Last week got me thinking about the Saturday morning of my youth. Besides the cool fall preview shows, there were fun and educational spots between the cartoons. Here are some examples of things you just don’t see anymore. ABC taught lessons using an odd looking character called Timer. CBS taught current events with In the [...]
Remember when Saturday morning used to mean something, not only to the kids but to the networks too? Of course this is back way before cable came along with hundreds of channels… and before most kid shows had some sort of marketing tie in. This was also back when you’d get big promos for kid [...]
16Oct09
Friday Geek Out: Teamo Supremo
Teamo Supremo was a Disney cartoon developed for ABC’s One Disney Saturday Morning cartoon block. It premiered in January 2002 and lived part of it’s live on ABC and had re-runs, along with a handful of originals on Toon Disney. In all, 39 episodes (with 75 stories) were aired. The show had a cool premise: [...]
When we moved into our Manhattan apartment back in 2002, we got cable TV for the first time since 1999 and with it we were introduced to Boomerang, a spin-off channel from the Cartoon Network that showcased mostly older cartoons. We fell in love with the “Boomeraction” block that would take over the network on [...]
