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.
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.