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X-Men '97 continues where X-Men left off. Worth a watch.
Yeah kids they will never know because they can watch their shows anytime they want on streaming
I saved newspaper TV sections from most of the 1990s. Here’s what was on broadcast network TV on Saturday, April 15, 1995:
ABC CBS FOX NBC PBS 6:00 Cro The New Adventures of Mother Goose Bullwinkle Name Your Adventure 6:30 Fudge Bullwinkle State Newsmakers 7:00 The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures G.I. Joe Today Sesame Street 7:30 Beakman’s World The Baby Huey Show 8:00 Sonic the Hedgehog The Little Mermaid Animaniacs Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 8:30 Free Willy Beethoven Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Barney & Friends 9:00 Tales from the Cryptkeeper Aladdin Eek!stravaganza News Sesame Street 9:30 Reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Adventures of Batman & Robin Martha Stewart Living 10:00 The New Adventures of Captain Planet Iron Man Spider-Man California Dreams To the Contrary 10:30 Paid Programming Fantastic Four The Tick Saved by the Bell: The New Class Firing Line 11:00 Paid Programming Gladiators 2000 X-Men Saved by the Bell: The New Class Washington Week in Review 11:30 Paid Programming Mutant League Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Sweet Valley High Wall $treet Week I assume that where there is no listing, that half hour is a continuation of the previous half hour’s programming, except at 6 am, in which case I assume that station was off the air.
You should publish that all to a database online
That 9:30 am slot is the real tricky one. Reboot, TMNT, or Batman?
In case anyone isn’t aware, there’s a big project to remaster/restore Reboot at the highest quality possible. They have multiple master tape copies for every episode, and for a ton of promo material, ads, etc. Huge, technically deep, and amazing project. The first few episodes are already out on youtube, but they also just released a documentary about the whole process.
Thanks! I loved reboot
Not tricky. Batman every time.
Not to mention Sabrina the Teenage Witch!
Fun fact Saturday morning cartoons took a nose dive when regulations on advertising to children started getting tighter.
Most of these cartoons/series were developed or funded by toy companies
I wonder if it started that way at first. Did TMNT get developed because of toy companies or was just just a mutually lucrative venture? Did it start earlier? Like Lone Ranger and Buck Rodgers type stuff? Interesting to think about for me.
It was happening long before TMNT. Transformers, He-man, Teddy Ruxbin, Gummie Bears, She-ra, Care Bears, etc. I’m no expert on which was the first, but I’m sure that the kids that watched it would be too old to really get into TMNT once that IP hit the market. TMNT wasn’t even really inspired by toys, the comic was first, they just heavy exploited the toy market later. Shows like Care Bears and transformers were created specifically to sell toys as opposed to designing toys to sell a show.
Did TMNT get developed because of toy companies…
TMNT was a comic book series in the 80s, long before the first movie and the cartoons that followed.
Yeah true, kinda forgot about that. Guess i mean just the cartoon in this example, but it was just the first cartoon i thought of.
Needs more Canadian shows, Canada ruled the 90 kids show scene.
For a decade that 8am to 12pm slot on Saturdays was back to back gold.
I used to get up early on Saturdays rather than sleeping in so that I could watch cartoons.
Up until 4am playing Nintendo, up at 8:45 already late for cartoons. 10/10, would be child again.
Batman TAS is unbelievably good. Gets a little better every time I rewatch it.
I love that show so much. So much care went into it. The deatails and everything. I read that they used black paker and inked to bright part, to give it that distinct look. Very complicated and or expensive.
Sabrina was on Friday nights though, so I get why she’d be freaked out to still exist on Saturday morning
Slightly off topic, forgive me as I’m somewhat ancient, but why does this image seem somewhat…obscene? I may be overthinking.
You are overthinking.
I also overthought it I guess. In reality, it’s somewhat reminiscent of other porn-based memes, that’s why.
It’s funny how I think cartoons from 10 years before are too old, and cartoons from 10 years after are too new, and everyone else experiences some variation of that depending on when they were born, and that all I’m left with is the feeling of time slipping away from me, like I was wrestling a greased up seal in a tub of oil
Seriously, the silent cartoons were kinda boring, and once they added color it gave me a headache.
Betty Boop was peak 'toon.
Counter-point - Bugs Bunny and the Looney Toons in general were peak cartoon. It was old even when I was a kid (32 now) but I loved it as a kid and I still love it now. Timeless humor.
I’m of the same mind, I was born in 1988 but I recognize the original run of Tom and Jerry as the best kids cartoon ever made.
As someone who started watching Saturday morning cartoons in the 1960’s, I can definitely say the mid 90’s was peak cartoon.
I remember back in first grade being able to watch Power Rangers when I got home. On Thursdays we would get out early and I could watch Bobby’s World right before. Those were simpler times.
I still get this. Streaming is great, and it doesn’t end with an infomercial.
Is anybody else of the opinion, that only Power Rangers are unwatchable now? The rest holds up.
Pfff, what?
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard singlehandedly reignited my love for Power Rangers
No, they were also unwatchable then
The power rangers theme song slaps though
The first two seasons are evergreen (because of the Zyuranger and Dairanger footage).
It was diminishing returns from then on.
