1987-88 Saturday Morning

[superdude]

abc- something's happening
8:00 the care bears
8:30 my pet monster
9:00 little clowns of happytown
9:30 little wizards
10:00 pound puppies
10:30 real ghostbusters
11:00 flintstone kids
11:30 bugs bunny & tweety
12:00 animal crack-ups
12:30 abc weekend special

cbs- cbs spirit, oh yes!
8:00 hello kitty
8:30 muppet babies
10:00 pee-wee's playhouse
10:30 mighty mouse the new adventures
11:00 popeye and son
11:30 teen wolf
12:00 cbs storybreak
12:30 kidd video

nbc- come home
8:00 gummi bears
8:30 smurfs
10:00 fraggle rock the animated series
10:30 alvin and the chipmunks
11:00 alf
11:30 new archies
12:00 foofur
12:30 i'm telling

cbs was back in gear this year and abc was garbage with their forgettable trio from 8:30-10.
for me...
8:00 hello kitty
8:30 muppet babies (back and forth with smurfs)
10:00 pound puppies/pee-wee's playhouse
10:30 mighty mouse/alvin and the chipmunks
11;00 popeye and son (alf cartoon was good too)
11:30 bugs and tweety
12:00 cbs storybreak
12:30 kidd video

my abc lineup would've been...
8:00 care bears family (or something new)
8:30 pound puppies
9:30 my pet monster (transition from the cute cartoons earlier in the morning to ghostbusters)
10:00 the real ghostbusters (still a hot property)
11:00 bugs bunny and tweety (should've been used to plug up at least an hour if not more, ala the cbs days)
12:00 flintstone kids
12:30 abc weekend special

 

[TnAdct1]

cbs was back in gear this year and abc was garbage with their forgettable trio from 8:30-10.

Agreed. While the only new show that season to remain on for another year was Mighty Mouse, CBS was pretty much the channel that I watched in the 1987-1988 (especially when ABC made the dumb decision to drop the Care Bears Family mid-season).

 

[Zorak Masaki]

Aside from The Real Ghostbusters, Alf, New Archies, and occasionally Foofur. I mainly just watched CBS this season. Also noticed that with the possible exceptions of Mighty Mouse and Ghostbusters, there were no action cartoons on any of the three networks this season. Also, were the Kidd Video reruns on CBS the syndicated versions that cut out the music videos and licensed music, or were they the original versions that originally aired on NBC?

 

[superdude]

CBS slogan for this year was What A Party. All new bumpers with kids running the control booth.

ABC started the iconic stop-motion 'brick wall' bumpers.

NBC had super lame bumpers with NBC stars hosting. Terrible.

 

[superdude]

Aside from The Real Ghostbusters, Alf, New Archies, and occasionally Foofur. I mainly just watched CBS this season. Also noticed that with the possible exceptions of Mighty Mouse and Ghostbusters, there were no action cartoons on any of the three networks this season. Also, were the Kidd Video reruns on CBS the syndicated versions that cut out the music videos and licensed music, or were they the original versions that originally aired on NBC?

I recall them being the same versions that aired on NBC.

 

[JonSea31]

CBS slogan for this year was What A Party. All new bumpers with kids running the control booth.

ABC started the iconic stop-motion 'brick wall' bumpers.

NBC had super lame bumpers with NBC stars hosting. Terrible.

Apparently, NBC brought back the traditional bumpers by 1988 and Casey Kasem returned to the mic for a few more months, only to be laid off in September 1988.

I also learned that CBS launched new episodes of the DiC produced "Dennis the Menace" by 1988 (which aired 65 episodes for syndication the following season), and did have the bumpers with the kids in the control room, but without mentioning the show's title. I am thinking the reruns of "Kidd Video" was more of a stopgap measure until "Dennis" was ready to launch.

I never got to see "Dennis" due to the local CBS affiliate in Detroit wrapping up the cartoon block prematurely in favor of wrestling and other syndicated live-action programming. But luckily, I did get to see it on CJON-TV in Canada during the 1988-89 season, and it was later reran to death on GlobalTV in Canada for some years.

 

[Cave-Cat-87]

Regarding the CBS Saturday Morning schedule for 1987, I read that one cartoon that never got a chance to air was the Garbage Pail Kids cartoon, due to the fact that it ended up being a target of parents' groups, on the grounds that the cartoon supposedly contained controversial themes.