The Tease of Things I Don't Need

Rolling back the years: Saturday Morning

Tammy recently passed along a link to a site where we can revisit the Saturday morning (mostly) cartoon line-ups from the years when NBC, ABC and CBS concentrated those shows every Saturday morning, covering the years 1966 through 1988. Look for some favorites and reconstruct what you were watching most Saturday mornings each fall. Included in each year are scattered audio and video clips, including commercials that might bring back some memories. We were all about new toys back then, after all... not so very different from now, I suppose.

My own kids, who've never known a time without cable tv and multiple channels with cartoons of some stripe to be found more often than not at any hour of the day, can't quite grasp how limited our choices were back then. When we were moving an old television set, hooking it up to serve as another impromptu monitor, I was able to show them that one can tune in local television stations with the antennae rather than having to run a cable into it. The novelty was genuine, but short-lived as the relative lack of selection revealed itself. Contrasting that with my 1960s, where we had a black and white TV that lacked even UHF access, it truly is a different world.