This is awesome... I was the promo voiceover guy for OSM from 1997-1999, also was the voice of Spot/Scott (taking over from Nathan Lane) in “Teacher’s Pet”. Thanks for the memories!
@@CinephileStudios I'm with you on ABC Kids being a great block, as someone who could only catch cable shows when me and my mom visited my grandmother once a week it was a great way for me to catch up with Disney Channel shows, and interestingly enough the Even Stevens episode Sibling Rivalry actually premiered on ABC Kids before it aired on Disney Channel.
I have great nostalgia for One Saturday Morning. I never wanted to miss the opening with all the wild imaginative machinery going on. The clubhouse looked like a circus & I loved the in-between bits.
I seem to be the only person who recalls One Saturday Morning, and Pepper Ann by extent. Recess, Buzz Lightyear, Teachers Pet and Lloyd in Space were relatively popular, but nobody remembers Pepper Ann at all. Mrs Mungers Class I know got canned because of a lawsuit from the lady herself. Sad seeing what happened to OSM, I have fond memories of their original programming. Someday we'll see it on DVD, and Filmore too, that show was the shit.
MostVerticalPrimate MK II cross our fingers one day Disney will finally give us HD quality versions of Fillmore, pepper ann, recess maybe with the new streaming service it'll happen.
I was born in 1986 so I remember a lot about 90's Saturday Morning Cartoons. I watched mostly CBS on Saturdays until the fall of 1997. I enjoyed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Garfield the most on CBS. Disney produced a lot of CBS's cartoons until ABC bought Disney in 1996. That was the beginning of the end for Saturday Morning Cartoons on CBS and in the fall of 1997 CBS added a 2 hour news show. Fortunately, ABC picked up CBS's slack as my favorite Saturday Morning Network. The first two seasons were great, but then Doug left in 1999 and all of the cool filler segments left the next year. However, I did enjoy watching "The Weekenders" which debuted in early 2000. I stopped watching the ABC block in the fall of 2001, when all of the Disney Channel Shows and "Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action" showed up on the schedule.
Born June 29 1984. I was blessed with so many Saturday morning blocks. Of course The Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles! I also remember sonic and friends, adventures of whining the pooh, a pup named schooby doo! Ghostbusters! The list goes on Lol
@@CinephileStudios I agree Saturday Mornings should be full of cartoons back in the late 80's when I grew up The Global Television Network up here in Canada had Saturday Morning Cartoons untill noon
@@unholyshaman9211 Sinclair Broadcast Group tried to bring back Saturday Morning cartoons by airing KidsClick in July 2017 on various Sinclair-owned CW, FOX, and MyNetworkTV affiliates. Sadly, it was discontinued in March 2019 without notice. Read more about it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KidsClick
i remember months ago that cartoon network was trying to bring it back and air their current shows on Saturdays. i know this because they had this weird commercial where they would "interrupt" and say " meanwhile on cartoon network!" i don't know if they're still doing this currently though. ( regarding the Saturday morning cartoons)
Justin Hill Part of why it was discontinued was because it didn’t meet any of the guidelines in the Children’s Television Act. Btw, I actually didn’t know it was still in effect but for sure, it’s dead.
Disney's One Saturday Morning was originally scheduled to debut the Saturday prior on September 6, 1997; however, its premiere was pushed back to September 13, one week due to ABC News' coverage of the funeral of Princess Diana (a news event which also resulted in CBS, NBC and Fox pre-empting their children's program blocks that day).
@@bradyanderson6311Like it or not, more things used to be considered "breaking news" which would interrupt regularly scheduled programming on network TV. The OJ Simpson chase broke during the Knicks/Rockets NBA Finals.
O.S.M. was the BEST!!!! I was the Mom, but I loved it. I still miss it. I miss my childhood saturdays too. The weekend special (the after school special), Schoolhouse Rock! That's when the TV really knew how to raise kids right. lol
I was a teenage but I grew up through the 80s and 90s even in the 2000s it was a way better time ,,, it was sad that Saturday morning cartoons stop being made …..whoever remembered these moments you had a awesome childhood
We also grew up, kids from the 90s, making the interest in Saturday morning cartoons dwindle. When our teen interests were more on MySpace and browsing the internet.
My boyfriend and I have super nostalgic moments where we like to watch Saturday morning cartoons we grew up watching. One Saturday Morning vids on TH-cam are some of our faves. I remember it from the beginning. Good times.
Before we had TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Cell Phones. We had Saturday Morning Cartoons and social interaction. The best era of all time! I remember this very well.
I didn't have Disney Channel until summer 2004, because it was a premium channel where I lived. We moved and I finally had access to it! But until then, One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids was my jam! That was the only way we could all watch our beloved Disney Channel shows. And I still remember that One Saturday Morning intro song like it was yesterday ^^
Man now I remember TGIF and my folks orderng pizza for us on Friday nights to watch Family Matters, Step by Step, Dinosaurs, and Hanging with Mr Cooper.
I remember how ABC was heavily promoting this block for several weeks before it debuted on Saturday, September 13, 1997. It even had a special sneak preview show the night before it debuted. When I finally saw it, I was hooked into it and would watch it regularly until around 2002 or 2003 after it became ABC Kids. I remember how different it was from the previous Saturday morning block it replaced. Gone were shows like ABC Weekend Special and Nightmare Ned, whose lead character's voice actor went on to voice Gus from "Recess." Wonderful times!
🙋🏾♀️ *I'm a abc kids saturday morning kid, I always wondered what happened. In my opinion it doesn't need to come back. The 2000s was the last great decade for teen sitcoms & cartoons.*
I loved Doug when I was a youngin and when I found out he went to ABC Saturday mornings I was so excited. That’s where i found recess. I don’t really remember any other shows but Doug and Recess. I still remember the jingle so clear in my head. oNe Saturday morning. Also I remember Dougs voice was different and the cartoon had a different vibe to it but still good.
I started watching ABC more because of Disney’s acquisition of Power Rangers myself. Prior to that I only flicked over to the channel on very rare occasions because I was really caught up in Fox Kids. However I also became a huge fan of shows like Recess, Kim Possible, and Fillmore. You did a very good job on this Retrospective. I respect that you aren’t a PR fan. Definitely have lots of good memories of ABC Saturday morning!
Man you spoke all Facts on this video, I’ve watched the EXACT thing unfold like you said throughout the years, like One Saturday Morning turned into ABC Kids, and Power Rangers was the ONLY show that got the seasons and episodes updated, wow such memories thank you
I really adored the ABC kids block as a kid, I also didn't have cable when I was a kid so I was incredibly excited to ACTUALLY have popular shows to watch after PBS switched to news and every other channel was soap operas and shopping channels.
I miss One Saturday morning so much! Definitely TGIF was my Friday night into One Saturday morning. I tried looking recently and don’t really see any Saturday morning cartoons. Anyone remember the Weekenders from One Saturday morning?
Love this retrospective. One Saturday Morning/ABC Kids was my favorite block as a kid. Funny enough since you made this video, there have been fan-made/bootleg hour long+ blocks of cartoon with commercials and bumpers spliced in giving it the entire nostalgic experience.
I hated it when they added the live action disney shows. And I still hate them today. I remember the first phase of 1 saturday morning And I still miss the hell out of it to this very day
Rewatch them they're really not that good. I rewatched a few of them today Doug and PepperAnn Sucked Recess too and yeah right you're still upset because Manny the Uncanny isn't on anymore. One Saturday Morning obviously thought it was the best thing ever and tricked everyone into thinking the same even now nobody can say anything bad about it, it's five hours of a waste of time I always got in trouble for watching TV because I was watching this. Too bad there were only three actual shows and the rest was filler. The only good one was Winnie the Pooh and that doesn't count because it wasn't part of the One Saturday Morning block and it has been on since the 80's Mrs Mungers class was fine I guess as was Centerville
(To be honest, even if I didn't watch the blocks, I actually prefer The Disney Afternoon's cartoons over One Saturday Morning's cartoons. My only favorites from One Saturday Morning were The New Adventure of Winnie the Pooh, Recess and Mickey Mouse Works. I mostly prefer the other block's cartoons like DuckTales, Bonkers, TaleSpin and Shnookums and Meat.)
Streaming ruined the Saturday Morning Cartoons era, but if you think about it, it's better this way. We can watch our favorite shows anything, anytime, anywhere. I love that.
@@jozars.2655 You and Me both as I said before the FCC should have left the Saturday morning cartoon block alone Kids were being taught in School Monday though Friday let them have Saturday Mornings to goof off and watch Cartoons
Streaming didn't ruin Saturday Morning Cartoons. They were fizzling out some 30-35 years ago. The owned and operated network stations had to carry their entire lineup but their affiliates didn't. The network affiliates would preempt some or all of the networks program because the networks didn't pay the affiliates for the advertising time.
Many thanks for this one! Not only did you put into words what so many of us felt, but you also answered many questions I've had. Like you, I noticed how things started repeating, and repeating. Yet every year I kept hoping that new shows would appear. Then suddenly it was all gone!
This is the best video ever. I have enjoyed "One Saturday Morning" in it's early days. I'd watched "One Saturday Morning" from early-mid 1998 to early 1999. I stopped watching it because I knew some changes on the block is yet to come. I have lived with 90's nostalgia throughout my life. I was born in mid 1995 and I was living in the 90's phase of life.
@@CinephileStudios I actually quite liked Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action, my sister was big into the Olsen twins so I ended up getting into them as well, unfortunately In Action has several episodes missing online, that's one of those pieces of lost media i'd love to see turn up, i'm still kicking myself for not recording that show when it aired back then.
Thank you for this. I miss Disneys ones Saturday morning. And Disney is gonna make a graphic novel for the block coming out may 2023 for the 25 anniversary and also a album
I was in high school in the early days of it airing and I loved it. I remember the hosts. It's an absolute shame that the version I knew ended so quickly.
I actually caught the tail end of OSM and One-Too in '00-'01 during my senior year of high school. Had a pretty chill teacher in the morning and caught some of this on a local ABC affiliate during slow mornings. Kind of weird looking back and not knowing I was watching the twilight years of Saturday Morning blocks.😢
I remember both One Saturday Morning and ABC kids. I loved both honestly. I remember being four and watching One Saturday Morning and then later watching ABC kids at my dad's like at 7, 8 and 9 years old. Such good times, i miss it 😩
I remember being in the 5th grade when 1 Saturday Morning first came out. Us kids would to talk about The New Doug, Recess, and Pepperann during class. Well we can catch some of these shows on Disney+ now.
Disney channel was a premium part of cable that you had to pay for back in the day and i watched these shows on ABC Saturdays instead. The nastalgia that these bring. I still watch Disney channel in my 30s today. I miss these shows and wish Disney plus would air them all and not just a select popular few.
I loved this block. I got up every week at 6:30 during my middle and high school years to watch it. One Two kind of ruined it. The acquisition of Power Rangers ruined Toon Disney by turning it into the Power Rangers Network. Literally EVERY GENERATION of Power Rangers was aired on that network EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Not sure if One Two contributed to the downfall of 1SM. UPN did not run kids programming outside Sundays and Fox Kids and Kids WB were ahead of UPN, so by the time One Too ran on UPN it was too late. Plus Disney Afternoon was gone.
@@Superlad945 Eh CW isn't as good as WB as they got rid of all of their comedy and we stopped seeing more down-to-earth dramas like One Tree Hill and Everwood and everything had to be high-fantasy or sci-fi or action and I just didn't care for it.
@@Superlad945 that's actually false, One Tree Hill, Everwood, One on One, Everybody Hates Chris, Reba, Girlfriends and The Game were all getting good ratings. In the case of the black shows getting canned I think it was definitely due to racism(WB used the WGA strike as a convenient excuse to kill off Girlfriends and it's entire comedy department)the lack of comedies really hurt the CW as comedies were what made The WB popular to begin with and it felt disrespectful for them to shutter an entire department seemingly as a temper-tantrum over a writers strike.
I'm older than you (1988) and watched One Saturday Morning almost religiously. I loved Recess, Doug, and Pepperann. Doug and Recess are on Disney+ now and I am strongly considering a rewatch. Thank you for including some of the theme song too
When I first began working in Broadcasting at KMIZ, part of my shift was Disney's One Saturday Mornings/ABC Kids. Worked it from 2001 to 2004. I left the ABC station in '04 to work for WOWT, a NBC station in another market. The Proud Family was the only cartoon I liked. Didn't care for anything else in the block. Was glad I put in commercial content into the video server during that time. My ABC station carried the Power Rangers, but KETV 7 in my new market declined to air it.
You missed out. I was around for the beginning of One Saturday Morning. My family watched TGIF every Friday, so when OSM was announced, we saw the ads on TGIF. Great time, lots of fond memories. For a time, id wake up, go to basketball games if I had them, come home, watch TV, go play with friends. Or wake up, watch TV, rent a video game, play with friends. It's a shame kids won't get to enjoy it
Please note that September 2006 was a struggling time for Toon Disney and ABC. Jetix filled up Toon's schedule (after being dropped by ABC Family as the network was changing its look) and ABC Kids had no programming ideas anymore, except for Power Rangers. These two blocks failed by then and would be both replaced by Disney XD (in 2009) and Disney Channel's Toonin Saturday Mornings (in 2011). This can also be due to Disney being more focused with other things at the time, like Cars (the second Pixar movie to be released in the summertime, behind Finding Nemo, and the last distributed by Disney) and Phineas and Ferb (which became popular on Disney Channel), as well as trading Oswald back from NBCUniversal for a sports program. Also. At 2:44, Warner Bros ended their contract with ABC, alongside Nickelodeon, because the shorts were doing very well on Cartoon Network.
For those that remember, PBS Kids did a simple thing to promote kids to watch TV on the weekends. From 2000 to 2004, PBS had created a logo called PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch. Unlike other shows on PBS, other shows were made from Canada and were only available on Saturdays and Sundays. During those 3 hours of television, there were only 6 shows including Corduroy, Elliot Moose, Timothy Goes to School, Seven Little Monsters, George Shrinks, and Marvin the Tap Dancing Horse. It was another great way for kids to keep busy when they don’t have school. However like One Saturday Morning, Bookworm Bunch had slowly declined and the program stopped in 2004. However, only a few shows from the Bookworm Bunch ran reruns on Qubo for a while. Luckily I enjoyed those shows growing up and now those shows are found on TH-cam.
If I was a adult back in 2002 instead of a young child, I would have convinced Disney to start a venture with Fox called "One Saturday Morning Networks" and turn Fox Family and Toon Disney into the One Saturday Morning and One Too channels, respectively. That way, we would have enjoyed "24 hours of summer, 7 days a week" and have Digimon, Donkey Kong Country, Sabrina and Pepper Ann and on the same stations instead of go through that terrible ABC Kids/ABC Family fiasco. How cool would have THAT idea been back then? (If you agree with me, be sure to give this comment a like. I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.)
As a child in the early 90s, I would usually catch the tail end of this block since I usually saw Fox Kids & KidsWB. I remember sometimes watching episodes of recess & pepper ann, when there was nothing to watch on those blocks. I usually saw new adventures of winnie the pooh & science court. As someone who grew up w/out cable, I also liked ABC Kids. Thankfully, most of these shows are on disney plus
I remembered One Saturday Morning, DiscoverKids, Kids WB, and Fox Kids. Fox Kids would carry me through the week after school, and One Saturday Morning is the main event with Kids WB later on in the afternoon.
i loved one Saturday morning, that opening gives me the chills,i used to watch it for Doug ,pepper ann and the looney toons show before heading off to the library. i remember there was the Disney comic books too
Going through all these old things just helps my depression.. nothing really seems to help but watching all my old tv shows and remember all the old good times.. a time when i was happy.
The issue can be boiled down to three specific areas: 1. The E/I mandate: TV stations had to provide educational and instructional programming three hours weekly. That, along with Saturday sports telecasts, pushed Saturday morning schedules to 3 hours. ABC's Noon hour (which was Power Rangers) would get pre-empted for sports. 2. Each network owned or partnered with a kids cable channel. ABC had Disney Channel, CBS and UPN had Nickelodeon, Fox had Fox Family, NBC partnered with Discovery Channel, and The WB had Cartoon Network. All those cable channels were exempt from E/I requirements. 3. The US government was cracking down on commercials aimed at children for broadcast networks. It made producing entertaining kids programming prohibitive on broadcast, but, it was exempt from cable. Thus, why the major networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) now air morning news with educational programming aimed at teenagers. To make money. Now, with streaming, there's no need for a Saturday morning block. It can be Saturday any day.
Instead of Disney's One Saturday Morning, I watched TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) on Saturday mornings as a religious kid. The block was Kids' Club. All the series I watched on the block should be currently or still be broadcast on Smile.
Some great shows then on this and Fox Kids are Hey Arnold, Doug, Darkwing Duck, Spider-Man, X-Men, Pepper Ann, Recess, Animaniacs, Tazmania, Pinky and The Brain.
4:00 There was an interesting story about Robin Williams reprising as the Genie on 1 Saturday Morning. After "Retun of Jafar", Robin made a stipulation of not providing his voice for any other promotion unless it was educational. In return, he came back to voice Genie in "Aladdin and the King of Thieves". 11:19 That showed up on 2 networks CW and ABC.
At the decline of ABC Kids - about 2006, the ABC affiliate in my area had split the block in two days. All the live action episodes were aired on Saturday and cartoons were done on Sunday, when most kids were at church.
One thing you didn't touch on was, in the early days of One Saturday Morning, the 22-minute shows were slotted into 40-minute timeslots instead of the usual 30 minutes. This caused shows to start and end at odd times; such as 9:40AM -10:20AM (The extra ten minutes were filled with various host segments, fillers, and shorts.) This incentivized kids to stay with ABC for the entire two hour programming block instead of channel hopping, as any other program would be half over.
i started watching One Saturday Morning when Genie was the host. It was the best set of saturday morning cartoons for Recess alone lol. "Great minds think alike. NO. Great minds think for themselves" I'll never forget Genie/Robin saying that every Saturday morning
Thank you so much for this, man. One Saturday Morning is one of my favorite childhood memories. So many people have forgotten about it, but I mostly didn’t have cable growing up, so I used to get so excited for Saturday morning cartoons 😭💜
Well truthfully ABC kids was the death of ABC because people loved one Saturday morning way more because it had a better line up of great cartoons and they ruined it for alot of people all abc kids did was copy and paste other shows like you said from Disney channel and show re runs it's like WTF seriously one Saturday morning was my childhood and when I found out that it was leaving and being replaced with ABC kids it broke my heart so from a stand point you have to understand for some people it killed ABC watching for them
brice brinson I agree! I LOVED One Saturday Morning and their shows were the best, especially Recess!!! However I did like the reruns of the Disney Channel shows being featured on ABC because I never had cable tv growing up and it gave me some insight on what kids were watching and returning to school on Monday talking about the shows they watched over the weekend on cable.
LadyL31786 yeah and I don't mind watching reruns either I did watch ABC kids for awhile back than and that's mainly because they did keep recess even after one Saturday morning was gone so I'm glad they kept it around to rerun it it is one of my favorite Disney shows
Screwed by the Network: The switch from One Saturday Morning to ABC Kids ended up getting every show on the block that wasn't originally on Disney Channel canceled, with the exceptions of Fillmore!, which was announced for OSM but ended up on ABC Kids, any of the Disney-era Power Rangers series, and Recess (for being one of the most popular shows on OSM). Some shows were lucky to air newer episodes on Toon Disney.
I miss the good ole days... the 90s and early 2000s were simply THE best.
100% agree
One Saturday
Hear, hear.
Can't believe we are already entering the 'back in my day' age for millennials
@@destinymace Ikr
I miss One Saturday Morning so much. It was so much of my childhood. Thank you for doing this.
90s KIDS FOREVER!!!
This is awesome... I was the promo voiceover guy for OSM from 1997-1999, also was the voice of Spot/Scott (taking over from Nathan Lane) in “Teacher’s Pet”. Thanks for the memories!
Wow really?? That’s so cool! Any neat stories during your time doing voiceover at Disney??
You did a damn good job, as a kid I had no idea Spot had a different VA in some episodes.
@@CinephileStudios I'm with you on ABC Kids being a great block, as someone who could only catch cable shows when me and my mom visited my grandmother once a week it was a great way for me to catch up with Disney Channel shows, and interestingly enough the Even Stevens episode Sibling Rivalry actually premiered on ABC Kids before it aired on Disney Channel.
@@jadedheartsz Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
I grew up without cable so this was my Saturday I am sad it's gone was a great show block 😖
My family had cable but I love these blocks I'm not sure if WC and FOX still have these Saturday morning cartoons
@@A2goddess nah Fox Kids got cut loose in 2002. Sad.
Sometimes I feel spoiled that I've had all these nice things my whole life.
Same. I remember this well. I loved Pepper Ann, Recess, Doug.
@@BlackReign574 Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
I have great nostalgia for One Saturday Morning. I never wanted to miss the opening with all the wild imaginative machinery going on. The clubhouse looked like a circus & I loved the in-between bits.
Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
I watched both this and Kids WB back in the 90s. What I wouldn't do to relive those days.
Omg, agreed!
@@DoodleThis they were partial before they died.
@@DoodleThis Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
I love that you acknowledged The Little Mermaid VHS that promoted One Saturday Morning. I remember watching that.
It was also on the Lady and the Tramp VHS.
There was one on Inspector Gadget too.
Knobbus Slobbus II Gadget's Greatest Gadgets?
Jordan Wright No, the live action movie. Don't know how I remember that.
same here
As one of the creators of the one Saturday morning brand during my time at Disney Channel I really appreciate your analysis.
I seem to be the only person who recalls One Saturday Morning, and Pepper Ann by extent. Recess, Buzz Lightyear, Teachers Pet and Lloyd in Space were relatively popular, but nobody remembers Pepper Ann at all. Mrs Mungers Class I know got canned because of a lawsuit from the lady herself. Sad seeing what happened to OSM, I have fond memories of their original programming. Someday we'll see it on DVD, and Filmore too, that show was the shit.
MostVerticalPrimate MK II cross our fingers one day Disney will finally give us HD quality versions of Fillmore, pepper ann, recess maybe with the new streaming service it'll happen.
Pepper Ann was my favorite!
I Know this is years old....
But I named my dog pepper Ann lol
Lived 14 good years
I remember watching these shows and after these shows I play myst uru or go to my grandparents house.
@@ohyesitsyouagain Same for me
I was born in 1986 so I remember a lot about 90's Saturday Morning Cartoons. I watched mostly CBS on Saturdays until the fall of 1997. I enjoyed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Garfield the most on CBS. Disney produced a lot of CBS's cartoons until ABC bought Disney in 1996. That was the beginning of the end for Saturday Morning Cartoons on CBS and in the fall of 1997 CBS added a 2 hour news show. Fortunately, ABC picked up CBS's slack as my favorite Saturday Morning Network. The first two seasons were great, but then Doug left in 1999 and all of the cool filler segments left the next year. However, I did enjoy watching "The Weekenders" which debuted in early 2000. I stopped watching the ABC block in the fall of 2001, when all of the Disney Channel Shows and "Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action" showed up on the schedule.
Born June 29 1984. I was blessed with so many Saturday morning blocks. Of course The Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles! I also remember sonic and friends, adventures of whining the pooh, a pup named schooby doo! Ghostbusters! The list goes on Lol
Born in 77 I watched even though I was in college 😂😅
Same, like... every word you wrote. Same.
Born in April 1985
@@QueenViolet8 Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
You forgot Sabrina the Animated Series cause the show also aired on Disney's 1 Saturday morning on ABC as well
Eh true, I forgot a couple in fact :/
@@CinephileStudios I agree Saturday Mornings should be full of cartoons back in the late 80's when I grew up The Global Television Network up here in Canada had Saturday Morning Cartoons untill noon
I wish Saturday morning cartoons would come back
They never will.
@@unholyshaman9211 Sinclair Broadcast Group tried to bring back Saturday Morning cartoons by airing KidsClick in July 2017 on various Sinclair-owned CW, FOX, and MyNetworkTV affiliates. Sadly, it was discontinued in March 2019 without notice.
Read more about it here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KidsClick
i remember months ago that cartoon network was trying to bring it back and air their current shows on Saturdays. i know this because they had this weird commercial where they would "interrupt" and say " meanwhile on cartoon network!" i don't know if they're still doing this currently though. ( regarding the Saturday morning cartoons)
Justin Hill Part of why it was discontinued was because it didn’t meet any of the guidelines in the Children’s Television Act. Btw, I actually didn’t know it was still in effect but for sure, it’s dead.
Justin Hill I’m looking at the programming and can see why. Miraculous? Pac-Man?
Speaking as a young adult at the time, I found Recess to be very fun.
“An Illuminating Television!” *Lightbulb Rocketship takes off.*
Disney's One Saturday Morning was originally scheduled to debut the Saturday prior on September 6, 1997; however, its premiere was pushed back to September 13, one week due to ABC News' coverage of the funeral of Princess Diana (a news event which also resulted in CBS, NBC and Fox pre-empting their children's program blocks that day).
By "pushed back", I assume you meant "delayed".
@@TheInkPitOxthat funeral could've been on C-SPAN or CNN or however you prefer.
@@bradyanderson6311Like it or not, more things used to be considered "breaking news" which would interrupt regularly scheduled programming on network TV. The OJ Simpson chase broke during the Knicks/Rockets NBA Finals.
@@fromthehaven94 that was upsetting in ways, and Nick News Brief still hasn't been planned.
I remember that broke into the series finale of Hangin with Mr Cooper.
25 years ago today Disney's One Saturday Morning made its debut!
@rhyancoleman6462 I have the Disney 1One Saturday Morning soundtrack cassette!
@@SuperMarioBrosIII Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
@@EddieKyteABCDEFG12345678910 Yes I do!🤗👍🙏🧸
I didn't have cable so this is how I got Lizzie , Raven, and all the cartoons 😭
I'm convinced the 90s were the best decade ever. Everything was better in that decade.
You are not wrong.
Blake Anderson over here 😂 but agreed
Absolutely! I am SO glad I was a 90's kid. That decade was made for kids!
O.S.M. was the BEST!!!! I was the Mom, but I loved it. I still miss it. I miss my childhood saturdays too. The weekend special (the after school special), Schoolhouse Rock! That's when the TV really knew how to raise kids right. lol
Right? Now the parents have to do all the work! :(
Schoolhouse rock was meh
5 hours of summer, once a week. That's all we needed.
I was a teenage but I grew up through the 80s and 90s even in the 2000s it was a way better time ,,, it was sad that Saturday morning cartoons stop being made …..whoever remembered these moments you had a awesome childhood
We also grew up, kids from the 90s, making the interest in Saturday morning cartoons dwindle. When our teen interests were more on MySpace and browsing the internet.
I randomly remembered this and thought I'd look up ABC's one Saturday morning
My boyfriend and I have super nostalgic moments where we like to watch Saturday morning cartoons we grew up watching. One Saturday Morning vids on TH-cam are some of our faves. I remember it from the beginning. Good times.
Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
OMG memories!!! New supporter
Before we had TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Cell Phones. We had Saturday Morning Cartoons and social interaction. The best era of all time! I remember this very well.
I love one Saturday morning, I didn’t have cable and my favorite shows were pepperann and recess and other shows
I didn't have Disney Channel until summer 2004, because it was a premium channel where I lived. We moved and I finally had access to it! But until then, One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids was my jam! That was the only way we could all watch our beloved Disney Channel shows. And I still remember that One Saturday Morning intro song like it was yesterday ^^
Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
TGIF on Friday nights coupled with one Saturday morning cartoons was amazing! I'm not even sure what this crap is they show on Saturday mornings now.
Man now I remember TGIF and my folks orderng pizza for us on Friday nights to watch Family Matters, Step by Step, Dinosaurs, and Hanging with Mr Cooper.
Yes! TGIF and ABC Saturday Mornings will always be my childhood.
@@wturner777Same for me!
I remember how ABC was heavily promoting this block for several weeks before it debuted on Saturday, September 13, 1997. It even had a special sneak preview show the night before it debuted. When I finally saw it, I was hooked into it and would watch it regularly until around 2002 or 2003 after it became ABC Kids. I remember how different it was from the previous Saturday morning block it replaced. Gone were shows like ABC Weekend Special and Nightmare Ned, whose lead character's voice actor went on to voice Gus from "Recess." Wonderful times!
Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
@@EddieKyteABCDEFG12345678910 Yes, very much. I think it came out at around 11 AM Central Time.
It was supposed to start a week before but that was when Princess Diana’s funeral pre-empted it.
@@kgoundan Thanks for agreeing with me.
Dope presentation. You definitely hit the nail on the head with this by driving the point home. Kudos!
🙋🏾♀️ *I'm a abc kids saturday morning kid, I always wondered what happened. In my opinion it doesn't need to come back. The 2000s was the last great decade for teen sitcoms & cartoons.*
Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
How is something so professional and well made getting barely over 100 views? More should be watching your content.
At least it expanded to almost 5k now. Congratulations!!!
I loved Doug when I was a youngin and when I found out he went to ABC Saturday mornings I was so excited. That’s where i found recess. I don’t really remember any other shows but Doug and Recess. I still remember the jingle so clear in my head. oNe Saturday morning. Also I remember Dougs voice was different and the cartoon had a different vibe to it but still good.
I started watching ABC more because of Disney’s acquisition of Power Rangers myself. Prior to that I only flicked over to the channel on very rare occasions because I was really caught up in Fox Kids. However I also became a huge fan of shows like Recess, Kim Possible, and Fillmore. You did a very good job on this Retrospective. I respect that you aren’t a PR fan. Definitely have lots of good memories of ABC Saturday morning!
watching this 5 years later. I can't find the website anymore. I think they killed it.
One of THEE best deep dives, one close to my heart as a 90’s baby, excellent work
I agree with you 100% I'm really surprised that Disney hasn't capitalize on it yet, I'm still waiting for my recess and pepper and T-shirts.
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Man you spoke all Facts on this video, I’ve watched the EXACT thing unfold like you said throughout the years, like One Saturday Morning turned into ABC Kids, and Power Rangers was the ONLY show that got the seasons and episodes updated, wow such memories thank you
That double-crossed it.
I was 9 when this block started, so I was able to thoroughly enjoy it. Recess and Pepper Ann were my favorites.
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I really adored the ABC kids block as a kid, I also didn't have cable when I was a kid so I was incredibly excited to ACTUALLY have popular shows to watch after PBS switched to news and every other channel was soap operas and shopping channels.
I still remember most of these shows. I mostly watched Power Rangers, up to the first half or so of Dino Thunder in 2004.
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I miss One Saturday morning so much! Definitely TGIF was my Friday night into One Saturday morning. I tried looking recently and don’t really see any Saturday morning cartoons. Anyone remember the Weekenders from One Saturday morning?
Love this retrospective. One Saturday Morning/ABC Kids was my favorite block as a kid. Funny enough since you made this video, there have been fan-made/bootleg hour long+ blocks of cartoon with commercials and bumpers spliced in giving it the entire nostalgic experience.
I hated it when they added the live action disney shows. And I still hate them today. I remember the first phase of 1 saturday morning And I still miss the hell out of it to this very day
excellent video BTW
Rewatch them they're really not that good. I rewatched a few of them today Doug and PepperAnn Sucked Recess too and yeah right you're still upset because Manny the Uncanny isn't on anymore. One Saturday Morning obviously thought it was the best thing ever and tricked everyone into thinking the same even now nobody can say anything bad about it, it's five hours of a waste of time I always got in trouble for watching TV because I was watching this. Too bad there were only three actual shows and the rest was filler. The only good one was Winnie the Pooh and that doesn't count because it wasn't part of the One Saturday Morning block and it has been on since the 80's Mrs Mungers class was fine I guess as was Centerville
@@emmaelson6770 Got stuck with The Disney Afternoon during your time, ey?
(To be honest, even if I didn't watch the blocks, I actually prefer The Disney Afternoon's cartoons over One Saturday Morning's cartoons. My only favorites from One Saturday Morning were The New Adventure of Winnie the Pooh, Recess and Mickey Mouse Works. I mostly prefer the other block's cartoons like DuckTales, Bonkers, TaleSpin and Shnookums and Meat.)
@@kooarchived The last show you mentioned was terrible
I miss one saturday morning I wished I had a time machine so I could relive the 90s
FACTS
Streaming ruined the Saturday Morning Cartoons era, but if you think about it, it's better this way. We can watch our favorite shows anything, anytime, anywhere. I love that.
@@jozars.2655 You and Me both as I said before the FCC should have left the Saturday morning cartoon block alone Kids were being taught in School Monday though Friday let them have Saturday Mornings to goof off and watch Cartoons
Streaming didn't ruin Saturday Morning Cartoons. They were fizzling out some 30-35 years ago. The owned and operated network stations had to carry their entire lineup but their affiliates didn't. The network affiliates would preempt some or all of the networks program because the networks didn't pay the affiliates for the advertising time.
i watched OSM every saturday growing up. so this is rad.
Your childhood must of sucked
@@jmwloup5110 I too thought it can't die.
I watched it, too. Out of all the big networks, I liked ABC's lineup the most, especially the pre-OSM.
Many thanks for this one! Not only did you put into words what so many of us felt, but you also answered many questions I've had. Like you, I noticed how things started repeating, and repeating. Yet every year I kept hoping that new shows would appear. Then suddenly it was all gone!
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This is the best video ever. I have enjoyed "One Saturday Morning" in it's early days. I'd watched "One Saturday Morning" from early-mid 1998 to early 1999. I stopped watching it because I knew some changes on the block is yet to come. I have lived with 90's nostalgia throughout my life. I was born in mid 1995 and I was living in the 90's phase of life.
You did such a great job on this!!! I miss my childhood so much I'm crying lol.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed!
@@CinephileStudios I actually quite liked Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action, my sister was big into the Olsen twins so I ended up getting into them as well, unfortunately In Action has several episodes missing online, that's one of those pieces of lost media i'd love to see turn up, i'm still kicking myself for not recording that show when it aired back then.
@@CinephileStudios Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
Thank you for this. I miss Disneys ones Saturday morning. And Disney is gonna make a graphic novel for the block coming out may 2023 for the 25 anniversary and also a album
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I was in high school in the early days of it airing and I loved it. I remember the hosts. It's an absolute shame that the version I knew ended so quickly.
I actually caught the tail end of OSM and One-Too in '00-'01 during my senior year of high school. Had a pretty chill teacher in the morning and caught some of this on a local ABC affiliate during slow mornings. Kind of weird looking back and not knowing I was watching the twilight years of Saturday Morning blocks.😢
Such nostalgia, miss the good ole days of good cartoon t.v., the best of no cable starter pack
I remember both One Saturday Morning and ABC kids. I loved both honestly. I remember being four and watching One Saturday Morning and then later watching ABC kids at my dad's like at 7, 8 and 9 years old. Such good times, i miss it 😩
One Saturday Morning made its debut when I was 10. I've always been a fan of ABC's lineup.
@@wturner777 Do you remember The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh?
Recess has some deep jokes that most people wouldn't get but are extremely funny if you know your history.
I remember being in the 5th grade when 1 Saturday Morning first came out. Us kids would to talk about The New Doug, Recess, and Pepperann during class. Well we can catch some of these shows on Disney+ now.
I wish my class did the same
@@SportsFan-vq9kk Disney+ still doesn't have Jungle Cubs.
You reminded me of some of the shows that I forgot I used to watch! Great video, you brought back some good memories!
Thanks for watching!
Disney channel was a premium part of cable that you had to pay for back in the day and i watched these shows on ABC Saturdays instead. The nastalgia that these bring. I still watch Disney channel in my 30s today. I miss these shows and wish Disney plus would air them all and not just a select popular few.
I loved this block. I got up every week at 6:30 during my middle and high school years to watch it. One Two kind of ruined it. The acquisition of Power Rangers ruined Toon Disney by turning it into the Power Rangers Network. Literally EVERY GENERATION of Power Rangers was aired on that network EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Not sure if One Two contributed to the downfall of 1SM. UPN did not run kids programming outside Sundays and Fox Kids and Kids WB were ahead of UPN, so by the time One Too ran on UPN it was too late. Plus Disney Afternoon was gone.
@@PlayaPotna1984 One Two sucked.
@@TheInkPitOx "One Too".
@@Superlad945 Eh CW isn't as good as WB as they got rid of all of their comedy and we stopped seeing more down-to-earth dramas like One Tree Hill and Everwood and everything had to be high-fantasy or sci-fi or action and I just didn't care for it.
@@Superlad945 that's actually false, One Tree Hill, Everwood, One on One, Everybody Hates Chris, Reba, Girlfriends and The Game were all getting good ratings. In the case of the black shows getting canned I think it was definitely due to racism(WB used the WGA strike as a convenient excuse to kill off Girlfriends and it's entire comedy department)the lack of comedies really hurt the CW as comedies were what made The WB popular to begin with and it felt disrespectful for them to shutter an entire department seemingly as a temper-tantrum over a writers strike.
I'm older than you (1988) and watched One Saturday Morning almost religiously. I loved Recess, Doug, and Pepperann. Doug and Recess are on Disney+ now and I am strongly considering a rewatch. Thank you for including some of the theme song too
Maaaan! Some of the best times of my life was being a kid glued to the TV on a Saturday monring. Great video - thanks for the walk down memory lane!
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@EddieKyteABCDEFG12345678910 I do! I wad a big fan actually. Vivid memories watching it in my basement
@@BenSliwa That's Tigger-rific!
When I first began working in Broadcasting at KMIZ, part of my shift was Disney's One Saturday Mornings/ABC Kids. Worked it from 2001 to 2004. I left the ABC station in '04 to work for WOWT, a NBC station in another market. The Proud Family was the only cartoon I liked. Didn't care for anything else in the block. Was glad I put in commercial content into the video server during that time. My ABC station carried the Power Rangers, but KETV 7 in my new market declined to air it.
You missed out. I was around for the beginning of One Saturday Morning. My family watched TGIF every Friday, so when OSM was announced, we saw the ads on TGIF. Great time, lots of fond memories. For a time, id wake up, go to basketball games if I had them, come home, watch TV, go play with friends. Or wake up, watch TV, rent a video game, play with friends. It's a shame kids won't get to enjoy it
I wish they comeback. It brings back a lot of memories.
Damn i didnt know they just kept showing the same 10 episodes at a certain point
I miss these days! My kids were STILL kids...now they're adults. Smh...time waits for no one! We watched together! Sweet memories
Please note that September 2006 was a struggling time for Toon Disney and ABC. Jetix filled up Toon's schedule (after being dropped by ABC Family as the network was changing its look) and ABC Kids had no programming ideas anymore, except for Power Rangers. These two blocks failed by then and would be both replaced by Disney XD (in 2009) and Disney Channel's Toonin Saturday Mornings (in 2011).
This can also be due to Disney being more focused with other things at the time, like Cars (the second Pixar movie to be released in the summertime, behind Finding Nemo, and the last distributed by Disney) and Phineas and Ferb (which became popular on Disney Channel), as well as trading Oswald back from NBCUniversal for a sports program.
Also. At 2:44, Warner Bros ended their contract with ABC, alongside Nickelodeon, because the shorts were doing very well on Cartoon Network.
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For those that remember, PBS Kids did a simple thing to promote kids to watch TV on the weekends. From 2000 to 2004, PBS had created a logo called PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch. Unlike other shows on PBS, other shows were made from Canada and were only available on Saturdays and Sundays. During those 3 hours of television, there were only 6 shows including Corduroy, Elliot Moose, Timothy Goes to School, Seven Little Monsters, George Shrinks, and Marvin the Tap Dancing Horse. It was another great way for kids to keep busy when they don’t have school. However like One Saturday Morning, Bookworm Bunch had slowly declined and the program stopped in 2004. However, only a few shows from the Bookworm Bunch ran reruns on Qubo for a while. Luckily I enjoyed those shows growing up and now those shows are found on TH-cam.
I enjoyed watching Bookworm Bunch. I used to watch it every Sunday Morning. Believe it or not, Arthur is also a Canadian/American show.
If I was a adult back in 2002 instead of a young child, I would have convinced Disney to start a venture with Fox called "One Saturday Morning Networks" and turn Fox Family and Toon Disney into the One Saturday Morning and One Too channels, respectively. That way, we would have enjoyed "24 hours of summer, 7 days a week" and have Digimon, Donkey Kong Country, Sabrina and Pepper Ann and on the same stations instead of go through that terrible ABC Kids/ABC Family fiasco. How cool would have THAT idea been back then? (If you agree with me, be sure to give this comment a like. I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.)
5 YEARS LATER, and even with the Disney+ launch.... still no Filmore! wtf!!
I miss Disney's one Saturday morning. It was such an enjoyable block.
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As a child in the early 90s, I would usually catch the tail end of this block since I usually saw Fox Kids & KidsWB. I remember sometimes watching episodes of recess & pepper ann, when there was nothing to watch on those blocks. I usually saw new adventures of winnie the pooh & science court. As someone who grew up w/out cable, I also liked ABC Kids. Thankfully, most of these shows are on disney plus
I remembered One Saturday Morning, DiscoverKids, Kids WB, and Fox Kids. Fox Kids would carry me through the week after school, and One Saturday Morning is the main event with Kids WB later on in the afternoon.
i loved one Saturday morning, that opening gives me the chills,i used to watch it for Doug ,pepper ann and the looney toons show before heading off to the library. i remember there was the Disney comic books too
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I loved one Saturday morning and Saturday mornings are still sacred to me as an adult person. I love that you did this topic thank you.
This was such a great blast to the past. Thanks for covering this!
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Saturday a big bowl of cereal and 1 Saturday morning..
Aaaww the good old days
Back them when we could watch cartoons and get motivated to play in the afternoon!! Kids today have no clue how much fun we had in the 90s
my absolute favorite part of the week back in the day. I miss the good times in life tv is absolutely shitty now.
@marianne mccrank back in my day
Going through all these old things just helps my depression.. nothing really seems to help but watching all my old tv shows and remember all the old good times.. a time when i was happy.
The issue can be boiled down to three specific areas:
1. The E/I mandate: TV stations had to provide educational and instructional programming three hours weekly. That, along with Saturday sports telecasts, pushed Saturday morning schedules to 3 hours. ABC's Noon hour (which was Power Rangers) would get pre-empted for sports.
2. Each network owned or partnered with a kids cable channel. ABC had Disney Channel, CBS and UPN had Nickelodeon, Fox had Fox Family, NBC partnered with Discovery Channel, and The WB had Cartoon Network. All those cable channels were exempt from E/I requirements.
3. The US government was cracking down on commercials aimed at children for broadcast networks. It made producing entertaining kids programming prohibitive on broadcast, but, it was exempt from cable. Thus, why the major networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) now air morning news with educational programming aimed at teenagers. To make money.
Now, with streaming, there's no need for a Saturday morning block. It can be Saturday any day.
I was 3 to 8 for One Saturday Morning. This is for my generation
Those were most definitely the golden years of Saturday morning cartoons
Nostalgia I miss one Saturday morning and Disney’s one too that used to be on channel 59 on my regular TV program.
Ahhh thank you so much for this the trip down nostalgia road. One Saturday Morning was a big part of my childhood.
I would buy any merchandise with one saturday morning on it greatest show ever
Thank you for posting and covering this. I Miss this Bunches... :)
Instead of Disney's One Saturday Morning, I watched TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) on Saturday mornings as a religious kid. The block was Kids' Club. All the series I watched on the block should be currently or still be broadcast on Smile.
Growing up with the 1 Saturday Morning programming block, this makes me so sad to see it go
Some great shows then on this and Fox Kids are Hey Arnold, Doug, Darkwing Duck, Spider-Man, X-Men, Pepper Ann, Recess, Animaniacs, Tazmania, Pinky and The Brain.
4:00 There was an interesting story about Robin Williams reprising as the Genie on 1 Saturday Morning. After "Retun of Jafar", Robin made a stipulation of not providing his voice for any other promotion unless it was educational. In return, he came back to voice Genie in "Aladdin and the King of Thieves".
11:19 That showed up on 2 networks CW and ABC.
At the decline of ABC Kids - about 2006, the ABC affiliate in my area had split the block in two days. All the live action episodes were aired on Saturday and cartoons were done on Sunday, when most kids were at church.
That messy kid block was terminated in 2011.
One thing you didn't touch on was, in the early days of One Saturday Morning, the 22-minute shows were slotted into 40-minute timeslots instead of the usual 30 minutes. This caused shows to start and end at odd times; such as 9:40AM -10:20AM (The extra ten minutes were filled with various host segments, fillers, and shorts.) This incentivized kids to stay with ABC for the entire two hour programming block instead of channel hopping, as any other program would be half over.
it was discussed. he just didnt say the exact number of minutes.
i started watching One Saturday Morning when Genie was the host. It was the best set of saturday morning cartoons for Recess alone lol.
"Great minds think alike. NO. Great minds think for themselves" I'll never forget Genie/Robin saying that every Saturday morning
Thank you so much for this, man. One Saturday Morning is one of my favorite childhood memories. So many people have forgotten about it, but I mostly didn’t have cable growing up, so I used to get so excited for Saturday morning cartoons 😭💜
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Well truthfully ABC kids was the death of ABC because people loved one Saturday morning way more because it had a better line up of great cartoons and they ruined it for alot of people all abc kids did was copy and paste other shows like you said from Disney channel and show re runs it's like WTF seriously one Saturday morning was my childhood and when I found out that it was leaving and being replaced with ABC kids it broke my heart so from a stand point you have to understand for some people it killed ABC watching for them
brice brinson I agree! I LOVED One Saturday Morning and their shows were the best, especially Recess!!! However I did like the reruns of the Disney Channel shows being featured on ABC because I never had cable tv growing up and it gave me some insight on what kids were watching and returning to school on Monday talking about the shows they watched over the weekend on cable.
LadyL31786 yeah and I don't mind watching reruns either I did watch ABC kids for awhile back than and that's mainly because they did keep recess even after one Saturday morning was gone so I'm glad they kept it around to rerun it it is one of my favorite Disney shows
IMO ABC Kids was better than One Saturday Morning
@@lightning13clair29 At Least we have Nickrewind
@@windowsme2327 yeah true that
Saturday Morning Cartoons will make a come back in 2021
Yes and No. As of 2023, Litton Entertainment is still at large on all the big networks except FOX. MeTV is airing cartoon classics though.
@@wturner777 Let's hope so
Screwed by the Network: The switch from One Saturday Morning to ABC Kids ended up getting every show on the block that wasn't originally on Disney Channel canceled, with the exceptions of Fillmore!, which was announced for OSM but ended up on ABC Kids, any of the Disney-era Power Rangers series, and Recess (for being one of the most popular shows on OSM). Some shows were lucky to air newer episodes on Toon Disney.
Power Rangers should've stayed on Fox.