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This is a spin-off of the other TV show thread . . .

These are memorable Saturday morning shows from when I was a kid (as you can see, I was a child of the 60s & 70s)

* LANCELOT LINK, SECRET CHIMP

* H.R. PUF 'N' STUF

* THE MONKEES

* LIDSVILLE

* THE BUGALOOS

* RUNAROUND (with Paul Winchell)

* THE DOUBLE DECKERS (a British kids' show that was shown in the U.S. - I actually had a DOUBLE DECKERS lunchbox when I was a kid)

* SCOOBY DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? (I only liked the first few seasons, before they introduced Srappy Doo and Scooby Dum)

* SIGMUND AND THE SEA MONSTERS

* THE GROOVY GHOULIES

* LAND OF THE LOST (the original version)

And of course, the greatest SUNDAY morning shows:

* GUMBY

* DAVEY & GOLIATH (it took me a while to realize that this was a religious show with a message)



Post Edited (08-12-03 07:54)

There was also another couple morning shows

Gigglesnort Hotel

The Magic Door

Shazaam

Oh you have brought back many memorable ones. Good job!!!!

Callysto wrote:
 
> Shazaam

Well, if you are going to mention SHAZAAM, you can't forget ISIS ("Oh mighty Isis!")

And what about THE BANANA SPLITS (featuring the "Danger Island" segment, starring young Jan-Michael Vincent).

There was also:

* THE HUDSON BROTHERS SHOW

* THE WACKY RACERS (with Dick Dastardly and Penelope Pitstop)

* FUNKY PHANTOM (which was basically a Scooby Doo rip-off)

* THE CLUE CLUB (another Scooby Doo rip-off)

* GOOBER AND THE GHOST CHASERS (another Scooby Doo rip-off . . . are you starting to see the trend here?)

* THE NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN (animated)

* WILL THE REAL JERRY LEWIS PLEASE SIT DOWN? (animated, with David L. Lander, aka "Squiggy" from LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY, providing the voice of Jerry Lewis).

* JAMBO (which was a live-action show that took place in Africa. I still remember the theme song: "Jambo, jambo, means 'hello' in a happy kind of an African way . . . ")

* THE FAR-OUT SPACE NUTS

* THE LOST SAUCER

* THE BRADY KIDS (animated)

* KID POWER (animated, about kids of all races and colors learning valuable lessons about life)

* THE HAIR BEAR BUNCH (animated bears with afros and hippie clothes)

* ARCHIE'S TV FUNNIES

Oh, to have those golden days back!

While my memory of seeing shows on television when I was a little kid has escaped me for some time, I do remember watching the animated show THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS. Again, I have nothing but fond memories of it.

I still have a tape of some of the episodes, which also has some really cheesy kids commericals on it as well. I might pop it in and take a look at it as it's been a while.

All the KROFT stuff was fun.

I think most of these shows are before my time, I'm a kid of the late 80's.

-the first rule of fat club-

Scooby Doo and Josie and the p***ycats, and David and Goliath on Sundays.

"* THE WACKY RACERS (with Dick Dastardly and Penelope Pitstop)"

There is a japanese 3 disc release of all the episodes...if thats not a reason to own a multi region dvd I don't know what is

Some of the stuff I remember:

Galaxy High

Mighty Orbots

Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Roll Wrestling

Smurfs

Snorks
 
Muppet Babies

Pac Man

Donkey Kong

Space Ace

Dragon's Lair


Oh, the memories.
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Bulls**t, I still can't hear you, sound off like you got a pair

Anyone remember the "Lazer Tag" cartoon?

I wanted the actual Laser Tag gun setup so bad when I was a kid but I never had enough money and my parents thought it was too expensive to buy.

I also loved "Dungeons & Dragons" and "Spider Man & His Amazing Friends" on Saturday mornings.



Post Edited (08-12-03 22:10)

The Real Ghostbusters :
The first couple of seasons of this were pure genious...they killed it when it became "Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters" though, where they had that 10 minute cartoon with just slimer and s**tty animation...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
The original series was really good, til the last season where they could "mutate" into giant turtles that fought like Power Rangers zoids or something...


X-Men:
The original cartoon that came on Fox... not that X-Men: Evolution garbage...

Spider Man:
Also came on Fox, great show til it ended and then they got Spider Man: Unlimited or something... he was on some planet where the people were animals/humans or something... lame


Man, they killed a lot of Saturday morning cartoons... killing a cartoon should be a crime.

I really didn't like that Spider-Man.  The fight scenes are nothing more than just shoulder blocks, missed punches,  kicks, and gunfire.  The only thing that connect is Spider-Man's webs on someone's face.
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Bulls**t, I still can't hear you, sound off like you got a pair

How bout Johnny Quest: Monsters,Aliens,Gunplay,just like an animated B movie!No sexy females thou,but that weird Race+Dr.Quest thing?

Space Academy

Jason of Star Command

Skatebirds - Like Banana Splits, even had a live action segment called (I think) Mysterious Island) with a redesigned Lost in Space robot. Never finished as I recall.

JackFlack wrote:


> X-Men:
> The original cartoon that came on Fox... not that X-Men:
> Evolution garbage...

You are mistaken, only the animation is garbage for the new X Men series. The story is actually well done and includes more characters than I think the Fox edition ever had. What really annoys me is how they dont put out the old Fox X Men in chronological order, but plop a few on a DVD at random.

> Spider Man:
> Also came on Fox, great show til it ended and then they got
> Spider Man: Unlimited or something... he was on some planet
> where the people were animals/humans or something... lame

Yes, it was lame, it was based on the lame comic Spider Man 2099. But, the new Spider Man series, is on MTV, havent seen it enough to make a judgement.


>


I will agree on a whole that during the age of 13, was the peak of great cartoons.

Captain Planet
Animaniacs (Pinky and the Brain too).
The Tick
Tiny Toon Adventures
Rocko's Modern Life
Life with Louie
Spider Man and the X-Men

and even when I was a real kid they had Thundercats and He Man.

Now I look, and there is just so much crap with the exception of X men, Dexters Lab, Jackie Chan, and Samurai Jack.

Big John, Little John and The Monster Squad.

You guys are just babes in the woods. All those shows are after my time. I am old enough to remember watching . . .

Beany and Cecil
Captain Kangaroo
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Lone Ranger (the animated version)
Mighty Mouse (the original)
The Pink Panther and the Inspector

on Saturday mornings.

Jason Of Star Command and basically any live-action that Filmation did
Any Krofft
Basically any liveaction shows were great

As far as animation -
Batman (Filmation)
Tarzan
Superfriends
Godzilla Power Hour
Blackstar (pre-He Man blueprint)

There's more, but I just can't think of it right now.



Post Edited (08-19-03 13:29)

Here are the shows that my wife grow up with on Saturday:

Kid Video
Kids Incorporated ( before it moved to Disney)
Isis
Ark II
Bugs Bunny
Godzilla

Boy Scout Kevin wrote:

"You guys are just babes in the woods. All those shows are after my time. I am old enough to remember watching . . .

Beany and Cecil
Captain Kangaroo
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Lone Ranger (the animated version)
Mighty Mouse (the original)
The Pink Panther and the Inspector

on Saturday mornings."

I remember these shows very well (see my list at the top of this thread).

Also - what about:

* FANTASTIC VOYAGE (a GREAT cartoon)
* THE BEATLES
* THE OSMOND BROTHERS (can you believe they actually had a cartoon????)
* ULTRA MAN (the original, live action series - I think this was on Saturday afternoons or maybe even Sunday mornings)
* KING KONG
* CHARLIE CHAN AND THE CHAN CLAN
* HONG KONG PHOOEY

And then there was CLUTCH CARGO (animated people with live-action lips superimposed on their faces . . . very disturbing). Also, here are some other shows. I think I watched some of them on weekdays rather than on Saturdays:

* KIMBA, THE WHITE LION
* SPEED RACER
* GIGANTOR
* FRANKENSTEIN JUNIOR
* SPACE GHOST
* ROCKET ROBIN HOOD
* SUBMARINE BOY (he took a pill that allowed him to breathe underwater for an hour or something)
* SECRET SQUIRREL
* ATOM ANT

Whew! Major nostalgia attack!

There's this great book you might be able to find at the library which for some reason the title is eluding me right now. It's huge trade paperback about kids programs on radio and television from about 1930 through 1979.

Ahhh, thanks everyone for taking me back in time.  I was a kid of the late 70's and early 80's.   My favs were:

Smurfs
Superfriends
Scooby Doo
Kid Video
Bugs Bunny
Pac Man

The Bugs Bunny Show
Hot Wheels
Beakman's World
Mr. Wizard
The Weird Al Show
Rocky and Bullwinkle

I would really like to see the Filmation animated Tarzan and Lone Ranger cartoons again. The Tarzan series actually seemed to involve some fantasy elements that the live action films never touched.

TV Land was showing "Shazam!" episodes about a year ago during their "Kitschen" block of guilty pleasure shows on Friday and Saturday nights. I would tape them and watch them after I got home from work. The perfect programming for 3 AM viewing. Loved it as a kid, but now I have a whole new appreciation of just how bad it was. The shoe-horned in educational lessons to the stories, Billy having flashbacks to things the Elders said less than 5 minutes ago, the overused stock music from tons of Filmation shows (wish there were a CD) even HB was more creative in their use of their stock music. The Shazam logo on the front of the RV, so much for secret identities, the hoaky acting by tons of teen actors (including a pudgy Danny Bonaduce in one episode) but that dialogue didn't make it any easier. Classic.

Most of the more popular Kroft programs were before my time, but I think I am the one kid who never liked anything by the Krofts. "Land Of The Lost" was boring to me, and I never understood the hatred other kids had for "Dr. Who" when they said it was cheap looking but were so fond of the equally cheap LOTL.

And I agree that those who don't like "X-Men: Evolution" are really missing out. The writing and use of characters are so good they overcome the teen angst element and the high school setting.

Wow! I don't know what I can add to that list. Did anybody mention the Mighty Hercules?

I guess, growing up in the 70s and 80s, I got to see the best of Saturday morning television. Caught some of the Kroft shows, and a some of the other classic 60s and early 70s programming. Enjoyed the reign of Hanna Barbera, from Scooby Doo to the resurrection of Flintstones to Superfriends to Shmoo to Smurfs. Saw prime-time sitcoms adapted to cartoons, arcade games adapted to cartoons, wrestling adapted to a cartoon, and even Rubik's Cube adapted to a cartoon. Had a blast during the early appearances of anime - Star Blazers, Voltron, Force Five, Robotech. And I enjoyed the cartoons of the early 90s as well, from the well-known X-Men, Spider Man and the Tick, to more obscure stuff, like Exo-Squad.

Unfortunately, I no longer watch TV on Saturday mornings. I lost interest during the years when there was nothing on but hours of Digimon, some crappy Disney cartoons, and weird Nick stuff I'd never heard of. Coming right after the seasons when you were hard pressed to find a cartoon amid the live-action Power Rangers knock-offs, it was too much for me. It had gotten to the point where I watched more Bob Vila than cartoons. Saturday morning is, sadly, a thing of the past. I guess when you can find cartoons 24-7, it becomes kind of redundant.

Some WWWF-worthy Saturday/Sunday morining TV shows:

-Challenge Of The Superfriends
-Dexter´s Laboratory
-Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
-The Flintstones
-He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
-Inspector Gadget
-The Jetsons
-Mighty Morphing Power Rangers
-The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
-Scooby-Doo,Where Are You!
-Speed Racer
-the old"Spider-Man"cartoon
-Thundercats
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
-Bill Nye,the Science Guy
-Bozo The Clown
-Captain Kangaroo
-Mister Rogers´s Neighborhood
-Pee-Wee´s Playhouse
-Sesame Street
-ALF

<<-Challenge Of The Superfriends>>

Challenge is the most badass of the SuperFriends series. I always love watching it!

Just remembered something the other day - Anyone remember PlasticMan? That show was more like a comedic superhero cartoon.

I DO remember watching Superfriends,and enjoying them very much!

I remember Plasticman, I didn't like it much. Plasticbaby and Plasticman's whiney wife ruined it for me.

I can remember losing interest in Saturday morning cartoons once stuff like Richie Rich and Sport Billy began showing up on the schedules. That and I figured out how few new episodes of returning series they made and just kept recycling the old ones over and over again. I got bored seeing the same episode of Thundarr the Barbarian for the twentieth time.

Yaddo you must be about 39 years old like myself.

I don't know about Yaddo, but I'm only 27, born in January 1976. I just have a very good memory. It also helped that a local station reran all the Krofft shows until 1982!

i got to watch the Thunderbirds when i lived in Brazil,too bad it wasn't in english.

I´m a child of the 80s,so I was raised with"Thundercats","Masters Of The Universe","The Real Ghostbusters","Filmation´s Ghostbusters"(or,as I call them,"The Go Go Ghostbusters"),"Garfield"and"Inspector Gadget".

I'm in my late twenties, I have a good memory for TV shows. Plus the TV networks used to be really bad about bringing back old series or repackaging them on their Saturday morning schedules, so some shows like "Shazam!" I remember but not from their initial run. I can remember when NBC reran the original Jonny Quest series in the late 70s and early 80s and my uncles being surprised I knew and liked the series since it had originally aired when they were growing up.

The Superfriends are at the top of my list.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Land of the Lost.

Dinosaurs.

Here's a website some of you might be interested in that I found a few years ago -
70s Live Action Kid Vid (http://www.70slivekidvid.com/)

>Anyone remember PlasticMan?

I think I saw like 3 episodes of that. I liked it, but I could never seem to find it.

>That and I figured out how few new episodes of returning series they made and
>just kept recycling the old ones over and over again. I got bored seeing the
>same episode of Thundarr the Barbarian for the twentieth time.

I once read a post that stated that the makers of most kids' shows don't believe kids are capable of telling new episodes from repeats, so they don't see the need to make more than a couple seasons, then they just keep repeating them. This was the reason given when someone questioned why Nickelodeon only makes 2-3 seasons of each show. I think it might have even been a direct quote by someone at Nick, but I can't swear to that now.