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The Get Along Gang is a group of characters created in 1983 [1] by Tony Byrd, Tom Jacobs, Ralph Shaffer, Linda Edwards, Muriel Fahrion, and Mark Spangler for American Greetings' toy design and licensing division, "Those Characters from Cleveland" [2] (now Cloudco Entertainment), for a series of greeting cards.
'The Flintstones' (1960-1966) An animated, prehistoric take on "The Honeymooners," this show ran in prime time (a first for an animated series) with its catchy theme song for most of the '60s.
KARK-TV: Bozo's Big Top (Replaced much of NBC's Saturday Morning lineup) KARK-TV: Candy the Clown (with Gary Weir) KARK-TV: Captain KARK (with Lloyd Denney) KKYK: Clowntown USA (with Gary Weir) KARK-TV: Lorenzo the Tramp (with Gerry Wheeler) KATV: Mr. Specs' Cartoon Caravan (with Bruce Smith) KATV: Romper Room ("Miss Sylvia", "Miss Linda")
In September 1985, NBC was the first network to broadcast Saturday morning cartoons in stereo. One series that made up to the NBC Saturday morning lineup was Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series. NBC aired the program on Saturday mornings at 10:00 AM (later moved to 11:00 AM) for one season during 1987.
Saturday morning preview specials were aired on television annually to present previews of each network's fall lineup of Saturday-morning cartoon children's programming. Similar to the model for their new prime time counterpart shows, television networks in the United States and Canada would film a preview special for the fall season.
ABC Weekend Special is a weekly 30-minute American television anthology series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997, which featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated. [1]
Disney's One Saturday Morning was on from 1997 until 2002. Still, there was a decent number of cartoons that were available in syndication in the 1990s. And in 1999, Fox Kids trimmed its weekday block to two hours while adding The Magic School Bus, which occupied an hour of the lineup to meet the E/I quotas for its local stations.
The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band (Named Kidd, Carla, Ash, & Whiz) of the same name (played by live action performers in the first half of the title sequence) were practicing in a storage unit when an animated villain named the Master Blaster appeared, and transported them to the Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called the Flipside.