…storyline, and setting things into motion for the Phoenix Saga that would dominate season three. Throughout the show’s second and third seasons, it continued to dominate on Saturday mornings and…

…spin-off machine first got going when network programmer Fred Silverman asked Bill and Joe to create two shows using characters from the previous season’s Saturday morning hit Wacky Races. For…

…surpassed the level of Saturday morning animation, this second picture often only meets it. Oh, there is a lot more shading (nicely aided by computer coloring techniques), but overall the…

…admit to being somewhat giddy to discover that the More From Ink & Paint section included three screens’ worth of previews for BCI’s other animation and live action Saturday morning…

…In The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger, the main departure from previous versions was that Saturday morning standards of the day prevented the Ranger from ever shooting right at…

…2.0 in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. The English track is pretty decent, but does not strive too hard to impress. Astro Boy simply sounds like the Saturday morning cartoon show…

…still considered taboo for Saturday morning television. The show also reveals a surprising twist to the show that ties in nicely with the unaired series finale, “Requiem”. Other great episodes…

…to lift above the quality of the Saturday morning cartoon style – just – but only ever reaches full feature quality when the Red Bull (presumably before he became a…

…cheesy effects are perfectly in keeping with the plainly obvious Saturday morning matinee tone that Allen – also serving as director – is going for. That he would go on…

…breakneck shooting schedule that saw a grand return to the down and dirty adventures of old, Doom a stunning thrill-ride that arguably contains the purest elements of the Saturday morning…

…became less viable, and the cost of overseas cel animation became more attractive to Saturday morning television programmers, Rankin/Bass returned to the hand-drawn medium for their later shows, where they…

…are included, along with corresponding subtitles. Final Cut: After five years, X-Men had become an established part of Saturday Morning superhero programming. The show had brought the X-Men into the…

…the creators, like in the recent Saturday Morning sets. Maybe when Warner comes out with a 90’s version of the set, they can include one of these episodes and give…

…the middle-ground DePatie-Freleng stuff did, the special ultimately into the pitfalls of Saturday morning cartoon traditions, from the more economic background art, to the often recycled animation and a lack…

…to educate and give the Saturday morning crowd a little adventure. Unfortunately, such an approach did not prove successful, as it ended its run that December with three episodes left…

…of Saturday morning cartoon fare we may be more accustomed to. Perhaps because it is clear that holiday specials can become perennials that can be re-run each year, producers tend…