The 1980's Saturday Morning Preservation and Recreation Society's OFFICIAL MASTER LIST: 1980

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I've finally finished our first year of cataloguing 1980's Saturday Morning line-ups, 1980! Each of these cartoons are tagged as being "1980" because they debuted in September of 1980, meaning that if you remember seeing these cartoons on TV you probably remember seeing them in 1981. Sometimes, TV gets all wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey like that :)

So here's the hotlink-filled OFFICIAL SATURDAY MORNING MASTER LIST OF 1980:

ABC

8:00 - The Worlds Greatest Super Friends
9:00 - The Fonz & The Happy Days Gang
9:30 - The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Show (And Scrappy, Too!)
10:30 - Thundarr The Barbarian
11:00 - The Heathcliff & Dingbat Show
11:30 - The Plastic Man & Baby Plas Super Comedy Show
12:00 - The ABC Weekend Specials

CBS

8:00 - The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
8:30 - The Tom & Jerry Comedy Show
9:00 - The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show
10:30 - The All-New Popeye Hour
11:30 - Drak Pack
12:00 - Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids
12:30 - The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour

NBC

8:00 - Godzilla (The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour)
8:30 - Dynomutt (The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour)
9:00 - The Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 - The Daffy Duck Show
11:00 - Batman & The Super 7

1981 8:00 on CBS: The Kwicky Koala Show

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The Kwicky Koala show from Hanna-Barbera aired at 8am on your local CBS station starting in 1981, and only lasted one season. The show is a pretty forgettable comedy anthology, mostly notable for being among legendary cartoon director Tex Avery's final works. Avery died during production in 1980.

The show consisted of a mish-mash of relatively fresh and original comedy concepts that were unfortunate victims of an overzealous network of censors, corporate interests and parental watch-dog groups who feared anything that might even come close to being actually funny (I'M BIASED).

Kwicky Koala was a cross between Tex Avery's "Droopy" cartoons of the past and a Road Runner/Speedy Gonzalez theme. Wilfred Wolf was always trying to catch Kwicky for some undisclosed reason (either money or cartoonibalism, I think?), and Kwicky used the natural faster-than-light capabilities of a Koala(?!) to outsmart him and escape.

The Bungle Brothers were the vaudeville dogs who kind of hosted the show, and/or were always trying to sell their vaudeville act and become big stars. They didn't really have a PART in the show, just the little intros and endings of each episode.

Crazy Claws was a wildcat who used his sharp wits and equally sharp claws to evade the fur trapper Rawhide Clyde and his dog Bristletooth in a National Park run by Ranger Rangerfield. I don't remember much about this one other than how my buddy Kevin always said that Crazy Claws reminded him of his favorite X-Man, Wolverine (he bought a copy of Incredible Hulk #181 for $8 and back in 1981 that was just stupid-expensive for one comic book, but I digress...)

Dirty Dawg was the story of a homeless vagrant dog and his best friend (a rat named Ratso) as they tried to better their lives, and Officer Bullhorn as "The Man" who constantly foiled them.