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Anthonynotes
10-04-2001, 12:40 AM
Found these several websites that list various Saturday morning broadcast network schedules for as far back as 1966 (couldn't find anything earlier than that, with the claim on one site that the networks didn't really program much for kids for Sat. mornings before then...):

http://www.tvparty.com/sat.html (lists schedules [with commentary on the shows---I grossly disagree with their sentiments on "Garfield & Friends", BTW] for between 1966 and 1979, plus one for 1988.)

http://www.inthe80s.com/saturdays.shtml (schedules for the fall of 1979 to the spring of 1990)

http://www.inthe90s.com/saturdays.shtml (schedules for the fall of 1990 to the spring of 1999)

The schedules for the "in the 80s/90s" sites might be a bit suspect, between the possibility of local pre-emptions for where the viewer who made them lived, and a few errors---"Alvin and the Chipmunks" in 1979 for instance (could've meant reruns of "The Alvin Show" from the 60's, I guess).

Let's see...what shows I would've watched when I was 10 years old, living in the midwestern United States in the fascinating year known as---1985! As the Macintosh celebrated its first year anniversary on the market, and as "Born In the U.S.A." and Prince tore up the charts, let's see what snide comments I can make about what I watched as a 10-year-old back then ;-) :

Spring 1985:
"Shirt Tales": Lame Hanna Barbara 'toon about critters who lived in a tree who had their emotions expressed via words appearing shirts they were wearing (I know, "huh?"). My sister had a stuffed toy of one of the characters.

"Get Along Gang": Animal kiddies who hung out in an abandoned railroad caboose. Guess it was supposed to beat hanging out in a potentially dangerous place like Fat Albert's junk yard or something :-)

Also seen: the "Superfriends"...

"Smurfs": My sister (who I battled with at this time for control of the 'tube on Sat. mornings) insisted on watching it....but usually after watching the "Muppet Babies" (which we both liked).

"Bugs Bunny/RoadRunner Show": Recall the weird new opening cartoon title bumpers they made up for this show's last season on CBS...

"Scooby Doo": One of the zillion spinoffs (think it's the ones w/Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy only).

Either the "Littles" or "Mr. T" to round it all out (or possibly "Soul Train"). The "Littles" was a show about six-inch-tall people w/tails who lived inside of walls of a house; I thought it was cool that they could make a plane with one of those rubber-band-windup jobs [and cars out of spools, cracker boxes, and pencils]. "Mr. T": Cash in on Mr. T's then-bigtime success...

Fall 1985:
Vaguely recall oscillating between me wanting to see CBS's stuff ("Berenstein Bears"/"The Wuzzles") over my sister's choice on NBC ("The Snorks"/"Gummi Bears"). Both gave the "Looney Tunes Comedy Hour" secondary status, I vaguely recall....

Either "Ewoks" (my choice; the "Star Wars" spinoff devoted to the fuzzy little critters from Endor) or the "Smurfs" (my sister's choice)...didn't care much for "Droids", so I guess it was probably the "Smurfs" for sure afterwards...

"Hulk Hogan": saw this cartoon sporadically....

"Super Powers": The final season of the "Superfriends", with Darkseid and his brood against the Superfriends. Recall something in the opening titles with Darkseid's head shown laughing in a superimposed manner over the Hall of Justice...

"Punky Brewster" and "Alvin & the Chipmunks" probably rounds it out...the first another example of "give anyone who's famous their own cartoon" (a la last season's "Mr. T" or the season before that's "Gary Coleman"). "Alvin" was "Alvin", natch.

"The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo" (which the bowling listing presumably pre-empted for New Englanders from the looks of the listing): the second-to-last Scooby spinoff series, with that "Flim Flam" guy and Vincent Price doing a voice.

"The Littles" again, then either the set got turned off (per mother's edict) or we watched "Soul Train"...

Anyone else have memories of such shows from when they were 10 years old to dredge up watching on Sat. AM's? (Pause) Well, guess there isn't much else I could think of to discuss....

-B.

Garrett
10-04-2001, 05:27 AM
I checked the 1983 schedule-my first Saturday morning. I'll admit it-CBS monoplized me and my brother's time that year. Oddly, the Spring 1984 sched (with the Biskitts replacing the Charlie Brown and Snoopy show on the lineup) is closer to my memories of that great, great year for CBS, with the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour directly following D&D before Tarzan showed up. Of course, who knows what my CBS affiliate did to the schedules, particularly in order to accomodate coverage of NCAA Football....

Garrett
-who is happy to add that he missed a total of two airings of Dungeons & Dragons when it aired on CBS-

BourgeoisBuffoon
10-04-2001, 07:26 AM
Let's see what happens in 1990, when I was five! :D

GARFIELD! Yeah! My fave show at the time...ah, life didn't get much better than that. I also remember Muppet Babies-Fozzy and Gonzo were classic in there. Ninja Turtles? Yup, nothing like that to get me all excited for the rest of the day wondering what'll happen to the Turtles next week!

...and that's it for 1990, a golden year. When I was 10 in '95...:)

....STILL Garfield and TMNT are being watched...but SONIC THE HEDGEHOG! Ah, that was a good show...and it'd probably be even more well recieved nowadays with the bigger Sonic cult. And A! Yes, A! My love of WB 'toons was very big then...it gave me lots of laughs and a well-written series.

Ah, memories...:cool:

Anthonynotes
10-05-2001, 10:16 PM
Since someone mentioned what they liked when they were 5, let's see what I might've watched at the time....in that far-flung past year of 1980---a year when Carter fretted over hostages and inflation, disco celebrated its last "Funkytown"-filled days, cable TV, VCR's, and personal computers were in their infancy, vinyl records still reigned, and I pondered the life-impacting changes that going to kindergarden would wrought...well, that, and riding my tricycle.

SPRING 1980:
Given that my sister was 3 years old at the time, probably not much fighting with her over what to watch at this point in time....

"Superfriends": IIRC, this would've been during the Legion of Doom-vs.-the-'Friends' batch of shows....thought Aquaman's telepathic rings they showed coming from his forehead was sort of cool, even if he did just, well, swim real fast and talked to fish.

Presumably watched this instead of the other two network's shows listed (the late 70's "Mighty Mouse" Filmation series, Casper, the Globetrotters)...

Next up, looks like my viewing could've gone three ways:
"Plastic Man": late-70's/early 80's Hanna-Barbara animated cartoon based on the stretching superhero created in the 40's. As a kid, I thought he was hilarious...

The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Show: The highlight of my younger Saturday morning viewing, and many others, natch. Need I say more?

"Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo": One of the spinoffs, probably the one with the multiple segments in the show (and possibly mistitled in the TV Guide listing on the website). If so, this series featuring the last appearances of teenaged Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm on TV (the next Flintstones spinoff being "The Flintstone Kids" six years later). Tex Avery supposedly worked on the "Dino and the Cave Mouse" segments, I've heard....

Main viewing would've been Plas vs. Bugs, with the Flintstones being sporadic...

"Popeye" or "Scooby & Scrappy Doo", I'm sure (recall only watching NBC's "The Daffy Duck Show" a few times; it basically featured those Daffy-Speedy cartoons we all know and love :-) "Popeye" being the late 70's series by Hanna-Barbara, while "Scooby & Scrappy Doo", um, speaks for itself. Interesting that Scrappy hasn't been used in any of the Scooby direct-to-video/cable movies they've made so far ;-)

Finally, "Fat Albert", regularly viewed by myself until it got axed in '84 or so. Probably the only show at the time where one could see African-American characters regularly featured as lead characters (vs. just as supporting characters). The animation, being Filmation, was just as bad as A!'s "Back in Style" pointed out. Liked the "Brown Hornet" segments. Bill Cosby (pre-"The Cosby Show" years, when he mostly did standup comedy) did various introduction segments to the show, complete with a 70's-style haircut.

That'd be about it....presumably the TV was turned off at this point so I could go out and play (no more cartoons, this being before cable TV hit our hometown), or mom changed channels to watch "Soul Train" (at that point a show in its prime, esp. being pre-music-video-laden MTV/BET era, along with still technically being the disco years and all :-)

Also recall watching "The Lone Ranger" reruns on Sunday mornings on WGN...

FALL 1980:
Viewing habits still the same as above, though with "Thundarr" occasionally watched IIRC. Never saw the "Batman" show mentioned on the schedule (favored "Popeye" or the probably-mislisted "Richie Rich" and "Fonz and the Happy Days Gang" series. "Richie Rich" was done by Hanna-Barbara, as was "Fonz", and was liked by me especially for Irona the robot maid. "Fonz" was the show with Richie, Ralph, and Arthur Fonzarelli himself, along with some "future chick" [as the Wolfman Jack-voiced introduction called her] and Fonz's dog in this series, "Mr. Cool" [who was anything *but*; think a dog-voice-ish-talking version of Scrappy...Cool idolized the Fonz, and tried to imitate his "aaayyy" thumbs-up gesture/hitting his fist on a mechanical object to get it running schtick, but with backfiring results]. The goal of "Fonz" was for the time-lost gang to get back to the 50's. At the time, "Happy Days" was probably ABC's biggest hit show, and thus I suppose they wanted to cash in on it...

All of this of course seemed to be the last days of the 70's style of programs. The next season, of course, brought with it the Smurfs, leading (along with other shows) to allow for the wave of 30-minute toy-based shows and video game shows of the 80's...

-B.

GirChan
10-06-2001, 12:44 AM
Mmmmmmmm... Old Sat. Morning Cartoons. There are so many cartoons I saw over my live since 1986 I can't even begin to list them all.

S'oooooo cool. :)

Singin' Stray Cat
10-06-2001, 05:18 PM
That guy that said, "Garfield and Friends - gag me with a spoon!" better not give me any ideas. :eek:

Man, I miss Saturday mornings of yore too - getting up later, lounging on the couch in your PJ's, eating a bowl of your favorite sugar-saturated cereal...

Know what I did this Saturday morning? Cleaned the bathroom and did the laundry. Voluntarily. I feel like such an adult. :p

Psycho Fox
10-06-2001, 05:30 PM
Originally posted by Singin' Stray Cat
Know what I did this Saturday morning? Cleaned the bathroom and did the laundry. Voluntarily. I feel like such an adult. :p Spew.. Anyway I get up much later then I use to. I use to get up and watched Saturday morning cartoons like clock work but whats the use of getting up so early now.

LD1984
10-06-2001, 07:15 PM
Fintstone Kids in 1987!?!?!
I feel so old...16

Anthonynotes
10-07-2001, 12:49 AM
Originally posted by LD1984
Fintstone Kids in 1987!?!?!
I feel so old...16

As someone who remembers seeing this spinoff first-run (started in 1986, actually), and has some memories of 1984, trust me, you aren't so old :-)

-B.

Geezil
10-07-2001, 10:18 AM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Brainatra
" ...a few errors--'Alvin and the Chipmunks' in 1979 for instance (could've meant reruns of 'The Alvin Show' from the 60's, I guess)."

And you guessed right. These were on NBC, too, and thanks to the eternally blessed ;o) commercial load, some of the "bumpers" or other original filler segments sometimes turned up missing. But as in 1962-63, Clyde Crashcup and Leonardo were always right there in the middle! (Now, why didn't any studio ever think of doing them right in a spinoff/revival?)

LD1984
10-07-2001, 12:50 PM
Now, why didn't any studio ever think of doing them right in a spinoff/revival?

I remember an episode of the Chipmunks at the movies (title) where the chipmunks go back in time and have a contest with the old chipmunks. The person that helped them was Professor Clyde Crashcup.


CHIPMUNKS RULE!

Geezil
10-07-2001, 02:31 PM
Originally posted by LD1984
I remember an episode of the Chipmunks at the movies (title) where the chipmunks go back in time and have a contest with the old chipmunks. The person that helped them was Professor Clyde Crashcup. CHIPMUNKS RULE!

Yesss!! (high five) And as the Prof said in every '60s episode, "that's 'Crash' for 'Crash' and 'cup' for 'cup.' Crashcup!" Thanks for filling in that historical blank Out Here.