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WINCHELL-MAHONEY TIME!

This show man. I watched it every day in 1967.

http://youtu.be/AtrKpGZvNEg (http://youtu.be/AtrKpGZvNEg)

Even with all the extra TV channels nowadays it doesn't seem to have a Saturday morning cartoon show the way I used to see when I was a kid. So I've been stocking up on 70's, 80's and 90's cartoon to make our own shows for Ash as he grows.

Winchell and Mahoney were great. Then in the early 70s Paul Winchell hosted a Saturday morning game show for kids called "Runaround."

Other shows I loved when I was a kid:

* Soupy Sales

* The Groovy Ghoulies

* The Double Deckers - British kids who used an old double decker bus as a clubhouse (how cool is that?)

* Scooby Doo (of course - - but I didn't like the later shows when they added Scooby Dum and Scrappy Doo

* Thunderbirds

* Captain Scarlet

* Ultra Man

* The Monkees

So many . . . I watched way too much TV when I was a kid.

i'll add " land of the lost", " sigmund the sea monster" and from my twin nieces childhood, "animaniacs".
   burgo, do remember the name of the show that had all the short cartoons, the host's name was john something? it had pink panther, spy vs spy, cracked fairy tales, aesop's fables, stuff like that? i think it was new england only, on channel 56.

Was this Uncle Dale Dorman for the WLVI Kids Club cartoon block?  Or earlier than that, when it was called WKBG?
Anyway, I also grew up on Sid And Marty Krofft:
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And the stupid SKATEBIRDS (though I did like the THE ROBONIC STOOGES segment):
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It could have been Dale, but there were cartoon compilation shows on channels 56 and 38 even before he showed up. I remember somewhere around 1969 - 70 there was a very short-lived show called "Bunker Hill." The host worked in a train station and would introduce cartoons. I remember they had a contest where you could win a $100 shopping spree at Child World. I thought that would be the greatest thing. To me, $100 was almost $1 million.

There was also a guy on channel 27 (which was broadcast from Worcester, I think, and I could barely get a picture on the TV from where I lived in Saugus). His name was "Dickory Dock" and he also did cartoon intros. Again, this was probably around 1969-70.

And of course, all the more popular shows like Willie Whistle, Boomtown (with Rex Trailer and Pablo . . . but Pablo died and was replaced by Sgt. Billy), Major Mudd, and Bozo.

There were some crappy cartoons in the 60's as well, including Super President, Birdman, the Beatles, and some thing that had a super-hero kid in a diaper, he was part of a super hero team...I forget the name.


http://youtu.be/Ym6aoOIRnOc (http://youtu.be/Ym6aoOIRnOc)

Of course there were great cartoons too, like ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE, UNDERDOG, MAJOR McBRAGG, CAPTAIN AMERICA, SPIDERMAN, and DUDLEY DORIGHT.


http://youtu.be/aLYtcx7Dubk (http://youtu.be/aLYtcx7Dubk)

And disturbing cartoons like CLUTCH CARGO . . .

You ain't kidding...

http://youtu.be/jDf6tnJfPKU (http://youtu.be/jDf6tnJfPKU)

I like Clutch Cargo...

Those real mouths on cartoon faces are scarier than anything in any horror movie I've seen.

thanks russell, uncle dale was the one i was thinking of at the time. burgo, BIG fan of dickory too, even my da liked him.

If you look at them, for some reason to me, it looks like they have cold sores around the rim of their mouths. It was just creepy.
And the cartoons NEVER moved- but that mouth was yapping away.
When the cartoons DID move- it was like with the movement of a cardboard Halloween skeleton.

Here's a little of the WLVI Kids Parade featuring The Flintstones and several commercials!
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In 1970, they had a show out of Kalamazoo called Channel 3 Clubhouse. It had some lady with puppets and s**t, with a live kid audiance. Anyway they had this cartoon on it- RUFF AND REDDY. I still can recite the lyrics.

http://youtu.be/ohGIZhGOlWg (http://youtu.be/ohGIZhGOlWg)

There was another thread where we mentioned cartoons we grew up with.  So I'll repost:
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF BATMAN (1977)
My sisters and I watched the hell out of this one.  Adam West and Burt Ward voiced Batman and Robin!  Lou Scheimer himself voiced Bat-Mite and other characters.
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I watched plenty of TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE (1976), also by Filmation and with the great voice of Bob Ridgely as Tarzan!
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And we watched plenty of THE PLASTIC MAN COMEDY ADVENTURE SHOW (1979):
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And during commercial breaks for CBS cartoons we got this:
IN THE NEWS
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Plenty of great bumpers during Saturday morning cartoons:
ABC's "After these messages, we'll be riiight back":
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CBS's Video-gamey/spacey bumpers:
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And Casey Kasem did the NBC bumpers-- nothing fancy:
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SPPPAAAA-AAAACE GGGHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSTTTTTT!!!!!!

http://youtu.be/7FRW2bOqvzI (http://youtu.be/7FRW2bOqvzI)

BIIIIIRRRRRDDD MMMAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!

http://youtu.be/H2m45TLVKRs (http://youtu.be/H2m45TLVKRs)

Johnny Quest in all it's racist stereotypical politically incorrect glory.

http://youtu.be/SIhEpjnaNlo (http://youtu.be/SIhEpjnaNlo)

Bird  Man was dumb as f**k!  :bouncegiggle:

I loved Johnny Quest.

I remember IN THE NEWS. It showed when the helicopter was airlifting people off the embassy in Saigon! When I was watching Scooby Doo!

I remember some cartoons in the late 70s/early 80s with plot devices that made me certain the creators were on something illegal!
MIGHYMAN and YUKK-- a portion of the PLASTIC MAN COMEDY ADVENTURE SHOW where a guy could turn tiny and super strong, and he had a giant dog sidekick with a face so ugly it could incapacitate the bad guys, so he had a tiny doghouse over it.  WTF??
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THE NEW SCHMOO-- why did they bring the Li'l Abner character into modern times (late 70s anyway) and make him a stretchy superhero??
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SHIRT TALES-- a bunch of zoo animals have t-shirts on that say what they're thinking.  Their shirts should have said HANNAH BARBERA ARE HIGH!!!!
RUBIK, THE AMAZING CUBE-- They turned the classic puzzle into a f***ing friendly alien thing??  My brain is officially soup now.
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And taking popular shows or young actors and giving them their own cartoon show NEVER works.  Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy, The Partridge Family, The Gary Coleman Show, Punky Brewster.. egad.

If you loved johnny quest show you should check out "tom the dancing bug billy dare" comics.

(http://gocomics.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5f3053ef01538fe3161e970b-800wi)

(http://boingboing.net/images/ttdb/ttdbbillydareoct.jpg)

Pinky & The Brain. 
http://youtu.be/qzZmU0aGmcc (http://youtu.be/qzZmU0aGmcc)

Thundercats
http://youtu.be/HcGNqrAtsgg (http://youtu.be/HcGNqrAtsgg)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
http://youtu.be/rS-qFdw-v_o (http://youtu.be/rS-qFdw-v_o)

I used to love this compilation show over the weekends:
USA CARTOON EXPRESS
It had a few oddball ones I didn't get to see BITD.
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The best saturday morning cartoons when I watched were

1. dungeons and Dragons

2. Gummi Bears

3. Photon

Kids today will never know the joy of spending Saturday mornings watching Charles Nelson Reilly and Ruth Buzzi . . . sigh . . .

And if you watched the uhf channels- the 3 Stooges, the Little Rascals, and old Woody Woodpecker cartoons!

This was a huge hit at the time-- the Chipmunks revived and updated to the 80s!
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THE ALL NEW POPEYE HOUR (1978) had DINKY DOG on with Popeye cartoons.  I definitely remember the show.
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Star Wars finally got its own cartoon-- er, cartoons!
EWOKS AND DROIDS ADVENTURE HOUR (1985-86)
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I mentioned somewhere about making popular shows into really bad cartoons-- here's some examples:
THE FONZ AND THE HAPPY DAYS GANG (1980)
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LAVERNE & SHIRLEY JOIN THE ARMY
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And then they broght Casper back.. as a space police assistant???  WTF?!
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Saturday morning in the 80's usually found me fishing or drinking. :drink: I did a lot of both back then.

I do remember the Mighty Heros! From 196something- with Tornado Man! Rope Man! And Diaper Man!
One of the most insipid cartoons of all time.

http://youtu.be/72rYHuWidSM (http://youtu.be/72rYHuWidSM)

I'm 34.  I'm of the last generation to have some semblance of Saturday morning cartoons on the major networks (ABC, CBS, mostly, and if you consider Fox or the WB major).  Around the time of the early/mid 90s, we had cable channels like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network that had almost all cartoons and kids programming so the main networks started cancelling them.  Also, ABC aired Looney Tunes, but at like noon when no kids really wanted to keep watching tv because they wanted to go out to play.

Freakazoid! Produced by Steven Spielberg.
http://youtu.be/JZmw3jzX1t0 (http://youtu.be/JZmw3jzX1t0)

Spider-Man (1994-98)
http://youtu.be/DZGN9fZvQhc (http://youtu.be/DZGN9fZvQhc)

Gummi Bears
http://youtu.be/2HCjQbKowUo (http://youtu.be/2HCjQbKowUo)

I saw this in the late 70's and even then I knew it was stupid.  Kind of like Wacky Races in Space, and also featured the shows GALAXY GOOF-UPS, THE BUFORD FILES and GALLOPING GHOST.
YOGI'S SPACE RACE (1978)
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GALAXY GOOF-UPS (check out the marriage of space and disco in this show!)
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BUFORD FILES
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GALLOPING GHOST-- I kind of thought Wendy was hot.
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I remember, very clearly, watching the Archies, and they cut it with a news break. On Saturday f**king morning! About some s**t in Vietnam. Vietnam was everywhere. This was before the fall of Saigon I seen on IN THE NEWS.
This was about 1971.

I think I slightly remember news about the hostage crisis in Iran interrupting some weekend cartoon shows.
Wow, a young Ted Koppel!
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I remember when this EBS test would pop up:
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I've been thinking of this silly Sesame Street puppet skit for yeeeeears.

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Technically not a cartoon, & I believe Sesame Street's always been a weekday show, so I guess this falls in under "other things." :)