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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 24, 2017 9:14:31 GMT -5
They benefit by havin access to that stuff any time, but boy do they lose out on how that few hours a week was special.
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on May 24, 2017 9:14:47 GMT -5
My era of Saturday morning cartoons was roughly from 1984 to around 1990. Today's kids will never know the joys of eating a Big bowl of Nerds cereal (or any other Ralston-brand cereal) while watching a block of shows that included Muppet Babies, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Galaxy High and Teen Wolf, with a little bit of Story Break thrown in.
Or, if you preferred Nickelodeon, then there were shows like Pinwheel, Bananaman, Danger Mouse, The Little Prince and Belle and Sebastian.
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Post by agent817 on May 24, 2017 10:21:56 GMT -5
I remember Fox had an after-school block that took place in the afternoon. Some local channels even aired stuff at that time with some syndicated shows. Hell, I still even remember some channels airing stuff early in the morning in a before-school block. At least in my area they did.
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Post by Shai on May 24, 2017 10:46:22 GMT -5
I remember Fox had an after-school block that took place in the afternoon. Some local channels even aired stuff at that time with some syndicated shows. Hell, I still even remember some channels airing stuff early in the morning in a before-school block. At least in my area they did. That Fox afternoon block is where MMPR was before they moved it to Saturday morning. |
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Post by Nikki Heyman on May 24, 2017 11:00:34 GMT -5
My SatAMs were from the late 70s through the mid-late 80s, so lots of Hanna-Barbera, Sid & Marty Krofft and UNCUT Warner Brothers cartoons! I'd also race my sister home so I could watch Battle of the Planets and not her icky soap operas  I got my own tv in 84 or 85 and I would watch weekday afternoon stuff (transformers, MASK, Bravestarr, Robotech) I think MMPR was just starting up when I was "Getting out" of afternoon cartoons/saturday mornings. |
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Post by Chainsaw on May 24, 2017 11:07:23 GMT -5
It's really weird how many things kids don't have these days that I feel sorry they don't have now (Saturday Morning cartoons), and they have things that I would have killed to have as a kid (TV and entertainment anywhere I'd want, tons of channels vs. the 3 I had as a kid).
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 24, 2017 14:05:21 GMT -5
We got a VCR,it was a betamax,in 77 or 78. So I would use it every Saturday morning to record cartoons that were airing while my favorites aired. Then would watch that tape on Sunday morning. My oldest son understands Saturday morning cartoons,he is old enough to have caught the tailend of the era of cartoons on the broadcast networks every Saturday morning. My youngest....well for him there has always been Nick and Cartoon Network. And really no cartoons on Saturday morning broadcast networks. He has watched the 70s Hanna Barbara Saturday Morning sets. And I got a few dvds that are 4 or 5 hour blocks of say 1985 CBS saturday morning cartoons with the commercials included or 1995 FoxKids saturday morning. He has watched one of those with me. But yeah to anyone under say 26 or so Sat AM cartoons isn't a thing. Me,I was up at 5am every Saturday. And could watch cartoons,flipping back and forth between the 10 or so channels we got,until 12pm. I love the late 70s/early 80s Filmation stuff. Tarzan,Zorro,Flash Gordon and BLACKSTARR! Speaking of that DVD with the 95 Foxkids stuff. Last year on her birthday,just happened it fell on a Saturday. I got my girlfriend up at 6am. And we sat in front of her tv in our pjs. Big huge bowls of cereal. Watching that DVD. She is the reason I tracked it down,after hearing her talk to her brother about how much the two of them loved the FoxKids mid 90s line up of cartoons. What FoxKids dvd?! That's my era too! It is just a dvd-r that someone transferred a VHS recording to. I belong to a group that collect blocks of tv with the original commercials. IIRC this DVD is from September 94. |
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Post by Lupin the Third on May 24, 2017 14:27:16 GMT -5
Man, I felt spoiled when we could watch PBS after school on weekdays while waiting for Saturday morning.
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Post by Jiren on May 25, 2017 0:03:58 GMT -5
I was more Late 80's - Mid 90's, My line up was a mix of Live action shows & Cartoons and on different channels.
- BBC (Raccoons, Rugrats, Chucklevision, Demon Headmaster, Doctor Who)
- ITV (Spatz, Tales From The Cryptkeeper, Power Rangers, VR Troopers, Beetleborgs)
- Sky 1 (X-men, Power Rangers, VR Troopers, Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad, TMNT, Double Dragon)
- Nickelodeon
- Fox Kids (Goosebumps)
Midweek line up was awesome too
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Post by MrElijah on May 28, 2017 7:48:52 GMT -5
This intro is required viewing
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Post by agent817 on May 28, 2017 9:25:28 GMT -5
I remember Fox had an after-school block that took place in the afternoon. Some local channels even aired stuff at that time with some syndicated shows. Hell, I still even remember some channels airing stuff early in the morning in a before-school block. At least in my area they did. That Fox afternoon block is where MMPR was before they moved it to Saturday morning. Actually, Power Rangers was already a Saturday morning show even when it was shown on weekday afternoons. What I found more ridiculous was how Fox aired Power Rangers on weekday mornings at 7:30 at first, in a before-school block. I guess they figured that more kids would be getting ready and heading off to school around that time. So it was moved to their after-school block. |
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Post by Shai on May 28, 2017 9:29:56 GMT -5
That Fox afternoon block is where MMPR was before they moved it to Saturday morning. Actually, Power Rangers was already a Saturday morning show even when it was shown on weekday afternoons. What I found more ridiculous was how Fox aired Power Rangers on weekday mornings at 7:30 at first, in a before-school block. I guess they figured that more kids would be getting ready and heading off to school around that time. So it was moved to their after-school block. Really? I don't remember that at all. I didn't watch it on Saturday mornings until the Disney era. I remember MMPR coming on at 4:30 every afternoon (at least on the east coast). |
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Post by agent817 on May 28, 2017 9:31:50 GMT -5
Actually, Power Rangers was already a Saturday morning show even when it was shown on weekday afternoons. What I found more ridiculous was how Fox aired Power Rangers on weekday mornings at 7:30 at first, in a before-school block. I guess they figured that more kids would be getting ready and heading off to school around that time. So it was moved to their after-school block. Really? I don't remember that at all. I didn't watch it on Saturday mornings until the Disney era. I remember MMPR coming on at 4:30 every afternoon (at least on the east coast). It aired later on in the morning, if I recall. It aired after X-Men, which were on at around 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 28, 2017 10:25:14 GMT -5
it's not that hard to explain. "when I was a kid there weren't dedicated cartoon channels so if you wanted to watch cartoons you had 2 hours after school and saturday mornings".
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Post by castletonsnob on May 28, 2017 17:46:13 GMT -5
I don't feel bad for kids today. People talk about how great Saturday morning cartoons were, but today's kids have a LOT more options than I did when I was their age. They have Netflix, Hulu, Internet, Tivo, and satellite TV.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on May 28, 2017 18:54:07 GMT -5
Let's not forget the Monday to Friday after-school joy of the Disney Afternoon (Gummi Bears, DuckTales, Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop and I feel as though I'm forgetting another show) and the WB shows (Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs).
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Post by Shai on May 28, 2017 18:59:41 GMT -5
Let's not forget the Monday to Friday after-school joy of the Disney Afternoon (Gummi Bears, DuckTales, Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop and I feel as though I'm forgetting another show) and the WB shows (Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs). Gargoyles and Bonkers were DA shows as well. |
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on May 28, 2017 20:03:53 GMT -5
ahh the quintesencial british tv saturday morning programming ..... from the lunacy of TISWAS to the home counties niceness of SWAP SHOP, to the MILLENNIUM DUSTBIN and watching kids playing STARGLIDER, to a short woman playing silly buggers in a pretend house  but it was BEFORE all that that i started ..... the likes of WHY DON'T YOU, THE BANANA SPLITS and WAIT TIL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME ..... even the summer holidays had loads of stuff on, all set on a black background and white chalk-like writing, bloody scared the crap out of me on those blistering hot mornings  classics abound as i sat there and melted into CHAMPION THE WONDER HORSE (also BLACK BEAUTY with that unbelievable theme tune), DOCTOR WHO (both on a saturday evening and holiday morning), WILD HORSES, HERE COME THE DOUBLE DECKERS / RED HAND GANG (james bond III might have been the coolest ever name) and yep even flipping HEIDI, all soaked into my memory but it was those animations that took the bulk of my enjoyment ..... so so many in the late 70's and into the 80's ..... ROGER RAMJET, SUPERCHICKEN, PAC-MAN, SONIC, MARIO ..... all fronted by a git in rainbow coloured spectacles  superchicken may me my most favourite cartoon ever! but it was those marathon three hours of top quality televisual entertainment that was the rock, the aforementioned buckets of water (and it's lesser known but vastly more adult bastard son OTT ) to noel edmunds's beard and a bloody mallet!!! and since i practically lived in front of my tv i soaked it all in, starting in the mid 70's with the likes of genre busting sci fi STAR MAIDENS, comfy fun time of GLEN MICHAELS CARTOON CAVALCADE, madcap ultranonsense THE GOODIES and the seminal SPACE 1999, to watching BMX on channel four and STAR FLEET ..... STAR FLEET ..... DOO DOOOOOO ..... but saturday mornings was king ..... cartoon king! i could reel off many many titles like TAZMANIA and BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES, CENTURIONS and TRAPDOOR ..... but i won't  the 80's was continually stuffed, BATTLE OF THE PLANETS, PRESS GANG and THE ADVENTURE GAME (watch out for that vortex!!!) BBC and ITV had dedicated program blocks and i was switching between them for each program, but sundays were for the more mature programming ..... and WORZEL GUMMIDGE! the driving theme of DICK BARTON SPECIAL AGENT, to the quite frankly PANT WETTINGLY TERRIFYING theme of OUT OF TOWN, STIG OF THE DUMP and KENNY EVERETT (not a childrens program teehee) to being off sick from school and watching FARMHOUSE KITCHEN with your pretend granny on the screen, it ran for almost TWENTY YEARS too, to the vast amount of sport on ITV! but as time went on and i got progressively lazier  i started getting up later and later at the weekends, ending up having to video tape WHATS UP DOC and was so bad i'd wait until the next friday night to watch the damn thing!!! then set my video to record the next morning. the last big cartoon series i got into going into the nineties was POKEMON, then everything went to pot by yellow ..... no not picachu but a fat baldy with horrible kids everything was taken into my brain, there simply was nothing like it, still haven't seen the end of HANGING BY A THREAD or bloody THE HINDENBERG!!! stupid having to go to bed and get up for school!  just looking at wiki and seeing all those titles brings the memories back again pfft, kids these days, they'll never have the delight of hearing some old guy making animals talk, or a bunch of wierdos playing ghostely dress up or winning cabbages ..... or breaking records ..... or torch shining ..... or getting mugged by a guy with a big gobbed bird ..... or getting jealous of a cardboard island ..... or trying to get into a wardrobe and going somewhere exotic ..... or waiting for that new zealand volcano to blow ..... i'll stop now  |
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 28, 2017 20:15:31 GMT -5
I don't feel bad for kids today. People talk about how great Saturday morning cartoons were, but today's kids have a LOT more options than I did when I was their age. They have Netflix, Hulu, Internet, Tivo, and satellite TV. As far as I saw, no one said they feel bad for kids today. |
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Post by Shai on May 28, 2017 20:19:05 GMT -5
I don't feel bad for kids today. People talk about how great Saturday morning cartoons were, but today's kids have a LOT more options than I did when I was their age. They have Netflix, Hulu, Internet, Tivo, and satellite TV. As far as I saw, no one said they feel bad for kids today. Yeah this whole thing started because I bought a bunch of dvds of cartoons I watched as a kid and ended up explaining life before streaming and DVR to my 8 and 9 year olds. |
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superchicken may me my most favourite cartoon ever!
i started getting up later and later at the weekends, ending up having to video tape WHATS UP DOC and was so bad i'd wait until the next friday night to watch the damn thing!!! then set my video to record the next morning.
