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Ventures was one of several cartoon segments shown on a
rotating basis during The Banana Splits And Friends Show, a
show with a cast of live-action actors in animal costumes who
acted as the show's hosts, performing silly skits and
introducing the next Hanna-Barbera cartoon or another
live-action segment.
In Micro Ventures, Professor
Carter and his teenaged children, Patsy and Tommy, used their
Micro-Reducer to shrink themselves to miniature size in order
to explore the insect world. They traveled about in a yellow
dune buggy, and the audience at home got to see the insect
world from a different perspective, while at the same time
getting an education. Needless to say, when you're smaller
than an insect danger looms all around, and the three were
often forced to make narrow escapes, fleeing from hungry
insects or small animals.
Nearly as miniscule as the
Carters was the number of episodes they appeared in. Only
four, 4 1/2-minute episodes of Micro Ventures were produced.
