Uncle Ray's Saturday Morning Cartoon Schedules -- 1979

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1979

Schedule 1979-80:

CBS: (Times are ET and PT)
8am - The All-New Popeye Hour
9am - The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 - Tarzan and the Super Seven
12pm - Space Academy
12:30 - Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids
1pm - Jason of Star Command?
1:30 - 30 Minutes

8am - The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle
9am - Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (90 minutes)
10:30 - All New Popeye Hour
11:30 - Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids
12pm - Jason of Star Command
12:30 - Tarzan and the Super Seven (60 minutes)
1:30 - 30 Minutes

CBS: (spring)
8am - The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle
9am - Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (90 minutes)
10:30 - All New Popeye Hour
11:30 - Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids
12pm - Shazam! (spring, date unknown)
12:30 - Tarzan and the Super Seven (60 minutes)
1:30 - 30 Minutes

CBS: (Sunday AM, times are ET, subtract one hour for CT, two hours for PT)
9am - Three Robotic Stooges (Sep 9, 1979 - March 1980)
9:30 - Skatebirds (Sep 9, 1979 - March 1980)
10am - 11:30am CBS News Sunday Morning
11:30 - Face the Nation

CBS: (Sunday AM, times are ET, subtract one hour for CT, two hours for PT)
9am - Skatebirds (March 1980 - August 31, 1980)
9:30 - Jason of Star Command (March 1980 - August 31, 1980)
10am - 11:30am CBS News Sunday Morning
11:30 - Face the Nation

ABC: (ET. For CT/PT, subtract one hour)
8am - The World's Greatest Super Friends
9am - The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show (2 hours)
11am - Spider Woman
11:30 - Scooby and Scrappy Doo
12pm - Weekend Specials
12:30 - American Bandstand (60 minutes)

When college football aired at NOON ET/11am CT/9am PT
12pm - College Football Pre-Game
12:30pm - College Football Double-Header

ABC: (West coast when College Football double header airs)
not all ABC affiliates aired the 4-6pm delayed shows
Not sure but this is probable:
7am - The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show (2 hours)
9am - College Football Pre-Game
9:30am - College Football Double-Header
4pm - The World's Greatest Super Friends
5pm - Spider Woman
5:30 - Scooby and Scrappy Doo
Weekend Specials, American Bandstand and Wide World of Sports are pre-empted

ABC: (Spring)
8am - The World's Greatest Super Friends
9am - The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show (90 min)
10:30 - Scooby and Scrappy Doo
11:30 - Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
        (another source listed Kids World)
12pm - Weekend Specials
12:30 - American Bandstand (60 minutes)

ABC: (Summer- listing from Aug)
8am - The World's Greatest Super Friends
9am - The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show (90 mins)
10:30 - Scooby and Scrappy Doo (60 mins)
11:30 - Scooby's Laff-a-Lympics
12pm - Weekend Specials
12:30 - American Bandstand (60 minutes)

Note: Wikipedia lists Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels on the spring
schedule of ABC, but Wikipedia has inaccurate scheduling of the network's block.

ABC Day After Thanksgiving Cartoon Promo Special
(November 23, 1979)
TBA
(I'm not sure what year ABC discontinued airing the Friday Cartoon specials)

ABC: (Sunday AM)
10am - Kids are People Too (collapsable 1/2 hour segment, pre-empted by some affilliates)
(not sure if this half hour still in use)
10:30 - Kids are People Too (second and third half hours)
11:30 - Animals Animals Animals
NOON - Issues and Answers
12:30 - Directions

Note on NBC: when The Baseball Game of the Week was in season, Western
affiliates aired the 12pm and 12:30pm ET shows at their discretion or
not at all. Some aired them beginning at 2:30pm PT, some delayed them
to Sunday mornings at various times.

NBC: (ET. For CT/PT, subtract one hour)
7:30 - The Bay City Rollers
8am - Daffy Duck Show
8:30 - Casper and The Space Angels
9am - Fred and Barney Meet The Thing
10am - The Super Globetrotters
10:30 - The New Schmoo
11am - The New Adventures of Flash Gordon
11:30 - Godzilla
12pm - Jonny Quest
12:30 - The Jetsons

NBC Revised in Feb?
7:30 - The Bay City Rollers
8am - Super Globetrotters
8:30 - Casper And The Angels
9am - Fred And Barney Meet The Shmoo
10:30 - Daffy Duck Show
11am - Godzilla
11:30 - ?
12pm - Jonny Quest
12:30 - Jetsons

NBC Revised by Apr 26, 1980
7:30 - The Bay City Rollers
8am - Super Globetrotters
8:30 - Casper And The Angels
9am - Fred And Barney Meet The Shmoo
10:30 - Daffy Duck Show
11am - Jetsons
11:30 - Jonny Quest
12 N - Godzilla
12:30 - The New Adventures of Flash Gordon

NBC (Aug) from an NBC affilliate
7:30 - The Bay City Rollers
8am - Godzilla/Globetrotters
9am - Fred and Barney Meet The Shmoo
10:30 - Daffy Duck Show
11am - The Jetsons
11:30-1pm - ? (the affilliate pre-empted the shows)

Note: Wikipedia lists an inaccurate spring schedule for NBC.
the Super Globetrotters and Fred and Barney Meet The Shmoo are on the sked.

1979

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