CBS Saturday Morning Bumpers

[buttercremehonda]

The New Adventures of WHO GIVES A FUCK AND NOBODY #1 AND #2

[UaghBrian2000]

I wonder if some of the bumpers from 82-83 were inspired from Disney's Tron.

[Toonman15]

Speaking of Nickelodeon. they could have saved money by using these bumpers when they were co-owned with CBS

[DragonLord1975]

These bring back memories. The 82-85 fit perfectly for Saturday Supercade. Plus it looked cool with the space theme in mind.

[SpreadingtheMuse]

I watched Blackstar religiously, yet have no memory of that bumper. Hmmm

[DJCandyManMike]

Hands down, if you were a kid in this era, you were growing up at THE best time to be a kid! It's so sad that the kids of today don't have the quality programming we did.

[plateshutoverlock]

WILL RETURN AFTER THESE MESSAGES-jj(*%^%

[magishinex]

The 87-88 ones are the best. Talk about memories. I was 5 back then. Saturdays were so magical back then. I dunno if kids have that same feeling now

[liteskinnededgal]

My favorite is the one from 1988 to 1989 and I also like the Fido bumpers from the 90s.

[Motorcyclephil]

What makes me feel old is the kids on the video from the 1987-1989 segment are now all 27-32 years old.

[bustyrandit]

The announcer for the "video game themed" spots sounds alot like DJ Rick Dees.

[Motorcyclephil]

@bustyrandit Good call, it is Rick Dees. He did CBS bumpers, and Casey Kasem did NBC bumpers

[ChristiRich]

I may be the only person on earth who remembers a short-lived bumper series that had basketball players dribbling a ball that they dunked into a basket as the ball turned into a dough-nut. Wasn't it CBS in the very early 80's? They were a bit odd and didn't last very long....

[1300rm]

@ChristiRich  Now that you mention it, that sounds very familiar.

[tnawcwvictoria]

@ChristiRich you're not the only one, I remember these as well

CBS was good back then, and now, it's become overrated

[showme1967]

@ChristiRich yes,in the 1981-1982 season,cbs aired adifferent set of bumpers,including a tortoise and hare bumper. i saw in in birmingham in the winter of 1982.

[showme1967]

@ChristiRich yes,in the 1981-1982 season,cbs aired a different set of bumpers,including a tortoise and hare bumper. i saw in in birmingham in the winter of 1982.

[ChristiRich]

@showme1967 Thanks!!!

[retrofann1]

Loved the 80's space bumpers from 83 to 86,

[brotherbrown1984]

the 87-89 is what I remember from when I was 3,4 and 5

[brotherbrown1984]

"Place Commercial Here" I like it

"New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckyll and Jeckyll" Geez what a mouthfull

[1300rm]

My favorite ones are from 1982 to 1985. I like watching this.

[1300rm]

This takes me back. good times.

[Motorcyclephil]

Who ever thought up 86-87 was smoking some really good stuff. Those were werid. They look like an LSD flashback to me.

[winnslaw]

"3:01-3:05 was, in my opinion, the coolest!"

[NathanIVV]

I would have bet a month's salary that I would have never seen these bumpers again in my life.

[Cathador]

Quackula?

Hm did he come first or Nickolodeon's Duckula?

[disneyfan85]

I don't know, but Quackula is American while Duckula is British.

[mason000]

@disneyfan85 If someone else answered this already, I apologize. Apparently Quackula beat Count Duckula by almost 10 years (1979 vs. 1988).

[numbuh0]

@Cathador I believe Duckula was first featured on Danger Mouse in 1982. Where as Quackula was made a few years earlier.

[qnfoster]

Wow, I remember from 83 to the 90's. Saturday morning was so much fun...I couldn't wait till saturday to eat my Mr.T cereal and watch cartoons...

[comgeek24]

I remember the ones from 2:48-3:18.

[plateshutoverlock]

The text bouncing artound at 00:29 gave me the creeps for some reason. Also, I love the "place commercial here" cards :)

On this note, does anyone remember which network had the bumper which showed a coach drawn in a sort of "School house rock" style which used to go "Time in! Now back to the program!"? I remember seeing that around 1980 or 1981

[iwatson14]

I recall one in which they look like an animated painting. Example: A basketball player dunking a donut into a coffee mug and eating the donut. What year was that?

[superbuick]

That was 1981-82 if I remember correctly. And nobody seems to have that one...

[frankfantastic001]

I like the 1983 bumps the best. I like CBS In the News. I also like the 1990's bumps with Fido Dido and Felix the cat.

[silverrhawk]

I remember the IN The News Promos

[Motorcyclephil]

@silverrhawk I remember those as well. Those were pretty cool

[Dishfarm]

I remember all of these bumpers. Man I was so little back then. (32 years old now)

[silverrhawk]

Me too and I am 38.

[crassyfrake]

how the 1981-82 bumpers didnt terrify kids, i have no idea....lol

the earliest i remember are the Atari-like ones

[jhillst]

The outer space/video game-themed bumpers from 1983-86 were the best. I always get nostalgic for old arcade games when seeing those.

I also liked the psychedelic paint can and the kids-in-the-control-room bumpers. Sadly, in 1989-90 they switched to these really generic bumpers with a still-frame of the show and "We'll Be Right Back" or something written on it. Really disappointing.

[RetroGirl85]

yeah those were the best ones too i think.. i remember these like they were yesterday. time flies when youre having fun :)

[rvdsux]

The 1986-87 were the bad acid trip days

[DISnut]

I actually made constructions of the paint-can bumper characters out of construction paper. It seemed easy enough, but this was before I knew what CGI was.

[campsports3]

the bumpers from charlle brown were from 1983-1986 and summer of 1987

[Odawg96]

Wow...a huge chunk of my child encapsulated. I was born in '74, but I'm a military brat. I didn't actually live here in the U.S. until spring of 1980. Seeing those '79-'80 bumpers took me all the way back to kindergarten, back to watching what seemed like 12 hours of Looney Toons on Saturday morning. Kids today just don't know how good WE had it back then. I was able to watch from '80 to the very end of '83...then it was back overseas for 7 more years.

[mcclanahand]

How i'll never forget watching Pole Position.

[bluethundershark]

Pee Wee's Playhouse was my favorite show on Saturday Mornings. The '80s had great cartoons worth waking up to on Saturday Mornings.

[fl1992]

Do you remember The Great Space Coaster?

[corrupt200]

Smurfs, Chipmunks, Bugs Bunny/Road Runner/Tweety, Ghostbusters, Garfield, Gummi Bears, Muppet Babies, Pee-Wee, did I miss anything?

[megamanj2004X]

Yes you did.

The '80s and/or early '90s also gave us:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, It's Punky Brewster, ALF Tales, A Pup Named Scooby Doo.

[barber747]

So did the 90s.

[80zdude4]

Thanks for the bumpers. I remember 1983-1985 the most, usually seen during The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show.

[fl1992]

I remember the bumpers for The Biskitts very well from 1983 -1985 on CBS sat morn. Do you remember Frannie from The Great Space Coaster?

[exwxgirl]

Wow, I thought I was the only one who remembered Great Space Coaster...I loved it!

[fl1992]

Do you remember any Great Space Coaster episodes with Frannie and Goriddle Gorilla?

[exwxgirl]

I do remember those two, although Goriddle kinda freaked me out at that time....heh

[fl1992]

Do you remember Goriddle Gorilla falling in love with blonde Actress Sally Struthers as a guest star on TGSC?

[Dishfarm]

Does your name imply that you used to do the weather on TV or something? If so that's a pretty neat name.

[maddog015]

Was it CBS that had that black and white comic character doing the breaks? I don't remember their name, though. It was some obscure comic.

[LAtheDJ]

CBS had the obscure character Fido Dido do their bumps from 1990-1993

[fl1992]

Those Fido Dido bumpers on cbs from 1990 to 1993 were really cool!

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

accually it is NOT missing, but I remember 2:34-2:39 with no voice over. That one of the 'paint can' was done when "Galaxy high" was on. The voice doing what sounds like saying 'galaxyhigh' also had something that squirted stuff out of its mouth. TOO BAD SOMEBODY DOESNT HAVE MOST OF THESE WITHOUT VOICE OVERS like I remember a lot of them.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

I think one of them is MISSING

where they are trying to shoot something, in a videogame, and it gets shot, (maybe) and makes some kinda pattern with boxes and stuff... NOW WHEN WAS THAT "POPEYE"? When was "Mighty Mouse?" because in the 80's it was taken off the air because of a DRUG SCANDALL!!! the thing that "sygo7g" says is right. Sometime during the 90's, this one other station would show old B&W stuff that had a lot of "Place Commercial Here" and stuff... nothing to do with saturday...

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

i remember that music at the beginning-where/what is it???

[fl1992]

Do you remember Frannie and Goriddle Gorilla from The Great Space Coaster?

[WJBSTV1]

Is the Great Space Coaster CBS Saturday Morning bumpers and promos of fall 1983?

[disneyfan85]

You know, I think the space bumpers and the video game bumpers were used interchangeably between 1983 and 1985.

[fl1992]

The Great Space Coaster aired syndicated for 5 years from 1981 to 1986 from Mon. to Friday. Do you remember Frannie?

[fl1992]

The Great Space Coaster was on during the week. Do you remember Frannie?

[BigBoiJC]

who doesn't! being that i'm a drummer...i always watched the drummer.

[fl1992]

Do you remember Frannie, the 16 year old brunette singer/guitar player on TGSC who used to tease Puppet Goriddle Gorilla?

[BigBoiJC]

yeah buddy! I thought that was a bass guitar she played.

[fl1992]

Do you remember any Great Space Coaster episodes with Frannie and Goriddle? Frannie was the whole show!

[dramasag]

Got A Party (Yeah,Yeah) Right here on CBS!

[pawtdtmd]

The random mixing and matching was weird. But I could swear the space invaders one was used more often than the other supercade.

[marluica]

Me & My brother watch every saturday morning. It is so rad!

[Motorcyclephil]

I think 1982-1985 were the best bumpers.

[fl1992]

Do you remember The Great Space Coaster?

[strangelove262]

Ah yes, the 1987-89 bumpers in the master control room. That (seriously) was the very reason I got into broadcasting 17 years later :)

[Djclyve]

I miss the DABADEEYA!

[Scarletspeedster68]

Personally, I liked the bumpers from the indivudual shows prior to 1979 as they were much more creative (especially if they were from shows produced by Filmation Studios). But these weren't too bad.

[tmsan74]

i remember the bumpers from 1979-1980,1981-1982,1983-1984,­and 1985.after that they weren't good. they were getting too babyish.

[Motorcyclephil]

I have to agree.

[captainhero518]

Saturday Supercade! My first memory of television!!!

[RolandTaylorJr]

I used to watch cartonns on CBS as far back as I can remember. The only bumpers from the 80s that I didn't like were the 1986-87 ones with the crazy machines inside the paint can.

[Motorcyclephil]

Same here. I thought that paint can was dumb.

[Lumaga]

The 87-88 bumper is a lot better than the 88-89, even though they're very similar. CBS kind of cheated on the later one.

[uofmrules1]

I figured the 87-88 one was a little cheated, because they simply said "our show" rather then the actual name.

[Motorcyclephil]

I was just thinking the same thing.

[schuminweb]

I think that the "our show" ones we're seeing are likely generic bumpers for shows that don't have custom bumpers, like for shows that aren't normally on the schedule. It just so happens that those generic bumpers are the ones that this clip compilation used. I specifically remember show-specific bumpers in 1987-88.

[schuminweb]

Also, I always found the 1988-89 bumpers a bit disappointing, because rather than go to a completely new concept, they just did a remake of the 1987-88 bumpers. You can tell it's the same set, but with different kids and different music. Of course, 1989-90 didn't even have network-wide bumpers, as each show had its own bumpers made by the shows themselves.

[disneyfan85]

Oh, yeah, I definitely remember the individual bumpers from each of the shows themselves, especially the ones for Pee-wee's Playhouse (spoken by Pee-wee), Muppet Babies (by Baby Kermit) and Garfield and Friends (by Garfield). When going to a commercial during Garfield, he would say something like, "Here are some commercials and then... more of me."

[corrupt200]

me too, I remember the 1989-90 bumpers. I like the ones for the California Raisins, as well as Garfield.

I did not like how they recycled Fido Dido from 1990-1993, retrospectively speaking.

[disneyfan85]

@disneyfan85 In fact, I've been trying to hunt those down on YouTube for a long time, only to come up empty-handed.

[corrupt200]

I always loved the 1987-88 bumpers

"What a party (yeah yeah) right here on CBS!"

[pawtdtmd]

Man I knew the space invaders had two different sounds to it. This proves it thanks.

[mcclanahand]

And this was during the Regan era.

[bashir1980]

The Reagan era, yes. Those were the days.

[mgsnv2]

GOT A PARTY, RIGHT HERE ON CBS!!

I hated the paint can bumpers as a kid.

[fl1992]

I loved that CBS sat morn bumper back in 1988-1989!

[brotherbrown1984]

@mgsnv2 yeah the paint can made the least amount of sense to me.

[disneyfan85]

BTW, did you know that the opening tune at the very start is the startup noise for Windows 95?

[Bluexhox]

And Thank You For Preserving Our Childhood Memories...God Bless You...:)

[pawtdtmd]

you need the 85-86 ones Kite, treasure chest, parachute, magic hat

[disneyfan85]

Well, those were on Retro Static, and I can't get those on here. Believe me, I tried.

[pawtdtmd]

storybreak bumpers are on there too

[thejamakanumbuhi]

My favorite of all was the "Black Hole" (1984-85), followed by "Big Dipper".

[fl1992]

I can only remember back to the year 1983 when I was only 5 years old!

[88HJS]

Did those "place commercial here!!" screenshots ever air? I wouldn't know because I wasn't yet born back then.

[blunklaura]

i only remember the last one (garfield and friends). I actually remmber the theme song, from like, 1987-1989 I believe it was (I was born in 1986)

[fl1992]

Garfield and Friends started in 1988!

[blunklaura]

there was 3 openings, but one was more commonly used. The one that starts "We're ready to-party! we're ready, we're ready, i hope you brought lots of spaghetti! spaghetti?"

[fl1992]

Yes. I loved all the characters in the ready to party theme song from Gafield and US Acers! I remember the last theme song in the year 1995 was a Rap song for Garfield for being fat, lazy and eating lots of lasagna!

[blunklaura]

Oh god, 1990s rap.....It's all i heard in elementary--middle school :(

[fl1992]

I know that Garfield and Frinds was canceled in the year 1995 after 7 seasons on CBS sat. morn. Do you remember The Great Space Coaster?

[35823582]

I was born in 1979 and I remember all these, and that triangle with the swirly eyes saying obbageaba.

[sliderALT]

Thanks for this! This brings back so many good memories of my childhood. I really appreciate it.

[skystarless]

Half of these are before my time, but the "Space" ones are one of my earliest memories-- I was only two when I saw them in 1985, but I never forgot them.

[pawtdtmd]

Again space ones were around till 87 so you may have been 4

[skystarless]

Oh, cool.  Didn't know they were around so long.

[pawtdtmd]

actually the space bumpers were used about 82-86 and summer of 87. Also the supercade were used periodically from 82-85 or 86. But great montage!

[disneyfan85]

Yeah, I know. Some shows during this time used the space bumpers and others the video game bumpers.

[purplegurl79]

Ah, the memories..*sigh* Thanks for posting!

[fl1992]

Gilligan's Planet on CBS sat mornings was a little before my time.I was only 4 years old back in the year 1982. I remember Saturday Supercade from the years 1983-1985 very well on CBS sat morn.

[heyheyheydude]

way to make me feel like totally ancient man LOL these bumpers were from like the time I started kindergarten clear until high school. nice compilation tho

[TR50003]

Brings back memories!!! Thanks for posting.

[disneyfan85]

Oh, yeah, the font between the scenes is the same font as used in the title for the show "Gilligan's Island". Since it was originally on CBS and this is about CBS Saturday morning bumpers, I thought it made sense.

[campsports]

the bumpers with the outer space graphics was actually from 1983 til like the summer of 1986

[disneyfan85]

Actually, having looked around at this site a bit more, I think they used both the outer space AND video games bumper simultaneously. Some shows used the space bumpers; others, the video game bumpers.

[PJSkins26]

Freaking Awesome. I was born in 1980 and I clearly remember the bumpers from 1984-1989. It's too bad for kids today who don't have cable or satteliite and are not use to networks such watch Nick or Cartoon Network to see how great Saturday Mornings were a generation ago. Nowadays on CBS its either paid programs, News, and educational shows aim for kids. I'm so grateful I was an 80's child. Saturday Morning cartoons will never be the same.

[NowhereMan1966]

I was born in 1966 and have to agree. I watched cartoons from almost the time I was born until they got replaced by local news which started in the late 1980's and continues to this day. I remember almost all those clips.

[SteelRock73]

I was born in 1973 and I remember the bumpers

on CBS & NBC from 1978 to 1986.I switched back & fourth each hour for different shows.

Sadly the 1990s brought an end to all of it.

It was sure the golden era of being a kid.

[Motorcyclephil]

I agree 100%. I was born in 1972, and I remember most of these. I didn't recognize the ones after 1987 though.

[dgarcia207]

I was born in 1979 as well, but anyway the bumpers after the 1987s were the Kids in the Master Control Room announcing the commercial breaks. Saturday Mornings had really went down under, and I think they should reconstruct Saturday Mornings. Which means bring back the Weekend Specials on ABC and Saturday Storybreak on CBS and whatever Saturday storyshow NBC carried.

[disneyfan85]

I don't think NBC ever had a story-themed program on Saturdays.

[blunklaura]

*sigh* the good ol' days