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Soap opera followed by a cartoon

WCSH, channel 6, the NBC affiliate in Portland, ME, carried "The Flintstones" followed by "Scooby Doo" in the 3 pm hour for a short while in the 1980s. I believe "The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour" was pre-empted in favor of the cartoons which followed "Another World."
 
Bob1370 said:
Back in the 1960-65 era in my home town (Rochester, NY) the "children's hours" were usually 4 to 6 PM after the kids got home and before the local news started at 6. On the NBC station (then WROC-TV) you got Popeye cartoons after the last network game show of the afternoon, which was usually Gene Rayburn's original Match Game. On the CBS affiliate, WHEC-TV, it was usually Bugs Bunny cartoons after the last game show. Finally on ABC affiliate WOKR, American Bandstand wrapped up and gave way to the Mickey Mouse Club at 5:00 followed by a dinner hour movie at 5:30 (they ran local news followed by a delayed broadcast of the network news between 7:00 and the start of network prime time programming at 7:30 for the first couple of years after they signed on in 1962)
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Two I remember from the 1966-68 era: "Cartoon Junction" followed "Secret Storm" on WNCT Greenville, NC (they had Warner Brothers cartoons), and "Bungles And His Friends" followed "Dark Shadows" on WVEC Norfolk (they picked up Terrytoons after CBS canceled "Mighty Mouse" in 1967).

I also remember that in the same period you're referring to, WDBO (now WKMG) Orlando carried a local kids' show, "Uncle Walt's Adventures" (nothing to do with Disney) after "Edge Of Night" when it aired at 4:30; it was on from 5 to 5:30 followed by the Hanna-Barbera block (Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, etc.). On WFTV, "Popeye Playhouse" followed "American Bandstand" and led into ABC's news at 6. I remember at the time NBC affiliate WESH did not cater to kids from 5 to 6; they carried "Best Of Groucho" at 5 and "I Led Three Lives" at 5:30.
 
In the Fall of 1978, WJAR-10 in Providence carried (via NBC) the soap opera "Another World" weekdays from 3 to 4 P.M. EDT/EST, and followed it at 4 P.M. with the cartoon adventure series "Battle Of The Planets".

According to the October 11th, 1978 Boston Globe, WJAR then broadcast "Carol Burnett and Friends" (edited reruns of "Carol Burnett") at 4:30, "Mary Tyler Moore at 5, and "Odd Couple" at 5:30.

Thus, "Battle" came on after a soap and prior to three sitcoms.

Back then, Providence did not have an independent station, and the only station that carried an extended schedule of late-afternoon children's shows was noncommercial WSBE-36 (carrying PBS children's fare).

(During the late 1970's and early 1980's, WJAR usually aired reruns of the original "Star Trek" on weekdays from 5 to 6 P.M. during the Summer months)
 
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