The Magic That Used To Be Saturday Morning

[ave4uevoli]

I remember watching Knight Rider, followed by Airwolf and the A-Team and then being called down for lunch right around the time Macgyver came on.

Oh Hey - Anyone remember "Thunder in Paradise" and "Street hawk?!" Those were on in the mornings too... ahhhh the memories.

Things seemed so much simpler back then.

 

[chewbaccadoll]

On Saturday mornings:
Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner
Smurfs
Land of the Lost (how did I not realize they used the same footage of Grumpy over and over?)
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
Wild Boy

After school:
You Can't Do That on Television
Dangermouse (late imports from the BBC)

At night:
Buck Rogers
Bionic Woman
BJ and the Bear

I've recently been watching the Six Million Dollar Man on Netflix, and man does it start out dry and slow. I have a hard time believing I watched it as a kid, I would have been bored out of my mind. I know I watched the Bionic Woman though, because my friends and I used to reenact the latest episode during recess every day. I remember bugging my grandmother to let me take a head of lettuce to school, because Jamie threw one at a bad guy one week. I needed a prop!

You're spanning a period of time with that list right? Because... Smurfs... Land of the Lost/Electra Woman... not even close to the same era

There was the horrid LOTL remake, but that was in the 90's. Shudder to recall that at all!

 

[Tilandra]

Yes, quite a bit of time. We lived in the middle of nowhere, so I was probably watching cartoons into my early teens because the choices were pretty limited. I don't think cable came to our area until I was at least 15 or 16.

You know... back in the good old days when I had to walk to school uphill both ways.

 

[JPolacchi]

To my knowledge,there haven't been good cartoons on Saturday mornings (or any time) in at least 20 years (perhaps a couple years longer?).The last thing I watched just for laughs was Beavis&Butthead,Ren&Stimpy and Celebraty Deathmatch.All they have is crap on TV.All pollitically correct mamby pamby garbage.But hey...I grew up on 1920's- early 1940's Popey, Waner Bros. , MGM cartoons along with old school Tom&Jerry and some great classics from the 70's and early 80's.I can't think of anything worth while watching that is on the boob tube now.Creativity and imagination has died in favor of pollitically correct,sissy marketable crap I.M.O.That's probably why I gave up on cable 11-12 years ago.Then again, that's just me. I could be wrong?

 

[Raza Crew]

My weekend started the night before. Homemade pizza, Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, and Big Chuck and Little John,

Then up at 5:30 with leftover pizza and 16 oz returnable Pepsi bottles while I watched cartoons all morning until Superhost gave me an hour of Stooges before 2 monster movies, right into Star Trek, Muppets, Love Boat, and Fantasy Island. LOOOOOVED those rainy weekends!

 

[Wes R]

My weekend started the night before. Homemade pizza, Incredible Hulk, Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, and Big Chuck and Little John,

Then up at 5:30 with leftover pizza and 16 oz returnable Pepsi bottles while I watched cartoons all morning until Superhost gave me an hour of Stooges before 2 monster movies, right into Star Trek, Muppets, Love Boat, and Fantasy Island. LOOOOOVED those rainy weekends!

What part of Ohio are you from? We've occasionally be able to get Big Chuck and Little John on the antenna from what i thought was wheeling but apparently it was Cleveland. My dad remembers them since he's from near youngstown. Closest we had to them was Chilly Billy from Pittsburgh (who i learned grew up 10 minutes from here).

 

[PotionMistress]

Does anyone remember Clyde Crashcup and his sidekick, Leonardo? He was always trying to invent things that already existed. I loved that.

Other favorites Saturday shows were:
Popeye
Underdog
The Jetsons
and Looney Tunes, of course, preferably the older ones.

 

[ONEYE]

So much magic... gone.

 

[MFP 2020]

I showed a little slice of my childhood Saturday mornings to my four-year-old on Netflix. Now he asks for it by name:

Pufnstuf

 

[Clutch]

I got my kids addicted to Fat Albert. We all laugh our butts off at that show!

 

[Wes R]

I'm glad people our age are showing their kids good quality cartoons. if I had kids they'd never hear of Dora or any of that crap.

 

[jcoffman99]

My son is only six weeks old and we already have secured the first three seasons of the Muppet Show. Vintage Sesame Street is next. Sadly there are very few Mr. Roger's dvds available. Our child will be a vintage child.

 

[Hocky]

In the uk there was a show called tiswas back in the 1970's
This was a great kids show with loads of zany characters.

 

[Megamicrofish]

Ah great times great times, cartoon wise Hong Kong Phooey and Captain Caveman couldn't be beat and saturday mornings wouldn't be complete without TISWAS, The Phantom Flan Flinger was my hero.
YouTube - Tiswas - The Phantom Flan Flinger - Annie Lennox, Darts

And of course Worzel Gummidge was tops too.

Topped off with a spot of late 70's early 80's British wrestling on World Of Sport in the afternoon.
YouTube - World Of Sport - Mick Mcmanus Vs. Catweazle (1975)

I remember all of the above, I also enjoyed Swap Shop with Noel Edmunds.
They also used to run the old Flash Gordon,Superman and King of the Rocket Men serials

 

[Wes R]

My son is only six weeks old and we already have secured the first three seasons of the Muppet Show. Vintage Sesame Street is next. Sadly there are very few Mr. Roger's dvds available. Our child will be a vintage child.

Have you tried contacting WQED out of pittsburgh where they filmed Mr Rogers? Maybe they know of a source that others don't. It's a long shot but you never know. I'd stick with vintage sesame street, i don't like where they take things these days.

 

[TheDoctor]

I never had the experience of watching Saturday morning TV because we would meet my grandparents for breakfast at McDonalds every Saturday, right up to about 6 or 7 years ago.

Most of my TV watching experience came in the after-school and Saturday Night variety. After School was "You Can't Do That On Television" (It's where the Slime concept started!) and later "Darkwing Duck" (and yes, even in later years I would tune in for Pinky and the Brian). I have a vague memory about watching some cartoon on Nick with magical stuffed Panda Bears, but that was during the summer that i stayed at my other grandma's house (I remember she didn't let me watch "You Can't..." because the first time she turned it on there was some sort of skit about people dressed as cavemen hitting each other on the head and she didn't think that was good for me).

Saturday Nights were all about "Are You Afraid of the Dark?", "The Outer Limits", "Tales from the Crypt", and "Mystery Science Theater 3000".

To this very day, I rarely watch TV in the morning. Sometimes, if my 2 yo nephew is over, I'll wake up to him watching SpongeBob, but otherwise the only reason for the TV to be on in the morning is if someone is checking for school closings (for the snow).

 

[MFP 2020]

After School was "You Can't Do That On Television" (It's where the Slime concept started!)

How do you mean, exactly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_(toy)

 

[kermet]

Well I'm late to this but reading this brought back so much, land of the lost , far out space nuts, curiouosity shop, lance link secret chimp, lost saucer, land of the giants, and all the cartoons road runner ect. sigmond and the sea monsters, O ya

 

[Laspector]

Well I'm late to this but reading this brought back so much, land of the lost , far out space nuts, curiouosity shop, lance link secret chimp, lost saucer, land of the giants, and all the cartoons road runner ect. sigmond and the sea monsters, O ya

Wow, I've never met anyone who remembers Curiosity Shop. Unfortunately Youtube only has 5 really short videos of the show, I wish I could find more. I remember I always liked the kid Gerard because my grandma told me I looked like him. Seems like the show always ended with him doing something funny or naughty and everyone would say "GERAAAAAAARD!"

I have one small memory of the show that has always stuck with me (if I remember it correctly). Wasn't there a puppet of an old man the kids would talk to and he would tell them a short story that would be a cartoon of his adventures? Once he told them of his journey to "Lost Vegas?"

I sure wish I could find a video of that as it is literally one of the first memories I have. I would like to know if my memory of it is skewed or not due to my very young age at the time.

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

They did a segment on Kevin Smith's Comic Book Men show where Walt (I think) said he would be stressed out on Fri. night about being able to get up on time the next morning. Kids don't get that then if you missed your shows, that was it, no reruns! I kid my 11yo. niece all the time, so she is always wary about what I tell her, and I was saying that we only had cartoons in the morning, right after school, and on Saturday morning. She didn't believe me at first. :lol So it always makes me laugh when she says "There's nothing on to watch" and they have like ten cartoon channels, including OnDemand (play whenever you want) for each of those channels!