TV Shows From Our Childhoods We Loved To Watch After School
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- čas přidán 3. 05. 2024
- It's 3:00 PM and you can't wait to get on the bus and get home, because what's waiting for you there can't be missed! It's after school television shows! From cartoons to talk shows to classic reruns, there was something for every kid just waiting to be absorbed.
In this video we go back to the ‘70s, ‘80s and '90s to have a look at some of our favorite after school television programming... the shows that made us forget all about the long day at school!
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Being a kid in the 80's seems like it was the peak for cartoons. You got to enjoy the Saturday morning and after school routines. Plus you had the benefit of new stuff, along with all the popular classics as reruns.
Can’t argue with that Jason. It really did feel like things just could NOT get any better!
One fun thing about the 70s and early 80s was that some world series games were played during weekdays and I remember rushing home after school to watch a rare weekday baseball game.
That would be a great thing to melt away the after school blues… a World Series game!
I grew up in the 80s and have three children ranging from 6 to 17 years old. When my teenagers were a little younger, by osmosis, they got into shows that I beloved as a kid like Brady Bunch, Leave it to Beaver, Home Improvement. They still will enjoy these shows to this day. It goes to show that the true classics will always hold up through the generations.
There is something different about them, an infectious optimism maybe, that radiates from the screen. That will never go out of style.
Well said. Keep up the great videos!
@@cameralips73Thank you, and thanks for watching!
I was born in 2002 and my parents have showed me The Brady Bunch. It’s ok but some aspects didn’t age well. I personally loved the shows I grew up with.
I grew up on dark shadows after school. Good Memories, i was born in 1960.Thanks for Sharing
As a young child of the late 70's (ages 5-8), I enjoyed Sesame Street and The Electric Company, but I thought Mr. Rogers was too corny. So I would watch Seasame Street, turn off the TV when Mr. Rogers came on, and then turn the TV back on when The Electric Company was on. A few years ago, I saw that documentary about Mr. Rogers and wished that I had appreciated him more. He did some really amazing things on his shows!
The show was an acquired taste for some. Always did enjoy the segments featuring the puppet land though. Thanks for watching and sharing those memories!
I remember the" To be Continued " shows. I hated waiting. I miss being a kid. Its almost like ill never really be happy again. I was just happy as a child. I had the best parents anybody could ever ask for. Only child got what i wanted. Not because I was spoiled, I knew being a good boy . I would be treated better. I miss everything so much. I'd sell my soul to go back and stay forever
It is a little bittersweet to look back on such amazing times. Even though we can’t go back, we are still very privileged to have lived through those years.
There was Great Space Coaster, classic Looney Tunes, Popeye, and Tom + Jerry, Battle of the Planets, Robotech..... Too many to name but all of them so good. In out area sitcom reruns ran after the cartoon blocks so we did get the best of both worlds
Oh man… Great Space Coaster! Wish we would have included that one in there somewhere.
We had a local (Phoenix) show I watched religiously called The Wallace and Ladmo Show. On top of all the 70's shows mentioned here. Great memories!
Love to hear about all the regional/local shows at that time. Some were really unique and creative.
I always enjoyed watching cartoons after school all the way through my high-school years in the late 80's. Stopped watching while in college, and some years later in the late 90's, while feeling nostalgic, went looking for cartoons again on TV. Everything had changed. Mostly talk shows on every channel. With no cable or internet, had to turn to PBS. There I found Arthur, Between the Lions, and Dragon Tales (my favorite) which I still watch to this day.
At least PBS still knew how to rock an afternoon.
Me and my brother didn't have cable and the only cartoons we could watch was Fox Kids. I remember that every day, after school, we would head to the living room, turn on the TV, and make sure it was switched to Fox Kids channel. We enjoyed watching X-Men, Spiderman, Power Rangers, Goosebumps, Eek the Cat, Batman Animated, etc. The channel sadly no longer exists but I do miss the days of watching cartoons on TV. :3
What a lineup of shows. Crazy how those epic blocks of cartoons faded away over time.
There were some sick days that I regretted watching TV with because during school hours I either had to deal with watching the Nick Jr. shows or the "boring adult shows" during the 1990s, so I had to wait until the after school hours for the good stuff to come on.
Uhg… the workout shows, soap operas, and news. 🤮
I'd watch the weather channel- only interesting thing on a sick day!! At the 8s, they had local weather that looked like a DOS blue screen
Another awesome video, RetroDaze! I remember those fun after-school days. Elementary/Middle school, my Mom would pick me and my brother up afterschool and we would go to our local carryout. The carryout would sell all sources of things, food, drinks, candy, household items and more. We knew the family who ran it, and always got things like onion rings, chicken nuggets, juice/soda, and candy.
Then we would go home and watch our shows. We watched PBS shows Reading Rainbows, Zoom, Bill Eye, and the other ones you mentioned along with Kids WB.
High school, we had moved. I had a new carry-out to visit. I would get western fries or a breakfast platter (they have breakfast all day) after school. I would watch the talk shows you mentioned. But i also still loved watching cartoons/animated shows too. Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Disney Channel were my go-tos to watch.
What great memories! Food, family, and some fun programming. It really is unforgettable stuff.
Never to old for cartoons
This is fact!
Awesome video! Man there was nothing like coming home after school grabbing your favorite snack and a pop and plopping down in front of the tv to destress after that long day of school! So miss those days!
We all do! There really was NO better way to unwind and forget your school-related worries.
Some more of my after school favs in California include:
Heathcliff
Inspector Gadget
Transformers
Plastic man and friends
Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats!
The After School Special tv series
Those specials deserve their own video!
@RetroDaze @bluejedi723 Yes! I had "After School Specials" as one of the items on my list while writing this one, and it became clear pretty quickly that I'd have to save it for its own video. So yes, that will be coming out eventually. 🙂
I like any of the series from the 80s, even though I was born near the end of the last year of that decade. The 80s series I like include DuckTales, Transformers, Inspector Gadget, Garfield & Friends, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, My Little Pony, Smurfs, Snorks, The Jetsons (Season 2-3), Thundercats, G.I. Joe, Danger Mouse, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, The Raccoons, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, and The Simpsons.
Man, what an incredible list of shows! Not a bad one in the bunch. Thanks for sharing that!
I also like The A-Team, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Knight Rider, Magnum P.I., Quantum Leap, Baywatch, and ALF.
@@andrewlitherland1463 Weren’t some of those actually prime time shows as opposed to weekday afternoon shows, at least at first?
Dark Shadows on weekdays after school. Later it was Batman and Lost in Space. Those were my main T.V. shows from my childhood.
Batman ‘66, correct? Or The Animated Adventures?
@@RetroDaze Hello. Batman 66. The Crime Drama.
@@bruce8808 Nice. It was always a nice lead-in to other favorites.
I was a little kid in the 80s and a teen in the 90s. That being said....
I never hear about this show but I watched it religiously.
Anyone ever watched The Great Space Coaster?
I pretty sure I watched it in the 80's but it might have been made in the 70's and I caught the reruns.
Anyway, that and....
The Monkees reruns
Kids Incorporated
You Can't Do That On Television
Nick Rocks
Remote Control
Double Dare
Finders Keepers
Man, good times for sure.
Someone else mentioned Great Space Coaster as well. Wishing we had mentioned it along with 3-2-1 Contact, Electric Company, etc.
I have the Disney Tailspin Sega Genesis game. I used to watch Jackie Chan Adventures on Kids WB
The Capcom Disney games were almost always good. Maybe a few stinkers here and there.
what a great throwback! definitely loved the old standbys... he-man, transformers, gi joe but also really enjoyed the disney afternoon stuff (and if you haven't checked out the re-release of the NES games its on most modern platforms I can't recommend it enough at least as far as ducktales 1 and rescue rangers 1) also I hear MeTV has a new retro cartoons channel in the pipeline for those still doing over-the-air TV, there seems to be a lot of throwback channels not on cable these days, which is fine by me given the cost!!
We did indeed hear the news about MeTV Toons. The more the merrier! Also, we appreciate you checking out the video!
I watched He Man and the Thundercats after school. I was a teenager at that time. We would smoke weed and watch Thunder Cats. 😂
It has to be a much different experience if high. 😆
Three's Company had a catchy intro song. Great Retro Content!🤘🏻👍🏻🇺🇲
Three’s Company was such a great sitcom. Really wish John Ritter would have had the chance to do more.
I watched He Man after school at my friend's house probably at 3:30. He and I both loved saying "I have the POWER!" we were dorks. I also watched 321 Contact, and you missed High Feather, a show about a summer camp.
High Feather? Hmm. This we’ve not heard of. Need to look this one up.
90s kids ❤
Batman The Animated Series was amazing, TMNT too
Both were great!
You need to give Cartoon Network's 90's Toonami it's own video, as that was huge for after school viewing for me, and my friends in high school with Anime hitting a new high in the mid to late 90's.
Definitely a lot of ‘90s kids with great memories of Toonami.
Thank you for this, RetroDaze! I subscribed!
Thank you so much Gary! We really have fun putting these out, and hope that it shows on screen.
I like and will always respect Bill Nye. However, when I was a kid and given the choice between Nye and Beakman's World, I would choose Beakman every time. I'd like to think it's because I grew up on the east coast and there was a New York attitude in the writing, but it's more likely because the colors were brighter and they spoke faster, holding my attention.
There was a bit of a divide between kids in that way. You were either a Nye Guy or a Beakmanite. 😆 Well… there was the occasional person who watched both.
I definitely picked Beakman. Mostly because he reminded me of Dr. Science. As an aside, Josi from Beakman's World is now playing the mother on the TED series.
Ah, We'll heave to feature Beakman's World in another video!
We always tried to get the cable channels in our area with antenna TV on the UHF stations! My mom used to get annoyed at the picture quality we'd often get and try some wive's tales on us about ruining our eyesight, but we'd watch anyhow! Haha! Basic cartoon blocks like Popeye and these would be interspersed with "The Most Important Person" shorts. In the SF Bay area there was also a great live action and cartoon show "Charlie and Humphrey" with great puppets and skits!
Gotta love those regional cartoon blocks. So much fun!
I watched a lot of shows on Nickelodeon after school. My favorite was You Can't Do That on Television.
Such a great show. It was recently discussed on the podcast “Everything 80s”, and it’s crazy how influential that show was.
Growing up, it was probably either Club Mario (Super Mario Bros Super Show without the live action Mario and Luigi segments) or Superhuman Samurai Cyber Squad. Otherwise, it was Batman TAS. That said, I don't suppose you've heard that Me TV is premiering an all cartoon channel this summer?
We have! It’s very exciting! The more channels airing classic cartoons the better.
In Cleveland,OH afternoons were spent watching channel 61 until it went hsn in 86 and channels 43 and 19for all the greats
Any favorites in particular?
When Trash TV was coming out, I was in the same mindset of wanting to be more 'adult'. But Discovery, TechTV, Spike, and Food Network, picked up the slack for me.
Some great programming on those channels. Loved MXC on Spike! 😆
@@RetroDaze Perfect background noise for a bunch of teenagers playing magic the gathering
😆 Perfect!
My after school program was Wishbone when I grew up in the 1990s I loved the Wishbone theme music and I still love the wishbone theme music to this very day I feel like everyone has forgotten about the tv classic Wishbone
It’s always fun to hear from those who were more impacted by lesser known properties. Thanks for sharing that!
I loved Wishbone. I remember watching it in 1st grade on days I didn't attend daycare when my brother and I went to our babysitter's house. I loved the stories Wishbone told and once during my school's State testing in 11th grade, his theme song got stuck in my head and I wrote the lyrics on a lined paper, lol,😂🤣😍😃❤️.
@@RetroDaze you’re welcome!
@@RetroDaze what was you’re favorite after school TV show when you where a kid
Speaking for myself (Tony G), it was hands down He-Man And The Masters of The Universe. Tony R., Jon, and the rest would have to chime in on their own favorites.
I love Reading Rainbow ❤
June 25, 2024 will be the launch 🚀 MeTV Toons Network, 24/7 of all Classic Cartoons free via over the air!
It’s going to be a great addition to our TV screens! We can’t wait.
I heard about this listening to Jim Cornette..😂
I love Gimmie Bears❤
Such a great theme song too.
I normally watch disney channel after school or nickelodeon where nickelodeon had nick in the afternoon which also a block of their programming from 3-5pm but on disney channel after 5pm was pre-teen shows like kids incorporated@5pm&the mickey mouse club@5:30pm mon.-thurs.fridays disney had triple feature friday starting@5pm friday afternoon.
They were both great lineups.
How could you not mention Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? The early seasons were on weekday afternoons before becoming a Saturday Morning Cartoon in 1990.
Doh! 😝 Well, to be fair we DID mention that we were in no way attempting to cover all the shows, but instead the ones that we personally connected with. Even so, TMNT is a solid choice!
For me it was match game with Gene Rayburn
Seems like most game shows aired in the late mornings.
what about Silver Hawks?
ThunderCats In Space! 😆 But really though, it was a fun and well done cartoon.
@@RetroDazewasn't thundercats already in space???
Hmm 🤔 Well technically they were terrestrial, living on Thundera.
Awesome channel
Very glad you found us and are enjoying everything!
Major lucy fan nni collect her stuff..
I want your shirt!
How much? We’ll see if Jon will part with it. 😆 😆
Where was she-ra princess of power she had a cartoon dating back far as 1985 until 1987.
She-Ra was definitely a popular one in the mid to late ‘80s.
Global wrestling Federation 4 pm ESPN
Ahh yes… Regional wrestling! Can’t forget that.
I was raised on Fox Kids
A fun and entertaining block of cartoons for sure.
kids going back to old media, sure.. Just get it to trend and they will binge..
Kind of like how Stranger Things got them listening to Kate Bush.
@@RetroDaze another one i notice is reaction youtube channels. When they pick up an old series or film you will start to see it spreading throughout all of the reaction channels.
@@RetroDaze one difference though, i dont know that kids go back as much as we did.. We saw the same episodes and the same VHS tapes a million times.. I rarely watch anything more than once today and its on to the next
Our attention spans for things have shrunk significantly. Hard for us to stick with NEW series (even if we like them), let alone classic series.
@@RetroDaze content overload. There's just so much out there whenever you want it that people go back less. Because of that i think you will see fewer productions quality productions that ingrain themselves into pop culture. It will just be disposable.
I actually went back to check out 3 2 1 Contact after this video. I swear i watched this a lot but i dont remember it as an independent show.
I'd get home at 4. At 4:05 (WTBS), The Flintstones then Brady Bunch. I'd do the easy HW (math) while watching these shows and a snack.
I miss the old days!!
Leave it to Beaver was another favorite- "Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers as The Beaver " on a sidewalk, front of house--no, I did not Google this!!!!
IMO, talk shows were the beginning of the end for TV. Oprah was ok, but Jerry Springer was awful (trash)
Agreed. It was unfortunate that the time slots that we enjoyed became the times for that kind of show.
10:01
Too old for cartoons?
...Were y'all okay?
I mean, nowadays, it's like you're too old for live-action stuff because of how political and campy everything's getting. 😂
It’s that sort of thing that reminds us just how good we had it with those cartoons! 😆
Jem/Misfits 💯💯💯🤟🤟🤟🗽🗽🗽🌃🌃🌃🌉🌉🌉😉😼
A great show!