You can search by subject, so of course "Aquaman" was one of the first things I plugged in. I got a ton of hits, but very few of them are anything other than TV listings. I waded through a couple of them, and was really struck by this one, from the 10/20/67 edition of the Maryland News: check out that Saturday morning line-up!
In addition to the Filmation Superman and Aquaman shows, you've got Spider-Man, Space Ghost, Atom Ant, The Beatles, King Kong, Jonny Quest, George of the Jungle, and more--all back-to-back-to-back!
This gave me warm, fuzzy memories of the similarly awesome line-up one of my local Philly stations, Channel 48, had going when I was a kid. Man, that was back when the phrase "Saturday Morning" really meant something...
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Gosh! Did American kids ever leave the house on such mornings? On this side of the pond and at that time, there was nothing like such a line-up.
I notice you didn't mention "Shazzan!" Is that because of your love/hate relationship with Capt. Marvel, or because it's not a typo and thus not who we all think it is? :)
Never mind... :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazzan
So Space Ghost and Birdman were on different channels? Huh. I'm trying to figure out how this worked: I always watched Birdman (and the Galaxy Trio!) and of course Superman/Aquaman, which would have meant changing the channel…and The Beatles, which would have meant changing the channel yet again. In fact, based on these listings and my recollections of what I watched, I would have needed to change channels every half hour! So much for network loyalty…
(Yes, I lived in Pennsylvania rather than Maryland, but the CBS/NBC/ABC lineups would have been the same regardless.)
I was there, too (touched on in my HEY, KIDS! piece,)
It was very cool.
-Craig
Haaaa--I had no network loyalty most of the time, though I remember watching a lot of ABC Saturday morning line-ups. Still, I never missed Aquaman, either in the 1 hour time slot or the later 30 minute version. I remember how excited I'd get when I saw those four stars and knew it would be a Teen Titans cartoon filler; those were the best! I miss those days when we watched cartoons all morning and American Bandstand in the afternoon.
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