1980's Saturday Morning Historical Preservation Society

The Saturday Supercade became a fixture in the CBS Saturday morning line-up starting in 1983 and ending at just about the time that everybody started buying Nintendo gaming systems. During the time that this cartoon reigned, it contained cartoon versions of some of the biggest stars of the Video Game Arcade Revolution (that didn't already have their own cartoon shows)!

• Frogger
• Donkey Kong
• Donkey Kong Jr.
• Q*Bert
• Pitfall!
• Space Ace

And if you were lucky like *I* was, they also followed up your Saturday Supercade with a syndicated episode of the video game show STARCADE!!! Full episodes of that show are available for streaming on the linked website :)

Leave your Saturday Supercade and/or Starcade memories in the comments below, and if the Saturday Supercade was your favorite part of Saturday morning in 1983, don't forget to go vote for it in our Best Cartoon of 1983 Poll!

File this one under "Holy smokes, I... did I... I *think* I remember this?" because WOW that robot looks familiar and I was in to anything with dogs and anything with space ships and and and...

Okay, just ordered the DVD off of eBay. Let's just see where this goes, shall we?

Do YOU have any memories regarding this show? Leave 'em in the comments below! And if this happens to be a favorite of yours don't forget to go vote it up in our Best Cartoon of 1983 Poll (even though it's not technically a cartoon)!

Here's another one of those "How did I never hear about this cartoon" cartoons that pop up during my research every once in a while. From what I've heard, it's basically a female Richie Rich cartoon. So HOORAY! Go ahead and leave a few kind words for Goldie Gold and/or Action Jack in the comments below, and if you're so inclined you may even want to go and vote for them in our Best Cartoon of 1982 Poll!

Heathcliff's second appearance on this site, this time teamed-up with Marmaduke! The next time you see Heathcliff on our web site will be when we hit the Syndicated Cartoons in a few months! Leave a few kind words or memories of Heathcliff and/or Marmaduke in the comments below, and don't forget to go and vote in our Best of 1982 Poll!

Shirt Tales *almost* suffered from TMIS (Too Many Idea Syndrome), but I think it came out okay. (1) Adorable talking animals that (2) Wear magic message-conveying shirts so they can (3) Fight crime from their (4) Super-Secret High-Tech Headquarters which they have to keep (5) Secret in the middle of Central Park from (6) A nosy park Ranger.

But it all works :)

Leave your memories, stories and kind words about Shirt Tales in the comments below, and if this was a favorite of yours? Be sure to go and vote for it in our Best Cartoon of 1982 Poll!

The Gary Coleman Show, AKA "Adventures of The Guardian Angel", aka "The Kid With The Broken Halo: The Animated Series". Based on the Gary Coleman made-for-tv movie "The Kid With The Broken Halo", I'm kind of suprised that more people haven't voted for this one! Leave a few kind words in the comments below for the dearly departed Mr. Coleman, and if this was one of your favorites go ahead and vote for it in our Best Cartoon of 1982 Poll! Seriously... the reruns of the Lone Ranger Cartoon are getting more votes than Gary Coleman over there! How is that even right?!?!?b

DON'T PASS THIS UP JUST BECAUSE IT HAS SCRAPPY-DOO IN IT!!! This intro is one of the few glimpses of "The Puppy's Adventures" that you'll be able to find on the Internet! It is a low-down dirty SHAME that The Puppy's Adventures got lumped in with Scooby and his crew :( No laugh track, no wacky antics, just a puppy and a rag-tag crew of dogs on a journey to find the Puppy's owner.

IT WAS EPIC!

Do you remember this cartoon? Share your thoughts, memories, and other comments in the comments section below. And if it was one of your favorites be sure to go and vote for it in our Best Cartoon of 1982 Poll!

The Flintstones pulled quite a few shenanigans on us kids in the 80's, repackaging their 1970's cartoons over and over and over again as "The Flintstones Meet The Shmoo" (discussed elsewhere in this community), "The Flintstones Comedy Show" and "The Flintstone Funnies".





You got Teenage Pebbles & Bam-Bam, Fred & Barnes as police officers and The Frankenstones. The Frankenstones were yet another cartoon that suffered from TMIS (Too Many Ideas Syndrome. They were (1)Universal Studios Monsters of the (2)Golden Age of Cinema somehow living in (3)Prehistoric Times next door to (4)The Flintstones with a (5)Teenage Son who (6)Doesn't want to conform to the lifestyle his parents dictate.

SO hey let's hear it for The Flintstones! I'm sure you have something good to say about Fred and Barney in general, but what about their 1980's versions? GO ahead and leave a few comments, see if anyone agrees with you :) Oh, and if one of these happened to be your favorite? Don't forget to go and vote for them in either the Best Of 1981 and Best Of 1982 Polls :)

Through the late 1970's and early 80's, CBS filled up to TWO HOURS of their Saturday Morning line-up with what I like to call "The Filmation Fill-Ins". These were cartoons that had no real home. I have no idea where they came from, I have no idea what their original purpose was, all I know is that they didn't have enough of any one cartoon to make an entire season worth of cartoons, so they slapped them together in the most random ways to fill up that programming wasteland. In the video above I thionk you'll see The Super 7, Web Woman, Manta and Moray, Freedom Force and Super stretch & Micro Woman. But the headliners for these mash-up cartoon blocks were really Batman, Zorro and/or Tarzan.







I have some fond memories of this cartoon dump... I was a big fan of ACTION cartoons :) If this is one of your favorites too, then leave some comments and then head on over to our Best of 1981 Poll to vote for it :)