1981 8:30 on NBC: The Smurfs

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(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?

Comments

[eerian_sadow]

No, I definitely meant the 11th. My birth documents are all pretty clear on that. My MOM, on the other hand, may have meant Saturday and just told the story wrong all these years. (Honestly, I was a bit too young to remember at the time.)