fantastic job with this video.

The Mysterious Cities Of Gold

The music added in later is epic and makes this show. How absolutly sad this didnt get all 7 seasons.

I think this was about the last thing that I watched with any intent. I loved it. It definitely got really weird as it went from more historical to flat out sci-fi techno anime. So weird, but just what I needed before I started reading comic books well beyond age appropriateness with Watchmen when I was in 6th grade during its initial run. This show also served as an appetizer for when went to my first sci-fi convention a couple of years later and discovered the way edgier Bubblegum Crisis and had my mind absolutely blown.

The heavy serialization was definitely a problem for me. I watched the first few episodes (and I think I even tried taping them in order, as I'd done with Doctor Who during the full series trudge in the 80's on PBS). But then I missed a couple of episodes, either due to scheduling issues or something else that I don't remember, and I missed a LOT. I never have seen the whole thing, and I'm not sure I have the patience for it now. Pity.

i just came for One Piece, Skypie

This was my SHOW when I was a kid, and probably why I became a total history nerd.

The one piece is real.

I loved watching Esteban and the City's of Gold when I was a kid. I was 13 going to 14 in July. Last summer of being a kid. I loved the show. I got bored with it when they got to the alien's part and stopped watching. Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. This might be the show I've been wondering about for years since I saw it. I remember only seeing the first episode maybe. It started with this old ship making baby little versions of itself for a birthday and the mother, I guess, told the kid the ship was really old and be gentle. I remember thinking how cool that was. I never saw it again. Maybe it was Spartikus.

I used to get up early to watch this show! I think it was Little Prince then MCOG then David the Gnome before school. But they would take these long breaks and I couldn’t catch up. I need to get the DVD now.

Still sad they changed the part of the opening part where they just sing the characters' names in the original dub, it was a bit silly but really really good

It looks like there was a Season 2 FYI

As a one piece fan wow just wow

Honestly after watching the video yes one piece has many similarities but can tell it has other influences like castle in the sky who Mayumi Tanaka voiced the main character in. Definitely has a lot of influence on one piece tho definitely undeniable but that’s what makes it even more interesting most stories draw elements from other series or historical context.

Only saw a few episodes as a kid but it stuck with me as much as Transformers or GI Joe. Finally watching the whole series, wow!

If the plan was to do one season for each continent, kinda curious how they would've gotten a whole season out of Antarctica

I wish this show got more recognition, I love it so much I made a spoof movie

Just reminds me so much of one piece

I remember these cartoons when I was a child watching TV

Good work on this series!!!

This is stupidly obscure but there was a scheduling strangeness, did the BBC not finish the repeat run in 1989?

This would have been during the Andy Crane stewardship of the Broom Cupboard. According to the Radio Times, the repeat run started on Wednesday 5th April and is billed as "the first of 22 programmes" but as we know, MCoG is 39 episodes long. It aired Wednesdays and Fridays and so arrived at Episode 22 on Friday 16th June. Luckily someone had realised that there were more of the story to show but the slot was changed to once a week, every Thursday however only 15 more episodes were aired, leaving them on 37? (The Radio Times description of the episode seems like it's describing Episode 36 but they repeated one earlier in the series).

Does anyone remember the final episode airing in the 1989 run, does anyone remember the show disappearing without showing the last episode?

Dude, you're too young. You have completely missed the boat. Shame.

This show reminds me of one of my favorite video games of all time. Illusion of Gaia. Mysterious ruins on every continents with mysterious connection to each other.

I wanna watch this to see how One Piece will end!..

Luffy is South American🤯🤯🤯

It's really too bad your ignorance had to color your judgment regarding Columbus' greatness - at the time, the most accomplished explorer of his age which set into motion the building of a Great Civilization in the New World, sparsely populated with people who were lost in Human Sacrifice and Superstitions (the American Indians - and yes, that is the proper name of their race, referring to a 2500 year convention - had never seen another race, their only word for this new White race was "gods"). So sorry, but there was no "die-off" of "Native Americans" - that hoax has long been debunked as the numbers in the Americas never exceeded a few hundred thousand - the reason being that they lacked animal power and husbandry, the ability to construct wells, efficient agriculture, etc. In Most of North America, for example, the nomads couldn't stray from the natural water sources...however, modern "anthropologists" falsified their findings by pretending that every possible "campsite" (even with no archaeological evidence or chronometric dating) was a "settlement" (which doesn't exist in nomadic culture), in a concentrated area around water sources, THEN superimposed this "concentration across ALL of North America to come up with "Millions of Indians"...

....it's laughable. The hoaxes just keep mounting when you research the preposterous conclusions (and I'm not going to bother with some of the most recent hoaxes that have been exposed like the "Mississippian Civilization" or the "Native American pottery" that the Universities led by University of North Carolina tried to pass as "Native American" after attempting to hide and destroy artifacts with Spanish symbology and the centuries-old foundations of an ENTIRE SPANISH FORT.

There's laughable...and then there's horrifically CRIMINAL.

And of course, if the lies that you seem to believe were REALLY true, then there wouldn't be such a need to fabricate SOME evidence to support your ideology...

....but of course, there is NO evidence to support your Lies...which is why these hoaxes are CONSTANTLY being committed by your ideology (and as often exposed).

I'd teach you more about the history, but I would probably be wasting my time pushing through your shallow prejudices. Bottom line: Columbus alone was more knowledgeable about the world than the entirety of the Western Hemisphere (North and South America) - he was LITERALLY thousands of years ahead of the American Indians, while the American Indians were LITERALLY Stone-Age primitives -

- and that's not an "insult".

It's just the facts.

And yes, I enjoyed the Mysterious Cities of Gold.

I noticed you didn't mention some of the uglier parts of the "Native American" habits that got depicted, but which were constantly denied by "anthropologists" like yourself for decades (they found the foundations of those "towers of skulls" the American Indians built from the cannibalized remains that Andre the Conquistador was talking about)

I miss this cartoon I watched this one and silver hawks

Just because there’s no blood doesn’t make it less brutal

For the new series there definitely an update to the animation

Anybody else here because they heard the rumor that one piece is based of this show and might give away the actual ending of one piece all the books of history about the secret cities that disappeared from history

Man. I love the soundtrack so much. All that guy's themes are in my 8 yr old heart

God dude your woke bullshit infesting a perfectly good show is amazing. You are such a pile of garbage and definitely a load that should have been swallowed.

i watched the theme song for this song because final fantasy 14s new expansion dawn trail has cities of gold and I wanted to send it to someone as a joke. Who knew there were insightful videos on this obscure old show I barely remember that fueled some of my childhood nightmares.

I don’t think “white saviour” was on anyone’s mind when this was made or when it was first viewed… by children in the 80’s - the world was very different and in a good way. White Saviours exist like it or not. I can confirm this statement is 100% accurate as a child who viewed this series via the BBC in the UK back when it first came out.

When I was four years old, for some reason, I was emotionally invested in this show. I used to love watching it.

Thank you for this video. Its a joy to find stuff you watched over 30 years ago as a kid.
Also good to know its not one false memory things you mind likes to play on you every once in a while.

I was born in 1985 and basically assumed this cartoon was a fever dream until just now.

I grew up with this show and it fed my curiosity about esoterica since very young age