Nominations & Limitations
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saturday_am_80sPlease reply to this post with your nominations for which cartoons should be included in our little marathon (September 3rd 2011). We're looking for SEVEN HOURS of classic 80's Saturday Morning cartoons here, that's 14 half-hours to fill! Only rules for nominations is that it needs to be a cartoon (or children's program) that was on the air some time between 1980 and 1989.
This covers A LOT of territory thanks to the proliferation of syndicated second-run cartoons through most of the 80's! For instance, the animated Star Trek was only on the air from 1973 to 1974, but I didn't discover it till it was broadcast as reruns on Saturday mornings in the 80's. Land of The Lost, H.R. Puffenstuff, Jabberjaw, Grape Ape... a good chunk of the 80's cartoons I remember were actually products of the 1970's.
So what do we do? Limit this to anything you saw in the 1980's, or limit it to stuff that was actually *produced* in the 1980's?
Suggestions and nominations appreciated :)
This covers A LOT of territory thanks to the proliferation of syndicated second-run cartoons through most of the 80's! For instance, the animated Star Trek was only on the air from 1973 to 1974, but I didn't discover it till it was broadcast as reruns on Saturday mornings in the 80's. Land of The Lost, H.R. Puffenstuff, Jabberjaw, Grape Ape... a good chunk of the 80's cartoons I remember were actually products of the 1970's.
So what do we do? Limit this to anything you saw in the 1980's, or limit it to stuff that was actually *produced* in the 1980's?
Suggestions and nominations appreciated :)
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Date: 2011-07-21 11:05 pm (UTC)First poll I post here (and hopefully I'll attract a few other members for this group) will be containing just shows that were featured in the ads from 1985 :)
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Date: 2011-07-21 11:37 pm (UTC)Kidd Video
Superfriends (most was produced in the 70's, but some was from the 80's)
Wildfire
I will beg people not to ask for Rubik the Amazing Cube. And I will smack with a trout the first person to ask for Captain Planet. Everyone after that gets the anvil.
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Date: 2011-07-22 04:15 am (UTC)I would agree it should be mostly '80s original stuff, but so much of the animated H-B stuff especially was holdover shorts from the '70s or classics, like the Pink Panther, Looney Tunes, etc.
Anyway here's a list of my favourites…..I could have included more, but I did try to just stick to eighties stuff:
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
Alvin and the Chipmunks (and also The Alvin Show/Clyde Crashcup which I know are older, so they may not count)
Bananaman
Belle and Sebastian
The Berenstain Bears
The Biskitts
Camp Candy
The Care Bears
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers
Count Duckula
Danger Mouse
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Drak Pack
DuckTales
Garfield and Friends (though I always liked the specials best)
The Get-Along Gang
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics
Heathcliff
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Inspector Gadget
It's Punky Brewster!
Jem
Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
Kidd Video
The Littles
M.A.S.K.
Maya the Bee
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
My Little Pony ‘n’ Friends
Noozles
Pink Panther and Sons
The Popples
The Raccoons
Rainbow Brite
Ronin Warriors
Rude Dog and the Dweebs
Saturday Supercade (Pac-Man, Kangaroo, Q*bert, Donkey Kong, etc.)
She-Ra, Princess of Power
ShirtTales
The Smurfs
The Snorks
ThunderCats
The Trap Door
Voltron
Wildfire
The World of David the Gnome
The Wuzzles
Also suggest adding on other kid-classics nobody else remembers, like BrainGames, The Great Space Coaster, Hot Fudge, Fred Penner's Place, Pinwheel....etc. They're not (fully) animated but....thoughts?
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Date: 2011-07-22 04:26 am (UTC):P
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Date: 2011-08-01 11:55 pm (UTC)Also, a lot of these are Nickelodeon cartoons, not strictly Saturday morning, and introduced in the late 80s/early 90s.
My thoughts would be to keep it limited to what was shown on Saturday mornings on the major American networks (ABC/CBS/NBC, maybe USA network if there is space available) no later than 1985.
Personally I don't think it matters if it was current material, syndicated fare from 60s and 70s, or even if it was animated. If the goal is to capture the true atmosphere of Saturday mornings from 1980-85, that atmosphere would necessarily include syndicated and non-animated shows (Rocky and Bullwinkle, Classic Bugs & Daffy, The Banana Splits, Krofft Super Show and Superstar Hour/Bay City Rollers)
Following it all up with a Saturday matinee showing of Planet of the Apes or something similar would just about nail it for what I remember...
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Date: 2011-08-02 12:42 am (UTC)Maybe a major networks session kept separate from a nickelodeon session would be good as well. I think, at least when I was a kid, the two would have been kept fairly separate. The middle-class kids would have been more likely to have cable, and so would have been more likely to watch the nickelodeon shows instead of the major network shows.
The only time I ever had cable, as a child, was when the cable company forgot to shut off the previous tenant's service.
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Date: 2011-08-02 02:18 am (UTC)-Your Mod :)
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Date: 2011-07-24 07:42 pm (UTC)PLEEEEEEEESE...
While not a cartoon, he was a HUGE part of Saturdays.
pllllleease?
Blink.
Blink.
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Date: 2011-07-25 12:01 am (UTC)There's always room for Pee Wee.
always.
I'll bring my lap top and watch Playhouse in the bathtub.
Everyone will follow me.
You'll see.
You will be sitting in the living room alone watching Gummi Bears but the REAL fun will be in the bathroom shouting the magic word!
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Date: 2011-07-26 02:26 am (UTC)This phrase needs to be taken out of context.
Just sayin'.
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Date: 2011-07-30 09:47 pm (UTC)I'm coming up a little short in some spots and not sure I want to fill ALL the time with commercials or short PSAs.
I'm thinking a little Conjunction Junction, Pronouns, or I'm Just a Bill tossed in occasionally. They're about three minutes.
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Date: 2011-08-01 11:30 pm (UTC)Gummi Bears
Popples
Beetlejuice
Captain Caveman
The Real Ghostbusters
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Date: 2011-08-02 07:10 am (UTC)I was really into Ewoks and Pink Panther & Sons. I can't explain myself.
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