The Saturday Morning Breakfast Bunch: Welcome Home To Your Saturday Mornings

The Saturday Morning Breakfast Bunch: Welcome Home To Your Saturday Mornings: " This blog is dedicated to everyone who has a fond memory of growing up to those thrilling days of Saturday Morning cartoons, kids shows, s..."

Welcome Home To Your Saturday Mornings

  This blog is dedicated to everyone who has a fond memory of growing up to those thrilling days of Saturday Morning cartoons, kids shows, sporting events, commercials, bumpers, and other Saturday-related programming.

   Here at the Saturday Morning Breakfast Bunch blog-site, you can showcase your favorite childhood cartoons, kids shows, teen/adult programs, toys, cereals, breakfast foods, snack foods, fast-foods, outdoor games, board games, video/pinball games, segments, commercials, PSA's, and characters. 

Here is a list of some of my favorites:

Favorite Cartoon: Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show

 Favorite Kids Show: Sigmund And The Sea Monsters

Favorite Teen/Adult Program: ABC's Wide World of Sports

                       

      Favorite Toy: 1976 Swinger Bicycle

                                  

Favorite Cereal: Kellogg's Frosted Rice Cereal

                                         Favorite Breakfast Food: Nabisco Toastettes

                                          

Favorite Snack Food: Jeno's Snack Tray Pizzas

Favorite Outdoor Game: Water Balloon Toss                     Favorite Fast Food: Burger Chef

                                                                                                            

                                                                                                          

Favorite Board Game: Stratego                                            FavoriteVideo/PinballGame: Tempest


                                                                     

                        

                                                                                                 

Favorite Short Segment(s): In The News                              Favorite Commercial: Folger's Coffee

          

                                                                                                        

                                                                                                   

                                                                                                               Favorite Character: Fat Albert                                                                                                                                             

Favorite Public Service Announcement(s): 
McGruff Crime Dog                                                                           
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                               



                                             
                                    


                                            

  

                                                                                                     


You may have other things you personally would like to discuss on here, pertaining to Saturday Morning memories that you have, and that is always welcome. This blog is not just mine alone, but for all of us, for every one who truly loved those long-ago Saturday Mornings, that were filled with excitement, laughter, suspense, mysteries, and adventure. 

So here goes...my weekly Saturday Morning memory...(episode 1)

       I was about 6 years old at the time, probably around July of 1975, and recall usually waking up at around 5:45 on Saturday Mornings. Walking downstairs as quietly as I could, so as not to wake my parents, or my brother up. Sometimes still half-asleep, I would search our kitchen cabinet, where my folks kept the cereals. Not being able to reach for my cereal at first, since they would always put it up, in the top cabinets, I would pull the chair over to the cabinet, and climb up, looking for the cereal that I wanted. I couldn't read all that well at that age, but I new what kind of cereal was in each box, so I grabbed the one with Tony the Tiger Jr. Yeah you heard right. Tony Jr. was on the cover of Kellogg's Frosted Rice Cereal. 



   Next I searched for a bowl to pour my cereal into, but not just any bowl, but a big one. So I notice in the dish rack, my mom's salad bowl...you know the kind...those huge plastic ones that you can put nearly a ton of potato salad in, well that's the one I would grabbed. Pouring the cereal into the big ol' bowl, but not just a measly tiny amount...no, instead I'd pour the whole box in. I think I might have at times, used an entire quart bottle of milk. Now I'm beginning to show my age. Because you see, way back then, some of us still had a milk man to deliver our milk, and sometimes even cheeses to us on Fridays, so that by Saturday Morning, we had fresh milk in the fridge to drink. 

   So now I'm sitting in front of our very first color television set, complete with rabbit-ear antennas on top of the TV set itself. 


















No remote control, so you had to turn the switch on, and wait for a few seconds for the picture tube to warm up and start. Then change the channels by hand too. No cable or satellite channels, just the big three, ABC, NBC, and CBS, to watch any cartoons, kids shows, and teen/adult programmings, and when I say adult programming, I don't mean X-Rated movies...we're talking ABC's Wide World of Sports, American Bandstand, Soul Train, ABC Weekend Special, CBS Children's Film Festival, CBS Saturday Film Festival, and others.


   Well 6:00 a.m. rolls around, and our family television, and in those days, we only had one set...became this magical land of pure entertainment, with the likes of: 




Bugs Bunny & the Road Runner



                                                      
      
     




          
            Hong Kong Phooey






The Mighty Heroes
                                                     
                                                    The Super Friends


















Devlin 


                                                                    


                                                                 Sea-Lab 2020

Emergency +4 








                                                                       Valley of the Dinosaurs
                                               

                                                

Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids

                                     
                           Star Trek: The Animated Series
                          

                                                   










The Brady Kids


   



                          


                                           Shazam!












Run Joe Run


















                                                                   Land Of The Lost

     Not only was I able to see all of those shows, but even the commercials were better then. McDonald's ads were actually fun to watch, with Ronald McDonald, Grimace, The Hamburglar, Mayor McCheese, Officer/Sheriff Big Mac, Captain Crook, The Fry Kids (later the Fry Guys), The Professor, and the Hamburger Patch. 

   Kentucky Fried Chicken featured good ol' Colonel Harlan Sanders, who seemed to know when the food was made just right.

The Burger King always seemed to have a burger and a crown for each and every kid back then.
               
    










Other commercials featuring toys were fun to watch then as well. Take for instance seeing a brother and sister playing connect 4, only to see the brother lose to his sister, and yelling to the affect,"Pretty sneaky sis!" 

                                          Flatsy Patsy Dolls were the rage back then too.

Then there were the Big Wheels commercials, seeing kids peddling fast down the sidewalk and skidding to a stop, was almost too much of a ride to pass up.

Maybe you loved those Easy-Bake Ovens, and could picture yourself, fixing up a plate of delicious cookies and brownies for you, your family, and friends to all have. 

                                     
                                      You also had the Nerf Football craze back then too.

 Many girls back then used to have the Liddle Kiddle Kolognes & Locket Collection. 


   




















It may not have been perfect, but it was still a fun time to have lived through back then, and to know that after all the cartoons were done, that my parents, and brother, would finally wake up and come downstairs, and have a family breakfast together. 

    Later in the afternoon, my dad and I, would sit and watch ABC's Wide World of Sports...

however, sometimes I would watch the ABC Weekend Special, or the CBS Children's Film Festival.