10 cartoons from 1991 that ran for only one season 

Do you remember any of these?

Does anyone remember a 90’s cartoon called the Pirates of Darkwater?

I loved Bucky O’Hare. It was great fun. I wish they had been more.

I remember all of these. Reminds me of a show called Bots Master. I loved that show as a kid, but it got cancelled after one season, as well.

I loooooved Bucky O'Hare. The theme song rocked and always pumped me up as a little kid. I think I got the first episode on vhs through the scholastic book order. Always longed for more episodes.

I miss Saturday morning cartoons

It’s really not fair how all the good shows end up getting cancelled while the garbage ends up running forever.

I remember watching Pro Stars, Bucky O'Haire, Wish Kid, James Bond Jr., and Yo Yogi. They were really good shows to watch as a kid, and it was a nice thing of nostalgia to get to watch this.

I love Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons. In 1995 I remember watching Ghost Busters, Mutant League, Street Sharks and the Hurricanes. I can talk for days of the amount of cartoons I used to watch.

I remembered watching Hammerman back in the 90's when I was a kid and love it. I only wished the series is finally released into complete DVD at last.

You have no idea how frustrating it was as a kid to have invested time into the Silver Surfer, watched the epic cliffhanger on the first season and then wait weeks and weeks for it to come back on, only to realize that it was never going to happen. This was the same frustration many people felt for a long time waiting for what seemed like an eternity, to get more episodes of Dragonball Z.

Bucky O'Hare used to SLAP! Konami even made an arcade game about it . I also watched JBJ. What's crazy is that MC Hammer is still around till this day. Appearing in couple a Super Bowl commercials like Nationwide and Cash For Gold. Not to mention, sitting front row at Golden State Warriors games.

I remember James Bond Jr and Wish Kid. I really liked James Bond Jr. I can't beleive it was only one season, but with 65 episodes I guess it makes sense. I'd sit down and watch it again now 20+ years later. I remember watching Wish Kid, but have no real memory of it. I guess with only 13 episodes its easy to forget.

I remember James Bond Jr. Looking back on it now, it had the right formula in a lot of aspects. I think making him the nephew instead of a son made sense, you sorta forget how much of a womanizer Bond was. I liked that they kept a number of the same villains, but made them unique for the show. There were also subtle hints to things in the movie too, like the inclusion of an Aston Martin. Though, for me at least, I think it was just boring. It was literally just "Saved By The Bell" with a Bond character. I feel like if they nixed the whole prep school thing, it would have been better. Then again, growing up in the 90's, I absolutely HATED the "let's make a baby version of popular characters and make an entire show of it" trope. I didn't want a young Yogi Bear or Scooby Doo, I wanted Yogi Bear and Scooby Doo.

"Don't worry, the ProStars are gonna win." Almost the only thing Jordan EVER recorded for that show. I remember noticing that even as a kid.

5-year-old me watched all of these and distinctly remembers really enjoying most of them -- Bucky O'Hare in particular was an all-time favorite. Even the ones like Pro Stars and Hammerman that I *didn't* care for all that much still managed to keep my attention on a weekend where there was nothing to do but watch cartoons.

Another thing to note about Yo Yogi! being cancelled was during it's airing, Hanna-Barbera was bought out by Ted Turner, besides the DIC stuff that was heavily reliant upon licensed works, most of NBC's live action content they began to rely on was done in-house, as well, the T-NBC block.

The Bucky Ohare cartoon was cancelled because of a strange production error that resulted in hundreds of Toad Air Marshall figures being made but very few of tye good guy characters who are all now rare collectors items.

This is a really interesting topic and really interesting concept for a series. You should definitely follow this up with more failed cartoons from 1991 and a top 10 of 1992/1993, etc.

Holy Crap, Wish Kid, Space Cats, and Hammerman ... You just shot the corner of my brain with some kind of nostalgia shot, especially with the Wish Kid theme music.

I actually loved James Bond Jr. I will still randomly sing that theme song. I liked Bucky O Hare too. Mainly for the theme song. I don’t remember Little Shop. Pro Stars was the best. And I loved Hammer Man.

I think the thing you have to remember with the MC Hammer cartoon, you have to appreciate the 24 month rocket ship to stardom that was his career. It was almost entirely based on one hit, but “you can’t touch this” was SO ubiquitous and he was a cultural phenomenon to himself, being the first rap artist to have a hit go to #1. It didn’t last long, but there was a brief period where he was at the Michael Jackson/Madonna level of stardom, almost entirely on charisma. The backlash to his constant commercialization and ubiquity started about right at the time the cartoon went out, but it wasn’t the worst idea for a show in 1991 (I think it replaced a New Kids on the Block cartoon from the year prior)

Thank you so much for bringing these cartoons to light, I loved James Bond Jr, Pro Stars, Where’s Waldo, Wish Kid, and Bucky O’Hare as a kid and a lot of people don’t remember them if I bring them up. Also had no idea most of them only ran 13 episodes! Subscribed! -Cast

Man, what memories! I was born in 1985, so there are a lot of cartoons listed that I remember. As much as I got sucked into the TMNT craze, I did enjoy Bucky O' Hare for as long as it was on. I also got hooked on Gargoyles, like most did, or Biker Mice from Mars. I actually was pretty surprised to see you had the Waldo cartoon as well. That was pretty short lived. Same with the Mario show. I had to try so hard to get up in time for Mario, and would be so happy if they did the Zelda episodes in conjunction those days!!! Also: I saw the clip of Fido Dido! For the longest time, in Ontario Canada, he was a highly regarded mascot for "Sprite" brand pop, and used for filler commercial animations. Remember his doggy? Lol. Great video! Thank you for reminding me that I had happy and fun memories growing up. ❤

Yup, I remember all of these. (The TV bumpers too) To this day I still remember some of the theme songs. Very much products of their time, but still memorable to those of us who grew up watching them.

There's a bunch of these I remember airing on Dutch TV, which I never see anyone else talk about, and kinda figured no one else remembered; particularly Space Cats and Little Shop. I do remember enjoying those, as well as Bucky O'Hare and Little Dracula. Heck, I even kinda liked Yo! Yogi, and had a VHS tape with two episodes back in the day.

Totally forgot about Pro Stars!! 😂 I was a huge MJ fan at that age, well still! Lol Thank you for the trip down memory lane! Longest I’ve smiled in awhile buddy. Good job 👍

I loved Little Dracula. But i was just a kid who didn't understand how television networks actually work and the concept of cancellation was not familiar to me. After these five episodes I was still waiting each week for a new one but it never happened. At least my dad had recorded one of them on VHS and was rewatching it again and again until the cassette was chewed up.

I remember watching the Space Cats on channel 4 back in the 90s when I was a kid and enjoyed watching , I really wished the series is finally released onto DVD at last because it deserved maybe SDBD (Blu-Ray) could make it happen since they already released the whole Earthworm Jim and Street Sharks onto a complete SDBD (Blu-Ray) .

Not only do I remember these, but I had some toys for most as well! For a part two, some ideas: Rude Dawg, ExoSquad, Battletech, and Life with Louie? ;)

Loved and remembered ProStars. I forgot about Wish Kid. After watching your video, I can't believe how formulaic these Dic cartoons were. Same idea just slap a different celebrity(ies) as the face of the cartoon and have them appear at the end and you got your self a one season wonder.

man these vids are bringing back some memories. i remember most of these cartoons. back when fox was just starting some of the line up was standard but some of the shows i only saw advertisements for and in my state some stations got different cartoons for some reason. and the time it would come on was random. i remember having to get up earlier than normal for school one time and seeing toxic avenger and battle toads at like 6 in the morning. i tried to get up and watch it again and i never got to see them again. one cartoon i cannot remember the name of to save my life was one where there was a group of oddball characters but one guy had a head and his helmet was kind of shaped like a bullet or missle and his head would come off and go flying around and knock over some enemies and then come back on his body. an old elemtary school friend drew a picture of them that i used to have. they were kind of like a knock off xmen or similar type of a team. i rember that bullet head guy and there was a girl and several others but that was one cartoon i only saw maybe 2 episodes of and i cant even remember if it was on fox, usa or cbs and i cant remember if it watched it on saturday before school or after.

Oh man, I used to love Bucky O’Hare!

Being born in 81’, I remember all of these!!! It’s crazy that I thought that all of these lasted longer than they actually did. Still, there were some underrated classics on this list!

I LOVED Hammerman as a kid. The shows style was fantastic and i loved the that you saw the man himself too at the end of every episode. The talking shoes were a pretty sweet idea too so the whole thing really worked as a Cartoonshow. Definitely the kind of creative ideas that we really lost in the past 20 years.

Very cool. Now you should do a follow up with failed cartoons of 92 etc. And wow what a blast from the past this was!

One of the reasons why “Pro Stars” failed (In addition to the failure of the kids block of programming), was the enormous cost, resulting from having to pay Nike for the use of their licensed athletes, and the “Bo Knows” tag lines.

While cleaning out my parent’s garage, I came across a box filled with paper and school work from when I was around 6 years old. Apparently, I was big into Space Cats, “writing” and entire “book” about how the the team went to Mars. I don’t remember any aspect of the show whatsoever.

I remember watching Where's Waldo back in the day. I mainly remember there was a narrator on the show that sounded like Robin Leech from Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. Each episode he would refer to the viewers as "Waldo Watchers" as he tells us about Waldo's latest adventure.

ProStars had a trading card series that from what I remember came out after the show was canceled. I remember seeing it like "OH THAT LOOKS NEAT" and then finding out the show was already gone.

I definitely remember Where's Waldo and Hammerman. One of the things that I think doomed Hammerman was MC Hammer was a great dancer IRL but the animation was terrible.

I remember all of these. Some of them fondly. But as to the ridiculousness of MC Hammer s cartoon, it wasn't any worse than the cartoon for New Kids On The Block... which was pretty horrible.

I really like this! If you do this for each 90's year cartoons, I could see this being your rise in subs.

It’s a testament to the creative work of the artists who put together the theme music for these shows. So many of them are memorable, while most of the shows only lasted 13 episodes. I’m looking at you James Bond, Jr., Bucky O’Hare, Wish Kid and Hammer Man. The themes stuck in my head 30 years later, I would have sworn the shows lasted longer.

There's a big difference between a bad cartoon and a failed cartoon. A bad cartoon is the result of a lack of care, creativity, merit, or built as a cash grab. A failed cartoon fails out due to all sorts of circumstances that lead to cancelation. Not always being necessarily bad. And could even have been good enough to be remembered by die-hard fans.

Hammerman was the best thing to happen to 90s cartoons

I grew up in Brazil in the 90's and only a few of the cartoons popular in the USA would be brought over here, since cable TV was still not broadly available until the 00's. If you were a kid you would have to depend on kids show in the morning and afternoon in just a couple of TV channels to watch your cartoons. For that reason, not all of these one season wonders got to be aired here at the time. Out of all the cartoons in this video I believe only James Bond Jr and the Macaulay Culkin show got to be shown on Brazilian TV.

I actually still have a few James Bond Jr. episodes on VHS tapes recorded. I really liked the cartoon as a child. I'm very surprised it's considered as a failed one.

I've more heard of these cartoons than actually watched them, I was only 2 in '91 after all. However I've gone back and watched Bucky O' Hare which is *awesome*, Wish Kid had a catchy theme tune and Yo Yogi is bad but it's also bad in fun ways. Space Cats was unknown to me, it looks like it might have been animated by more than one studio. Little Shop is completely new to me despite liking the musical a lot. I like it's art style!

I love cartoons

I was almost convinced Little Shop was a fever dream I gaslit myself into believing was a cartoon. That was a wild time for cartoons. I remember watching a few of these, overall, but they were almost all reasonably forgettable.

Not me singing along to ALL of the show intros 😂😂 I loved all of these

Capitol Critters (granted it debuted in January 1992) only lasted 7 episodes (out of 13 created) on ABC. The remaining six were eventually aired on Cartoon Network (3 in 1995 and the last 3 in 1996)

James Bond Jr. Was my jam back then.

What a great video! Some great memories here

Funny how the “adult” critics hated Hammerman. Most of us that were children back then LOVED this “kids” cartoon 😂

Out of all this offbrand nostalgia, I vaguely remember watching James Bond Jr but definitely remember playing the Bucky O’Hare video game on the NES.

I remember liking James Bond Jr. and Bucky O'Hare as a kid, and I was very much disappointed when the latter ended so early. Among the others, I have a vague recollection of Yo Yogi (teen 90s revamp of older popular characters were quite common back then) and of the Little Dracula toys, although I'm not sure I had ever watched an episode of it. No clue whether the others were even broadcast at all in my country.

Bucky was so fun, I totally forgot about Pro Stars until you mentioned it, I also liked it.

Totally remember watching hammerman, pro-stars, wish kids and where’s Waldo. Miss watching Saturday morning cartoons

I was unaware of Space Cats or Little Dracula. I was an avid watcher of Yo Yogi (and had the glasses at the ready for when he spun his hat). I think I watched Wish Kid (vague memories that it had a bully named Francis? or might be thinking of another show). The others I wouldn't go out of my way to watch, and most would induce channel-flipping. As a side note, I'm not sure I would consider a full 65 episode run as failed, that's the magic number to put it in syndication as reruns.

When you mentioned live-action, I remembered one of my fav 80s show "You Cant Do That On Television". It was basically an SNL for kids, funny as hell. Do you have a list for 10 live-action kids shows?? I also think Nickelodeon aired "16", a soap opera for kids with a young Ryan Reynolds. 😂😂😂

OMG That claymation cowboy had my nostalgia feels in overdrive!!! My brother and I used to run around singing that all the time!!! Lmao! Had to bring it back eh!? I love it!!!! 😂😂😂😂

I remember loving Pro Stars . I also remember Yo Yo Yogi. Those commercial break sequences really bring me back .

Born in December of 1986 and I remember none of these. But I also had just turned 4 in 1991. I’m sure I watched them. I do remember Doug, rugrats, Ren n Stimpy. X men and Spider-Man were my jam though. The Batman cartoon. Great shows that still hold up today.

I remember just about all of these cartoons. Sadly, I also remember that Roseanne Barr had a Saturday Morning cartoon show. It was just as terrible as "Hammerman".

Just found this channel and it's nuts! 10,000 subs but 250,000+ views! That's insane! Why aren't more people subscribing??

I feel old lol wow , you took it back lol

Actually lots of cartoons competed with Nickelodeon. Only a few were successful (looking at you, X-Men '92 and not really a cartoon as much as a live action kid's show, but Power Rangers), others remain pretty obscure. Find me one person on the planet who remembers shows like James Bond Jr or Bobby's World fondly. Same with Mighty Max. Only 5 or 6 kids who grew up in the 90s remembers any of those shows because a majority of 90s kids were too busy watching Nickelodeon. Nick set a bar so high, hardly anyone was able to reach it

Hammerman 😂

They all have one thing in common: low retail sales. All the cartoons that have high toy retail sales lasted. Some were made into comic books, Legos, action figures, movies etc. It may be different for streaming.

I remember all of these, though I'm pretty sure I only saw commercials for some on old VHSes of other cartoons! Space Cats in particular I had been trying to put a name to all these years. I remembered only the puppet sections of the show, since that wasn't something all the other Saturday morning cartoons did. (Hey, I hope this channel gets more attention - I think it might need a more distinctive name.)

Bucky O'Hare deserved better.

I remember thinking the 90s were off to a horrible start with cartoons.

I remember all of these... *except* _Little Dracula_ . *The **_Bucky O'Hare_** toyline absolutely was a thing!* It didn't do well or last long, IIRC. I owned a Bucky himself, as well as Blinky. They were similar in construction to _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle_ toys of the time. This likely both helped and hurt the toys; they were good _but_ why get them if you could just get the latest TMNT stuff? While I remembered _almost_ all of them, I didn't _watch_ all of them regularly. Some I missed because of a terrible time slot ( _Bucky O'Hare_ and _Space Cats_ ), others because they were opposite something else I preferred, or just because I didn't really enjoy them. However, when first teased, I am sure I loved *all* of them. I was an easy sell as a kid. XD

Every time, literally every time I tell someone about James Bond Jr, they ask me "Why his nephew and not his son?"

Did you know if I know if there’s a renin rem Stimpy adult party cartoon

Wow! I remember all of the above but for the life of me could never remember the name of #6. Thank for jogging my memory :)

This was my birth year. Do more years please, this was awesome to watch! :)

Omg I absolutely loved little Dracula!! I wish there was a way to see the episodes again

My favorite part about this whole video was the cowboy singing, "after these messages will be right back" and then the horse falls on him. That instantly took me back to my childhood and I vividly remember sitting on my bed looking up at my TV and seeing this. Nostalgia can be such an incredible feeling.

Be cool if you did a vid about one shot toons. Like Bubsy & Battletoads, I remember in the 90s both were shown at different years @Thanksgiving on Fox

That Where's Waldo segment unlocked childhood memories. Thanks.

As a 80s baby 90s kid I remember all of these great trip down memory lane

These Bring Back Sooooommmmeee Memories!! Dang...thnx, God Bless

Pro stars was dope! I really like watching that show as a kid. Needed more episodes

Loved Bucky O Hare. I had a bunch of the toy figures because I found them on sale about a year after they came out they had been put on clearance at a local department store called Roses

Bucky Ohare was highly underrated. I sang that theme song for a year and the show didn’t come back.

I remember most of these. I remember how kids used to pick on the intro song for James Bond Jr. And how we used to sing the bucky O'Hare theme.

I remember all of these. Even as a child some I liked, some I didn't like. I remember not liking Hammer Man at all. I have fond memories of James Bond Jr and Bucky O Hare though. Bucky O' Hare and Exo Squad are two of the cartoons that got me into Sci Fi when I was younger.

I probably only saw James Bond Jr once when I was like 5, but the catchphrase "bond....James bond....jr." has stuck in my head for ever. First thing I think of when I think James Bond.

I grew up with those cartoons but it’s so sad those shows got immediately cancelled by low ratings. However, cult following just making us rewatching them even drawing them to represent our nostalgia. Great vid.

The only one on the list I don't know of is Space Cats, and I just barely remember Little Dracula, and Pro Stars, which I may not have even watched, and Wish Kid. I don't think I was lucky enough to have the 3D glasses for Yo! Yogi, because I don't remember that gimmick at all. Thanks for uploading this video to bring me back through my nearly forgotten childhood.

I watched Where is Waldo and also in french "Où est Charlie". Bucky O'Hare was good! I have one in mind that you might miss: Spaceship Sagittarius. I watched it in french "Les aventuriers de l'espace" but it might not been popular in the US.

I remember them all, but Pro Stars, Wish Kid, and Yo Yogi are the ones I watched the most. I definitely remember wearing my 3D glasses for the Yo Yogi episode and being disappointed by the "3D" effect.

Lol respectfully I’ve never heard of not one show that was featured here but then again I was only one in 1991 lol Great vid new sub 👍🏾

I loved all of these

Bucky O’Hare also had an amazing NES game as well!

Thank you, I thought Hammer Man was some kinda half remembered fever dream.

Thank you for reminding me of Hammerman