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Remember the night the 3 networks all had their cartoon preview for the coming season?

Our kids can’t even find half of it on You Tube much know the little joys of having lived it.

Remember the night the 3 networks all had their cartoon preview for the coming season?

I know, the networks poured a lot into those previews, both for the Saturday cartoons and the season in general. I remember in the 1980's, NBC was the place, Brandon Tartikoff (RIP) was a true genius.

I remember the usually Saturday staples were made by Hanna Barbera, the Krofft Brothers and Filmation along with old stock from Warner Brothers. I'd say the golden age of animation was from 1960 with the Flintstones to the mid/late 1980s with the last hurrah of Saturday cartoons.

I loved the old "Land of the Lost" shows, they seem to be cheaply made but had good plots written by the old pulp era SF writers (Theodore Sturgeon)as well as the upcoming and Star Trek writers like D.c Fontana, David Gerrold, Norman Spinrad. My favorite episode of that series was where Will and Holly were playing with a pylon and they brought a space shuttle pilot into their world. I liked the discussion they had where he was piloting a shuttle from "Space Station Five" to the "Phoenix Spaceport" and they had "pulseships" that went to the other planets. The family, coming from circa 1974, commented "they did not have space shuttles yet" (although they were on the drawing board at the time, I saw a mock up at NASA in 1974). I assumed he came from the 1990's at least, I figured we would have been out there by then. B-P Then he could be from a parallel universe and/or future of course.

I also like the Filmation stuff, I catch them on RTV and MeTV from time to time.

It was a different time. I'm 46. There are times I wish I was 20 or 25 years young with all the problems we have to deal with but if I have to give up my memories and experiences, forget it, I'll struggle through with me being middle aged.