CBS Saturday Morning Cartoon Line Up with Commercials (1988) 

Those were the good old days having nice bowl of cereal watching these Saturday morning cartoons! CBS Saturday morning lineup were the best!

CBS, NBC, and ABC had great Saturday morning cartoons back in those days.

I was in my 20s when these were on TV, I would babysit my 3 year old nephew while my brother and sister-in-law were working. I think I got more laughs than he did while we watched Pee Wee and Mighty Mouse. Still watching and laughing at both today.

Any current commercials: Eww skip! Any old commercials: GIMMIE!!!!

This lineup had Pee Wee AND Ernest!!! We didn’t know how lucky we were back then

Literally the BEST times of my childhood. It was Muppet Babies, Peewee's Playhouse and Hey Vern Its Ernest that showed me how FUN being weird was. Much respect to whoever posted this.

It was shows like these that gave kids everywhere a reason to get up early on Saturday mornings back in the 80s and 90s.

Wow, I remember those CBS bumpers. CBS had a good late Saturday morning run in 88/89. _Pee Wee,_ _Galaxy High,_ _Mighty Mouse._ Watching it today, Ms Yvonne was lookin' pretty good back in the day.

Them were the good memories the weekends saturday mornings cartoons with my cereal 🥣 my generation back in the 80s, when I was a child,just like the holidays.

Raggedy Ann and Andy, wow. I miss those characters. Even back then I knew there was a few things about the humor in The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse wasnt completely for kids.

Saturday mornings were like holidays when I was a kid back in the 80s

I was in the 4th grade in 1988 and I never forgotten how much the 1980's changed my life and how I miss the 1980's and it's not fair to me at all because the 80's were so good to me lol

I'm 42 years old now but this takes me back to being 8 years old I use to watch all of this.

Muppet Babies was so awesome back then!

Pee-Wee's Playhouse rules!

People had an aneurysm over Mighty Mouse sniffing a flower in the opening title animation because they claimed it promoted drug use. Sometimes sniffing a flower is just sniffing a flower. But the noisy objectors complained and the sequence was removed.

I miss you 1988! What a great line up! Memories with my lil brother before heading out to the enjoy a Saturday.

This is great! We play these line ups every Saturday morning.

Even the commercials were great. I remember that Frosted Flakes commercial.

Sure were a lot of lessons that are STILL relevant almost forty years later!

I was a SUPERMAN ( and super friends )fanatic!!!! The colors and action was captivating almost hypnotizing 😳 Respect every time!!!!💯 Ok I'll settle for Mighty Mouse- lol 😂 Thanks!!

I feel lucky to have been able to watch Muppet Babies when I was a little kid. I remember being like five yrs old and absolutely loving it. Baby Animal is so damn cute lol

I was 6 yrs old when I would sit up and watch all these shows...the commercials and all, brought back memories. Thanks!

I would be up before my parents at like 6am already eating a bowl of cereal and on hour 2 of cartoons by the time they did get up. Weekdays and sundays (for church), mom would struggle to get me up and get me going. Saturday mornings were the best mornings.

I was watching CBS Saturday morning cartoons and kid shows around this time. It’s my earliest memories of television viewing. I loved Muppet Babies and Pee-wee’s Playhouse. I also vaguely remember Hey Vern, It’s Ernest! I also vaguely remember that “Good Time For A Great Taste” McDonald’s slogan.

By this point Saturday Mornings was a shell of the former glory days of the late 70s & early 80s

That’s right! They WOULD say “now back to (show)” only to cut to the end credits! I can still feel the sense of anxiety and, almost betrayal, that would cause 3 year old me. 😂 I was still at an age where I believed TV (including cartoons) were real, that all of this was happening live in real time, and it always felt like the characters and network were just pulling the rug out from under me when the show would end. I couldn’t understand why they wouldn’t stay longer when I wanted them to! Thankfully my amazing dad would get up at like seven thirty on Saturdays so he could tape muppet babies and peewee (and later Ernest, Garfield and rude dog and the dweebs) for me to watch any time. Saturday did indeed rock.

Great year for animation. I remember this line up and when it aired.

awwww this makes me so happy. thank you

I tell my wife how Saturdays have been ruined. We still remember, gen Xers in our mid 40s and guess we're the last to enjoy true Americana. Saturdays were just the start.

"around this time classic Saturday morning kids shows whether they be animated or live action were slowly declining on each of the networks and by the 2000's Saturday mornings being aimed more towards more younger audiences and eventually the network news had to take over the programming and some local stations either showed outdoors shows,racing news & of course reruns."

Why is this nostalgic to me . I wasn’t born until the year 2000

CBS, NBC and ABC had really great cartoons in the 1980s . 📺

This was a great lineup! I always loved the Garfield show. The Mighty Mouse reboot from the creator of Ren & Stimpy was ahead of its time as a preview of the humor and animation styles that would become big in the 90s. Although this was near the end of classic 80s SatAM, personally I think Saturday mornings blocks were still great even into the mid 90s. With tastes changing and more competition from cable, the networks were willing to try some weirder stuff. But it's true that the level of quality was higher on weekday afternoon blocks by that time, with the Disney Afternoon beginning the trend, and the arrival of WB's shows like Animaniacs, the great animated Batman series, and more.

Thank you for posting this! Great collection, and man do I miss being a kid in the '80s. Wish my daughter (who's about to be a teen) had a chance to enjoy peak Saturday morning cartoons like I did. Special shout out to the Scritti Politti like bop in the Golden Grahams commercial at 2:35:57. It's nice! 🎶

Talk about a fun time travel trip all the way back to 1988!! I remember these days well!!! Thanks for this!!! Especially thanks for including Hey Vern It's Ernest, & the CBS Storybreak special!! This was the first time I'd seen Hey Vern It's Ernest, since the late '80s. Also, I had no idea that Pop Tarts boxes once contained free toys in them.

I have all the Superman cartoons from this year all woc!

1988 CBS Saturday Morning Cartoon Lineup Time Stamps 0:00 opening and Raggedly Ann & Andy 30:10 Superman 32:55 Muppet Babies 🍼🍼🍼 1:27:57 Pee-Wee Playhouse 🏡 1:58:06 Hey Vern It's Ernest 2:28:18 Flip 2:34:54 Mighty Mouse : The New Adventures 3:04:41 CBS Storybook and closing

Dude, I was _literally singing verbatim_ almost all of the _commercial_ jungles! *That's* how you can tell QUALITY for TV; when it sticks with you some 3 decades later! My only complaint: *No Superman episode!* Which one was it? The Defend-droids? Long Feng the dragon? Wild Shark? We GOTTA see it!

Wow, now you can go back in time, sorta. Surprisingly good quality upload

Muppet babies was fun to watch. It seemed for little kids but I liked to watch it with my sister.

I miss the 80s and 90s

Wow. This is what my parents grew up with. And honestly, it’s probably better than most crap tv nowadays

I loved Muppet Babies, Pee Wee and Hey Vern! But CBS Storybreak, just like ABC's OG Readmore, inspired and introduced so many children to reading and some great books!

Miss Cartoons ...bugs,scooby alot to choose from miss the 80's for sure and life was so different...52 and this woman wants to go back

😢 my birth year . This were pure gold

1988 cbs Saturday morning line up aired on Kdfw channel 4 7am the adventures of raggedy ann and Andy 7:30 superman 8am jim Henson's muppet babies 9am pee wee's playhouse 9:30 Garfield and friends 10am hey,vem it's Ernest 10:30 filp! 11am mighty mouse the new adventures 11:30 CBS storybreak

*Piggy:* This movie is called _The Phantom of the Opera._ It's about a lousy Rock musician who wishes he could play piano like Lionel Richie.... Yo, even as a kid, this had me _dying!_ Thanks for the memories, pal!

Garfield was my favorite because we were both born in June.

In my opinion Fox was the only one to get it pretty much right in the early to slightly mid 90's. Seriously, their bumpers were literally batman, Beetlejuice etc. Telling you what was coming up... not some monotone news anchor saying "Tonight Tony and Angela stub their toes on Who's the Boss!" I mean come on! What kid watching cartoons at 7:24am is gonna give a CRAP about "Who's the Boss" or "Guiding Light" and so on. People in Marketing back then had NO CLUE how to do the ONE THING they were hired to do....... MARKET!.... ah crap, now I'm flustered. Sorry, great upload tho, good job!

Dear God I was watching all this that Saturday in 1988 Crazy this is awesome

That Muppet Babies Mix tape they made A CLASSIC!

Saturday Rocks With SUPERMAN On CBS!

Like opening up a rift in time, peering into the past.

"ah don't look at me Im naked"... peewee was practicing saying that for later on in the future

Just realized the girl who sings the intro for Peewee was also Cootie Koopa from the Mario cartoon.

Mone saved my morning! I needed some Pee Wee with my coffee. I was soooooo bummed when Supes was edited out 😩

Wish i could go back there 😭 the way up is so much more fun then the way down

Time to grab my bowl of Fruity Pebbles with the prize in the box.

Cartoons cereal then mid atlantic wrestling wow golden years of television

YASSSSSSS!!!!!! You totally and completely reek of awesomeness!!!! This is the best!!!!!

Hey folks...I'm from the Super Duper early 1970s versions of saturday morning cartoons/comercials.. by the time these came out I was not even aware that Saturday morning cartoons still existed. in my TV market it was about cartoons that came on weekdays after school like He-Man, the Go-Bots, Trans-formers, thunderCats and my little pony. First run syndication cartoons killed saturday mornings around that time.

Much Gratitude

Bring back memories I was 7 in 88 lol lolLol

Good old days Saturday morning cartoons

Memories 💘

Now starting Superman! *Insert bunch of commercials here.* And now back to Superman! *Ending credits* Hey hold on a second!

Yes! The Ruby Spears version from 1988 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary!

Wow... Today the intro to Pee Wee's Playhouse would be half the show! There's too many commercials nowadays!

When Saturday Rocks on CBS and WJHL-TV 11 Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA.

Kinda funny that the Nanny was June Cleaver(Barbra Billingsly) and Animal was Dave Coulier and Howie Mandel(Way before they were famous)

Thank you for continuing to produce! Quick question: do you add the commercials or is this an actual cartoon block right from a VHS tape?

That "Hey Verne, It's Ernest" show is how I'm gonna remember my new neighbor's name. Yes, his name is Verne for real ;)

The first toon about the monster had me hooked to this episode thanks for upload I hope some day in future to see adult swim line up on october

My childhood! Thank you!

Just as the networks gave in to years of lobbying from parental groups and put an end to all violence on Saturday morning programs, syndicated cartoons came along offering up violence galore. This marked the beginning of the end for the golden age of Saturday morning programming. 'The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles', 'GI Joe', 'Jem', 'Thundercats', 'Strawberry Shortcake' and other cartoons started flooding local weekday afternoon schedules. Almost every popular kid show in 1988 had product tie-ins. Typically, the product came first and then the cartoon series was offered to TV stations at a loss - because the programs were just one long commercial! Parental groups became even more distressed by this new trend. By the end of the 1988 season, NBC talked openly about replacing Saturday morning cartoons with the 'Today Show' because they couldn't compete with violent cartoons airing on independent stations and cable. NBC finally did give up in 2001, selling their Saturday mornings to The Discovery Channel. By then, CBS had given over its Saturday morning programming to Nick, Jr.

Even though the Raggedy Ann and Andy show came a little bit before I was born. I had the dolls and don’t remember watching the show.

I know Russi Taylor is looking down from Heaven.

The flashing magic screen was ahead of its time

Good old days

Gonzo going full Alex Jones is hysterical!

29:28 Melted my nostalgic heart! ❤️‍🔥

Awesome MGM logo spoof @ 43:28-43:35.

Good old days 🤗🤗🤗

"SATURDAY MORNING" !!!!!!😃😀😄👋🌞💯💯💯

Recorded from WKYT Channel 27, the Lexington, Kentucky CBS affiliate

My 7th grade weekend entertainment. Good times!

How is this not a thing anymore???

Awesome job guys!!

superman. mighty mouse .raggedy ann and andy. pee-wee's play house. and hay vern it's ernest ! are on complete series dvd sets

I was 5 years old at the time

My brother still has his Raggedy Ann doll from 30 odd years ago. Wonder if they’re worth anything 🤔

2:01:46 - HEY VERN, IT’S ERNEST! I love Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney).. before Steve Urkel, there was Ernest.

Mighty Mouse! I loved that show! Mooo!

Thank you beautiful soul 😇⭐💙

My sister and I had our favorite Saturday morning cartoons from each of the three major networks at the time (CBS, ABC, NBC). For this CBS lineup, which I remember fondly watching it at our dad's house when I was 7, "Muppet Babies," "Pee-wee's Playhouse," and "Garfield and Friends" were our favorites. I also liked the Ruby Spears Superman series, which was the first Superman cartoon I ever watched.

Too bad there was never a Ernest/Pee Wee crossover, called "Ernest goes to Pee Wee's Playhouse" maybe they could've even brought in NBC's Ed Grimley into the mix, and watch the three men explode the universe.

when i was 9 it was a bowl of cereal , now as i watch , i have a bowl of w33d

Great audio, Nice picture, Superb sound, Cool commercial breaks & great work! also, this Saturday Morning Television lineup was made during Mickey Mouse’s 60th anniversary @ 2:26. Keep up the good work! I just love this video & your other videos. Good 👍 luck 🍀 and have a nice 😊 ☀️ summer! anyways, the cartoons & live action shows that originally aired on CBS in 1988 are: CBS Entertainment Productions’ “The Adventures Of Raggedy Ann & Andy” & “Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies” in: Daily 📰 🗞 Muppet/The Beastly Ghost 👻 Adventure/Musical 🪕🪘🪗🎷🎻🎺🎹🥁🎸🎧🎤🎵🎼🎶 Muppets @ 0:10-1:27:56, Bakshi Animation, Viacom International Inc., Hanna-Barbera Cartoons & CBS Entertainment Productions’ “CBS StoryBreak” & “The All-New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse” in: Mighty’s Wedlock Whimsy, The Velveteen Rabbit & Anatomy Of A Milquetoast @ 2:34:40-3:37:54 and the live action “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse”, “Flip” & “Hey Verne, It’s Ernest” episodes: “Front Page Pee-Wee”, “Hey Verne, It’s Pets” and “Tunes Of Staci Q., Faces Of Will Wheaton, Action Of The Hotting Things on 4 Wheels, The Darker Side Of Glasses & Rad Ways To Fake Out Your Parents” with a bonus pubic domain clip from the classic Pat A. Powers & UB Iwerks “ComiColor” cartoon produced & released by Celebrity Productions & Cartoon Films Inc.: “The Little Red Hen” (1934) @ 1:27:56-2:34:50

2:00 everyone remembers this commercial and M&M’s is still Alive.