September 1978 CBS Saturday Morning Schedule

I'm going to open my first official post with a page from the September 9th, 1978 issue of TV Guide. It's the Fall Preview issue featuring a number of shows you'll recognize, and a lot you probably won't.







In keeping with the official theme of this blog (which I warn you now, I will wander!), here's an ad for the new CBS lineup for Fall of 1978:

Starting in the upper right corner at 7:00 a.m., we have The All-New Popeye Hour. Riddle: How did you know a show was going to suck? If was prefaced by "The All-New". Here we find Popeye has apparently given up his sea legs in favor of some six shooters (nah, those are cans of spinach, of course). The assumption is Bluto/Brutus (they never could make up their mind on his name!) is terrorizing poor Olive Oyl. To be honest, Olive doesn't look like she's minding it that much. But seriously, who would fight over this string bean?

At 8:00 is the staple of Saturday morning TV. Possibly the longest running cartoon (in it's various incarnations) on Saturday Mornings as well. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. Brilliant cartoons, but that goes without saying, and I have nothing to add.

At 9:30 (wow! An hour and a half of BB!) we had Tarzan and the Super Seven. I recall this Filmation version (why aren't Filmation cartoons available on DVD yet?!) of Tarzan, but not the Super 7. I'm having trouble counting 7 here. We've got Tarzan, he doesn't count, because it's Tarzan and the Super 7. So let's start with Web Woman, 1. Batman, 2. Jason of Star Command (check out those Spock-like eye-brows on the guy second from the right!) 3. Moray and Manta, the Daring Duo of the Deep (obviously Aquaman knockoffs) 4. Microwoman and Superstretch 5. Okay, here's were it gets tricky. We've got Isis flying around surrounded by various other superhero types. We only need two more to meet our 7, in addition to Isis, I'm seeing Hercules, Super Samurai (is this before Superfriends' Samurai?), Merlin and Sinbad. That's 10, CBS. You get an "F" in Math!

I'm not sure how long of a show Tarzan and the Super 7 was, but it seems to bring us to the end of our Saturday Morning. Time for American Bandstand, Abbott and Costello movies, Tarzan (the Johnny Weissmuller series), and Ma and Pa Kettle. Ah, to relive just one of those Saturday again.