Oh, wow! This is really cool!

My first impression was, if there was a furry Jetsons-type show, there would be the occasional space-rock band like this that a Judy-type character would be constantly mooning over... :)

d.m.f.

Where's the wacky, talking character? Like Jabber Jaw, Speed Buggy, or Astro?

What do you think this is -- some kind of cartoon? :)

Well, yeah. Wasn't that the idea? Nearly all of Hanna Barbera's shows from that era had a character like that for comedy relief

Thinking it over... The comedy relief would probably be left to Satellite/Orbit and/or Venus and, occasionally, Retro. Flipside is the instigator, while Moondog and Mars try to keep the gang under control.

I never developed the idea further, so I never explored any possible antagonists for the group. I imagine they would come into conflict with futuristic record producers, megalomaniac robots, crooked space-club owners, ego-maniacal DJ's and, of course, the galactic mob (where's Knuckles Nuclear when you need him?).

The shows that  osprey mentioned were essentially carbon copies of the successful Scooby-Doo storytelling formula, and there were several attempts to make that lightning strike twice through the mid-70s. Even The Harlem Globetrotters. They'd visit someplace threatened by an individual who was secretly terrorizing the locals through some kind of subterfuge, only to be unmasked by those meddling kids and their dog/dune buggy/Revolutionary war-era ghost/shark, etc.

Remember that the Josie and The Pussycats plots were virtually indistinguishable from Scooby-Doo plots? Remember when both sets of characters teamed up in a special episode (or did I just dream that?) Shaggy engaging Alexander in conversation... or Freddie chatting up Alan M... try to tell them apart!

but they are not mooning anyone!

That's awesome. I can see them singing "Eep-op-orp, AH-ah!" :D

Cue the megalomaniacal space villains, the music video chase scenes, and the ultimate bad guy defeat by those meddling space rockers.

Yep... raised on vintage 70s Hanna-Barbera.

The familiar sound effects, the animation style, the Hoyt Curtin music, and Don Messick and John Stephenson having at least one speaking role in every cartoon.

Top of the Saturday Morning line-up always.

I was a '60s kid, and H-B ruled the SatAM roost in those days with a mix of funny animals and superheroes. So many of them were my favorites, it's hard to pick one. But, overall, I'd say Top Cat is my all-time favorite H-B series. Though I also loved The Impossibles, Secret Squirrel and, of course, Huck, Yogi, and the rest of the Cartoon Zoo. And, more recently, I've become a fan of The Cattanooga Cats (as you might have noticed from my FA user page).

I was lucky that I grew up in the 1970s when my local tv stations showed weekday afternoon cartoon classics and other cool reruns often such as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, The Banana Splits, Addams Family, Three Stooges, Little Rascals, Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched, and so on. The networks on Saturday AM would show Scooby Doo of course, The Jetsons, Space Ghost, and Herculoids reruns, and the newer Hanna-Barbera shows like Josie and the Pussycats (the obvious Moondogs inspiration), The Chan Clan, and other Scooby meddling kid mystery clone shows, The Super Friends, and more pro-social non-violent stuff.

The advent of cable tv and syndicated tv in the 1980s helped me to get caught up in the 60s H-B experience. Space Ghost, Herculoids, Wacky Races, and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop particularly held my attention. I barely recall seeing "The Cattanooga Cats" during its ABC run and viewed one or two episodes during its Boomerang run (my sister has Direct TV about 30 miles away and I'm stuck with basic cable with no Boomerang and the Cartoon Network wasn't added until 2005 when all of the classic HB shows were moved to the Boom.) ...I remembered the Around the World in 79 Days segment a bit more with stuffy Crumdon and goofy Bumbler trying to bring down Phinny Fogg Jr, Jenny, and Hoppy's balloon down every chance they get.

Hanna-Barbera is still "visual comfort food" to me...the familiar voices, sound effects, music, and animation designs, and mostly happy endings. I knew what to expect and got it to satisfaction.

How soon before they have their own Myspace site and wacky YouTube videos? ^_^

Too many main characters, it would make plots too complex for HB-age audiences. If you were to present that to me and I was a HB exec, I'd say swap Satellite and Retro, (stereotypically, drummers are the dense ones), turn Flipside into an image on their TVphone, (think "Charlie" from Charlie's Angels), and lose Venus and Mars. (They'll split every plot and compete with Moondog.)

Aw, who am I kidding. If I were an HB exec I'd tell you to lose Moondog, Satellite and Retro and make the show about Venus and Mars; same audience, plus it wouldn't alienate girls. (Unfortunately Jose And The Pussycats has already been done.)

Otherwise, the series seems perfectly plausible and just about exactly like something HB would do. I like the characters, they are OH SO VERY HB-style! You are a very clever 'roo, you know that?