Filmation [SEP] parent company
they were never able to sell it and almost closed down; until approached by DC Comics editor Mort Weisinger to do a "Superman" cartoon. This premiered on September 10, 1966, and was followed by several of the other DC superheroes, and then, in 1968, the first "Archie Show". Both series greatly helped Filmation's popularity to increase into the 1970s, when it scored big with several of its series.
The Filmation studio was purchased by the TelePrompTer Corporation in 1969. Westinghouse Electric Corporation,
from Filmation and DePatie-Freleng. ABC president Fred Silverman gave H-B the majority of its Saturday morning cartoon time after dropping Filmation for its failure of "Uncle Croc's Block". Along with the rest of the American animation industry, it began moving away from producing all its cartoons in-house in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears left to found their own studio Ruby-Spears Enterprises in 1977, with Filmways as its parent company. In 1979, Taft bought Worldvision Enterprises,