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Day After Thanksgiving Cartoons (ABC)

S

Stanislav

Anyone else remember the old days when ABC used to run a "bonus" edition of their Saturday morning lineup on the day after Thanksgiving? When did they start the practice and when did they end it?
 
I thought they did it on Thanksgiving Day, too, seeing as they were generally the only network not carrying parades. (Macy's used to be on NBC only, and CBS used to switch back and forth from several parades, including the Hudson's parade in Detroit.)
 
I don't recall them ever doing it on Thanksgiving. I remember Thanksgiving as a special day to itself, filled with parades, football, and of course food. Then Friday was like getting an extra Saturday, being as we were off from school and there were cartoons. :)

Maybe some of the "retro" guys can dig up some Thanksgiving (and day after) schedules from the 60's and 70's to verify this.
 
In my recollection it was during the mid to late 70s 'til about early 1980 or '81 when ABC started their Saturday morning lineup on Thanksgiving Day which I believe started around the 11/10am frame and ended around 4/3pm. After that, college football came into play. Although I do not recall ABC's schedule of Saturday morning toons aired AFTER Thanksgiving. Either they went back to regular programming or college football. CBS, however tend to show special animated features during the Thanksgiving holidays and perhaps holiday themed movies.
 
The ABC "Day After Thanksgiving" Cartoons actually goes back to at least 1967..Here is the lineup for the Cartoons on Friday, November 24, 1967-From TV Guide Cleveland Edition

9:30 Bullwinkle
10AM Milton The Monster
10:30 Casper
11AM Fantastic Four
11:30 Spider-Man
Noon Journey To the Center Of The Earth
12:30 King Kong
1PM Beatles
1:30 George Of The Jungle

Then Back to Regular Programming..

The practice I am sure was done through at least the late 1970's..Don't know beyond that..
 
I remember "Day after Thanksgiving cartoons" on CBS when I was a kid back in the '80s... but our closest CBS affiliate at the time WTVT 13 in Tampa, FL would never air them. I remember asking my mom why they didn't show them and she said "there must be too many old people around here." And looking back, she was probably right! ;D

But on the system at my grandparents house, they were able to get CBS affiliate WINK-TV 11 from Ft. Myers, FL and they DID air the cartoons and of course then I was a happy camper.

Off topic, but this reminds me that Tampa used to always be notorious for bumping network programming. But that's probably something for another thread.
 
I do remember CBS airing cartoons on the day after Thanksgiving, possibly up to the early-90s. I was always PO'd because one of the few times during the school year I could watch "The Price Is Right" was spoiled by cartoons!
 
It seems like I can remember NBC also carrying cartoons on the day after Thanksgiving at least for a while. I would think that a big factor with why the day after Thanksgiving cartoons were dropped on both ABC and CBS would be the expansion of using that day to carry more college football and possibly other sports. Also, the cutback of the 10-11 AM block and local stations carrying more syndicated programs instead of the network lineup could be factors as well.
 
RMarino said:
I remember "Day after Thanksgiving cartoons" on CBS when I was a kid back in the '80s... but our closest CBS affiliate at the time WTVT 13 in Tampa, FL would never air them. I remember asking my mom why they didn't show them and she said "there must be too many old people around here." And looking back, she was probably right! ;D

But on the system at my grandparents house, they were able to get CBS affiliate WINK-TV 11 from Ft. Myers, FL and they DID air the cartoons and of course then I was a happy camper.

Off topic, but this reminds me that Tampa used to always be notorious for bumping network programming. But that's probably something for another thread.
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Up until the 1994 New World/News Corp deal that turned WTVT into a Fox O&O. WTVT was notorious for bumping CBS daytime programming. When my parents moved to the area in 1990, I noticed WTVT didn't show Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud or Bold and the Beautiful. Also when WTSP was an ABC affiliate, they didn't show Match Game 90' or Loving. All of these shows where shown on independent WTMV (now WMOR) which was not visible in the north and western parts of the Tampa-St. Pete DMA because they were based out of Lakeland. I think ABC and CBS prompted WFTS and WTSP respectively to clear all network programming after the 1994 switch and they did for a few years.
 
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