44 Years of NBC Saturday Morning TV

[yogimack]

remember all the great NBC Saturday Morning Cartoons from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's because I still them all back then so let's go back in time and look at all the great NBC Saturday Morning Cartoons of the past


The 50's
Howdy Doody
The Ruff & Reddy Show


The 60's
The Shari Lewis Show
King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
Watch Mr. Wizard
The Hector Heathcote Show
Fireball XL-5
The Bullwinkle Show
The Underdog Show
The Atom Ant Show
The Secret Squirrel Show
The Super 6
The Space Kidettes
Cool McCool
Super President
Samson & Goliath
Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
The New Adventures of Huck Finn
The Heckle & Jeckle Show
Here Comes the Grump
The Pink Panther Show
H.R. Pufnstuf
Jambo


The 70's
The Woody Woodpecker Show
Tomfoolery
The Bugaloos
The Further Adventures of Dr. Dolittle
Hot Dog
The Houndcats
Roman Holidays
The Barkleys
Sealab 2020
Roundaround
Around the World in 80 Days
Talking with a Giant
Inch High Private Eye
The Addams Family
Emergency + 4
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
Star Trek the Animated Series
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Go!
Wheele and the Chopper Bunch
Run, Joe, Run
Land of the Lost
The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty
Return to the Planet of the Apes
Westwind to Hawaii
Go! U.S.A.
McDuff the Talking Dog
Monster Squad
Big John, Little John
The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.
Muggsy
The New Pink Panther Show
The C.B. Bears Show
Space Sentinels
The New Archie/Sabrina Hour
I'm the Greatest the Adventures of Muhamammad Ali
Thunder
Search and Rescue: The Alpha Team
Baggy Pants and the Nitwits
The Red Hand Gang
Archie's Bang Slang Lalapalooza Show
Go Go Globetrotters
Think Pink Panther
Yogi's Space Race
Yogi's Galaxy Goofup's
The Buford Files and the Galoping Ghost
The Godzilla Power Hour
Jana of the Jungle
The New Fantastic Four
The Bay City Rollers Variety Hour
The Fabuolus Funnies
The Daffy Duck Show
Godzilla and the Super 90
The New Fred and Barney Show
Casper and the Angels
Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
Super Globetrotters
The New Shmoo
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
Godzilla
Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour


The 80's
The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour with the Funky Phantom
The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
The Flintstone Comedy Show
Batman and the Super 7
Drawing Power
The Smurfs
The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!
Space Stars
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
The Daffy/Speedy Show
Sport Billy
Ask NBC News?
The Flintstone Funnies
Shirt Tales
The Gary Coleman Show
The Incredible Hulk and the Amazing Spider-Man
Alivn and the Chipmunks
Mr. T
The Amazing Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk
One to Grow On
The Snorks
The Pink Panther and Sons
Kidd Video
Going Bananas
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Punky Brewster
Kissyfur
Foofur
Lazer Tag Academy
Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock
Alf
The New Archies
I'm Telling
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
2 Hip 4 TV
The Chipmunks
Camp Candy
Captain N The Game Master
The Karate Kid
Saved by the Bell
Alf Tales


The 90's
Captain N and the New Super Mario Bros 3
Gravedale High
Kid 'N Play
The Chipmunks Go to the Movies
Guys Next Door
Saturday Morning Videos
Chip & Peppers Cartoon Madness
Yo Yogi!
Captain N and the New Super Mario World
Pro Stars
Wishkid
Spacecats
Name Your Adventure
City Guys
Saved By the Bell the New Class
California Dreams
NBA Inside Stuff
Hang Time
Double Up
Brains & Brawn
One World


2000's
All About Us
Just Deal
Skate
Prehistoric Planet
Crocodile Hunter's Croc Files
Operation Junkyard
Endurance
Scout's Safari
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High
Kenny the Shark
Tutenstein
Trading Spaces: Boys vs Girls
Endurance: Hawaii
Jeff Corwin Unleashed
Darcy's Wild Life













and there your have it all the great NBC Saturday Morning Cartoons of the Past 80 Years but I know who did the voice for NBC which is none other than Casey Kasem who was the voice for all the NBC Promos from the 70's and 80's and he is a great NBC Announcer for all the Saturday Morning Cartoon Shows on NBC back then with all the NBC Jingles for all the fall campaigns like


Saturday Morning Fever (1978-1979)
Proud as a Peacock (1979-1981)
Our Pride is Showing (1981-1982)
Just Watch Us Now (1982-1983)
Be There (1983-1984)
Let's All Be There (1984-1986)
Come Home to NBC (1986-1988)


and with all the NBC Cartoons when the announcer say with a title of an NBC Saturday Morning Cartoon Show like Will Return After These Messages then Will Return to Our Program After These Messages then We Now Return to Our Program and finally We Now Return to and I remember all the NBC Saturday Morning Cartoon Shows Back then but Casey Kasem is a fine NBC announcer from 1978-1988 but in a couple years to come NBC will turn 80!

[TheFZAtUGSOnline]

Wow, thats alot of shows for the Peacock network to handle, i wonder why Astro Boy is not listed?

[veemonjosh]

Wow, thats alot of shows for the Peacock network to handle, i wonder why Astro Boy is not listed?

He also forgot Kimba the White Lion.

Also, how can it be 80 years of NBC if it started in the 50's?

[SF4Ever]

Let's not forget that NBC, for a while, temporarily suspended animated programming from its Saturday morning line-up before eventually returning to it around the turn of the century. Now that the peacock network and Universal Studios have merged, that also means Universal's Animation Studios had to be put back to work. The animated programming, currently running on NBC's Saturday morning line-up, is for a much younger audience. Only time will tell if NBC will broadcast original animated programming on Saturday morning, namely from Universal Animation Studios, if it hasn't already happened.

[AarHan3]

...how many years of CBS Saturday Morning TV did we endure? :confused:

[Lord Dalek]

More like 44 years of NBC Saturday Morning TV.

[Prof Ultimate]

^^ Seems more like 80 though....;)

[Dr.Pepper]

That's a lot of shows but TV's haven't been around for 80 years so how can they have 80 years of saturday morning TV?

[J'onn J'onzz]

Let's not forget that NBC, for a while, temporarily suspended animated programming from its Saturday morning line-up before eventually returning to it around the turn of the century. Now that the peacock network and Universal Studios have merged, that also means Universal's Animation Studios had to be put back to work. The animated programming, currently running on NBC's Saturday morning line-up, is for a much younger audience. Only time will tell if NBC will broadcast original animated programming on Saturday morning, namely from Universal Animation Studios, if it hasn't already happened.
Oh yeah, didn't they try airing Saved By The Bell, and some other sitcoms on Saturday mornings in place of cartoons for a while?

And there WERE TVs eighty years ago, but hardly anyone had them, and NBC sure wasn't around back then. Niether was the original poster to "remember" these shows, for that matter.

[jcorey3]

while NBC is now running animated kid shows - they don't come on until 10 a.m. around here - after hours of the Today Show. I don't know how folks raise their kids nowadays, but when I was a kid, 10 a.m. was always marked with the phrase - "You kids aren't sitting around all day watching TV....." and we either were forced out of the house to go shopping or perform yardwork.

[ltnut]

80 years ago would have been 1927. TV was nowhere near being far enough along to be anywhere outside of the labs where it was being developed. NBC existed as a radio network for about a year at that time. They became involved in TV in 1939, but it was actually 1948 before network TV was available on a wide scale. So at best you could possibly say that Saturday morning programming had been around 60 years.

[TheVofSteel]

Only time will tell if NBC will broadcast original animated programming on Saturday morning, namely from Universal Animation Studios, if it hasn't already happened.

It hasn't. The current block has shows from Nelvana, Big Idea, Scholastic and others.

[SF4Ever]

while NBC is now running animated kid shows - they don't come on until 10 a.m. around here - after hours of the Today Show. I don't know how folks raise their kids nowadays, but when I was a kid, 10 a.m. was always marked with the phrase - "You kids aren't sitting around all day watching TV....." and we either were forced out of the house to go shopping or perform yardwork.

Maybe they should eliminate an hour of the Today show and start its Saturday morinig line-up at an appropriate time of 9:00 a.m., if you agree with me on that.

[ltnut]

I don't think that that will be happening. Apparently the networks have realized that morning shows do well enough on Saturday that they have cut back to only doing what is required by E/I regulations and nothing more. And that isn't counting if local stations push the start time for kid's shows back even further because of their own morning shows.

I'm not a big fan of the FCC's E/I requirements for TV, but if they didn't exist Saturday morning TV would probably already be nothing but morning news shows and then go directly into afternoon sports, and if there was any local time between, it wouuld probably be filled with local news or the worst of all, infomercials. :eek:

[jcorey3]

Maybe they should eliminate an hour of the Today show and start its Saturday morinig line-up at an appropriate time of 9:00 a.m., if you agree with me on that.

not really. I would have been all for getting rid of the Saturday new shows until they really put DVDs of Saturday morning fare into the stores.

I think a responsible parent should get DVDs of old shows for the kids to watch as a special Saturday morning treat. This allows the kids to see more shows vs. 10 minutes of lame ads for ever 20 minutes of cartoon. Also the characters on the ads aren't all over the stores on merch so kids get less of a case of the gimmees when shopping. When was the last time you saw Top Cat at Target? Because of the lack of product in the stores, kids have to draw the characters - thus inspiring them to be a little more creative vs. consumer.

Plus as a parent, they don't mind spending a couple minutes on the floor watching HR Pufnstuf with the kids.

[dth1971]

You left out for NBC Saturday morning slogans:
"The Terrific Ten" (1972-1973)
"The Saturday Celebration" (1973-1976)
"Smilin' Saturday Mornin'" (1976-1977)
"The Fun Machine" (1977-1978)

[dth1971]

And what's "Rap Around"?

[Eric Brown]

When NBC stopped their Saturday morning cartoon line up, the prevailing industry joke was that NBC stood for; "Not Broacasting Cartoons".

[SF4Ever]

When NBC stopped their Saturday morning cartoon line up, the prevailing industry joke was that NBC stood for; "Not Broacasting Cartoons".

You're probably right-NBC thought, starting in 1992, they could substitute cartoons with live-action teen shows. They were wrong, because they weren't making money off those type of programs, but it took them until around the turn of the century to get back into animated programming. Obviously, the networks now realize there's no substitute for animated programming. I'm not sure if that was the case, but it certainly seems like it.

[Steve Carras]

You're probably right-NBC thought, starting in 1992, they could substitute cartoons with live-action teen shows. They were wrong, because they weren't making money off those type of programs, but it took them until around the turn of the century to get back into animated programming. Obviously, the networks now realize there's no substitute for animated programming. I'm not sure if that was the case, but it certainly seems like it.

Ironically (!!) TIffany AMber THiessen made such fare as you named like Saved b y the Bell a favorite of mine (at 30!) at the time, and I still love that overall (Kelly Packard as Tiffany(!-the REAL Tiff playerd a KELLY!!on SBTB) in California Dreams-both Peter Engel shows! also was VERY VERY enjoyable..:p ) and given the entirely preschool lineup (Punky Brewster?SMURFS? June Foray could NOT have thought this was better for her to have voiced than Rocky, the fairies in the fiary tales at Jay Ward, Nell Fenwick or Granny!) IMO only of course, it was a happy irony to me to see those bite the dust. (And I, too, remember that "NBC" ACTUALLY "Stoof" for, same as you said, Eric.)

[jcorey3]

You're probably right-NBC thought, starting in 1992, they could substitute cartoons with live-action teen shows. They were wrong, because they weren't making money off those type of programs, but it took them until around the turn of the century to get back into animated programming. Obviously, the networks now realize there's no substitute for animated programming. I'm not sure if that was the case, but it certainly seems like it.

NBC made a nice chunk of change off those Saved By the Bell and Hang Time Peter Engel shows. Think the shows played themselves out as the kids got older. Seems that the animated shows do two fold, fulfil the E/I requirement and are used as extension to product base. Buy the books and "educational" toys.