SMC presents HANNA-BARBERA ACTION!
Before the rise of basic cable and syndication, Saturday mornings for many children in America consisted of watching cartoons on TV on one of three available channels. From 1958 through the 1980s, a vast majority of those cartoons bore the Hanna-Barbera (1957-2001) imprint.
Besides its popular series like The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, and Top Cat, Hanna-Barbera is also known for its abundance of action cartoons.
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS returns to that section of Hanna Barber that showed a heck of a lot of ACTION!
A CONVERSATION with Author DAYTON WARD
Brad Jurn is an office furniture manufacturer who moonlights as a Sci-Fi author. His love for science fiction began at age four, when his parents took him to see Star Wars.
Dayton Ward is a New York Times bestselling author or co-author of more than forty novels and novellas, often working with his best friend, Kevin Dilmore. His short fiction has appeared in more than thirty anthologies, and he's written for publications such as NCO Journal, Kansas City Voices, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Star Trek and Star Trek Communicator as well as the websites Tor.com, StarTrek.com, and Syfy.com.
Tune in as one author interviews the other and discover that dumping chocolate in someone's peanut butter does not a friendship make. They found other ways.
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS presents AT THE BEACH
Some of our favorite characters head out to enjoy the sand and surf.
Video Game Commericals
It started in the 1970s. Pong and the Arcades sucked our monies. Asteroids, Space Invaders, and Pac-man took many an allowance but not all of us could go to the Arcade. Hence the rise of the Video game console and their many games.
Saturday morning was prime for us kids to see and want these shiny new things so join us this Saturday as we re-live those games and consoles that made us who we are today!
CTS presents TONY DOW
On July 27, 2022, Tony Dow, best known as Wally Cleaver on the "Leave It To Beaver" series passed away at the age of 77. This week, on Classic Television Smackdown, we will celebrate the life of Tony Dow and the legacy of the series "Leave It Beaver", which has never left the air since its debut in 1957.
Warped Influences Audiobook Launch Party
Join us Friday Night as Author, R.M. Rose invites guests to have an in-depth discussion of her sci-fi psychological thriller, "Warped Influences" and celebrate its Audiobook release, narrated by Skye Alley, now available on Audible.
CTS presents SITUATION COMEDIES PT. 2
We all need to laugh. If it isn't in the hilarity of cat videos, or the demise of failed attempts at tv entertainment then it's gotta be the current political situations in our current times.
SITCOMS, also known as "Situation Comedies", cured a lot of those woes when "they" had to go thru it so let's take a look at what was so funny back then and why we couldn't replicate it......entirely.
CLASSIC TELEVISION SMACKDOWN presents SITUATION COMEDIES, PART TWO.
SMC presents TOONS THAT GOT BANNED
Some of your favorite Cartoons will sometimes go too far. Or people will just get upset over things that rattle their belief systems. Or cause kids to get sick. And we have them all.
These are the toons that got banned due to sex, booze, terrorism, for causing seizures, plus more. These are the shows your parent (and the censors) did not want you to watch, but you (and the rest of us) did anyway.
Come join us again as we look back and see if they really were all that bad.
CTS presents GAME SHOWS: Part Two
CLASSIC TELEVISION SMACKDOWN returns to a study on GAME SHOWS with our lovely co-star Rose Marie Rose. Our last show was so fantastic that we ask you to "Come on down" once again and "Answer the final puzzle" on what makes Americans sit for 30 minutes per show for something they have no chance of winning!
GAME SHOWS: Part Two with Rose and the CLASSIC TELEVISION SMACKDOWN crew.
SMC presents DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
Dungeons & Dragons is an American animated television series based on TSR's Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. A co-production of Marvel Productions and TSR, the show originally ran from 1983 through 1985 for three seasons on CBS for a total of twenty-seven episodes. The Japanese company Toei Animation did the animation for the series.
The show focused on a group of six friends who are transported into the titular realm and followed their adventures as they tried to find a way home with the help of their guide the Dungeon Master.
Join the Saturday Morning Cartoons Team and guest host Mark Streed as we explore the animated world of a popular board game.
SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS presents TOYS ; Part Two
Christmas is over. You have played with the toys you got as presents. You even played with the boxes (sometimes they were better than the toys). You even broke some and lost a few. And the trades with your best friend weren’t as good as you thought.
Now is the time to learn about the ones you didn’t get. Or the ones your parents wanted for themselves. Join us as we look at those Saturday morning ads shown between the cartoons.
Come and watch “I want that!”
LUPO AND LEE reviews CHOSTBUSTER: AFTERLIFE
WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR THE RESULTS OF THIS LATEST VIEWING. LUPO and LEE went to see the latest installment in the GHOSTBUSTERS UNIVERSE and they have a lot to say about it. If you haven't been reading Marc's page then here's your chance to hear it in person!
When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
