My Saturday morning line up was Wiley Coyote, Bugs Bunny, Woody Wood Pecker etc… Saturday afternoon was the Saturday matinée with Tarzan or Laurel and Hardy or any variety of monster movies. I definitely miss those Saturdays and wish kids could see the shows I watched as a kid. Saturdays are pretty lame now.

C.N.

Wow Chris, you hit that one on the head. I grew up in the Sat. morning cartoon era, and now I have two small children. I’ll sit and watch cartoons with them (most of which don’t hold a candle to the old cartoon classics) at different times throughout the weekday evenings or weekends. But I’ve thought about this as well. When I was a kid, I looked forward to the Sat. morning cartoons because it was ONLY on TV on Sat. There were no night time cartoons. They didn’t show them during the week. Saturday was it my friend!!! With cable TV, kids have cartoons 24/7. For me, it was something to look forward to at one point in time each week, and I think that made it special. And you are also right, the toy companies really knew when to market their latest toys. Parents must have hated that…

Yeah the Saturday morning cartoons now days are pitiful. I’m ready for the Roadrunner, Mighty Mouse, Tom & Jerry and Natasha & Bullwinkle! All that violence never hurt us so what’s the problem?
Lets get the good stuff back!

I do miss Saturday mornings that I enjoyed as a child. Watching what seemed to be endless hours of cartoons. Getting up to flip the turn dial on my T.V. and to adjust the antenna to get a clear picture. I have only one station now that still shows those great cartoons, thank verizon for Boomerang network.

Good article I am from the 60’s and the cartoons were even better Johnny Quest, Underdog, and of course the one and only Road Runner. Bullwinkle … Yoga bear … The Jestson’s
The Flintstones.. It was a great Saturday all the way up to noon you could sit and watch all your favorites …

Back in the late 60s, early 70s I got one of my dad’s old alarm clocks so i could get up really early, like 6:30 AM so I could watch Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution. It was live action chimps with voices dubbed in. Chimps dressed up and elaborate sets. They even had a chimp band that was really funny.

I hated getting up for school, but I couldn’t wait to see Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution. After that I really didn’t have a cartoon I liked……..wait, I also watched the original Johnny Quest.

By the titles you mention, you’re a little younger than me. But I used to love the Saturday morning cartoons too. My Dad and I would watch the “Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour” together, which was my favorite.

No longer having simple pleasures like this is really one down side to the “progress” of technology.

I miss Bugs Bunny on Saturday mornings, too. Heck, I miss Bugs Bunny. He’s nowhere to be found on TV these days. That’s just wrong!

Life wouldn’t have been the same without Saturday morning cartoons. Oh, for the good old days. Cartoons in the 80s were the best.

scooby doo where are you! speedbuggy? supervfriends, Hong Kong Phooey, bugs bunny. I could go on.

That’s funny! I was just thinking about this the other day. I was like “what happened to Saturday morning cartoons?” You’re right they do still have cartoons, but the cartoons now days compared to the smurfs age is drastically different.

Smurfs compared to Ben Ten Big difference!

But I think our kids will still have treasured memories, they’ll just be different

Have a good day!

I miss Saturday morning cartoons I grew up with in the 60s and 70s, before they became half hour commercials. I’d love for there to be a tv channel dedecate to just all those Saturday morning carttons on cable or not. What do you all think?

TMNT are back on, but they aren’t the same. It’s not bad, but I sure miss the older versions. Some new ones are OK, and the technology is better, I suppose. Jane and the Dragon is well done. But I miss X-Men, Batman, Superman, and the Smurfs. I know the new generation of kids won’t even know Bugs Bunny or Sylvester and Tweetie, which I think is a big loss. I still watch, though, when I can, but these aren’t MY cartoons.

I agree, Saturday mornings just aren’t the same.

I agree. I have found that many of the cartoons from my youth are available on various torrents. I have many of the old Bugs Bunny and Road Runner classics. For some reason, many of these old cartoons are labeled as ‘banned’ for no longer being politically correct in nature, but they sure are fun to watch.

Oh those wonderful Saturday Mornings. How I miss them. Saturdays were days of freedom, enjoyment, happiness, and excitement for all kids back then. All you had to have was a tv set, and you were part of a nation-wide phenomenon. It was the best of times to grow up in, hands down. I would get all my work, chores, and homework done, before Saturday Morning came. Saturday morning would roll around, and I would wake up at 5:45 a.m. on the dot. I’d then hurry on over to our family kitchen, open the fridge, grab me a Morton’s Frozen Donut, toss it in the oven and bake, then grab me a box of my favorite cereals from those days, pour them into a bowl, add some milk, and depending on the cereal, maybe even add some sugar to it all. Load my bowl of cereal and my warm Morton’s Donut, and of course a glass of Nestle Quik’s Strawberry Milk onto a tray, and carry it all into the living room, where I would set my food down on the coffee table, in front of the TV and sofa, and then turn on the tube so that it had time to warm up. Cause in those days, sometimes certain TV sets had to warm up. They would start off as a single tiny dot on the screen and then finally after a few seconds you got picture. Timing things down to the second, my shows would come on starting at 6:00 a.m., and I became just another Saturday Morning Kid, like all the rest of you out there were. From 6:00 a.m. till about 3:00 p.m. It was pure heaven. My choices seemed endless, if not almost impossible to decide on, as a myriad of shows was available on just three, count them, three networks. No satelite tv’s, no dvd’s, no dvr’s, no cable tv’s, not even a vcr even. Just three network stations. Oh and if you wanted to see something else there was the television nob you used to turn the channel with, no remote controls. Oh for better quality picture there were things called rabbit ears or for the younger crowd, tv antennas. Here were just a small sample of toons we all got to see back then: The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Groovie Goolies, Plastic-Man, The New Adventures of Batman, Tarzan Lord Of The Jungle, Flash Gordon, The Smurfs, The Trolkins, The New Adventures of Popeye, Mr. T cartoon, The Clue Club, Charlie Chan and the Chan Clan, Emergency + 4, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Space Sentinels, Josie & the Pussycats, The Perils of Pennelope Pitstop, The Pink Panther, Mr. Magoo, Teen Turbo, Pole Position, The Brady Kids, The New Adventures of Might Mouse, The New Adventures of Heckle & Jeckle, Heathcliff & Marmaduke, Dungeons & Dragons, Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends, Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels, Fangface, The Archies, Sea-Lab 2020, Devlin, The Superfriends cartoons, Thundarr The Barbarian, Goldie Gold & Action Jack, Dynomutt, Alvin & The Chipmunks, Tom & Jerry, The Kwicki Koala Show, Blackstar, The New Adventures Of Gilligan, Gilligan’s Planet, Speed Buggy, Jabberjaw, Huckleberry Hound Show, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, The Dukes, Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Puppy’s Further Adventures, Kidd Video, Hulk Hogan’s Rock’N'Wrestling, Punky Brewster cartoon show, Muppet Babies, Scooby-Doo cartoons, The Pebbles & Bam-Bam Show, Laverne & Shirley In The Army, The Drak Pack, Pac-Man cartoon show, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, Super Chicken, Dudley Do-Right, Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Lone Ranger & Zorro cartoons, Inch High Private Eye, Hong Kong Phooey, The Funky Phantom, Dastardly & Mutley, Laugh-A-Lympics, Freedom Force, The Popeye and Olive Oyl Show, Richie Rich/Scooby & Scrappy Doo Show, Dragon’s Lair, The Super Globetrotters, The Mighty Heroes, and so much more. Then when all the cartoons ended around noon, along came kids live action shows like: Sigmund & the Sea-Monsters, Land Of The Lost, Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, Far Out Space Nuts, The Lost Saucer, Shazam!, The Secrets Of Isis, Ark II, H.R. Pufnstuf, Liddsville, Space Academy, Run Joe Run, and Jason Of Star Command to name but a few of them too. Then when all of the live action kids shows were done, then shows like American Bandstand, Soul Train, Wide World Of Sports and the ABC Weekend Specials, would begin. By the time it all was over, you were finally ready to leave the house to play outside or hang out with your friends. Aahh, if only to be young again.

Almost every channel here shows music videos. I really don’t think they are appropriate for kids. I used to love bugs bunny, road runner, yosemite sam, road runner, etc. I couldn’t wait for the new Spiderman shows. Bring back the good old days of Saturday morning cartoons, please

Yeah, I grew up with the 80s and early 90s cartoons! When I was a kid, I would sometimes wake up earlier on Saturday mornings than I would on school days to catch all the great cartoons! Those were the days!

Now, if I even wake up early enough on a Saturday, what few cartoons I catch all seem to be educational stuff borrowed from one of the cable networks. They’re certainly not the same, nor are cartoons in general!

If you miss Saturday morning cartoons, then checkout Boomerang, where you can still see your favorite HB, Merry Melodies, WB and Looney Tunes toons. Also, I have to say in defense of modern TV, that any cartoon lover should checkout some of the shows on Cartoon Network, like Chowder, Flapjack, and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. I also love the new Clone Wars Star Wars show on Friday nights on CN.

Finally, if your taste has upgraded, checkout Adult Swim, late night on Cartoon Network. These shows are for ADULTS ONLY, but soooo funny. Lots of retro humor of old cartoons, too (Davey and Goliath fans should checkout Moral Oral; fans of Transformers, Strawberry Shortcake and anything else 80’s, should watch Robot Chicken!). Again, Adults only!!!

Started watching whatever was on in the early 50s. Most
stations didn’t have a lot then along came Winky Dink, TV
almost exploded after that. Every kind of conceivable
cartoon that was out there from the oid Popeye or early
movie theater cartunes, yes cartunes. Looney toones,
Andy Panda, Woody Woodpecker. Now only a fdw cable and
sattelite channels carry them. I usually lef my little one sleep
then watch controlled Boomerang or other low yield pro
gramming until she goes to bed at night. TV kid shows are
too rough for little kids these days. But then, I guess I’m
just an old fogey.

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There are lots of the same cartoons on these days. Check your tv or cable or satellite guide.

I look at it differently: whereas I used to have Speed Racer, now I have the Simpsons and Family Guy.

I like it better now.

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