Your 'dream' Saturday morning show lineup.

If you could choose your own personal Saturday morning show menu, how would it go? Mine goes like this:

0645: Wake up, get gargantuan bowl of cereal (Fruity Pebbles or Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, of course) and turn on TV.

0700: Speed Racer

0730: Star Blazers

0800: Thundarr

0830: Macross

0900: Starship Troopers

0930: Captain Scarlett

1000: UFO (Live action)

1100: Get kicked outside by Mom and Dad.

1200: Lunch

Off the top of my head, The Real Ghostbusters, and Galaxy Rangers would have to be in there.

Classic Bugs Bunny
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
^^^
appetizers

Justice League
JLU
Batman: The Animated Series
The Batman
Superman: The Animated Series
Thundarr
The old 1960s 15-minute Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and Hawkman shorts
The later Superfriends and Superpowers shows (no Super Marvin )

7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 He-Man
8:00 Talespin
8:30 TMNT
9:00 Duck Tales
10:00 Batman: TAS
10:30 Justice League
11:00 Futurama

Course, I dunno if Galaxy Rangers the show would hold up if I saw it, but I know I loved the opening and the unashamedly 80's cheese themesong.

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Edited to include....

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Add

Flash Gordon.

Okay, here's mine.

Ghostbusters
Galaxy Rangers
JL
JLU
Batman TAS
Thundarr
Duck Tales
Tenchi Muyo (yeah, what the hell, uncensored nudity in the first season, it's done so playfully, it wouldn't hurt kids)
EDIT- (okay, episode 7 would just have to go, that's raunchy, but everything else...)

The cartoons I want to see on Saturday morning don't exist.

What I would LOVE to see would be two one hour cartoons based on comics.

One in the DC Universe and one in the Marvel Universe.

These shows would not have a set cast, but would have an ongoing story arc in the same vein as "Heroes", with an ensemble cast. I don't necessarily mean "JLA" or "The Avengers", but each episode would focus on different characters from their respective universes. For example one week the DC series would be Superman-centric, the next Lobo. Marvel would focus on Doctor Strange one week, and the next on The Incredible Hulk.

The stories would be more or less ripped from the pages of the comics, and not violate printed canon to an absurd degree, and not take too many liberties with the origins of the characters, their personalities etc.

Underdog/Gigantor etc. - I don't remember them being that good, so it's on first in case I oversleep from sugar hangover.

Classic Loony Toons - Bugs Daffy Porky etc.

Diaper Man and Rope Man et al. (I think called "Mighty Heroes" or something)

Speed Racer

Half hour of the 60's Marvel toons

Half hour of the 60's DC toons

Half hour of cartoon related documentaries - to feature stuff like Farscape's cartoon episode, or Bugs Bunny's Kill the Rabbit version of Wagner's Valkyries, but stuff that maybe I've never seen yet - e.g. racist cartoons from the past, original toons and the modern PC versions.

and closing with SP



Now I'll go read everyone else's since I probably forgot a couple.

A Saturday morning without Bugs Bunny cartoons is seriously fucked up IMHO.

Could we just have it start at 9AM instead of 7? I ain't draggin myself outta bed that early any more.

I can think of a few off the top...
In no particular order...
Classic warner bros cartoons. unedited.
Classic Tex Avery cartoons. unedited.
Samurai Jack.
JLU.
Starblazers.
And TAS. (Gotta have TAS)

Star Trek TAS
Jason of Star Command (remember that one?)
Classic Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
Classic SpiderMan, from back in the 70s
Batman, the earlier series, not the later one
SpongeBob Squarepants
Fairly Odd Parents
Then bowling. Remember when ABC used to carry the Pro Bowlers Association?

*Kicks self for not including Bugs and TAS*

I'll take whatever keeps the young'uns quiet so I can sleep in.

Banana Splits.
What more need be said?

samurai jack
smurfs
fraggle rock
care bears
inspector gadget
samurai champloo
johnny bravo
futurama
boondocks
transformers
rainbow brite
king of the hill


oh, and if we can have cartoon movies too, I'd like to add heavy metal and the secret of nimh.

What? No Bugs Bunny?

Start off with some Joy of Painting episodes then a few rounds of golf followed by some soccer highlights.

With that line-up one could sleep well past noon.

Sigmund
Land of the Lost
Bugs/Road Runner (90 minute)
Battle Of the Planets
Dangermouse
Count Duckula
Shazaam/Isis (live action)
Old Transformers
Old GI Joe
Bandstand & Soul Train means its time to go outside...


Prime Time Lineup:

8:00 - Ren & Stimpy
8:30 - King of the Hill
9:00 - Simpsons
9:30 - Futurama
10:00 - Family Guy
10:30 - Beavis & Butthead
After the 11:00 news - Celebrity Deathmatch

Challenge of the Superfriends - Where they battled the Legion of Doom.
Bugs Bunny
Jason of Star Command
Thundarr
Ark II
Land of the Lost - Original of course
Tom and Jerry
Isis
Shazam/Captain Marvel

I Can't possibly be bothered to have the TV on before 8 on a Saturday, and that's a sacrifice...

8:00- Underdog
8:30- Rocky and Bullwinkle (I take considerable pride in being the first to mention this)
9:00- George of the Jungle
9:30- Looney Tunes
10:30- TAS
11:00- Batman TAS
11:30- Superman TAS
12:00- JL/JLU
12:30- Roughnecks
1:00- Johnny Weismuller Tarzan Movie!
3:00- NAP!!

10:00: Danger mouse

In no particular order:

Captain Caveman
Dangermouse
Count Duckula
Dungeons and Dragons
Battle of the Planets
Bagpuss
The Clangers
The Muppets
Roobarb & Custard

How could I forget the live action Shazam?

The best part about the live action Shazam was the Captain Marvel actor was beefy and looked half-lit in his scenes. You could imagine him off camera drinking scotch and smoking cigarettes. He looked like he got winded running across the parking lot.

If we are starting at 7am, then Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry are what I'd start off with. I always remember those two shows being super early.

7:00am Bugs Bunny
7:30am Tom & Jerry
8:00am Hercules/Rocket Robin Hood
8:30am Dungeons & Dragons
9:00am Transformers (Generation 1, none of that Beast Wars crap)
9:30am Transformers (see above)
10:00am G.I. Joe
10:30am Jem & the Holograms
11:00am Smurfs
11:30am Batman TAS
12:00pm Justice League
12:30pm Spiderman
1:00pm Belle & Sebastian
1:30pm Bear Called Jeremy

I'd then spend the rest of the afternoon playing video games on my Atari 2600.

SMURFS??!!??!

SMURFS??!!??!

I miss the years when WPIX in NY would run an Abbott and Costello film every Sunday morning.

Not to drift away from cartoons, but I've got my own nostalgic weekend programming going right now. During lunch Sat and Sun, and again in late afternoon, I'm cycling through:

Miami Vice
Mission Impossible
Hawaii 5-0
Wild, Wild, West

Having a blast!