dOES ANY ONE Remember saturday morning cartoons? i remember when i was back in Elementary school you waited all week long until saturday then you would get up around 6:00 am to watch cartoons!! i remember watching the real ghost busters, he-man super mario brothers zelda nintendo power conan the baraibar Johnny quest attack of killer tomatoes heath cliff muppet babies doug teenage mutnat ninja turtlers power rangers spider-man static shock fantastic four batman justice league the jetsons the flintstones top cat & many more!! now days they got 24 hour cartoon networks!!

Saturday morning cartoons were a treat for kids and we loved getting up early to watch them. That joy has been erased, its just not the same now.

My favorites growing up were:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Garfield and Friends
Gummi Bears
The Little Mermaid
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Smurfs
Pee-wee's Playhouse (not a cartoon but it was still on Saturday morning)

As a child I remember starting off with Mighty Mouse (yup, 6:00AM) and cartoons all the way to 1:30PM with Timmy and Lassie(At the time I had no idea this show and the other two versions (That's Jeff's Collie and the Forest Ranger Lassie for those of you in Rio Linda! :lol:) were in reality one HUGE series. When these shows ended I'd either go out and play with my friends (We'd ride our bicycles to the penny arcade and spend half of our allowances on Pinball, the on the way back spend the the other half at a hobby shop, relieving them of a model kit or two) or help my father with the yard work (That only delayed the trip to the arcade!). :D Things were much better, there were no "Do Gooders" demanding kids shows to be "educational" and politically "correct" and parents didn't fear what products was going to be presented at the next commercial break (Toys, Cereal, Sodas, Chips and Candy DOMINATED the commercials on Saturdays). Today's kids don't know what they are missing. :( As for me, I can always recreate my childhood, thanks to home video. :thumbsup:

PS. On Sundays after getting home from church I'd watch Jeff's Collie, then it was time for sports if the weather wasn't good for outdoor play.

I do and if anyone has any recordings that I don't already have, let me know.

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Yes--I remember The Beatles cartoons, featuring their real voices and animated videos with the real songs, Fantastic Four, George of the Jungle, Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (with heavily edited cartoons--editing out anything violent, making for a lot of very short cartoons). You'd really look forward to Saturday mornings--cartoons and NO SCHOOL!

I always got up for Garfield and Friends. I still watch Bugs and the rest on DVD. If you don't like Foghorn Leghorn something is wrong with you.lol

My favorites growing up were:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Garfield and Friends
Gummi Bears
The Little Mermaid
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Smurfs
Pee-wee's Playhouse (not a cartoon but it was still on Saturday morning)


My boys loved Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles and Garfield and friends.I too loved G & F !!! :) ;)

Showing my age here,as a kid I loved The Archies , Sabrina the teenage witch( the original one) ,Wacky races , HR Puf N stuff (that had real people in it,not really a cartoon,but it was on Saturday mornings with the cartoons) .I had a crush on Jimmy!:) :D

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Saturday Mornings were always a treat for kids because during the morning time there was a variety of Saturday Morning shows and cartoons that would keep kids interested while the parents would still be asleep or be having their morning coffee. But if you look at TV today you will no longer find any Saturday Morning shows for kids and I think it's because the stations want to focus on other programming rather than cartoons and other kids programming. The station that was the first to do this was NBC and when they had their cartoon programming it was successful but when NBC added a Saturday edition of the Today show and replaced the entire cartoon hour with the TNBC lineup NBC knew that they were gaining a new audience. While ABC and CBS were the kings of Saturday Morning cartoons they actually had a very smart lineup and when Disney got their own Saturday Morning hour for ABC it was indeed a smart lineup with shows like Recess That's So Raven and Doug and many more shows ABC had a hit on their hands and CBS had a great Saturday Morning lineup with cartoons like The Little Mermaid The Series Garfield And Friends and the CBS Storybreak. But I think in the future Saturday Morning Cartoons and shows will make a comeback because a lot of kids enjoy getting up to see their favorite cartoons every Saturday
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Once when I was a kid, I overslept and missed most of the Saturday Morning Cartoons. I remember feeling like my world had been shattered. :lol:

I liked The Smurfs, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Mr. T, Muppet Babies, Punky Brewster, Gummy Bears, Flintstone Kids, and Alf. Okay, I have to go before I start humming theme songs and crying.

Once when I was a kid, I overslept and missed most of the Saturday Morning Cartoons. I remember feeling like my world had been shattered. :lol:

I liked The Smurfs, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Mr. T, Muppet Babies, Punky Brewster, Gummy Bears, Flintstone Kids, and Alf. Okay, I have to go before I start humming theme songs and crying.


Awww!:( :) That was like me, one time I was really sick with the flu , and it was Saturday, and I didn't even get up to see the cartoons !My Mom was like "Wow, you must really be sick"

I not only remember Saturday Morning cartoons, I remember it being such a big deal that ABC.CBS,NBC would air prime time specials to advertise what cartoons were coming back, and the new ones coming.

Some of my faves:

(Not all were cartoons)

Krofft Supershow
Scooby Doo
Dynomutt
Thundarr The Barbaian
The Trollkins
Jana Of The Jungle
Spiderwoman
Scooby's Laff-a-lympics
Shazam!/Isis Hour
Land Of The Lost
Ark II
Space Academy
Jason Of Star Command
Fangface
Hong Kong Phuey
Jabberjaw
Speed Buggy
Captain Caveman
Clue Club
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Tarzan/Super 7
Plastic Man
Mighty Man And Yukk
Drak Pack
The Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
Dungeons & Dragons
Gilligan's Planet

I also loved "Stop the pigeon"! Muttley was so cool!! :) :D


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I also loved "Stop the pigeon"! Muttley was so cool!! :) :D


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Loved Muttley! That laugh!:)

Grape Ape, another favorite.

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I always got up for Garfield and Friends. I still watch Bugs and the rest on DVD. If you don't like Foghorn Leghorn something is wrong with you.lol

Garfield and Friends was my favorite SatAM Cartoon! I also liked Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, Smurfs, Snorks, Alf, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Muppet Babies, Hammerman, Animaniacs, Gummi Bears, and countless others!

So if anyone asks "Do you remember SatAM Cartoons"? I'll pick-up my member-berries and say...
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From 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' to 'Animaniacs': What Happened to Saturday Morning Cartoons? (https://collider.com/what-happened-to-saturday-morning-cartoons-explained/)

Saturday morning cartoons were the ritual of generations of children, until they weren't (https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/wt9zsm/from_rocky_and_bullwinkle_to_animaniacs_saturday/).

I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons like it was just yesterday morning on METV.

I go back to 1963-64 when network Saturday Morning lineups included the likes of Casper, Bugs Bunny, Quick Draw McGraw, Mighty Mouse, and Bullwinkle. Later shows for me included Underdog, Linus the Lionhearted, Wacky Races, The Road Runner, Woody Woodpecker and the Pink Panther. Wasn't much into action oriented cartoons, though.

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Remember Saturday Morning Cartoons? From the 60s until the 90s, the 3 big TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC would show a block of cartoons every Saturday, generally from 8am till Noon or 1, give or take. So let’s look back at this tradition to remember a bunch of shows I used to watch. We’ll talk about the reasons for the decline, and how I feel about it today.

What happened?

They came back, like CK said above. Popeye, Pink Panther, Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny ... and friends.

What happened?

They came back, like CK said above. Popeye, Pink Panther, Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny ... and friends.

Sometimes I think Youtubers like being purposely ignorant for clicks and views.

Instead of making videos and getting the word out to attract more viewers to watch METV, they create stupid stuff like this.

Here's an interesting video, a little under 10 minutes. Eventually (around 7:15) he starts to talk about how the Road Runner cartoons were edited on Saturday morning TV. And I know of no blackface representations on the Road Runner series (as claimed on this commentary).

I do remember some heavy editing on some of the Warner cartoons, such as the violence on Tweety shorts. But I really remember no cuts on the Road Runner. And I watched the Road Runner show, and its followup, the Bugs Bunny-Road Runner show.

The amazing thing is the number of comments on the video--it shows an astounding number of fans of Saturday morning cartoons. There are so many comments I was not able to reach the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeY9GPZbZ-o

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Saturday morning cartoons represented freedom from school, and responsibilities. They represented the innocence of youth. We laughed, we cheered, we absorbed basic lessons about friendship, and heroism, and right and wrong. And yet, it seems, it was another quaint ritual of a forgotten time, slowly being relegated to forgotten history.

I used to watch on Saturday mornings back in the 1970s, especially through about age 11. I later did most of my comic book shopping during late Sat. mornings, so I didn't see much that came on after about 9:30 or 10 a.m.

To this day I still have an affinity for that stuff. Just yesterday I bought a Hanna-Barbera "Laff-A-Lympics" DVD.

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Take a nostalgic journey from the golden age to the final curtain of Saturday morning cartoons, and discover what led to the end of an iconic era in television history.