Antenna TV has announced their new fall line up ,which includes the addition of 80's sitcom "Family Ties" which will air weeknights at 10pmET, and Weekends 8pmet. They are also adding 60's sitcom "My Mother the Car" , which will air Saturdays at 1PMET , followed by other short-lived 60's sitcom "It's about Time" which will air Saturdays at 2PMET. Leaving the line up (though are most likely being rested) : McHale's Navy , Flipper, The Monkees , Here Comes the Brides, Patty Duke Show,
Other shows change time slots all this begins September 14th.
Here it is..THE FALL SCHEDULE!! Coming to Antenna TV this Fall: Family Ties, My Mother the Car, and It's About... http://t.co/UAaOUZPyw3
This time on Joshuaonline we take a lokback at daytime sitcoms repeats because... (Wait! We got mail!)
Hello authors of Joshuaonline , I was wondering if you could do a lookback of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoon Fridays , that is something I grew up with but I hope maybe you could feature it.
That was an email sent to us by a nice (we hope so) reader who thinks we should look back at Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. So thanks David for the idea. (You can email us too mychiller@inbox.com)
I too remember this program block well , so why not take a look back at it. While most of the the network TV blocks we lookback at for Children's shows was Saturday Morning. Cartoon Network had the freedom of a different time , Friday Night. Nowadays, Friday TV is bleak nobody does anything anymore. (We mean it , besides Disney Channel) The networks do put new programming on Fridays , but in many cases it's either shows they didn't have room for anywhere else or sometimes in Fox's case shows to kill. But that wasn't always the case.
Cartoon Cartoons were what they called their original series programming to difference it from the repeats of shows they were airing.
Cartoon Network carved 4 hours on a Friday night starting at 7PM ET /PT and started on June 11th 1999. Originally the interstitial segments were odd things like fake weather forecasts , It also had live-action humans featured and it looked like a PBS station during drives.
Either that or Cartoon Network has lost it / watch some of the first day bumpers here
I don't remember this style of presention as much I as remember the next (which we will get to in a second) .
Cartoon Cartoon Fridays featured new episodes of CN's originals meaning we started with "Dexter's Laboratory" , "The Powerpuff Girls" , "Edd,Ed, n' Eddy", "Johnny Bravo" , and a few other shows that the network made themselves.
By 2000 the block change to presentation I remember more where a character or 2 from a Cartoon Network show would "host" the block.
Makes sense , plus you get some cool intro and apparently other cartoons in background.
Not every show on the block was created by Cartoon Network ,well if there was a special occasion (like the month of December referenced above) or a new Cartoon Network show made by a corporate partner. If you noticed unlike when I talked about "Disney's One Saturday Morning" for example I talked about their schedule , well technically CCF didn't have that it was 4 hours a mash up of Cartoon Cartoons and it was more an event of TV for a Friday Night.
Every summer from before the block launched to 2002, they had big weekend called Cartoon Cartoon Weekend. For the 1997 and 1998 it ran around Thanksgiving , while 1999-2002 it ran in August. They had a "Big Pick" where viewers could pick which pilot they saw on the air they think should be a new CN show.
In 2000 viewers picked "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" which then premiered in 2001.
In 2001 "Codename Kids Next Door " won.
This is one of the shows that lost
Though for as well as it did changes were made (dun dun dun) with it renamed in 2003 to "Fridays" and hosted by humans. In May of 2003 , Cartoon Cartoon Fridays bowed out was replaced with Cartoon Cartoon Summer until October when the new format launched. It did keep most of the spirit of the original and the whole point is the cartoons. (Yeah, I guess ....)
That was one of the intros
Fridays was hosted by Tommy Snider and Nzinga Blake, later on replaced by Tara Sands. They were featured between your cartoons with skits , guest stars and more. (Yay more!) It ran 4 hours and then looped through out the evening. (As Adult Swim began take other nights) by it's end it was the only time of the week where Cartoon Network was broadcasting after 11PMET. But as all things in our lookbacks do .. it ended in February of 2007 ,after almost 10 years of Cartoon Cartoon and Fridays. Fridays on Cartoon Network changed hands a few times before they gave up .
We might not get into that...but don't say might.
But yes that's our lookback at what I think is great thing that when networks on cable and broadcast still thought Friday was special. That hey Friday Night could be the night to get new cartoons , not just Saturday Morning (which by 1999 was near death) and that fun TV presentation could make a few hours of shows something special.
Tune in next time when we try and make Wednesday the best night of the week for TV. Thanks David.
Our seventh installment of our fun of (kind of ) celebrating the 65th anniversary of The Peanuts coming out. As you know , our criteria is to not look at holiday specials and thankyou August for not having a Holiday , I guess.
Our special we are lookback at this time is "It's a Mystery , Charlie Brown" (ahh why not It's Murder , Charlie Brown , it's not real but it should have been ). This special came out on CBS in February 1974. Woodstock's nest goes missing one afternoon (probably a Tuesday) and he consults Snoopy to help him.
He looks shocked / Copyrights Peanuts
Snoopy does what Snoopy does and dresses like Sherlock Holmes and they go on a mission to search for the nest. (hence the name of the special) Charlie Brown is the first to be integrated by the duo. They continue searching for clues and questioning (as well as Snoopy can) the others . They discount Pig-pen as a suspect.
Poor Pigpen /Copyright Peanuts
Then they visit Peppermint Patty , who thinks they are playing cops and robbers and she plays the robber . This causes Snoopy and Woodstock to leave . (Never shoot your guests that makes them leave) They then notice footprints at Woodstock's tree (open 24 hours) and followed them to the school. They enter the school from an open window and see the nest labeled as 'Prehistoric Bird's Nest' they grab it and return it. The next day Sally is unhappy, when she finds out her science experiment (can you guess what it was? ) is missing. When she tells Charlie Brown he figures out that she took Woodstock's nest. Charlie Brown doesn't want Sally to fight Snoopy ( because he knows Snoopy would win) and takes them to an objective person. (or Lucy , because they couldn't find one)
Judge Lucy , Weekdays at 5 on Channel 32 /Copyright peanuts Lucy hears the case , Snoopy becomes Woodstock's Lawyer , and eventually finds in case of the bird (Woodstock). Snoopy and Charlie Brown help out a sad Sally (we didn't mean the alliteration) and eventually Snoopy becomes part of her new experiment. The experiment of Pavlov (the nervous system) , to prove if a dog will drool if you ring a bell.
It's a good special , and it's fun to have a Snoopy and Woodstock driven episode for characters who don't talk much, and dialogue added by the characters is fun. Also the scenes of Snoopy's investigation were fun , like Macy not understanding dog talk so she slams the door , and Peppermint Patty wanting to play cops and robbers. Also we love the use of a factual scientific thing.
That's our look at "It's a Mystery Charlie Brown" tune in next time for when Judge Lucy looks after a case about a man not paying his former friend not paying $1000 for watching his cat.
Antenna TV will be celebrating the 45th anniversary of show's beginning. (It premiered on September 25th ,1970) It starts August 15th at 5PMET and will run for 22 and half hours of 45 memorable episodes of the series. "The Partridge Family" ran on ABC from 1970-1974 and had 96 episodes.
