This is an amazing compilation of Saturday morning kids shows and commercials. It's remarkable how many of these I recognize, including the advertisements, and including stuff I haven't thought of for years (coughdecadescough).
This is what I grew up on. Which probably tells you all you need to know about me.
Triffic stuff.
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I don’t remember all those programs. Don’t know if that’s because my kids didn’t watch them, or because they weren’t on in our area. I do remember a lot of the games; some fondly, some not. Under the “not” category would be Mousetrap which took about 4 times longer to put together than it did to play the game. And there were at least 1000 pieces…OK…maybe it just seemed like 1000 to the Mom who had to put it together. Thanks for the memories.
There were a couple of the programs I don’t remember watching, but had heard of (somehow, admist all the Sid & Marty Kroft I watched, I managed to avoid “Sigmund & the Sea Monster”, for example), but a lot of those commercials were like a kick in the back of the head, jostling loose memories of jingles and dialog long forgotten.
We never had a Mousetrap game growing up, but I always admired its Rube Goldberg loveliness. We did buy one for our daughter (because we could), and, yes, it’s far less fun than it seems (and nobody plays the actual game, just builds the device), but I’m still glad we did.
I’ve seen all the cartoon shows. There was one live-action show I didn’t recognize (some singing kids) and the last couple I knew of but had never watched (oh, how I hated The Bugaloos!). Most of the commercials I recognized. I used to eat Quake, Quisp, and King Vitaman, but not Life.
You hated the Bugaloos? But … they’re in the air (and everywhere)!
I preferred Quisp. I think my brother preferred Quake.
I didn’t recognize a few of the live-action shows at the end of the sequence (mid-late 70s was not so much into Saturday Morning fare). And I don’t think I ever watched Cool McCool.
Cool McCool! “Danger is my business!”
I also hated H.R. Pufnstuf (that flute really annoyed me). Lidsville is the only Krofft show I would willingly sit through. Well, except for Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, but I was an adolescent and they wore spandex, so…