Nominations & Limitations

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Please 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 :)

Comments

[aurora77]

May I suggest we limit the shows not produced in the 80's, and only show them if they don't feel completely out of place in the 80's? No B&W Popeye, for instance, but a Tom & Jerry or Looney Tunes epmight be fine.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Good idea! Or if we find that there's little to no interest in the shows of the 80's we'll move on to including the late 70's as well.

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 :)

[aurora77]

Sounds like a good bet. The 84-86 era had some of the best shows.

[oddrid.livejournal.com]

may i just say that this is the greatest idea ever invented

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Yes... yes you may :) So will yoou be joining us on September 3rd?

[aurora77]

Saturday Supercade
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.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I was going to nominate both of those :( You need SOME time to go to the bathroom and get another box of cereal, right?

[aurora77]

Captain Planet is the 90's show most commonly mistaken for an 80's show. And I'd know. If I had a nickel for every time someone requested it on 80scartoons.net... And Rubik is just painful, but I suppose we could find room for it eventually. Did you know Menudo did the theme song for it? That was before Ricky Martin, so we can't blame him. ;)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

The kids from Menudo also did the voices, didn't they? And the cube itself was voiced by Emanuel "Webster" Lewis?

[aurora77]

I've tried to block it out as much as possible...

[igniprimum.livejournal.com]

It took a long time for me to process that Captain Planet was actually a real show. I would see the ads for it, but due to other viewing priorities never actually watched it. The concept just seemed too propagandist-y to be real, something whose existence might more appropriately be limited to low-budget promotional materials received from a community action group doing a presentation at my elementary school or something, a less successful counterpart to Mr. Yuck.

[aurora77]

I totally agree. It felt like a way-too-long PSA.

[linger-awhile.livejournal.com]

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?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

...So you couldn't really think of many suggestions then?

:P

[linger-awhile.livejournal.com]

Nope, as you can see I rarely watched TV as a kid......

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

lol

[aurora77]

I was thinking that sometimes a few minutes were filled in by little educational shorts from Schoolhouse Rock and the like. I still remember some pretty well.

[igniprimum.livejournal.com]

Some of this stuff, as I remember, was mostly aired weekdays after school.

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...

[linger-awhile.livejournal.com]

Well, for me personally...cutting it off at 85 would suck. I was born in 79, so I was only five in 85.......

[igniprimum.livejournal.com]

It seems others are into going later than 1985 as well. I guess if there is more than one session planned, it could go as far as the early 90s and stay relevant , as long as each session stays limited to a certain period.

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.

[linger-awhile.livejournal.com]

You make a good point about network vs. cable shows; Nick didn't really show a whole lot besides Pinwheel in the very early days, but others may remember that HBO, for example, showed Fraggle Rock and BrainGames.....but, I speak from an admittedly privileged childhood. We had cable as early as 85, so I grew up spoiled.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

To be perfectly clear here... by the time this project is done, we will have Saturday Morning Programming from every year 1980 to 1989 (animated and non-animated) that was officially shown on The Big Three (ABC, NBC and CBS). We won't have any syndicated programs (He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats) and we won't have any cable programming (Double-Dare, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Hey Dude). We may add those things to our content later on in the game, but as for right now our focus is just the mainstream stuff in order to make for the most universal viewing experience :)

-Your Mod :)

[unicornpearlz.livejournal.com]

I LOVE most of the shows on your list. But, let's not forget the Pound Puppies, Paw paw bears, gumby, GI Joe, Danger Mouse...

[beagle1.livejournal.com]

I second this list! :)

[yerseester.livejournal.com]

what about atom ant and secret squirrel?

[yerseester.livejournal.com]

and snorks and smurfs of course.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

1960's, even though we only saw them as re-runs on The Banana Splitz Show :)

[yerseester.livejournal.com]

Loved the Banana Splitz.

[yerseester.livejournal.com]

Great Space Coaster?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Weekday mornings. Focus, Tina!

[yerseester.livejournal.com]

Pee Wee?
PLEEEEEEEESE...
While not a cartoon, he was a HUGE part of Saturdays.
pllllleease?
Blink.

Blink.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

It will really depend on if there's room for PeeWee once we hit 1987... we're giving preference to actual Animated stuffs right now, but if there's room on the poll we'll put him in there :)

[aurora77]

I remember Peewee Herman as a pretty big part of Saturday mornings in the late 80's. Even my dad watched it with me.

[yerseester.livejournal.com]

WHAT-EV-AAR!
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!

[aurora77]

"...but the REAL fun will be in the bathroom shouting the magic word!"

This phrase needs to be taken out of context.

Just sayin'.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

"There's ALWAYS room for Pee Wee"!

[aurora77]

Is it kosher to include some of the segments that were PSA-like aired as fillers with some shorter cartoons? Some Schoolhouse Rock stuff was aired like that. And Time for Timer and similar bits.

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.

[domin8ed.livejournal.com]

Hi I just joined your lovely community. I wanted add a few more to your list.

Gummi Bears
Popples
Beetlejuice
Captain Caveman
The Real Ghostbusters
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[unicornpearlz.livejournal.com]

I concur with the Real Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - but the originals - not the 'REAL' TMNJ.

[unicornpearlz.livejournal.com]

Muppet babies.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Muppet Babies will indeed be represented here, soon :) Working my way through the official TV guide listings for each year with the polls, I think Muppet Babies happened in 86?

[verychimerical.livejournal.com]

Since the Gummi Bears have already been suggested....

I was really into Ewoks and Pink Panther & Sons. I can't explain myself.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Both of those cartoons will be coming up later in the 80's, once I get the polls set for them... excellent choices, I might add! Pink Panther & Sons was a mystery to me that I never actually saw except for the very first episode, and Ewoks... well, The Ewoks were my dirty little secret :)