Remember these Saturday morning cartoons?

Blackstar
Thundarr the Barbarian
Drak Pack
Pandamonium
Meatballs & Spaghetti
The Dukes of Hazzard
Shirt Tales
CBS Storybreak
Mr T
Dungeons and Dragons
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Droids: The Adventures of R2D2 and C3PO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYs_GCy9PRk

http://www.inthe80s.com/saturdays.shtml

the early eighties were grim: animated version of TV shows.

Weird Paul Daniels magic kids show Wizbit. About 3 minutes in it gets seriously Lynchian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVf7wNnVbI0

I watched this fucked-up shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1So6wFGpIo

saturday AM cartoons is the ONLY pop culture genre I say was "better in the 60s"

I had a pretty extensive Shirt Tales sticker collection.

voting Mr T

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/13242/2010/09/340x_explore_gawkertv_videos_1870.jpg

I really liked an embarrassing amount of these cartoons, and they are all so bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3jgo5ea_zc

^^^ was humming it recently

"Dungeons and Dragons" by far the best written insofar as that matters

http://www.rubberslug.com/user/cad7cf4954f14362bf7c0489686cfbf0/304138-4459722-og_readmore3.jpg

iirc we only had Dungeons and Dragons over here, on weekday afternoons, along with a bunch of other never ending episodicals: Mysterious Cities of Gold, Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, Ulysses 31.

Here is the Gummi Bears theme in German. It is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YWh4ie_0RI

I feel like it is some sort of character flaw of mine to still know every word of that theme song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7uv1jCLa4A&feature=related

Muppet Babies are on another level entirely though; it was actually funny.

Yeah. We did the muppet babies <3 on another thread recently.

There was a show on when I was really little that nobody ever remembers. It was called Today's Special and it was about a Mannequin that came to life once the department store closed or something. I loved it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cxLfIs051c

I think I've actually mentioned it before on ILX.

^^ I remember that show, I used to see it when flipping through the channels in the mornings.

This is right around the time I stopped watching Saturday morning cartoons. These all pretty much sucked except maybe Thundarr.

I'm trying to imagine the story conference in which the idea of three panda bears assembling a magic pyramid before a sorcerer does first is approved.

These cartoons always had the sci-fi new cast member: "Happy Days" had the chick time traveler and possibly her little dog. Seems like the Dukes had a little alien friend (oh, wait. That might have been an actual episode on the live version.) All those Poochies being cast in these cartoon versions of aging 70s shows.

The last show on ABC's Saturday morning was … the book of the week or something? Saturday Morning Special? Is that where the cat came from? All I remember about the title sequence is all of these cartoon people shooting out of an open book, and one of them was this greasy-haired white kid with cheeks full of spit and puffy lips, pointing down at another kid.

Anyway. That greasy-haired kid pretty much sums up 1979-82 in my mind.

Dungeons & Dragons was the shit

The last show on ABC's Saturday morning was … the book of the week or something? Saturday Morning Special?

CBS Storybreak, narrated by Captain Kangaroo? It was mid eighties, I think.

Dungeons & Dragons was like Happy Days which would be like Quantum Leap: Pitiful people flung into the nethers and never able to find their way home.

After awhile, it kinda made my anxiety levels go up. Once on the Happy Days cartoon, Ralph Malph and Potsie got back to 1957 by themselves, but the time-traveler chick pulled them back in to go find Fonzie, still lost in Medevial times or wherever.

The fact that they were right. there. in Milwaukee. 1957. WHERE THEY BELONGED and got yanked back into the craziness… I had to get up and sit outside on the patio with a Childcraft book for awhile.

It makes me kind of sad how many cubic cm of my brainspace are filled with shit like the gummi bears theme song or the fact that the droids cartoon existed.

There was this one about kids who started out (in the opening credits sequence) as real-life kids but had been sucked into some kind of cartoon universe vortex and were trapped in cartoons. I think they maybe had to solve riddles to get back or something, and every episode they wound up in a different time period or fantasy universe. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

yes! It was part of "Supercade," I think.

ABC Weekend Special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoDoZsOHFxs

Greasy-haired kid's wearing a baseball cap and shows up at :25-:26.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Supercade

don't see it listed here xp

remember CBS' "In The News"?

Aha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQS1cgsEdU

Cartoon vortex at :41. Record industry metaphor?

remember CBS' "In The News"?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 14, 2012 9:50 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That weird black and white globe chyron rotating with that blippy music … the anchor/announcer for those stories just recently passed away in the last year or so.

The writing for ITN was sophisticated for its time. I recently saw a clip announcing how and why Israel was pulling out of Lebanon written at a college-aged level.

remember CBS' "In The News"?

That and the syndicated program "Big Blue Marble" hold cherished places in my childhood memories.

QUESTION:

i remember a cartoon produced (i think?) in the early 90s that ran very briefly on saturday morning on one of the major broadcast channels. it concerned a cartoon cat and mouse duo in the tom & jerry mold, and the animation was astounding, exquisite. it was produced either in france (i think this was the case) or in french-speaking canada. I NEED TO KNOW THE NAME OF THIS CAROON! it's been bugging me for years.

god, and maybe i'm wrong about it having been a broadcast show. it might have been nickelodeon or something, but i don't think so...

Thread has unnerved me; I think I have had the memory of Pandamonium lurking about 3mm below the surface of my mind for decades.

see also

Obscure Children's Cartoons

I dunno, contenderizer. There was Tom & Jerry Kids, which I somehow doubt is what you're thinking of. Fievel's American Tails? Eek! The Cat (which was an American/Canadian co-production)? Lots of action-y shows about cats and mice (SWAT Cats, Biker Mice From Mars). I don't remember any of these shows being particularly well-animated or good, though.

yeah, it wasn't any of those things. other notable features: completely devoid of dialogue, broken into shorts approx the length of old warner bros cartoons. have tried searching for it every which way, but not in a few years. maybe should try again...

i think i saw two episodes, it didn't run more than a small handful

they lived in some lady's apartment, and from their perspective it looked massive, like the kitchen was the size of a stadium. perhaps that perspective trick was only used in one segment though.

for some reason dinosaur-themed cartoons were huge during this era: denver the last dinosaur, dino riders, dinosaucers...