Saturday Morning Cartoons...RIP.

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05/29/15

Justcold – you've got my vote, Warner Brothers' stuff is still my favorite!

Badgerbait, Johnny Quest fan here, too!

Doc and tsnerd, I was right there with you two with the Six Million Dollar Man and gathering with friends for Saturday watch-a-thons.

Lakeside77 and TheFae, I loved loved loved Bullwinkle and Rocket J. Squirrel as a young'un – that was before I had even started school. Used to watch them right along with Fractured Fairy Tales, Sherman & Mr. Peabody, Mr. Magoo, etc. Smile

IM_Dumm, I loved H.R. Pufnstuf as a pre-adolescent, and Johnny Quest before that.

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:52 pm

As a kid in the UK in the 1960's we got a lot of US cartoons broadcast on the BBC or ITV (only two channels then!) but one of the weirdest was the 'Mr Piper' show featuring a rather portly gentleman who introduced a few cartoons if I remember rightly. Does anyone else remember it ?

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:56 am

^Perhaps this is it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Piper

We had Danny Burgess who was the Weatherman in Upper New York State. As a Cub Scout I got to go see it live once., Kinda disappointing really but I did get a McDonald's 'Shake' when we had no such thing in my Town.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:33 pm

We had "Cactus Pete" who was an old miner character and introduced cartoons after school locally (cartoons such as "The Funny Company").

My neighbor lived on the tallest hill in the county and was able to pull in a station we could not (in the days before cable and satellites). I remember being at his house and watching some local kids show. The premise was there was a main guy who introduced the cartoons (probably the local weather guy or something) and occasionally he had a side-kick in a gorilla costume (I think they called him "Mr. Bananas". We had only seen the show a couple of times when we watched one afternoon and the host was obviously extremely drunk (you have to be really drunk for it to be recognized by a couple of ten-year-olds). He had this big plastic bat that he playfully used on Mr. Bananas....well, on that day he just started wailing on the poor guy. Beating him hard with that bat.

My friend and I were hooked and rushed to watch the next afternoon. Unfortunately, no host, no side-kick...just cartoons being played.

I wonder what happened? Laughing

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:34 am

Charlotte North Carolina in the 60's had a cowboy character called Fred Kirby. He hosted an evening kids show that featured The Little Rascals.

Black and white cartoons on Saturday until about 12:00 noon.

Horror Theater on Friday Night at 11:30, after that was over the TV station was off the air (all 3 of them were by 2:00 a m) until 5:am.
Ahhh. To be a kid again. Smile

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