The Harlem Globetrotters Cartoon

The Harlem Globetrotters was was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera from 1970-1972. The show featured cartoon versions of George "Meadowlark" Lemon, Freddie "Curly" Neal, Hubert "Geese" Ausbie, J.C. "Gip" Gipson, Bobby Joe Mason, and Pablo Robertson, alongside their fictional bus driver and manager Granny, and Dribbles, their dog mascot.

The series worked to a formula where the team travel somewhere and typically got involved in a local conflict that leads to one of the characters proposing a basketball game to settle the issue. To ensure the Globetrotters' defeat, the villains rig the contest to ensure that their opponents lose. However before the second half of the contest, the team always finds a way to even the odds, become all but invincible, and win the game.

Schoolhouse Rock! Electricity, Electricity

Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on ABC. Topics covered include grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and politics. The best of the series aired between 1972 and 1986.

Here is Electricity, Electricity from 1979!

Fisher-Price Toot Toot Engine

The Fisher-Price Toot Toot Engine is the fourth and final engine in a series of small wooden train engines that were made from 1959 to 1987. The engine had movable pistons and it makes a "chug-chug" sound when pulled.

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera from 1969-1971.

The show features Dick Dastardly and Muttley, the comic villains from Wacky Races, as World War I flying aces and members of the Vulture Squadron, a crew of aviators on a mission to stop a homing pigeon named Yankee Doodle Pigeon from delivering messages to the other side. Each half-hour episode typically features two stories, plus "Wing Dings" (short gags) and "Magnificent Muttley" (Muttley's Walter Mitty-style daydreams).

Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 was a video game console released in October 1977. It was typically bundled with two joystick controllers, a conjoined pair of paddle controllers, and a cartridge game—initially, Combat, and subsequently, Pac-Man.

My favorite games were River Raid, Pitfall Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.

1982 Atari Commercial


1983 Atari Commercial

Knots Landing

Knots Landing was a primetime television soap opera that aired from 1979-1993 on CBS. Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered around the lives of four married couples residing in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle.

The plots and the list of characters are far too long to list. All I know is that my mom and I were glued to the television every Thursday night! Which means I was addicted to a soap opera at the young age of 7!

1985 American Express Traveler's Checks Commercial

Here is a 1985 commercial for American Express Traveler's Checks featuring Karl Malden.

Don't leave home without them!

Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary

Henry Huggins was written by Beverly Cleary in 1950.

Nothing ever happens to Henry Huggins. Nothing, that is, until a stray dog named Ribsy comes into his life. Pretty soon, Henry and Ribsy are wreaking havoc on the city bus, getting a ride in a police car with sirens wailing, and winning a prize at the dog show. Thanks to their joint shenanigans, Henry finds himself covered in green paint one day, and later accidentally colors Ribsy's fur pale pink. One week, Henry catches earthworms for his fisherman neighbor to raise money for a borrowed ball Ribsy helped him lose. One football costs a lot of earthworms--1,395, to be exact. Plus 41 worms for tax. Life is no longer dull.

Schoolhouse Rock! Unpack Your Adjectives

Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on ABC. Topics covered include grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and politics. The best of the series aired between 1972 and 1986.

Here is Unpack Your Adjectives from 1975!

Fisher-Price Creative Block Wagon

The Creative Blocks Wagon was made by Fisher-Price from 1961-1964. It was a white wooden wagon that held 18 plastic blocks and 6 wooden dowels that a child could stack and play with. All blocks and dowels fit nicely in the wagon for storage and portability. The easy rolling wagon was just as fun to pull around as the blocks were to play with. This was the first Fisher-Price set to feature this type of plastic blocks and wooden dowels. The blocks and dowels were sold individually as Creative Blocks.

Kidd Video

Kidd Video was a Saturday morning cartoon that ran from 1984-1985.

Kidd Video and his band (played by live-action performers in the first half of the title sequence) were kidnapped by a villain named Master Blaster, and transported to Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called The Flipside. They were rescued by a fairy named Glitter, and subsequently spent each episode of the series either helping to free the denizens of the Flipside from Master Blaster's rule, or trying to find a way back to the "real world". Master Blaster, who seemed to be a cartoonization of a corrupt rock manager or music executive, flew around
the sky in his floating castle, which resembled a giant jukebox, and his henchmen were a group of anthropomorphic cats called The Copycats, so-called because they lip-synched their songs.

70's Alpha Bits Cereal Commercial

Here is a 70's commercial for Alpha Bits Cereal...

Uno Card Game

Uno is a card game played with a specially printed deck -- it consists of cards of 4 colors: red, green, blue, and yellow. The ranks in each color are 0-9. There are 3 "action" cards in each color, labeled "skip", "draw two", and "reverse". There are also special black action cards, "wild" and "wild draw four". Be the first player or team to score 500 points. Points are scored by being the first to rid yourself of all the cards in your hand before your opponents.

The game was originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins. It is now a Mattel product.

The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch was a television sitcom based around a large blended family. The show originally aired from 1969-1974 on ABC.

Mike Brady, widowed architect with sons Greg, Peter and Bobby, married Carol Martin, whose daughters were Marcia, Jan and Cindy. The newly-formed juvenile sextet, parents Carol and Mike, Mike's live-in housekeeper Alice, and the boys' dog Tiger settled into a large, suburban home designed by Mike.

Episodes chronicled the family learning to adjust to its new circumstances and become a unit, as well as typical childhood problems such as dating, rivalries and family squabbles and the fact that their house had four bedrooms for two married adults, one housekeeper, and six children.

80's Orange Crush Commercial

Here's an 80's commercial for Orange Crush... I miss drinking pop from a glass bottle!

One to Grow On PSA

One to Grow On is an educational public service announcement (PSA) that broadcast during NBC's Saturday morning line-up from 1983 to 1989 when the network ran cartoons. One to Grow On focuses on ethical dilemmas and attempts to teach viewers how to solve them.

The PSAs begin with an animated sequence that leads into an animated TV on which an actor appears. After the actor introduces himself or herself, a live-action sequence appears, in which a child faces an ethical dilemma. One to Grow On cuts back to the actor, who explains to the viewer how to solve the problem. The child then rectifies the situation. The actor ends the segment by saying, "And that's One to Grow On."

My Little Book of Boats

My Little Book of Boats is a Tell-A-Tale book written by Mariellen Hanrahan in 1974.

Schoolhouse Rock! The Preamble

Schoolhouse Rock! is a series of animated musical educational short films that aired during Saturday morning children's programming on ABC. Topics covered include grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and politics. The best of the series aired between 1972 and 1986.

Here is another one of my favorites, The Preamble from 1975!

Fisher-Price Music Box Record Player

Music Box Record Player was released in 1971 by Fisher-Price. It came with 5 records with 10 tunes and had an amplified speaker, on-off switch and carrying handle.

80's JELL-O Pudding Pops Commercial

Here is a JELL-O Pudding Pops commercial from the 80's.