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Saturday Morning Cartoons return
Saturday Morning Cartoons. This phrase might not mean anything to some readers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but to my generation it's something magical. Sure, our local stations had syndicated shows and programs for kids that ran cartoon shorts on weekday mornings and afternoons,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and back when Prime Time began a half hour earlier,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], networks showed animated series like JONNY QUEST, ASTRO BOY and THE FLINTSTONES in the evening. But every kid looked forward to Saturday Morning. There was a sense of great anticipation at the end of the school week. After five days of being forced to drag your ass out of bed every morning, on Saturday you woke up cursing the fact that you'd slept until 6:30. The Big Three networks would usually begin each Saturday with early reruns of Warner Bros. cartoon shows and the like,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but this was still way better than the news and public affairs shows that they sometimes foolishly slotted there. Then,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], clutching a heaping bowl of Cocoa Puffs, your cartoon orgy would begin. Fresh episodes of HERCULOIDS, WACKY RACES and EVERYTHING'S ARCHIE would mash against your soft little brain as you poured sugar into your system like a crackhead firing up. There was no Tivo available to let you pause for a bathroom break,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so you had to grab any available moment when cartoon goodness was not on screen. There was not even an inkling of a DVD box set waiting to be released, so you had to get your fix of FRANKENSTEIN JR. THE IMPOSSIBLES or SPIDER-MAN whenever you could and whenever meant Saturday Morning. Around ten o'clock, Mom might start nagging you to turn off the TV and get dressed. She wanted to buy you shoes. Shoes! Can't shoes wait?! Who needs shoes to watch Autocat once again frustrated in his efforts to outrace Motormouse? The only acceptable end to Saturday Morning Cartoons would come around noon when the networks started showing golf or something. Things started to change in the 1970s. Saturday Morning Cartoons became a target on multiple fronts, as parents began to complain about the commercialism, violence and lack of educational content in programming aimed at children, and the cost of animation became prohibitive. The networks began to schedule more cheap live-action shows instead, each of which contained some simplistic lesson to pacify the watchdogs. As we head into September,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when the networks used to run preview programs on the Friday night before the debut of their new Saturday Morning line-up, I become nostalgic about those twisted,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], magical mornings. No,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I won't be crying in front of the TV,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], clutching at my Scooby-Doo doll and pining for the prepubescent Good Old Days. But when the time comes when my own kids are old enough to tell one day of the week from another, I'll be loading up the DVD player with some favorites to recreate Saturday Morning Cartoons for the next generation. SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK Here's one show that ran for six seasons in Prime Time, but became a staple immediately after in Saturday Morning reruns. When recreating Saturday Morning Cartoons,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an episode or two of this would be a great place to start. (O) THE FLINTSTONES Complete Sixth Season (Warner Bros.) In the final season, Fred and Barney get in and out of trouble with the help of an exiled "magical" alien being. All 26 episodes of the 1965-66 season on 4 discs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], plus featurettes. (O) THE FLINTSTONES Complete Seasons 1-6 (Warner Bros.) NEW DVD RELEASES Here's a rundown of the constant stream of anime comin' at ya on DVD from around the world: (O) ACE VENTURA Deluxe Double Feature (Warner Bros.) Includes the Jim Carrey breakthrough comedies ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE and ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS. So why list it in Anime Avalanche? Because this set also holds some episodes of the ACE VENTURA cartoon series. (O) BJ'S TEDDY BEAR CLUB AND BIBLE STORIES Volume 1-2 (First Look) (O) BJ'S TEDDY BEAR CLUB AND BIBLE STORIES Volume 3-4 (First Look) (O) BJ'S TEDDY BEAR CLUB AND BIBLE STORIES Volume 5-6 (First Look) Church and teddy bear clubs mix once again, and the Supreme Court has to untangle the mess. (O) BOB THE BUILDER: Built To Be Wild (Fox) (O) CHARLIE LOLA Volume 1 (BBC) (O) CHARLIE LOLA Volume 2 (BBC) Brother and sister solve problems in this preschool series. Available bundled or separate, all 13 episodes plus outtakes and surprises. A FISH TALE
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Most of this came long before the first waves of anime hit our shores like Robotech and Speed Racer, Starblazers and Battle of the Planets and Voltron.
theres nothing even remotely worth getting up in the morning to watch these days, the "big three" dont DO Saturday Morning cartoons anymore.
"Most of this came long before the first waves of anime hit our shores like Robotech and Speed Racer, Starblazers and Battle of the Planets and Voltron."
Actually anime hit our shores long before the titles you mention (and Speed Racer was among the earliest). Speed was definitely playing in the US at least as early as the early 1970s. I know because I used to watch it after school. It was in syndication along with other Japanese cartoons like Kimba the White Lion and Marine Boy. Of course back then, most of us didn't know (or care) they came from Japan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we just knew they had a different look and feel from the other cartoons we watched.
I remember those Saturday Morning preview shows that the networks would run. If you've got comic books from that era, check out the issues that came out in September and you'll probably find advertisements for the preview shows there. The networks really made their Saturday Morning line-ups an event back then. Somebody could probably make some good money by releasing DVD sets of those preview shows.
actually snally's right, SpeedRacer and Kimba the White Lion (Marine Boy???) were first, and we didnt care where they came from.
which is ironic because I still remember my sister having a brown stufted Plush bear and its name was Kimba but I dont remember WHY it was named Kimba or what made her name it Kimba, or have any memories of the White Lion show at all.
Speed Racer I vaiguely remember despising for its shitty animation (currently I'm 36, born in '69 so I musta been 5 or 6 at the time an the show simply didnt impress me in the least, I think it was the stupid monkey sidekick that turned me off)
then came my generation:
at first I wasnt overly impressed by Voltron either because (again) it was a toy show and we didnt have money to buy the TV show toys so why bother watching them
Battle of the Planets was a show I remember liking but I remember not being able to watch it religiously and with any consistence. Again there was a stupid yellow robot that sucked.
Then the evil of the galaxy landed on my TC set evert day, or once a week. and it was the Star Blazers 3rd season Comet Empire, (which came after Captain Harlock but I ended up getting into that as well) I quickly watched the 1st and 2nd season scattershot and out of order and couldnt follow the story arc because I came in at the end, the middle and then the beginning. I was quite impressed by the Yamato/Argo and desperatly wanted a model kit of that ship. I never got it.
hmm,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. seems Comet Empire was the 2nd season of Star Blazers. I wasnt kidding about watching them scattershot episodic story arc,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Bolar Wars was 3rd season,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
I remember being on a job deliverying flyers door to door, and somebody convinced me to stay home and watch this new show called Robotech with transforming "valkrie" style jets. I LOVED IT. unfortunatly as the story progressed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it steadily dissipated more and more (Robotech Masters) into complete crap (New Generation) and (R:II:Sentinels)
my first two years in college a friend introduced me to some japanese anime "entity" that was equal to our Walt Disney's Micky Mouse character. it was called the Mobile Suit Gundam series,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. I beleive the best of which is Stardust Memories and War in the Pocket series. I also LOVED MS GUNDAM 08th Squadron because jungle fighting with giant battlemechs just FREAKIN KILLS!
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