The Betrayal That Led to Fox Kids: All This For Ducktales?
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Fox Kids (originally known as Fox Children's Network and later as the Fox Kids Network; stylized as FOX KIDS) is a former children's programming block and branding for a slate of international children's television channels.
Fox Kids was best known for airing the most-popular programs on the network, such as Bobby’s World and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers series, with the latter dominating the block’s schedule with increased ratings and creating a franchise.
Other notable Fox Kids shows included Beetlejuice, Muppet Babies, X-Men the animated series, Batman the Animated Series, Godzilla and tons more.
But the creation of Fox Kids can be traced all the way back to bad blood between executives over... Ducktales?
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Around 92 as a kid you never understood why Saturday morning cartoons disappeared and everything became Jack Hanna type animal shows and kids news. And NBC became the teen channel with NBA Inside Stuff, Saved by the bell/new class, Hang Time, City guy's and California Dreams.
Yeah, NBC completely cutting bait was the canary in the coal mine. Then Fox became their replacement. As CBS shifted more to pre-school, WB took their spot. So the 3 way dance was almost always a 3 way dance. By the mid 00s though, cable and nascent streaming options rendered the broadcast cartoon block absolutely moot from an ad perspective, which was the whole point to begin with.
@@andrejg4136 NBC also had the kids in sports show that came on bf Inside Stuff kicked off the teens shows and they only did about 6 or so episodes and they ran them to death especially Venus and Serena when they was 9 and 10 year's old episodes.
It was an intersection between the FCC cracking down on commercial toons, the rise of console video games and the growing economic might of professional sports. NBC cut bait first because it had a hefty rooster of sports throughout the year. Easier to transition NBAJam and extend the pregame programming. For the older 3 networks, Sat Am was just a place to sell cereal until college and pro sports started.
Government was cracking down on alot of things at that time. Rap music was under fire as well as video games thanks to Mortal Kombat.
@@reggiebrown9508 Yeah but Rap and Violent Video Games figured out how to survive the onslaught. The media houses didn't want to bother now [mid 90s] that Cable Kids Networks basically rendered the SatAM block moot.
My 2 brothers and I were poor kids growing up. One night after a difficult family crisis and a long car ride, my Mom took us to Toys R Us to buy us one toy each. A new station had popped up called Fox Kids and had promoted a new show that wasn't out yet called The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. The 3 of us picked out the 3 boy Ranger's action figures (Jason, Zach, and Billy) and we all looked forward to the first show.... Little did we know.
Awesome story! I hope you and your family are doing well now.
There's one thing I've learned in recent years: If you grew up in the '90s, you owe a massive debt of gratitude to Margaret Loesch.
Man, being a kid in the 90s was amazing, Disney, Fox, Nick, WB & CN were all arguably in their prime. It’s amazing how we managed to consume all this media without streaming.
No joke. Channels don’t even try anymore. Everyday is just a 12 hour marathon of some garbage show. I guess they’d rather get your $10/month for streaming then actually putting out good content for their channel.
I remember we had to special order the Disney Channel where I lived. Now everything is so easy.
Yep, almost every channel had a morning block and an afternoon block of cartoons. I remember having to make some agonizing choices sometimes. I didn't wanna miss any of it. Sucks for younger generations who missed out on this era. It was such a big part of my childhood. I'm glad I appreciated it while it lasted, though.
I remember all of those including jetix, fox block they had bad ass cartoons now there’s nothing. I remember getting up early on Saturday morning to watch my shows. Good times a lot of great shows
Lol.
You're in your 30s or 40s and don't realize.
THIS IS NOSTALGIA. It's not better. It's just YOUR thing.
You probably even watched SouthPark "memberberries" episode never caught onto the actual point.
Kids today will never the struggle of missing out and changing between 8 channels like a maniac for 3 hours a day.
These were the times. I remember waking up at 7am on Saturday mornings with a bowl cereal and sitting in front of the TV and watching all of these amazing shows.
Fox Kids was a big reason why I had a great childhood. those shows after school were the best!
I totally agree with you, my dude!
It's as if the politician didn't care the kid had downtime.
While it never quite hit the same highs of Pokemon in terms of popularity, it's a bit unfair to say Digimon couldn't match it at all, for awhile it was Fox Kid's saving grace and the reason it lasted just a little longer as it did. And even now Digimon has its own sizable fanbase in western terriorties with their own nostalgia, and the franchise never truly went away.
Digimon also ended up getting a reboot as well. i enjoyed Digimon over Pokemon.
Digimon was also briefly beating the Pokemon anime in the ratings, so yeah it basically kept Fox Kids afloat for three more years
@@CuffAnimationStudios Lots of people did as far as the anime goes. But the thing is pokemon was more than the anime, it was a very popular card game and an even more popular video game. The show was also easier to digust as it wasn't about saving the world every episode and just about pocket monsters with multiple attacks and strategy.
Also I don't think the dude meant any disrespect when he said that. I mean it wasn't more popular than pokemon for a large amount and it shows today. It was however popular in its own right and more popular than a great number of shows.
I have actually never watched the Pokemon anime (I played the games instead), but Digimon was okay to watch. Sometimes a little too strange for its own good, but okay.
(Has this channel even covered Digimon yet?)
@@Stratelier I watched both as they aired and while I loved Pokemon, Digimon was the better show. Pokemon moved at a glacier's pace and filler ranged from okay to absolutely abysmal. Other shows did the job better than Pokemon. The Pokemon anime only survived because it was Pokemon.
Where I'm from, in north Florida, we use to have a guy called, "Safari Sam" as our Fox 30 kids club host in the early 90's. Unfortunately, he passed away of cancer in 2015. He was a real sweet and kind person.
In SW Missouri we had a guy named Marco
@@goofenhour2697 not so fast my friend, it was Mike Malibu then Marco. He seemed to like bowling...
In Iowa it was some weirdo named Tom Foolery.
I remember here in South Florida we used to pick up by cable channel 44 Kids Club on WTOG in Tampa,does that channel still broadcast in that area? I remember Dr. Paul Bearer presents as well.
He here in NC we had the fresh fox!
I was a Fox Kids Club Member. Letting the affiliates determine the hosts was a genius, Fox's Albuquerque hosts were a young lady and a puppet (neither of whose name I remember). I was excited when my name would scroll across the screen on my birthday. It made kids feel connected to something.
Burque represent!.. I was jealous of my brother getting his club members card.
Wow, that's pretty cool
I had a fox club card. We had local contest here and the guy was in bee suit named Busy lol
@@anidolinteal3132 I'm afraid not, but you sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole to find out in a newspaper clipping from the Albuquerque Journal in 1993. Their names were Anita and Vanillia (I assume the puppet). I cannot find any pictures or clips of them though.
I forget to join Foxkids forums before foxkids shuts down
Miss watching all these shows when I was a kid. The 90’s was the golden age for being a kid.
My favorite was The yearly”fox kids countdown” where shows were mysteriously voted on (“by us kids!”) it really made me feel like i was part of some community or army of fox kids (it didn’t hurt that xmen always won first place and i loved that show)
"Fox Kids TV Takeover", which ran annually during the week of Thanksgiving (which is, coincidentally, when this video premiered).
I voted
Until Goosebumps came along and ruined everything, that is. Stupid Goosebumps.
@@vladpiranha Goosebumps was awesome, wytb?
yeah, goosebumps was stupid, but i didn't need a kid show for that. i waited until the holidays and watched all the twilight zone marathons
Fox kids was a great 10 years of TV.
It gave us things that I'm glad we had and things I'm kind of sad we no longer have. In general that time was absolutely amazing. We'll never see something like this again and I'm glad I was there to see it.
The 90s weren’t that great all the time. The 2000s was better when 4kids came along.
The lightning in a bottle that was the English dub of Digimon Tamers consistently amazes me. Wonderful.
Yeah from what I can remember of that it was pretty good. I mean of course I'm comparing it to something like anything done by 4kids so it's not exactly an extremely high bar.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Or ADV.
Well dang, this amazing rivalry resulted in us 90s kids having some of the most diverse and amazing programming. Add The Disney channel, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and we were spoiled!
It was a great time to be alive I'll say that much. The last 20 years have been pretty depressing compared to what came before it.
@@JohnDoe-wq5euthere's nothing exciting in the modern era
This is a very thorough and comprehensive history. I was really bummed when the Fox Kids programming block began to decline. I never would have imagined that two decades later I would have access to just almost every cartoon I watched as a child through UA-cam and streaming apps. Disney REALLY did play the long game.
My wife and 7 year old daughter just caught my eyes watering up at the end of this video. My family has never seen me cry.
When Fox kids died a little piece of me did too I can say that much.
Harden up
Somehow I doubt that
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu
A little piece of my childhood died when Fox Kids went.
@ Dr. Doge 😂You savage you.
Even Batman: The Animated Series recently had tie-in comic books and it sounds like a prequel cartoon is in the works for HBO Max. Truly, Fox Kids was something special and a highlight of my childhood. Great video 🙌
Fox Kids is evergreen for me; Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men, and (to a lesser extent) Spider-Man brought me too much joy.
Back in the day, I'd only switch channels to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Fox was the king of Saturday morning in the early 90s.
no matter what anyone says, this version is spiderman did a great job with secondary characters and villains.
by introducing felicia hardy early on and giving her a dynamic with peter, they make you care when she becomes black cat. same for norman osbourne, who in every other type of media becomes green goblin almost instantly and you don't get to care about his fate.
the story is well structured and characters are sympathetic, even if the dialogue is cheesy at times. it's still a great product.
The earlier line up of Fox Kids, before Saban took it over and made it all Tokusatsu series and questionable anime was amazing. CBS and ABC were strong contenders and still had some strong series, but Fox blew everything out of the water at that point. I'd say the creation of that network was one of the most important factors in the cartoon renaissance in the 90's, right up there with the creation of Nicktoons. I'll always remember the smaller series that never stood a chance during the middle portion of Fox Kids' lifetime. Weird, quirky stuff like Ned's Newt, Spydogs and the unfortunately short lived Sam and Max.
The weird thing about Duck Tales is that Disney was making the show at a loss because they ignored some of the more lucrative merch options. So by keeping Duck Tales on the schedule, Fox would have been doing themselves a financial favor. Instead, Warner and Fox decided that they needed to make cartoons at a loss as well, and we got some of the best children's programming of the 20th century (no pun intended) as a result.
It was good while it lasted that's all I can say. Looking back sure it was only a decade but what a decade. And honestly Fox had some of the most memorable kids shows of that decade when it came to shows on network TV.
Man, it's a shame companies aren't willing to do that now a days. It's clear that company competition just isn't what it used to be. Or who knows, maybe the guys running the show at the time actually appreciated the work they were producing and just didn't care about the financial loss.
Woo hoo
@@commentdouchery2838 Most of the tech companies giving us free delivery, social media, cheap taxi rides, and food delivery are operating at a loss. So I wouldn't say companies aren't willing to do it anymore. Only that the site of competition has changed.
@@thewiirocks I’m not so sure about that
I was a huge fan of FOX KIDS. Beetlejuice, Batman, EEK the Cat, Young Hercules, and Power Rangers were my jam.
Don't forget X-Men and Spiderman.
I was late to the party with Fox Kids but got to see a TON of Power Rangers In Space and Lost Galaxy in that network👌
Dear lord, I'd forgotten EEK
Eek the Cat and Terrible Thunder Lizards were fkin great. Was a huge Dinosaucers fan so dinosaurs always a win!!!!
Beetlejuice was a good show
My favorite memory of Fox Kids has to be seeing 'Countdown to Destruction', the epic finale of Power Rangers in Space, when it first aired. I also remember that episode of Digimon where Greymon first Digivolved into MetalGreymon and the episode ended with Tai back in the real world! And we had to wait a full week to find out what was going to happen.... aaah... Thanks to FoxKids I'm now watching Super Sentai and Kamen Rider...
Those moments were totally awesome! I also want to watch more Super Sentai, along with checking out Kamen Rider. So far, I've only seen the first 30 episodes of Zyuranger, but I definitely enjoyed it.
@@CookiePrince52 Zyuranger is fun but is generally considered low tier so you've got pretty much nowhere to go but up :p (unless you stumble upon Ninninger...). Last year's Kiramager shot to the top of my list of favorites and is one of the most pure expression of the Sentai formula in years honestly. As for Kamen Rider, ShoutFactory is bringing us Kamen Rider Zero-One next january! I already preordered the blu-rays and it should be up on their streaming site when those come out!
@@Undrave Thanks for the heads-up. I'd like to watch more Super Sentai, but unfortunately, the various Sentai DVDs may be going out of print, due to Hasbro not renewing Shout Factory's contract. Hopefully, there's still some places out there that still stream the various series.
I absolutely remember that.
Fox kids was the only thing in my life I wanted to wake up early for. I will probably never be as enthusiastic to wake up early as I was being a kid on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons.
It's funny as an adult seeing all the behind the scene wars and disagreements over these networks when, as a kid, they all had value to me. Fox kids had power rangers and digimon, ABC had some great animated shows, kids wb had pokemon and yugioh and they all just seemed to fit so well into 4 hrs on any given Saturday
I...Absolutely...Love that you covered this. This was my childhood and I miss it so badly. Fox Kids was the best. We got kickass shows like Jungle patroll and Nascar Racers!
I’m guessing we had an independent station in my neck of the woods. The channel was branded as FOX, but it showed the Disney cartoons (other than Gummi Bears), the WB shows, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Prior to those shows, it broadcast GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, and Silverhawks. It was glorious!
Yeah the eighties and nineties were sweet as far as affiliates were concerned. A lot of local and regional channels would get some pretty crazy stuff. Even my public broadcasting channels would get cool stuff back in that '90s. It was great, I miss those days.
That's like mine!
that's a solid independent station. you got blessed!
I watched *Gummi Bears* regularly when it was on NBC and only quit watching it because I could never find it. First it moved to ABC, then its last season was part of the first season of the Disney afternoon, so I had to wait for the Disney Channel reruns to see the last two seasons, and even then they were out of order! And then after a terrible looking DVD collection of the first three seasons came out in region one, I had to buy the remainder of the series from Australia! This was after it only got video releases in the UK and Europe but not North America when it was on the air. It’s a shame Disney seems to take for granted that show is basically the reason all of the other Disney TV cartoons were even possible. They made two other cartoons before *DuckTales* and both of them flopped. If *Gummi Bears* had failed, that would’ve been it.
Ah, I miss the golden years of Fox Kids/Fox Box, YTV, and Teletoon. I only wish I had Cartoon Network and the Disney channel back then.
Nickelodeon was also pretty good when it came to toons, sadly they've fallen from grace as of late.
@@UltimateGamerCC I’m Canadian, so YTV was the most readily available to me. I think Saturday morning cartoons went completely downhill by the late 2000s or the early 2010s. And for YTV, they started to have less great cartoons, had more reruns of Spongebob and a plethora of crappy live-action tween shows.
@@Michael-590 animation always suffers in rough economic times
@@andrejg4136 ironically, real life is starting to resemble Disney’s animated Robin Hood.
I think Fox kids had the strongest lineup of shows for about a decade.
Totally agree
Easily.
yeah they stole the show from ABC who was killing it before them
I do agree, but unfortunately Kids WB was gaining popularity due to new shows, especially Pokemon.
NEXT TO DISNEY
they had
Batman TAS
Animaniacs
Power Rangers
Digimon!
X-men TAS
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?
I’ve never seen a picture of Rupert Murdoch without his glasses. I guess he really does look like a piece of chewed gum.
Fox Kids introduced me to the Tick. "I'm betting I'm just abnormal enough to survive!"
There was already mandated educational programming for all children on Mondays through Fridays: it was called school. Was having Saturdays just be for fun really too much to ask?
It was a knee jerk reaction to what had come before. Mostly due to parents with too much time on their hands becoming helicopter parents.
Yeah, we can "thank" Karens like Peggy Charren for trying to make television take the jobs of "parenting" their kids off of their hands.
Peggy Charren’s self righteous , holier than thou ACT was a major thorn to the US animation industry.
@@dinomonzon7493
Sadly as much as I would love to blame one thing on the death of Saturday morning cartoons it was more than that. It certainly was a big contributing factor but it was simply easier to do news, sports or whatever then they try to do kids programming anymore.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Easier and cheaper. All the FCC regulations did was initially force them to scramble for new, edutainment series and substantially limit their advertising revenue. And while there were some actually pretty decent early TV/EI series like Histeria! and some of the ABC line up, they got lazier and cheaper, resulting in bad nature and nutritional cooking series they KNOW no one watches, but they can put little money or care into for FCC lipservice. My Fox affiliate basically just switched to all infomercial formats after 4Kids moved to the CW. Something I bet they all really wanted to do instead of Litton's library of generic green vegetable educational background noise.
Fox Kids. Remains the best Saturday morning (and partly weekday) lineup ever. At least of my generation. Just prolific in it's output.
And I completely forgot about C Bear and Jamal. If I recall correctly, wasn't Tone Loc the voice of C Bear?
Yep. Tone Loc.
He was the best part of that show hands down.
That cartoon was ahead of its time.
@@zzzxxyy
But better than waynehead I don't know. Lol
C Bear was on that Funky Cold Medina!
Fox Kids was one ofnthe top stations that shaped my entire childhood and been one of my heaviest influences to this day. I think it’s partially what made me even get into art in the first place
It occurs to me that - now that Disney+ owns so much Saturday morning content, they should let you program your own ‘Saturday morning’. You tick off a list of shows, and then just watch it as an ongoing ‘stream’ as the app switches between episodes of all selected shows (in chronological order roughly to allow storylines to makes sense). It would be so good. Fantastic for chilling after a late shift… a fun way to make Saturday mornings magic again, as a grownup or to share with your kids. C’mon Disney! Make it happen!
Yoooo! That's such a bomb idea that I hope they don't do it because you probably wouldn't even get credit for it
I still can't get over the fact that a bunch of useless politicians eliminated one of my favorite things to look forward to during childhood. And I still like cartoons more than I like those losers.
It’s not politicians it’s stupid fucking parents specially moms demanding shit that’s educational
@@lorenacortez9377 God I hate that! Kids need cartoons.
Politics suck
Programming execs killed the blocks on broadcast. OTA couldn't compete with 24 HR cable. And streaming laps both so badly in terms of holistic brand management the it's still an open question of cable will exist in 10 years.
Politicians and giant corporations should always be seen as public enemy #1
Ah, the 90's, my personal favorite era of kid's TV. Probably because it was the one I was actually a kid for the entirety of.
Thanks for the $100 gift certificate that got me a SNES, Fox Kids Club.
Great stuff as always! I remember waking up on Saturdays and going through Eek! The Cat , Bobby's World, etc., just waiting for X Men and The Tick.
Ah the 90’s. Extreme flex, pouches, and that X Men theme song…
I remember late in the Fox Kids/Fox Box/4Kids era when they started a push for "real anime"/teen focused anime on Saturday Mornings (usually in the tail end of the animation block) and introduced me to Escaflowne & saw my first "blood in a cartoon" moment. They only aired about the first 1/3 of the series but it was a interesting experiment they had at the end.
Fox Box and 4kids would never.
Yeah I remember that as well right before 4kids came in and really crapped the bed. I still have the weirdest memory of the kids from Malcolm in the middle introducing the lineup of Saturday morning shows. I'm still amazed escaflowne
never showed up anywhere else.
I mean it might have I just not aware of it.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Nah, never ended up anywhere else, at least for the TV series. The movie did air on Toonami years later, but at least Bandai Entertainment released the rest of the series on DVD, which is how I found it as a YOLO purchase from Best Buy.
Escaflowne is my favorite mecha universe. That show is so good
There are two major things I see wrong with this Timeline in this video:
-The first thing is that Both Duck Tales and Gummy Bears was not apart of the original Disney afternoon. While both ended there run in 1990, Disney bet the house on Duck Tales with higher animation standards at that time and selling through Syndication nationwide, not the Six Fox affiliates on their own(Fox just wanted a piece of the action). As far as Gummy Bears, there last season was dual broadcasted between ABC Saturday Mornings and being Syndicated by Independent Stations and while the writing on that show was very good for a cartoon, you can make the argument that another Disney cartoon, The Wuzzles on CBS had better animation when it debuted on the same day in 1985!
-The Second thing is that with all of these networks with afternoon programming(Even USA Network jumped back in the game at that point, and their Children's Block was a walking Corpse), Dragonball Z came out of nowhere on Cartoon Network from Syndication and laid waist to everyone to the point it was rivaling some primetime shows for ratings!
Please make a Darkwing Duck video. The 2nd wave of its toys was canceled but there’s a picture of the prototypes on the internet.
So many shows 10 year old me used to watch and you highlighted all of them Dan. Alot of great memories watching Fox kids with my sister. Thank you so much.
I miss Fox Kids SO MUCH!
Such a large variety of shows to watch like: Power Rangers, X-Men Spider-man, Big Bad Beetleborgs,
Goosebumps the series, Digimon, Medabots, Big Guy and Rusty the boy Robot, Peter Pan and the Pirates,
the list goes on. I also remember the slogan: Fox Kids, Rox Kids!
Loved FoxKids! Xmen, Batman, Animanics. Then I shifted to KidsWB for more Batman and Animaniacs. The late 80s/early 90s were a great time to be a kid!!!
As someone who was in Gen Y before millennials label was around, I was there for all of this being perfect age for the earlier Disney cartoons and then at an age where the themes of X-Men and Batman really stuck with me.
I have a lot of fond memories of Fox Kids. Back then it was great to be a kid with all the good shows popping up on these blocks to grab your attention. We had lots of talks about them at school and argued over which one was better than the other, etc. Fun times!
I would Have to Agree with you.
Same here
I'm sure others have already thought this, but I find this channel fascinating as it covers so much nostalgia for me, but at the same time diving into so much "behind the scenes" stuff that were going on that young me was just obvious to at the time.
I’m glad that Fox Kids was created! Because we wouldn’t have Bobby’s World, Power Rangers, Batman: TAS, Peter Pan and the Pirates! It’s my all favorite favorite kids block, sorry Disney, I grew up with non-Disney cartoons and I wish Fox never sold to Disney! We would’ve had more competition against the Disney juggernaut!
Peter Pan and the Pirates. Praying Disney+ adds it to the lineup!!
@@gevdarg I thought I was the only one that remembered that show
I'm old old school, I grew up with Bugs Bunny and the rest of the WB cartoons. Then there was Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Bullwinkle, Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, The Pink Panther, and Mighty Mouse, those were the days before people complained about too much violence in kids programming. Yeah, I'm old....BUT IM STILL BREATHING...mostly.
@@gevdarg Man I love that show. Tim curry was great as Captain Hook. I also hope that they eventually put Bobby’s world on Disney+
Haa!
Bobby's World was great 😄👍
Fox Kids came also to Poland in between 1997 / 1998 as I remember. Life with Louie, G-Force, Teknoman, The Tick - all of them where on emission out on this marvelous TV Programm. Well, nothing can last ever. Thank You for this Material :D
Even funnier is that Fox Kids after the partial Disney buyout was turned into Jetix, and after Disney bought remaining shares it finally turned into Disney XD. And Duck Tales reboot is officially Disney XD original, so...
Watching this, I'm grateful to have caught The Mighty Ducks on TV.
Damn that show has been as deeply buried as the road rovers or quack pack. Disney cranked out a lot of things toward the end none of them stuck though, not one.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Not bad shows, but the Golden era was long gone then.
I was a Fox Kids Club member, and absolutely loved their earlier airing of Batman and then X-Men. It was awesome. Thanks for the rundown... It was a great trip down memory road!
It's always nice to watch videos like these, and remember where my favorite shows were airing. Ducktales premiered in prime time for us in south Florida - half an hour each night at 8pm and my parents let me watch the whole week. I got to stay up late (second grader when it debuted). I lived on cartoons, and the movie property ones - Killer Tomatoes, Bill & Ted, Beetlejuice, and Addams Family (ABC???) were some of my favorites. Power Rangers literally saved my relationship with my little brother when we were kids - we bonded over liking the show. He loved the monster battles, I wanted the high school soap drama, but also loved the character designs, and I was the exact age to fall in love with the Green Ranger (like literally everyone else). That television block is what cemented my love of Power Rangers, which still continues to this day. And with X-Men, got me into comics. Disney was my first animation love, followed by Warner Bros. via Fox Kids, and the variety of shows on Fox Kids was what really made it work, IMO. The less said about the 4Kids takeover, the better.
let's be honest those children programming guidelines was virtually impossible to enforce.
I could never understand the logic of what shows (other than the explicitly educational ones) did and didn't get the E/I label.
@@NovaSaber It was some dude in an FCC Office going "Yeah that scans" every once in awhile...
The guidelines definitely contributed to the downfall of Saturday morning cartoons.
How about it was stupid Government over reach.
See what you get with government?
Lived in an area that did Fox Kids for an hour in the morning. Unfortunately it was when I was supposed to be travelling to school during that block. At least once a week I’d ‘wake up sick’ crossing my fingers that I could delay long enough to see as much of Stunt Dawgs, as my parents would tolerate before chucking me in the car. What a completely ridiculous and underrated show.
“The S just makes it plural”. To this day that phrase will randomly enter my head
I don't remember the show you're talking about, but they did that for maybe 2-3 hours each weekday morning where I live too. I oddly remember it being Digimon reruns, plus a bunch of Disney cartoons, like Tarzan & Buzz Light-year of Star Command. I have no idea why they thought it was a good time of day to shove cartoons aimed at elementary- middle school children on the air, but hey.
Ah yes. The halcyon days of my childhood; Disney Afternoon, PBS Kids, Fox Kids, Kids WB, Toonami, FoxBox, Jetix...
Seeing this stuff in hindsight, with the insight of behind the scenes info, is endlessly fascinating.
Personally, I think that Digimon Adventure 1 and 2 and Digimon Tamers are much better shows than any of the Pokémon series. I remember watching both dubs when they aired and getting quickly annoyed Pokémon's repetitiveness. Digimon by contrast had actual character arcs and was emotionally resonant to me, an adult watching an anime based on a Tomagotchi knock off.
As far as the competition between Fox Kids and the Disney Afternoon, I preferred to switch between them to watch what I liked. I would watch Batman: the Animated Series or Darkwing Duck, whichever one was on. I was too old by then to be seduced into following one programming block over another.
I can't understand how Pokemon got so popular, it's terrible.
Tamers is kids evangelion
Here in Canada I had access to fox kids and Disney's stuff through their channels but we also got a lot of that stuff merged onto one of our own networks called YTV, one channel with access to most of the big saturday morning cartoons and late night toonami shows. Sadly it is a shadow of its former self these days.
I agree. I thought digimon was way cooler because it had an actual story. Half of pokemon was just watching tEaM roCkEt fAiL aT stEaL piKaChu agAIIIaaiaiaiannnnnNnN
Digimon has nothing on Pokemon, if you ever watched the episode of Ash almost dying and all the Baby Pokemon taking care of him in the cave, you'd understand!!!
That thumbnail brought back some great memories of me sitting in front if the living room tv on Saturdays as a kid.
You’re everywhere!
Fox kids was a big part of my childhood. In fact, growing up in the 90s and early to mid 2000s, Saturday morning blocks like Kids WB, Disney's One Saturday Morning/ABC Kids, The Fox Box/4Kids TV, BKN and Jetix, as well as weekday afternoon blocks like One Too and Miguzi wore a big part of my childhood as well. I really miss those days.
Speaking of Disney One Saturday Morning, BKN and Kids WB, please do some videos on them in the future. Especially one for BKN, because that one needs more attention and love.
This is a cornerstone of my childhood. Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons after school! My heart broke when they slowly trickled out and switched with Maury and Jerry Springer
FOX Kids daily lineup didn't trickle out. It vanished. FOX Kids had a daily lineup for the Fall 2001 season knowing they would get rid of it early in 2002. FOX also had a merger with UPN. The New York and LA markets aired the FOX Kids block on UPN while the FOX owned and operated stations aired their own programming for syndication. Plus, none of the FOX affiliates were making any money carrying FOX Kids. The Cleveland and Tampa affiliates never carried the weekday block and FOX had to get other stations in those markets to carry it.
the disrespect to Digimon and Monster Rancher SMH
I love those cartoons too, but dude you gotta understand that was meant to be an ironic joke not disrespect to the series themselves. That's how I interpreted it anyway!
I know, right?
Yeah that was some BS. Lol.
@Shin Shaman Get out of here, ragebait troll.
Never saw Digimon or Monster Rancher. Did see 100's of hours of Fox kids though.
I remember for a few years there was a time where Austin Texas actually had TWO stations airing Fox Kids. The regular Fox affiliate, and this local station called KVC13. It was always a trip going back and forth between them and seeing the same shows going at the same time. I tended to favor KVC13 because they had an actual host to the block and that added to the fun.
From what I remember reading, Austin, TX Fox affiliate (KTBC) & "KVC13", whose actuall callsign was K13VC (A low power TV station.) were owned by the same company.
I'll not only remember FOX for their Saturday morning cartoons, but for Married With Children; a show that frequently made fun of FOX & other shows on it.
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Come fhqwhgads it didn't neccesarily make fun of other shows my have taken a jab at them but it was more so lampooning the marriage and the idea of marriage but you're right I remember fox fondly for married with children too al Bundy was off the chain ha ha ha 😆
And Kelly Bundy was fine as hell🗣‼️
Assume fox viewing position. *Grabs tin foil*
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Wtf Samus Idk ! Oh yeah I remember that episode ha ha ha 😆 🤣😂‼️
Hey Matrix, I’m fine with being a battery as long as I can go back to a 80s version of me and live through the cartoon boom again.
Agreed. I didn't experience nearly enough the 80s but the 90s were amazing. It's hard to look back knowing what I know now.
7:17 Oh man, watching weekday afternoon cartoons on channel 29 from Philly was a big, static-filled portion of my childhood 😅
Seriously, there was a time when they were on weekday mornings, weekday afternoons and Saturday mornings. The world of the '80s and '90s was very different that's for sure.
As a Philly citizen I agree with this.
Fox Kids will always be the best Saturday morning block around! Power Rangers and Digimon were the highlights on my Saturday mornings, back in the 90's and early 2000's. Their airing of Beast Wars, back in 1999-2000, led me to becoming a Transformers fan.
I actually preferred Digimon over Pokemon, my kids feel the same way nearly 20 years later
A thousand times yes!
I remember always having to record fox Saturday mornings since I was forced to play baseball as a kid. All I wanted to do was watch cartoons
Turns out they weren't lying. Tom & Jerry Kids is definitely where the action is. Also, please do an episode on the awesome, yet short lived Mighty Ducks cartoon.
I don't get it
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e Tom and Jerry Kids was the final Hanna Barbera Cartoon to be produced under Worldvision/TAFT before Turner Entertainment brought out HB in December 1990.
They did lol
Any love for "Sam and Max: Freelance Police?"
"And remember, kids: we're professional cartoon characters! Don't try this at home!"
I love them so much!
Good stuff. Digimon's dub was kind of a mess but it felt somehow more mature then pokemon at the time.
True. Digimon is a way more better than Pokemon
more mature, but at least Pokemon didnt jump the shark. tbh idk what's worse, going off the wall or making others go off the wall via repetition.
Remember folks: pokemon faint, digimon die...until they reincarnate.
Yeah the dub ain't great at least not in retrospect and especially compared to the subbed version.
@@CapriciousChill until you read the manga and find out that Lavender Town isnt full of pokemon that died from natural causes. and need i remind you of Cubone's Mom?
I was 16 when Fox Kids started and watched it until 1996 when work became a thing for me. Those were great cartoons.
Still vividly remember that era. We were definitely Fox Kids kids, and in the heyday of the era, you'd bounce between Kids WB and Fox Kids for 4 hours on Saturday weaving between your favorite shows. UPN was more of a Sunday watch.
I aged out of the demographic just as the decline began. Power Rangers Njnja Storm was the last season I remember watching in earnest and it was probably on ABC Family. Toonami fell not too long after that.
It was a special time.
Wait for turkey while being regaled with the history of the best 90s kids block, them and WB.
What up
Finally! I was able to figure out "Blinky Bill" from my memory. (Also, Digimon > Pokemon (and Monster Rancher wasn't bad either))
Yeah blinky Bill was one of those weird cartoons that would come on in the early morning where I lived.
They also had stuff like syndicated episodes of Captain planet and oh that Sonic cartoon. (not SAT AM)
Disney toons couldn't be beat: Duck Tales, Talespin, Darkwing Duck, Gummy Bears & Gargoyles. I had to hound my mom to get the Disney Channel back in the day.
Gargoyles and Tailspin is my fav out of those you forgot chip n dales rescue Rangers lol
Great episode. As a Fox Kids, well, kid myself, this was a great look into one of my big childhood staples alongside Kids WB.
Digimon Tamers was amazing, such a mature series with nightmare fuel broadcast on tv. The censors we're focused on the violence more so than the plot. The fools. Left an amazing show mostly intact.
What kind of plots did it contain, must have been very dark LoL
Oh god, please don't remind me with the creepy human girl (who voiced by Bridget Hoffman).
Pilot it's the one with the red dragon with all the biohazard tattoos. Basically in episode he flips his lid. The biohazard sign starts leaking dark magic and he destabilizes both the human world and the digital one. This was result of impmon's machinations.
This twit sells his soul to someone else for power. Leomon and his teamate Jeri try to redeem the imp. For their troubles Leomon gets deleted in a brutal attack. He's impaled in the chest. The nature in which this done is out of character for this series. This attack is pretty close to being cold blooded murder. At this point everyone is horrified. So the red dragon is filled with his partner/ creator's malice and bloodlust. Resulting in the world destorying monster previously mentioned.
Then of course there's the Jeri issue. She becomes so depressed that she's incapable of functioning. She lets the D reaper virus then take possession of her . Because she wants everyone to hurt as badly as she does.
Okay... but Monster Rancher and Digimon were way better shows, unfortunately, Digimon didn't have as strong a video game/tcg presence, and Monster Rancher only had a great game (but not much of a precense in toys or tcgs)
I went through a Digimon phase when I was 5. Never cared for Pokémon.
I'm pretty sure Digimon was a success too. Sure, not to Pokemon levels, but it definitely probably helped Fox Kids ratings.
The monster rancher game was awesome! I went through all of my CDs trying to find the perfect monster for the ps1 version
Monster Rancher was the best cartoon of the three. Moo, for example, was a great villain. I think if they removed Moochi and Genki, the show might not been seen comparatively to PokéMon. Being then free to find it's own unique audience.
Didn't Digimon come before Pokémon in Japan?
Fox's "Peter Pan and the Pirates" was brilliant. Tim Curry as Hook? Absolutely brilliant!
It was sad to watch Saturday Morning Cartoons die. It was a unique period in time that will never be replicated. Waking up early to watch Cartoons Saturdays and rushing home from School to watch Afternoon Cartoons. It was a great time to be a kid.
There's a reason why we blame soccer moms and the government for this. Today's kids can never experience the joys of Saturday Morning TV.
I remember watching xmen and Spider-Man with my father and brother on saturdays. My mom and sister stayed up in the bedrooms during this time because they knew it was our time. My brother and I didn’t bond have much time bonding with him because he worked so hard BUT he always made sure to watch these with us.
When I was a kid, I remember here in Los Angeles when KHJ-TV became KCAL9 or California 9. I found it a bit odd and jarring, but then again, I can't really remember what the programming was like on KHJ-TV.... maybe old movies or reruns.
One of the best things they aired was Classic Disney Cartoons and they had a host (Morty McToon??) with live-action segments in Disneyland. Before that, I don't recall ever seeing a real Mickey Mouse cartoon.
Fox Kids used to be so awesome. Spider-Man, X-Men, Digimon, Power Rangers, Beetleborgs, Kirby, TMNT, Medabots,etc. always looked forward to Saturday mornings and weekdays after school. I remember ABC Kids too. Kids WB was great too
Did a search and didn't see anyone bring up The Tick, one of the weirdest and best comedy superhero cartoons ever. I still quote the show to this day.
Absolutely loved Fox Kids as a kid. The bumpers, the programming, and the innovative Fox Kids Club initiative really drew me in as a viewer and lifelong fan. I watched the block even in its dying days, even cared enough to watch the final broadcast. Can't say I did the same for Kids WB or the other blocks that came after. I can't imagine how kids nowadays even get that kind of feeling with how streaming works nowadays.
Saturday morning is such a wasteland now with yawn inducing e/I shows.
Its funny cause when I was a kid growing up during this time, and I always wanted cartoons to be available for me to watch 24/7, I thought in the future it would be a possiblity, now here we are today with it being available, and I look back fondly on those days due to the very feeling you described
I have 2 fox kids memories. The entire reason I got into martial arts as a kid was because of Power Rangers. Now I am fairly high ranking in Judo, Aikido, and working my way up in Kendo. That corny show led to a life long passion This might sound weird, but my second fox kids memory is Digimon. The franchise is good and it is unfortunate that it was targeted at the same demo as Pokemon in the US. In Japan it was never meant to compete with Pokemon and the franchise is generally targeted at an older audience with a lot more mature themes and violence, to this day it has one of the most realistic depictions of divorced parents and a separated family I have ever seen. It is still a popular franchise in Japan because of this and I wonder if it got the same considerations in the west would it be more popular today?
Eek the Cat, Godzilla, Space Goofs, Tick, etc. So many great obscure cartoons.
I still remember when Cyber-Six aired on FOX Kids one time at like 6 AM, or when they tried to compete with Pokemon by just putting anything anime on the channel, like Fighting Foodons and Escaflowne, which also only lasted a few episodes before getting pulled
4:15 WETO was the Fox station for East Tennessee. Man, that’s something that I’ve not thought of in about 30 years 😂
X-Men is getting a sequel series and I cannot tell you how happy that makes me.
Fox Kids came at the right time for me, sure I was little bit older but Saturday morning cartoons were gone, afternoon cartoons out and I refused to let my childhood die like that, it introduced me to my biggest childhood crush, showed me some new great shows and was always running with reruns of some of my favorite shows 😋
Great video Mr Larson, Producer Greg MP ✌🏽👍🏽
I was a Fox Kids Club member, as well. Those were the days! Waking up Saturday morning, & watching Bobby's World, Peter Pan & the Pirates, Life with Louie, Eek! The Cat, X-Men, The Tick, Tazmania, etc. I could go on & on, with all of the amazing programming that I was blessed with, cause of Fox Kids!
All this Ducktales and no Woo-hoo! Well, woo-hoo! I grew up in the LA market so I saw KCAL and KTTV morph from sleepy affiliates playing Mama's Family and Three's Company into kids programming power players with In Living Color and Married with Children on the side.
I know it's hard to believe now, but Fox was once the maverick looking to shake up the industry. It wasn't just Ducktales. Fox kids realized kids of the 90s weren't like kids in the 80s and 70s. They took risks were the networks wouldn't dare tread and image conscious Disney could never tread. Peter Pan and the Pirates wasn't a Disney Clone, it tried to outdo Disney (something Disney would try 20 years later with its Tinkerbell line) it's most baller move was working with Amblin and Spielberg on a raft of shows including Tiny Toons, Pinky & the Brain and Animaniacs. Fox kids wasn't going to surrender to the Disney Afternoon.
When Fox was young and had something to prove it took chances. That is what brought us Power Rangers and Freakazoid, Digimon and Eek the Cat. Just as it brought Parker Lewis, Culture Clash and In Living Color to the airwaves.
Yeah they definitely mellowed with age which is a shame. They really were Mavericks back in the early days. But by 2000 they were a very different animal. And by the time it became basically a time slot run by 4kids it was all over.
Parker Lewis Cant Lose, that takes me back LMAO, but yeah during those early and formative years Fox was taking no prisoners
You listed about 90% of my childhood shows in this one video.
BIG FACTS 💯💯😅
Oh man, I used to get the fox kids magazine. It was very Batman heavy but had lots of fun stuff in it. But the most important thing to remember is Jonathan Frakes is very handsome. Wait, what?
As a kid back then, I didn't know or didn't care about fledgling channels trying to battle to make it, I just cared about getting to watch cool shows I liked. That's all that mattered.
I miss those days of Saturday Morning and Weekday Afternoons with Power Rangers and Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nug, or Magic School Bus and X-Men.
its so weird, where I'm at (Dayton, OH) (WRGT) The Disney afternoon was still on fox up until mid 90s, I remember them having Darkwing Duck, Aladdin, Bonkers, etc. THEN it would shift into the shows like Batman: TAS, Power Rangers etc. and WRGT had the first season of Pokemon airing here, when KidsWB came around I remember them starting with what I assume was the second season and the storyline with Misty getting the Togepi egg. so all this info is really confusing coming from my perspective. I don't doubt it I'm just letting you know how it was here
Fox 45. Oh my childhood.
I think I actually watched DuckTales on channel 9 when I was at my grandparents’ house. I remember they used to carry a lot of ads for Disneyland.
This video reminded me that I grew up at the exact right time. Saturday morning cartoons died right about the time that I started sleeping through weekend mornings almost entirely.