[Crolis]

Interesting. I hadn’t picked up on that, and I do remember that particular cartoon.

A question for fellow FReepers: Can we compile a list of children’s television programming which bucks this trend? Where there any shows directed to kids which were (or are) generally positive in message?

Aside from the PSA’s which were included in the show, I generally remember G.I. Joe and Transformers which clearly presented good vs. evil. I’m sure there were others, like the re-edited/dubbed Robotech series which came out in the 80s.

[GL of Sector 2814]

Ah, Robotech...I remember watching it for the first time, and seeing a jet going down in flames. I thought, "Ok, now the pilot will eject". Instead, he just screamed as it plowed into the ground. A later episode showed a soldier trying to protect a little girl by covering covering her with his body as they were vaporized by a nuke.

It certainly wasn't GI Joe! It was the coolest cartoon of the '80s.