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!

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[Zakiyyah Shaw]

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

[eyeh8nbc]

They were even better in the 70s.

[eyeh8nbc]

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

[ebolaworld]

The commercials are hilarious. xD

[TherealRNO]

Well, they were going to do a puppet MB series, but couldn't afford to do puppetry interspered with cameo segments, so they opted for animation outsourced from Japan. As for the FR cartoon, it was done for the sake of those who didn't get HBO to see the original puppet series.

[eyeh8nbc]

I always hated Muppet Babies for that very reason, although some of the stuff they did with the animation was interesting.

[TherealRNO]

Too bad FR--the actual puppet series--was ending on HBO, because having puppet ALF with animated Fraggles irks me, since both originated as puppets that spawned cartoon shows.

[pogwo1968]

I heard that was one of the reasons why the Ruby-Spears Superman animated series on CBS (1988) lasted only one season. Consistent cut offs of the series due to sports events made it too costly to produce which forced CBS to cancel the series. A proposed Batman series was shelved due to this reason as well.

[Whtxombi]

Yup. Back in the day, the networks took great pride in their Saturday morning cartoons. The fanfare rivalled most of their primetime stuff.

The Alf cartoon was pretty good. It went far to explain his odd behavior.

[pineconeman79]

Does anybody know where to see "Alf Takes Over The Network" NBC fall preview special 1989?

[gettingpissedoff]

That was weird. At first it sounded like papa smurf said "don't miss one bloody moment of our adventures.".

[jerbojones]

Wow sandwiches for 39 cents?!

[jerbojones]

I remember watching one where hulk hogan and a bunch of wrestlers hosted a preview special. Then I also remember watching one on NBC that was like an award show previewing the cartoons and a real life Spider-Man , iceman and fire star showed up. It was cool for Saturday mornings back then.