I was the Production Coordinator on this show and I had a blast working on it. We taped it at NBC on the stage next to the Tonight Show. My job before the shoot was to round up all the cartoon clips. I also supervised all the voice overs performed by the the voice actors. The highlight of which was meeting and working with the great June Foray and Don Messick. And of course Betty White! Most of all it was a pleasure to work with producers Brad Wigor and Joe Maurer. Thanks you guys!
I liked Alf the animated series better than Alf Tales...Fraggle Rock on HBO was better, but I always watched the cartoon bing a HUGE Fraggle Rocker as a kid...Smurfs was my favorite!! I remember I'm Telling...
I remember these saturday morning previews that they had in the eighties. It was great as a child in those times. I used to stay watching NBC on saturdays.
Where's the Snorks promo? Come on NBC, you brought the show back to your lineup that year! In 1987 when I was in preschool, 4 programs ruled saturday morning for me: ALF's Tales,DuckTales,Snorks, and TMNT. I was getting tired of Smurfs and was starting to chafe on them, by '88 I stopped watching them altogether, a year later in 1989, NBC finally canned them. Sadly, just 5 years later, NBC would no longer produce saturday morning cartoons.
Man, I miss the HELL out of Saturday morning cartoons. These days the only channels that show any cartoons on a Saturday morning are Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Nickelodeon. Channels like NBC, CBS and even FOX show NOTHING for kids now. Everything was more fun in the 80s.
@GrimMortalis Kids cartoons lack the extravagance of the cartoons during this time. So yeah you're right that CN and Nick show cartoons BUT those are repeat episodes that you can catch any day of the week. Some episodes are REALLY old too. Then they don't advertise those cartoons as a special saturday morning block at all. That right there takes away the sincere specialness that these old cartoons had.So to me CN and Nick don't even count and to an extent neither does Boomerang.
Man, Saturday mornings back then were worth getting up early for. You look on the networks, and all they show are lame cartoons.
The only channel I that has any decent cartoons would have to be RTV, They show the cool stuff like He-man, She Ra and Fat albert. Sadly, not everyone gets RTV.
Absolutely! Not only was Saturday Morning great in the 80s, but the preview specials that NBC and ABC would put out were just as good! Plus, 1987 was the last good year for cartoons on NBC for me, so thank you for posting!
@DanZero77 NBC was the first network to get rid of cartoons just a couple years after this, in favor of the Saturday Today Show. Cartoons were headed downhill by that point anyways- I remember a local TV critic saying that Foofur was "about as exciting as a test pattern."
@eyeh8nbc They were the first to experience a rapid decline by the early 90s, followed by ABC and then CBS. I liked Foofur and Archies back in the day, and I'd watch them all very faithfully till they started getting phased out.
@DanZero77 I know by the time you may not have watched it and probably disliked it because it seems like you're born around the same time of my brother which was '83 but ABC to me rebounded in the 90's with One Saturday Morning. I'd take some of those cartoons over some of the ones today. Recess, Pepper Ann, Weekenders, and Filmore. I liked those ones. On that same note though, I started watching ABC during that time because FOX declined in the late 90's
@osaji922 For me, CBS had the great lineup from 1988 till 1992, plus Fox's entry into the Saturday morning arena pretty much killed off NBC and ABC. ABC had the Bugs Bunny/Tweety show which I'd watch, but who did not like Muppet Babies, Garfield and Friends, and TMNT (which was on CBS) ?
@DanZero77 Fox's cartoons were great though. at least to me. That's mostly what I remember from my saturday mornings pre one saturday morning. I just hate that they don't have sat.morning cartoons anymore. DAMN the FCC! Something needs to be done about it too.Kids need this back
@osaji922 Sadly, yes the act passed in 1996 that made everything E/I killed off the merchandising aspect of animated programming and a long 30-40 year tradition was done. Stuff like this video will always remind me that Saturday morning meant *something* to the big networks at the time.
@eyeh8nbc - NBC's decline began when they cancelled The Gummi Bears in 1989 (only to move to ABC that Fall). Then things took a turn for the bad again when The Smurfs (which by 1989 was on the verge of cancellation w/ the Time Travel eps.) got the pink slip from the Peacock in 1990. The penultimate canning of Alvin and the Chipmunks (by Fall 1990 it was Chipmunks Go To the Movies) in 1991, led to the ultimate signaling of the end of NBC Saturday Morning Cartoons in 1992.
@rjb1216 I watched that one but didn't tape it- it was called "Back to Next Saturday" and the title used the same lettering as "Back to the Future". That was also in stereo but our local station didn't have a stereo signal yet which pissed me off, though they did have it up and running the following week.
@DanZero77 This was before my time since I was born '92. What I remember from sat. mornings was probably early/mid 90's on FOX and catching TMNT I think either on CBS and then the other episode on USA cartoon express if my memory serves correctly. You didn't like Mario Bros. 3? That's my favorite of the Mario series. I just watched the preview for the '89 lineup. NBC was sooo cool back then. I wish it was still like this because it would give me incentive to actually get up on Sat. mornings
i love alf
mauromesa78 4 days ago
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOREVER........YES!!!
landyachtfan79 1 week ago
Wow! Great upload!
Thanks!!
guessowii 3 weeks ago
I liked the Alf cartoon until I realized that by the time the live action show started...most of the characters were DEAD.
NepperCat 1 month ago
I was the Production Coordinator on this show and I had a blast working on it. We taped it at NBC on the stage next to the Tonight Show. My job before the shoot was to round up all the cartoon clips. I also supervised all the voice overs performed by the the voice actors. The highlight of which was meeting and working with the great June Foray and Don Messick. And of course Betty White! Most of all it was a pleasure to work with producers Brad Wigor and Joe Maurer. Thanks you guys!
highhorsevideo 1 month ago
I liked Alf the animated series better than Alf Tales...Fraggle Rock on HBO was better, but I always watched the cartoon bing a HUGE Fraggle Rocker as a kid...Smurfs was my favorite!! I remember I'm Telling...
mooky9669 3 months ago
Teletoon Retro here in Canada has a Saturday morning block which runs old cartoons. I thought I'd like to point that out.
P.S. Ever notice that Townsend Coleman's Gobo voice here sounds is almost a dead ringer for Jerry Nelson's Gobo from the original Fraggle Rock?
Fragglevision 5 months ago
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YES! Another one I've been looking for! Thank you so much for posting! Now I can relive the memories of the 80's once more! :D
taurusgirl65 6 months ago
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YES! Another one I've been looking for! Thank you so much for posting! Now I can relive the memories of the 80's once more! :D
taurusgirl65 6 months ago
YES! Another one I've been looking for! Thank you so much for posting! Now I can relive the memories of the 80's once more! :D
taurusgirl65 6 months ago
I am having flashbacks from this special. Good old NBC cartoons.
zshaw7549 6 months ago 3
@zshaw7549 They were even better in the 70s.
eyeh8nbc 6 months ago
I remember these saturday morning previews that they had in the eighties. It was great as a child in those times. I used to stay watching NBC on saturdays.
zshaw7549 6 months ago
Where's the Snorks promo? Come on NBC, you brought the show back to your lineup that year! In 1987 when I was in preschool, 4 programs ruled saturday morning for me: ALF's Tales,DuckTales,Snorks, and TMNT. I was getting tired of Smurfs and was starting to chafe on them, by '88 I stopped watching them altogether, a year later in 1989, NBC finally canned them. Sadly, just 5 years later, NBC would no longer produce saturday morning cartoons.
Tornado1994 7 months ago
That last two preview clips of I'm Telling! came from the episode uploaded here on YouTube. The voiceover is that of it's host Laurie Faso.
viddykiddy18 7 months ago
Man, I miss the HELL out of Saturday morning cartoons. These days the only channels that show any cartoons on a Saturday morning are Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Nickelodeon. Channels like NBC, CBS and even FOX show NOTHING for kids now. Everything was more fun in the 80s.
GrimMortalis 7 months ago
@GrimMortalis Kids cartoons lack the extravagance of the cartoons during this time. So yeah you're right that CN and Nick show cartoons BUT those are repeat episodes that you can catch any day of the week. Some episodes are REALLY old too. Then they don't advertise those cartoons as a special saturday morning block at all. That right there takes away the sincere specialness that these old cartoons had.So to me CN and Nick don't even count and to an extent neither does Boomerang.
osaji922 1 month ago
I want cherry 7 up
drseussisdeaddd 7 months ago
Fucking a, I remember this, this made me get up every saturday morning.
mcog2006 8 months ago
How can I forget "I'm Telling!" I remember catching this show in reruns on The Family Channel (now ABC Family).
megamanj2004X 9 months ago
For some reason my local affiliate cut nbc cartoons at 1130, so we didn't see the new archies until they were syndicated a year later.
jwsu2003 1 year ago
@jwsu2003 On the west coast, cartoons were usually cut short for sports- yet another reason I never liked sports!
eyeh8nbc 11 months ago
Man, Saturday mornings back then were worth getting up early for. You look on the networks, and all they show are lame cartoons.
The only channel I that has any decent cartoons would have to be RTV, They show the cool stuff like He-man, She Ra and Fat albert. Sadly, not everyone gets RTV.
pyrogyra72 1 year ago
@pyrogyra72
they only things the networks show for kids now is required E/I programs
nomadcowatbk 10 months ago
i like alf loves a mystery its like a alf tv special super cool
blackmagno 1 year ago
Betty White FTW!
kc86er 1 year ago
Absolutely! Not only was Saturday Morning great in the 80s, but the preview specials that NBC and ABC would put out were just as good! Plus, 1987 was the last good year for cartoons on NBC for me, so thank you for posting!
DanZero77 1 year ago 2
@DanZero77 NBC was the first network to get rid of cartoons just a couple years after this, in favor of the Saturday Today Show. Cartoons were headed downhill by that point anyways- I remember a local TV critic saying that Foofur was "about as exciting as a test pattern."
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
@eyeh8nbc They were the first to experience a rapid decline by the early 90s, followed by ABC and then CBS. I liked Foofur and Archies back in the day, and I'd watch them all very faithfully till they started getting phased out.
DanZero77 1 year ago
@DanZero77 I know by the time you may not have watched it and probably disliked it because it seems like you're born around the same time of my brother which was '83 but ABC to me rebounded in the 90's with One Saturday Morning. I'd take some of those cartoons over some of the ones today. Recess, Pepper Ann, Weekenders, and Filmore. I liked those ones. On that same note though, I started watching ABC during that time because FOX declined in the late 90's
osaji922 1 month ago
@osaji922 For me, CBS had the great lineup from 1988 till 1992, plus Fox's entry into the Saturday morning arena pretty much killed off NBC and ABC. ABC had the Bugs Bunny/Tweety show which I'd watch, but who did not like Muppet Babies, Garfield and Friends, and TMNT (which was on CBS) ?
DanZero77 1 month ago
@DanZero77 Fox's cartoons were great though. at least to me. That's mostly what I remember from my saturday mornings pre one saturday morning. I just hate that they don't have sat.morning cartoons anymore. DAMN the FCC! Something needs to be done about it too.Kids need this back
osaji922 1 month ago
@osaji922 Sadly, yes the act passed in 1996 that made everything E/I killed off the merchandising aspect of animated programming and a long 30-40 year tradition was done. Stuff like this video will always remind me that Saturday morning meant *something* to the big networks at the time.
DanZero77 1 month ago
@eyeh8nbc Actually, NBC scrapped cartoons for thier T-NBC block that was headed by Saved By The Bell. They cancelled it after a few years.
somethinsuavetheater 1 year ago
@eyeh8nbc I used to love Foofur. Don't know if I would now I think I was 7 when that was on, and I'm 31 now.
SUNSHINE21480 11 months ago
@eyeh8nbc - NBC's decline began when they cancelled The Gummi Bears in 1989 (only to move to ABC that Fall). Then things took a turn for the bad again when The Smurfs (which by 1989 was on the verge of cancellation w/ the Time Travel eps.) got the pink slip from the Peacock in 1990. The penultimate canning of Alvin and the Chipmunks (by Fall 1990 it was Chipmunks Go To the Movies) in 1991, led to the ultimate signaling of the end of NBC Saturday Morning Cartoons in 1992.
megamanj2004X 9 months ago
@DanZero77 there was one on around 85 that I would kill to see again, I only saw it once and never forget it
rjb1216 1 year ago
@rjb1216 The only other preview special I have favorited from the 80s was from ABC in 1984 with Weird Al.
It's at watch?v=fYXlkBtD600
DanZero77 1 year ago
@rjb1216 I watched that one but didn't tape it- it was called "Back to Next Saturday" and the title used the same lettering as "Back to the Future". That was also in stereo but our local station didn't have a stereo signal yet which pissed me off, though they did have it up and running the following week.
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
@DanZero77 This was before my time since I was born '92. What I remember from sat. mornings was probably early/mid 90's on FOX and catching TMNT I think either on CBS and then the other episode on USA cartoon express if my memory serves correctly. You didn't like Mario Bros. 3? That's my favorite of the Mario series. I just watched the preview for the '89 lineup. NBC was sooo cool back then. I wish it was still like this because it would give me incentive to actually get up on Sat. mornings
osaji922 1 month ago