Saturday Morning Cartoons 

Getting out of bed at 0630 for school was always difficult. But getting out of bed at 0600 for Saturday morning cartoons was always easy.

Wile E Coyote , you deserved a mention for never ending determination 😸😺

Mel Blanc was the voice for most of the cartoon characters we watched growing up.

I was 6 years old in 1966 living in Baltimore. The Orioles were headed to the World Series. On a Saturday morning my mother gave my father a grocery list. He came back home 3 hours later with a 25 inch color TV. My younger brother and were jumping up and down knowing we could watch cartoons in color for the rest of our lives. My mom was really mad, but when my brother and I hugged my Father she relented. Great memories, thank you History Guy.

I went home on leave between duty stations and, of course, turned on cartoons Saturday, morning. My father came down stairs and said “look at that. How old are you? Watching cartoons? Within 3 minutes he was sitting there with his coffee laughing as hard as I. Those original cartoons , 1950, ‘60s, will never get old. Rocky and Bullwinkle was not aimed at kids. Those puns would go right over a child’s head.

My childhood is now "History that Deserves to be Remembered"... you're making me feel old ;)

Schoolhouse Rock helped me get an A in one of my 400 level history courses in college: the extra credit question at the end of the test was "write out the preamble to the US Constitution". I began humming the Schoolhouse Rock song that used the preamble as its lyrics and got the extra credit. On may way from my desk to turn in the exam I passed at least five others also humming that tune to themselves :)

Today's teachers of a certain vintage still play Schoolhouse Rock to their students. So the legacy of Saturday morning cartoons lives on.

In 1991, I was on a ferry crossing the English Channel to visit the UK. The TV in the lounge was playing Roadrunner cartoons on a loop. There was a lovely African woman in beautiful traditional African clothing in the lounge. I don't think she had ever seen a Roadrunner cartoon in her life. She was laughing so hard that tears were running down her face and snot was running out of her nose. It was an absolute delight to see this woman getting so much enjoyment out of Roadrunner cartoons.

Having grown up in the 60s and 70s I had no idea the age of Saturday morning cartoons was so relatively short.

In our area we get MeTV which has three hours of cartoons every Saturday morning, 1 hour of Popeye, Pink Panther and Friends, one hour of Tom and Jerry, and one hour of Looney Toons. 7:00-10:00, and my three boys (age 9, 9, and 14) love it. We setup a folding table in view of the TV and they eat sugary cereal and laugh all morning. I take some pride in the fact that they are starting to pick out Chuck Jones and Tex Avery productions.

Crusader Rabbit was a brilliant show, but before cartoons, Saturday morning started with Modern Farming, then Victory at Sea, we had Sky King, Fury, Circus Boy, Rin Tin Tin, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, The Cisco Kid. There was a show about West Point and a competing show about the Naval Academy. We had hours of old movie serials, Rocky Jones and Captain Midnight. This era is history that needs to be remembered.

There was also the fact that as children, we never got to choose what we watched on TV so when Saturday came and we watched what we wanted, it was fantastic

The Jetsons, Speed Racer, Magilla Gorilla, Tennessee Tuxedo, Underdog. It was a magical time. Thanks for the memories!

My Sister once asked me why I get up early on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons but not on school days. I never could answer her. But later in my life I figured it out that it made me happy on Saturday to watch the morning cartoons. R.I.P. my beautiful sister ❤

Unless you were a kid in the 60’s and 70’s you just can’t imagine how wonderful Saturday morning was for us. Captain Crunch, Frosted Flakes and Alphabits were my cereal choices.

History deserves to be remembered... because knowing is half the battle.

I tried to explain Saturday morning cartoons to my kids and they couldn’t comprehend the idea that cartoons weren’t on TV all day long.

PJs, laughs, warmth and food of home, a slow start to the day, low stress, no hurries, a gentle time indeed. Those memories bring a tear to my eyes. Thanks.

Saturday morning cartoons and a bowl of Cheerios are some of the best memories of my life! I’m glad I got to be a kid in the 70s and 80s.

Who could forget the opening: "Overture, hit the lights. This is it, the night of nights. No more rehearsing and nursing of parts, we know every party by heart. Overture, hit the lights, this is it, we'll hit the heights, and oh what heights we'll hit. On with the show this is it!"

And as an animator I have Saturday morning cartoons to thank for all those adults who still watch animation.

There is nothing to stop a parent TODAY from requiring their kids to "go out and play" (after a 4 hour cartoon binge on Sat. morning!), since "American Bandstand" and "Soul Train" are no longer in THOSE "Post-Cartoon Time" time slots! P.S. Waking UP to the Color "Test Pattern" and the National Anthem at 0700 was ALSO part of the cartoon binge ritual! ;)

My main heroes were Dr. Benton Quest and Race Bannon -- adults I could look up to as role models. That was back before adult males were turned into buffoons. When plot lines became stupid, I was insulted and started watching PBS. The cartoon studios were to blame for their own demise. Your assessment is spot on.

One thing I would add is that it was something the kids, no matter the age difference, all did together. I came from a truly dysfunctional family and looking back, watching Saturday morning cartoons together were probably the only times we acted like a normal family. It was like a weekly five-hour truce. After noon, all bets were off though. 🙄

OMG! My dad goes on and on about Saturday morning cartoons, how much he missed them, the idea I was missing out. So a few years ago I started buying some of his favorite past time cartoons on dvd. Transformers, GI Joe, Dungeons and Dragons, even Jem and the Holograms, (that's where I get my name). Now Saturday mornings are dad sitting in the floor between the couch and the coffee table after making toasted pb&js with me right beside him. Even now he is sitting beside me watching this video, and he agrees the nostalgic feeling deserves to be remembered. Thank you History Guy ♥

I actually waited to watch this on Saturday morning. Other than not mentioning Top Cat, it was a perfect return to my childhood Saturday mornins.

My Father used to gripe at me watching all these cartoons back in the day. But if Lancelot Link came on, he was there right with me, laughing it up as much as I did. "That's a good theory Darwin" that was his favorite line. I so miss my Father...

Great episode, Thank you for sharing. I'm 66 and still can't hear Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries without Elmer's "kill the Wabbit " coming to mind. 😁😁 Learned a lot about classical music through Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies. Hope you and your loved ones have a great weekend ! Cheers, Tony

Fondly remember my dad laughing at Wile E. Coyote, but in an unusual way. He didn't laugh at him being turned into an accordion, but at the next scene, when he was suddenly, miraculously back to normal. I still remember every word to the Bugs Bunny theme song. Glad to have been young in the late 60s.

History Guy, thanks for all the nostalgia and all the feels in this episode. This might have been my favorite THG episode.

My favorite was Rocky & Bullwinkle. A cartoon that taught kids about the cold war.

This episode of The History Guy really hits home as I am realizing that I lived through this history (that deserves to be remembered), as if I needed any reminders that I am getting old! As an "Eisenhower baby", Saturday mornings were my time to be entertained by the television with Warner Brothers cartoons at the top of my list. Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote, Yosemite Sam, and Sylvester and Tweety Bird are still entertaining to me, and latter day cartoons (Ninja Turtles, Smurfs, Care Bears, My Little Pony, etc.) were cartoons that my kids watched, but I couldn't see the fascination in the cheaply animated "all talk and no action" shows. I distinctly remember my Dad standing in the living room, usually eating a bowl of cereal, watching Roadrunner cartoons along with me-- laughing out loud at their antics. It was a magical time to be alive.

I was born in 1942, so I missed the Saturday morning cartoons. However, the Saturday kids movies were in full swing in the little town in Wyoming, where I grew up. For 25 cents, you got into the "show house", and you got a pop and a box of pop corn. You saw 2 grade B movies, at least 2 cartoons and a serial(usually Superman). That was the only time kids could sit upstairs(where, normally, adults sat so they could smoke). The kids upstairs threw pop corn down the kids downstairs, and cap guns were sneaked in so we could have shoot outs with the baddies in the Western. For several hours, we owned the show house, all for a quarter! I can't imagine the amount of clean up that went on before it opened for the regular movie to be shown that evening. Oh, by the way, the quality of cartoons went way down when H/B started producing them on the cheap. When quantity over quality took over, cartoons suffered greatly. Thanks for the video, it jogged some memories of a time of innocence long gone.

I didn’t even know about the Saturday morning cartoons, until by buddy Joe Scotilline turned me on too them in 1966. That is until he we had a Friday night sleep over. From that day on until I was in High School, I faithfully watched them on every Saturday. May God richly bless everyone ✝️🇺🇸!

This was the day the parents could sleep in. The kids were glued to the TV from 6am on.

This is one of your best episodes. I'm 68 and still miss my early 60's Saturday Morning Cartoons. Sitting cross legged on the floor watching Bugs Bunny 🐰 with a leaky "cut-open "box of cereal 🥣 . It was always over in time to head out to the city pool to go swimming for 15 cents 😂🎉

No better way to spend my Saturday morning than a trip down Memory Lane with the History Guy. Thanks!

Rocky and Bullwinkle was absolutely brilliant. I was six when it came out and my college student sister thought I was right for it. It gave the audience a great deal of credit, which I appreciated even at the time. The Tom Slick/George of the Jungle/Super Chicken Triad was a hoot on multiple levels that even my dad loved, but there were too few episodes made for a successful life in syndication, sad to say. But I haven't watched broadcast network tv in a decade. I didn't know that Bugs and Porky were no more. Vaya con dios, amigos.

"Rowdy, free-range children" 🤣

I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons. It lasted until the ABC Wide World of Sports came on at noon. Those were the days.

I remember watching the Loony Tunes an Bugs Bunny Show on channel 3, Burlington, Vermont. I'm one of the few lucky Canadians who were close enough to the border to watched the Saturday morning cartoon. I spent my whole Saturday morning on the TV. We were only 20 miles from the US border and we had a big antenna on the rooftop, witch allowed us to catch the 3 US network channels. I always thought that my father putted me in front of the TV on Saturday morning to allow me to learn English, as we originally speaked french. It didn't worked, although I learned English later in my life, and the Saturday morning cartoons probably contributed at this time. Thank you for the good memory, Mr History Guy.

When I was a boy, my Boy Scout troop in upstate New York went on a camping trip about once a month. If a scout wasn't coming on a camping trip the scoutmaster would have him announce why in front of the troop at a prior scout meeting. One time a boy announced to the troop that he wasn't coming on the camping trip because he had to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Lol 😆

The original Jonny Quest was awesome. Thundar the Barbarian has an awesome history. Being born in ‘71 I got to see a lot of the greats

A real nostalgic era for us Baby Boomers. I love it just the way History Guy describes. It was a ritual every Saturday and also Sunday after church and before football or baseball came on. I loved Fractured Fairy Tales, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Boris & Natasha!

2:33. "Ovature, cut the lights This is it, we'll hit the heights and oh what heights we'll hit! On with the show this is it!!" At 64, that song, and Saturday morning memories are still very vivid to me. Thanks Lance, great episode!!

Lance missed his chance to end this THG episode with "Ubba-dee-ah Ubba-dee-ah, That's all folks"! 🐷

I'm 64. Thanks for bringing back childhood memories and for giving us a peek behind the screen. Cheers!

Sir, I am an aircraft mechanic and as such, am enormously focused on details. I feel you must spend a large percentage of your time fine tuning the wall you appear in front of, and I appreciate your level of effort and attention to detail! I applaud your incredible sense of non-verbal communication this wall represents! I also grew up with Saturday Morning Cartoons, even in Boarding School. There was another television related time slot of note during the eighties for me.... Every afternoon, just before dinner, we would all gather in the 'day room' for Tom Baker as Dr. Who on BBC, conveniently re-broadcast on PBS. It would consume us and demand our attention until we, at the very last second, would sprint across campus to make it to dinner without being late! It was a program with a shoestring budget, but a bumper crop surplus of imagination, and it ran from the sixties, and is still going today! As we shared so many other experiences, I wonder if you also knew the Doctor? Perchance the Doctor is history that deserves to be remembered!

Who knew being a 70s/80s kid was going to end up being SO special? We got the actual best of everything.

Lucky to have been a part of this era. Not every childhood moment was magical naturally, but I can't help notice how many of those moments were courtesy of Saturday mornings.

I grow up in that era and I wish my kids could have the Saturday Morning Cartoon. I grew up on Hong Kong Phey, the Hair Bear Bunch, Scooby , Land of the Lost, HR Puffnstuff, and finally the Monkees. What a great time it was to be a kid

Saturday morning was when my Mom got her groceries. She used to drop me off at our local tv dealer and I’d get to watch cartoons in color. She’d bring me lunch and I’ve very happily eat my lunch and watch Top Cat, Underdog, and so many others. Thanks Bonnie and Mr. Billhimer for those sweet memories

Those were the days History Guy 🤓!!

So many different cartoons in so little time to watch them all. My favorite was a Hannah Barbera cartoon call Jonny Quest Thank you. History guy for rustling up. Such wonderful memories growing up as a kid.

Born in 1962, I should have been watching Saturday morning cartoons during the apex of the era. But, I grew up on a dairy farm, and Saturday mornings were for cleaning the calf pens!

For me, it was Friday and Saturday evenings where cartoons were plentiful. This was because I grew up in the cartoon network and nickelodeon generation. While most shows were just reasons to show ads to kids, I still respect the era of syndicated Saturday morning shows.

Ya know, its truly strange to me as a historian that I actually lived that history. I loved the looney tunes so much and they got my appreciation and curiosity going toward classical music and Shakespear from the many references in the cartoons.

Usually, I’d express grief over a loss. But I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of you explaining the disappearance of a formative part of my childhood. This was fascinating!

My mom had to drag us out of bed during the week but on Saturday we were up at the buttcrack of dawn eating cereal in our pjs and watching cartoons while mom slept in

I still have many fond memories as a child of the 80's getting up at 6am, pouring myself a bowl of Cocoa Puffs, and parking myself in front of the TV for the rest of the morning until either my mom would tell me to go play outside for a while, or the grown-up programming would take over the airwaves (usually old black & white movies, Kung Fu Theatre, or wrestling IIRC). We'd get up and change the channel every half-hour or hour, depending on the shows we wanted to watch. It was peaceful for everyone in the house - my siblings and I hardly ever fought over what we watched, and our parents would usually leave us alone to go do whatever they wanted or needed to do. There was something else to it, though, that goes beyond the word 'peaceful'. 'Comfort' might be the better term for it, at least for me personally. Being a smart but socially awkward kid, with a short-tempered father who yelled a lot, I remember feeling quite blue most days of the week. School wasn't a fun place to go to as kids could be cruel and merciless, and evenings at home could be good or bad depending on my parents' moods. On top of this, there was a moment in every 80's kid's life when they first found out about the Cold War and nuclear annihilation, and their outlook on life was forever changed. All of that seemed to disappear every Saturday morning, however. No kids to tease me or crush my spirit, no one yelling at me, no news programs or other outside media telling me the world is about to end. Just me, my bowl of cereal, my Lego bricks, and my TV telling me that good guys can still triumph over evil doers to keep the world - my world - safe.

My late 60s and early 70s cartoons were punctuated with the 2 year life in Iran where AFRTS (farts as we called it) was limited to a few hours a day of programming. Nights was reruns of Ed Sullivan and maybe Laugh-In. Saturday mornings started with the national anthems of both countries followed by old cartoons Clutch Cargo and Spunky and Tadpole. And that was it. Otherwise for most of the time, there was nothing. Meanwhile on the Iranian stations, there was Fred Flintstone translated to Farsi. We returned to the US and I found a lot of the cartoons gone or they had started to censor out the violence. It went downhill from there. Eventually Cartoon network came along and now some of the alt media channels like MeTV run cartoons in the morning including Saturday mornings. The odd part is the adult commercials instead of commercials for toys and sweet cereals.

Things that we learned watching the cartoons. If you see a tunnel painted on a rock, and a roadrunner runs through it, DON"T UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, fall for it. If you run off a cliff, you won't fall as long as you keep your feet moving. Cars were invented in the stone age but powered by your legs. ACME made cool stuff.

Those old 50's and 60's cartoons were great! I was watching one of them not that long ago, watching the classic cat outside in the snow looking into the house at the dog in the kitchen. The brand on the fridge being "Coldernel" 🤣 Those old guys pulling a fast one on us kids! lol Remember well my granny waking me at 6 am weekdays to catch 30 minutes of cartoons on the local station when they came back on air. Hey Hey we're the Monkeys! Remember those guys?! lol Life was good....

I remember watching The Flintstones, Speed Racer, Underdog, Kimba the White Lion, Gigantor, Rocky and Bullwinkle and many more favourites in the after school, pre-primetime or primetime slots. This was 1967/68, when Saturday morning cartoons were also taking on their well-known form. Then in the 1970's my Saturday morning staples were established. I bounced out of bed at 5 a.m. to catch my all-time favourites The Thunderbirds and Jonny Quest, both in re-runs by then. The cartoons ran till noon, and my Saturday ritual ended with the live-action Shock Theater, where host Doctor Creep (boy, that name wouldn't fly today!) introduced kids to the classic monster films. Gamera, Godzilla and The Creature from the Black Lagoon were my favourites! Another ritual was when the networks aired their previews of the coming season's new cartoon shows. Those were must-see TV and if you missed them, you were out of the loop the next day at school when all the other kids discussed which new cartoons they were most excited about! Never knew that my childhood would become history that deserves to be remembered! 😉😊

Yes, I spent many Saturday mornings with various cartoons before they turned to garbage. Kids today don't have a clue. Thanks for sharing this!

The good old days, the early 80s and Saturday morning cartoons

The irony is that, even though we spent all of Saturday morning watching cartoons, we still got outside and played with friends more than today's generation.

I was born in 1960. As a late baby boomer I was too young to get in on the cool "hippie" stuff and the golden age of the 60's and early 70's. But I DID cash in on the golden age of Saturday morning cartoon bonanza. My fondness childhood memories are laced with the Saturday morning TV on the TWO TV channels we go in rural Missouri.

It was a time when my sister and I would have to cooperate. There was a lot of negotiation between a 7 and a 9 year old to watch our favorite cartoons on the only TV in the house. After the cartoon was settled for that hour or half hour, we had to change the channel, fine tune, and move the antenna around until the picture and sound was as good as could be. This was all before our parents woke up, when they would come and yell at us for sitting too close to the TV. 🙂

I remember my dad getting a laugh over the coyotes misadventures with the road runner.

My kids still get Saturday Morning Cartoons thanks to having Boomerang on Amazon. They show all the cartoons I loved as a kid.

YES, everything you said is true sir!! I was 5 in '66 so my entire life was centered around the Saturday morning get away from school!! This is an Excellent video!!

I was born about three months before Hanna-Barbera's first TV cartoon Ruff and Reddy debuted in December 14, 1957. But earliest fringes of my memories go back to about late 1960 as a particular pinnacle childhood escapism was on the rise for Saturday mornings...where a kid be a kid.

Great episode! However, there's something you failed to mention that I think also deserves to be remembered... For several years in the 70's there were prime-time specials that highlighted the new cartoons that would be coming to Saturday mornings at the start of the new season. I loved those shows! If memory serves me well the networks aired them at different times so that you could watch all three of them. I had paper and pencil out to make notes on the new cartoons I didn't want to miss. I specifically remember The Great Grape Ape and Jabberjaw made their debuts on the prime-time specials, and I was eager to catch them the following Saturday.

I'M 60 years old and I STILL love those old cartoons! At the time...it was billed as Super Saturday. It was just like U said, a weekly ritual. My Super Saturdays we're from 1968- 1974. Today, we'd be called a " hippie" family so we didn't get all those cool cereals...well sometimes we would...but man, the Bugsloos, Bugs Bunny/ Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian....that singing/ dancing frog that only sang when nobody was around...Pink Panther, Scooby Doo,HR Puffinstuff, The Banana Splits, Tom & Jerry man, that was great. Oh, Sigmund the Sea monster! And there was this cartoon about weird aeroplanes and the dog, Smedley, always wanted a medal and would snicker all the time!

His description of saturday morning was spot on. Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepe LePew, Mr Magoo, Elmer Fudd ad infinitum. Loved it.

This jogged my memory and brought back an old ritual: watching "Johnny Quest" while eating tomato soup.

Saturday Morning cartoons. Yet another of hundreds of different reasons it was great to be a kid in the 70s and 80s.

I remember that the Saturday morning viewing experience, in the late '50's started with shows like Howdy Doody, and Pinky Lee, where sometimes cartoons were incorporated, but they were mainly variety shows for kids with live studio audiences. There was also the weird "Andy's Gang" show with footage of kids in a theater from 1948 appearing as the "live" studio audience, too. Local stations showed kids programs, too- often cartoons, like Betty Boop, or 1920's "Silly Symphonies" stuff. The audience was there already, and the networks just took a while to catch on.

It truly is a shame that kids today will never know the childhood us born in the 70's or earlier knew. Playing outside, not having to worry about predators, and yes, Saturday morning cartoons. Love was so much simpler then.

Being a veteran of those Saturday mornings of the Sixties, and now retired, Saturday mornings have certainly changed. Honestly, the big three networks seem little different on weekends than they are the weekday mornings. As I watch those same cartoons again on alternative networks, I now recognize the clever programing where the scripts, though supposedly written for the children's market, were loaded with quips only adults would noticed. Very clever writing. And those concerned parents, so worried about all that TV the children were watching, now have children and grandchildren with their faces in front of computer screens or game screens, totally enthralled with the content. Little seems to have changed in many ways. Still miss my Jonny Seven OMA. Great video!

Super Friends was my jam. In the late 70's it would air at 6am, what an injustice. I guess i didn't have an alarm clock yet? I dunno, because I would routinely wake up and run to the TV at about quarter to 7, and only catch the last bit. As I aged out, they all got so noticeably commercial, so I naturally moved on to more adult activities. But I still get nostalgic and sentimental about Super Friends:)

One of my favorite Saturday shows in that era was 'The CBS Children's Film Festival' with Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Not cartoons, but international films that, along with the fun and excitement of cartoon superheroes and ghost-chasers, added a unique Saturday window to childhood in other cultures and locations. For a kid living in a very small rural community, it was part of what made those Saturdays special.

As a kid, my Dad told me he loved going to the Movies and seeing Serials every week before the Matinee! So I can understand how this came about. I loved growing up and watching as much of the Saturday Cartoon as possible!

Oh My !!! This really did bring back so many fond, fond memories., I was born in 1950 and for me the late 50's and early 60's cartoon Sat. mornings are so nostalgic. Even in those early years I would spend a couple of hours everty Sat morning watching cartoons. A couple of my favorites were "Ruff and Ready" and "Mighty Mouse." I literally had tears in my eyes watching this VLOG! Thanks for reminding me about a simpler time in life. It really was all "about being young"

Atom Ant and Migthy Mouse also deserve to be remembered. On Friday night my mother prepared my meals along with a glass of milk. She could remain in bed for an extra hour or two knowing I was safe watching tv.

I think that was in the top 10 best times of my life!

I so remember Saturday morning cartoons! I was a little kid in the 70s and early 80s ,that is definitely one of my fondest memories! The Super Friends were my absolute favourite! This was such a good episode! Brought back some memories I haven't thought about in a long time. Thanks History Guy.

All I remember as a child was Saturday morning cartoons. It was a way to wake up. Not to have my parents buy toys. I did that from my paper route money I worked for starting at the age of 12. Saturdays were the only day I didn't deliver papers. It was a whole day off for me as a kid. It was difficult for me when it came to raising my kids, to give them something to do on Saturdays. There were no Saturday morning cartoons for them until Cartoon Netwrok came along other than PBS. It is sad that Saturday mornings turned into simply, just another morning, especially for my kids.

I remember Cap'n Crunch,Quisp. The commercials were quite attention getting also. SCOOBY-DOO. MOTOR MOUSE.JETSONS ,JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS..ROGER RAMJET,CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST,SO MANY GOOD ONES.But like you said it was a weekly ritual.Tom and Jerry.Johnny Quest,Foghorn Leghorn,Roadrunner..I enjoyed them all.Commericals always reminded me of Christmas also.And all the cool prizes in boxes of cereal...Times have changed.

Having grown up in 70s and 80s I understand that some folks my age think today's kids are "missing out" but they aren't. Our parents thought we were "missing out" because we didn't play kick the can or street ball or whatever, but none of us would trade our Saturday morning cartoons for that nonsense :). I think what we miss with those sentiments is that being a kid is always a carefree, less stressful time as compared to adulthood. It doesn't matter what era you grew up in.

Now the best I can get is 1 hour between 7am and 8am during the week. Not a good time for kids to watch as they are in school. BUT, being long retired now, I get to laugh at all the parts I just didn't get when I was a kid. 😁

My two sons, Born in 2009 and 2011, Watch Saturday morning cartoons every weekend- Thanks to ME-TV Before that, I had to seek them out on the internet And Before that I had to scour goodwill and yard sales for VHS tapes

My favorite cereal from back in the day? Qwisp and Coco Puffs. Favorite cartoon? Pink Panther. Born in 60, so my heyday for Saturday mornings was mid 60's to mid 70's.

I AGREE COMPLETELY... I was born in 1964 when the whole "Saturday Morning Cartoon" era came into being... Twice each year we had the Spring and Fall Lineup which if you were a kid back then that little thing called a "TV Guide" was an ESSENTIAL sort of Bible which you pursed over ENDLESSLY until you figured out just the "right mix" that appealed to you and your friends. That guide got marked on all over the place and when things like the World Series came around you the kid got real pissed if you had to miss an episode knowing that only later in re-runs you could figure out what it was you missed in that particular series because if you lived in the east coast those kids got to watch what you missed if you lived on the west coast... Ah what memories!

I used to watch those cartoons religiously!!

What, no mention of Mr. Peabody and Sherman and the Way-back time machine, nor the Fractured Fairy Tales? This is sacrilege!

I am 51. I miss my cartoon Saturday mornings fueled with Sugar Smacks or Sugar Frosted Flakes. At noon, you went outside and played until dark. You played made up games, swam in small creeks, or went on epic bike journeys. You used gun shaped tree branches to fight the Empire or the stage coach robbers. And by God's good grace we made home with only skinned knees or bruises. Thanks for the video and the trip down memory lane.

I remember every September when the various stations would have a special show on Friday nights when they would preview the new cartoons starting that fall. I would be almost giddy with excitement as the clock counted down to its start. My brother and I would sit side by side choosing which ones we were looking forward to the most.