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.

[oddrid.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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?

[yerseester.livejournal.com]

what about atom ant and secret squirrel?

[yerseester.livejournal.com]

Great Space Coaster?

[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]

Muppet babies.

[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.