{"id":2375,"date":"2009-12-02T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2009-12-02T08:19:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T13:19:56","slug":"saturday-morning-cartoons-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/02\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Morning Cartoons \u2013 1983 ABC and NBC Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I stumbled across a few more Saturday Morning Cartoon advertisements in some old comics.\u00a0 Below are ads that ran in DC comics in the fall of 1983.\u00a0 At the time, they were promoting the upcoming fall line-up of Saturday morning cartoons on ABC and NBC.\u00a0 Oddly enough I didn&#8217;t see an ad for CBS.\u00a0\u00a0 Click the NBC\u00a0 image for a larger view.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"ABC Saturday Morning Cartoon ad - 1983\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/sat_abc_1983.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/sat_nbc_1983b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"NBC Saturday Morning Cartoon ad - 1983\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/sat_nbc_1983s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dude&#8230; for me personally, NBC rocked in comparison to ABC in 1983.\u00a0 <em>Thundarr the Barbarian<\/em>, <em>Spider-Man &amp; his Amazing Friends<\/em>, <em>Incredible Hulk<\/em>, <em>Mr. T<\/em>, <em>Alvin and the Chipmunks<\/em>, <em>Shirt Tales<\/em>&#8230; NBC had some good stuff!\u00a0 I do recall enjoying ABC&#8217;s <em>Puppy&#8217;s Further Adventures<\/em> and <em>the Littles<\/em>, but no matter how much I tried I couldn&#8217;t get excited about <em>Pac-Man<\/em> or <em>Rubik the Amazing Cube<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Saturday Morning Cartoons - 1985 NBC\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2009\/03\/25\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1985-nbc-ad\/\">Click here<\/a> for a previous post about NBC&#8217;s 1985 Saturday Morning Cartoon line-up.\u00a0 For that post I included some general commentary about Saturday Morning Cartoons and what the current generation of kids are missing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2375\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/02\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1983\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on 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If I had to declare a winner for me personally in 1980, I guess it would have been ABC.\u00a0 I was a big fan of Super Friends and Thundarr the Barbarian,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"ABC Saturday Morning Cartoon ad - 1980","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/sat_abc_1980.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":700,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/25\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1985-nbc-ad\/","url_meta":{"origin":2375,"position":1},"title":"Saturday Morning Cartoons &#8211; 1985 NBC Ad","date":"March 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday Morning Cartoons... aaaahhhh, a magical weekly event for us growing up.\u00a0 Sadly, the current generation of children will never know the joy of Saturday morning cartoons.\u00a0 They're spoiled by 24-hour access to cartoons on television and DVD.\u00a0 They don't understand how limited our cartoon options were back then.\u00a0\u00a0 They'll\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/sat_nbc_510.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":40,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/17\/1980s-cartoon-goodness\/","url_meta":{"origin":2375,"position":2},"title":"1980&#8217;s Cartoon Goodness","date":"April 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This post is inspired by some discussion on\u00a0THE UNIQUE GEEK listserv as well as a post by my buddy SGhoul on his blog, Oozings from My Head. 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