What was saturday mornings/afternoon tv like for you?

[General Zod]

What was saturday morning/afternoon tv like for you growing up? For this trucker who turns 40 in November........ It was great cartoons in the morning In the afternoon it was watching great B-grade horror or sci-fi movies in the afternoon Those were generally on channels 29 or 17 out of Philadelphia They were independent channels back then

Generally on saturday mornings I could watch what I wanted But the following saturday mornings it was my sisters turn to watch what they wanted If I didn't like what they liked, I just walked across the street to my grandparents house to watch my cartoons 😛 😛

Those were the days

 

[Mitchell]

Actually, on most Saturday afternoons, I was usually out with family or friends, so I didnt watch much TV. In the mornings, my favorite cartoon for many years when it was on ABC was Scooby Doo. Iam sure I must have watched others, too. The "Laff-Alympics", and something called the "Perils of Penelope Pitstop" stand out.
So, usually, it was cartoons on Saturday mornings for me.

Mitch

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

What I remember of afternoon t.v. was The Popeye show hosted by some old dude in a sailor cap. This was followed by Felix the Cat hosted by Officer Joe. And The Magilla Gorilla show. All on WPIX 11.

On Saturday, any of the Archie cartoons, The Odd Couple cartoon, and Hong Kong Phooey. Oh, and the Super Friends, hard to believe that was Ted Knight doing the narration.

Drew

 

[steph]

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (lame), the Wonder Twins, Billy Cosby and the Cosby kids in the morning. Afternoons was the classic horror movies~Vincent Price and the like...

XOXO

 

[The Pianist]

It was better for starters.

I remember shows like Super Ted, TMNT, The Goodies, You Can't Do That On Television, etc. They were coo and they are still funny now because they were never really that serious.

Now days, theres a few good things like that on (though I don't watch them)... like one of my friends little brothers was watching something like Invader Zim (I think its called that) and that was pretty funny still and it was obvious that someone was having a fun time making it.

Unfortunately though, 90% of what my little sister is watching is the flood of kiddy soaps that seemed to have plagued Australian TV. Theres the one where they are in a horse riding school (Saddle Club I think), the surfing school, the performing arts school (at least 2 teeny bopper song and dance routines each show), the actual one in a school (Degrassi Jnr), the extreem sports school... I'm sure the list continues... and its all the same thing, 20 minutes of incredibly predicatable plot where they have generally trivial problems about whatever their school does.

I've really gotta stop talking about TV... theres waaaaay too much stuff I hate about it these days.

 

[unit5610]

My big thing was watching the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour Saturday mornings from 8 to 9. After that it varied with cartoons like The Wacky Racers, which actually spun off "Penelope Pitstop" (what a great name!) and "Dastardly and Muttley and their Flying Machines". I watched "Land of the Lost" on occasion too. Afternoons I mainly watched the Red Sox if I was home.

 

[lightninbug]

Saturday Mornin'.........Ahhhhhhh

From 7-9am it was the Three Stooges hosted by Harlo Hickenlooper

Followed by Bugs Bunny From 9-10:30 (M'Man, Bugs!!)

Followed by (In rapid sucession)
Rocky & Bullwinkle 10:30 - 11
Dudley Do-Right 11-11:30
George of the Jungle 11:30 - 12 Noon....Lunch, (we called it dinner)

I'll never see the likes of those cartoons again because they just ain't PC enough for the "Complaint Groups"... But I KNOW they were funny because I'd catch my Dad & Mom laughin sometimes.

That's my story & I'm stickin to it!!
BUG

 

[Ray<3tiklishft]

Saturday mornings:
Tom and Jerry
Bugs Bunny
Yogi Bear/Huckleberry Hound
Pebbles and Bam Bam
Wacky Racers
Everything's Archie
George of the Jungle/Super Chicken
Pink Panther
Fat Albert

Weekday Afternoons:
Captain Detroit featured cartoon shorts such as
Secret Squirrel
Sqiddly Diddly
Atom Ant
Etc.

Plus
The Three Stooges
Banana Splits
Flintstones

Even mornings had cartoons like:
Courageous Cat/Batfink
Crusader Rabbit

 

[General Zod]

Ray
On that Courageous Cat....... Did that show have a real life cat who would be shown asleep Then his dream's would be in a cartoon adventure? 😕

Also
Wacky Racers and Penelope Pittstop cartoons are on DVD

 

[TklDuo-Drew]

Courageous Cat had the coolest theme music out of any cartoon. Use to watch him in the morning while getting ready for school. That, and everybody's favorite macho, lip-stick wearing explorer, Clutch Cargo.


Forgot about Fat Albert and The Pink Panther. And Top Cat, also.


Drew

 

[giantfan121262]

Hey, Hey, Hey.... It's Fat Albert. Also I remember the Schoolhouse Rock with "Conjunction Junction, what's your function?"

 

[AquaFeline]

I really miss Muppet Babies. Apparently they will never come out with DVDs because of all the clips they used from other places and the licensing cost would be enormous.

 

[GirlWhoLikes2Laugh]

I remember The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show and the cartoons with Daffy Duck, Chilly Willy, etc... I remember watching The Land of the Lost by Sydney and Kroft. I remember watching You Can't Do That On Television on Saturdays and during the week also. I do remember The Brady Bunch Hour, Mighty Mouse, Rubix Cube, Dungeons and Dragons (that was a great cartoon), The A Team, Josie & The Pussycats and others but the ones I have actually named are the ones that I remember most. Also, I do have to remember Schoolhouse Rock, that show was awesome!

In the afternoons I remember the series Friday the Thirteenth. I just remember watching different movies on HBO and also Prism used to be around in the eighties.

 

[Ignatz]

Good Lord, Drew...I hadn't thought of Clutch Cargo in years...decades, actually. Saturday mornings in my day usually began with Captain Kangaroo (although we had him weekday mornings, too), and his entourage of Mr. Green Jeans, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock and the Dancing Bear. He also featured an impressionistic cartoon called Tom Terrific who wore a funnel-shaped hat and did something vaguely adventurous each day (I forget what), assisted by Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog.
Later on, we got the best of the Looney Tunes as well as a lot of cartoons you don't see anymore...Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey, Herman and Katnip. Even as a child, I thought those last three were pretty lame. And of course, we had Rocky and Bullwinkle, and in later years, Underdog, George of the Jungle, Super Chicken and Jonny Quest.

When I was small, Saturday morning also included a few live action shows like Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and Sky King (a contemporary cowboy hero who got around in a small plane rather than on horseback; had a sexy teenage niece named Penny, immortalized years later in Jimmy Buffet's song Pencil-Thin Moustache with the line about "writing fan letters to Sky's niece Penny.")