Written by Skyler
We have been writing about specific television Saturday morning blocks , but how about a change? This time instead of going into a full block we are looking at a network's Saturday morning with a bigger look at certain programs. The reason for this ? Well, many networks blocks didn't have major names that would split into talking about a block or in the case of some blocks we have more about the programs than the block itself. Let's look at NBC Saturday Mornings from the 80's , we are looking at 5 specific programs that were either popular or a surprise to know they existed , or knew about but wanted to forget. (Yep, that should cover all the bases.)
1. The Smurfs 1981-1989
"The Smurfs" came to us from Belgium and they were made a U.S. Saturday Morning TV program with executive producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. We don't know what smurfs are exactly , they were always being pestered by some cranky wizard and sometimes other adventures going on. They were a popular hit. The Program had 272 half-our episodes and had 42% of the Saturday audience (take that Saturday morning infomercials) . The Show ran the whole 80's , it was canceled after people at NBC messed it up somehow.
the messages included buy some smurf toys , so the show will have money so they could make more episodes, so they could make more toys to make more episodes /youtube
2. Alvin and the Chipmunks
Wait a second, are you doing shows that the movies have used and made bad versions of?
No comment.
There was a program in the 60's called "The Alvin Show" It introduced us (general , us ) to the singing chipmunks. This program was the modern (80's modern rocks!!!) up take of that. It ran on NBC from 1983-1990. The Charcters included , the Chipmunks (of course), Dave Seville , but it also introduced the girl chimpunks the chipettes. It was animated by Ruby-Spears . In the year 1988 it was renamed "The Chipmunks" (Did Alvin quit? Or was the old title too long? ) and DIC became the new animators . The final season in 90 , it became "The Chipmunks go the movies". (Why?) Again a popular show , but you are seeing a common theme to the endings of these shows aren't you? ( Kind of)
see, I didn't make it up / DXH / Youtube
3."I'm Telling"
This is a show that is a surprise to know existed.
Well apparently someone thought there needed a be a children's version of the "Newly Wed Game" (Wait a second, How can...?) It was a game show (not all Sat AM was cartoons ? well then) with children who competed on the show were usually brother and sister (usually?) It was made by Saban (hey , It's them again) and Dic (Busy scamps aren't they). It ran for 1 season 1987-1988.
I could tell you about the rules but that would be really long and un needed.
in a twist , this is a full episode video (lucky you) ,we couldn't find a non full episode /youtube
4. "It's Punky Brewster"
From the 50's to 90's alot of live-action family shows were also made into animated shows. (Could you imagine Friends being a cartoon for kids ?, I could ) This one is based off "Punky Brewster" show ,also on NBC. The fun of cartoons unlike live action shows ... you can do anything you want ( yeah!!!) like using magic with out the need of special effect budgets (and stunt doubles). This verison had the same voice actors , if the character from the live-action show. Like many of the shows that were animated based of live-action shows they added a magical animal (The Brady Bunch cartoon did it) , a gopher named Glomer, to make story lines happen.
In one episode Glomer turns Punky into a mermaid (not little , that would be a law suit in waiting ) , another included the classic , character wishes they were never born. It ran on NBC for two seasons from 1985-86 (re runs longer).
yay / NBC/Ruby Spears /Youtube
5. Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
You would think that Disney , the kings of animation ( maybe) would just be making animated TV shows after animated TV shows. Well, that was not the case, The First Walt Disney Television Animation animated series was "Adventures of The Gummi Bears" (based of the candy... I think). It premiered on NBC in September of 1985. The show is about the gummi bear creatures that are unknown to humans, they used to live with humans but now they don't .(Maybe they were tasty? ...sorry)
Not that they didn't see humans/ Disney /Youtube
Well that's it until Next time . (Buy Joshuaonline toys to fund Joshuaonline to make more posts to make more toys) .
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