I remember looking forward to Saturday morning cartoons through most of my childhood. In recent years, I've re-connected with many classic cartoons via the Looney Tunes DVD releases and the MeTV classic cartoons Saturday morning for oh, the past four or five years.
I'm rewatching Star Trek: The Animated Series for the first time in a while. The show has always struck me a a bit odd. It was broadcast with the S M cartoons but didn't seem to fit in very well, as it was written too maturely. Dare I say it, I think I found it extremely dry when I was a child, and I watched few episodes of it back then.
Likewise, the Return to the Planet of the Apes series. Wikipedia tells me this aired a season after the ST animated. I think I liked it a bit more, as it was more action oriented. Still wondered how many young kids really watched it. Maybe that's why it didn't last too long.
Thinking of other series that might have been too mature for S M viewers, the only one that comes immediately to mind is Thundarr the Barbarian. This was a few years later, and even more action-oriented than Planet of the Apes. As a child, I watched it more than the animated ST or PotA. I've heard the PTA demanded the show's violence be toned down, and that killed the show -- or at least, that's the way my college rommates later described it to me.
Just some random babbling about shows that I watched way back when, and in the case of ST, am currently re-visiting.
Anyone else have memories to share?
I'm rewatching Star Trek: The Animated Series for the first time in a while. The show has always struck me a a bit odd. It was broadcast with the S M cartoons but didn't seem to fit in very well, as it was written too maturely. Dare I say it, I think I found it extremely dry when I was a child, and I watched few episodes of it back then.
Likewise, the Return to the Planet of the Apes series. Wikipedia tells me this aired a season after the ST animated. I think I liked it a bit more, as it was more action oriented. Still wondered how many young kids really watched it. Maybe that's why it didn't last too long.
Thinking of other series that might have been too mature for S M viewers, the only one that comes immediately to mind is Thundarr the Barbarian. This was a few years later, and even more action-oriented than Planet of the Apes. As a child, I watched it more than the animated ST or PotA. I've heard the PTA demanded the show's violence be toned down, and that killed the show -- or at least, that's the way my college rommates later described it to me.
Just some random babbling about shows that I watched way back when, and in the case of ST, am currently re-visiting.
Anyone else have memories to share?
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