N_B_C 1977 Saturday morning promos & bumpers

[360whiplash]

NBC pretty much quit showing cartoons a long time ago, all they show now is discovery animals and a bunch of educational stuff.

[Dreolin2004]

Thunder! I loved that show. I even had a Scholastic book tie-in!

[Dreolin2004]

Thunder! I loved that show. I even had a Scholastic book tie-in!

[phubans]

Hmm... 1984... I would have been about 3 years old. No wonder I only vaguely remember this show.

[kneejerker]

@phubans :

Please share with us all how old your were during each and every program that has ever broadcasted on television in the United States.

[2441883]

one of the very first times TV was painfully boring.

[osagecommunications]

I wanted to kill a Sleestack.

[bustyrandit]

I KNEW I WASN"T CRAZY !!!! well,crazier than usual. "heheh" I vagley rememberd the show about the horse "Thunder" as a kid. In 5th grade, our teacher gave all of our class a paperback based on Thunder. Don't really remember the show, but the book was great.Read it and reread it till it fell apart. The NBC bumper is the 1st one I really remember as a kid,

[david640]

right about this time there was a "spin off of Casper the friendly Ghost, but he was much "cuter". His name was "Smoo" ( not sure of the spelling). Does anybody remember him?

[quazzie11]

@david640 - Yeah, it was actually Shmoo... you were close. I always thought he was a Scooby ripoff, but I still watched when I was but a wee lad. Saturday mornings are never going to be like they were when we were kids. And that's a mammoth shame.

Get up before the adults, get a bowl of your favorite cereal, plop yourself down in front of the TV for 5 or 6 hours of animated goodness. Saturday mornings, to me, were a sort of reward for making it thru the school week.

[DeepSouthWrestling1]

@quazzie11 : Actually, the Shmoo predates Casper and Scooby Doo... he first appeared in the comic strip "Li'l Abner" in the 40s. The Shmoos were a race of animals who only wanted to please humans... if a human wanted to kill & eat a Shmoo, he would die of happiness on the spot!! They were immensely popular, spawning an avalance of merchandise. FF to the 70s where he was "updated" for Saturday morning tv with a Scooby Doo-like cartoon show, which was horrible...

[GhostryderRebel]

Has anyone remembered Star Trek in Cartoon back in the early 70s i think it last for 2 season and also The Brady Kids hour was fun to see!

[GhostryderRebel]

I love The Land of the Lost when i was growing up during 1970s and before cable and before dish network And P.C. we had outdoor antenna we get NBC and CBS and ABC they were the rulers of airwave back in the 70s

[marshalljimduncan]

wheres Enik? That is not logical!

[marshalljimduncan]

wheres Enik? That is not logical!

[dariusker]

wow do i feel old , land of the lost and Shazaam " Captain Marvel " was my favorites as a kid in the 70 's

[lee53050]

You wouldn't happen to have the "Smiling Saturday Morning" one which "the kids from C.a.p.e.r." did in 76 would you?

[volfire2]

I remember that one; I liked the Saturday morning lineup they had until they canceled "The Archie and Sabrina Hour" and replaced it with "Go Go Globetrotters".

[Rlotpir1972]

Wasn't "Land of the Lost" originally on CBS in 1974?

[manhizzy]

"Land of the Lost" was originally on NBC in 1974. It later showed up in reruns on CBS in 1984- that's when I saw it. A new version of "Land of the Lost" was on ABC in the early 90s, with Timothy Bottoms. But the CBS run in the 80s was reruns of the 70s NBC shows.

[manhizzy]

"Land of the Lost" was originally on NBC in 1974; CBS reran it in 1984. The CBS run was reruns of the original 70s show. A new version of "Land of the Lost" starring Timothy Bottoms, with completely different human characters and a different theme song, came out in the early 90s on ABC.

I used to argue with my cousin when the new version came out. I never saw it at the time, so when he would sing the theme song to LOTL I would say "No, that's not the theme song", and sing the original.

[hilarioph]

You mean the Land of the lost

was aired on NBC? I thought is on ABC

back in the mid 70's. But here in the Philippines.

They aired Land of the lost here in the Philippines

on KBS 9 or RPN 9 back in the 80's now Solar tv. Then they aired

the new Land of the Lost was aired back in the mid

90's the same station as well

[ericstopanio]

@manhizzy In NYC it ran on Channel 11 WPIX in the early eighties...maybe even late seventies

[bisnagaboy]

I loved Saturday Morning Fever is on the rise on NBC. I miss seeing that one on YouTube!

[DaveMMR]

When they get stuck on a slide as scary as that, I wanted to run and hide, but I couldn't turn away.

[bisnagaboy]

I loved the Saturday Morning Fever on NBC promo

[HypnoToad72]

Nice pic of the Sleestak; they look like TV news anchors... For FNC?

[ericcollins81]

NBC FUN MACHINE SOLID

[JoeSmoeX]

OMG! The Sleestaks! They freaked me out big time back then. Still do, actually...

I'm outta here! :^b

[ardalsgirl]

The Land Of The Lost Bumpers are really cool. :)

[cherokeehippie]

I remember this!! I remember the sleestak(the Land of the Lost creepy big eyes creatures!)...those things creeped me out big time!!

[ReeseMac]

"..........we are experiencing technical difficulties....please stand by............." (repeat)

[sticksrossi]

i think it was a technical difficulties slide.

[skystarless]

Looks like they goofed up, because they sure left that slide on a long time. Things like that used to freak me out when I was a kid...

[sacrificaltotem]

i was born in 77 but for some reason i have memories of this.

[K8tina]

I was born in 73 and I remember this, too! (I feel soooooo OLD!!! *LOL*)

[kookoo78]

I was born in 78 and I have no idea about this. I wondering how did 70sKidVid get...there was home videorecording equipment back then

[Attmay]

There was ample opportunity to record programs off TV for those willing to pay for tapes. 3/4" Umatic came out in 1971, Beta in 1975, and VHS in 1976. I want everyone's old tapes when they die. :D

[dogrockit]

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[iamdeprogram]

I want "Sunshine Saturday on ABC"...

[sprinter82]

If I had memories of this, they'd probably be some fond ones. Unfortunately, I wasn't around until '82...

[DroogInPhoenix]

I assumed you were not around then with the amount of LOLs in your post. Oh Noez LOLZ *strangle*

[kpowers]

today stuff sucks!!!!!!!! To much stuff from japan.

[RayBosh]

you hsaf no clue comic booiks from the 70s r so lame now real peeple can enjoy graphic art

[MattBL]

The Fun Machine animation reminded me of the Pinball Machine from SESAME STREET.

[xreddragonx]

Of course there's been increased production values, as is obviously bound to happen with the pass of time. But the true quality of a program isn't measured by how high tech it is. You'd think that one who's old enough to type sentences, is old enough to understand that.

[sammyreed]

It seems like they would only run slides like that, for that long a time, during technical difficulties. Was that the case here?

[heine71]

Cool NBC Fun Machine 1977-1978 Saturday Morning Bumper, for 1978-1979 the bumper was "Saturday Morning Fever is on the rise on NBC".

[heine71]

And a year before 1977-1978 (in 1976-1977) NBC's bumper theme was "Smilin' Saturday Mornin'".

[dontgd]

I have a 20 yr old 8x10 print from that Land of the Lost bumper. It's such a nice image.

[Mystifier122]

Hey! It's great to see some new stuff from you, love your vids. I was a little kid in the 70's so this was my era. Land Of The Lost was my favorite.