Every Saturday Morning

Let’s round out the year with The National Broadcasting Channel because those are the rules! Our historians trudge through a bevy of random cartoons and reruns to bring you the latest skinny on 1960! This week’s schedule: The Shari Lewis Show, King Leonardo and his Short Subjects, Fury, The Lone Ranger, True Story, Detective’s Diary and Watch Mr. Wizard!

In the long ago time, when life was in black and white, children were entertained by the most terrifying of entities. Join the quiet fun with this week’s goofy schedule: Captain Kangaroo, The Magical Land of Allakazam, Mighty Mouse Playhouse and Sky King!!

You may have trouble picturing Sky King, so…

Here is a random collection of 60’s cartoons to give you a little taste:

Wake up Grampa! Its the dawn of Saturday Morning programming for kids like us! Our historians visit TV’s Jurassic Period, where strange but familiar faces hazily grace our buzzing screens. Clowns! Sea Captains! Police Officers! All one step behind the cartoons they seek! Come with us and also meet a bizarre fella who dominated the medium in its infancy.

Here is a Saturday morning preview from roughly that time period:

And here is a random collection scenes from the 60’s lineups:

Buy 60’s cartoons here.

It’s our beginning of the end of the start of the Me Decade with our look back at the 1971st year of our lord! Animals and people trade spaces and places on a psychedelic submarine into our souls! Plus a show we can’t see! This week: The Further Adventures of Doctor Dolittle, The Woody Woodpecker Show, Deputy Dog, The New Pink Panther Show, Barrier Reef, Take a Giant Step, The Bugaloos, Mr Wizard and The Jetsons!

Is this real?

A (non sexy) Archie contends with missing footage of a (non sexy) drunk witch! Several teens solve crime with an (non sexy) animal sidekick! How do we move on from The Beatles as a (non sexy) society? All this and (not) more in this week’s (non sexy) schedule: The Bugs Bunny Show, Scooby-Doo, Where are You!, Harlem Globetrotters, Help!…Its the Hair Bear Bunch!, The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, Archie’s TV Funnies, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Josie & the Pussycats and The Monkees!

Not a ton of media to be found for 1971 CBS, here is an ad that we’ve restored for your viewing pleasure:

And here is an ad of unknown origin, but nonetheless, it happened: