# For Dopers who were kids in the 70s/early 80s: your Saturday morning dreamteam? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876 "2008-09-10T00:36:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/21 "2008-09-10T03:29:13Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > A comedian whose name I don’t remember once said that to people who would now be about 35-50, the phrase “Sooouuuuuuuuuul Train!” were still the most frustrating words on the planet, because it meant cartoons were over. I think that was Margaret Cho. “You knew it was all over when ‘Soul Train’ came on.” I think **jayjay** and I were watching all the same Saturday morning shows… 😛 I _loved_ “Land of the Lost.” What about Lidsville? It had WitchiePoo! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/22 "2008-09-10T03:37:43Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > I think that was Margaret Cho. “You knew it was all over when ‘Soul Train’ came on.” > > I think **jayjay** and I were watching all the same Saturday morning shows… 😛 I _loved_ “Land of the Lost.” > What about Lidsville? It had WitchiePoo! Lidsville had Weenie the Genie (who was, admittedly, played by [Billie Hayes](http://www.billiehayes.com/), the same person who played WitchiePoo). H.R. Pufnstuf had Witchie Poo. ---
**Author:** ![Momofgirls](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/momofgirls/32/21798_2.png) [@Momofgirls](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Momofgirls)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/23 "2008-09-10T03:47:37Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Superfriends, Land of the Lost, H.R. Pufnstuf, Captain Kool and the Kongs, (in other words, all the Krofft stuff), The Yogilympics, all the Hanna-Barbera stuff (even though it was horrible animation): Scooby-Doo, Blue Falcon and Dyno-Mutt, Captain Caveman, etc., Schoolhouse Rock, Big Blue Marble, [In The News](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_News). I would’ve written this word-for-word, and I’ll add Yogi’s Gang, where they flew around in an “ark” looking for a perfect place, Schoolhouse Rock, Bugs Bunny and Friends. One of the “Kongs” was the drummer for Three Dog Night! I _lived_ for Saturday mornings. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/24 "2008-09-10T03:56:19Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Lidsville had Weenie the Genie (who was, admittedly, played by [Billie Hayes](http://www.billiehayes.com/), the same person who played WitchiePoo). H.R. Pufnstuf had Witchie Poo. :smack: Damn, you’re right. I bow down before your Sid & Marty Kroft knowledge greatness. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/25 "2008-09-10T04:06:41Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > A comedian whose name I don’t remember once said that to people who would now be about 35-50, the phrase “Sooouuuuuuuuuul Train!” were still the most frustrating words on the planet, because it meant cartoons were over. This is so true it hurts. It cracked my wife up too. I went to Youtube to check out some Soul Train clips to see if it was as bad as I remember. You know what? I _really_ like it! When did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![bink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/26 "2008-09-10T04:07:46Z")
Superfriends, Shazam! and Oh Mighty Isis! As it turns out, I don’t really care for comics now, but I loved them when I was a kid. (Though I do have a Captain Marvel lightning bolt T-shirt that I like a lot…) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/27 "2008-09-10T04:08:43Z")
Go, Mighty Orbots! And for my fellow Canadians: _Band of Brothers, marching together Heads held high in all kinds of weather…_ Plus Max, the 2,000 year-old mouse. He was there! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/28 "2008-09-10T04:17:24Z")
Something that you rarely hear any nostalgia for is _Kukla, Fran & Ollie_. Mainly I remember a lot of movies that just didn’t make a lot of sense (of course I was really little at the time and a lot of them were dubbed). ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/29 "2008-09-10T04:20:48Z")
Unsurprisingly, I was a big fan of Hong Kong Phooey yeah, I spelled it wrong in my username. All the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Looney Tunes, even Smurfs would make my dream line-up. I watch all these on Teletoon Retro with my kids now and they love it; I get the biggest kick watching them laughing out loud at Tom and Jerry. It’s too bad they don’t get the same thrill of watching Saturday morning cartoons now, it’s just not the same watching them throughout the week or on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/30 "2008-09-10T04:21:43Z")
Oh yeah, Soul Train… Loved **Land of the Lost, G-Force, Smurfs, Gummi Bears,** and **Muppet Babies**. And of course **Looney Tunes**. My brother and I used to fight over whether we would watch **Kids Incorporated** or **Superfriends**. He claimed that he only watched Superfriends in order to make fun of it. Yeah, right, he was so transparent. **Sublight** , your parents were letting you watch cartoons so they could have Saturday-morning sex. My youngest brother had a best friend who would spend the night and watch cartoons on Saturday morning. He really got into those cartoons. By this time most of us were sleeping in on Saturdays, but everyone would be woken up by the sound of him yelling “No Gonzo, don’t go in the closet!!” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/31 "2008-09-10T04:31:43Z")
A few more I watched: **Plastic-Man** - the whole “stretchy body” thing always kinda creeped me out, but I watched it anyway **Captain Caveman** and **The Shmoo** (I remember both of these having some relationship to The Flintstones) **Spider-man And His Amazing Friends** - including Iceman and Firestar **Godzilla** (_theme song_: Godzilla! Godzilla! Godzilla!.. and Godzuuuuukiiiiii) Man, Godzuki was lame. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/32 "2008-09-10T04:36:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > _Band of Brothers, marching together > Heads held high in all kinds of weather…_ With fiery blasts, our roaring rockets rise Beyond the Earth, beyond the skies! And, ditto on the Orbots…I loved the Orbots as a sprog. The Littles and Gummi Bears are the only other Saturday Morning cartoons from my childhood that I haven’t ruined my memories of, or am afraid to…both of those held up wonderfully. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/33 "2008-09-10T04:39:58Z")
> [@Pochacco](#): > > **Land of the Lost!** That is what I came to post. God, I loved that show. And Aquaman and The Wonder Twins. ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/34 "2008-09-10T04:41:31Z")
I can’t believe I forgot about Mighty Mouse, I don’t think it was on for a real long time but it had my favourite theme song. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/35 "2008-09-10T04:47:55Z")
> [@Momofgirls](#): > > I would’ve written this word-for-word, and I’ll add Yogi’s Gang, where they flew around in an “ark” looking for a perfect place, Schoolhouse Rock, Bugs Bunny and Friends. > > One of the “Kongs” was the drummer for Three Dog Night! > > I _lived_ for Saturday mornings. Did you know that Captain Kool was played by TV director [Michael Lembeck](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lembeck)? ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/36 "2008-09-10T10:21:36Z")
Lets see. I remember mostly the live action shows. ArkII Land of the Lost, I had a huge crush on Holly, remember the swimming hole episode?🙂 Westwind ISIS I just purchased The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm show on DVD. Agreed about Soul Train, cool animated train then Don Cornelius and Afrosheen. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/37 "2008-09-10T11:22:07Z")
I am so nostalgic reading this thread. I still wake Saturday mornings and play my DVD’s of **Warner Brothers** cartoons and **Jonny Quest**. and not to be forgotten: \*\*_Spaaaaaace Ghost!_ Herculoids\*\* I also wanted to be Aquaman. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/38 "2008-09-10T11:58:26Z")
Yeah, **Johnny Quest** rocked. **Clutch Cargo, Mighty Mouse** and, for you DFW dopers… **Mr. Peppermint**! ---
**Author:** ![PerditaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@PerditaX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerditaX)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/39 "2008-09-10T12:00:38Z")
**Bugs Bunny and Friends Land of the Lost Scooby Doo** (until they got Scrappy, at which point it jumped the shark) Does anybody else on the planet remember this one? It was called **The Kids from C_A_P_E_R** and it only lasted one season, but I really loved it. The writing was surprisingly clever and full of bad puns, IIRC. Just wondering if anyone else even watched it, much less remembers/liked it. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876/40 "2008-09-10T12:56:15Z")
I liked:[ul] [li]Schoolhouse Rock[/li][li]Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Show[/li][li]Pink Panther Show (including the “The Ant and the Aardvark” and “The Texas Toads”)[/li][li]Shazam/Isis[/li][li]Land of the Lost[/li][li]Hong Kong Phooey[/li][li]Plastic-Man[/li][li]Wonder Twins[/li][/ul] A few years later, I watched (with my younger sisters):[ul] [li]The Smurfs[/li][/ul] I also used to watch **Ultraman** , but that might have been on weekdays. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-dopers-who-were-kids-in-the-70s-early-80s-your-saturday-morning-dreamteam/462876.md?page=3)