80s Saturday morning cartoons

[Sunstroke]

Hannah Barbara had some great cartoons and even did mash-ups along with the Laugh Olympics. 

I still occasionally will play the intro theme and video for the great Hanna Barbera show "The Banana Splits," another one of my favorite Saturday morning shows as a kid. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juJpyUkHPCA

[Spider-Dan]

It's funny that you guys mention watching these after-school.  Many of these cartoons were not technically "Saturday morning," but were syndicated and usually ran from 3-5PM.  I saw a related video that explained the death of Saturday morning cartoons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cpUDtW1cV8

There were a bunch of causes, but the main ones were:

1) Cable networks like Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network having kids' shows available 24/7
2) New regulations in 1996 restricting advertising to 10 minutes per half-hour of (broadcast) kids' programming
3) Sports and/or news programming providing a bigger bang for the production dollar (especially considering point #2)

As a point of comparison, the contract that NBC signed with Notre Dame to broadcast college football cost them, on a weekly basis, about a third of what producing the cartoons in that slot did... and selling advertising for beer and cars is a lot more lucrative than advertising for toys and cereal.

[Phishfan]

^^^ But is Notre Dame football really the same slot as the cartoons? Football starts at noon (roughly), as I kid I remember being done with cartoons by then.

[Spider-Dan]

On the west coast, that's cartoon time.  On the east coast, you'd get the aforementioned news first (which is definitely cheaper than either).

[Phishfan]

Yeah. I sometimes forget about you left coasters

[masterfins]

Yep...loved both of those. Also, shows like Scooby Doo, Johnny Quest, The Flintstones, Underdog, Captain Caveman...even Spiderman had a cool cartoon back then.

I was a 70's cartoon kid, so this list is what I watched.  Loved Johnny Quest, also always watched Fat Albert (seems like that was on Sunday though).  I don't remember Captain Caveman.