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Post by BettyNewbie on Dec 5, 2017 1:52:49 GMT -5
I grew up watching those shows, too... but I did it on Cartoon Network. I have to admit that the idea of Saturday Morning Cartoons isn't something I really miss. When I was a kid, I thought it sucked that cartoons only aired on a single day in a single timeslot, and I never looked back once my parents got cable (and thus, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network). Of course, this was in the 90s, and by then, "Saturday Morning Cartoons" mostly meant either superhero shows I had no interest in or crap like Eek! The Cat and Bobby's World. The good stuff was all on cable, including the classic cartoons you two grew up with.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Dec 5, 2017 5:54:44 GMT -5
The thing with Saturday mornings cartoons only been avaliable one day was that it got you excited each week wondering what was gonna happen next and made you get up early in the mornings to see it.
Now you have social media and video sharing websites of course so you can see them anytime you want.
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Post by Tim on Dec 5, 2017 12:05:38 GMT -5
I guess, Betty, your generation didn't have the same connection to Saturday Morning Cartoons that mine had.
Remember, when I was a kid, it was three networks and nothing but. Cable outlets like Cartoon Network and Teletoon (the Canadian Cartoon Network) didn't exist. To us Generation Xer's, Saturday morning was something special. We went through a week of school, we'd earned our Saturday mornings.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Dec 5, 2017 22:47:50 GMT -5
Most of the older cartoons, I grew up with in the 90s. But where I live, they played reruns of these on Weekdays between 7 and 8:30pm. So most children watched these cartoons in the morning before school. So The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Scooby Doo were shown.
But a majority of the cartoon programming as well for some of the big hits of the 90s like Rugrats or Hell Arnold played in the afternoon between 4 and 6pm after kids came home from school. I know I used to watch these frequently.
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Post by Tim on Dec 6, 2017 0:50:10 GMT -5
Yeah, those cartoons were great.
All the 90's stuff passed me by. Of course, I was in my 20's-30's by then. While I still watched the old cartoons, the new ones did nothing for me.
In face, the only cartoon from the last twenty years that I liked was Kim Possible.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Dec 6, 2017 4:59:38 GMT -5
Most of the older cartoons, I grew up with in the 90s. But where I live, they played reruns of these on Weekdays between 7 and 8:30pm. So most children watched these cartoons in the morning before school. So The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Scooby Doo were shown. But a majority of the cartoon programming as well for some of the big hits of the 90s like Rugrats or Hell Arnold played in the afternoon between 4 and 6pm after kids came home from school. I know I used to watch these frequently. I remember these coming on in the mornings and afternoons where I lived. It was also where I discovered the Gerry Anderson puppet series's Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 which used to rerun all the time on BBC2 in the mornings and got me intersted in them. I have those now on DVD as well as Terrahawks which ran on ITV in the 80's.
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Post by Tim on Dec 6, 2017 12:15:29 GMT -5
I never saw those. The only Gerry Anderson series that I'm familiar with is Space: 1999, which was a live action show.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Dec 6, 2017 20:25:46 GMT -5
Most of the older cartoons, I grew up with in the 90s. But where I live, they played reruns of these on Weekdays between 7 and 8:30pm. So most children watched these cartoons in the morning before school. So The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Scooby Doo were shown. But a majority of the cartoon programming as well for some of the big hits of the 90s like Rugrats or Hell Arnold played in the afternoon between 4 and 6pm after kids came home from school. I know I used to watch these frequently. I remember these coming on in the mornings and afternoons where I lived. It was also where I discovered the Gerry Anderson puppet series's Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 which used to rerun all the time on BBC2 in the mornings and got me intersted in them. I have those now on DVD as well as Terrahawks which ran on ITV in the 80's. That's great to hear you had a similar experience. Speaking of all this, I'm in the mood to pull out my old Rugrats DVDs. And I have digital copies of Scooby Doo. I only have all the originals up to when Scrappy first came, since that period (even though the series name changed) was still the same original concept. Can't wait to see them again.
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Post by Tim on Dec 7, 2017 0:42:59 GMT -5
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Post by Jean on Dec 7, 2017 22:15:15 GMT -5
Since joining this forum. You all have convinced me to pull out my Xena DVDs again, and I want to watch Scooby Doo the original shows. It has been a while.
I would love to smile and relive my childhood again.
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Post by Tim on Jan 21, 2018 12:18:55 GMT -5
Dailymotion comes through for me again. I just binge watched the early 1980's Saturday morning cartoon, Dungeons & Dragons. Man, did that bring back memories. The cartoon totally holds up today, IMO. Anyone else here familiar with this cartoon?
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jan 22, 2018 5:01:33 GMT -5
Yes, I vaguely remember when it was originally on although I was under 10 then and the reruns shown later. Embarrassingly enough, I have the theme tune on my mobile phone.
Dailymotion came through for me actually when I downloaded a limited cartoon series called Visionaries Knights Of The Magical Light which I also remembered though I'm not sure if I mentioned it here before and there was another series I watched some episodes of a while ago called Jacyee And The Wheeled Warriors so that website as been said previously is good in terms of non-copyright issues obviously.
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Post by Tim on Jan 22, 2018 13:02:17 GMT -5
The likely reason is because:
1. Dailymotion is based in France, so perhaps they feel that silly U.S. laws don't apply.
2. DM is still independent. It was only after Google had purchased YouTube that they started yanking videos. DM avoided that fate. Some years ago, Yahoo! came sniffing around, but, thankfully, the French Government stepped in and told Yahoo! to get lost. Good for them!
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Post by Tim on Jan 26, 2018 12:40:12 GMT -5
And now I'm watching Ark II. I haven' seen this show in forty years.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Jan 26, 2018 14:19:56 GMT -5
Never heard of it.
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