1981 8:30 on NBC: The Smurfs
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saturday_am_80s(Sorry for the poor sound quality, it was the only ORIGINAL 1981 OPENING with the voice-over that I could find)
Saturday morning at 8:30 in 1981, NBC and Hanna-Barbera made history with the debut of The Smurfs. What can I tell you that isn't already common knowledge (to people like us) about this show? Fred Silverman (President of NBC at the time) had bought a Smurf doll while on vacation in Colorado (the toys started hitting US shelves as early as 1976) and Fred thought "Hey, I'll bet that would make a good cartoon".
Anybody else know any good stories about The Smurfs?
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