NBC Saturday Morning Bumpers

[notsusan]

Man, I miss waking up, watching CBS/ABC upstairs with my mom and then going downstairs around 11 to watch NBC's stuff on (constantly dubbed-over) VHS. Like 80% was a cartoon version of whatever live-action TV or movie was popular, plus a magical talking dog, but growing up in the 80s was awesome. the guy talking about 1992 already missed a lot of the experience..

[RSRANR]

As a kid, I would remember watching cartoons all Saturday morning, then after going outside or ride in my moms car, come back home ice cream cone in hand and watch some PBA Bowling on ABC. Man, I miss those days!!!

[lieutenantrosie]

NO MORE SMURFIN' SMURFS!

[aoinatafanboy84]

Actually, Kasem isn't best known for his voice acting. It's Top 40 countdown like Dick Clark.

[BuckeyeRidley]

Love this. Thanks for sharing. The final part with the claymation brings back great memories from '89 & '90.

[NitekMuscle]

This was perhaps the last great era of Saturday Morning Cartoons.

[quietriotfan1976]

Can't mistake the voice of Casey Kasem

[hootyhaha]

Boomerang & The Hub aren't widely available. I wish the networks would have retro Saturdays. Their line up is awful. The remakes are terrible, and the new stuff is just a disappointment. Fans should not be apathetic & write in continually to these networks requesting retro shows back in certain timed blocks. My Nephews love my 80s DVDs and stream 80s toons on Netflix. TV Land & Cartoon Newtwork could have a 80s Saturday. They're more available than The Hub or Boomerang. Write in when yer bored.

[captxena31]

aw thoose were the days

[speedbuggy]

Why so many Smurfs???

[TRKizm]

Don't remember Thunddar on NBC

[scottbaino]

Does someone like the Smurfs? :)

[brainysnaeha]

@scottbaino

I love The Smurfs!

[NitekMuscle]

From 1985 onward, NBC had the best bumpers of any of the big three networks.

[mebeluvined]

what the smurf am i watching

[jj201]

So the lesson that everyone should learn from all this is that the Smurfs will return after these messages! ;D

[TB4000]

So what you're saying is that the Smurfs will return after these messages.

[magishinex]

Didn't watch too many NBC cartoons. At least not til the 90s. These aren't as memorable to me as the CBS or ABC bumpers

[tuuexx]

way too smurffed out.....

[jon99miller]

I remember them all.

[suspekt29]

Only bumper I remember is the last one. My memory sucks

[ScottropolisTV]

The days of cartoons and Casey Kasem. It'd be groovy if he does voice overs for Boomerang.

[RkivUnderground]

Somebody really liked the Smurfs... Also, I came here because of the CGI rollercoaster at 3:06. I have that animation, I recall, on two Laserdiscs.

[moxie96]

try surfing with a turn knob tv set! of course it broke but not by us daughters! It wasa thursday night fight Dynasty versus whatever was on CBS my dad wanted to see and off it came and the channel flipper in the rca set got stuck on channel 8 no matter what channel you really had on vhf

[classicphile]

I was born in 1969, so I grew up in the 1970s watching all sorts of cartoons as well as live shows (Shazam, Land of the Lost, Sigmund and the Sea monsters, etc) every Saturday morning. The 1970s truly was the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons. But by the early 1980s, I was growing out of watching cartoons. It didnt help that the stuff I grew up watching were being taken off the air and replaced with newer cartoons like the Smurfs. They were a big hit at the time, but I just didnt like them

[mcainiac]

They're great man! Thanks for posting!

Honestly, something about these...especially the early ones like '82' and '83, when I would have been very young like 1 and 2, but there is something for very strong in my subconscious mind, buried deep that is brought out by these stupid bumpers, ya know! I mean it just immediately takes me back in a very deep feeling inside I can't describe!

[marioTmaggot]

I used to love the kids super power hour with Shazam, and even remember the song after all these years. Thanks for reminding me of this.

[redneckpride4ever]

I just don't get how cartoons turned to shit, and creative bumpers like these were lost. The only cartoon I can think of today that lives up is SpongeBob (I actually drive my wife up the wall because I watch SpongeBob long after our kids have gone to bed). And don't go saying Nostalgia- the cartoons before I was born in 1979 were as good as the ones on when I was a kid, sometimes even better, and I was in my teens when I first saw classics like Underdog and Tennesee Tuxedo.

[brainysnaeha]

@disneyfan85

this video has a bad quality it looks tearing and too blurry to see title shown.

Any explanation?

From other user is looking much better quality.

[disneyfan85]

@brainysnaeha As I've said before, this is just how I found the videos. All I did was cobble them together like this.

[AudioAndroid]

@brainysnaeha you are getting to use to HQ this will do me just fine

[brainysnaeha]

@disneyfan85

what is that jingle called at the beginning?

[disneyfan85]

@brainysnaeha That's the music for PBS from 1971 to 1984.

[stevek83]

Great video compilation! It was nice to go back to a "simplier time" for a few minutes :-)

[ming746]

thanks for posting but one of those dates for a clip is wrong. spider man and his amazing friends was not on in 1986-87. that was 1982 and 1983

[nitendaymare]

Smurf ya! , This smurfing rocks! Thanks for the bumpers.

[brainysnaeha]

You're the real smurfs fan most of these are from the smurfs!

Ok with me i never get bored of seeing the smurfs over and over again!

[NachoNinja]

The smurfs will return after these messages.

[Motorcyclephil]

That 1988-1989, those kids looked really creepy.

[agotelet]

and now the smurfs return to the thorpe park. shalom!

[archina2255]

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[Paigeshusband]

I so remember listening to Casey Kasem doing these, but little did I ever know that he played Shaggy and a number of other characters as well.

[BenJabituya]

I remember some of these bumpers, when KYW-TV NBC 3 (now CBS 3) in Philly would show The Smurfs, and Alvin and the Chipmunks.

[flooramatic]

its missing the 1987-88 bumpers

[frrrrrunkis]

The Smurfs will return after these messages...

[mcainiac]

we now return to the smurfs...

[readytorock865]

I would love for these to be ringtones for a cell phone..lol

[mikeym820]

Whats is the opening sound effect?

[disneyfan85]

That would be the music for the 1971 ID for PBS.

[cuteycindyhoney]

Wow! How many commercial breaks did the Smurfs have?!?!

[silverrhawk]

I miss those days.

[jgjklhlgkbmbkjkjbfsg]

In the 80's there was no internet. Besides, they had cable in the 80's.

[hoeky442]

lol. I'm sitting here with all my happy memories when suddenly I don't recongnize any of the shows anymore. I think about it and realize I started working regularly on Saturdays around 1986 - or sleeping in if I had the chance. The end of childhood, I guess!

[nesjuggalo]

Man, back in the days when NBC was actually worth watching. Damn.

[MrUniq]

The only shows on NBC I used to watch were their superhero shows and I think Punky Brewster and Captain N was on there too. They did alot of animated versions of their primetime shows which I wasn't too fond of :P..not to mention Saved by the Bell. I was all about cartoons.

[jaysteel2008]

they sure don't make them like they used to..thanx for puttin this together..

[iwatson14]

Cartoons on the 80's. Wonderful memories.

[frankfantastic001]

In the 1980's, they had one to grow on.

[Jontiac]

yeah, i liked it better when the major networks all ran saturday morning cartoons. Years later they slowly phased that out so that only specialty channels (kids networks) hosted them. Now my parents have 900 channels on satellite and can't easily surf them all like you could back then. My kids are surely missing out.

[tanquantwal]

Back in the 80's it was the best time ever! Waking up on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons will never be duplicated. We were so naive thinking that cable would make tv better when in actuality it made it worse

[NowhereMan1966]

I'll drink to that! I loved waking up on a cold, Saturday morning in the winter, firing up the 1982 Zenith (which we still use to this day) and putting on the Smurfs as I go to the couch and end up having a cat crawl in my lap. Then mom makes a warm breakfast and we eat to the Smurfs. Dang, I miss those days, I keep hoping I'm in a dream and wake up to something like that now. B-D

I would not want to be a kid now.

[silverrhawk]

Same here but not Smurfs, i watched the mostly CBS cartoons.

[NowhereMan1966]

Yeah, a new version of the old song, 900 channels and nothing on. I do like the digital TV where you have over the air subchannels, if I ran the Retro Television Network, I'd run Saturday mornings like they did back then with the old cartoons, I'd rotate them, one week, NBC, next ABC,and finally CBS with the old bumpers and everything. I work Saturday Mornings so I would shove in a VHS tape for 6 hours and "let her rip."

[AarHan3]

Batman And The Super 7 I can do without. :-P

[beyo2120]

honestly kids born from the 90's on up would have to see the way saturday morning cartoons were in the early 80's to believe it, EVERY channel was showing cartoons 2 thru 13! at any givin time you would channel surf back n forth to the smurfs, shirt tales, turbo teen, richie rich, the loonie tunes, littles, it went on and on!, and dont get me started on the ABC (and other channels) PSA's "yuckmouth" "dont drown your food" etc..i cant fit it all in here but it was off the hook. nostalgia here...

[tru80sman]

@beyo2120 amen

[Jguy27]

@beyo2120 Yes Yes Yes! You are right. I grew up through this era and you wouldn't miss a carton on those channels on Saturday morning and they were all good. Now they hardly show anything. Those were the days.

[osaji922]

@beyo2120 Might have to modify that a bit. I know NBC didn't have cartoons in '92 but I remember how saturday cartoons used to be and I was born in '92. I think kids born in the mid 90's might not know what it was like.Those kids probably don't even know about Life with Louie, Carmen Sandiego, or The Tick. I might be a rare guy because whatever my older brothers and sisters watched, I watched so what ever. If you were born in '92 you might or might not remember.

[MB11113]

I was an 80's kid.. watching saturday morning cartoon still in my pj's while eating cereal... man, life was great back then.

[JimHawkwind03411]

Here's the music used, which are based on the then-current NBC slogans:

Part 1: ?

Part 2: Proud As A Peacock

Part 3: Our Pride Is Showing

Part 4: Just Watch Us Now

Part 5: Be There

Part 6-7: Let's All Be There

[patrickballoonman]

Part 8: Come Home to NBC

Part 9: Come Home to the Best Only on NBC

[marmalade4sunrise]

so...uh...you *really* liked the smurfs...I appreciate the 82-83 bit the most. Also, I had TOTALLY forgot about Foofer!

[disneyfan85]

No, I didn't really like "The Smurfs". That's just how I found the clips. I only put the clips on the video here.

[malikscifi92]

i was born in the early nineties and i remember waking up to watch Looney Tunes, 2 Stupid Dogs, Tom & Jerry, Dexter's Lab, etc. every Saturday morning on Cartoon Network

life seemed SO simple back then, for me anyway

[nakamichiguy]

It felt pretty special every Saturday morning to see cartoons. It was like an 'event' every weekend. No school, time for toons! I loved it. It's not the same now, of course. Kids don't get the 'event' part of it because they're everywhere on cable or they play video games or whatever. Oh man I sound old...

[msdecember]

this is a time that will NEVER be recreated. so glad that i had the chance to live it.

[mp1323]

man, saturday morning cartoons will never be the same again. makes you glad that you were a kid in the 1980's

[mp1323]

anybody remember the cbs kids show the patchwork family?

[hhsgrad1988]

I sure do!! Got up at 7:00 AM EST on Saturday mornings to watch it.

[poetx64]

I loved The Patchwork Family. I've been trying to find some stuff on Youtube. Man, I remember waking up on Sat looking forward to cartoons. Sats will never be the same again.

[SCRIPPSCAST2007]

Man those shows has serious energy to them compared to what NBC offers nowadays!!!

[BigBoiJC]

now i don't know if NBC or CBS had this bumper but it was something weird. had all these monster-ish machines that would make these noises...had this yellow cylinderish thing that would zip around on this rotating platform while the caption underneath would state either "we'll be right back" or "back to the show!".

[officialmikethompson]

I've actually been looking for this too... anyone remember it?? I haven't seen it in ages and I thought I was going nuts!

[BigBoiJC]

FOUND IT! on Disneyfan85's channel. it's called CBS Saturday Morning Bumpers

[chuckchizzle]

I REMEMBER THAT ONE!!!!

the spinning thing was singing,and sometimes the camera would pan out and it would close like a bottle..I REMEMBER THAT!!!

I would love too see that one again

[sliderALT]

You mean that spinning cone thing that would sing something like, "la da di da?"

[chuckchizzle]

yup

[sliderALT]

I liked that one a lot too.

[jon99miller]

@sliderALT I remembered that cone thing and thought it was stupid.

[TIPTON340]

i WILL NOT SEE THIS EVER AGAIN

I WILL NOT SEE THIS EVER AGAIN

[maddog015]

What's the music from the intro of the video? Sounds like something from public television.

[disneyfan85]

It is. Specifically, it's the PBS logo music from 1971 to 1984.

[maddog015]

Hehe, I'm good. :)

Do you happen to have the later years of Saturday morning NBC bumps? During the Captain N era? I just remember some crazy voice saying "Back to our shooooow!"

[disneyfan85]

No, I don't.

[MuscleBomber2021]

I remember those bumps,the one with some grinning kid with grinning teeth saying" BACK TO OUR SHOOOOOOOOW" yeah those were the 1990 bumpers that aired during season 2 of captain N that were paired with episodes of super mario bros 3,but yes youtube has those. I can pm you those

than in 1991,duing captian N's 3rd season with the super mario world episodes had bumpers with chip and pepper in them

[jerbojones]

dude I remember chip and pepper they had a show on nbc too right? they were these too surfer like twin guys.

[godsholywoman]

I remember 1981-1982

1982-1983

1983-1984

[godsholywoman]

I remember these bumpers!

[johnymo96]

82-83 is the best!

[uofmrules1]

I always felt the NBC bumpers were a little too bland compared to the CBS ones. CBS just ROCKED Saturday morning for me!

[beyo2120]

this is too nostalgic!

[afperron]

ok dude...ENOUGH WITH THE STUPID SMURFS

[disneyfan85]

That's just how it was found.

[liteskinnededgal]

I like the bumpers that ran from 1981 to 1983. I like the music

[uofmrules1]

That was "our pride is showing" in case you wondered what the music was referring to.

[gforce365]

i used to watch a lot of saturday morning cartoons back then , but i have NO idea what Foofur is...

[CitySon]

*sigh* The good ol' days. Before TNBC came along and ruined everything. Saved By the Bell (though a great show) partially ruined the Saturday Morning cartoon tradition.--Along with the Disney buyout of ABC.

[mgsnv2]

4;10 is my favorite bumpers on NBC of all time!!! Thanks for the memories.

[a1cjlock]

Smurfs and Alvin and the Chipmunks had to be the longest running cartoons on the NBC block. It returned every season. Or was it scooby-doo?

[jwh1999]

Or was it the new popeye at the time??

[zmshaw81]

I remember Foofur from when I was younger. I loved Ed Grimley but to be honest, The Smurfs and Alvin and the Chipmunks were the best NBC cartoons.

[blunklaura]

I remeber the ones 1987=1990very well (I was born in 1986)

:)

the one where it's kids but onl their faces move, I remember t used to freak me out lol

[Silverfox7771]

too bad NBC killed there Saturday line up we all loved in the mid 90's to add

the today show then

[Odawg96]

Yeah...that marked the beginning of the end for the Saturday Morning Cartoon era. I remember NBC spokespeople saying that cartoons were becoming too violent...so they replaced them with THE NEWS (Today Show)?!?!?! Nearly 20 years later, and I'm STILL trying to figure that one out.

[TR50003]

I thought they mention that cartoons was getting way too expensive so they replace them the news...well either way I still consider that a cop out for selling out.

[Motorcyclephil]

The only real network airing Saturday Morning Cartoons is The WB, and the only cartoon really worth watching now is "The Batman".

[acholl980]

It was then that Fox and the newly made WB network took over. All the good stuff came from them.

[BrooklynChivalry]

WOW!

Saturday Morning Fever! I remember that block like yesterday...that was when the "Godzilla Power Hour", "The Bay City Rollers Show" and "The New Fantastic Four" (with H.E.R.B.I.E. the robot) made their debut and I never missed an episode! I've seen these shows again since those days, but NOT that NBC bumper! Thank You for posting and sharing!

[dorourke105]

There was an Ed Grimley custom bumper too.Just thought I'd mention that.

[fl1992]

These classic NBC sat morn bumpers are Very Smurfy!

[Simmi0609]

i was a baby when most of these cartoons came out

[redjacket97]

NBC ruled Saturday Mornings in the 80s. I remember almost all of these. Thanks for posting!

[Wg2100s]

The magic of saturday mornings was these bumpers.Thanx for posting these.

[carlitosbug]

You forgot Part Eleven: 1990-1991 and Part Twelve 1991-1992, disneyfan85.

[disneyfan85]

Well, Part Ten was as far as I could go. Sorry. If I can ever figure out how to convert flv to wmv or avi (I have tried, but to no avail), then maybe I'll give it another shot.

[shanejensen]

Look for the Riva FLV converter, you can do it there.

[PrincessofPower84]

God bless Casey Kasem. He really brought life into these bumpers. The ones I really like are 1982-83 and 1989-90.

[mrsnyder99]

wow........haven't seen these in ages....you made my day! Thank you for posting.

[Aztekaiser82]

Cool! I remember the late '80s bumper

[TR50003]

Oh yes I almost forgot nbc has the best Saturday Morning Bumpers.

[disneyfan85]

Oh, I don't know, ABC had some good ones, too, especially those claymation ones that were likely done by Will Vinton.

[TR50003]

Well I have to admit I enjoyed the claymations bumper. It was really cool.  I just love how nbc did their Saturday Morning Bumpers every year. Especially with Casey Kasem Voice. ABC & NBC bumpers rocks. CBS Bumpers is pretty cool too.

[fl1992]

Do you remember Smurfs Shrinky Dinks back in the year 1982?

[TR50003]

Yeah I remember the Smurfs Shrinky Dinks. I always wanted to get one of those shrinky dinks.

[fl1992]

I loved The Smurfs Shrinky Dinks when I was only 4! Do you remember The Great Space Coaster?

[TR50003]

Of course I remember The Great Space Coaster. It came on when I was 5 or 6 years old.

[fl1992]

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

[TR50003]

Yeah I remember Frannie. She has a beautiful voice.

[fl1992]

Frannie was my 1st tv crush! Do you remember what she said when she was tickling Goriddle while wearing a gold ring on her ring finger? She was the whole show!

[fl1992]

Frannie had such a beautiful singing voice! Do youremember her teasing nature with Goriddle Gorilla?

[TR50003]

I think so!!!

[fl1992]

Do you remember the episode of TGSC where Frannie as a practical joke using a hammer made Goriddle Gorilla into a fake scarecrow in Edison Elephant's corn garden?

[TR50003]

Yeah I rmember that episode!!! That is one of my favorites.

[fl1992]

What did Frannie say when she was tickling Goriddle do you remember?

[TR50003]

It's been a long time since I the show so I can't really remember.

[fl1992]

What do you remember about the scarecrow episode with Frannie and Goriddle on TGSC? Do you remember when Goriddle met Actress Sally Struthers as a GSC guest star?

[TR50003]

These really bring back memories!!! Thanks for posting this.

[DreamDancer82]

I'd say Casey Kasem is more well known for his radio show than as the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo, though that could be debatable.

[disneyfan85]

Well, I never heard of his radio show; I only know him from the voice acting field. Besides, I was trying to simply make an educated guess here.

[DreamDancer82]

OK, just putting in my two cents there.

[PJSkins26]

He was also known as the voice of Robin in the Various Superfriends Shows during the 70's and early 80's.

[DreamDancer82]

And Groove, the drummer from the 1969 Hanna-Barbera series "The Cattanooga Cats," and Alexander Cabot, III, on "Josie & The Pussycats" (in case you couldn't tell, I'm somewhat of a Casey Kasem fan).

[acholl980]

And let's not forget TV's American Top 10 and radio's American Top 100 (keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars).

[thedude19766]

also used to co-host with jerry lewis for the MDA telethon back in the 80's and 90's