#CBS Special – “The Fantastic #Funnies” [with #LoniAnderson] – #WBBMTV (1980) #NewspaperComicStrips #ComicStrips

Ah, to read #comicstrips on the #newspaper page…. 🙂

And one of the first animated series I remember, one from a newspaper #newspapercomicstrip #comicstrip… 🙂

In the mid-70s, the various #Archie network Saturday morning cartoons from the late ’60s-early ’70s were combined to a weekday, second-run syndicated “wheel” called #TheArchies. One of those cartoons, #ArchiesTVFunnies, starred the #Archie gang #Archiegang as network TV operators/executives presenting animated versions of newspaper comic strips:

AUGUST 3rd UPDATE:

SEPTEMBER 7th UPDATE:

#BlackLiberationMedia: “#SaturdayNightLive Banned This Cartoon!” (Part IV of a Series On #BLM, Cartoons and Propaganda)

#BlackLiberationMedia: “Cartoons and Capitalism ft. Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs” (Coda/Part III of III)

“Meanwhile, At The Hall of Justice….” Fifty Years Ago Today……

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…..Saturday mornings on ABC became appointment television for millions of 1970s children across America. (All this and Scooby-Doo and Schoolhouse Rock, too!)

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Oh, an important societal note:

If you want to see a 1973 future-forecast prediction of Amazon.com, streaming services allowing people to stay home, etc., please find and watch all of the first-season episode “Professor Goodfellow’s G.E.E.C.” Two small excerpts: