I'm right there with you, George. '70's cartoons every Saturday morning were the best! And every September (right after Labor Day), a new slate of cartoons were introduced to us kids. It made going back to school each year more tolerable...🙂
But every generation has their own memories that the previous doesn't get, ours not an exception :) Everything changes, nothing stays the same and that's okay. The generations after us don't have these memories but they have other memories. Like those generations before us did, they didn't appreciate this stuff :P
@@2007cgarza Don’t be so sure. Culture is not and endless progression of good art and fine literature. There are objectively good and bad things. The early 20th century produced a type of entrepreneurial, creative and adventurous person. Those couple generations made really great movies, television and other media. Kids will of course always be enjoy childhood as long as they are well taken care of. As far as content goes……we no longer produce art that inspires, entertains and enriches while making money. We had a good thing going and we let it die.
Me and my sis watched TV until 11am then go in the backyard and play while mom washed and hung out clothes then we'd come in for lunch. Read books that we'd bought from 2nd hand book shop until dinner.
*ME!* This brings back so many MEMORIES! Saturday morning on the floor in front of the giant ass floor model wood TV/Stereo with a bowl of cereal. Good times.
Born in 1970. Man, it's amazing so people had similar experiences. Big bowl of cereal, sitting in front of the tv, watching cartoons all morning. Spend the rest of the day riding your bike with friends, or on some other adventure. I cherish it so much.
My parents would buy big boxes of cereal and mix it all together. It was awesome. We'd also get malt-o-meal in the winter. They had the best Saturday morning cartoons in the 70s and in the 80s too.
Born in '69. Cap'n Crunch and Saturday morning cartoons were NEVER missed. Nothing like a buddy spending the night, waking up and chowing on cereal, watching cartoons for a few hours and then riding bikes all day until dark.
When I was growing up we had 3 channels ABC, CBS and PBS. When we got cable we were in TV heaven. Now I have over 130 channels and can’t find good tv unless I go to old tv show and cartoon channels like MeTV or Boomerang.👍🏾
In my humble opine, I call the 1970s "The Last American Decade". Childhood Saturday mornings were sugary cereals, cartoons, and going outside to ride bikes and play with your friends ALL DAY. Have lunch at whoever's house or host, didn't matter, because my MomnDad knew your MomnDad, because we all went to school together. We came inside when the street lights came on, but what I loved most was that my MomnDad and my friends MomnDad could come out the house and whistle or call for us to come Home, and we'd bust out for the house after an amazing day knowing we'd do the same thing tomorrow. How Blessed we were.
Well said, and that's what is completely missing today that sense of community, back then we would ride our bikes everywhere until it got dark, sometimes all the neighborhood kids would all get together play basketball, baseball, kickball everything again till dark, all that's gone now kids and parents spend their time living in fear of what might happen today
Please God let me go back for just one Saturday morning , sitting on the floor in front of the TV with a big bowl of Count Chocula watching my favorite Saturday morning cartoons and not a care in the world
What wonderful memories! I’m 62 now. I remember one year, my mom bought me a projector for Christmas that showed Penelope Pitstop cartoons. Where did the time go? I feel like crying. Those were the days!
Born in 1965 growing up as a kid in the 70s were the BEST times to be a kid.. I miss my childhood memories.. turned into a teenager in the late 70s class of 1979 from 8th grade/ class of 1983 high school...55 yrs old still treasure these memories.
52 here. I remember all of these! Some had been long forgotten, but then in an instant it all came back! Shazam! was one of my favorites, although in retrospect it was pretty cheesy. I had the Evel figure and stunt cycle too. What I didnt see here was the 70's era Mr.Magoo show and a Freakies commercial. That would have made this much more complete.
In the 70's we didn't have cable, our antenna picked up the 3 networks and we had a uhf for public tv. It was a simplier time, everyone was a patriot and more civil. I'd happily give up all the technology and craziness to go back to the 70's.
At 12 midnight the National Anthem would play and then the TV would fry and it was time to go to bed. Back when the FCC made sure you got the proper amount of sleep for work and school.
I have spent the last 50 years trying to find happiness through work, money, adventures, “toys” and relationships when really I already had it on Saturday mornings as child.
Same here. Nothing in the adult world can ever, ever compare to Saturday mornings of childhood in the 70s. Sitting on the floor in front of the TV with a great big bowl of Count Chocula and watching Bugs Bunny Road Runner, Superfriends Hour, Tarzan, and all the rest. No school. Nice weather outside. BMX bike in the garage waiting for me to jump on and go meet up with my friends to hang around outside all day until it got dark. Today's kids will never understand how great we had it. There are certain films that capture a little of that magic. The Goonies, Stephen King's IT, and Stranger Things all do it perfectly. Nothing can ever compare to childhood in the 70s and 80s.
@@jbro4400 Hah. Had almost the exact same Saturday morning experience, except I was eating Cap'n Crunch and my bike was a Schwinn 5-speed Stingray with the stick shift and banana seat. When cartoons were over, go out and ride bikes all around town, come home in the evening for dinner, parents never knew where we were or what we'd been doing. Different time.
I am 61 now and have purchased many of the classic cartoon DVD sets to watch on Saturday morning just like I did but now I have bacon and eggs instead of cereal.
The true glory days of Saturday Morning TV. All those cartoons a part of our childhood. Filmation & Hanna-Barbera cranking out the shows we all grew up & loved, no matter corny or great, it was indeed great growing up back in the 70's, Now it's nothing but news and more news and you can only go so far with that SpongeBob!
Trix or Captain Crunch, then Saturday morning cartoons, then American Bandstand and Soouuuuuul Train, then played outside all afternoon with my friends. Those were the daze!
Oh yes ! Remember when Elton came on Soouuuuuul Train and sang Bennie and the Jets ? Couldn't go anywhere till cartoons,,American Bandstand and Soouuuuuul Train where watched.Then maby go and buy a 45 single to add to that collection !
Facts. Later in the 80s the cartoons were geared at helping kids cope with their parent's divorce through fantasy and toy line tie ins. Think about it; every other cartoon had kids gloomily looking out the window at the rain in a playroom, sad because they can't go out to play, with no sign of parents and no explanation as to why they didn't go out of the room. I believe it was code for "mom and dad are fighting", and then enter beings from another universe that took the kids away with them, and they always got home before anyone noticed they were gone. This was Gen X.
The 90s and Early 2000s Too ESPECIALLY Like: Fox Kids 1992-2002. Later Renamed 4kids.TV 2005-2008 KIDS WB 1995-2008. Disney's One Saturday Morning 1997-2002 Later Renamed ABC kids 2002-2011. Then Vortexx 2012-2014.
Same for me. But almost cried when they played the Road Runner Coyote theme. That's the one thing my dad and I always watch together every Saturday morning, the roadrunner and coyote that was his favorite, he died when I was 10 years old from cancer..
Ah yes. Saturday morning with a bowl of cereal and cartoons. My sister & I were in ecstasy! After Soul Train, we'd then go outside to play until the sun started going down. I miss those times so much!!!
Yes, the time set aside for watching them on Saturday morning has disappered. But the cartoons aren't gone. Most of them are available on UA-cam and you can watch them for hours and hours. I out to know, I've wasted many hours getting sucked into the UA-cam recommended list after watching some old disney cartoons.
I hated getting up in the mornings to go to school in the 1970's. I couldn't wait to get up on a Saturday morning to get to the television for the great cartoons!!!😊❤
Agreed, most realistic, and adventurous!!! Remember BLACK and WHITE tv, antenna and then roof antenna!!! boat!!! Bestest of ALL times!!! Born in late 50s, raised grew up 6070s, college, career80s retired 30 + years later 2016. !!!Aloha
I was seven years old and waiting for "Jonny Quest" to come on Sat. morning. Now, (as a Sociology professor) I look at these cartoons through a different lens. "Race Banner", (the blonde, action-hero) remains, (to me) as equally problematic as "Haji", the turban-wearing Indian kid, who was solely a playmate Jonny. The innocence of my youth, (while I was too young to know it) was being throughly indoctrinated with American notions of race. So much more to say on this topic.
Waking up on Saturday morning, grabbing a big bowl of Lucky Charms, and getting lost in cartoons before going outside to play. The perfect childhood day.
Pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers! Then, and blue diamonds! I watched American Bandstand, after cartoons, then it was waking to the park pool to swim, going to the roller rink, playing Barbies or dolls, and of course, outside on the Schwinn's or playing ANYTHING outside, including standing on a work table and performing songs. If I could go back, I would. It would be outtasite!!!!
I'm a 60's baby and it's sad that kids today will never know how much fun Saturdays was. A bowl of cereal and cartoons was all we needed and the commercials were awesome. Life was good. 😊
It's sad to know all the kids now, will miss all the specialties we had back then. The anticipation of waiting to get a certain age to be able to certain things ... creating your own toys outside to ride on ... going to the movie matinée for 25 cents and staying almost all day ... the drive in movies ... sleeping outside in the yard or on the porch ... and being able to walk the streets at night without a care in the world.
Waking up super early on Saturday morning to watch cartoons, eating a big bowl of Sugar Pops cereal and drinking Tang (the drink the astronauts brought back from the moon) and working off that sugar rush by jumping up and down on the plastic-coated sofa, slipping off of it occasionally. Later, going outside to ride by Schwinn bike with extra forks on it to stretch it out like a chopper, complete with sissy bar and banana seat with clothes pins attaching old baseball cards to the spokes to make it sound like a motorcycle. Of course the spokes had the multi-colored tubing on them. Good times.
Born in 1967. Yes, Saturday mornings were great if you were a kid! All those clever, creative Bugs Bunny cartoons and other shows like Land of the Lost, Dinky Dog, and Shazam. Remember how we turned on the TV on Saturday mornings, kept the volume low so as not to wake the rest of the family, and had to adjust the antenna that was affixed to the roof in order to get the best reception? Once that was done, we plopped down with our big bowl of Super Sugar Crisp cereal and watched the toons. And who can forget the little news segments every half hour on CBS during cartoons called “In the News.” If we wanted to learn more about what we saw in one of those news segments, we didn’t have an iPhone or a computer to turn to. We actually got on our Huffy bikes without wearing knee pads and helmets and rode over to the local library and checked out some books with our library card. Or, if we were lucky enough, we consulted our well-worn Childcraft encyclopedias that were stored in the family dining room on a shelf. Or, if we were really lucky, we consulted our Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedias! Life was so much freer and fun. Cereal boxes had prizes in them and some even had 45 RPM records on the back that you could cut out and play on your record player! Kids today don’t even know what record players are! Boxes of Cracker Jack actually had real prizes in them like spinning tops, mini pinball games, and working compasses. The “Wizard of Oz” came on every March on the local CBS TV station and it was a yearly ritual to sit down and watch it. If you missed it, you had to wait a whole year in order to see it again - no videotapes, DVDs, or on-demand TV in those days! Nobody had peanut allergies or gluten allergies, and nobody was afflicted with ADD or ADHD or ADHJKD or ABHJM like kids are today. We weren’t scolded for playing “Cowboys and Indians” nor for sitting Indian-style on the floor while in school. We were allowed to play “Tag” with somebody designated as “It.” We were also allowed to play dodgeball, and nobody ever thought about shooting up the school. We joined social and civic organizations like DeMolay and Rainbow Girls. Nobody was obsessing over what their pronouns should be. Boys didn’t want to join the Girl Scouts, and girls didn’t want to join the Boy Scouts. We subscribed to children’s magazines like National Geographic’s World magazine or Dynamite or the Weekly Reader. Kids today seem to be shielded and stunted in so many ways. Most of them come from divorced homes with angry step-parents and step-siblings mired in all kinds of drama, hate, discontent, and negativity. Oh well - time marches on, society changes, and there’s nothing we can do about it. Keep the childhood memories alive and be thankful and grateful that we lived and grew up in the 1970s.
Late 70s early 80s here. But agree 100 percent. And coyote roadrunner still one of the most violent cartoons ever. Also had rice crispy record. Used to love playing on high speed make it Alvin and the chipmunks
@@samanthab1923 yup, if you missed it, you missed it. Now they are on everyday during the holiday season or so it seems. It truly takes the excitement out of it. I miss those days.
I wouldn’t leave the house until all the cartoons were over. And even then, I’d stay and watch Creature Feature. Some times I wouldn’t get outside till 4 in the afternoon. Lol. It was awesome being a kid in the early 70’s.
remember when cartoons started at 5:30 am n went till 1 pm on Saturday n sundays n then creature feature then on sundays it was charlie chan or Sherlock holmes movies ❤️❤️❤️
CREATURE FEATURES...movies so bad they had to be delivered in a brown paper bag...God I'm old 😂😂😂😂 My grandparents only interrupted our TV watching to watch Lawrence Welk which of course we hated 😂😂😂😂
I mean… 52 years just vanished. I’m 7 years old curled up in my grandmother’s heirloom rocking chair that lives in the corner of my parent’s giant room, watching cartoons, Shazam and Isis, Abbot & Costello reruns… Then I’ll spend the rest of the weekend in the pool, running around the neighborhood with friends and everyone’s dogs and not a leash in sight… It was the 70s, we would turn out to be the last free-range kids, and it was a fairy tale life.
I'd forgotten about Isis. I loved that show! Me and my friends would pretend we were on certain shows like Lost in Space, Land of the Lost... Just hearing these sounds is so soothing and somehow makes me feel safer than I have in a long time.
61 here and I remember about 95% of these. Who remembers watching the Friday fall preview of the new cartoons for Saturday mornings each year? I caught myself singing along with each of these. What a glorious childhood! Thank you for putting this together.
when there was no tablets computers or iphones.. when you woke up ran downstairs turned on the tv and it was yours till around noon... you went out to play after.. saturdays were almost magical.. i miss those days.. it was simple.... when you went over to friends houses or called em on a corded rotary phone lol
I'd actually say they have too much today. It's a constant bombardment of social media and the urge to be "famous" on the internet that overwhelms kids. Things were indeed simpler back then.
You can imagine the taste-testing in the boardroom: Okay guys - what you got for us? Well sir, we have a new product we want to call Crunch Berries - here, try them. * tries them * - Well now, these are novel. Are they supposed to have that horrendously corrosive mouth feel? Uhm no sir, not as such. Ah - don't worry about it. Just make sure the packaging is super eye-catching.
I’m 52 and remember Saturday mornings so well. Nobody had to wake me up. I would wake very early watch my favorite cartoons then it was outside to ride my bike, skateboard or go build a clubhouse. Thing is we was very active. When I was made to come in at supper time there was always something great on tv.
Really was the best of times. Wake up, no school, 4 hours of cartoons, mom in the kitchen making pancakes from scratch. Then around 11 it was time to venture outside and play...or watch Wide World of Sports.
Yeah, getting up early before your parents and watching cartoons before Wrestling started. You had one chance and if you overslept you had to wait till next week. Good times!😎🎆🎇
We had the best of everything back in those days, cartoons on Saturday mornings then band stand, video games, drive in's, etc. If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 80's with all the golden classic movies and music, YOU were blessed!
Times were bad back then, too, but we were just too young to know. But we can make a difference now by taking joy in the little things and just trying to get along with each other. Those cartoons always had a great life lesson!
That's right. No bike helmets. No worry about sugar content in candy. We used to play in construction areas. Nothing was blocked off or locked up back then. We had freedom and used common sense. As long as we were home when the street lights went on, we would be out all day.
The main thing I miss about the 70s is that people were so much nicer to each other back then. We didn't have all this crap that we have today. You could disagree with someone and they would either have an intelligent debate or they would just shrug and go about their day. We used to live and let live back then. What happened to us? Did the world get so dark that we all lost our freaking minds?
@@RobertoLopezstudyis omg I loved Wonderrama!! I hated that it was filmed back east and I was a California kid. I so wanted to be in the audience when Bob sang "Does anybody here have an aardvark?"
NOW you are talking. I remember that so well, we lived in a city neighborhood and we would be out playing and everyone would run home the night of the preview show to watch. We were genuinely excited to see what the new Saturday cartoons would be.
I was born in '65 and Saturday Morning tv was a big event. My brother and I couldn't wait for Saturday. We would get up early and watch cartoons til noon. My dad would go and buy donuts and milk. We would watch until noon then we would watch Soul Train or American Bandstand. The Harlem Globe Trotters, Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Show, Johnny Qwest, Super Friends, The Jetsons were my favorites and all the cool informative commercials like School House Rock and all the toy and cereal commercials. I miss those days. I feel sorry for kids today. They are being cheated on their childhood. So sad cartoons are no longer on Saturdays and weekday afternoons after school. This country just isn't the same anymore. So much hate, violence, vulgarity, sex and social media that kids have to deal with.
@@sweetjames3256 yeah that would be on Friday nights and then the new season would start on Saturday. The only thing I look forward to about summer being over in September. One year they had the Brady Bunch hosted it and I thought that was so cool
So glad I was born in 73. I remember getting up so early on a Sat I would watch Davey snd Goliath first. By 8-11:30 channel surfing watching cartoons. Then by 12 American Bandstand and Soul Train would come on. By 2 -3 Karate flicks and Godzilla movies. Sunday’s 10 am Abbott snd Costello. The good ole days with NO SOCIAL MEDIA!!!
Was an awsome time. I was born 74. I was the tv remote control for my dad back then. But Saturday morning it was cartoon time. Then outside to play until the streetlights turned on. Times were safe back then.
@@petergunn3614 I was born in 1965, every Saturday from 7am to 10:30am was cartoon. From 10:30am till noon we watched The World Beyond. On this show they would show movies like Godzilla, The Mummy, Frankenstein, stuff like that. If there was nothing interesting on we would go outside to play. Life was so easy back then. Not a worry in the world. This was in Phoenix Az.
Does anyone remember the Green Machine? It had 2 levers to control the turning and to this day was the best Christmas gift I have ever received and the MOST fun I've ever had ...spinning out in the puddles. So much fun !!!!
Hell Yes I remember! I got one for Christmas myself. I had so much fun with it. It was such a big deal to me. It was way cooler than the plain ole' big wheel, being it was controlled by the two leavers. Man, you sent me down memory lane, thanks.
It started as a program on prime time for adults, just like the Flintstones. It's the only network cartoon that I know of that has characters getting killed. Race took out quite a few bad guys and monsters took out others. Great show. Great action. It encapsulates the times around its creation, spies, the space race, international intrigue
I remember waking up Saturday mornings & running to the 📺 to watch all of these, Soul Train & The Jackson 5ive! I loved ABC, channel 7 in NYC cartoons, especially Schoolhouse Rock! 😂 I remember fighting with my big sister over those tiny boxes of Fruity Pebbles, she'd always make me eat Coco Pebbles, 😂! I lost her in 1984, her birthday just passed on Sunday. These are the memories that always comes to mind when I think of her! R.I.P. Sis, I miss you so much! 😭
We would make our mom buy a cereal just to get a certain prize. The cereal companies were clever in advertising the prizes and making sure they were pictured on the boxes.
Johnny quest wish we all new each other back then maybe we would still have friends these days most of mine gone..I miss our lives then so so much I ball sometimes because we’ve been so cheated out of days that held the pleasure they did..to my friends on here it was groovy ride much ✌️ much love peace ☮️ love ya!👍🏻✌️✌️✌️
I'm 72. I remember these cartoons as well as Captain Kangaroo and even the Mousekateers! Those were the days! Saturday morning in our pajamas, laying on the floor in front of the TV with a bowl of cereal. Shhh...! Don't wake up Mom!
God I wish I could go back to those days I hated getting up in the mornings on the week days to get ready for school but I’d be up bright and early to watch my cartoons good times
Man, this fires off so many memories. I remember being in my pajamas, sitting cross-legged on the shag carpet with a bowl of Coco Puffs, in front of the big wooden console TV. Saturday morning was like our time. After a week of school, this is how we would unwind. It had a magical quality and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Man life was so good. A bowl of cereal on Saturday morning and all the cartoons you could watch. To be a kid in the 70's was truly a blessing.
Yes, it was. We didn't know how good we had it.
I grew out of the 70's era shows and was more late 50's/60's cartoon saturday watcher. But yes I believe your sentiments exactly.
Back in Philly,started7am,I was there just like you with a bowl
I'm right there with you, George. '70's cartoons every Saturday morning were the best! And every September (right after Labor Day), a new slate of cartoons were introduced to us kids. It made going back to school each year more tolerable...🙂
But the things that you have go threw that we didn’t know 🤮
This was when kids use to watch TV on the floor on their stomachs😊
Or in a beanbag. 🙂👍
we all did! ;-)
I still do, but it's a bit harder to get up these days
I would be stretched out on the couch..cause I finally had the TV to myself...lol
Because we had console TV's or the little ones 😂
Who wants to go back in time? I'm almost in tears because of the memories.
Me!!!!
When are we leaving.?😊
I am with you're thoughts exact
I say it all the time! Me too!
I'm ready to go right now!!
I miss a time & place that no longer exists. Being a young child in the 1970s was sooooo wonderful!!!!
Yes they were
After watching this, I'm overcome with utter sadness of how awesome being a kid was then, and how much things truly suck now.
Thinking the same thing
Great memories. Let’s be thankful we got to experience it! And we can get a blast from the past anytime on UA-cam. 👍🥰
But every generation has their own memories that the previous doesn't get, ours not an exception :) Everything changes, nothing stays the same and that's okay. The generations after us don't have these memories but they have other memories. Like those generations before us did, they didn't appreciate this stuff :P
amen brother.
@@2007cgarza Don’t be so sure. Culture is not and endless progression of good art and fine literature. There are objectively good and bad things. The early 20th century produced a type of entrepreneurial, creative and adventurous person. Those couple generations made really great movies, television and other media. Kids will of course always be enjoy childhood as long as they are well taken care of. As far as content goes……we no longer produce art that inspires, entertains and enriches while making money. We had a good thing going and we let it die.
Today’s kids don’t know what they missed. Saturday mornings in the 70’s was sensational!!
The 1960's we're even better!
Yeah really think there was no better time than the 60s
the 1800's were much better lol
Sadly They Don't
@@a4realbrotha50Wow, how old are you?!!
Who else is watching this with a big ol grin?
Me and my sis watched TV until 11am then go in the backyard and play while mom washed and hung out clothes then we'd come in for lunch. Read books that we'd bought from 2nd hand book shop until dinner.
Times were simpler and granted we had 3 perhaps 4 📺 channels it was the programming was better than the goat 🐐 tripe we have on TV today. 😂
*ME!* This brings back so many MEMORIES! Saturday morning on the floor in front of the giant ass floor model wood TV/Stereo with a bowl of cereal.
Good times.
Me. ♡
Hahaha I haven’t seen these since the 70s
Such warm memories, watching those cartoons from 8am to 12 noon. Fat Albert was the last cartoon of the day.
Then wrestling then soul train!
Born in 1970.
Man, it's amazing so people had similar experiences. Big bowl of cereal, sitting in front of the tv, watching cartoons all morning. Spend the rest of the day riding your bike with friends, or on some other adventure.
I cherish it so much.
Born in 1967 ............................I agree with you
Technology f’d it up big time
Born 1972 and I couldn't agree more.
Even though I'm an #80sbaby
My parents would buy big boxes of cereal and mix it all together. It was awesome. We'd also get malt-o-meal in the winter. They had the best Saturday morning cartoons in the 70s and in the 80s too.
I'm so thankful I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Simpler times. Simpler lives. Better music!
I say ALL THE TIME !!!!!!
Born in '69. Cap'n Crunch and Saturday morning cartoons were NEVER missed. Nothing like a buddy spending the night, waking up and chowing on cereal, watching cartoons for a few hours and then riding bikes all day until dark.
Exactly!
Oh man! I want some Cap'n Crunch now.
Yes, sure brings back memories
@@purplehz97 With crunch berries
That's the perfect day...
The 1970’s was truly a magical era to be a child in.
I'm flipping through 120 channels of unwatchable TV, then turn on UA-cam and find this. Perfect. Thank you.
I do the same. I have been finding a lot of older stuff of on hulu and Pluto. I have been feeling nostalgic as of late.
So true and I have five streaming services too
Love
More choices with the focus on making money rather than just be entertaining.
When I was growing up we had 3 channels ABC, CBS and PBS. When we got cable we were in TV heaven. Now I have over 130 channels and can’t find good tv unless I go to old tv show and cartoon channels like MeTV or Boomerang.👍🏾
When sitting on the couch with a big bowl of cereal and a television was all we needed for life to be perfect on a Saturday morning.
Exactly!
Yep. Im looking for my cocoa puffs right now
After 50 years I still have cereal for breakfast. Life , Rasin Bran, Granola, and yes even Fruity Pepples once and a while.
The more sugary the better
Life was good back then
In my humble opine, I call the 1970s "The Last American Decade". Childhood Saturday mornings were sugary cereals, cartoons, and going outside to ride bikes and play with your friends ALL DAY. Have lunch at whoever's house or host, didn't matter, because my MomnDad knew your MomnDad, because we all went to school together. We came inside when the street lights came on, but what I loved most was that my MomnDad and my friends MomnDad could come out the house and whistle or call for us to come Home, and we'd bust out for the house after an amazing day knowing we'd do the same thing tomorrow. How Blessed we were.
Well said, and that's what is completely missing today that sense of community, back then we would ride our bikes everywhere until it got dark, sometimes all the neighborhood kids would all get together play basketball, baseball, kickball everything again till dark, all that's gone now kids and parents spend their time living in fear of what might happen today
Loved that.
Couldn't have said it better!!🙂
80’s too man… 80s. Saturdays mornings ruled
I was born in 72 and the 80’s were the exact same way
Does anybody else remember getting up early and watching the test pattern until your show came on?
I was really young back then. Actually that's when we knew it was time to go to bed too. hahaha
Yes!
Me
YES!!! I thought I was the only one. Lol
did that have like a middle line on the screen in a black and white background
I'm 55 now and this brings back so many memories. Some of these clips are of things I hadn't thought about for 45 years!
Please God let me go back for just one Saturday morning , sitting on the floor in front of the TV with a big bowl of Count Chocula watching my favorite Saturday morning cartoons and not a care in the world
Amen.
I rarely got the Count but I loved how it created chocolate milk.
Yeah absolutely
For me it was Cap'n Crunch and sometimes Waffelos.
You and me both...
And when Saturday morning cartoons were done, we go outside to play
Or watch American Bandstand
oh how I miss those Saturdays
@Baby Yoda, And we came back in the house, when the lights came on. Streetlamps for some of us.
A lot of good memories there!!!
whats your favorite 70s movie all time
What wonderful memories! I’m 62 now. I remember one year, my mom bought me a projector for Christmas that showed Penelope Pitstop cartoons. Where did the time go? I feel like crying. Those were the days!
Me too😢
Hands down the best decade to be a kid!!!!!👍
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Music was better too 👍
Born in 1965 growing up as a kid in the 70s were the BEST times to be a kid.. I miss my childhood memories.. turned into a teenager in the late 70s class of 1979 from 8th grade/ class of 1983 high school...55 yrs old still treasure these memories.
I agree. I was only a year behind you but I would give anything to go back to those days.
Miss those days myself! Kids had more fun back then.
I’m your age too. These bring back a lot of memories.
Born in 67 loved the seventies in my mind the best era to grow up
53 here and I have memories from the 70s I’ll cherish forever.
wow, I'm 53 years old now and all of these shows were part of my child hood....so well done
yes me too I loved it 😊
51 years old and still watching. Good ol days.
The best!
54 here and totally agree!
52 here. I remember all of these! Some had been long forgotten, but then in an instant it all came back! Shazam! was one of my favorites, although in retrospect it was pretty cheesy. I had the Evel figure and stunt cycle too. What I didnt see here was the 70's era Mr.Magoo show and a Freakies commercial. That would have made this much more complete.
I was a single digit kid in the early 70s (born in 65) and remember all these shows including the commercials. Great times.
Born in 64. I can definitely relate
Born in baltimore md in 66 I had a great time on the weekend as a child
To be a child in the 70s, WOW, I am so glad I was part of it and I have the best memories that will last forever :)
83 child here
Definitely! Best memories!
Me too
Amen
The good old days of being a kid on Saturday morning in the 70's 👍
In the 70's we didn't have cable, our antenna picked up the 3 networks and we had a uhf for public tv. It was a simplier time, everyone was a patriot and more civil. I'd happily give up all the technology and craziness to go back to the 70's.
Where I lived public TV wasn’t on UHF, it was channel 8. In fact, it still is.
Absolutely!!!
At 12 midnight the National Anthem would play and then the TV would fry and it was time to go to bed. Back when the FCC made sure you got the proper amount of sleep for work and school.
@Boat Docks It’s patriotic to ask why your government wants you to die and they can’t tell you why.
I loved the 70s too. But I think you might have rose colored glasses. Or you lived in a very small town.
I was born in 1970 and grew up with all of this. This is when America was wonderful and family oriented. God bless Gen X and all b4.
'69 🖐🏽
July ‘70🎉
Man. I miss those days. Saturday mornings were so special back then.
Same here, I’d get up on Saturday mornings to watch bugs bunny, but I have to admit, some of the Sid and Marty shows were nightmare fodder for me
HR Puffinstuff..the horror...the horror !
Me too bro, me too.!! 😌
Buddy you ain't lying then we went outside and played
Where's the Capt Crunch?
I have spent the last 50 years trying to find happiness through work, money, adventures, “toys” and relationships when really I already had it on Saturday mornings as child.
Very well said
Ditto
Same here. Nothing in the adult world can ever, ever compare to Saturday mornings of childhood in the 70s. Sitting on the floor in front of the TV with a great big bowl of Count Chocula and watching Bugs Bunny Road Runner, Superfriends Hour, Tarzan, and all the rest. No school. Nice weather outside. BMX bike in the garage waiting for me to jump on and go meet up with my friends to hang around outside all day until it got dark. Today's kids will never understand how great we had it. There are certain films that capture a little of that magic. The Goonies, Stephen King's IT, and Stranger Things all do it perfectly. Nothing can ever compare to childhood in the 70s and 80s.
@@jbro4400 Hah. Had almost the exact same Saturday morning experience, except I was eating Cap'n Crunch and my bike was a Schwinn 5-speed Stingray with the stick shift and banana seat. When cartoons were over, go out and ride bikes all around town, come home in the evening for dinner, parents never knew where we were or what we'd been doing. Different time.
Rosebud. Rosebud
I am 61 now and have purchased many of the classic cartoon DVD sets to watch on Saturday morning just like I did but now I have bacon and eggs instead of cereal.
All of us kids in pajamas laying on a shag carpet eating a bowl of Cap’n Crunch…
Peanut butter captain crunch! Yummy!
Applejacks!
King Vitamin.
Cornflakes with slices of banana !
Boy do these bring back memories. Saw them all when they were new. The 70s were a great time to be a kid!
The true glory days of Saturday Morning TV. All those cartoons a part of our childhood. Filmation & Hanna-Barbera cranking out the shows we all grew up & loved, no matter corny or great, it was indeed great growing up back in the 70's, Now it's nothing but news and more news and you can only go so far with that SpongeBob!
@@thahman187 news and more news and talk shows
@@frankiechanges2879 who was in land of the lost tv show?
YESSThis really brought back memories, I can think of a few others not shown but this was fabulous, with some commercials too
David Montgomery You said it!
58 now, how I miss Saturday morning TV
Trix or Captain Crunch, then Saturday morning cartoons, then American Bandstand and Soouuuuuul Train, then played outside all afternoon with my friends. Those were the daze!
Oh yes ! Remember when Elton came on Soouuuuuul Train and sang Bennie and the Jets ? Couldn't go anywhere till cartoons,,American Bandstand and Soouuuuuul Train where watched.Then maby go and buy a 45 single to add to that collection !
Facts👏🏾
You just described my life as a kid😀
Are you kidding me now!?!?! I'm 7 years old again!!!! Love it!
Saturday Mornings have never been as much fun as they were during the 70's and early 80's.
True ✅
Facts. Later in the 80s the cartoons were geared at helping kids cope with their parent's divorce through fantasy and toy line tie ins. Think about it; every other cartoon had kids gloomily looking out the window at the rain in a playroom, sad because they can't go out to play, with no sign of parents and no explanation as to why they didn't go out of the room. I believe it was code for "mom and dad are fighting", and then enter beings from another universe that took the kids away with them, and they always got home before anyone noticed they were gone. This was Gen X.
The 90s and Early 2000s Too ESPECIALLY Like:
Fox Kids 1992-2002. Later Renamed 4kids.TV 2005-2008
KIDS WB 1995-2008.
Disney's One Saturday Morning 1997-2002 Later Renamed ABC kids 2002-2011.
Then Vortexx 2012-2014.
This is a big chunk of my childhood encapsulated in 36 minutes...
Same here
Wow, the patience we had back then...
@guru-in-drag
Ditto!!!
Same for me. But almost cried when they played the Road Runner Coyote theme. That's the one thing my dad and I always watch together every Saturday morning, the roadrunner and coyote that was his favorite, he died when I was 10 years old from cancer..
Very. Very. Yes. Goodness
These were the days of Real Cartoon fun... wake up early and watch till Noon.. Such warm memories...
And at noon we had Lunch With Soupy Sales! ☺
Yeah and we ate cereal in front of the TV what a blast 😂
@@johnking4941 Sugary cereal, no less!
@@WytZox1 I had Kung Fu Action Theater at noon.
Black Belt theater at noon!!!
Ah yes. Saturday morning with a bowl of cereal and cartoons. My sister & I were in ecstasy! After Soul Train, we'd then go outside to play until the sun started going down. I miss those times so much!!!
Soul Train! That was a few years before me. Mine was Solid Gold, with Marilyn McCoo and Andy Gibb.
As a kid, I always like Don Cornelius on Soul Train
SOOOOOUUUUUULLLLLTRAIIIIIIIIINNNNNN
I feel so sorry for my kids and other's. The days of Saturday morning cartoons (really good cartoons) are long gone.
It was a simpler time to be a kid.
I’m glad I was born in the seventies I remember these
yup i remember going to school and talking about them on monday morning
Yes, the time set aside for watching them on Saturday morning has disappered. But the cartoons aren't gone. Most of them are available on UA-cam and you can watch them for hours and hours. I out to know, I've wasted many hours getting sucked into the UA-cam recommended list after watching some old disney cartoons.
There's 24 hr/day cartoons on the Cartoon Network and similar channels.
I hated getting up in the mornings to go to school in the 1970's. I couldn't wait to get up on a Saturday morning to get to the television for the great cartoons!!!😊❤
I actually cried because this brought back so many good feelings. I forgot all about these intros. Yes it was the best time to grow up.
I’m glad I’m not the only one with those feelings.
Great memories.
Me too. Whoever thought it would come to this?
I remember I couldn't wait until they showed what was coming up on the new season of Saturday morning cartoons
Agreed... Born in 67...
Thank you so much
That Johnny Quest intro was the coolest! Great time to be a kid!
Jonny Quest is a cartoon ahead of it's time
Great jazz music, horrible deaths, and the first "manny"...
Loved Johnny Quest.
Johnny Quest was my Favorite ❤️
There will never be another 70's Saturday cartoons. Man I miss those days. Johnny quest was my favorite
Carlos Sanchez, Jonny Quest was my favorite too.
Same here .. miss those days 😢
Agreed, most realistic, and adventurous!!! Remember BLACK and WHITE tv, antenna and then roof antenna!!! boat!!! Bestest of ALL times!!! Born in late 50s, raised grew up 6070s, college, career80s retired 30 + years later 2016. !!!Aloha
@@MK-su6eg
Great memories and a great time.
I was seven years old and waiting for
"Jonny Quest" to come on Sat. morning.
Now, (as a Sociology professor) I look at
these cartoons through a different lens.
"Race Banner", (the blonde, action-hero)
remains, (to me) as equally problematic as
"Haji", the turban-wearing Indian kid, who was solely a playmate Jonny.
The innocence of my youth, (while I was too young to know it) was being throughly indoctrinated with American notions of race.
So much more to say on this topic.
Waking up on Saturday morning, grabbing a big bowl of Lucky Charms, and getting lost in cartoons before going outside to play. The perfect childhood day.
Pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers! Then, and blue diamonds! I watched American Bandstand, after cartoons, then it was waking to the park pool to swim, going to the roller rink, playing Barbies or dolls, and of course, outside on the Schwinn's or playing ANYTHING outside, including standing on a work table and performing songs. If I could go back, I would. It would be outtasite!!!!
Now we can grab a big bowl of cereal and watch cartoons on UA-cam and remember the good old days.
Wish I could have had lucky charms 🤔
Saturday MORNINGS were the best back then.
Same with 80s and 90s
I agree!!
Yes they were......I know what you mean.
@@KirksCORNER1983 The 80s were not a good period for American cartoons. Blame Scrappy Doo.
@@KirksCORNER1983 Not all of these are great, either, of course. I'm looking at you, Lidsville!
I'm a 60's baby and it's sad that kids today will never know how much fun Saturdays was. A bowl of cereal and cartoons was all we needed and the commercials were awesome. Life was good. 😊
It's sad to know all the kids now, will miss all the specialties we had back then. The anticipation of waiting to get a certain age to be able to certain things ... creating your own toys outside to ride on ... going to the movie matinée for 25 cents and staying almost all day ... the drive in movies ... sleeping outside in the yard or on the porch ... and being able to walk the streets at night without a care in the world.
Waking up super early on Saturday morning to watch cartoons, eating a big bowl of Sugar Pops cereal and drinking Tang (the drink the astronauts brought back from the moon) and working off that sugar rush by jumping up and down on the plastic-coated sofa, slipping off of it occasionally.
Later, going outside to ride by Schwinn bike with extra forks on it to stretch it out like a chopper, complete with sissy bar and banana seat with clothes pins attaching old baseball cards to the spokes to make it sound like a motorcycle. Of course the spokes had the multi-colored tubing on them. Good times.
Born in 1967. Yes, Saturday mornings were great if you were a kid! All those clever, creative Bugs Bunny cartoons and other shows like Land of the Lost, Dinky Dog, and Shazam. Remember how we turned on the TV on Saturday mornings, kept the volume low so as not to wake the rest of the family, and had to adjust the antenna that was affixed to the roof in order to get the best reception? Once that was done, we plopped down with our big bowl of Super Sugar Crisp cereal and watched the toons. And who can forget the little news segments every half hour on CBS during cartoons called “In the News.” If we wanted to learn more about what we saw in one of those news segments, we didn’t have an iPhone or a computer to turn to. We actually got on our Huffy bikes without wearing knee pads and helmets and rode over to the local library and checked out some books with our library card. Or, if we were lucky enough, we consulted our well-worn Childcraft encyclopedias that were stored in the family dining room on a shelf. Or, if we were really lucky, we consulted our Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedias! Life was so much freer and fun. Cereal boxes had prizes in them and some even had 45 RPM records on the back that you could cut out and play on your record player! Kids today don’t even know what record players are! Boxes of Cracker Jack actually had real prizes in them like spinning tops, mini pinball games, and working compasses. The “Wizard of Oz” came on every March on the local CBS TV station and it was a yearly ritual to sit down and watch it. If you missed it, you had to wait a whole year in order to see it again - no videotapes, DVDs, or on-demand TV in those days! Nobody had peanut allergies or gluten allergies, and nobody was afflicted with ADD or ADHD or ADHJKD or ABHJM like kids are today. We weren’t scolded for playing “Cowboys and Indians” nor for sitting Indian-style on the floor while in school. We were allowed to play “Tag” with somebody designated as “It.” We were also allowed to play dodgeball, and nobody ever thought about shooting up the school. We joined social and civic organizations like DeMolay and Rainbow Girls. Nobody was obsessing over what their pronouns should be. Boys didn’t want to join the Girl Scouts, and girls didn’t want to join the Boy Scouts. We subscribed to children’s magazines like National Geographic’s World magazine or Dynamite or the Weekly Reader. Kids today seem to be shielded and stunted in so many ways. Most of them come from divorced homes with angry step-parents and step-siblings mired in all kinds of drama, hate, discontent, and negativity. Oh well - time marches on, society changes, and there’s nothing we can do about it. Keep the childhood memories alive and be thankful and grateful that we lived and grew up in the 1970s.
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I'm a '67 as well. Same year as Sgt Pepper's was released! Schoolhouse Rock as awesome.
Born 69 I was so fortunate to be there
I guess that I'm the oldest so far in this thread. Born in 1963! God did this bring back a lot of memories! 🙄
Late 70s early 80s here. But agree 100 percent. And coyote roadrunner still one of the most violent cartoons ever. Also had rice crispy record. Used to love playing on high speed make it Alvin and the chipmunks
I would literally do anything to go back in time to the late 70’s.
And stay there!
I’m so glad I don’t have to be in school!!!
Same!
move to NZ
You and me both man!
That was some of the best times of my life!!! Give me a couple bowls of cereal and I was good!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I hated getting up in the morning to go to school but I had no problem waking up on Saturdays to watch my cartoons and commercials 🎉😂😂😅
Not to mention the holiday cartoons like Rudolph, Santa coming to town, Charlie Brown the great pumpkin...
Those were special! No VCR or DVD had to watch when they were on.
Yes! My favorite was charlie brown
That’s where the real magic was 💎💙💎💙
@@samanthab1923 yup, if you missed it, you missed it. Now they are on everyday during the holiday season or so it seems. It truly takes the excitement out of it. I miss those days.
I have the Charlie Brown holiday 3-pack DVDs.
I wouldn’t leave the house until all the cartoons were over. And even then, I’d stay and watch Creature Feature. Some times I wouldn’t get outside till 4 in the afternoon. Lol.
It was awesome being a kid in the early 70’s.
remember when cartoons started at 5:30 am n went till 1 pm on Saturday n sundays n then creature feature then on sundays it was charlie chan or Sherlock holmes movies ❤️❤️❤️
CREATURE FEATURES...movies so bad they had to be delivered in a brown paper bag...God I'm old 😂😂😂😂 My grandparents only interrupted our TV watching to watch Lawrence Welk which of course we hated 😂😂😂😂
When the toons went off, we watched American Bandstand.
In the afternoon it was old Tarzan movies.
Although I will say most if the live action stuff was really stupid (even then). But we only had 3 channels so we watched anyway.
I mean… 52 years just vanished. I’m 7 years old curled up in my grandmother’s heirloom rocking chair that lives in the corner of my parent’s giant room, watching cartoons, Shazam and Isis, Abbot & Costello reruns… Then I’ll spend the rest of the weekend in the pool, running around the neighborhood with friends and everyone’s dogs and not a leash in sight… It was the 70s, we would turn out to be the last free-range kids, and it was a fairy tale life.
I'd forgotten about Isis. I loved that show! Me and my friends would pretend we were on certain shows like Lost in Space, Land of the Lost... Just hearing these sounds is so soothing and somehow makes me feel safer than I have in a long time.
I'm 63 years young and I remember all these..what a time ..we were blessed ..those toys too..
Didn't know how good we had it. 😢😊
8-12 Saturday cartoons and cereal. Play outside all afternoon and well into the evening. Great time that's a distant memory now
Yup, about 12pm everything was over....sometimes Paddington came on at 12pm I think
Saturday mornings were the best! I'm almost 60 and I still watch the old time cartoons.
I’d go back in a heartbeat.
We learned to take care of ourselves while not being supervised.
And our generation (GenXers) turned out alright 👍
61 here and I remember about 95% of these. Who remembers watching the Friday fall preview of the new cartoons for Saturday mornings each year?
I caught myself singing along with each of these. What a glorious childhood! Thank you for putting this together.
when there was no tablets computers or iphones.. when you woke up ran downstairs turned on the tv and it was yours till around noon... you went out to play after.. saturdays were almost magical.. i miss those days.. it was simple.... when you went over to friends houses or called em on a corded rotary phone lol
🙏🏻🙏🏻🎊🥰💫✨👏🏻‼️🥳🥳🤩🤩yes!!!
The poor lil' peeps have nothin' today... Saturday 70's were the best!! Crunchy cereal and the finest toy commercials.
I'd actually say they have too much today. It's a constant bombardment of social media and the urge to be "famous" on the internet that overwhelms kids. Things were indeed simpler back then.
Wow...I can almost feel the Crunch Berries tearing the skin off the roof of my mouth. Thanks for the memoires.
😆😆😆😆
100. I was feelin' the Cap'n's sweet, sweet work of pain even as I read that.
Wow,Soo True,,🤣🤣🤣
You can imagine the taste-testing in the boardroom: Okay guys - what you got for us? Well sir, we have a new product we want to call Crunch Berries - here, try them. * tries them * - Well now, these are novel. Are they supposed to have that horrendously corrosive mouth feel? Uhm no sir, not as such. Ah - don't worry about it. Just make sure the packaging is super eye-catching.
PB Crunch too!
I’m 52 and remember Saturday mornings so well. Nobody had to wake me up. I would wake very early watch my favorite cartoons then it was outside to ride my bike, skateboard or go build a clubhouse. Thing is we was very active. When I was made to come in at supper time there was always something great on tv.
Same, Rodney… miss it so much….
Really was the best of times. Wake up, no school, 4 hours of cartoons, mom in the kitchen making pancakes from scratch. Then around 11 it was time to venture outside and play...or watch Wide World of Sports.
By God, I remember those pancakes from scratch. With Karo syrup on them and a glass of Cloverleaf milk.
Don't forget Kung Fu Action Theatre.
Yeah, getting up early before your parents and watching cartoons before Wrestling started. You had one chance and if you overslept you had to wait till next week. Good times!😎🎆🎇
Oh, you nailed it. WW of Sports was fantastic for those cold, grey days when you didnt want to go outside!
Evil Kenievel...SOLID!!.
Miss those days. They were the absolute best.
My dad would sit and watch with us.
I swear he enjoyed them as much as we did, his favourite was foghorn leghorn.
Good memories.
My mom would watch tom and Jerry with me, she said she watched it as a little girl.
Did you only have one TV? My dad stopped watching TV with me the second he bought a second TV. :P
Yup,my dad's favorite too...Looney Tunes.When I was very little,like 5 or 6 he used to watch them with me too.
My dad would watch bugsy bunny and road runner with me and my brother and would laugh.... those were the days. I really miss those awesome days.
Foghorn was my dads favourite too. Mine was Daffy Duck and I used to do the Daffy Duck dance for mum and dad 😆
We had the best of everything back in those days, cartoons on Saturday mornings then band stand, video games, drive in's, etc. If you got to grow up in the 50's through the 80's with all the golden classic movies and music, YOU were blessed!
We sure were, seems like the world changed at the end of the 80s and has been getting worse ever since.
And the malls riding bikes going to the skating rink
The change started in the 60s@@chrisoakley5830
Almost 50yrs old and still remember the words to these intros 😂
Same
I just made 19 but wish I lived in these time. Cause the 70's was wayy before my time
Same here!
Wish I had a time machine. Would love to get out of this sick era.
So would I.
*Agrees Whole Heartedly*
Times were bad back then, too, but we were just too young to know. But we can make a difference now by taking joy in the little things and just trying to get along with each other. Those cartoons always had a great life lesson!
Same here big time.
Give me the simpler times. We had more fun with 3 perhaps 4 📺 channels and now with hundreds of channels the content on TV is goat 🐐 tripe. 😂
Born in 1970, I remember all of these, most of them I have never thought about since. I can’t believe how I can still sing along to almost every song!
I always thought Benita Bizarre was Phylis Diller!
Back in those days, as long as we were home before dark it was all good.
No helicopter parents for me! I was free!
Things were much different back then!👍🏽
That's right. No bike helmets. No worry about sugar content in candy. We used to play in construction areas. Nothing was blocked off or locked up back then. We had freedom and used common sense. As long as we were home when the street lights went on, we would be out all day.
I miss the 70's terribly.
I miss the 1970s too myself. I loves watching these cartoons on Saturday mornings and Wonderrama on Sunday mornings. It was really fun back then.
The main thing I miss about the 70s is that people were so much nicer to each other back then. We didn't have all this crap that we have today. You could disagree with someone and they would either have an intelligent debate or they would just shrug and go about their day. We used to live and let live back then. What happened to us? Did the world get so dark that we all lost our freaking minds?
Me too
@@RobertoLopezstudyis omg I loved Wonderrama!! I hated that it was filmed back east and I was a California kid. I so wanted to be in the audience when Bob sang "Does anybody here have an aardvark?"
@@lisasamuelson8774 I was a California kid, too, in the '70s. Those were the days 🤗
Born in '69...This brings backs so many memories for me...Thank you for this....
I’m 53 and I remember a lot of these shows. Thanks for uploading these.
I'm 53 also. Two of my favorites were Space Ghost and Frankenstein Jr., and the Herculoids! Man, kids today just don't know how to be kids
A Superfriends guy through and through
Anyone else remember that once a year, on Friday nights, they previewed the new cartoons for the following season?
Yes, now that you mention it, I do! That was a special night.
NOW you are talking. I remember that so well, we lived in a city neighborhood and we would be out playing and everyone would run home the night of the preview show to watch. We were genuinely excited to see what the new Saturday cartoons would be.
Yep and TV Guide had a special issue for the new season. Had to fight the siblings sometimes lol
Aw, the good ol days
@@JedForge only "some times"? 😂😂😂😂
I was a kid of the 70s...my memories of these is fading...but this helps. Wish i was 10 again.😢
i remember every theme song...spent way too much time in front of the boob tube
Me too
I absolutely LOVED & looked forward to Saturday mornings! Seems like just yesterday, yet also a lifetime ago! Kids now are missing out...🎉❤😢
I was born in '65 and Saturday Morning tv was a big event. My brother and I couldn't wait for Saturday. We would get up early and watch cartoons til noon. My dad would go and buy donuts and milk. We would watch until noon then we would watch Soul Train or American Bandstand. The Harlem Globe Trotters, Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Show, Johnny Qwest, Super Friends, The Jetsons were my favorites and all the cool informative commercials like School House Rock and all the toy and cereal commercials. I miss those days. I feel sorry for kids today. They are being cheated on their childhood. So sad cartoons are no longer on Saturdays and weekday afternoons after school. This country just isn't the same anymore. So much hate, violence, vulgarity, sex and social media that kids have to deal with.
especially when they had the new cartoon preview for next season
1964 just turned 56 last Sunday, what great times
I was born in 64 and ditto
@@sweetjames3256 yeah that would be on Friday nights and then the new season would start on Saturday. The only thing I look forward to about summer being over in September. One year they had the Brady Bunch hosted it and I thought that was so cool
Amen!👍
Saturday mornings in the 70's. Cartoons early, Bandstand at 12:30 then sports all afternoon. And you didn't need cable.
Yeah! A full life wasn't it? Great times.
So true.
I hated when the cartoons & Bandstand went off. That meant it was time for sports all afternoon long. BORING!
Bandstand was where you knew the fun was ending and it was time to turn off the TV.
Absolutely agree with you. Getting up early in the morning, eating cereal with my sister watching cartoons.
4 hours of freedom.
In the name of "Truth, Justice and the American Way."
Nothing beats these cartoons Saturday mornings with a big bowl of cereal and watching cartoons for hours
My childhood was priceless because of these morning cartoons! The world was a better place.
It certainly was. So was mine.
Yep. Then liberals started taking over everything. It's almost all ruined.
That was heaven on earth
So glad I was born in 73. I remember getting up so early on a Sat I would watch Davey snd Goliath first. By 8-11:30 channel surfing watching cartoons. Then by 12 American Bandstand and Soul Train would come on. By 2 -3 Karate flicks and Godzilla movies. Sunday’s 10 am Abbott snd Costello. The good ole days with NO SOCIAL MEDIA!!!
Remember the "Creature double feature" back to back cheesy monster flicks on Saturday afternoons?
The BEST
You forgot WONDERAMA !!!!!
Was an awsome time. I was born 74. I was the tv remote control for my dad back then. But Saturday morning it was cartoon time. Then outside to play until the streetlights turned on. Times were safe back then.
@@petergunn3614 I was born in 1965, every Saturday from 7am to 10:30am was cartoon. From 10:30am till noon we watched The World Beyond. On this show they would show movies like Godzilla, The Mummy, Frankenstein, stuff like that. If there was nothing interesting on we would go outside to play. Life was so easy back then. Not a worry in the world. This was in Phoenix Az.
Life was so simple then. Kids could be kids.
To this day, I still say, “I hanker for a hunka, a slab or slice or chunka” when I am grabbing some cheese. 😂
My friend used to have sleep paralysis where the Time for Timer guy danced on his chest while he lay in his bed at night.
Back then we didn't need to drop acid...Sid and Marty Kroft did that for us!
Ya got THAT Right! H.R. Pufnstuf stood for "Hand-Rolled Puffin'-Stuff"
Nightmare fuel lol
Does anyone remember the Green Machine? It had 2 levers to control the turning and to this day was the best Christmas gift I have ever received and the MOST fun I've ever had ...spinning out in the puddles. So much fun !!!!
Heck yeah!!! That thing was awesome. I drove it all over my neighborhood.
I wanted one of those so bad. I'm sure I circled it in the Sears catalog.
Hell Yes I remember! I got one for Christmas myself. I had so much fun with it. It was such a big deal to me. It was way cooler than the plain ole' big wheel, being it was controlled by the two leavers. Man, you sent me down memory lane, thanks.
@@tonib.3016 For sure 👍 man I had one and I couldn’t wait to get out of school and ride it.
Jonny Quest! One of the best shows and a classic opening theme!
It started as a program on prime time for adults, just like the Flintstones. It's the only network cartoon that I know of that has characters getting killed. Race took out quite a few bad guys and monsters took out others. Great show. Great action. It encapsulates the times around its creation, spies, the space race, international intrigue
Plus Galaxy Trio, Birdman, Space Ghost, The Herculons, Dino Boy with Ugh, and King Kong. I also liked the corny HB cartoons as well.
Awesome music. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
I have the entire series on DVD.
Trombones on fire!
I remember waking up Saturday mornings & running to the 📺 to watch all of these, Soul Train & The Jackson 5ive! I loved ABC, channel 7 in NYC cartoons, especially Schoolhouse Rock! 😂 I remember fighting with my big sister over those tiny boxes of Fruity Pebbles, she'd always make me eat Coco Pebbles, 😂! I lost her in 1984, her birthday just passed on Sunday. These are the memories that always comes to mind when I think of her! R.I.P. Sis, I miss you so much! 😭
I just remembered, cereal companies used to put prizes in their boxes of cereal....
Yes they used to put records on the back of the box also. Cardboard records
@@turntableone4356 I loved the cardboard records
Until children swallow prizes
We would make our mom buy a cereal just to get a certain prize. The cereal companies were clever in advertising the prizes and making sure they were pictured on the boxes.
best prize in cereal for me was the backing soda sub.
Jonny Quest. What a classic. The stories, the great animation, the music!
Yes it was top notch
Johnny quest wish we all new each other back then maybe we would still have friends these days most of mine gone..I miss our lives then so so much I ball sometimes because we’ve been so cheated out of days that held the pleasure they did..to my friends on here it was groovy ride much ✌️ much love peace ☮️ love ya!👍🏻✌️✌️✌️
I ran into the spider robot a couple months ago on a different channel and was blown away.
Love it - favourite episodes?
@@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063 the one with the pterodactyl or the one with the spider robot
Rest in peace, Marty Krofft. .April 9, 1937 - November 25, 2023
I'm 72. I remember these cartoons as well as Captain Kangaroo and even the Mousekateers! Those were the days! Saturday morning in our pajamas, laying on the floor in front of the TV with a bowl of cereal. Shhh...! Don't wake up Mom!
God I wish I could go back to those days I hated getting up in the mornings on the week days to get ready for school but I’d be up bright and early to watch my cartoons good times
Man, this fires off so many memories. I remember being in my pajamas, sitting cross-legged on the shag carpet with a bowl of Coco Puffs, in front of the big wooden console TV. Saturday morning was like our time. After a week of school, this is how we would unwind. It had a magical quality and I enjoyed every minute of it.
I am soo glad to have lived with these cartoons
I'm glad that I was a kid in the '70s. We had the best cartoons. What sweet memories! 😊❤