Were Saturday morning cartoons a part of your weekly routine? What do you recall of them? Do you remember when you stopped watching them?
Oh, yeah. Oh, my heavens, yeah.
I can recall being a wee tot (1st Grade or younger), sitting in front of the TV the living room on Montalto Drive, watching The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, drawing endless stick figure super-heroes on pieces of typing paper on a metal TV tray.
Underdog. Tennessee Tuxedo. Bullwinkle and Rocky. Jonny Quest. Super President. Space Ghost. Shazzan. The Herculoids. The Fantastic Four. Hoppity Hooper. Jetsons. Go-Go Gophers.
I can recall doing my best ninja creep down the hallway in Diamond Bar to get out to the family room to watch cartoons without waking my Dad (not that he objected to the cartoons, he objected to being awakened on a Saturday morning). My brother and I would watch, through my parents arising, through breakfast, all the way up to when cartoons would change to live action shows, like The Monkees (yeah). Shortly thereafter, Dad would want to watch sports.
Bugs Bunny / Road Runner. Fantastic Voyage. Spider-Man. Scooby-Doo. Land of the Lost. Sea Lab 2020. The Banana Splits. Pink Panther. Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp. Bugaloos. Lidsville. The Wacky Races. Fat Albert. The Double-Deckers. Star Trek TAS. The Saturday Superstar Movies. Josie and the Pussycats. Thundarr the Barbarian. The Superfriends.
I never really gave up on Saturday morning cartoons — they more gave up on me, becoming more sparse, less amusing, and even more crudely crafted. There were a few exceptions, but I tended to watch more reruns of stuff outside of Saturday mornings. That went on into adulthood.
My interests were revived with my daughter (which meant it was my turn to be dragged out of bed on an early schedule), both in terms of acquiring copies of my old cartoons to share with her, scoping out the new cartoons being made — and, best of all, getting a DVR to be able to watch Saturday cartoons (and everyday ones) whenever we wanted.
(For a trip down Memory Lane, let me suggest this site.)
As I was born less than a month before you, I watched the same shows you did, with a couple of exceptions. I don’t remember Super President or The Double-Deckers, and I didn’t watch SeaLab 2020.
When I was in second grade, I had a red stocking cap. I cut off the pom-pom thingy on top so I could pull the cap over my face and be Spider-Man on the way to school!
Do you remember The Impossibles? The audio clip on the site you linked to (under 1966) is narrated by Paul Frees (also the voice of Fluid Man)! 🙂
Thundercats be damned! If they’d make a Herculoids live-action film, I’d go see that! 😀
I never cared for the Impossibles. Not quite sure why.
I would certainly go to a Herculoids movie over a Thundercats movie. And in a head-to-head, I’d expect the Herculoids to whup the furballs out of those cats. Even my beloved Cheetara …
I discovered Super-President at the Geek Nights hosted by my friend, Terence. He has a shockingly extensive collection of TV shows (then again, since’s he’s a TV writer, that probably makes sense…).
My memories of the specifics of Super President are, probably mercifully,limited. I was just fascinated by the whole concept, and the uniform looked (to my very young eyes) cool.