late 70s to early 90s saturday morning cartoons

Lately Boomerang seems to be running more stuff I'd be interested in seeing then CN. I've been bugging the cable company to start carrying it.

 

All the good (read: old) stuff was tranferred to Boomerang long ago. I rarely watch Cartoon Network anymore. I'm just not a big fan of most of their original programs.

 

About the only thing I watch on Cartoon Network is Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. It's kinda silly but I like it for some reason. Probably the humor. And I still tune in to CN Too because it runs Courage the Cowardly Dog.

I had cable installed after I moved to the UK. Around the mid-to-late '90s I got mad because the cable company was taking off a lot of stations that I liked. So I had a satellite dish put up and I subscribe to Sky. Only way I'd go back to cable is if I had to take the dish down for some reason.

 

Cartoon Network has sold out. It turns out that they're more interested in producing original material, which has a better licensing arrangment than what they used to show. Meaning that JLU, Teen Titans and the like were cancelled as CN would get fewer shares of the revenue generated as DC, WB and the toy companies would get their share first. The older stuff just got shuffled over to Boomerang so that they didn't have to fight for air time. In most cases, ratings were never horrible. But it wasn't financially profitable to continue them.

 

What does that mean for the future "Clone Wars" computer Animated series? I really don't think it can be as good as it should be on Network TV.

 

Sold out

I didn't realize that they were running a public service.

There are various things I still enjoy on CN (Foster's, Billy and Mandy, KND and Winick's Juniper Lee). Plus I don't have Boomerang

 

Here in the UK Toonami carried the Clone Wars episodes first, then they went to Cartoon Network a couple of weeks later. Toonami also carries Samurai Jack daily.

And I have found out that Bravo is going to start carrying Adult Swim around July 7. I don't know times or the schedule yet.

 

Clone Wars will likely go to CN, but I think Lucas has a different system for eu material as opposed to the films. And the animated material is eu, despite it being somewhat higher. If you want to keep those kinds of shows going, it might be feesible to start a campaign to keep Krypto on. Might not work, but if they see there is an audience for it, it could help. I'm not a Krypto fan, but I can see how the death knell of that show might help make CN favor creator owned shows, without having to pay so many names.

 

remember there would be this show on friday night before the big saturday season of cartoons? wouldnt it last for a couple of hours. you had to practically beg your parents to be able to watch it. there should be a shrine to sid and marty croft. remember ruth buzzie and jim nabors as the robot alien things? how did that happen? the bugaloos. banana splits. crap, i still watch cartoons with my kids. mandy is my hero.

there is still hope for cartoon network. a new season of venture brothers just came on sundayy. they were clones@!!!!!@@##@!@!@# we all fell off the bed laughing.

 

There used to be a half hour showcase of what was going to debut. For a couple of years, ABC would actual show an episode to get things going. I recall getting a first peak at the revamped version of "The Real Ghostbusters", by showing a Slimer cartoon and then previews of the new shows. The next year or so, they showed an episode of "Bettlejuice" when that series debuted. I don't recall there being a two hour preview. If there was, it was probably when I was too young or wasn't born yet.

 

THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDERCATS! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

What was the villain's name? He was actually kind of creepy looking for a cartoon?

 

Wait, I just remembered. Was it Mum-Rah or something like that?

 

Let me see if I have this right:

"Ancient spirits of evilllll,
Transform this ancient form into
Mum-Ra, the ever living!
HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!"

Thundercats was cool, but I hated the way the FCC made Saturday morning/weekday afternoon cartoon shows shoehorn the requisite "moral of the story" at the end of each episode. Hell, I was 12 years old and could tell it was lame. I remember this was true of Thundercats, GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man, etc. As if the other 22 minutes of the show being a toy advert didn't exist...

 

I miss the old bits they'd play in between the Superfriends. Sometimes it would be a GI Joe-esque "knowing is half the battle" thing, but othertimes it was Batman or Wonder Woman teaching you a cheesy magic trick.

 

^^^I'm hoping we get another season of Justice Friends on DVD. The Marvin and Wendy episodes were the absolute worst but they did have a certain jene se qua.

That was freaking great. "You have acident prone children you put them in a bicycle helmet. You have death prone children you make clones"

They had me going for a bit though. I really thought it was going to be Rusty and whats his name as the Venture Brothers.

 

what a great thread
I love this and so many other cartoons on this thread so far. i could go on for hours abotu Gi Joe, Voltron, Transformers, He-Man and MASK

I know it has its own thread, but i gotta give Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles some love here

i used to watch this all the time:
Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure: Combined several different cartoons like "The Fantastic Four", "Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles", "Space Ghost", "Herculoids", "Shazzan," and "Birdman and the Galaxy Trio". Premiered September 1980

here is a link to the herculoids, but before you click the link, it has some stupid ad pop up..no biggie though http://www.pazsaz.com/herculod.html

Shazzan http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/shazzan.htm

these two were older shows, but aired on thsi super adventure hour i used to watch...it was on at liek 5am if i remeber correctly

okay, im gonna go nutz and name a few of my other favs:

-Captn N the Game master
-Danger Mouse
-Duck Tales
-GARFEILD and friends
-Gobots
-gummi bears
-heathcliff
-Snorks
-shirt tales

god i could go on and on forever

Gi Joe, TMNT, Smurfs, Transformers,He-Man, MASK, Voltron, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Gummi Bears and Garfeild were probablly my favs


here is a nice list of 80;s cartoons
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/cartoons.htm



EDIT: i lovewd this show too... Defenders of the Earth http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/d/defender.htm

 

Yeah, I forgot about Garfield. And when there used to be Peanuts cartoons. Not just the specials on holidays, but for a time there was a Saturday morning series. This time period and a bit further back in the seventies and into the sixties was the golden age of television cartoons. You may have had Looney Toons, Fleicsher Superman, Disney, Betty Boop and Popeye, but those were theatrical representations.

 

I loved the Spiderman show that used to come on NBC. Not the one with the ever popular theme song, but the one where Bobby Drake (Iceman) had left the X-men to help Spiderman. They also had a woman with them named Firestar. Every now and then, you would get to see some of the X-men help them.

I suppose this is why I was hoping that X3 would show him skating along his ice bridges, etc, but, at least, he iced up for once.

 

Earth Worm Jim, Freakazoid, and Eekstravaganza are among the ones I remember added to a few mentioned here.

 

finally, a topic that i am 110 percent in favor of talking about. The Saturday Morning Shows. I really believe that the 70's, and 80's, were the golden-era of cartoons, one will argue or say that it was the silver or modern age but i will say to you, "That you are wrong!
i think it had a lot to do with the excess era of that time. The late 70's, and 80's will never come again. It brought some of the fashion, politics, and many influentual films that hollywood still studies today. This splilled over into the Sat. morning cartoons. Every frickin cartoon had a toy-line and somehow was merchandised. I loved the Smurfs, Visionaries, Bionic-Six, Spiderman and his amazing friends, and many more. They all had catchy theme songs, and had this magical quality to them. If i was trapped in time, this era would be it. But alas, kids have to grow up. And this is
who we are.
Remember the first rule.

 

The moral messages were a result of the fact that many felt outraged by the Looney Toons and their like, being violent. And unlike them, the television groups wanted a moral message. Hence we got that. As the years passed, these became passe' so we could sit down to watch Batman kick ass and not talk about how wrong it was of the Joker to burn down a casino. Or how teamwork with Robin, Nightwing and Batgirl saved the day.

The violence also played a huge factor in many cartoons not being as violent as their theatrical or comical counterparts. For instance, rarely did anyone punch a person. Usually it was only seen in G.I. Joe, which was syndicated. As was He-Man though not every episode featured someone getting punched. Mostly had throws being used. Batman started the trend, but it had to be done carefully. It wasn't until WB said it was okay to do this, on their network, that you saw Batman actually club someone. To see Superman throw a hard punch on Bizarro and it looked sweet. Any punches thrown had to be against an inanimate object or a robot that didn't look human.

 

Out of all of those, the one I remember best is Scooby-Doo. I love that dog.

 

swat cats and biker mice from mars are the cartoons i remebred liking the most in the early 90s oh and dont forget earth worm jim

 

Anyone remember MIGHTY ORBOTS ?

It only lasted one season on ABC, but I thought they made the Transformers look like little Lego-robots...

I also miss JASON OF STAR COMMAND and FAT ALBERT


Boomerang is the last, best hope for cartoons...