Cartoons that should be added to the Saturday lineup.

[Mr Flintstone]

And this really isn't one of those "wishful thinking" threads. Boomerang could actually do this. We all remember Saturday mornings when Saturday mornings meant something. Boomerang have a bunch of cartoons in its library that were Saturday morning staples.

They've already have done this with The Smurfs and Snorks, which like, now why don't they add Looney Tunes, The classic Superfriends, The Flinstones Comedy Hour, Richie Rich, Pac Man and any other toon from the 70's and 80's that ran on Saturday morning that's not running right now.

I've always felt that Boomerang's Saturday schedule should be a little different from the weekday schedule.

[dothesmartthing]

I know it won't happen, but it'll be nice for Boomerang to inject more Saturday-morning favorites for the 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. slot on Saturdays. Tom and Jerry Kids is one example. It used to air on Fox early in the 90s and it's one of my favorite childhood cartoons ever.

[Rick Jones]

Personally, it would be really cool if they could run some Ruby Spears series if they have the rights (Mr. T, Goldie Gold and Action Jack, Turbo Teen, etc). It would be nice if Dennis The Menace had a block to belong to; maybe something like a comic strip themed block where they showed Dennis, Heathcliff, Marmaduke and a superhero show like SUperfriends or Plastic Man.

[ikey2]

Personally, it would be really cool if they could run some Ruby Spears series if they have the rights (Mr. T, Goldie Gold and Action Jack, Turbo Teen, etc). It would be nice if Dennis The Menace had a block to belong to; maybe something like a comic strip themed block where they showed Dennis, Heathcliff, Marmaduke and a superhero show like SUperfriends or Plastic Man.


Rick I feel you hit the nail on the head with that one post. The idea of comic strip themed block would be great. While it would break up the dreary slump they are in and create a life on int.

Comic Strip you could also add the specials for Family Circle, For Better or Worse, spider man, Popeye, Rankin and Bass series the Comic Strip, and Dick Tracy.

The Ruby Spears series you mention they have played all the ones you listed except the rare to be seen on TV in years Turbo Teen.

[greg!]

I miss the Saturday mornings themed to a year....This Saturday we show all the shows from 1967, next Saturday 1968,all the way up to1990.. etc....It was like waking up on a Saturday from my childhood...

[Blackstar]

It's the entire Boomerang channel that needs to be re-thought, not just it's Saturday lineup.

There are lots of things that Boomerang could be doing, but isn't, and it mainly stems from the fact that Turner doesn't give a fat rat's rump about Boomerang. Turner is too busy ruining Cartoon Network to even give Boomerang a thought. Boomerang could be so much more than just the Hanna-Barbera Reruns Channel, but as long as Boom continues getting the red-headed stepchild treatment from Turner, Boomerang will continue to languish for the next year or so until the channel eventually goes the way of Nick GAS.

What Boomerang needs is to be run by people who actually care about what happens to the channel and what goes on it. Poeple who have money and would be willing to spend some of it on making Boom better.

This is wishful thinking, I realize, but perhaps some other company could buy Boomerang from Turner who would actually be willing to pour some money into the channel and transform Boom into something significant. If, for example, say, 20th Century Fox were to purchase Boom and get back it's kid vid library from Disney so we could finally have a Fox Kids Channel. This likely won't happen, but it's a nice thought.

[Mr Flintstone]

It's the entire Boomerang channel that needs to be re-thought, not just it's Saturday lineup.

There are lots of things that Boomerang could be doing, but isn't, and it mainly stems from the fact that Turner doesn't give a fat rat's rump about Boomerang. Turner is too busy ruining Cartoon Network to even give Boomerang a thought. Boomerang could be so much more than just the Hanna-Barbera Reruns Channel, but as long as Boom continues getting the red-headed stepchild treatment from Turner, Boomerang will continue to languish for the next year or so until the channel eventually goes the way of Nick GAS.

What Boomerang needs is to be run by people who actually care about what happens to the channel and what goes on it. Poeple who have money and would be willing to spend some of it on making Boom better.

This is wishful thinking, I realize, but perhaps some other company could buy Boomerang from Turner who would actually be willing to pour some money into the channel and transform Boom into something significant. If, for example, say, 20th Century Fox were to purchase Boom and get back it's kid vid library from Disney so we could finally have a Fox Kids Channel. This likely won't happen, but it's a nice thought.

I agree with what you said, but like I stated in the opening post, this wasn't a wishful thinking thread. What I'm suggesting is something they could do right now.

[Silverstar]

Boomerang could really run with the whole 'Saturday Morning Revisited' concept, but it would require too many changes. The network can't pull it off the way it is now.

Boom could conceivably run something akin to TV Land's 'Super Retro-Vision Saturdays' on weekend mornings, but in order to effectively simulate the whole Saturday morning experience, they would have to acquire more shows besides just what they have in the Turner library; shows from Filmation, Ruby-Spears, DePatie-Freleng, DiC, etc., and filler segments like 'Time for Timer', 'Computer Critters', 'The Metric Marvels' and the like. (Schoolhouse Rock would be great, but Disney has a lock on that.) Possibly some 'retro-mercials' as well.

Saturday morning was more than just a few Hanna-Barbera cartoons, after all.