This was the golden age of cartoons for 80's kids. Getting the toys based off our favorite show(s) allowed our imaginations to come up with our own episodes with them when a half hour of TV wasn't enough. I remember all of these. A time in life I'll never forget and wish everyone could have experienced.
That's actually why they passed regulations against these kind of shows, i.e. toy driven cartoons. Educational/moral groups thought it was wrong to market to kids this way and parent got tired of constantly getting nagged by their kids to buy them the hottest new toy.
One of the things I liked about Gummy Bears is that it had a story arc that progressed with each season, and it ultimately had a definitive ending. Most animated shows at the time were either completely episodic or got cancelled before they could finish their story.
Many cartoons intentionally avoided story arcs because they were produced "for syndication" and had no control over when or what order the episodes would air. But the first 4 seasons of Gummy Bears was produced for NBC (this was before Disney acquired ABC) so they had the luxury of knowing how many episodes would air and knew they would air in order. If you re-watch the series, watch for any changes in the way the writers handled seasons 1-4 verses seasons 5-6.
I watched Thundercats as an adult, and I’m like gosh, how many times are they going to repeatedly fall into Mumm-Ra’s traps! Or how many times will he have them in his power only to fumble at the last minute! Now there was a time where things were very briefly changed up, Mumm-Ra’s bosses were fed up with him and sealed him away for a time. I am guessing that maybe the Thundercat production crew thought the show was going to end, but it went on for some time longer. After that, of course Mumm-Ra was brought back and the same old shenanigans ensued.
Heathcliff was an awesome show that always came on after school on Nickelodeon. Loved it. I also miss M.A.S.K., and that show / toyline called something like 'Air Raiders' or something as they were all airborne toys that glided on lines. Oh, and Dino-Riders.
The Dino-Riders Toy-line is getting a reboot from the guy behind Beasts of the mesozoic, by doing a series called Cyberzoic which is blatantly Dino-Riders
I was a MANIAC for the Littles!! It came on WFTS channel 10, Tampa, Florida’s ABC affiliate in the 11 AM/11:30 AM time slot, after the main Saturday morning lineup between ‘83 and ‘85. I loved the opening titles music. The show has a distinct anime influence, although it was made by a French production company and licensed by ABC.
It had lots of memorable episodes, like the one where the mother got poisoned with a toxic gas and their human friend had to pretend to be poisoned himself so he would pass them the medicines to heal her or the episode where humans find out about their existence (it was a dream).
@@TheReviewStudiosThere's one I remember, sort of, but can't remember the name. What I remember from one episode, it involved I think a father and son who investigated this portal to another dimension with these creatures there, and I think the military was involved. Near the end the father was in a fight with the military leader, one of the creatures escaped, and a nuke exploded causing the dimension to implode.
Mmhm. I was hoping this would actually cover some truly obscure cartoons, like the one with animals that… covered everyone with petals? Petal power? Puppy power? 🤔
@@TheReviewStudios Hi, Can you find and upload or send me the links of the 2 CBS Storybreak Cartoon English Episodes: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees, and What Happened in Hamelin if they're in good quality? Please, let me know if you have them!
10) Denver is very well remembered in Italy, we loved him so much 😍 italian theme tune is still so cool 😎 9) Popples is mainly remembered for the plush toys, big part in the 80s pop culture ☺️ 8) Also Pound Puppies are still remembered, even if not as much as Denver 💖 7) 😮 6) That cat is a legend 😎 we know him as Isidoro 💖 5) 😮 4) Snorks are also a big 80s culture thing, even if they didn't have the same luck as Smurfs! 3) I forgot they weren't just a toy! 3 again) Rainbow Brite is the reason behind my love for rainbows. 2) Jem was also never forgotten, italian theme tune is still so cool! 1) Gummy Bears were also so big in Italy, so they're still well rememberes, by 80s kids ☺️
Great list I can honestly say though that I did NOT see a single cartoon on the list that I had forgotten. The 80's had some really memorable cartoons.
I remember most of these. To this day, I hear a little bit of their opening song and flood of memories still comes back. Like Denver the last Dinosaur, Snorks, and Heathcliff mostly from this list. Others I have some more distant memories of like Pound Puppies and The Littles. I personally liked the Snorks more than the Smurfs and while I remember watching the Gummy Bears, I really just remember it as that show that was on before DuckTales. It was fun to see the bears bouncing around, but I liked see what adventure Scrooge would be on next more.
I definitely remember all of these. But I grew up throughout all of the 80’s and 90’s watching a whole lot of cartoons, and I’m still into those decades’ nostalgia a lot. But these were the days. Just watching some of these after school, or getting up early Saturday mornings with a bowl of cereal and watching until mid-day. Animation overall, especially with certain shows, was so much better back then, the voice acting was better, and even the music. Especially on the epic show intros that they spent even more time on. Were we marketed to a lot with these to sell toys? Sure. But in most cases the toys were great too, so it was a win-win. Today I don’t know that I envy kids’ having access to anything at any time. First off, it seems much lower quality with mindless stories, just kicked out of a computer. But part of what made cartoons so great back in the day was that we didn’t have them ALL the time. So when we did, it was really special and exciting. The same goes with things like theme parks or other places you might have traveled to. You couldn’t just watch a million review videos or a POV ride-through on RUclips. You went, and you sometimes had no IDEA of the crazy fun you were about to experience. I can remember the first time I went to Walt Disney World in 1987, I could barely even find a few still photos from it in a book or magazine. But I definitely knew what it was from people’s stories and pop culture.
The 90-00s advent of throwaway CGI stuff seem far more forgotten than material USA, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, TNT and so on kept in syndication forever. Probably still do.
You are 100% right. Well said. I’d also add that while parents fought the toy companies to uncouple their toys with cartoons. I think that was the wrong thing to do. The cartoons build a world kids could use as a springboard to make their own adventures and fun with their toys. Or not at all, if they chose to ignore it. Nowadays kids see a cool toy and have no idea what its world would look or be like so they don’t really play with toys as much. Especially outside with their friends. Commercials used to frequently depict kids with their toys playing outside with friends. I almost never see kids outside playing with toys, let alone with a group of friends. Cartoons paired with toys was a good thing. Toys nowadays are mostly collectible toys that refer to days gone by that the younger generation has little to no interest in.
NEVER FORGOTTEN!!! Alot if the cartoon themes from my childhood still bring goosebumps and hard-core nostalgia. He-Man, Transformers, Thundercats...oh yeah!!!
On Friday nights I would take my parents TV Guide and make a watchlist for Saturday morning. Every half hour I knew what channel to go to and what show I was watching it LOL
I have been trying to find denver The last dinosaur for years now. For some reason. I always remember it as Dino the Dinosaur. And I know that's like the flintstones, But I never remembered the Denver part. Such a retro blast just went through my mind Watching the intro and everything thank you
As a kid I watched Heathcliff, The Littles, the Wuzzles and Jem! At the age of fifty-one I'm not at all ashamed to say I *STILL* love the music featured on Jem. Like a Dream is still my jam....dammit.... I also liked Paw-Paw Bears and Trollkins too 👍👍👍
The 1980's were the best decade of entertainment with many of us been waiting for a new comeback but however, the 1980s will always be the best decade for us nostalgia/older fans out there enjoyed. Great vid, man. LONG LIVE 1980'S!
I don’t think any of these were forgotten. I remember watching all of them, and all of them were very popular and talked about on the school grounds and things like that.
I wished my favourites past Disney animated Series like The Gummie Bears, Darkwing Duck, Wuzzles, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, House of Mouse, Kim Possible and American Dragon Jake Long are finally released onto Blu- Ray at last just like they did for Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.
Those days cartoons had imagination it told a story with morales, todays cartoons dont hold up. I watched most of these and still love them and have rewatched many of them
I am now 43 years old, and I haven't seen some of these old friends in a long time, yet I have instant memory of these theme songs as if i had just watched it yesterday. I know every word. The wave of nostalgia I felt just seeing the Littles again blew my mind. I had completely forgotten about them. I am a middle-aged man now with a wife and kid. I am a Marine as tough as they come. I have no shame in my secret love for Jem. The second I heard that theme song ... I am instantly singing it. I had to make sure my brother and sister never caught me watching Jem because it was a girly show. Now I have no shame, I will sing the Jem theme song loud and proud and with all the passion of my heart.
We binged-watched Jem episodes a few years ago. Of course, the plot lines of 1980s cartoons were ridiculous, but Jem’s were the best; Oh, the Misfits are guilty of attempted homicide? Nah, we won’t call the authorities, we’ll just get them next time! 😂
Im 42 and i sometimes sing the denver the last dinasour song its weird i really didnt watch it but few times the song pops into my head usually once a month
was born in '79, all these cartoons you mentioned, I remember them all and I was indeed that kid who got up at the Crack of dawn ( about 4 AM, lol) with his bowl of fruity trix and He-man pajamas to watch those cartoons and many many more. I miss the 80s, they had some awesome cartoons and toys. I had almost all the transformers and He-man toys. I wish to God I still had them, not to sell but just for nostalgic reasons.
I remember crying as a kid when the Gummy Bears used that huge telegraph machine and discovered there was at least one last colony of bears across the sea.
I watched all the cartoons that you featured in this video heathcliff and the catillac cats was always my favorite and you're right riff Raff mungo Wordsworth and Hector they all deserve their own show
OMG this is so nostalgic. Kids now adays don't know what they're missing. Saturday mornings growing up in the 80's was our time 🥰. The only one that I would skip was Jem and that was due to Sunday morning being my WWF wrestling time lol
FLASH FACT: Heathcliff actually was intended to just be a Catallac Cats series only the production company wasnt sure if it would sell on those characters alone, so the rights to Heathcliff were acquired and paired off with the Catallac Cats segments which were also known as 'Cats and Company'. They even had their own theme song that played during random episodes instead of the more well known 'Heathcliff' version of the theme.
Is that how it worked? I thought maybe Chalopin got the rights to produce Heathcliff cartoons after the Ruby-Spears concluded, but piggybacked his own Catillac Cats just so he’d have his own stable of characters as insurance, since George Gately would retain the rights to Heathcliff.
@@maximusprime3459 ah. I never knew that. Funny thing was that for maybe the first week or so (memory is fuzzy) after it’s syndicated debut, each half hour slot featured 2 Heathcliff cartoons. Then soon the programming switched to one Heathcliff + 1Catallac cats cartoon that thereafter. Heathcliff wasn’t the most famous or popular cartoon character before DiC’s series, but I guess a little bit of name recognition is still better than none.
I watched and loved every one of these cartoons!! Many I've introduced to my kids, and they enjoyed them too. 😊💕 Really great memories! Thank you for this video!
The only one I didn't watch was Denver. I loved all of the others. Another one that I loved was Monchichis. It came out in 1983, but only had 13 episodes. It was based on the stuffed toys. I also watched Shirt Tales that ran from 82-85. There were 23 episodes with 2 stories in each episode. Nancy Cartwright joined the voice cast in season 2.
I watched every one of these when I was a kid. I had a Pound Puppy and a Pound Kitty stuffed animal. I'm pretty sure I had at least one Popple. I had the whole set of Rainbow Bright dolls, and for one Halloween, my mom and I had matching Rainbow Bright costumes that she made. I think she even had the cake pan. Man, I really miss those shows.
Thanks for these vids. Again cartoons that I remembered after so many years. But I saw them in the early 90s. Remember Heathcliff, Pound Puppies, Gummi Bears, Wozzles and Denver the Last Dinosaur.
I loved all these shows. I never watched the Snorks though. I liked the Smurfs. I adored the Gummy Bears due to its deep lore and great storytelling, I watched it non-stop on the Disney Afternoon. I also wished there was a show just for the Cadillac Cats. The episodes would have been less rushed if they were given a full half hour. Hector and Wordsworth were my favorite.
The only one I didn't know, at all, was the dinosaur one. I did watch the rest, mostly because of my younger siblings, except for The Littles, that was my favorite on this list & Jem...I watched that because of the girl I would eventually marry & we just celebrated our 29th anniversary. So, watching Jem paid off. 😂
I also had never heard of the dinosaur one till now. The Littles, Heathcliff and Snorks I remember watching, the rest I was at least aware of but wasn't interested in seeing.
Heathcliff/The Cadillac Cats and Gummy Bears were among my favorite cartoons as a kid in the 80s. I saw a few episodes of Denver the Last Dinosaur and liked that one as well. I had never known that The Littles was made into a cartoon show, but I was a fan of the books. I never saw the Popples, Rainbow Brite or Pound Puppies shows, but I was familiar with the related merchandise. I wasn't aware of the other three shows until many years later.
I remember all of these. Some of them my sister was more of a fan of such as "Rainbow Brite", and "Jem." I recall sitting on my couch watching "Heathcliff." around 1985 while in kindergarten. I too enjoyed the "Catillac Cats" segment more than "Heathcliff" itself.
I remember watching every episode of the cartoon series seen in this video accept for the one called The Popples that was the only one I never saw while growing up.
DUDE!!! I remember watching MOST of these shows when I was a kid. I had a Bumblion plush when I was young! I even recently re-watched the entire series of Gummi Bears on Disney+. This video gave me huge nostalgia right now!
I'll NEVER forget Heathcliff. I read the comics as a kid and always around Christmas, there was a Heathcliff marathon. As an adult, I found all the episodes on DVD and bought them so my son could enjoy them. He's almost an adult and we still have those DVDs. 🙂
I grew up watching most of the cartoons on this list(Heathcliff, The Littles, Jem, Gummy Bears, Pound Puppies, Snorks, and Denver) and it shows how much influence they were in our lives. And if it wasn’t for the USA Cartoon Express, we would’ve never known some of the shows
Here's my list: 1. Pacman cartoon 2. Private Benjamin (cartoon) 3. Lavern and Shirley (cartoon) 4. The Fonz and the Happy Days gang 5. The Ghostbusters 6. The "Real" Ghostbusters 7. Launchpad Mcquack 8. Captain Planet (probably 1990's though)
I remember ALL of these cartoons! But I only watched( starting with my favorite)Jem, Heathcliff, The Littles, Gummi Bears and Denver! The rest of the cartoons, I do remember but wasn't interested in watching them. Great memories! I miss the 80's!
I didnt see gummi bears when it first aired discovered in through an off hand video site we shall call it lol needless to say i may have been about 25 when i discovered the show but i gotta say its pretty good and i would have loved it growing up own the whole series on dvd now lol
There are some 80s CARTOONS that I never seen before. But I still watched a ton of them every SATURDAY MORNING! And the only way to WATCH them was with an ANALOG CRT BOX TV. Usually with a REMOTE and ANTENNA. No WI FI or ONLINE STREAMS required back then. Some TV'S even had STEREOS built in. Our FAMILY had a CURTIS MATHIS STEREO CONSOLE. (1985-1995) So watching TV and listening to MUSIC was AWESOME IMO. I may be one of few people that still watch AIR TV. And I have an LED 4K SMART TV.
A friend of mine proudly still owns her original stuffed Popple. I was a huge fan of Jem. (Showtime, Synergy!) In my area, Jem was on late at night, I think 9 or 10 PM (yes, children used to go to bed early so they could get a full night's sleep way back then, so I was in bed before airtime) so my mom used to record it, and I'd watch it in the morning before school. Having a kids' show on that late was "truly outrageous, truly truly truly outrageous." (If you know, you know.) I enjoyed how the storytelling would include songs performed by either Jem and the Holograms or The Misfits during action scenes. 7:11 - I can't believe I remember that commercial! 7:24 - My brain: "Gummi Bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere..." As soon as you mentioned Pound Puppies, I remembered their even-more-forgotten stuffed companions, Pound Purries. 2:39 - Hey, that offer expired on my 9th birthday! I never forgot the Wuzzles either. Even as a child, I thought of Snorks as a knockoff of The Smurfs; didn't affect me much, because I enjoyed both. Here's a cartoon that didn't make your list: Shirt Tales. A bunch of woodland creatures that could communicate by making words appear on their shirts. Somewhere in a box in this house is a photo of me as Ricky the Raccoon, in a costume my mother made from patterns and yards of fabric. I don't know how many hours she spent at the sewing machine, it really came out amazing! She was pretty mad that I failed to place in a shopping mall Halloween costume contest - against one boy who slapped some makeup on, safety-pinned a black sheet around his shoulders, and shoved a cheap pair of vampire teeth in his mouth to be a vampire, and two off-the-rack generic witch costumes - so she never did it again. And I don't blame her, she spent far too much time on it, and the top prize was only $25 (which is probably more like $50 in 2023 Bucks).
Yep, I remember all of these. Jem and The Gummi Bears were my faves, and their theme songs evoke such powerful nostalgia. Loved hearing the Denver theme again - my friends and I thought that cartoon was so cool! Also, I love reading the comments of all you fellow 80s kids. You really had to be there... and we were.
Man, being an 80s kid was definitely the best times. I watched all of these cartoons and they were very enjoyable. Interesting enough, Heathcliff sometimes came on Pluto Tv at times; which brought my childhood back to life. And yes, even the Disney Afternoon was amazing
Ain't a single one of us 80s kids forgot all the gems from childhood. Those commercial jingles still live rent free in our heads.
Every. Word. 😂
Haven’t seen some of these in decades yet sang along as soon as the song started in this video! 😆🙈
I knew all if these
That Heathcliff laugh still tickles me 😂.
I will NEVER forget He-man.
I watched ALL of these as a kid. Good times and wonderful memories!
Definitely, thanks for watching
@@TheReviewStudios I mostly watched Smurfs until I was 3, and then got into Snorks, Chipmunks and Gummi Bears after that.
@@TheReviewStudiossaw Denver the last dinosaur on usa cartoon express i was 7 in 1991 until 1 was 11 in 95😊
@@TheReviewStudiosall of these still have a steady cult following and none of them were forgotten. Try again my friend.
SAME!!! 🥰
I remember watching all of these shows. So many memories. The 80s was truly a great time to be a kid.
This was the golden age of cartoons for 80's kids. Getting the toys based off our favorite show(s) allowed our imaginations to come up with our own episodes with them when a half hour of TV wasn't enough. I remember all of these. A time in life I'll never forget and wish everyone could have experienced.
Getting the toys based on the cartoons that was created to sell those same toys
@@marcusfridh8489 Yup, basically. As kids we didn't care, but as adults we saw the game.
That's actually why they passed regulations against these kind of shows, i.e. toy driven cartoons. Educational/moral groups thought it was wrong to market to kids this way and parent got tired of constantly getting nagged by their kids to buy them the hottest new toy.
One of the things I liked about Gummy Bears is that it had a story arc that progressed with each season, and it ultimately had a definitive ending. Most animated shows at the time were either completely episodic or got cancelled before they could finish their story.
Many cartoons intentionally avoided story arcs because they were produced "for syndication" and had no control over when or what order the episodes would air. But the first 4 seasons of Gummy Bears was produced for NBC (this was before Disney acquired ABC) so they had the luxury of knowing how many episodes would air and knew they would air in order. If you re-watch the series, watch for any changes in the way the writers handled seasons 1-4 verses seasons 5-6.
I watched Thundercats as an adult, and I’m like gosh, how many times are they going to repeatedly fall into Mumm-Ra’s traps! Or how many times will he have them in his power only to fumble at the last minute! Now there was a time where things were very briefly changed up, Mumm-Ra’s bosses were fed up with him and sealed him away for a time. I am guessing that maybe the Thundercat production crew thought the show was going to end, but it went on for some time longer. After that, of course Mumm-Ra was brought back and the same old shenanigans ensued.
That's one reason I loved Conan the Adventurer. Conan and the entire crew teaming up one last time to finish the job.
Gummy Bears was actually fairly well written. I have them on dvd. But why didn't he mention Thundarr the Barbarian?
😅
Heathcliff was an awesome show that always came on after school on Nickelodeon. Loved it. I also miss M.A.S.K., and that show / toyline called something like 'Air Raiders' or something as they were all airborne toys that glided on lines. Oh, and Dino-Riders.
Yes
M.A.S.K. was awesome, loved the toys, too!
Air raiders was cool.
The Dino-Riders Toy-line is getting a reboot from the guy behind Beasts of the mesozoic, by doing a series called Cyberzoic which is blatantly Dino-Riders
Don't forget Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light and The Inhumanoids. The evil that lies within
Man what a nostalgia trip this was. My childhood was riddled with these cartoons
I was a MANIAC for the Littles!! It came on WFTS channel 10, Tampa, Florida’s ABC affiliate in the 11 AM/11:30 AM time slot, after the main Saturday morning lineup between ‘83 and ‘85. I loved the opening titles music. The show has a distinct anime influence, although it was made by a French production company and licensed by ABC.
It's definitely a classic seeing that intro again after all these years opened up a flood of memories.
My sister absolutely loved the Littles.
ABC was in inferior to NBC and CBS in the Saturday Morning realm during 1984-1987, so I didn't tune in until 1987.
I remember the Littles, I was a fan.
Same with me!
It had lots of memorable episodes, like the one where the mother got poisoned with a toxic gas and their human friend had to pretend to be poisoned himself so he would pass them the medicines to heal her or the episode where humans find out about their existence (it was a dream).
Just hearing the theme song from "Denver the Last Dinosaur" brought back a flood of memories. Liked and subbed!
Awesome, thanks. Yeah, after editing this video, I've had that song stuck in my head
You got lucky.
The one stuck in my head is the Italian one... and it's cringe as Hell.
Know what you mean 😉
Same here. I still remember liking Denver the Last Dinosaur as a kid due to my love of dinosaurs.
Same with Dinosaucers.
Considering what a major fandom the 80s in general have become, I don't think any of these cartoons are 'forgotten.'
Thanks for watching
@@TheReviewStudiosThere's one I remember, sort of, but can't remember the name. What I remember from one episode, it involved I think a father and son who investigated this portal to another dimension with these creatures there, and I think the military was involved. Near the end the father was in a fight with the military leader, one of the creatures escaped, and a nuke exploded causing the dimension to implode.
Mmhm. I was hoping this would actually cover some truly obscure cartoons, like the one with animals that… covered everyone with petals? Petal power? Puppy power? 🤔
Bro I watched nearly all these as a kid and forgot about them. This was a nice reminder of my youth
@@TheReviewStudios Hi,
Can you find and upload or send me the links of the 2 CBS Storybreak Cartoon English Episodes: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees, and What Happened in Hamelin if they're in good quality?
Please, let me know if you have them!
I don't think any 80s kids forgot these but I love you for making these videos. The nostalgia is hitting me.
I will NEVER forget HEATHCLIFF!!!!!!!
10) Denver is very well remembered in Italy, we loved him so much 😍 italian theme tune is still so cool 😎
9) Popples is mainly remembered for the plush toys, big part in the 80s pop culture ☺️
8) Also Pound Puppies are still remembered, even if not as much as Denver 💖
7) 😮
6) That cat is a legend 😎 we know him as Isidoro 💖
5) 😮
4) Snorks are also a big 80s culture thing, even if they didn't have the same luck as Smurfs!
3) I forgot they weren't just a toy!
3 again) Rainbow Brite is the reason behind my love for rainbows.
2) Jem was also never forgotten, italian theme tune is still so cool!
1) Gummy Bears were also so big in Italy, so they're still well rememberes, by 80s kids ☺️
I remember Popples being pretty big, too. I got one back then, and I still have it!
Great list I can honestly say though that I did NOT see a single cartoon on the list that I had forgotten. The 80's had some really memorable cartoons.
Gummi Bears was iconic, loved that show and arguably one of the catchiest theme songs of all time... Shirt tales was good too!
If you want an 80s TV show that has indeed been forgotten: Lady Lovelylocks and the Pixie tails. Such a neat little show that no one ever talks about.
That was one of my favorites ❤
I remember most of these. To this day, I hear a little bit of their opening song and flood of memories still comes back. Like Denver the last Dinosaur, Snorks, and Heathcliff mostly from this list. Others I have some more distant memories of like Pound Puppies and The Littles.
I personally liked the Snorks more than the Smurfs and while I remember watching the Gummy Bears, I really just remember it as that show that was on before DuckTales. It was fun to see the bears bouncing around, but I liked see what adventure Scrooge would be on next more.
Gummy bears is on Disney Plus.
i watched almost all of these as reruns in the 90's, and i loved them
I definitely remember all of these. But I grew up throughout all of the 80’s and 90’s watching a whole lot of cartoons, and I’m still into those decades’ nostalgia a lot. But these were the days. Just watching some of these after school, or getting up early Saturday mornings with a bowl of cereal and watching until mid-day. Animation overall, especially with certain shows, was so much better back then, the voice acting was better, and even the music. Especially on the epic show intros that they spent even more time on. Were we marketed to a lot with these to sell toys? Sure. But in most cases the toys were great too, so it was a win-win. Today I don’t know that I envy kids’ having access to anything at any time. First off, it seems much lower quality with mindless stories, just kicked out of a computer. But part of what made cartoons so great back in the day was that we didn’t have them ALL the time. So when we did, it was really special and exciting. The same goes with things like theme parks or other places you might have traveled to. You couldn’t just watch a million review videos or a POV ride-through on RUclips. You went, and you sometimes had no IDEA of the crazy fun you were about to experience. I can remember the first time I went to Walt Disney World in 1987, I could barely even find a few still photos from it in a book or magazine. But I definitely knew what it was from people’s stories and pop culture.
Thanks for watching
The 90-00s advent of throwaway CGI stuff seem far more forgotten than material USA, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, TNT and so on kept in syndication forever. Probably still do.
You are 100% right. Well said. I’d also add that while parents fought the toy companies to uncouple their toys with cartoons. I think that was the wrong thing to do. The cartoons build a world kids could use as a springboard to make their own adventures and fun with their toys. Or not at all, if they chose to ignore it. Nowadays kids see a cool toy and have no idea what its world would look or be like so they don’t really play with toys as much. Especially outside with their friends. Commercials used to frequently depict kids with their toys playing outside with friends. I almost never see kids outside playing with toys, let alone with a group of friends. Cartoons paired with toys was a good thing. Toys nowadays are mostly collectible toys that refer to days gone by that the younger generation has little to no interest in.
80's had the best cartoons.
NEVER FORGOTTEN!!! Alot if the cartoon themes from my childhood still bring goosebumps and hard-core nostalgia. He-Man, Transformers, Thundercats...oh yeah!!!
"Thunder, thunder thundercats hooo"
"Autobots transform and roll out".... good times!
The Get Along Gang
Cops
Pole Position
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Also great shows!
@@reddungeoneer2187 Yes I remember Cops and the Get along Gang ....... never heard of the rest?
@@reddungeoneer2187 The Snorks. The Littles. The Wuzzles.
I watched all of those shows and many more growing up. I have not forgotten a single one of them.
On Friday nights I would take my parents TV Guide and make a watchlist for Saturday morning. Every half hour I knew what channel to go to and what show I was watching it LOL
Nice and organized 👌
Loved all of these! Still do.
Thanks for sparking some nice old memories.
No problem
I’m from Scotland and remember Heathcliff on TV during the summer when schools were off. Loved it. Now got the theme tune stuck in my head
I was born in
1980 and I remember watching each one of these classics with very fond memories 🤓
So much nostalgia wrapped up in these cartoons.
All I needed was a box of Pac-Man cereal, Smurf Berry Crunch. Still sing the songs to some of these shows.
There was definitely magic in the 80's. There's just no other way to describe it. So happy to have been there at that time.
I will never forget about Jem.
Jem is STILL truly outrageous!
I watched all and loved all. Best times
I remember all of these, and I loved most of them.
I have been trying to find denver The last dinosaur for years now. For some reason. I always remember it as Dino the Dinosaur. And I know that's like the flintstones, But I never remembered the Denver part. Such a retro blast just went through my mind Watching the intro and everything thank you
As a kid I watched Heathcliff, The Littles, the Wuzzles and Jem! At the age of fifty-one I'm not at all ashamed to say I *STILL* love the music featured on Jem. Like a Dream is still my jam....dammit....
I also liked Paw-Paw Bears and Trollkins too 👍👍👍
awww yess!! Paw-Paw Bears, I loved that show and Galtar and the Golden Lance.
I remember every single one of these. Then my back cracked and I *really* remembered them.
I grew up in the 80's; I remember every single one of these cartoons. I remember dancing to while Heathcliff was coming on.
The 1980's were the best decade of entertainment with many of us been
waiting for a new comeback but however, the 1980s will always be the best decade
for us nostalgia/older fans out there enjoyed. Great vid, man. LONG LIVE 1980'S!
I don’t think any of these were forgotten. I remember watching all of them, and all of them were very popular and talked about on the school grounds and things like that.
Snorks
The Littles
Heathcliff were always on regular TV or The USA Network before Cartoon Network aired.
I would just about be willing to bet that Dinosaucers is more likely a forgotten 80s cartoon than any of these shows.
The Denver the last dinosaur theme pops into my head once in awhile!
Same here
These were some of my favorites! ❤
I wished my favourites past Disney animated Series like The Gummie Bears, Darkwing Duck, Wuzzles, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, House of Mouse, Kim Possible and American Dragon Jake Long are finally released onto Blu- Ray at last just like they did for Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers.
Those days cartoons had imagination it told a story with morales, todays cartoons dont hold up. I watched most of these and still love them and have rewatched many of them
I am now 43 years old, and I haven't seen some of these old friends in a long time, yet I have instant memory of these theme songs as if i had just watched it yesterday. I know every word. The wave of nostalgia I felt just seeing the Littles again blew my mind. I had completely forgotten about them. I am a middle-aged man now with a wife and kid. I am a Marine as tough as they come. I have no shame in my secret love for Jem. The second I heard that theme song ... I am instantly singing it. I had to make sure my brother and sister never caught me watching Jem because it was a girly show. Now I have no shame, I will sing the Jem theme song loud and proud and with all the passion of my heart.
The Littles was a favorite of mine. Loved that show.
80s cartoons...nothing like them back then. Cool times 👍
I was a major fan of Gem growing up. I just could not get enough of the theme song each time an episode aired
Too bad their live action movie is terrible or so I've heard
We binged-watched Jem episodes a few years ago. Of course, the plot lines of 1980s cartoons were ridiculous, but Jem’s were the best; Oh, the Misfits are guilty of attempted homicide? Nah, we won’t call the authorities, we’ll just get them next time! 😂
Im 42 and i sometimes sing the denver the last dinasour song its weird i really didnt watch it but few times the song pops into my head usually once a month
was born in '79, all these cartoons you mentioned, I remember them all and I was indeed that kid who got up at the Crack of dawn ( about 4 AM, lol) with his bowl of fruity trix and He-man pajamas to watch those cartoons and many many more. I miss the 80s, they had some awesome cartoons and toys. I had almost all the transformers and He-man toys. I wish to God I still had them, not to sell but just for nostalgic reasons.
What month? I'm January
What ever happened to them?
I was born in 79 as well so I too watched those cartoons and regarded Saturday morning as a magical time.
@@girlgarde Were you one of those one station people or did you channel surf?
1980 here. I know how you feel. It was a helluva time to be a kid. I don't envy kids today. Not a bit.
I remember crying as a kid when the Gummy Bears used that huge telegraph machine and discovered there was at least one last colony of bears across the sea.
I remember all of them! They were all well known cartoons here in Italy in the 80s, I was a massive fan of Jem, I adored her!
Stavo per commentare lo stesso. Chi se li scorda! Io adoravo anche Iridella!
I watched all the cartoons that you featured in this video heathcliff and the catillac cats was always my favorite and you're right riff Raff mungo Wordsworth and Hector they all deserve their own show
OMG this is so nostalgic. Kids now adays don't know what they're missing. Saturday mornings growing up in the 80's was our time 🥰. The only one that I would skip was Jem and that was due to Sunday morning being my WWF wrestling time lol
Gummy bears, dark wind duck and bonkers also widget the world watcher songs will forever be tattooed in my memories!
The he man opening theme song still chills me to this day love it
"I HAVE THE POWER"
The internet has ruined me, instead I hear 4 Non Blondes' hit "What's Up?" 🙃
Amazing video of forgetting beloved 80 cartoons,fantastic job.
Thank you 😊
Anyone with any understanding of animation history still remembers some of these.
The adventures of Teddy Ruxpin.
@@brodriguez11000 One example for sure.
My mother got me heathcliff the board game when I was a kid for Christmas
FLASH FACT: Heathcliff actually was intended to just be a Catallac Cats series only the production company wasnt sure if it would sell on those characters alone, so the rights to Heathcliff were acquired and paired off with the Catallac Cats segments which were also known as 'Cats and Company'. They even had their own theme song that played during random episodes instead of the more well known 'Heathcliff' version of the theme.
Now that you mentioned it I remember there being two theme songs to the series heathcliff and one of the songs was called cats;and co.
Great info, thank you
Is that how it worked? I thought maybe Chalopin got the rights to produce Heathcliff cartoons after the Ruby-Spears concluded, but piggybacked his own Catillac Cats just so he’d have his own stable of characters as insurance, since George Gately would retain the rights to Heathcliff.
@@75aces97 Catallac Cats segments were made first. Once they(DiC) secured Heathcliff, they added his segments in.
@@maximusprime3459 ah. I never knew that. Funny thing was that for maybe the first week or so (memory is fuzzy) after it’s syndicated debut, each half hour slot featured 2 Heathcliff cartoons. Then soon the programming switched to one Heathcliff + 1Catallac cats cartoon that thereafter.
Heathcliff wasn’t the most famous or popular cartoon character before DiC’s series, but I guess a little bit of name recognition is still better than none.
I watched and loved every one of these cartoons!! Many I've introduced to my kids, and they enjoyed them too. 😊💕 Really great memories! Thank you for this video!
There are only a few cartoons in the eighties that aren’t thinly disguised toy commercials
Peak capitalism.
True. I had a popple pal, a pound puppy, and a rainbow brite doll back then.
I can't be the only person who remembers all of these? I didn't watch them all, but I knew they were out there
The only one I didn't watch was Denver. I loved all of the others. Another one that I loved was Monchichis. It came out in 1983, but only had 13 episodes. It was based on the stuffed toys. I also watched Shirt Tales that ran from 82-85. There were 23 episodes with 2 stories in each episode. Nancy Cartwright joined the voice cast in season 2.
Way up in the trees live the monchichis.
Monchichis mean happiness!
This is before that Nancy Cartwright will be best known as the voice of Bart Simpson.
I watched every one of these when I was a kid. I had a Pound Puppy and a Pound Kitty stuffed animal. I'm pretty sure I had at least one Popple. I had the whole set of Rainbow Bright dolls, and for one Halloween, my mom and I had matching Rainbow Bright costumes that she made. I think she even had the cake pan. Man, I really miss those shows.
Let us know which one you remember
Definitely Heath-cliff and Snorks
Rainbow Brite!
Cops
Gummi Bears to this day has the best opening song of any cartoon
Classic cartoons I remember all of them 😊
Thanks for these vids. Again cartoons that I remembered after so many years. But I saw them in the early 90s. Remember Heathcliff, Pound Puppies, Gummi Bears, Wozzles and Denver the Last Dinosaur.
you're welcome thanks for watching and sharing
I loved all these shows. I never watched the Snorks though. I liked the Smurfs. I adored the Gummy Bears due to its deep lore and great storytelling, I watched it non-stop on the Disney Afternoon. I also wished there was a show just for the Cadillac Cats. The episodes would have been less rushed if they were given a full half hour. Hector and Wordsworth were my favorite.
Definitely agreed. You can walk down memory lane. Gummi Bears are on disney+ and heathcliff is streaming free on Pluto as of now. Thanks for watching.
You didn't miss anything special. Snorks was a terrible cartoon
OMG I hadn't thought about Heathcliff in years! I watched the original run as a kid back in the 80's. It was so much fun!
The only one I didn't know, at all, was the dinosaur one. I did watch the rest, mostly because of my younger siblings, except for The Littles, that was my favorite on this list & Jem...I watched that because of the girl I would eventually marry & we just celebrated our 29th anniversary. So, watching Jem paid off. 😂
So cool, thanks for watching .
I also had never heard of the dinosaur one till now. The Littles, Heathcliff and Snorks I remember watching, the rest I was at least aware of but wasn't interested in seeing.
Heathcliff/The Cadillac Cats and Gummy Bears were among my favorite cartoons as a kid in the 80s. I saw a few episodes of Denver the Last Dinosaur and liked that one as well. I had never known that The Littles was made into a cartoon show, but I was a fan of the books. I never saw the Popples, Rainbow Brite or Pound Puppies shows, but I was familiar with the related merchandise. I wasn't aware of the other three shows until many years later.
I love cartoons
I grew up watching most of these. I even look them up on RUclips every now and then. Absolutely not forgotten. 💖
I remember all of these. Some of them my sister was more of a fan of such as "Rainbow Brite", and "Jem." I recall sitting on my couch watching "Heathcliff." around 1985 while in kindergarten. I too enjoyed the "Catillac Cats" segment more than "Heathcliff" itself.
Loved that cartoon back in the day! What I never understood was why Riff-raff had the baddest girlfriend if it was Heathcliff's show? Just sayin'....
I remember watching every episode of the cartoon series seen in this video accept for the one called The Popples that was the only one I never saw while growing up.
What about Astro Boy inspector gadget. Richie Rich The Racoons
Looks like 4 titles for part 2. Thanks
I loved the Raccoons
Dude I've watched all of these show and still have the toys😊
Oh Heathcliff, Heathcliff no one should terrify the neighbourhood ❤
NOBODY REMEMBERS “THE LITTLES”!!! That was one of my all time favorite tv shows!
Heathcliff and The littles are not forgotten.
I absolutely love this channel, it's in my top 5 thanks to the warm and fuzzies it regularly gifts me, thank you!!!!
Wow, thank you! We appreciate the support
fun and safe cartoons of the 80's. No wokeness
That's for sure. Thanks for watching
Omg I loved them all. I had some of the merch from some of these. I always wanted more. I miss the 80s and the cool and rad cartoons.
I loved every single one of these shows as a kid. Thanks for the reminder.
All of these shows were brilliant! Most of which I am still waiting to make it it to DVD in the UK!
I can’t imagine that someone would have forgotten any of these shows.
Yeah I really underestimated the memory of our 80s viewers. Thanks for watching.
DUDE!!! I remember watching MOST of these shows when I was a kid. I had a Bumblion plush when I was young! I even recently re-watched the entire series of Gummi Bears on Disney+. This video gave me huge nostalgia right now!
The Cadillac cats was definitely the best part of the heathcliff show.
I'll NEVER forget Heathcliff. I read the comics as a kid and always around Christmas, there was a Heathcliff marathon. As an adult, I found all the episodes on DVD and bought them so my son could enjoy them. He's almost an adult and we still have those DVDs. 🙂
Wow! These Saturday cartoons take me back to the great times, such as "The Littles," Heathcliff, " &"Jem."
I grew up watching most of the cartoons on this list(Heathcliff, The Littles, Jem, Gummy Bears, Pound Puppies, Snorks, and Denver) and it shows how much influence they were in our lives. And if it wasn’t for the USA Cartoon Express, we would’ve never known some of the shows
Here's my list:
1. Pacman cartoon
2. Private Benjamin (cartoon)
3. Lavern and Shirley (cartoon)
4. The Fonz and the Happy Days gang
5. The Ghostbusters
6. The "Real" Ghostbusters
7. Launchpad Mcquack
8. Captain Planet (probably 1990's though)
I remember ALL of these cartoons! But I only watched( starting with my favorite)Jem, Heathcliff, The Littles, Gummi Bears and Denver! The rest of the cartoons, I do remember but wasn't interested in watching them. Great memories! I miss the 80's!
I didnt see gummi bears when it first aired discovered in through an off hand video site we shall call it lol needless to say i may have been about 25 when i discovered the show but i gotta say its pretty good and i would have loved it growing up own the whole series on dvd now lol
There are some 80s CARTOONS that I never seen before.
But I still watched a ton of them every SATURDAY MORNING!
And the only way to WATCH them was with an ANALOG CRT BOX TV.
Usually with a REMOTE and ANTENNA.
No WI FI or ONLINE STREAMS required back then.
Some TV'S even had STEREOS built in.
Our FAMILY had a CURTIS MATHIS STEREO CONSOLE. (1985-1995)
So watching TV and listening to MUSIC was AWESOME IMO.
I may be one of few people that still watch AIR TV.
And I have an LED 4K SMART TV.
I watched all of these as a kid! I still remember most of the theme songs too. What a nice walk down memory lane. 🙂
A friend of mine proudly still owns her original stuffed Popple.
I was a huge fan of Jem. (Showtime, Synergy!) In my area, Jem was on late at night, I think 9 or 10 PM (yes, children used to go to bed early so they could get a full night's sleep way back then, so I was in bed before airtime) so my mom used to record it, and I'd watch it in the morning before school. Having a kids' show on that late was "truly outrageous, truly truly truly outrageous." (If you know, you know.) I enjoyed how the storytelling would include songs performed by either Jem and the Holograms or The Misfits during action scenes.
7:11 - I can't believe I remember that commercial!
7:24 - My brain: "Gummi Bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere..."
As soon as you mentioned Pound Puppies, I remembered their even-more-forgotten stuffed companions, Pound Purries. 2:39 - Hey, that offer expired on my 9th birthday!
I never forgot the Wuzzles either. Even as a child, I thought of Snorks as a knockoff of The Smurfs; didn't affect me much, because I enjoyed both.
Here's a cartoon that didn't make your list: Shirt Tales. A bunch of woodland creatures that could communicate by making words appear on their shirts.
Somewhere in a box in this house is a photo of me as Ricky the Raccoon, in a costume my mother made from patterns and yards of fabric. I don't know how many hours she spent at the sewing machine, it really came out amazing! She was pretty mad that I failed to place in a shopping mall Halloween costume contest - against one boy who slapped some makeup on, safety-pinned a black sheet around his shoulders, and shoved a cheap pair of vampire teeth in his mouth to be a vampire, and two off-the-rack generic witch costumes - so she never did it again. And I don't blame her, she spent far too much time on it, and the top prize was only $25 (which is probably more like $50 in 2023 Bucks).
Yep, I remember all of these. Jem and The Gummi Bears were my faves, and their theme songs evoke such powerful nostalgia. Loved hearing the Denver theme again - my friends and I thought that cartoon was so cool!
Also, I love reading the comments of all you fellow 80s kids. You really had to be there... and we were.
Man, being an 80s kid was definitely the best times. I watched all of these cartoons and they were very enjoyable. Interesting enough, Heathcliff sometimes came on Pluto Tv at times; which brought my childhood back to life. And yes, even the Disney Afternoon was amazing