Dudley DO Right

Johnny Quest

and....Yogi Bear: Link

Josie and the Pussycats

Pink Panther

Underdog

Does anyone remember Clutch Cargo? It was a cartoon adventure series, but the characters had human mouths when speaking. It was a little weird, but my brother and I watched it all the time. Johnny Quest above reminded me of it.

I remember when Yogi Bear was a new cartoon show - a couple of the others I was aware of, but never watched as far as I remember (Johnny Quest, Josie and the Pussycats). Dudley DoRight seems familiar, wasn't he part of Rocky & Bullwinkle?

I was horse happy so my favorite was Fury.

My brother liked Whirlybirds and Sky King.

Other early morning viewing included Spanky and Our Gang which we loved. (Don't drink the milk!)

And I'm still a nut for Bugs Bunny and all those Merry Melodies. I have a Bugs cel in my craft room of Yosemite Sam on his knees sketching on a pad, while Bugs is standing and holding up a drawing of a pistol. The title? "Draw Your Gun".

I remember Felix the Cat, which was my favorite, but my sister and I also watched The Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers. I think Howdy Doody might have been on Saturday morning also.

I don't really remember watching TV on Saturday mornings much, except at my grandparents' house.

H.R. Puffinstuff always comes first to mine but we watched HOURS of cartoons. Always got up as early as possible to hit them all. Most of the favs are already mentioned.

I remember watching Romper Room as a very young child. I never watched cartoons.

Scooby Doo. I can still sing the theme song from memory....I can still hear the music they used when they were being chased by the monster du jour. It makes me smile.

There were others that I also liked, but nothing really compared to Scooby.

Other early morning viewing included Spanky and Our Gang which we loved. (Don't drink the milk!)

Why?

I know why. ;-)

All of the above were broadcast during my childhood - but not all on Saturday mornings. The UHF/VHF channels had Astro Boy and Kimba the Lion on weekday afternoons, IIRC - all B&W back then. I don't think we had a color TV until maybe 1967 or '68.

I recall Abbott & Costello shorts were broadcast on Saturdays, along with Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang, Hercules and old Flash Gordon serials. During my elementary school years, the lineups expanded until they were from early in the mornings until maybe 2 pm. There was a UK series, The Double Deckers that I really liked too. ABC &/or CBS also ran movies for young people after the cartoon blocks.

I liked The Archies & Josie because I read the comics, and Pink Panther had excellent animation. Tom & Jerry hasn't been mentioned yet, and I loved Mighty Mouse too.

I remember enjoying Road Runner, Bugs, Daffy, and Bullwinkle, with all the various segments, and Tennessee Tuxedo too.

Anybody remember Hoppity Hooper, and The Beatles? I feel like they were on in succession with Bullwinkle.

There was one Saturday series on NBC, right after Pink Panther, I think, called Here Comes The Grump that I loved because it was so fantastical.

I also remember the puppet series like Thunderbirds.

These all span from the 60s to the 70s, so we weren't just glued to the TV all the time.

I also remember studying the channel listings to see what was on - ours looked a bit like this:

FWIW, there's a YouTube channel called FredFlix that has compilations of TV show intros/outros/ads, and lineups for different days and years that are pretty fun to watch.

I watched most of the shows mentioned above, or my kids did! One of my sons loved Speed Racer.

I alsomwatched local shows such as Willie The Worm and Horn and Hardart’s Children’s Hour. My sister was on that show with our dog. Uncle Pete Boyle would read the Sunday cartoons to us. His son Peter Boyle was a famous movie actor. Other locals were Bertie the Bunyip and Six Gun Theater.

I could go on forever, but I won’t!!

Wonderama! I don't know if it was a NY show or a national one. Sonny Fox was the host.

faftris, I wanted to be on Wonderama so much when I was a kid! My father had some contacts in the TV world, but it never happened.

The earliest show I remember watching was Romper Room. And then of course so many of the ones already mentioned.

I remember Wonderama and Romper Room as well. And not in the early morning, but Captain Kangaroo was regular. In the afternoons, I used to watch Soupy Sales and loved the dogs which were puppet hands/paws.

I don’t recall watching a lot of cartoons until my younger brothers started watching them. I watched Mighty Mouse, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Roadrunner and also the shows Little Rascals, Roy Rogers, Sky King, and the Mouseketeers.

Nothing. We had no TV. And if we had had there was nothing to watch. Children's Saturday morning programming didn't start until 1973.

Garfield and Friends. I still watch it occasionally. Its on the Roku channel and its fun to rewatch it sometimes.

Cartoons of course! Whatever ones were on! Bugs and Roadrunner for sure!

debra

I remember waking up before programming began and watching the test pattern. My Dad brought home our first TV set in 1954 and I remember watching Captain Video after dinner.

One station had a Saturday morning program called Double Barrel Western which showed old black and white westerns.

Also:

Howdy Doody

Annie Oakley

Lassie

My Friend Flicka

The Cisco Kid

Lone Ranger

Gene Autry Show

Roy Rogers

Three Stooges

cartoons

Just remembered watching Gene Autry movies too - I loved those - probably because there were horses and music.

Nothing usually. With catechism on Saturday mornings and church on Sunday mornings, we kids spent the remainder of our weekend days outside playing or, in the summer,

swimming and whatever. I do remember watching my childhood hero, Roy Rogers, though whenever I could. Happy trails to you. . . .

There are many shows mentioned that are new to me! I remember seeing Romper Room listed in the TV Guide, but it was only on the Columbus station that we didn't receive. On weekday mornings we had Captain Kangaroo, and a local program with "Uncle Al and Captain Windy". And we loved the Mickey Mouse club serials - Was it a Hardy Boys one that had the phrase "Pieces of eight, pieces of eight" in the theme song?

You've mentioned two more of my Saturday favorites: Fury, Roy Rogers. I remember seeing Laurel & Hardy and Our Gang, but I don't think they were regular. Rin Tin Tin was another favorite. I can't remember if Sea Hunt was a Saturday show or a weekday prime time show. Same with Flipper (which I think I was getting too old for).

Dedtired, I think we had a "Six Gun Theater" also - that rings a bell - and I always like those westerns.

We had a neighborhood posse of kids our age, and often we would gather at one house or another to watch our favorite morning shows together, before going out to play.

Thanks for reminding me about Roy Rogers 😀

I was in the audience once for a TV show that was called "Johnny Jellybean". Really, that was its name. I must have been 6 or 7 at the time. I remember that when I watched it on TV, after a commercial, there would be a clown doing whatever. What I remember from my in-person experience was watching "Johnny" put on his clown makeup during the commercial. It had never occurred to me that he was the clown, and I was devastated.

And Bookwoman, I loved Black Fang and White Fang too!

My favourite cartoon was Space Ghost! I had such a schoolgirl crush on him. He had a monkey sidekick.

Looney Tunes, some space show my brother liked, and our favorite was Rocky and Bullwinkle. We inherited a love of language and wordplay from our dad. and Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, and Fractured Fairy Tales played right into that.

We also watched a show, maybe it was local, called The Magic Door, with Tiny Tov.

Garfield Goose was an afterschool show for us.

Our brother was 4/6 years younger, and we acted like grownups, saying ”his” cartoons (Speed Racer etc) weren’t as good as ”when we were little kids”.

My brothers both watched Clutch Cargo but those mouths creeped me out too much.

I watched every fishing show that was on.

Never knew about Space Ghost until Cartoon Network aired revamped Hanna-Barbera toons in their late night Adult Swim features. Those were pretty weird and funny.

Speaking of puns, who watched Beany & Cecil (the seasick sea serpent)? Original was a bit before my time, but my older cousin had some talking puppets we played with, and they started airing re-runs in the 80s, and I think came out with a new version too. The main pun I can remember was the No Bikini Atoll 😄

I remember Beany & Cecil - vaguely! I'd completely forgotten that one.

“Help Cecil Help!” And I have a friend who will let me know she’s on her way with ”I’m coming, Beanie Girl!”

Carolb, I don’t remember that detail but love Bridge of Bardot and Good Grief Reef as well as NoBikini Atoll! Another win for wordplay!

When I was in high school band, sometimes we would play a song that I would recognize as having been soundtrack in Looney Tunes. Things like Cave of the Hebrides, actual published orchestral works! So they really were eductional! (When DH was working in California, he made a point of sending me a picture of Pismo Beach and reciting lines like ”I shoulda toined left at Albuquerque”.

Junior Frolics (very old show)

I remember waking up before programming began and watching the test pattern.

Ha, Maire_Cate! I did that too at least once. I remember my dad coming downstairs and asking me what I was doing. My reply? "Waiting for Mighty Mouse." I may have been 5 then.

Almost all of the above, watched with a nice big bowl of sugary cereal (egads!).

Earliest I remember is, as mentioned by carol, Kimba the White Lion, which I remember inspired me to run around the house on all fours for maybe hours when I was little.

When I was very young we lived on Long Island so we had New York TV. I got to watch the original Felix the Cat-the one where he is all single lines with a head. LOVED that show and Heckle and Jeckel. These were reruns. Then came Captain Kangaroo. The highlight of that for me was Grandfather Clock. Every blessed day I waited for that clock to say something significant but it never did. Never. Oh well there was Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog and Magic drawing board as a back up. I wasnt as much a fan of the later purple dogs, Roosters and so forth in Alabama.

I loved The Jetsons and sometimes wish I had Jane's "morning mask" for when I'm on zoom. But my very favorite was Top Cat. He was so cool! Nowadays I like Simon's Cat.

I remember all those too, Patricae - I forgot about Heckle & Jeckle - that was usually combined with Casper the Friendly Ghost. I thought Heckle & Jeckle were hilarious 😀

Some years ago, I bought a huge boxed DVD set of public domain old cartoons, which contains a lot of the titles mentioned on this thread - plus Betty Boop and other really old ones from the early days of film.

I'm an animation aficionado, in case anybody hadn't noticed...

Every cartoon I possibly could. It was the only time I ever got to see them. But I do also remember Isis coming on after the cartoons. There were other live action things like Land of the Lost, and Wonder Woman. I sort of started losing interest after those. I really liked Isis. All are mid-70s.

When i was a child, there was no TV. We lived too far from the big city. However, we had Saturday morning radio shows. My favorite was Let’s Pretend, a radio drama prduction of children’s literature. But we also enjoyed Big John and Sparky. During the holiday seaon, they always ran a series called The Cinnamon Bear, which was my sister's favorite. I know there were a couple of other Saturday morning shows, but I have forgotten them.