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Thursday, November 06, 2014

The Lookback :Kids programs : ABC Saturday Mornings part I

The FlashBack  Children's programming   


  By Skyler 
   Once again , we are looking back  at children's programming ( I am deeply shocked)  this time we take a look back some programs offered on ABC during the 1980's ,to make this easier we are taking a look at 5 (in no specific order).     So, let's get right to it.

      1. The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo
       Ah ,yes "Scooby Doo" has been around a long time , and has had different set ups  and designs. It has survived  ownership changes and channel changes ( and two live-action movies , that don't count) . There was this : "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo" ran on ABC Saturday Mornings in 1985 ( 1 season).
    This Scooby-Doo Series was different : It had real demons (gasp) instead of crazy people wearing costumes to break the law. We had Scooby , Shaggy and Daphne(Wait, why are Shaggy and Daphne together? Did they kill Fred?)  .  Scrappy returned ( insert your thought here )  and a new one-time character  in the series (as of 2014) a kid (to make the kids relate to the program?)  named Flim-Flam  and his warlock friend (who is voiced by Vincent Price).
      

  only 13   ....Hanna-Barbera / ABC/Youtube

   The show had 13 episodes ( makes sense)  they went around world looking for the demons to get them back into the chest.  The series having real ghosts  also means you have ghosts also trying to get the chest away from the Shaggy.  The series ran 13 episodes (like  I said already)  but they only caught 11 ghosts it was canceled in 1986.

2. Turbo Teen
     So 1984,  Ruby-Spears made a new TV cartoon  and this show is well ...different.  The Premise is a teenager is driving his car and then he has an accident ( they can rebuild him , wait wrong show)  and crashes into a secret government lab  and a ray messes with molecules and  combines him into a car.  How does he turn into car? ( I don't know , you tell me )  Extreme Heat turns him into car and Extreme reverses the process. Naturally he decides to fight crime.  He has two friends who help him and a dog . (gotta have a dog)  The Show ran on ABC Saturday Mornings for 1 season and only had 13 episodes.

That looks painful  / Ruby Spears /Whoever owns Ruby Spears stuff now/ YouTube

3.  The  Fonz Lives again ( not the name of the show we will be talking about )
    Happy  Days  was that successful show in the  1970's  so why not make a cartoon version of  it ?
   ("The Brady Bunch" did it.) That's where  "The Fonz and Happy Days gang" came from (notice it's the Fonz first , kind of like how the live-action show became) it stared  voices of the actors who played the characters on the original show:  Henry Winkler , Donny Most, and Ron Howard. They added a dog (as most cartoons had to have an animal of some sort I think) and a girl from the future , named Cupcake (poor kid).  The series was about The Fonz  and his friends going through time in a time machine trying to get back to 1957.(Don't we all)  It ran on  ABC for two seasons (1980-1981) with a total of 24  (much less than the original series )

Um yeah.... /Youtube

more after the jump


while you wait . please take your head off / youtube

        4.  The Littles
        This series was produced by Dic Entertainment  , It is based off the novel series The Littles by John Peterson.  It ran on ABC for 3 seasons. It's about  a family of  tiny humans-like creatures that live in the house of  a kid named Henry Bigg (get what they did there?) and in the TV series he is the only human to know about the family.  The series  had adventures and also moral messages (before E/I too) , they also thought to include little facts about history or geography at the end of the show.  (This series ran on DIC's syndicated block as an E/I program in the 2000's) . Like most cartoons there were villains :  a scientist who
 wanted to prove they exist. (that's kind of evil?)
 
  Probaly helps that somebody knows | DHX Media /Youtube

5.   The New Adventures  of Winnie the Pooh
      Disney's  "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" first started on then premium channel (like HBO) , The Disney Channel (before the "the" was dropped when they went basic cable)  and then it moved to ABC.(not owned by Disney at the time) in November of 1988.  It starred everyone's favorite bear ,Winnie the Pooh, ( Yogi is everyone's favorite bear people, wake up!!!!)  and his friends.  The series ran 4 seasons. But its airing as repeats was much longer ABC ran it until 1993  , then brought it back in 1995 where it ran  until 2002.  The Disney Channel (then Disney Channel) until 2006.  (That's a long time)

    Disney/ Youtube

   We hope you enjoyed  this piece of Saturday Morning look back fun from the network of ABC from the 1980's .  Tune in next time when we find out if there was a show about a teenager who turns into a blender. (Please don't be a show, please don't be a show)



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