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And if you missed them, you missed them…
I saved newspaper TV sections from most of the 1990s. Here’s what was on broadcast network TV on Saturday, April 15, 1995:
ABC CBS FOX NBC PBS 6:00 Cro The New Adventures of Mother Goose Bullwinkle Name Your Adventure 6:30 Fudge Bullwinkle State Newsmakers 7:00 The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures G.I. Joe Today Sesame Street 7:30 Beakman’s World The Baby Huey Show 8:00 Sonic the Hedgehog The Little Mermaid Animaniacs Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 8:30 Free Willy Beethoven Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Barney & Friends 9:00 Tales from the Cryptkeeper Aladdin Eek!stravaganza News Sesame Street 9:30 Reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Adventures of Batman & Robin Martha Stewart Living 10:00 The New Adventures of Captain Planet Iron Man Spider-Man California Dreams To the Contrary 10:30 Paid Programming Fantastic Four The Tick Saved by the Bell: The New Class Firing Line 11:00 Paid Programming Gladiators 2000 X-Men Saved by the Bell: The New Class Washington Week in Review 11:30 Paid Programming Mutant League Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? Sweet Valley High Wall $treet Week I assume that where there is no listing, that half hour is a continuation of the previous half hour’s programming, except at 6 am, in which case I assume that station was off the air.
That 9:30 am slot is the real tricky one. Reboot, TMNT, or Batman?
In case anyone isn’t aware, there’s a big project to remaster/restore Reboot at the highest quality possible. They have multiple master tape copies for every episode, and for a ton of promo material, ads, etc. Huge, technically deep, and amazing project. The first few episodes are already out on youtube, but they also just released a documentary about the whole process.
So… They are going to reboot it?
I have the whole show on my brain
Get me a neuralizer and I can dump 6K footage to disk :>
Thanks! I loved reboot
Martha Stewart Living, of course.
Not tricky. Batman every time.
You should publish that all to a database online
@a_g_marut@lemmy.world this already on Archive.org ? Good work preservationist!
The golden age of television.
Do you have the old comics pages? Nostalgia dude
Batman TAS is unbelievably good. Gets a little better every time I rewatch it.
Kevin Conroy will always be the voice of Batman.
I love that show so much. So much care went into it. The deatails and everything. I read that they used black paker and inked to bright part, to give it that distinct look. Very complicated and or expensive.
There were so many commercials!!!
Still less than youtube, and they were predictable and child be written around
How else were we supposed to remember the toy store existed?
Do you still hear its calls in your mind and heart? (Aka the commercials)
Tbf we have AI generated mobile game ads now.
X-Men '97 continues where X-Men left off. Worth a watch.
I remember a lot of them because most were on Fox Kids in the Netherlands but I didn’t have Cartoon Network so I missed some of those shows.
I also remember watching Walking With Dinosaurs as a kid. Than you also had the two Superman shows: Superman The Animated Series and Lois & Clark: The new adventures of Superman.
And as a kid I really enjoyed Star Trek Voyager.
Fun fact Saturday morning cartoons took a nose dive when regulations on advertising to children started getting tighter.
Most of these cartoons/series were developed or funded by toy companies
I wonder if it started that way at first. Did TMNT get developed because of toy companies or was just just a mutually lucrative venture? Did it start earlier? Like Lone Ranger and Buck Rodgers type stuff? Interesting to think about for me.
Did TMNT get developed because of toy companies…
TMNT was a comic book series in the 80s, long before the first movie and the cartoons that followed.
Yeah true, kinda forgot about that. Guess i mean just the cartoon in this example, but it was just the first cartoon i thought of.
They definitely latched onto the merchandise train, regardless of timeline. The toys are strange though, as they’re a mix between the cartoon and the comics. And the comics got really sci-fi, while the cartoon stayed in NYC
And those are the facts
As someone who started watching Saturday morning cartoons in the 1960’s, I can definitely say the mid 90’s was peak cartoon.
For a decade that 8am to 12pm slot on Saturdays was back to back gold.
I used to get up early on Saturdays rather than sleeping in so that I could watch cartoons.
Up until 4am playing Nintendo, up at 8:45 already late for cartoons. 10/10, would be child again.
Not to mention Sabrina the Teenage Witch!
I used to enjoy “Clarissa Explains it All.”
Yeah kids they will never know because they can watch their shows anytime they want on streaming
I still get this. Streaming is great, and it doesn’t end with an infomercial.
Where’s Ren and Stimpy on this list?
I think that was originally on Saturday nights. I remember my dad letting me stay up to watch it because he secretly really loved the show.
I feel like it was an afternoon or evening show?
Too racy for first thing in the morning lol
At first it was on Sunday mornings.
Sabrina was on Friday nights though, so I get why she’d be freaked out to still exist on Saturday morning
