Saturday, September 10, 1977

[AarHan3]

30 YEARS AGO TODAY!!!


4 new series from Hanna-Barbera Productions, Incorporated adorn the Saturday Morning network TV schedules, all of which ranged from 60 to 120 minutes:

CBS and NBC had one new 60-minute show each: Skatebirds and C.B. Bears, respectively.

ABC had the most new H-B material that season with The All-New Super Friends Hour (which effectively tacked C.B. Bears) and the only 2-hour Saturday morning cartoon in existence: Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (whose second and third half-hours thrashed Skatebirds).

[Sketch]

So all those shows were from HB? You'd think they'd be a bit more concerned with losing potential viewership for one of their shows to another one.

[Martianinvader]

So all those shows were from HB? You'd think they'd be a bit more concerned with losing potential viewership for one of their shows to another one.
Nope, back then they just sold shows to all the networks and didn't care where they wound up. Disney was the same way during their brief Saturday Morning network business--Wuzzles and Gummi Bears debuted opposite each other.

[SF4Ever]

30 YEARS AGO TODAY!!!


4 new series from Hanna-Barbera Productions, Incorporated adorn the Saturday Morning network TV schedules, all of which ranged from 60 to 120 minutes:

CBS and NBC had one new 60-minute show each: Skatebirds and C.B. Bears, respectively.

ABC had the most new H-B material that season with The All-New Super Friends Hour (which effectively tacked C.B. Bears) and the only 2-hour Saturday morning cartoon in existence: Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (whose second and third half-hours thrashed Skatebirds).

Actually, Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-lympics was the first two-hour Saturday morning cartoon. Ruby-Spears' Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show followed on ABC-TV in September, 1979, then in the 1981-82 season, CBS's The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show ran for two hours. Back in the 1977-78 season, ABC was unquestionably the leader on Saturday morning television, namely because of the strength of both The All-New Superfriends Hour and Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-lympics.

[TheFZAtUGSOnline]

Happy 30th aniversary Laff-A-Lympics!
You were our Olyimpics replacement for comedy!

[jcorey3]

So all those shows were from HB? You'd think they'd be a bit more concerned with losing potential viewership for one of their shows to another one.

did seem like they merely made one season of each show anyhow so it didn't matter where they put the show - long as they were going to buy another one of your shows to replace them.

[Jeff Harris]

Skatebirds.

I was born on the day the last original episode aired on CBS. With 10 minutes left on the show. So, that would mean . . . hmm, Robotic Stooges was on.