{"id":2931,"date":"2010-03-04T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2010-03-04T00:49:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T05:49:32","slug":"saturday-morning-cartoons-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/04\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Morning Cartoons &#8211; 1980 ABC, NBC and CBS Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting comic book advertisements for the 1980 Saturday morning cartoons!\u00a0 Here we have ads from ABC, NBC, and CBS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ABC Saturday Morning Cartoon ad - 1980\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/sat_abc_1980.jpg\" alt=\"ABC Saturday Morning Cartoon ad - 1980\" width=\"515\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"NBC Saturday Morning Cartoon ad - 1980\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/sat_nbc_1980.jpg\" alt=\"NBC Saturday Morning Cartoon ad - 1980\" width=\"515\" height=\"781\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/sat_cbs_1980.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"CBS Saturday Morning Cartoon ad - 1980 - click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/sat_cbs_1980s.jpg\" alt=\"CBS Saturday Morning Cartoon ad - 1980 - click to enlarge\" width=\"515\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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 <em>Super Friends<\/em> and <em>Thundarr the Barbarian<\/em>, and a moderate fan of <em>Plastic Man<\/em> and <em>Happy Days Gang<\/em>.\u00a0 Conversely, <em>Scooby-Doo<\/em> had pretty much buried itself with Scrappy-Doo and no longer held any interest for me.\u00a0 I&#8217;d say NBC was close on the heels of ABC in 1980 with winners like <em>Godzilla\/Dinomutt Hour<\/em>, <em>Space Ghost<\/em> and <em>Herculoids<\/em>.\u00a0 About the only time I&#8217;d switch over to watch CBS in 1980 was for <em>Drak Pack<\/em> and the <em>Tarzan\/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour<\/em>. Interesting that NBC had <em>Daffy Duck<\/em> and CBS had the <em>Bugs Bunny\/Road Runner Show<\/em>.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t realize they split the Looney Toons characters up for these purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have fond memories as a child watching shows like <em>Looney Toons<\/em>, <em>Scooby-Doo<\/em>, <em>Popeye<\/em>, and <em>Tom &amp; Jerry<\/em>.\u00a0 Yet I watched them on weekday afternoons rather than Saturday mornings.\u00a0 For me, Saturday morning cartoons were reserved for new and exciting adventures, not cartoons I could watch any day after school.\u00a0 I guess I was a bit of a Saturday morning snob.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you enjoy these, check out the Saturday morning cartoon ads I&#8217;ve run previously from <a title=\"1983 Saturday Morning Cartoon ads\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2009\/12\/02\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1983\/\">1983<\/a> and <a title=\"1985 Saturday Morning Cartoons\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2009\/03\/25\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1985-nbc-ad\/\">1985<\/a>.\u00a0 The 1985 post also includes some of my 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-2931\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/04\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1980\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2931\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/04\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1980\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/04\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1980\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/04\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1980\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-2931\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/04\/saturday-morning-cartoons-1980\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting comic book advertisements for the 1980 Saturday morning cartoons!\u00a0 Here we have ads from ABC, NBC, and CBS. 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Thanks to Michael Bailey of Fortress of Baileytude and Views from the Longbox for directing me to it.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/17\/1980s-cartoon-goodness\/","url_meta":{"origin":2931,"position":3},"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. A few years back, I made a CD of 1980's cartoon theme songs.\u00a0 The more I searched for these, the more I realized\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;TV&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Galaxy High","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/galaxyhigh.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":275,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/16\/dcs-fables-commercial-on-abc\/","url_meta":{"origin":2931,"position":4},"title":"DC&#8217;s &#8216;Fables&#8217; Commercial on ABC","date":"January 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"You may have heard that ABC is developing Bill Willingham's DC comic 'Fables' for television.\u00a0 If you have not, you can read about it by clicking here. 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