1980's Saturday Morning Historical Preservation Society

The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh came to us in the fall of 1988 and it was kind of epic. At the time, we kids may have thought "Oh great another cartoon for BABIES", but looking back on it I now see just how brilliant this cartoon was! THe Animation style, the storylines, the voice-acting - OMG THE VOICE ACTING!!! They had done a few new Pooh cartoons in the early 80's where the voices were just... well they *tried*, but the voices just weren't right. But with THIS cartoon, they got pitch-perfect voices for each and every character matching almost *exactly* with the original cartoons (which is NOT an easy thing to accomplish)!

I have all kinds of love for this cartoon. Share some love or dissenting opinions in the comments below, and then if you haven't already done so go ahead and vote for it in our Best of 1988/1989 Poll!

PERSONAL FAVORITE!!! The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was the last "New" cartoon I ever made a point of waking up early enough to watch. Martin Short's "Ed Grimley" character was all the rage with my nerdy little friends and I, we impersonated him all the time and were ecstatic to see a weekly show of his adventures. And of course, the cherry on the top of this totaly mental misadventure every week was the bonus live-action COUNT FLOYD!!!


(The back-story of Count Floyd, as loyal viewers of SCTV knew, is that he was an anchorman for the SCTV Evening News Team who made money on the side by hosting the late-night horror movies and, later, bringing the B-movies to Saturday Mornings for the kids).

Love, love, LOVE this show! Share the love in the comments below and then go vote for Ed in our Best Of 1988/1989 Poll!

A lot of people had no idea that this cartoon ever existed. Heck, even *I* didn't know it existed until I found a Karate Kid lunch box at a local thrift store a few years back! Looks kind of awesome, I think?

And just to make us all feel a little bit older, Ralph "The Karate Kid" Machio just turned 50 this week. FIFTY YEARS OLD.

If you're an ancient relic like me or you just have something nice to say about this cartoon feel free to leave a message in the comments below. And if you're so inclined, feel free to go vote this up in our Best of 1989/1990 Poll!

I wish I could find higher quality episodes of this show on-line, as I've developed a fascination with John Candy over the past few years and I've never even seen this cartoon.

What do YOU remember about it? Leave some comments below and then if you really liked this show go ahead and vote it up in our Best of 1989/1990 Poll!

(Unable to find a single embeddable clip of this show on all of You Tube, but you can watch the opening at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgS8oOm0mlM)

The Alf cartoon was every bit as good, if not better than the original live-action sit-com. Take that as you will :P

Leave some love in the comments, go and vote at our Best of 1987 Poll!

See, I *knew* there had to be more cartoons from the 80's based on movies! Found this nice video on The YouTubes which contains just over 6 minutes of movie cartoon tie-in videos from the 1980's. Not sure if the Chuck Norris Karate Comandoes really counts, but it's nice to see it included :)

Galaxy High was one of the most potentially awesome cartoons of 1986, and I wish I had gotten to see more of it... it must have been on opposite of something I thought was even better?

Leave some kind words for Galaxy High, and if you haven't already done so go ahead and vote for your favorites over in the Best of 1986 Poll!

Foofur was a cartoon that I just didn't get. I was aq fan of what we called 'Critter Cartoons' where animals talked and acted like regular people, but this one? I remember trying to watch it once or twice and it just escaped me. Maybe it was because I was now officially a surly teenager at the ripe old age of 13?

Maybe you have fonder memories or kinder words for poor Foofur; feel free to leave your observations in the comments below. ANd if you haven't already down so, you may want to head over to our Best of 1986 Poll to give it a vote :)

The Ewoks cartoon is the Chumba Wumba of 1980's Saturday Mornings - A guilty pleasure that few are willing to admit was as good or loved as much as it actually was.

Go ahead, try watching a few episodes today, now that The Ewoks are no longer the most hated part of the Star Wars universe (Thanks, Jar-Jar)! The Ewoks are living in a fully realized, well-thought-out world of their own with no ties to the regular Star Wars storyline. Just a great cartoon about a tribe of teddy bears living in tree houses!

C'mon, you know you love this cartoon. Show some love in the comments below and then go vote for The Ewoks in our Best Of 1985 Poll!

Since today is the birthday of Star Trek, I've decided to put up a special 1980's Saturday Morning Historical Reenactment Society Fan Page for the Star Trek animated series that ran on NBC Saturday Mornings in 1973/1974.

( HEY! That's not The 80's! )
So this post is actually two-fold... share your memories of the Star Trek cartoon here, AND feel free to nominate other shows that weren't part of the standard network television line-up for inclusion in our adoration :)