As a small child -
Muppet babies
Inspector Gadget
Care Bears
Gummibears
Wuzzles
Later on -
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Sonic the Hedgehog
Darkwing Duck
Rescue Rangers
Reboot
When I was younger I liked the 1960’s Spider-Man and the Superfriends.
At some point, Superfriends lost their luster and I liked Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. That show came on later and it got harder to watch it because there was crap on for an hour or so before Spidey aired like Kids Super Power Hour and the Smurfs. There were times where my dad or mom would make me turn off the TV because there was nothing but garbage on but it wouldn’t work if I voluntarily turned it off so I could turn it back on later. There was a syndicated Spider-Man that I later found that seemed pretty good to0.
When I was young, Battle of the Planets and Speed Racer were the shiznit. They really didn’t hold up so much. Channel 32 played Tom and Jerry and Woody Woodpecker all the time when I was younger and WGN always had the Warner Brothers cartoons.
Other shows I liked as a kid:
Gummi Bears – I was a little older than the target age, I would think, but I still throught they were suprisingly clever and entertaining for a kid’s show
Spider-Woman – The laser sound her finger made when she shot webs was cool.
Superman – Really good animation and stories, too bad the show didn’t last.
Mighty Mouse – Brilliant and mildly subversive stuff. Too bad it didn’t last.
Flash Gordon – Had a nice retro, serialized feel and really nicely drawn characters, but cheaply done animation. Filmation would do something similar with He Man later on.
Pirates of Dark Water – I could have sworn that I watched this in high school, but Wikipedia says it came out in 1991. I would have been in the Army by that time, though you could argue that I was still a kid.
Mighty Orbots – Another great show that didn’t last long enough
Galaxy Rangers – I loved the frelling frack out of this show. So much so that I originally didn’t want to watch Firefly because the Galaxy Rangers were cowboys in space first.
Robotech – Took me a long time to get into this. I wanted to like it, it had cool mechs, and it was a lot more mature than other cartoons.
Shirt Tales – Again, I have no idea why I liked this. Bogey was cool I guess.
G.I. Joe – I loved Joe, but I always thought the cartoons were a little too silly.
Pole Position – Talking race cars that fight crime in their spare time! Heck yeah!
Transformers – I didn’t like the Tramsformers as much as I liked my G.I.Joe, but I still watched it.
Spiral Zone – the plots never seemed that spectacular, but this was a pretty dark series.
Seems like there were more, but this is definitely a lot. I sure did like my cartoons as a kid.
Star Blazers, Kimba The White Lion, Speed Racer, Bugs and company, Ultra Man, Superfriends, Spiderman, Batman and Robin.
I’m 25. We didn’t have a tv for a long time, then when we did, we had like three channels and weren’t really allowed to watch Saturday morning cartoons anyway.
But; my friends all had cable. And the one cartoon I went crazy for was Rocko’s Modern Life. Thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen. Years later I find out it was a hit among college students at the time. Such a clever show. I need to get it on DVD.
Intergalactic Gladiator- I forgot about the Superfriends!
“Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice”…I think that guy is why I started in the voice actor business. Him and Gary Owens.
She-ra.
David the Gnome.
Ducktales
TaleSpin
And of course, Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Duck Tales - Looking back I learned an awful lot about classic stories and mythology.
Tailspin
Gummi Bears - Which I blame for my D&D phase later.
The Real Ghostbusters
C.O.P.S.
G.I. Joe
Transformers
TMNT
Bugs Bunny and Krazy Kat.
You’re a voice actor? I am jealous. That’s tres awesome.
I was going to say that the narrator was Ted Knight, but he was the narrator in other DC hero cartoons. The narrator, according to imdb, was William Woodson.
Very small child:
Donald Duck
Chip ‘n’ Dale
Older child to adult:
Roadrunner (the old ones still break me up)
Moose & Squirrel
Doraemon
Rather than start a new thread just to post a YouTube link, here’s one I got in email today. New stuff!
The Bugs Bunny show on CBS.
ETA: Fat Albert, too. And Hong Kong Fooey.
How are we defining child? The first answer that occurred to me was Thundercats, but I was fifteen years old when it began airing. I’d consider that a child now, but I didn’t consider myself one then.
As a pre-teen my love was reserved for Bugs Bunny.
Voltron and Transformers.
Strike TMNT, & add Inspector Gadget, & we agree.
But only when he dressed in drag, right?
I liked Superfriends, but the damned Wonder Twins irritated the hell out of me.
“Shape of… something useless!”
“Shape of… something that can be killed with ease!”
I was hoping one of the adult Superfriends would just snap one day, giving Zan and Jayna the sweet release of death, but alas, it was not to be.
Then they started doing cartoon versions of Battles of the Network Stars and that was pretty much it for 70s-era animation.
Looney Toons
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Flintstones
Pink Panther
Bugs and the gang still crack me up. I get my fix some Saturday mornings now on You-Tube.
I watched Tom & Jerry when I was at the grandparents house, but quickly got bored with it. Most of the Hanna-Barbera stuff (with the exception of Jinx the Cat, who I loved) was just tolerable if there were no other cartoon options.
missred (prime cartoon watching years: mid-sixties through mid-seventies)
Did that make you feel kind of funny all over? Like climbing the rope in gym class.