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I don't know if this was a national thing, but I remember when the WB affiliate in NYC (WPIX-11) would have the Disney Afternoon block after school. There was Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, Tail Spin, Bonkers, and later the Goofy and son show as well as the Huey, Duey, and Louie spinoff show. I used to watch those shows every day. But when the WB came around, I definitely enjoyed Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and Histeria!

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i loved Animaniacs. i wonder if they are on dvd yet? there were alot of great bits that im sure still work now that im older and its not the early 90s.

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Chris W, that was nearly 20 years ago, right? I remember when UPN/WB affiliates had those shows. I can still watch those shows. Most of the cartoons that are on Saturday mornings are pointless, have no plots, and have horrible characters. That is why the number of viewers is really down. I can watch some of The Batman, but every other show on the networks on Saturday morning is trash. A lot of the shows are silly just to be silly or dumb just to be dumb. They aren't good shows. They don't even have the annoyingly repetitive teen shows anymore. What happened to Peter Engel? Damn kids today. Get off my lawn.

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Cartoons today suck! As a 20 year old college student, I can remember the days of Looney Tunes on Nickalodean (sp?), Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, Tail Spin, Batman/Superman. All great shows that are still enjoyable to watch.

Today. The cartoons are all the crappy anime or batman/superman with a new look. Bring back the good cartoons or at least start replaying the old ones!

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Duck Tales and co. predates UPN/WB. WPIX was just another unaffiliated station buying first run syndicated content. All this announcement does is further confirm that the creation of UPN and WB harmed broadcast TV more than anything else in the past 15 years.

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Anyone else feel old all of a sudden?

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khamel, Animaniacs are available on DVD. Not all of them yet but based off of sales on the first two I wouldn't imagine there wont be more.

Now, we just need to get Freakazoid released.

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I miss Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Tale Spin, all the rest.. I wonder if there is anywhere that has a list of what used to play at that era.. I dont remember them all

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Wow I'm nowhere near the age where you should feel old but I do now. Iremember growing up with Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, etc. Little kids are missing out now.

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Avi, you're right. The channels that ran those shows in my area became UPN, WB, or UPN/WB mixes. I'm not sure about the whole harming broadcast tv thing though...
As far as other channels with good cartoons during the week a few years ago, there were good shows on the Family Channel or whatever it was called then, Nickelodeon, and a few on the Disney Channel. All of the networks had good shows on Saturday morning. During the mid90s, Nickelodeon ruled Sunday mornings.

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Actually, three volumes of Animaniacs have been released, each with 25 of the 100 produced episodes, so there's only one volume left to go. No release date has been announced yet. The entire run of Pinky and the Brain has been released, also in three DVD sets. But don't hold your breath for Freakazoid any time soon.

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good old days with jackie chan, yu-gi-oh, pokemon!!

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ya theres a lot of crap on tv now a days. the networks are lucky if any one watch's something they'ev got runing. most Adults & kids with an average IQ can see that the show's on there line-up are as sitruc said (dumb have no plots and have horrible characters and are pointless) to the pont of if they weren't advertised non stop then no one would even know they were on. cartoons on in this day and age are just 30-min of random animated mindless dribble. it's not that i feel old because i'm not i'm only 25. i was born in the 80's so most 80's and 90's cartoons i have seen such as C.O.P.S, The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo, The All-New Pound Puppies, THE All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show,The Real Ghostbusters, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Beetlejuice, Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers, Count Duckula, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DuckTales, X-Men, Gargoyles, and yes even Animaniacs because there was nothing eals on. yes there's a lot more cartoons i could list enuff to take up this form so here are a few url's to place's with name's and more. that have cartoons and kids show's that we watch'ed. for any one that may like to take a look and to answer Seanross request.

http://www.retrojunk.com/

http://www.80scartoons.net/toons/

if the head of the network programing had half a brain they'ed know people would rather watch show's form the 80's and early to mid 90's then the idiotic mind numbing garbage that there spewing out non stop!!!


have a nice day :-)

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