It's a shame that Cartoon Network isn't nowhere like this anymore. The same thing goes to Nickelodeon and MTV. Thanks for posting this up, it brought me back a lot of happy memories from my childhood. : )
This was a nice surprise to see here on RU-vid. All these promos also include my day on the net work. Yes I am the guy that programmed cartoons for 12 hours, picking exactly what I wanted, I wonder if any of you reading this remember that day. I almost wished I could’ve done it again, so I could be more specific as the cartoons that I like. Of course there would be a lot of black-and-white titles there.
I remember seeing those Saturday Japanime commercials back then, and they freaked me out! Anime was a totally new, weird thing to me at the time, nowhere near as widespread as it is in this day of post-Pokemon and Adult Swim. Miss those days.
Man I miss Cartoon Theatre!! I think this was back when Cartoon Network had cartoons playing literally 24/7 and you could stay up past midnight watching them if you could hang for that long.
I miss the days when CN at night would play older and/or more obscurer cartoons at night. Now you get repeats the mostly the same things Adult Swim played earlier in the night....Hooray?
I agree to the point being able to be modern and retro was one of the channel's best points, i'm not sure how many of us in the 90s thought of the retro part as "cheesy old" To most of us it was always "good new stuff" and "good old stuff" We still today like new and old stuff, the entertainment pieces themselves can't change only certain people will change but i don't think alot do. Most people i talk with like what they did as kids as much today. it's still entertaining.
My god, CN had such a large variety of programming back in the day. I was so fortunate to have been an avid CN fan since the early days. Totally miss Down With Droopy D! Too bad they don't have this type of variety anymore.
WoW man I remember watching that summer line up everyday those were the days of the summer of 1995, another thing i missed that Penelope and Peter wedding celebration, if any one saw can ya tell me what happened please, in those 3 specials
I remember the old days of Cartoons, I do wished they could return to Cartoon Network programmes or at least I do wished some of my favourites are finally released onto Complete DVD collection at last like The Addams Family and Yogi's Treasure Hunt.
I enjoyed the late night offerings, when they were still classic cartoons all night long, like “late night black-and-white“, where you would get to see some of the earliest Looney Tunes and merry melodies, along with the earliest incarnation of porky pig, and the classic MGM “Captain and the kids“ series. I don’t know if any of these are still broadcast on the network, but I think you have to stay up all night long to find out. I was delighted to finally find a place where the classic MGM cartoons and classic Looney Tunes and Mary melodies were broadcast, totally uncut! Sad that this is no longer, but I still hold out hope that stuff will be released from the Warner archive on DVD and Blu-ray.
no one ever wanted to see "Yucky Duck" again. But this was truly the best era of CN. Vintage toons mixed with new cartoons that were actually good and meta-commercials that showcased the cheesy old toons in a funny way. The channel was retro and modern-it was perfect. The 90's CN will always be the best CN. Before they split Bommerang into another network. Sorta like how before they split Nick at Nite and TV Land apart.
Ah, this was the golden age of Cartoon Network. I miss all of these great programs! Nowadays, it's all gone downhill with crappy shows like: "Destroy Build Destroy" and "Dude, What Would Happen". I wish CN would go back to the way it used to be. :(
"Saturday Japanime" (also known as "Night of the Vampire Robots") was just a limited event, in which those three movies were shown at late night. They were shown numerous times throughout 1995 on Cartoon Network. Before "Toonami", the only anime on CN were "G-Force" and "Speed Racer".
8:32 Cartoon Network's New Summer Lineup 1995 8:00am The Perils of Penelope Pitstop 8:30am Wacky Races 9:00am Down wit' Droopy D 10:00am Morning Mysteries 10:30am A Pup Named Scooby-Doo 11:00am Fangface 11:30am Help! It's the Hair Bair Bunch 12:00pm High Noon Toons 3:00pm The Banana Splits 3:30pm Cattanooga Cats 4:00pm Super Adventures
And starting July 5, 1995, every Wednesday night they did a 4-hour block of 1970s cartoons called '70s Super Explosion, which centered on the various fashion and TV trends of the 1970s, including: The Super Globetrotters (1979) The Roman Holidays (1972) Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972-74) CB Bears (with Blast-Off Buzzard and Posse Impossible) (1977) Skatebirds (with The Robonic Stooges and Wonder Wheels (1977) Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch (1974) Inch High, Private Eye (1973) Help...It's the Hair Bear Bunch! (1971-72)
The movies made their broadcast TV debuts on the Sci-Fi Channel around 1993 (at least VHD & RC did), and supposedly were then aired late nights on TBS & TNT circa-1994, before making it to CN in late January 1995. From what I can tell, this is the 2nd showing of the trio of movies that CN had that year. These movies, along with "Toonami Midnight Run" years later, paved the way for today's "Adult Swim Action". CN'd been testing the late night waters for years before Adult Swim.
It was there plan to launch new shows, make a bunch of pilots air them on tv and spin off the successful ones into full blown shows. They would keep the idea going later with the "Big Pick" that would happen on Cartoon Cartoon Weekend. All the leftover ones were rebranded into the What a Cartoon show or the Cartoon Cartoon show.
I'm suprised they could show vampire hunter D on cartoon network pre-adult swim. I saw it on saturday anime on sci fi channel maybe a couple years after this and remember it being pretty adult.
08:17-09:48 is pure awesome !!! WPT:Next Generation...and Summer line-up...Centurions man, Centurions!!! just great! Do you have any more stuff (from the next week) ? Thanks for putting all the stuff up!
@SuperAdventures wow they were really specific with the Power Zone promos! Dino Boy at 12:15? I'm guessing they would show a different cartoon superhero every fifteen minutes? fifteen minutes of space ghost, mightor etc.
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@trapadoored I believe that was the Super Adventures format (later revived as "Cartoon Roulette" in early Toonami), in which a mish-mash of '60's H-B superhero shorts were shown within a block of time Circa-1995-1996 schedules show PZ airinghese Super Adventures blocks along with stand-alone Hanna-Barbera/Ruby-Spears action shows (Thundarr, Centurions etc.). Strange to see CN promoting PZ and other late-night blocks like "Toonapalooza" so much, probably because they had recently premiered.
@CartoonNothing For some reason, CN aired the Mr. Spim premiere promo during this time period. With very few exceptions, all of my promos are organized in the order in which they were originally aired/recorded. Thinking back, I tried to keep as few repeating promos as possible (with the exception of the "Short" and "Long" versions of many promos), but let this one slide, perhaps because it contains the clearest version of the Mr. Spim commercial theme. These videos were sure hard work!
@cyberyanmar Nope, not all. One or two did, most notably Butch Hartman (of "Farily Oddparents" fame). He did a couple of one-off shorts for WPT. Some stayed at CN, like Genndy (Dexter, Samurai Jack, Foster's) and McCracken (PPG), others fell into obscurity and one in particular went on to TV superstardom............some guy named Seth MacFarlane, heard he created some show called "Family Guy". WPT was the breeding ground for a lot of great talent.
These clips are off of my collection of VHS recordings? The info? I've been watching CN since 1994-ish, and remember quite a bit about the 1994-2004 period.
I miss the good ol' Cartoon Network. They've completely ruined it now. What's up with 'CN Real'? That shit has absolutely NO relevance to the channel whatsoever!
No what you see before you last year was a reboot of what was Cartoon Planet which is now hosted by Brak and Zorak yet was hosted by Space Ghost during it originally debuted in 1996 to 1997 on CN yet made it's resurface last year on the verge of CN's 20th
I missed these times, it's like i am in a bad dream where Cartoon Network shows these outragous cartoons that so outragous they're stupid and also Reality just like MTV showing nothing but Reality TV and not music
