Submitted by Calm-Hovercraft9858 t3_z8forr in television
For me, I mainly watched a lot of Disney Channel shows as a kid since I used to be a fan of Disney but I’m not anymore. I didn’t really watch any network cartoons in those mornings that’s one thing to mention. What did you watch as a kid every Saturday Morning?
I’d start my day off with Inuyasha. Loved me some Cartoon Network and Fox Kids mornings.
Thunderbirds and What Now
Kids WB and Fox Kids. Pokemon and Yu-Gi-OH were my must watches for years. Digimon a little bit but as a kid it was always like off-brand Pokemon to me. Between 2000 and 2003 were the years I was really into Saturday morning cartoons so shows like Ozzy and Drix, Static Shock, What's New Scooby-Doo are shows I remember watching a ton.
Robotech. I never otherwise got into anime as a child or an adult, but I loved Robotech.
Okay, I'll pretty much date myself here: I watched Scooby-Doo and Super Friends for the most part. I remember when the original Star Trek cartoon came on. Shazam! and Isis. Schoolhouse Rock. Josie and the Pussycats. Hong Kong Phooey. Space Academy and Jason of Star Command. Stuff like that! :)
Garfield, ninja turtles
Whatever season power rangers was on lol.
Okay, so we didn’t have cable growing up, so I watched old reruns of MASH and Matlock haha
German here, born in 1983. up to 5th grade, we had school every second Saturday, so I couldn't watch things regularly. things that I distinctly remember as being on during Saturday morning blocks are:
Garfield and Friends and Muppet Babies
HR Puff N Stuff while buzzed on my Mom's diet pills.
Lots of Looney Tunes before that.
I even saw the 3 Stooges live in Toronto at the CNE.
Yes, my username checks out.
X-Men
Kids WB, Nickelodeon and Fox Kids. When the cartoons were over I would watch In The Zone, a MLB show geared towards kids, on Fox.
Next Door with Katie Brown.
Martha Stewart Living
Godzilla movies.
Xmen was must watch. Also loved King Arthur with the crazy armors.
And TMNT was my daily before school!
My go to shows were Muppet Babies and Ghostbusters and I guess TMNT too. This was when I was really young though. I actually don't remember much about network Saturday morning cartoons, when I was seven I discovered Nickelodeon and then that was that. Of the three shows I mentioned Muppet Babies is the only one I can really recall and that's because it played on Nickelodeon also.
I don't remember, honestly. Most of the ones I can think of were weekday morning cartoons.
The closest thing I can remember: when my dad would take my brother and I up to northern wisconsin and we'd borrow a family-friend's small cabin for the weekend (no indoor bathroom, no running water, no electricity...but there was an outhouse, a manual hand water pump down by the lake, and central "gas" for lighting, a heater and the stove), there was a radio station that would simulcast the CBS TV station's audio, and we'd listen to Alvin and the Chipmunks on Saturday or Sunday.
Bobby's World!
In my very early years would start the morning with Spartakus and the Sun Beneath The Sea, followed by Count Duckula. Later on in my years my mornings began with Beakman's World and SWAT Kats .
Mid mornings would consist of The Real Ghostbusters, Winnie The Pooh, Loony Toons, or other various and sundry articles.
I also remember a made for TV cartoon movie of Prince Valiant that I never got to see the end of because I had to go to the posy office with my mom.
Eventually the cartoons would end and my grandparents would watch The Mclaughlin Group, a show where old people shouted at each other about politics.
The BEST CBS cartoons. I'm talking Denver the Last Dinosaur, The Snorks and the Smurfs-- or the NEW Smurfs.
Then you got your Bobby's World, your Xmen. Muppet Babies. Recess.
The world was our oyster before Super Sentai like Power Rangers and Beetle Borgs ruined everything.
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse was always the last kids’ show to air on Saturday mornings. The melancholy music at the end had an extra impact since it indicated the end of anything good to watch for the rest of the day.
UK, which imported shows and you'd either get them on BBC, ITV or Channel4, I think Channel 4 had the best early morning cartoon block then it was surfing between ITV and BBC for their 'magazine' style shows that included cartoons. (Live and Kicking/Ghost Train)
And these are the ones I can remember, There is likely more.
The Raccoons, Swat Kats, Godzilla, Jonny Quest, Xmen, Round the Bend (with the team behind spitting image puppets), Spiderman, TMNT, Prince Valiant, The Pirates of Dark Water, Muppet Babies, Trapdoor, Morph, Poddington Peas, Dungeons and Dragons, Bucky O'Hare, Gummy Bears, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Recess, The Wuzzles, BatmanTAS, Rescue Rangers, Tail Spin, Duck Tales, Mighty Max, Sharky and George, Alfred J Quack, Moomins, Biker Mice From Mars, Heathcliff and Friends, The Bluffers, Sonic SatAM, Galaxy High, Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, Ulysses 31, Saved By The Bell, The Secret World of Alex Mack,
Not vouching for the quality of any of them and would have covered many years (and they'd mix reruns in I don't think we got anything in sync with the US), I generally flicked around for the least boring thing and some of them could be gap fillers that I remember the name of.
Edit: and ITV and BBC had an after school block with more content where there were even more shows and I've tried not to list any of those, but my mind might be going a bit after all this time :D
Canadian here, sounds like my Saturday morning programming in the late 80s/early 90s. Very specifically TMNT & Land of the Lost remake. A little bit of Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, Rainbow Brite, Ghostbusters. I also vaguely remember reruns of Schoolhouse Rock, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein and The Monkees for a period of time. So many shows I haven't thought about in years!
Denver the Last Dinosaur! I can still remember the song, but not a single episode or storyline.
Classics, every one of them. 👍
We were a Fox Kids household.
Depending on how early you got up, you could catch Carmen Sandiego (the underrated, kind of dark cartoon), Fantastic Four, The Tick, BTAS, and a bunch that I’m forgetting, and it all wrapped up with X-Men, then lunch, then the Saturday begins as the parents wake up.
Eventually, KidsWB complicated things with Men In Black, Batman Superman Adventures, Static Shock, and a few others.
Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
Superfriends
Scooby Doo
Gummi Bears
Laff-a-Lympics
Also, lots of stuff I don't feel any urge to revisit, like the Smurfs, the Snorks, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Shirt Tales.
Snorks and Smurfs were NBC. I think Bobby's World and X-Men were both Fox, but I could be wrong about that.
Transformers, GI Joe...Heathcliff, weirdly enough. Finish it off with Pee-wee's Playhouse.
TMNT was an after school event, and later on the Disney Afternoon.
Not sure if it was Saturday but I would wake up early morning to watch Mickey Mouse club house.
Looney Tunes.
So much nostalgia, especially the opening of Johnny Quest
Duck Tale, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers,. TaleSpin, Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Dragonball Z marathon
I’d watch shows like TMNT, Garfield and Friends, CBS Storybreak and then would watch the Saved by the Bell/California Dreams/NBA Inside Stuff/Saturday Morning Videos block. I think this was before Fox had cartoons on Saturday morning.
I was lucky if I caught the last 15 mins of a show before golf came on, luckily most the good stuff was on syndication after school anyway but I never caught new episodes unless I pulled an all nighter to watch the premier of Power Rangers or whatever.
Yu-gi-oh
Saturday mornings were my shit as a 90's Canadian kid. Disney Channel was never my thing so much, but Fox Kids, ABC, NBC, CBS, coupled with kids channels like YTV, it was amazing.
Animaniacs, Beast Wars, Bump In The Night, Captain Planet, Gummi Bears, Doug, Freakazoid, Samurai Pizza Cats, Garfield, X-Men, Spider-Man, Looney Tunes, Mighty Max, ReBoot, Transformers, TMNT, Gargoyles, I could go on.
Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Beany & Cecil, Underdog, Linus the Lionhearted
The Smurfs
For years I would get up by 6:30 to watch Robotech. Then there would be a long break of not much interesting. When I was younger I know I liked Muppet Babies, then as I got older I would check out the Tick.
some channel was airing episodes of it like 3-4 years ago
watched a few episodes of it
weird fucking show
"Kirby Right Back at Ya" was an elusive one that I was lucky with occasionally.
X-men, Spider-Man, Disney’s one Saturday morning,
as a child you never woke up earlier than 12 pm on the weekends?
Are you me? That's pretty much the exact list that I remember.
Digimon, seasons 1 to 3
X-Men, Spider-Man, Batman, Eek the Cat, Life with Louie, Power Rangers…
Pee Wee's Playhouse
Lol. Land of the Lost, Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, etc of the Sid & Marty Kroft era. Wrestling (The Crusher-since I'm a Wiscosinite), the usual Scooby Doo, Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Rugrats, Batman Beyond, Beast Wars, Hey Arnold!, Rocko's Modern Life, Rocket Power, Spongebob.
Garfield and Friends, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Hey Vern it's Ernest, The California Raisins and Muppet Babies.
It's been 40 years at least since I watched some of them, but here is a partial list:
I dont remember if all of these were on Saturday. I remember a show called "Wait till your father gets home" that aired during the week, because it came on right before my father came home.
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USA Cartoon Express… one of my favorite shows was Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch