Saturday Morning Cartoons Through the Years

[hanshotfirst1138]

Most of my childhood favorites-Beast Wars, Pirates of Dark Water, ReBoot, SWAT Kats, Samurai Jack-have gotten DVD releases, even if it's only as DVD-R Archive releases. I'm curious, any Might Max fans around? Anyone know who the current rights-holders are? Along with the second season of the The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla cartoon, and a few others, it's one of the few I haven't gotten. Well, that and JLU on Blu-ray. Any chance of it getting picked up by Mill Creek, Shout, or someone similar?

[XvGojira]

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[jellydonut25]

I'd rather pay an elevated price for a pressed disc than actually PAY someone real-money for a DVD-R. I'll never get anything from Warner Archive.

[The Shadow]

Not all the Warner Archive releases are burned discs, some of the big sets are getting initial releases as regular pressed DVDs and I believe the blu-rays they're releasing have all been pressed discs. WBshop and the Warner Archive storefront are good about indicating if a release is a burned disc, at least the last time I checked anyways.

The thing that always bugged me about the burned discs (outside the degradation potential) was that WA was asking around $20 a movie (I believe) for burned discs. They could at least have passed the savings onto the customer, $10 for a movie on a burned disc would be a reasonable asking price. Even if WA (or a middleman if there is one) had to burn a small supply to have on hand, the movies are still on a burned disc at the end of the day, they're made on the very same tech consumers have access too (albeit on a smaller scale).

[lhb412]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%E2%8 ... morning%29

8:00 The Bugs Bunny Show
8:30 Hmmm... Jetsons for the winter, and Jackson 5ive when it takes the slot in the spring.
9:00 The Pink Panther Show for the spring, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (amazing title, btw) in the spring
9:30 The New Scooby-Doo Movies, that's a top-five Scooby show for me - but, I may turn over to The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie a few times. That was an anthology series of one hour animated specials produced by various companies, and I'd really like a chance to see Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter; a big team-up story featuring dozens of newspaper strip characters.
10:30 Josie and the Pussycats
11:00 I guess I'll have to go with The Flintstones Comedy Hour
12:00 The Funky Phantom
12:30 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids... though I might travel back in time to warn my younger self about that guy

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[lhb412]

[lhb412]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%E2%8 ... morning%29

8:00 Sorry Lidsville, but I'm naturally going with The Bugs Bunny Show
8:30 Inch High Private Eye in the winter, Addams Family when schedule changes in the Spring
9:00 The New Scooby-Doo Movies
10:00 Ooh, this is a toughy right here, the stereotypical '70s cartoons: live-action TV spin-offs of dubious quality. There are no winners here, but I think I'll go with Lassie's Rescue Rangers - hey, she had Rescue Rangers way before Chip and Dale, huh?
10:30 Speaking of live-action spin-offs, we now have Star Trek: The Animated Series! This is great because it's the first new, quality action cartoon on Saturday Mornings in ages. I'm sure 1973 kid me is a big fan of Star Trek reruns anyway, so this is great.
11:00 Sid and Marty's Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
11:30 Hmmm, I'll go with either Josie and the Pussycats or The Pink Panther depending on my whims that day.
12:00 The Jetsons rerun
12:30 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

[O.Supreme]

I'll start chiming in once you get to 1978 (I cheated & looked ahead) . I was only 2 , but I definitely remember what Saturday morning toons I was watching.

[lhb412]

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974–75_United_States_network_television_schedule_(Saturday_morning)[/url]



8:00 Hmmm... Yogi's Gang or The Addams Family (this is the cartoon. If it were reruns of the sitcom I'd totally be watching that)
8:30 The Bugs Bunny Show!
9:00 Hong Kong Phooey (#1 super guy)
9:30 Oooh, another rough patch. Uh, I guess Pebbles and Bamm Bamm once the schedule changes in the Spring.
10:00 Land of the Lost!
10:30 Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (the Crofts are in many ways the saviors of original Saturday morning programming in the '70s)
11:00 Either the first half of the SuperFriends hour or Valley of the Dinosaurs
11:30 Star Trek: The Animated Series
12:00 Maybe I watch the Jetsons rerun, maybe I call it a day and go play outside.

[lhb412]

Hmmmm, I'm having trouble linking to these wikipedia pages now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975–76_United_States_network_television_schedule_(Saturday_morning)



8:00 Hong Kong Phooey, easy
8:30 Despite competition from Tom and Jerry and Sigmund and the Sea Monster I gotta spend the next hour with The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show. Listen, you gotta go with Looney Tunes, I don't care how old you are or what decade it is.
9:30 Hmmmm... I'd switch between Scooby-Doo! Where Are You and Pink Panther, you know: depending on if I liked the monster in that particular Scooby episode.
10:00 Laaaaaaaaand of the Looooooooooooost *RAWR!*
10:30 Man, I don't know what I'd watch. I guess this would be the Isis portion of the Shazam/Isis hour?
11:00 Return to the Planet of the Apes. Hey, action cartoons are slim picking in this era and I assume the theoretical kid me living in the mid-'70s is a huge PotA fan. I probably have all the toys and the play sets and saw the big five-film marathon in theaters! Kid me in the '70s is having a great time!
11:30 Errrr... rough spot here. I guess The Ghost Busters? I like Bob Burns.
12:00 Hmmmm... Josie in the Pussycats is a batter show, but Valley of the Dinosaurs has dinosaurs.
12:30 Fat Albert