Anyone watch 80s cartoons?

What TV shows did you watch as a kid?

I read here that someone had written about this prompt and stated that what we watched as a child could inform others of what era we were born in. This could not be further from the truth for me as the tv shows I watched as a kid were very much from the eighties, some of which have now been brought forward into the modern age by having been reintroduced.

The shows I loved were mainly cartoons. Some of them created by Disney and others more like live action, with the use of puppets. I will list a few that I can remember below and please let me know if you have seen or heard of any of these. Are there any people here from the eighties who can recall these shows?

  • The Gummi Bears
  • Rescue Rangers
  • Duck Tales
  • Thunder cats
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Super Ted
  • Banana Man
  • Mysterious Cities of Gold
  • The Racoons
  • Galaxy High
  • Jumbo and the Jet Set
  • Around the World in 80 days
  • The Muppets
  • Fraggle Rock
  • Dogtanian and the 3 Muskehounds
  • Inspector Gadget
  • Thomas the Tank Engine
  • Fireman Sam
  • The Dreamstone
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
  • Danger Mouse
  • Woof

Ok so there are quite a lot of shows here and these are only the ones I can remember off the top of my head. I watched a lot of tv as a child. I used to love waking up early and running to watch “the funnies” in the living room, especially at my Granddads house as he had sky tv in the late eighties. This was a game changer as there were so many new channels with all the cartoons on show.

Wayne ✌🏽

Duck Tales with Scrooge McDuck

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  1. I remember tv in the 80s, as much as I loved the TV shows (Airwolf, The A team, Knight Rider), Saturday morning cartoons were also memorable, Thundercats, He Man, Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs, Inspector Gadget was my favorite.

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  2. Loved Tom & Jerry & Road Runner probably to violent for todays precious little luvies as it never crossed our minds to catapult ourselves across a ravine or strap an Acme rocket to our backs, though these are probably earlier and I’m older.

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  3. Too many to name since I love almost all cartoons, especially the superhero ones. Some standouts for me are:

    Challenge of The Super Friends
    Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
    Hong Kong Phooey
    Grape Ape
    Micro Woman and Super Stretch
    Blue Falcon and Dynomutt
    Space Ghost
    Frankenstein, Jr.
    Herculoids
    The Super 7
    Tarzan
    Smurfs
    Flinstones
    Jetsons
    Dungeons & Dragons
    Animaniacs
    Sponde Bob
    Powerpuff Girls
    Voltron
    Thundercats
    Spider-Woman
    Web Woman
    Aquaman
    The Incredible Hulk

    See? I could go on and on…(but I won’t!)

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  4. Today you can watch cartoons from any year past or present so I guess it would be hard to say. As a kid in the 1950s cartoons were so different from those today. Then my girls watched in the late 70s and into the 80s, so I’m familiar with those too. 🙂

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      1. Well, two of my favorites were, ‘Top Cat’, and “Underdog’. We also had ‘Popeye’, and the Loony Tunes and Merry Melodies which had all different ones. 🙂

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      1. Believe it or not, we heard they were too violent for kids to watch, but we all grew up with them, and we’re fairly normal – LOL. They’re definitely nothing compared to some of the video games that are out today. Now I’m really sounding like an old lady!

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