Remember that one day when you could wake up without an alarm? When you would get your favorite bowl of cereal and sit between the hours of 8 and 12? This is a blog dedicated to the greatest time of our childhood: Saturday mornings. The television programs you watched, the memories attached to them, and maybe introducing you to something you didn't realize existed. Updated every weekend.
June 01, 2025
May 30, 2025
ALF CLAUSEN DEAD AT 84
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Best known for working on The Simpsons for 27 years, he composed the theme for Spacecats in a continuation of his association with creator Paul Fusco following his work on ALF.
LORETTA SWIT DEAD AT 87
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Best known for her portrayal of Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on M*A*S*H, she played Mad Hatter’s disagreeable supervisor Marcia Cates the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Mad as a Hatter”.
May 26, 2025
TOD SMITH DEAD AT 72
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He was a comic book artist that worked on Marvel’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Masked Rider comics.
May 25, 2025
PETER DAVID DEAD AT 68
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Best known for his prolific runs on The Incredible Hulk, Supergirl and Star Trek comics and novels, and as the co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and the evil Hulk, the Maestro. Characters he co-created, such as The Nasty Boys and a version of X-Factor, appeared on X-Men: The Animated Series. He also wrote several episodes of Young Justice, a comic series he previously wrote for DC Comics. Spider-Man Unlimited, in its early planning stages, was originally going to based on Spider-Man 2099.
May 08, 2025
JIM SMITH DEAD AT 70
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He did layouts and storyboards for Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Beany and Cecil (for which he also directed several segments) and Tiny Toon Adventures (where he also did character models and wrote a segment); and storyboards for The Get Along Gang, The Real Ghostbusters, Batman: The Animated Series, The Ripping Friends and Tom and Jerry Tales.
May 02, 2025
RUTH BUZZI DEAD AT 88
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She played Granny Goodwitch in Linus the Lionhearted; Fi in The Lost Saucer; Gladys in Baggy Pants and the Nitwits; Mrs. Muffinstuffer, Katerina Kobald and Evil Elf in The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries; Mama Bear, Teacher Jane and the Mayor’s Assistant in The Berenstain Bears (1985); Nose Marie, Muffy, and several minor characters in Pound Puppies (1986); Roberta Powers on Saved by the Bell (1989); Dracula’s Mom on The Munsters Today; Miss Fresno in Gravedale High; Dottie Debson and Alien Cow in Darkwing Duck; Nandy in Cro; and Ruthie, Gladys Ormphby, The Grouch Princess, Suzie Kabloozie, Feff, and Chef Ruthée in Sesame Street. She also provided voices for The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show, Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983), The Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy, The Smurfs (1981), The Addams Family (1992), Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, and The Savage Dragon.
April 26, 2025
FUN HOUSE / FOX'S FUN HOUSE
(Syndication, FOX, September 5, 1988-April 13, 1991)
April 15, 2025
WINK MARTINDALE DEAD AT 91
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He played Sphinx Martindale—a parody of himself combined with the legendary Sphinx—in an episode of Hercules: The Animated Series.
JEAN MARSH DEAD AT 90
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Best known for creating and starring in the series Upstairs, Downstairs, she appeared on a couple episodes of Sesame Street.
April 12, 2025
DENNIS THE MENACE (1959)
(CBS, October 4, 1959-July 7, 1963)
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Productions, Screen Gems, Hank Ketcham Enterprises