30 YEARS AGO TODAY!!!




4 new series from Hanna-Barbera Productions, Incorporated adorn the Saturday Morning network TV schedules, all of which ranged from 60 to 120 minutes:

CBS and NBC had one new 60-minute show each: Skatebirds and C.B. Bears, respectively.

ABC had the most new H-B material that season with The All-New Super Friends Hour (which effectively tackled C.B. Bears) and the only 2-hour Saturday morning cartoon in existence: Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (whose second and third half-hours thrashed Skatebirds).

30 YEARS AGO TODAY!!!




4 new series from Hanna-Barbera Productions, Incorporated adorn the Saturday Morning network TV schedules, all of which ranged from 60 to 120 minutes:

CBS and NBC had one new 60-minute show each: Skatebirds and C.B. Bears, respectively.

ABC had the most new H-B material that season with The All-New Super Friends Hour (which effectively tackled C.B. Bears) and the only 2-hour Saturday morning cartoon in existence: Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (whose second and third half-hours thrashed Skatebirds).

Actually, Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-lympics was the first two-hour Saturday morning cartoon. Ruby-Spears' Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show, also on ABC, became the second in the 1979-80 season, while Warner Brothers' Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show ran for two hours on CBS in the 1981-82 season. Back then, with The All-New Superfriends Hour and Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-lympics dominating the airwaves and getting the ratings, that has got to be the reason why ABC was the no. 1 network on Saturday mornings in the 1977-78 season. The Saturday morning schedules in the 1977-78 season for both CBS and NBC, were relatively weak, compared to ABC's dominant Saturday morning line-up.

hi, thanks 4 all the great memories

Those were the great days of Saturday morning television.

Those were the great days of Saturday morning television.


yeah I was didn't get into until 84, it's a shame I was too young to enjoy the saturday mornings of the fall of 77-lol

I absoulutely never missed the sneak peaks specials every September, introducing the new cartoons for the fall. I must have watched cartoons from 8am til noon. What a life, getting up and having cereal with my cartoons and in my PJ's. I hated having to do yardwork after though, I'd love to go back and do it all over again.

I absoulutely never missed the sneak peaks specials every September, introducing the new cartoons for the fall. I must have watched cartoons from 8am til noon. What a life, getting up and having cereal with my cartoons and in my PJ's. I hated having to do yardwork after though, I'd love to go back and do it all over again.me too

What the heck? Saturday, September 10, 1977 is the day my parents got married! How weird to see that date on here!