
Let’s round out the year with The National Broadcasting Channel because those are the rules! Our historians trudge through a bevy of random cartoons and reruns to bring you the latest skinny on 1960! This week’s schedule: The Shari Lewis Show, King Leonardo and his Short Subjects, Fury, The Lone Ranger, True Story, Detective’s Diary and Watch Mr. Wizard!
Jul 4, 2020
1 hr 1 min

In the long ago time, when life was in black and white, children were entertained by the most terrifying of entities. Join the quiet fun with this week’s goofy schedule: Captain Kangaroo, The Magical Land of Allakazam, Mighty Mouse Playhouse and Sky King!!
You may have trouble picturing Sky King, so…
Here is a random collection of 60’s cartoons to give you a little taste:
Jun 27, 2020
58 min

Wake up Grampa! Its the dawn of Saturday Morning programming for kids like us! Our historians visit TV’s Jurassic Period, where strange but familiar faces hazily grace our buzzing screens. Clowns! Sea Captains! Police Officers! All one step behind the cartoons they seek! Come with us and also meet a bizarre fella who dominated the medium in its infancy.
Here is a Saturday morning preview from roughly that time period:
And here is a random collection scenes from the 60’s lineups:
Buy 60’s cartoons here.
Jun 20, 2020
50 min

It’s our beginning of the end of the start of the Me Decade with our look back at the 1971st year of our lord! Animals and people trade spaces and places on a psychedelic submarine into our souls! Plus a show we can’t see! This week: The Further Adventures of Doctor Dolittle, The Woody Woodpecker Show, Deputy Dog, The New Pink Panther Show, Barrier Reef, Take a Giant Step, The Bugaloos, Mr Wizard and The Jetsons!
Is this real?
Mar 16, 2020
1 hr 10 min

A (non sexy) Archie contends with missing footage of a (non sexy) drunk witch! Several teens solve crime with an (non sexy) animal sidekick! How do we move on from The Beatles as a (non sexy) society? All this and (not) more in this week’s (non sexy) schedule: The Bugs Bunny Show, Scooby-Doo, Where are You!, Harlem Globetrotters, Help!…Its the Hair Bear Bunch!, The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, Archie’s TV Funnies, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Josie & the Pussycats and The Monkees!
Not a ton of media to be found for 1971 CBS, here is an ad that we’ve restored for your viewing pleasure:
And here is an ad of unknown origin, but nonetheless, it happened:
Jan 28, 2020
1 hr 25 min

New theme song! New art! Let me give you the skinny on this groovin’ deal: How you begin a decade can really set the tone historically… This week’s lineup: Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down, The Road Runner Show, Funky Phantom, Jackson 5ive, Bewitched, Lidsville, Curiosity Shop, Jonny Quest, and Lancelot Link!
Here’s a look at the Saturday Morning Preview for 1971 ABC:
So, this didn’t air on Saturday morning, but The Brady Bunch does discuss the 1971 ABC Saturday Morning Lineup. Thanks to the good people at Lost Media Wikia:
Here’s your good ol’ fashioned newspaper preview (version 1):
And here is version 2 of the newspaper preview for those of you laying down:
Dec 5, 2019
1 hr 20 min

Buh-buh-buh-buh-bay-bah! Don’t forget NBC! Our historians shake down the peacock, but will they survive the go-go 90’s? This week’s lineup: Camp Candy, Captain N and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3, Rick Moranis in Gravedale High, Kid N’ Play, Saved by the Bell and The Guys Next Door!
So, there are a ton of commercial breaks out there to watch for 1990 NBC, far more than we’re used to finding:
Here is the audio-only version for the cubicle community!
Sep 23, 2019
1 hr 34 min

Pimp! Lets get clever like a FOX – Network that is!! Its the inaugural year for the 4th network and they come out gun’s a blazing’! Join our historians as they get jiggy with this weeks schedule: Tom & Jerry Kids, Zazoo U, Bobby’s World, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Piggsburg Pigs! and (FOX’s) Fun House!!
Here is a really awesome PSA from Fox Kids:
Check out this 1990 Fox Kids Network launch promo!
Here is a promo for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes:
Click below for the audio-only version!
Aug 21, 2019
1 hr 16 min

Why is the world in love again? Its a brand new podcast, about 1990: Every Saturday Morning and CBS! This week’s schedule: Muppet Babies, Garfield and Friends, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventures, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Dink the Little Dinosaur and CBS Storybreak!!!
Take a look at this advertising for 1990 CBS Saturday morning!
Here is a look at some of the radical commercials that ran during 1990 CBS Saturday morning!
Need more? Here you go!
Aug 15, 2019
1 hr

Due to some technical difficulties, we have to travel forward in time to the year 1990 (don’t worry, 1982 CBS and NBC will be released at a later date). Reluctant to find we’re stuck in the 90’s again, our heroes (and they are heroes) soldier through the beginning of the best decade for the medium. This week’s schedule: The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Wizard of Oz, Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, New Kids on the Block, The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, Little Rosey and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo!
Need even more fun than that? Here are the print ads for 1990 ABC:
STILL can’t get enough 1990? How about the 1990 ABC Saturday Morning Preview?
Jun 27, 2019
1 hr 53 min
