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

[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 :)