The Secret Saturdays Anyone?

I nearly bought an old carded Mattel figure in a Gainsborough charity shop for three squid last Saturday.

Its no secret that I've never heard of the figure or the toy line, The Secret Saturdays.

Looking it up, turns out its a Cartoon Network cartoon from 15 years ago. I assume it didn't light any fires, although I will mention it to Moonbase Junior as I like the premise ...

.. which is the Saturday family are cryptozoologists striving to keep Cryptids under wraps.

Now, I had to look up both of those words. Cryptids are creatures of myth and cryptozoology is the study of them, a 'pseudoscience', according to Wiki.

The Secret Saturdays appeared on the wing of cartoon success Ben 10. There were 36 episodes and interestingly for me 'the art style of the show was influenced by the artwork of Alex Toth and 1960s Hanna-Barbera action cartoons, such as Jonny Quest and The Herculoids', both of which I watched myself in the Sixties!

One rather odd coincidence is the fact that one of the show's characters, a cryptid called Fiskerton, is based on what is called the Fiskerton Phantom. I don't know about the phantom but Fiskerton is a village in Nottinghamshire just an hour's drive from the shop I found the action figure in in Gainsborough!

Spooky!

Do you know the Secret Saturdays or Cryptozoology readers?