1987 NBC Saturday morning preview special

I only taped this because I had an extra 30 minutes at the end of a tape I had to put something on. Figured some people would enjoy it now- and yes, this is from a STEREO broadcast!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Smurfs
• Alf
• 1980s
• Fraggle Rock
• Foofur
• Cherry 7Up
• Danny Ponce
• Betty White
• Benji Gregory
• Shannen Doherty
• Danny Dark

[zshaw7549]

I am having flashbacks from this special. Good old NBC cartoons.

[eyeh8nbc]

@zshaw7549 They were even better in the 70s.

[jwsu2003]

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.

[eyeh8nbc]

@jwsu2003 On the west coast, cartoons were usually cut short for sports- yet another reason I never liked sports!

[DanZero77]

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!

[mauromesa78]

i love alf

[landyachtfan79]

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOREVER........YES!!!

[guessowii]

Wow! Great upload!

Thanks!!

[NepperCat]

I liked the Alf cartoon until I realized that by the time the live action show started...most of the characters were DEAD.

[highhorsevideo]

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!

[DanZero77]

@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.

[osaji922]

@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]

@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.

[DanZero77]

@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) ?

[osaji922]

@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