The Magic That Used To Be Saturday Morning

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Sambos!!!! I went there a few months ago:lol Even picked up a 'Wooden Nickle' for a cup of coffee as a souvenir. The name came from the two founders: Sam (something) and Bo (nickname of the other guy). The motif was based on the childrens book about a little Indian boy who outsmarted a pack of tigers. Little Black Sambo. Public perceived it as racist,but in reality it was about pancakes.
 
BB43MAN said:
Space Academy, Jason of Starcommand, The Mighty Isis Power Hour with Shazam, The Far Out Space Nuts, Flash Gordon, Dr. Shrinker, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Speed Racer, School House Rock, Josie and the Pussycats, the Flintstones, Superfriends, and the list goes on and on!
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OMG...you just named most of my favorite ones, How about the Bananna splits, Liddsville, The Ghost Busters (with the two guys from F troop), Godilla and Godzuki, Scooby Doo, Bigfoot and Wildboy, the New Shmoo, Fat Albert and the Cosby kids, Hong Kong Phooey, Johnny Quest, TV was so different back then.
 
Sambos!!!! I went there a few months ago:lol Even picked up a 'Wooden Nickle' for a cup of coffee as a souvenir. The name came from the two founders: Sam (something) and Bo (nickname of the other guy). The motif was based on the childrens book about a little Indian boy who outsmarted a pack of tigers. Little Black Sambo. Public perceived it as racist,but in reality it was about pancakes.
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I don't buy the whole Sam+Bo story, I suspect, if anything, it's a double entendre.

I distinctly remember that the character of the little boy Sambo was black, they had a an illustrated montage along the ceiling-line of the story of the tiger chasing Sambo, then Sambo tricking the tiger to chase his own tail until he turned to butter.

It was only later did they change Sambo to a light-skinned Indian boy with a turban, after complaints and a lawsuit.
 
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it isnt much, but its something. bringing back gijoe and transformers? neat! is m.a.s.k next?
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Supposedly Transformers will tie into the new game that came out and its sequels. Hasbro did drop the ball with the last animated series as they canceled it and aren't allowing the last season to be put out on dvd. It was one of the lines cut to make room for the horrid movie items. Hopefully this new GI and TF will be good. Sadly I don't think gi joe will rock as much as the limited series adult swim had on but it may work.
 
That is a part of American culture that is surely missed and one I am glad I was a part of.

I really can't add anymore to this thread that hasn't already been said. I was the target age group, from the late 60's (H.R. Puffinstuf) through to the mid-70's.

One show I absolutely lived for was Kids World. A show where they had just about everything, including my favorite segment of super8 movies made by other kids. It came on around noon, so it was the end piece to a wonderful morning.

So hard to crawl out of bed through the week for school, but 6am on Saturday was no problem at.

I remember Sundays had a smaller sampling, including Fat Albert and the show with Tom Chapin called "Make a Wish" and my all time fav..Davey and Goliath.
 
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This is slightly off topic but anyone else miss Christmas specials? Back when cartoons had special episodes or they were making new xmas only shows like Frosty the snow man? The only modern cartoons i know that did it all got canceled thanks to cartoon network.
 
I remember getting all hyped up seeing the ads for the season premiers of the older cartoons and the introduction of the new ones to the line-up.

I think if I remember clearly, they would debut them around 8-9 o'clock at night during the school week, and I would have to beg, bargain and plead just to stay up late enough and watch them.

I think it was the same with the Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas specials, always on later than my bedtime. :lol
 
I too miss the Saturday mornings. I it makes me sick now when I turn the TV to ABC NBC and CBS those were the cartoon networks back when I was growing up. Now its more of those stupid morning shows.

I use to get up real early and had my shows planned out. What was one what channel and when it was on...Beetle Juice, Garfield and Friends, the Tick, Bugs Bunny Show. just to name a few.

And I do believe you are right 11:00 was cut off time for the morning cartoons.

I tried it the other day with my kids cooking breakfast. I loaded netflix on the wii and streamed the Orginal Bugs Bunny and Road Runner cartoon. I brought back found memories from my childhood the classic cartoon sounds the smell of bacon and pancakes.

Oh I have found myself searching YouTube for the old Saturday morning cartoons...man life was simple.
 
3 words...Hong Kong Phooey.



Seriously this thread brought back some memories, my god I sat in front of the friggin' tube all day on saturday.
After cartoons were over, wrestling was on, then after that it was about noon...that is when the saturday after noon double creature feature started, two old horror movies back 2 back...cripes I have wasted my childhood away in front of the box.
 
I almost forgot..the "After these messages we will be right back"...found some of those on youtube. Can't believe I am watching this at work!
 
howlingwind13 said:
3 words...Hong Kong Phooey.



Seriously this thread brought back some memories, my god I sat in front of the friggin' tube all day on saturday.
After cartoons were over, wrestling was on, then after that it was about noon...that is when the saturday after noon double creature feature started, two old horror movies back 2 back...cripes I have wasted my childhood away in front of the box.
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Now that I think about it that's right. Wrestling was also on sundays too around the same time. Back when the superstars wrestled nobodies and the star on star matches weren't every episode. If it wasn't old movies on in the afternoons it was old tv shows like Big Valley or Wild America. Eventually the infomercial craze killed that. There are only a handful of cartoons on saturday mornings anymore and they're remakes of carebears and strawberry shortcake. Last shows i remember being on at a normal time was back in like 2007 and was the new ninja turtles and gi joe: sigma six.
 
I tried to tell my workmates about Hong Kong Phooey just last week and NOT ONE of them ever heard of it! I can still sing the theme song! I loved the intro.:

Who is this strange superhero?
Sarge?.......no.
Rosemary the telephone operator?.....no.
Henry, the mild mannered janitor?.......could be!

LOL!!!! Scatman Cruthers was the best voice. I'll bet he had lots of fun doing that show.
 
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DARTH SABER said:
I really miss those days.
What kids today don't understand is that back in the 70s - 80s there was an average of about 12 channels.
And only 3 of those channels had a sharp picture.
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You guys were lucky! We only had 4 channels till the late 90's.
I always remember getting up early to catch episodes of he-man and Transformers just before they decided to package the cartoons as part of a show which meant you had to watch the awful filler like the raccoons and a token girly programme about horses or orphans or the like.
Then they went and split the cartoons into three parts with no mention of when the next part was on!:angry

I preferred the summer holiday shows when, because the BBC was too cheap to show syndicated cartoons, they would show stuff like Flash gordon, zorro or King of the rocketmen!!!

Channel 4 over here was always considered to be an arty channel so some saturdays they'd show Jackie Chan movies.

After a morning of cartoons it was out to play for a few hours then in for wrestling with Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks then either Battlestar Galactica, the A-team, Airwolf, Streethawk or McGuyver.
 
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Supposedly Transformers will tie into the new game that came out and its sequels. Hasbro did drop the ball with the last animated series as they canceled it and aren't allowing the last season to be put out on dvd. It was one of the lines cut to make room for the horrid movie items. Hopefully this new GI and TF will be good. Sadly I don't think gi joe will rock as much as the limited series adult swim had on but it may work.
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i think they're taking the older 80's gijoe/transformers back. ive already seen the previews for the new gijoe.

looks like the movie.

looks like crap.
 
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