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Tell us about your Saturday morning cartoon memories!
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For the longest time, on Saturday mornings I would divide time between One Saturday Morning, KidsWB, and FoxBox (or was it FoxKids?) Any reruns on one, I'd go to the other station, and when two or three of my favorites came on at the same time, I would wish they all came on the same channel so I'd stop being tortured. (I inconviently forgot of the VCR) When Fairly Oddparents were first picked up years later, I soon went to 4 channels, and when Toonami Golden Sun still existed, I switched between 5 channels.
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This may have not been a Saturday morning cartoon persay but I loved the cartoon show and the movie was the epitome of amazing 80's animated movies based on wikkid shows we all loved - Transformers the movie. Need I say more. I found a trailer for the movie online http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH4F6BZEDks he has some great other Transformers trailers on there as well
Ahh! Saturday morning! It wasn't just a day of the week, it was an experience. 
Let us take a little trip back to the 1970's, when a young Pre-Fifi Fanatic was a mere grade schooler who still had all of his hair.
There were only the three network stations and one UHF station, but don't let the small number of channels fool you, there was a lot of variety. And remember, in those days it was not just Saturday mornings... weekday afternoons also belonged to animation. There was no Dr. Phil or Judge Judy back then. After school meant cartoons just as much as Saturday morning did.
Like others here, I was up at the crack of dawn come Saturday. Everyone else still asleep; it was just me, Toucan Sam, and the mighty glowing box. :anime: Saturday morning kicked off with various syndicated programs on the UHF station. Here I could find the 1967 Spider-Man who did whatever a spider can. Here also was the wonderfully Scrappy-free world of "Scooby Doo Where Are You?" (The Scrappy episodes would air later in the morning on the networks... it's not just an aging nerd thing, even as a kid I hated Scrappy). And I was also introduced to the earliest Japanese cartoons... of course, terms like "anime" where not in a kid's vocabulary then, they were all just cartoons. My favorite was Speed Racer. Now there is the quintessential boys' action cartoon: a cool hero with a car that could do anything. 
And now we must come to the crown jewel of my Saturday morning. The one and only Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Show. At that time it ran a full 90 minutes and the cartoons were not as heavily edited as they would be just a mere decade later. Needless to say, 90 minutes of Looney Tunes goodness was the highlight of my week and to say that it influenced me would be a huge understatement. :anime:
Well, there's my little trip down nostalgia street.
R.I.P. Saturday Mornings.
Let us take a little trip back to the 1970's, when a young Pre-Fifi Fanatic was a mere grade schooler who still had all of his hair.
There were only the three network stations and one UHF station, but don't let the small number of channels fool you, there was a lot of variety. And remember, in those days it was not just Saturday mornings... weekday afternoons also belonged to animation. There was no Dr. Phil or Judge Judy back then. After school meant cartoons just as much as Saturday morning did. Like others here, I was up at the crack of dawn come Saturday. Everyone else still asleep; it was just me, Toucan Sam, and the mighty glowing box. :anime: Saturday morning kicked off with various syndicated programs on the UHF station. Here I could find the 1967 Spider-Man who did whatever a spider can. Here also was the wonderfully Scrappy-free world of "Scooby Doo Where Are You?" (The Scrappy episodes would air later in the morning on the networks... it's not just an aging nerd thing, even as a kid I hated Scrappy
). And I was also introduced to the earliest Japanese cartoons... of course, terms like "anime" where not in a kid's vocabulary then, they were all just cartoons. My favorite was Speed Racer. Now there is the quintessential boys' action cartoon: a cool hero with a car that could do anything. And now we must come to the crown jewel of my Saturday morning. The one and only Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Show. At that time it ran a full 90 minutes and the cartoons were not as heavily edited as they would be just a mere decade later. Needless to say, 90 minutes of Looney Tunes goodness was the highlight of my week and to say that it influenced me would be a huge understatement. :anime:
Well, there's my little trip down nostalgia street.
R.I.P. Saturday Mornings.
It's so much fun seeing the differences between the different generations on here. As a child of the 80's I loved Saturday morning cartoons. One of the things I always looked forward to was the launch of each year's new shows. I loved when the networks would air their preview episodes which gave you a brief look at the line up in 30 minutes. I remember having to sit down and plan out what I was gong to watch for each half hour, and thinking the best thing ever would be to have 3 tvs so you could watch everything. (Ah the world before TIVO or even mainstream VCR usage.)
Growing up on the eastcoast, the regular line up didn't start until 8:00, but if you were lucky, one or more channels might run Underdog or Rocky & Bullwinkle, or maybe even the Space Kiddets. Usually arounf 11:30 it was all over, just to be left with the news or Soul Train.
In part, I'm glad that there's such a wealth of animation options these days, but I will always mourn the fact that Saturday Morning is no longer the oasis it once was.
Growing up on the eastcoast, the regular line up didn't start until 8:00, but if you were lucky, one or more channels might run Underdog or Rocky & Bullwinkle, or maybe even the Space Kiddets. Usually arounf 11:30 it was all over, just to be left with the news or Soul Train.
In part, I'm glad that there's such a wealth of animation options these days, but I will always mourn the fact that Saturday Morning is no longer the oasis it once was.
In French Canada (Quebec and various communities in parts of New Brunswick, Northern and Eastern Ontario, Manitoba), it was a bit different in the 1970s and 1980s. On Radio-Canada (French CBC) as well as TVA network. There was the airing of vintage H-B cartoons and some Japanese animes like Battle of the Planets, Goldorak, Astroboy, Candy Candy, Cat's Eyes, Belle and Sebastien, Nils Horgerson, Albator and some European toons like the 1960s Tintin adventures.
The rare Filmations toon who was aired in French was Star Trek while Sport Billy, Lone Ranger and Zorro aired in cable network later.
When my family got cable in the early 1980s, I checked CBS, NBC for the Smurfs, Hulk, Spider-man and his amazing friends, Teen Wolf, Bugs Bunny-Road Runner show, Garfield (first the specials and later the SatAm toon). CKSH the local tv station affiliated to the French CBC broadcasted to the mid-1980s in reruns French dubs of Rocket Robin Hood, 1967 Spider-man and Marvel Super-heroes weekdays to the mid-1980s
The rare Filmations toon who was aired in French was Star Trek while Sport Billy, Lone Ranger and Zorro aired in cable network later.
When my family got cable in the early 1980s, I checked CBS, NBC for the Smurfs, Hulk, Spider-man and his amazing friends, Teen Wolf, Bugs Bunny-Road Runner show, Garfield (first the specials and later the SatAm toon). CKSH the local tv station affiliated to the French CBC broadcasted to the mid-1980s in reruns French dubs of Rocket Robin Hood, 1967 Spider-man and Marvel Super-heroes weekdays to the mid-1980s