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Post by Tim on Jan 11, 2017 18:17:29 GMT -5
One of the fondest memories of my childhood was watching Saturday Morning Cartoons. Now, to many of you, this is something you may have never heard of. In this modern age of the Cartoon Network (or Teletoon, the Canadian equivalent) and DVD/Blue Ray, when you can watch your favourite cartoons at your own choosing, it's so much easier for you.
However, when I was young, there were no such outlets. We had to wait for our favourite cartoons to come on. And that happened every Saturday morning. On those long ago mornings, me and my friends would watch our favourite cartoons and live action shows (such as Land Of The Lost and Space Academy). Yeah, the shows were cheesy as hell, but heck, we were kids, we didn't care.
Today, Saturday Morning Cartoons are long gone (due to the aforementioned Cartoon Network and such). However, for older people, such as myself, they are a fond memories.
So, did anyone else here get to see any Saturday Morning Cartoons?
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jan 12, 2017 5:16:46 GMT -5
Yes I did. It was the only way to see cartoons other than CITV or children's BBC in the afternoons late 80's and throughout the 90's as I didn't have Sky TV.
I used to get up 6 or 7 sometimes in the mornings and watch various cartoons on both channels which was all you could get before digital channels came in.
Can't remember all the programmes I saw but I do recall the shows they were on.
In the late 80's early 90's you had Going Live on BBC1 with Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene plus Gordon The Gopher a little hand puppet creature. After that came Live And Kicking with Zoe Ball and Jamie Theakston.
On CITV there was Wide Awake or Wacaday as it was formally known with Timmy Mallet a guy who carried a pink and yellow mallet. Then later on CD UK, SMTV live, with Ant and Dec who now do I'm A Celebrity and Saturday Night Takeaway, Ministery Of Sound and finally Toonattik.
Channel four had T4 which showed cartoons also but I never saw that really.
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Post by Squad 51 on Jan 12, 2017 9:54:25 GMT -5
Yeah, the same goes for me too. As a teen and kid, I always watched cartoons on a Saturday morning. There were many new ones and which I still like today. I can't recall the titles of all but it was a lot, I can tell.
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Post by Tim on Jan 12, 2017 12:20:06 GMT -5
I'm not familiar with these shows. I wonder if they ever aired in North America.
I guess that was after the Wall came down, when you were able to watch Western cartoons.
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Post by Squad 51 on Jan 13, 2017 12:41:49 GMT -5
And a lot more. As said, I can't even recall the titles and all, just that there were cartoons on Saturday mornings.
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Post by Tim on Jan 13, 2017 18:10:17 GMT -5
I guess Saturday morning cartoons are another victim of our modern world. In the old days, you had to wait for the cartoons to come on, now that is no longer the case.
Kids today can watch cartoons whenever they choose, so Saturday morning cartoons were no longer needed.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jan 13, 2017 20:49:15 GMT -5
My mum used to watch cartoons down the local cinema every Saturday morning with her brother and sister which doesn't exist anymore.
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Post by Tim on Jan 14, 2017 0:15:45 GMT -5
I'm guessing that would have been in the late 1960's and early 70's.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jan 14, 2017 4:11:01 GMT -5
It was yes. The cinema used to have a club on Saturday mornings which my mum her brother and sister went to.
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Post by Squad 51 on Jan 14, 2017 9:24:28 GMT -5
I think, back in the GDR we had cartoons on a Saturday afternoon since we still went to school in the mornings. So, also something to look forward to. lol
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Post by Tim on Jan 14, 2017 12:21:10 GMT -5
After a long day of school, cartoons would be nice.
Today's generation is lucky, they have much easier access to cartoons than we did.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Apr 4, 2017 0:24:25 GMT -5
For me, Saturday morning cartoons carry negative connotations, if anything. By the mid 90s, they were far from the juggernaut they were when you were growing up, and were mostly filled with forgettable, second-rate crap like Eek! The Cat and Bobby's World, along with (ugh) Power Rangers and boring superhero shows. All the best stuff was on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, so any kid who didn't have cable was literally missing out.
Cultural differences may be a thing for some of us, too. Jana, for example, grew up in Soviet-era East Germany, and thus wasn't exposed to the same things as someone living in the US or Canada at the time.
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Post by adzpower on Apr 4, 2017 10:02:06 GMT -5
Haha, I loved Power Rangers growing up, I think most boys my age did. We should embrace our differences! I'd love to learn about some other interests that maybe I have not discovered yet.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Apr 4, 2017 11:15:23 GMT -5
Haha, I loved Power Rangers growing up, I think most boys my age did. We should embrace our differences! I'd love to learn about some other interests that maybe I have not discovered yet. The bolded/underlined part is probably key. Yeah, there were female Power Rangers, but at the end of the day, it was a boys' show. In fact, come to think of it, Saturday morning cartoons in the 90s seemed heavily skewed towards "boy things," aka. superheroes and action-oriented stuff. Not too many shows that were meant for a more general audience. (Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Pinky and the Brain are the only three that immediately come to mind, and I still needed cable to watch those on the WB and Cartoon Network.) My interests seem to be fickle and often separate from my likes. There are many things that I like, yet aren't really interested in at the moment. Charmed would be a good example. I still like the show, but I have no real interest in watching or discussing it right now. It's not just about what I like, but what I currently care about.
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Post by Tim on Apr 4, 2017 11:28:49 GMT -5
Shame you weren't a kid when I was.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I love the Internet and all the modern conveniences. However, there are times I wish I could be back in the 1980's again, when I was young.
Well, Charmed did end more than a decade ago now.
I think most of the audience currently watching Charmed are those who discovered it for the first time on Netflix and such, because they were too young to have watched it when it originally ran (don't forget that it's been almost twenty years now since Charmed premiered).
Megan, for example, was born during the second season of Charmed (she wasn't alive when Rex and Hannah roamed the halls of Buckland Auction House). No doubt she's one of those people that discovered the show after it had ended its original run.
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