Wednesday, August 31, 2022

TV: Disney's One Saturday Morning

I'm old enough to remember when Disney was content to put their cartoons on broadcast television the old-fashioned way, with commercials and all. Most famous was Disney's 2-hour Saturday morning cartoon block, One Saturday Morning:


A lot of the shows were duds, of course, but some were as clever and well-animated as anything out there in the late '90s/early '00s. The big ones were Disney's Doug (famously poached from Nickelodeon), Recess, and Pepper Ann, which pitted imaginative school-aged children against the trials and tribulations of adolescence. Streaming is great and all, but there was something special about having an appointed time each week when a kid could grab a bowl of cereal, plop down in front of the TV, and just be entertained for awhile without worrying about math tests or school bullies.

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