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how many of u du members remember before school and evening cartoons on the tv? (Original Post) AllaN01Bear Sep 2025 OP
Morning was mostly The Today Show for me before school underpants Sep 2025 #1
That's Rebl2 Sep 2025 #4
My memories are similar. Haggard Celine Sep 2025 #6
Yes the Little Rascals too. underpants Sep 2025 #7
I remember the silent Native American waiting to start tv! GreenWave Sep 2025 #2
I remember Saturday morning cartoons. Polly Hennessey Sep 2025 #3
I remember watching the Mickey Mouse Club. Emile Sep 2025 #5
I remember Popeye in the mornings EYESORE 9001 Sep 2025 #8
my 2 sis loved dark shadows. AllaN01Bear Sep 2025 #9
I liked it up till the 'mushy' parts EYESORE 9001 Sep 2025 #10
I loved Dark Shadows! One of my friends and I arranged our college classes so that one of us yellowdogintexas Sep 2025 #12
not so much before school but definitely after school yellowdogintexas Sep 2025 #11
Sunday evenings: The Jetsons at 7 Oeditpus Rex Sep 2025 #13
"before school" JoseBalow Sep 2025 #14
I remember Captain Kangaroo in the mornings NoPasaran Sep 2025 #15
Television before school was unthinkable. Morbius Sep 2025 #16
I remember watching after school cartoon shows: Rocky and Bullwinkle, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, KitFox Sep 2025 #17

underpants

(194,407 posts)
1. Morning was mostly The Today Show for me before school
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:17 AM
Sep 2025

Back when I’d have cereal and watch Barbara Walters interview Arafat.

The Today Show has became a QVC cookware sales show now. Last I watched it.

After school was watching The Three Stooges before Mom got home. She forbid it. And then Gilligan or Brady Bunch if we went already outside playing.

Rebl2

(17,277 posts)
4. That's
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:32 AM
Sep 2025

how I see the Today show in the last half hour of the two hour show and same goes for GMA. They sell that stuff because they get a portion of sales or at least that’s what they say sometimes.

Haggard Celine

(17,638 posts)
6. My memories are similar.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 10:09 AM
Sep 2025

We had The Three Stooges in the morning sometimes and sometimes it was The Little Rascals. In the afternoons after school we had Tom and Jerry and Bewitched and The Brady Bunch. When I got older, I used to watch Phil Donahue. Donahue usually had a good show, and I learned a lot from him. I think he was the best of the talk show genre.

underpants

(194,407 posts)
7. Yes the Little Rascals too.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 10:16 AM
Sep 2025

When I was really little (in Ohio) there was a local morning show just after Today them Donohue. He filmed every morning at 11:00 I think just down the road in Cincy.

EYESORE 9001

(29,396 posts)
8. I remember Popeye in the mornings
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 11:12 AM
Sep 2025

Last edited Sun Sep 7, 2025, 01:07 PM - Edit history (1)

along with various & sundry Warner Bros, Harveytoons, Disney, others in black & white, all long since dished-up as syndicated offerings. After school, I eschewed cartoons in favor of the afternoon movie, which started right after school. In retrospect, whoever was in charge of programming at channel 14 was demented in a way that suited my ‘horrific’ tastes, but surprising that it continued without parental outrage. The only thing that saved my preteen mind while watching Horror of Dracula was that we didn’t yet have a color TV. After awhile, I’d seen all the old 50s horror flicks, and color TV diverted my attention to, of all things, a frickin’ soap opera! Dark Shadows wasn’t like the others, however.

EYESORE 9001

(29,396 posts)
10. I liked it up till the 'mushy' parts
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 12:56 PM
Sep 2025

Too much romance - even with supernatural themes - wasn’t in my realm of interest. Come to think of it, not much has changed.

yellowdogintexas

(23,586 posts)
12. I loved Dark Shadows! One of my friends and I arranged our college classes so that one of us
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 05:15 PM
Sep 2025

could watch Dark Shadows and Days of Our Lives every day and keep each other caught up .

yellowdogintexas

(23,586 posts)
11. not so much before school but definitely after school
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 05:13 PM
Sep 2025

We had Popeye Theater, Woody Woodpecker, Huckleberry Hound, and very old Warner Brothers.

 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
13. Sunday evenings: The Jetsons at 7
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 07:51 PM
Sep 2025

followed by The Fllintstones at 7:30, both on ABC.

i used to tell other first-graders that my folks drove me up to the KNTV studios (Bay Area ABC affiliate) every Sunday evening to play the piano on The Jetsons theme song.

Then there was Beany and Cecil on Saturday (?) evenings, and another whose title escapes me, but it was based on "The Wizard of Oz."

NoPasaran

(17,317 posts)
15. I remember Captain Kangaroo in the mornings
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 08:43 PM
Sep 2025

After school it was whatever soap opera my mother had on while she was ironing, Later it was time for Walter Cronkite.

Morbius

(844 posts)
16. Television before school was unthinkable.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 10:01 PM
Sep 2025

The punishment would no doubt be incredibly severe. After school you could find Spiderman and/or Speed Racer. By evening my father was home, and no one touched the television when he was watching it unless you were changing the channel at his instruction.

KitFox

(494 posts)
17. I remember watching after school cartoon shows: Rocky and Bullwinkle, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear,
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 02:16 AM
Sep 2025

QuickDraw McGraw come to mind. A few years later, I recall my younger sister watching George of the Jungle, Clutch Cargo and Top Cat.

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