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Last of the Saturday Cartoons
reginamala78
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A moment of silence for the end of an era.
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Today was the last broadcast of the traditional Saturday Morning Cartoon format. This morning, the CW network ran their final "Vortexx" Saturday-morning block. Next week, they'll follow the lead of ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox and switch over to live-action kidcoms and educational programming. If you were a kid in the 70s or 80s, before kid-oriented networks or streaming video or video games, you probably remember Saturdays as the day when you got up early, ate too much junk cereal, and watched glorified toy commercials for hours on end. And now that experience is truly no more.
What from that format do you remember most fondly? Any particular show you'll raise a glass to today?
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Today was the last broadcast of the traditional Saturday Morning Cartoon format. This morning, the CW network ran their final "Vortexx" Saturday-morning block. Next week, they'll follow the lead of ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox and switch over to live-action kidcoms and educational programming. If you were a kid in the 70s or 80s, before kid-oriented networks or streaming video or video games, you probably remember Saturdays as the day when you got up early, ate too much junk cereal, and watched glorified toy commercials for hours on end. And now that experience is truly no more.
What from that format do you remember most fondly? Any particular show you'll raise a glass to today?
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Nostalgia of youth and what was once a weekly ritual for millions of kids.
Glorified toy commercials, bah! I had Underdog and Scooby Doo and Johnny Quest!
TAS on Saturday Mornings
Any show you like is basically available at your fingertips now. So no complaints.
~Times they are a changing~
I got that part... but what? They're getting rid of Saturday morning cartoons?
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Johnny Quest - Action and Adventure with more realism the standard Saturday morning fare
Archies Funhouse - Sugar, Sugar
Scooby Doo - You Meddlin' Kids
Wacky Races - Stop that pigeon!
Perils of Penelope Pitstop - Help! Help!
Space Academy & Jason of Star Command - Dr Smith and "Scotty"
Josie and the Pussycats - Rock n Roll Scooby Doo
Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch - Itoldja! Itoldja! I know, I know
Farout Space Nuts - Gilligan in Spaaaaace
Land of the Lost - Marshal, Will and Holly
H R Puffinstuff - "We've got to save Freddy" *said with a british accent
Lidsville - Charles Nelson Reilly as a Bad Hat
Sigmund the Seamonster - Shello? Johnny Whitaker.. Shello?
Hong Kong Phooey - Scatman Crothers voice made him cool
Pebbles and Bam Bam - Bad Luck Schleprock
Dastardly and Muttley - insert asthmatic snicker here
Jackson 5ive - Not voiced by the Jackson 5
The Osmonds - Lots of teeth
Super Friends - Wonder twin powers... Activate!
...ahhh memories
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Groovy Ghoulies and Sabrina were cool too.
Apparently, looking at my off hand list, I really enjoyed Hanna Barberra, Sid and Marty Kroft, and all the musically oriented shows.
One word . Netflix.
If using Google Chrome, download the free app Hola. It allows you to watch Netflix from most countries around the world. Doing so allows you to stream television shows from the 70's and 80's including but not limited to Voltron, the original Transformers, TMNT, etc We gave up cable a year ago and haven't looked back. My kids are hooked on TV shows that I grew up on including Differen't Strokes, The A-Team etc Networks can keep their Jersey Shore and insane amount of television commercials.
I do agree with the original poster though. I miss regular television including Sunday nights at 6pm for Walt Disney hours (or two if they showed a feature length film!)
That's the one I still miss to this day. Only comic book anything I ever liked, too.
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Yeah but it isn't about the cartoons per se. Between streaming and a number of dedicated networks, its all available, plus if you see any of them these days as an adult you realize how awful most of them were. But that particular ritual, that tradition shared by an entire generation of kids, was on its last legs anyways, but now truly gone.
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Cartoon quality really started going down the toilet with stuff like Ren and Stimpy and other badly-animated things like Power Puff Girls. Additionally, anime has ruined Western cartoons to where they no longer have any technique of their own. Add to that, cartoons for adults, like Family Guy, that are nothing but garbage...yeah...there's pretty much nothing decent left as far as cartoons these days.
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Yogi Bear's Laugh O' Lympics.
The Bionic stooges.
Funky Phantom
Speed Buggy
Rocket Robin Hood
Star Trek The Animated series
Captain Caveman
Shazaam!!!
I think this covers the 1970's .Great list kimony!
Eh... Pokemon's still somewhat decent. I did miss the whole Unova and Sinnoh arcs though. Got back into it on the Kalos arc.
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Transformers
Robotech
G.I. Joe
Smurfs
Snorks(underwater rip off smurfs)
Spiderfriends(Spiderman, Iceman, and Firestar)
Masters of the Universe
Pac Man
Zelda
Kid Video
Hulk
Mr.T adventures
Thundercats
Voltron
Flash Gordon animated series
I think Gary Coleman, and Punky Brewster had animated shows as well.
The delightfully subversive Rocky & Bullwinkle. (Other Jay Ward cartoons could be seen on a local daily children's show, P.J. Patches - Superchicken, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick...)
grew up watching those mainly
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You forgot:
The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour...
Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel...
The Flintstones...
The Jetsons...
Huckleberry Hound...
Yogi Bear...
Top Cat...
Wally Gator...
Magilla Gorilla...
and The Herculoids... (my favorite)
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Josie & the Pussycats...
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour...
Speed Buggy...
The Pink Panther...
Dynomutt: Dog Wonder...
Underdog... (another fav)
and last but not least.
Tom & Jerry.
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Oh, and then I started watching Toonattik and Ministry of Mayhem on ITV. The two favourite shows I remember are New Captain Scarlet and Transformers: Cybertron. Cybertron is what got me into the Transformers franchise.
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I've known most every Saturday morning show named so far (you've named most every H-B cartoon) as well as:
Sid & Marty Krofft:
H.R. Pufnstuf
The Bugaloos
Lidsville
Lost Saucer
Far Out Space Nuts
Land of the Lost
Sigmund & The Seamonsters
The Krofft Supershow (containing several Krofft shows)
Hanna-Barbera with a bit of the Kroffts:
The Banana Splits Tra-La-La...ahem, sorry, couldn't resist.
Filmation:
The New Adventures of Batman
Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids
Archie's Funhouse, which was one of many retoolings of a show that started in the 1960s.
My Favorite Martian (animated version)
The New Adventures of Gilligan
The Ghost Busters (a show pre-dating and not related to the movie Ghostbusters)
The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour (technically 1980-81, but I include it in the 70's list because its origins with Tarzan were in the late 70s)
Space Academy
Jason of Star Command
Ark II
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises:
The Ant and The Aardvark
The Inspector (the episodes were made in the late 1960s but were shown with The New Pink Panther Show in the 70s
Tiajuana Toads
Misterjaw
Other:
Big John, Little John
That's a lot! And its just the 70s, not counting the previously named H-B cartoons. Hope I didn't duplicate much.