Disney's One Saturday Morning | A History & Demise: What Happened to ABC's Saturday Morning Block?
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- Опубликовано: 9 окт 2024
- A historic look at Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997-2002) and it's apprentice, ABC Kids (2002-2011). I explain how it began, the different shows, the transition from One Saturday Morning to ABC Kids, and how it all ended. I can't believe there's only ONE tribute video on RUclips for this amazing block. Please check out these great reference videos and articles for more information on topics:
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I should've made bigger note of the massive publicity One Saturday Morning got before airing, with a live show at Disney-MGM Studios, a cassette tape, books, and commercials, as well as a special airing on TGIF in 1998.
VHS and DVD also played a part in Saturday morning cartoons dwindling, but I wouldn't make it as a big a deal as the Internet.
Hard to believe, but in 2011, the Internet really wasn't as prevalent. It was everywhere, but not extremely accessible for EVERYONE, it would still take another 3 years for that to happen, especially with video. I think ABC cut their programming block early out of laziness.
Except...it wasn't just laziness. I never really went into ad revenue during the video...but that definitely factored in. A lot.
Power Rangers was going to be killed by Disney a number of times, but producers kept it alive by taking massive cuts. At one point, Disney was thinking of using Super Sentai footage and dubbing everything rather than filming new footage. They
said Power Rangers "didn't fit their brand." However, I think they really forgot about it existing in the Iger-era, because if parents were really complaining about violence, then explain how Disney owns Lucasfilm and Marvel.
Hey did you like what you see? No? Oh...well never mind about the thumbs up.
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I miss the good ole days... the 90s and early 2000s were simply THE best.
100% agree
One Saturday
Hear, hear.
Can't believe we are already entering the 'back in my day' age for millennials
@@destinymace Ikr
I miss One Saturday Morning so much. It was so much of my childhood. Thank you for doing this.
90s KIDS FOREVER!!!
This is awesome... I was the promo voiceover guy for OSM from 1997-1999, also was the voice of Spot/Scott (taking over from Nathan Lane) in “Teacher’s Pet”. Thanks for the memories!
Wow really?? That’s so cool! Any neat stories during your time doing voiceover at Disney??
You did a damn good job, as a kid I had no idea Spot had a different VA in some episodes.
@@CinephileStudios I'm with you on ABC Kids being a great block, as someone who could only catch cable shows when me and my mom visited my grandmother once a week it was a great way for me to catch up with Disney Channel shows, and interestingly enough the Even Stevens episode Sibling Rivalry actually premiered on ABC Kids before it aired on Disney Channel.
@@jadedheartsz Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
I grew up without cable so this was my Saturday I am sad it's gone was a great show block 😖
My family had cable but I love these blocks I'm not sure if WC and FOX still have these Saturday morning cartoons
@@Caim6311 nah Fox Kids got cut loose in 2002. Sad.
Sometimes I feel spoiled that I've had all these nice things my whole life.
Same. I remember this well. I loved Pepper Ann, Recess, Doug.
@@BlackReign574 Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
I watched both this and Kids WB back in the 90s. What I wouldn't do to relive those days.
Omg, agreed!
@@DoodleThis they were partial before they died.
@@DoodleThis Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
I have great nostalgia for One Saturday Morning. I never wanted to miss the opening with all the wild imaginative machinery going on. The clubhouse looked like a circus & I loved the in-between bits.
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I love that you acknowledged The Little Mermaid VHS that promoted One Saturday Morning. I remember watching that.
It was also on the Lady and the Tramp VHS.
There was one on Inspector Gadget too.
Knobbus Slobbus II Gadget's Greatest Gadgets?
Jordan Wright No, the live action movie. Don't know how I remember that.
same here
As one of the creators of the one Saturday morning brand during my time at Disney Channel I really appreciate your analysis.
I would always wake up early so that I could watch the One Saturday Morning Intro. It was such a great way to start a Saturday before going to play outside in the afternoon.
25 years ago today Disney's One Saturday Morning made its debut!
@rhyancoleman6462 I have the Disney 1One Saturday Morning soundtrack cassette!
@@SuperMarioBrosIII Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
@@EddieKyteABCDEFG12345678910 Yes I do!🤗👍🙏🧸
I didn't have cable so this is how I got Lizzie , Raven, and all the cartoons 😭
I wish Saturday morning cartoons would come back
They never will.
@@unholyshaman9211 Sinclair Broadcast Group tried to bring back Saturday Morning cartoons by airing KidsClick in July 2017 on various Sinclair-owned CW, FOX, and MyNetworkTV affiliates. Sadly, it was discontinued in March 2019 without notice.
Read more about it here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KidsClick
i remember months ago that cartoon network was trying to bring it back and air their current shows on Saturdays. i know this because they had this weird commercial where they would "interrupt" and say " meanwhile on cartoon network!" i don't know if they're still doing this currently though. ( regarding the Saturday morning cartoons)
Justin Hill Part of why it was discontinued was because it didn’t meet any of the guidelines in the Children’s Television Act. Btw, I actually didn’t know it was still in effect but for sure, it’s dead.
Justin Hill I’m looking at the programming and can see why. Miraculous? Pac-Man?
“An Illuminating Television!” *Lightbulb Rocketship takes off.*
Speaking as a young adult at the time, I found Recess to be very fun.
I was born in 1986 so I remember a lot about 90's Saturday Morning Cartoons. I watched mostly CBS on Saturdays until the fall of 1997. I enjoyed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Garfield the most on CBS. Disney produced a lot of CBS's cartoons until ABC bought Disney in 1996. That was the beginning of the end for Saturday Morning Cartoons on CBS and in the fall of 1997 CBS added a 2 hour news show. Fortunately, ABC picked up CBS's slack as my favorite Saturday Morning Network. The first two seasons were great, but then Doug left in 1999 and all of the cool filler segments left the next year. However, I did enjoy watching "The Weekenders" which debuted in early 2000. I stopped watching the ABC block in the fall of 2001, when all of the Disney Channel Shows and "Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action" showed up on the schedule.
Born June 29 1984. I was blessed with so many Saturday morning blocks. Of course The Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles! I also remember sonic and friends, adventures of whining the pooh, a pup named schooby doo! Ghostbusters! The list goes on Lol
Born in 77 I watched even though I was in college 😂😅
Same, like... every word you wrote. Same.
Born in April 1985
@@QueenViolet8 Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
5 hours of summer, once a week. That's all we needed.
You forgot Sabrina the Animated Series cause the show also aired on Disney's 1 Saturday morning on ABC as well
Eh true, I forgot a couple in fact :/
@@CinephileStudios I agree Saturday Mornings should be full of cartoons back in the late 80's when I grew up The Global Television Network up here in Canada had Saturday Morning Cartoons untill noon
I seem to be the only person who recalls One Saturday Morning, and Pepper Ann by extent. Recess, Buzz Lightyear, Teachers Pet and Lloyd in Space were relatively popular, but nobody remembers Pepper Ann at all. Mrs Mungers Class I know got canned because of a lawsuit from the lady herself. Sad seeing what happened to OSM, I have fond memories of their original programming. Someday we'll see it on DVD, and Filmore too, that show was the shit.
MostVerticalPrimate MK II cross our fingers one day Disney will finally give us HD quality versions of Fillmore, pepper ann, recess maybe with the new streaming service it'll happen.
Pepper Ann was my favorite!
I Know this is years old....
But I named my dog pepper Ann lol
Lived 14 good years
I remember watching these shows and after these shows I play myst uru or go to my grandparents house.
@@ohyesitsyouagain Same for me
I randomly remembered this and thought I'd look up ABC's one Saturday morning
O.S.M. was the BEST!!!! I was the Mom, but I loved it. I still miss it. I miss my childhood saturdays too. The weekend special (the after school special), Schoolhouse Rock! That's when the TV really knew how to raise kids right. lol
Right? Now the parents have to do all the work! :(
Schoolhouse rock was meh
Disney's One Saturday Morning was originally scheduled to debut the Saturday prior on September 6, 1997; however, its premiere was pushed back to September 13, one week due to ABC News' coverage of the funeral of Princess Diana (a news event which also resulted in CBS, NBC and Fox pre-empting their children's program blocks that day).
By "pushed back", I assume you meant "delayed".
@@TheInkPitOxthat funeral could've been on C-SPAN or CNN or however you prefer.
@@bradyanderson6311Like it or not, more things used to be considered "breaking news" which would interrupt regularly scheduled programming on network TV. The OJ Simpson chase broke during the Knicks/Rockets NBA Finals.
@@fromthehaven94 that was upsetting in ways, and Nick News Brief still hasn't been planned.
I remember that broke into the series finale of Hangin with Mr Cooper.
Dope presentation. You definitely hit the nail on the head with this by driving the point home. Kudos!
My boyfriend and I have super nostalgic moments where we like to watch Saturday morning cartoons we grew up watching. One Saturday Morning vids on RUclips are some of our faves. I remember it from the beginning. Good times.
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I'm convinced the 90s were the best decade ever. Everything was better in that decade.
You are not wrong.
Blake Anderson over here 😂 but agreed
Absolutely! I am SO glad I was a 90's kid. That decade was made for kids!
How is something so professional and well made getting barely over 100 views? More should be watching your content.
At least it expanded to almost 5k now. Congratulations!!!
Before we had TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Cell Phones. We had Saturday Morning Cartoons and social interaction. The best era of all time! I remember this very well.
watching this 5 years later. I can't find the website anymore. I think they killed it.
I was a teenage but I grew up through the 80s and 90s even in the 2000s it was a way better time ,,, it was sad that Saturday morning cartoons stop being made …..whoever remembered these moments you had a awesome childhood
OMG memories!!! New supporter
One of THEE best deep dives, one close to my heart as a 90’s baby, excellent work
I didn't have Disney Channel until summer 2004, because it was a premium channel where I lived. We moved and I finally had access to it! But until then, One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids was my jam! That was the only way we could all watch our beloved Disney Channel shows. And I still remember that One Saturday Morning intro song like it was yesterday ^^
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I started watching ABC more because of Disney’s acquisition of Power Rangers myself. Prior to that I only flicked over to the channel on very rare occasions because I was really caught up in Fox Kids. However I also became a huge fan of shows like Recess, Kim Possible, and Fillmore. You did a very good job on this Retrospective. I respect that you aren’t a PR fan. Definitely have lots of good memories of ABC Saturday morning!
We also grew up, kids from the 90s, making the interest in Saturday morning cartoons dwindle. When our teen interests were more on MySpace and browsing the internet.
I was 9 when this block started, so I was able to thoroughly enjoy it. Recess and Pepper Ann were my favorites.
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TGIF on Friday nights coupled with one Saturday morning cartoons was amazing! I'm not even sure what this crap is they show on Saturday mornings now.
Man now I remember TGIF and my folks orderng pizza for us on Friday nights to watch Family Matters, Step by Step, Dinosaurs, and Hanging with Mr Cooper.
Yes! TGIF and ABC Saturday Mornings will always be my childhood.
@@wturner777Same for me!
Love this retrospective. One Saturday Morning/ABC Kids was my favorite block as a kid. Funny enough since you made this video, there have been fan-made/bootleg hour long+ blocks of cartoon with commercials and bumpers spliced in giving it the entire nostalgic experience.
I remember how ABC was heavily promoting this block for several weeks before it debuted on Saturday, September 13, 1997. It even had a special sneak preview show the night before it debuted. When I finally saw it, I was hooked into it and would watch it regularly until around 2002 or 2003 after it became ABC Kids. I remember how different it was from the previous Saturday morning block it replaced. Gone were shows like ABC Weekend Special and Nightmare Ned, whose lead character's voice actor went on to voice Gus from "Recess." Wonderful times!
Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
@@EddieKyteABCDEFG12345678910 Yes, very much. I think it came out at around 11 AM Central Time.
It was supposed to start a week before but that was when Princess Diana’s funeral pre-empted it.
@@kgoundan Thanks for agreeing with me.
Man you spoke all Facts on this video, I’ve watched the EXACT thing unfold like you said throughout the years, like One Saturday Morning turned into ABC Kids, and Power Rangers was the ONLY show that got the seasons and episodes updated, wow such memories thank you
That double-crossed it.
Many thanks for this one! Not only did you put into words what so many of us felt, but you also answered many questions I've had. Like you, I noticed how things started repeating, and repeating. Yet every year I kept hoping that new shows would appear. Then suddenly it was all gone!
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I love one Saturday morning, I didn’t have cable and my favorite shows were pepperann and recess and other shows
I agree with you 100% I'm really surprised that Disney hasn't capitalize on it yet, I'm still waiting for my recess and pepper and T-shirts.
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You did such a great job on this!!! I miss my childhood so much I'm crying lol.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed!
@@CinephileStudios I actually quite liked Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action, my sister was big into the Olsen twins so I ended up getting into them as well, unfortunately In Action has several episodes missing online, that's one of those pieces of lost media i'd love to see turn up, i'm still kicking myself for not recording that show when it aired back then.
@@CinephileStudios Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
🙋🏾♀️ *I'm a abc kids saturday morning kid, I always wondered what happened. In my opinion it doesn't need to come back. The 2000s was the last great decade for teen sitcoms & cartoons.*
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I miss one saturday morning I wished I had a time machine so I could relive the 90s
FACTS
I loved Doug when I was a youngin and when I found out he went to ABC Saturday mornings I was so excited. That’s where i found recess. I don’t really remember any other shows but Doug and Recess. I still remember the jingle so clear in my head. oNe Saturday morning. Also I remember Dougs voice was different and the cartoon had a different vibe to it but still good.
I was in high school in the early days of it airing and I loved it. I remember the hosts. It's an absolute shame that the version I knew ended so quickly.
This is the best video ever. I have enjoyed "One Saturday Morning" in it's early days. I'd watched "One Saturday Morning" from early-mid 1998 to early 1999. I stopped watching it because I knew some changes on the block is yet to come. I have lived with 90's nostalgia throughout my life. I was born in mid 1995 and I was living in the 90's phase of life.
Maaaan! Some of the best times of my life was being a kid glued to the TV on a Saturday monring. Great video - thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
@EddieKyteABCDEFG12345678910 I do! I wad a big fan actually. Vivid memories watching it in my basement
@@BenSliwa That's Tigger-rific!
Going through all these old things just helps my depression.. nothing really seems to help but watching all my old tv shows and remember all the old good times.. a time when i was happy.
i watched OSM every saturday growing up. so this is rad.
Your childhood must of sucked
@@jmwloup5110 I too thought it can't die.
I watched it, too. Out of all the big networks, I liked ABC's lineup the most, especially the pre-OSM.
You reminded me of some of the shows that I forgot I used to watch! Great video, you brought back some good memories!
Thanks for watching!
I really adored the ABC kids block as a kid, I also didn't have cable when I was a kid so I was incredibly excited to ACTUALLY have popular shows to watch after PBS switched to news and every other channel was soap operas and shopping channels.
I hated it when they added the live action disney shows. And I still hate them today. I remember the first phase of 1 saturday morning And I still miss the hell out of it to this very day
excellent video BTW
Rewatch them they're really not that good. I rewatched a few of them today Doug and PepperAnn Sucked Recess too and yeah right you're still upset because Manny the Uncanny isn't on anymore. One Saturday Morning obviously thought it was the best thing ever and tricked everyone into thinking the same even now nobody can say anything bad about it, it's five hours of a waste of time I always got in trouble for watching TV because I was watching this. Too bad there were only three actual shows and the rest was filler. The only good one was Winnie the Pooh and that doesn't count because it wasn't part of the One Saturday Morning block and it has been on since the 80's Mrs Mungers class was fine I guess as was Centerville
@@emmaelson6770 Got stuck with The Disney Afternoon during your time, ey?
(To be honest, even if I didn't watch the blocks, I actually prefer The Disney Afternoon's cartoons over One Saturday Morning's cartoons. My only favorites from One Saturday Morning were The New Adventure of Winnie the Pooh, Recess and Mickey Mouse Works. I mostly prefer the other block's cartoons like DuckTales, Bonkers, TaleSpin and Shnookums and Meat.)
@@kooarchived The last show you mentioned was terrible
Damn i didnt know they just kept showing the same 10 episodes at a certain point
I remember both One Saturday Morning and ABC kids. I loved both honestly. I remember being four and watching One Saturday Morning and then later watching ABC kids at my dad's like at 7, 8 and 9 years old. Such good times, i miss it 😩
One Saturday Morning made its debut when I was 10. I've always been a fan of ABC's lineup.
@@wturner777 Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
Saturday a big bowl of cereal and 1 Saturday morning..
Aaaww the good old days
I wish they comeback. It brings back a lot of memories.
I loved one Saturday morning and Saturday mornings are still sacred to me as an adult person. I love that you did this topic thank you.
Thank you for this. I miss Disneys ones Saturday morning. And Disney is gonna make a graphic novel for the block coming out may 2023 for the 25 anniversary and also a album
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I’m glad someone else went through this too. My sister and I vaguely remember Saturday morning cartoons getting boring when we were given the same half dozen episodes of Even Stevens and Lizzie McGuire week after week. But whenever I’ve brought it up in conversation no one knows what I’m talking about. Thank you for validating my sanity, lol
Streaming ruined the Saturday Morning Cartoons era, but if you think about it, it's better this way. We can watch our favorite shows anything, anytime, anywhere. I love that.
@@jozars.2655 You and Me both as I said before the FCC should have left the Saturday morning cartoon block alone Kids were being taught in School Monday though Friday let them have Saturday Mornings to goof off and watch Cartoons
Streaming didn't ruin Saturday Morning Cartoons. They were fizzling out some 30-35 years ago. The owned and operated network stations had to carry their entire lineup but their affiliates didn't. The network affiliates would preempt some or all of the networks program because the networks didn't pay the affiliates for the advertising time.
i loved one Saturday morning, that opening gives me the chills,i used to watch it for Doug ,pepper ann and the looney toons show before heading off to the library. i remember there was the Disney comic books too
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I still remember most of these shows. I mostly watched Power Rangers, up to the first half or so of Dino Thunder in 2004.
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As someone who didn’t have cable growing up, watching ABC Kids on Saturday mornings was the best!!
I miss Disney's one Saturday morning. It was such an enjoyable block.
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You missed out. I was around for the beginning of One Saturday Morning. My family watched TGIF every Friday, so when OSM was announced, we saw the ads on TGIF. Great time, lots of fond memories. For a time, id wake up, go to basketball games if I had them, come home, watch TV, go play with friends. Or wake up, watch TV, rent a video game, play with friends. It's a shame kids won't get to enjoy it
This was such a great blast to the past. Thanks for covering this!
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I miss One Saturday morning so much! Definitely TGIF was my Friday night into One Saturday morning. I tried looking recently and don’t really see any Saturday morning cartoons. Anyone remember the Weekenders from One Saturday morning?
I miss these days! My kids were STILL kids...now they're adults. Smh...time waits for no one! We watched together! Sweet memories
I actually caught the tail end of OSM and One-Too in '00-'01 during my senior year of high school. Had a pretty chill teacher in the morning and caught some of this on a local ABC affiliate during slow mornings. Kind of weird looking back and not knowing I was watching the twilight years of Saturday Morning blocks.😢
I'm older than you (1988) and watched One Saturday Morning almost religiously. I loved Recess, Doug, and Pepperann. Doug and Recess are on Disney+ now and I am strongly considering a rewatch. Thank you for including some of the theme song too
Thank you so much for this, man. One Saturday Morning is one of my favorite childhood memories. So many people have forgotten about it, but I mostly didn’t have cable growing up, so I used to get so excited for Saturday morning cartoons 😭💜
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Such nostalgia, miss the good ole days of good cartoon t.v., the best of no cable starter pack
I remember being in the 5th grade when 1 Saturday Morning first came out. Us kids would to talk about The New Doug, Recess, and Pepperann during class. Well we can catch some of these shows on Disney+ now.
I wish my class did the same
@@SportsFan-vq9kk Disney+ still doesn't have Jungle Cubs.
Back them when we could watch cartoons and get motivated to play in the afternoon!! Kids today have no clue how much fun we had in the 90s
Ahhh thank you so much for this the trip down nostalgia road. One Saturday Morning was a big part of my childhood.
When I first began working in Broadcasting at KMIZ, part of my shift was Disney's One Saturday Mornings/ABC Kids. Worked it from 2001 to 2004. I left the ABC station in '04 to work for WOWT, a NBC station in another market. The Proud Family was the only cartoon I liked. Didn't care for anything else in the block. Was glad I put in commercial content into the video server during that time. My ABC station carried the Power Rangers, but KETV 7 in my new market declined to air it.
Recess has some deep jokes that most people wouldn't get but are extremely funny if you know your history.
Saturday Morning Cartoons will make a come back in 2021
Yes and No. As of 2023, Litton Entertainment is still at large on all the big networks except FOX. MeTV is airing cartoon classics though.
@@wturner777 Let's hope so
Those were most definitely the golden years of Saturday morning cartoons
I remember one Saturday morning so vividly. Just waking up early with my bowl of cereal and watching pepper ann and recess. Good times. Makes me sad
This unlocked an early childhood memory. Omg. I was around 5 when it was changed to abc kids
That theme song lives rent free in my head on Saturday morning
Thank you for posting and covering this. I Miss this Bunches... :)
I miss my childhood and these good shows. But you’re definitely right! I specifically remember seeing the same episodes of that’s so rave and proud family like every other week, I didn’t have anything to watch after that
Disney channel was a premium part of cable that you had to pay for back in the day and i watched these shows on ABC Saturdays instead. The nastalgia that these bring. I still watch Disney channel in my 30s today. I miss these shows and wish Disney plus would air them all and not just a select popular few.
my absolute favorite part of the week back in the day. I miss the good times in life tv is absolutely shitty now.
@marianne mccrank back in my day
I was 3 to 8 for One Saturday Morning. This is for my generation
I grew up watching Saturday morning really miss watching them wish they would come back.
I loved this block. I got up every week at 6:30 during my middle and high school years to watch it. One Two kind of ruined it. The acquisition of Power Rangers ruined Toon Disney by turning it into the Power Rangers Network. Literally EVERY GENERATION of Power Rangers was aired on that network EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Not sure if One Two contributed to the downfall of 1SM. UPN did not run kids programming outside Sundays and Fox Kids and Kids WB were ahead of UPN, so by the time One Too ran on UPN it was too late. Plus Disney Afternoon was gone.
@@PlayaPotna1984 One Two sucked.
@@TheInkPitOx "One Too".
@@Superlad945 Eh CW isn't as good as WB as they got rid of all of their comedy and we stopped seeing more down-to-earth dramas like One Tree Hill and Everwood and everything had to be high-fantasy or sci-fi or action and I just didn't care for it.
@@Superlad945 that's actually false, One Tree Hill, Everwood, One on One, Everybody Hates Chris, Reba, Girlfriends and The Game were all getting good ratings. In the case of the black shows getting canned I think it was definitely due to racism(WB used the WGA strike as a convenient excuse to kill off Girlfriends and it's entire comedy department)the lack of comedies really hurt the CW as comedies were what made The WB popular to begin with and it felt disrespectful for them to shutter an entire department seemingly as a temper-tantrum over a writers strike.
I remembered One Saturday Morning, DiscoverKids, Kids WB, and Fox Kids. Fox Kids would carry me through the week after school, and One Saturday Morning is the main event with Kids WB later on in the afternoon.
Nostalgia I miss one Saturday morning and Disney’s one too that used to be on channel 59 on my regular TV program.
As a child in the early 90s, I would usually catch the tail end of this block since I usually saw Fox Kids & KidsWB. I remember sometimes watching episodes of recess & pepper ann, when there was nothing to watch on those blocks. I usually saw new adventures of winnie the pooh & science court. As someone who grew up w/out cable, I also liked ABC Kids. Thankfully, most of these shows are on disney plus
Thank you for giving the proper definition of Saturday morning cartoons. Big 3 cartoons airing once a week. So many people here postings videos with syndicated daily cartoons and calling them Saturday morning cartoons. However the live action Mario Brothers you posted while defining it was a weekday cartoon.
Growing up with the 1 Saturday Morning programming block, this makes me so sad to see it go
For those that remember, PBS Kids did a simple thing to promote kids to watch TV on the weekends. From 2000 to 2004, PBS had created a logo called PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch. Unlike other shows on PBS, other shows were made from Canada and were only available on Saturdays and Sundays. During those 3 hours of television, there were only 6 shows including Corduroy, Elliot Moose, Timothy Goes to School, Seven Little Monsters, George Shrinks, and Marvin the Tap Dancing Horse. It was another great way for kids to keep busy when they don’t have school. However like One Saturday Morning, Bookworm Bunch had slowly declined and the program stopped in 2004. However, only a few shows from the Bookworm Bunch ran reruns on Qubo for a while. Luckily I enjoyed those shows growing up and now those shows are found on RUclips.
I enjoyed watching Bookworm Bunch. I used to watch it every Sunday Morning. Believe it or not, Arthur is also a Canadian/American show.
The issue can be boiled down to three specific areas:
1. The E/I mandate: TV stations had to provide educational and instructional programming three hours weekly. That, along with Saturday sports telecasts, pushed Saturday morning schedules to 3 hours. ABC's Noon hour (which was Power Rangers) would get pre-empted for sports.
2. Each network owned or partnered with a kids cable channel. ABC had Disney Channel, CBS and UPN had Nickelodeon, Fox had Fox Family, NBC partnered with Discovery Channel, and The WB had Cartoon Network. All those cable channels were exempt from E/I requirements.
3. The US government was cracking down on commercials aimed at children for broadcast networks. It made producing entertaining kids programming prohibitive on broadcast, but, it was exempt from cable. Thus, why the major networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) now air morning news with educational programming aimed at teenagers. To make money.
Now, with streaming, there's no need for a Saturday morning block. It can be Saturday any day.
Fillmore! ain't forgotten in this house. I still have the whole show, just about one of the best shows on public TV in the early 00's
Great video this was a lost block of kids television that no one recognized
Some great shows then on this and Fox Kids are Hey Arnold, Doug, Darkwing Duck, Spider-Man, X-Men, Pepper Ann, Recess, Animaniacs, Tazmania, Pinky and The Brain.