What kiddie channels did you watch growing up? - Blue's Clues > Dora the Explorer

[Trilby]

Cow and Chicken, a show about literally eating ass after school/work. Totally a kids show.

I'm sure it woke a whole generation!

Oh yeah, the wild feeds were great. You could get a whole week's worth of a show all at once. I used to do that with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show.

Damn! Of course these were made for stations to keep taping that weeks work, air it, erase the tapes and repeat! Certainly easier than the previous method of shipping over a whole 16mm film package of episodes to run on projectors in real time!

The latter was usually done on Sunday so there was nothing better than relaxing on a Sunday afternoon to a whole stretch of cartoons. Finding the feeds for TV shows was a treat, that's for sure. Commercials didn't air along with them so you could watch it all the way through without fast forwarding. Same with sporting events. They'd say they're going to commercial but you got to watch the action and listen to the commentator banter. I miss it sometimes.

Often times there was also the blank/dead airtime meant for stations to insert their local stuff too!

 

[weirdMcGee]

basically everything on tv when i had the chance. jetix being one of the many channels that introduced me to anime.

pbs kids i also liked but not by much.

 

[Orkeosaurus]

I didn't get Cartoon Network until like around 2000 (before Adult Swim) but it was my favorite.
When I could watch it before then I loved stuff like Cartoon Planet, Cow & Chicken, the old Hannah Barbara cartoons and Dexter's Lab.
I think Rugrats was my favorite as for Nickelodeon.
When Adult Swim came out I watched it every single night.

 

[Htom Sirveaux]

We didn't have cable growing up so I was basically forced to watch whatever the antenna would pick up. Fortunately the early 90s was a golden age for weekday afternoon and Saturday morning cartoons. Fox Kids could do no wrong bringing us "Batman: TAS", "X-Men", "Spiderman", and "Bobby's World ".

PBS had some great programming as well. Unless it was a Saturday afternoon, and you're left with no choices but "This Old House" and "The Victory Garden". Although you couldn't go wrong with Bob Ross or "The Woodwright's Shop."

 

[Trilby]

We didn't have cable growing up so I was basically forced to watch whatever the antenna would pick up. Fortunately the early 90s was a golden age for weekday afternoon and Saturday morning cartoons. Fox Kids could do no wrong bringing us "Batman: TAS", "X-Men", "Spiderman", and "Bobby's World ".

There was a period when I didn't have cable as well between 1991-92, but recall when broadcast TV still had some gems like that.

PBS had some great programming as well. Unless it was a Saturday afternoon, and you're left with no choices but "This Old House" and "The Victory Garden". Although you couldn't go wrong with Bob Ross or "The Woodwright's Shop."

There were a few standbys. Back in the 80's, I used to see Computer Chronicles as well on the weekends.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I was a Nickelodeon kid. Grew up during the original Nicktoons era. Some of that shit held up pretty well particularly the Ren & Stimpy show. I didn't get into Cartoon Network until Adult Swim started and I discovered Samurai Jack.

 

[gumboman]

where I used to live our TV cable guys didn't provide English channels , only few programs ( 3rd world country) but here are the translated shows that I grew up with.

1- small wonders( about an American suburban family with a robot daughtet)

2- fox kids ( X-Men, spider man, tick, a cartoon show with matrix concept}

3- nightrider ( guy in that bike n car )

 

[Trilby]

where I used to live our TV cable guys didn't provide English channels , only few programs ( 3rd world country) but here are the translated shows that I grew up with.

1- small wonders( about an American suburban family with a robot daughtet)

There's always some fan for this show.

3- nightrider ( guy in that bike n car )

Highly sought after entertainment for kids! I once got to see KITT when they used to tour that car.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

I grew up on Disney Afternoon. My family had basic cable until 1995 so we had to watch whatever kid show was on regular television. Disney Afternoon and Fox Kids were my main kid channels back then. Eek the Cat was my favorite tbh.

Opinion: Eek's owners were ungrateful shitheads, lol.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Eek! the Cat was a very underrated show. It's not talked about a lot these days. Even fewer people know about it's spinoff:

It's pretty good and has the same kind of humor as Eek!

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Eek! the Cat was a very underrated show. It's not talked about a lot these days. Even fewer people know about it's spinoff:

It's pretty good and has the same kind of humor as Eek!

Fox Kids was the best tbh.

Also I feel like the only one who actually loved Bobby's World.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Fox Kids in the early 90's had a lot of good shows. Especially Batman TAS, Tiny Toon Adventures, and the first season of Animaniacs. For some reason, almost everyone forgets those shows were on Fox before being on the WB.

The Spiderman cartoon was all right but the most notable thing about it is just how horrible the animation is. And you don't have to be an animator to notice it. Any other cartoon you can think of that had bad animation the Spiderman cartoon might just surpass it.

Around the mid 90's is when it all fell apart.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Nickelodeon was pretty good quality as well in the 90's and went to shit later on. Rugrats, Clarissa Explains It All, Shelby Woo, Alex Mack, the first couple of seasons of All That....etc. I was older when I got into that, around 12 or so, but it was still enjoyable to watch.
This doesn't exactly count as a kid channel because this was only on Fridays but when I was a kid I fucking loved ABC's TGIF shows and that was the one thing I remember actually getting excited for when it came to shows. I rarely missed TGIF.

 

[Trilby]

Fox Kids was the best tbh.

Also I feel like the only one who actually loved Bobby's World.

Bobby's World did have its clever moments. Recall rather digging the archetypal late 80's nucular family they gave the kid with the Minnesotan mom (dont'cha know), the Valley Girl sister, the goofy but well-minded uncle and the brother with a rattail who called Bobby a dork (when in fact, so was he in retrospect). There was always someone I could relate to in that show.

Around the mid 90's is when it all fell apart.

Certainliy. I'm sure this had a lot to do with CN finally churning out its own cartoons, along with Nick's continued Nicktoons toonage. Cable really flexed its muscles, further destroying broadcast television's time to shine.

 

[Pina Colada]

I didn’t really have a favorite channel as I lived on The Big 3, which often showed reruns of series from the early to mid-90s.

However, one of my absolute favorite shows was Between the Lions on PBS. It taught phonics and reading comprehension in a way that was easy for kids to understand. My mom said that I was always so quiet and focused whenever it aired; it helped that I was already a good reader for my age.

 

[cypocryphy]

@Huntin' Slash My Dad made me watch "Predator" when I was 6.

 

[BrunoMattei]

@Huntin' Slash My Dad made me watch "Predator" when I was 6.

You had a good dad.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Disney Channel and Nickelodeon were the only ones around when I was a kid. I still remember that Disney Channel was channel 16, Nickelodeon was channel 24, and MTV (which I wasn't supposed to watch) was channel 29.

At the time, Nickelodeon didn't even have the Nicktoons, and it was mainly stuff like Pinwheel, Today's Special, Eureeka's Castle, and weird foreign cartoons I can only vaguely remember like Spartakus: The Sun Beneath the Sea, The Lost Cities of Gold, and Belle and Sebastian.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Disney Channel and Nickelodeon were the only ones around when I was a kid. I still remember that Disney Channel was channel 16, Nickelodeon was channel 24, and MTV (which I wasn't supposed to watch) was channel 29.

At the time, Nickelodeon didn't even have the Nicktoons, and it was mainly stuff like Pinwheel, Today's Special, Eureeka's Castle, and weird foreign cartoons I can only vaguely remember like Spartakus: The Sun Beneath the Sea, The Lost Cities of Gold, and Belle and Sebastian.

As a kid I loved MTV's oddities and Aeon Flux (I think I liked it) whenever I could find it. I could never get into Beavis & Butthead.

 

[Piss Clam]

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Big Valley
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Little house on the praririe.

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