After School viewing: Cartoons vs. Public Television

[HardyGirl]

As much as I post on cartoons, I really didn't star watching cartoons after school until I was about 8. Before that I was all about PBS. I would watch Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Electric Company lost past the appropriate pre-school age. I also loved Villa Allegre, Zoom, and on the weekends, Vegetable Soup. And when I got older, The Righteous Apples. (I even ordered a record that never came!) I remember being really mad when our local PBS station replaced Zoom w/ Hodge Podge Lodge on weekdays, and I could only watch Zoom on the weekends.

Anyway, did any of you watch PBS after school as opposed to cartoons?

[rche]

I was all over the PBS programming. Villa Allegre and Z double O M were awesome!!!
Not exactly an after school cartoon, but Schoolhouse Rock; well.... rocked! I never got tired of those little animations, and we are still enjoying them in our house today. I was also rather fond of the ABC after school special/movie thing.

[kingdom warrior]

On Wednesdays I had half days so when I got home that's all I'd watch. Heck I still watch PBS....lol!

[HardyGirl]

I was all over the PBS programming. Villa Allegre and Z double O M were awesome!!!
Not exactly an after school cartoon, but Schoolhouse Rock; well.... rocked! I never got tired of those little animations, and we are still enjoying them in our house today. I was also rather fond of the ABC after school special/movie thing.

I have all the Schoolhouse Rock shorts on tape. And I really loved those Time for Timer ABC After School Specials! "Inside Red's Head" anyone?

[toys2cool]

I watched both , but preferred cartoons from an early age He-man,Gi joe,Spiderman

[Mikey]

As a kid I hardly ever watched PBS.
Our local PBS station (channel 13) came in really lousy back in the day.
I never even watched Sesame Street or Mr Rogers.
It wasn't until I got older and we got cable that I had a choice of a few different PBS stations.

[Cmonster]

Cartoons in the morning, football or baseball practice in the afternoon, and Planet of the Apes, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers and movies of the week, in the evenings!!!

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[Riffster]

Disney released all the Schoolhouse Rocks on DVD a few years ago, i watch them all the time

[Nostalgiabuff]

I watched cartoons......except of course when channel 7 ran Apes week then I was all over that

[wyldpny]

When I was little I would watch PBS, Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, etc.
Don't forget Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo and Electric Company.
Then it was Bugs Bunny/Road Runner, Herculoids, Scooby Doo, Johnny Quest, Hong Kong Fuey, The Superfriends, Hudson Brothers with Ron Hull and his Emu, Sid & Marty Krofft: HR PufnStuff - Lidsville - The Bugaloos, etc, Land of the Lost, afterschool reruns of Star Trek (don't forget 70's Saturday morning Star Trek the animated series), Tarzan Lord of the Jungle cartoon, Tarzan starring Ron Ely, Creature Double Feature on Saturday afternoons (or was it Sunday?), etc

[Hector]

I never missed a single episode of The Electric Company...it was on a par with Loony Tunes for me back in the day...

[Mod Style]

I have all the Schoolhouse Rock shorts on tape. And I really loved those Time for Timer ABC After School Specials! "Inside Red's Head" anyone?

Remember the Time for Timer song" Don't drown your Food"? It was Timer's way of warning us about the over-use of condiments.

[The Toyroom]

I'd watched PBS from 4:00 to about 6:30 early on (Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Electric Company, Zoom). Later on as I outgrew that line-up, it'd be Tom and Jerry at 3:00-4:00 on WPIX and presumably whatever faire they had on after that at the time. I recall at one point Batman was on WPIX at 4:00 for a while, so that was a natural...

[Mikey]

My afternoon afterschool line up was .... (not sure about times or channels)

Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Magilla Gorilla
Lost in Space
Scooby Doo

[The Toyroom]

^ Frightenstein was definitely WNEW if you were watching out of the NYC area....

I'll go out on a limb and say Magilla Gorilla was WPIX, Lost in Space WNEW or WOR and Scooby Doo on WPIX