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This era continues to be satirized and/or spoofed in popular culture. The tribute album Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits was released in 1995, featuring covers of Saturday-morning cartoon themes from the 1960s and 1970s as performed by alternative rock artists.
Inspired by the 1964 series Jonny Quest (also produced by Hanna-Barbera), [4] Danger Island depicted the adventures of a trio of explorers in an unnamed tropical island group: Prof. Irwin Hayden, an archaeologist; Lincoln "Link" Simmons, the professor's youthful assistant; and Leslie, the professor's daughter, who serves as both a love interest for Link and the series' token damsel in distress.
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw Hanna-Barbera join the numerous studios producing younger and junior versions of cartoon characters for the Saturday morning cartoon market, such as The Flintstone Kids and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. One of the problems with producing animation for television was the extremely labor-intensive animation process.
Finally, on Sept. 27, 2014 — 22 years after NBC started the cartoon cancellation wave — Vortexx aired its final batch of episodes and Saturday morning cartoons were officially gone from the ...
The episode "The Greedy Genie" was included on the DVD compilation Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 1 released from Warner Home Video on May 26, 2009 (). The "Mr. Bigot" episode is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Vol. 2.
'Josie and the Pussycats' (1970-1971) This show about an all-girl band was a comic book before it was brought to television in the early '70s. In 1972 it was reconceptualized as "Josie and the ...
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]
For the first thirteen years it was on six days a week, twice per day on weekdays (before and after school) plus Saturday mornings [2] from Monday, February 10, 1958, through Saturday, December 26, 1970. For the next eight years, the show aired mornings only, six days a week, Monday, December 28, 1970, through Saturday, December 30, 1978.