The lookback : Kids of Adult cartoons

The Flashback  Children's TV

      This time on the Lookback , we are looking at back at the kids of adult cartoons. Wait ,huh?
Oh well got an email   (which is not first)

     Hey Joshuaonline, 

    I like the lookback stuff your site does , but so far have not seen anything about  baby-feid  cartoons , you know the ones where famous characters are younger , like  Tom and Jerry Kids.  You should do that. 

     Yep, an email suggestion  which is nice , and thank you.  The point of this article is about those cartoons where  apparently  our favorite cartoons were given a younger make over. (Hollywood is always about age)
  1. Tom and Jerry Kids
  So, since  "Tom and Jerry Kids"  was already mentioned let's talk about that first.
   You know Tom and Jerry the cat and mouse who were trying to kill each other since the 40's  (longer than most cats and mice live). It was named in our Fox Kids piece  (which you can read here) but we didn't really in depth talk about it.   Well "Tom and Jerry Kids" was one of the many Tom and Jerry Movies and TV shows that came out over the years.
   Hannah and Barbera and Turner  got together (then Turner bought H&B in 1991, but that's another story)  and worked  together to make this series.  It was the last H&B series for Saturday Morning because they got purchased by Turner  and he used them to work for Cartoon Network.

                                
                              Tim and Harry Kids  / (c) 1990 H&B
        It was the First series to kick of the New Fox Kids block on Fox stations (most of them)  on September 8th ,1990 (once of the best dates in History)  The Series featured our favorite cat and mouse as well kids (though in our modern  90's times) it also featured the dogs from the Tom and Jerry Shorts,  Spike and Tyke , who like the regular series  they were still adult and puppy respectively (uhhhh). Also the series  even though called Tom and Jerry Kids had 3 segments that could make it seem like 3 different shows.  The First, was Tom and Jerry  kids , where you had the fun of Tom and Jerry chasing each other , though in kid form this time. (With less violence because it was the 90's  no violence on TV then) , Second , there was the Spike and Tyke segment  which was there to show family love. (or something) Third, we had Droopy dog   and he now had a kid ( nice he finally settled down and had a family).    The  series ran on Fox Kids from 1990 to 1993  with 4 seasons and the standard 65 episodes (because 65 is a good round number) , then repeats moved to Cartoon Network . (Ted Turner's personal cartoon channel )

  2.   The Flintstones Kids (Another show about Pebbles and Bam-bam?*, sigh)
    So , the Flintstones ever wonder how they would be as kids?  (No, I wanna see how the Jetsons were as kids)
        Hanna and Barbera ,owners of the Flintsones, made a new series for ABC (America's Biggest Channel)  in 1986.  "The Flintstone Kids".  We meet Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty, and also their  pet Dino. ( ummm a different dino or the same one meaning...?)
     As most cartoons had at the time , it had segments (kids couldn't handle 11 to 22 minute cartoons at the time ,attention spans were short in the 80's )   The Flintstone kids segment could be the whole show or a part (depending how much story they had)  it  was our main story.  Another segment (that was killed in season 2) is Flintstone Funnies  it was the characters dreams that we get to see.  Segment 3 , Captian Caveman and Son , was  a show with in the show , the characters of our show , watched them watch a show.  Also, Dino's Dilemmas  where we followed  Fred's pet, Dino.  

                        
                          Pocket sized Flintstones, can you catch them all? / Copyright HB
  The series ran  2 seasons of 34 episodes (shame, not even 65).

(*no wait , that was Cave kids)
more after the jump

"The Munsters" coming to COZI TV

Classics  

  Just in time for Halloween, the  classic TV show, The Munsters (1964-1966) is  coming to Classic TV network , COZI TV.  It hasn't been repeated on TV in few years.  It will air on Cozi ,starting October 5th at  5pmet  and in October it will air on COZI's Stunt  Sunday with 4 episodes each Sunday starting at 1PMET.  

Other Changes to COZI's line up  (from COZI's website)

Starting Saturdays beginning 10/3:
9:30AM/8:30c - Lassie replaces My Favorite Martian
Starting Sundays beginning 10/4:
9:30AM/8:30c - Lassie replaces My Favorite Martian
11AM/10c & 11:30AM/10:30c - My Favorite Martian replaces Maverick
12PM/11c & 12:30PM/1:30c - Dick Van Dyke replaces Maverick
Weekdays starting 10/5:
7AM/6c - Dick Van Dyle replaces Lassie
7:30AM/6:30AM - Here's Lucy replaces Lassie
5PM/4c - The Munsters replaces Dick Van Dyke
5:30PM/4:30c - The Munsters replaces Here's Lucy
COZI HALLOWEEN - 10/31
6AM/5c-10AM/9c - One Step Beyond
12PM/11c-12AM/11c - The Munsters Marathon
12AM/11c-5AM/4c - One Step Beyond

 If you want to know where COZI is where you are find out here.

MSNBC changes : Some more

MSNBC  Cable news 

This time in MSNBC changing 2015 news:   Mediaite's  Joe Concha (who has been dead right on these MSNBC change stories)  reports that MSNBC is going to be making some more changes.

Their morning  show , Morning Joe , will be expanding to 9AMET  , News Nation , currently anchored by Tamorn Hall will expand to to 2 hours starting at 10AMET, meaning that the current 9-11AMET Jose Diaz-Balart (who is also anchor at Telemundo) will be removed.   In the afternoon , NBC News correspondent  , Kate Snow is to receive the 3-5PMET  slot.

Here's a look at that line up  :
6AM now to 10AMET  Morning Joe
10AMET-12PMET  News Nation
12-1PMET  Andrea Mitchell Reports
1-3PMET  MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts
3-5PMET  Kate Snow  (currently MSNBC LIVE)
5-6PMET   Chuck Todd  (currently MSNBC Live)
6-7PMET  MSNBC  LIVE ( replacing Sharpton as of  9/8; future Program announced)

This year  has so far Seen MSNBC scrap 6 hours of programming between  1-7PMET as they try and drift away from Lean Forward to News.


Update   (9/4) Mediaite's Concha is reporting that Jose Diaz-Balart will still be at the network , just losing one hour of his show instead the whole 2.

ABC Family announces 13 nights of Halloween (2015) plans

ABC Family , Halloween 

ABC Family's  annual   13  Nights of Halloween schedule has been announced.  



Oct. 19
1:30 p.m. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
5 p.m. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
9 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
12 a.m. - Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride

Oct. 20
4 p.m. - Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
6 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
9 p.m. - Stitchers 2015 Halloween Special
12 a.m. - Casper

Oct. 21
5 p.m. - Casper
7 p.m. - The Addams Family
9 p.m. - Addams Family Values
12 a.m. - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Oct. 22
4 p.m. - The Addams Family
6 p.m. - Addams Family Values
8 p.m. - The Hunger Games
12 a.m. - I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Oct. 23
5:30 p.m. - The Hunger Games
8:30 p.m. - Sleepy Hollow
12 a.m. - Matilda

Oct. 24
7 a.m. - Matilda
9 a.m. - ParaNorman
11 a.m. - Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
1 p.m. - The Nightmare Before Christmas
2:30 p.m. - Casper
4:30 p.m. - The Addams Family
6:30 p.m. - Addams Family Values
8:30 p.m. - Disney/Pixar’s Monsters University
11 p.m. - Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story OF TERROR!
11:30 p.m. - Hocus Pocus

Oct. 25
7 a.m. - ParaNorman
9 a.m. - Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
11 a.m. - Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
12:30 p.m. - Casper
2:30 p.m. - The Addams Family
4:30 p.m. - Addams Family Values
6:30 p.m. - Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story OF TERROR!
7 p.m. - Disney/Pixar’s Monsters University
9:45 p.m. - Hocus Pocus

Oct. 26
5:30 p.m. - Sleepy Hollow
9 p.m. - Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story OF TERROR!
9:30 p.m. - Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
12 a.m. - Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie

Oct. 27
4:00 p.m. - Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie
6 p.m. - Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
7:30 p.m. - Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story OF TERROR!
9 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
12 a.m. - ParaNorman

Oct. 28
4 p.m. - ParaNorman
6 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
8:15 p.m. - Dark Shadows
12 a.m. - Casper

Oct. 29
5 p.m. - Casper
7 p.m. - The Addams Family
9 p.m. - Addams Family Values
12 a.m. - Hocus Pocus

Oct. 30
2:30 p.m. - The Addams Family
4:30 p.m. - Addams Family Values
6:30 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
8:30 p.m. - Poltergeist
12 a.m. - Poltergeist II: The Other Side

Oct. 31
7 a.m. - Batman
10 a.m. - Batman Returns
12:30 p.m. - Poltergeist
3 p.m. - Sleepy Hollow
5:30 p.m. - Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
7 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
9:15 p.m. - Hocus Pocus
11:30 p.m. - Sleepy Hollow

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The Lookback : The Charlie Brown Lookback : There's No time For Love, Charlie Brown

The Flashback 

   Our lookback at  Peanuts specials continues as a little part in celebrating the Peanuts 65th Anniversary and also the 50th anniversary of the first ever Peanuts special "A Charlie Brown Christmas"   This special we look at is called "There's No Time for  Love , Charlie Brown" , which has nothing to do with Valentine's day. (Thank goodness because we are way past that and we couldn't review it in this series)    

                                               

                                               You know in my day ,  We always had time for love

    There's No time for Love , came out in  March of 1973 on CBS (there's a pattern there) , the first  8 minutes shows us the peanuts characters doing school work in clip style vignettes.  Then we get to a plot line , where Charlie Brown has to do well on a paper he does for a field trip to an art museum.   A note about this special , it's the first time we see Marcie in an animated  peanuts special.   Charlie Brown's school  is not the only one going to this art museum  , Peppermint Patty and Marcie's School is also there and they run into Charlie. (Though not literally)     All the other kids but Charlie, his Sister, Peppermint Patty and  Marice and Snoopy (though he's not a kid)  have left  and they run inside a supermarket  that was next door  mistaking it for the museum.
                               

                                 I can see how you can confuse the two , maybe/copyright peanuts

      They continue even inside to think that the supermarket is an art museum (though apparently , one in trouble)  , though Marcie even mentions that it's a supermarket , Peppermint Patty dismisses it.    We also  do see Linus and Lucy together at the real museum  so they are in the right spot at least.  Meanwhile  there is  a "Joe Cool" Snoopy scene  where  does some bay boying. (is that a word or verb? )  (Wait, he knows it's grocery store and didn't tell anyone?)  Peppermint was woken from her nap and she talks about  Chuck,  where she makes a comment "How can anybody ever be in love with boring ,dule , wishy washy ole Chuck?"  while is on the other side.  (Or where I come from we just yell it on the loud speaker so everyone can hear it)   Though on her part she feels really guilty about what she said as she apologizes to him.  On his way home , Marcie tells Chuck , that Peppermint patty kind of likes him.

                                                 

                                        Marcie then gives a passionate kiss/copyright Peanuts

      When Linus does a slide show (not on power point ,you sillies , this is old fashion way)  , Charlie Brown finds out that  he wasn't at the museum.  Though at the moment it's too late he already handed the paper in and he's worried about the result. (In other news Marice is always right)  Though luckily, the teacher liked his description and gives him an A. ( Wa wa wa wa wa) In fact , he gets the only A in the class.  Peppermint Patty formally apologizes and   states that it's  hard for girls to talk to boys. Then he does something stupid , brings up that little red headed girl.
   
   It's  a good special , with some good  jabs at modern art  , plus the Peppermint Patty love conflict is fun. Though it is nice to know that  someone being to Charlie Brown is just by a little nervousness and that Peppermint Patty has a likeness to him.

 Next time... Sally  gets back at  Peppermint Patty for her comments about her big brother. (this is a lie)  See  you next month,

Antenna TV announces new fall schedule

Classics TV  
             

 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

— Antenna TV (@AntennaTVOnline) August 31, 2015

To find antenna TV where you are  click here  

The Lookback : Cartoon Cartoon Fridays

The Flashback 
 
    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.

The Lookback : The Charlie Brown lookback :It's a Mystery Charlie Brown

Peanuts  The Lookback

  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.