ABC Network - Saturday Morning Cartoons - "Some Commercial Breaks & Schoolhouse Rock" (7/12/1980)

Here's a transition from one Saturday morning cartoon to another as aired on the ABC Network - but, as here, over their Dallas-Fort Worth, TX affiliate WFAA Channel 8; discovered as an EOTF (end-of-tape find).
[Note: earlier we had made a similar find - ABC Network - Saturday Morning Cartoons - Ending of The Super Friends & Opening of Fangface (1979) which you can see here: • ABC Network - Saturday... ]
All "We'll return after these messages" voiceovers by Bill Owen.
Includes:
Recording coming in as the "Time for Timer" segment, "Sunshine on a Stick" had already started
SuperFriends (full title: The World's Greatest SuperFriends) ending [some of it had to be removed] credits (with voiceover promo for Kids Are People Too, Animals, Animals, Animals, Plastic Man, Scooby and Scrappy-Doo, and Laff-A-Lympics by Ed Jordan) and animated "swirling star" Hanna-Barbera bumper
Schoolhouse Rock - "Telegraph Line" (about the central nervous system - sung by Jamie Aff as the messenger boy, and Christine Langner as the girl) (first aired as a Science Rock segment on June 30th 1979)
Commercial: Kool-Aid (At "Skate Land" skating park, tending to some hot and thirsty young skaters)
Schoolhouse Rock ending titles
ABC ID slide (voiceover by Ed Jordan)
Local promo for WFAA's Peppermint Place show (hosted by Jerry Haynes as Mr. Peppermint; ran in this form from 1975 to 1996)
Station ID / PSA for Dallas Metro Crime Council Robbery Information Reward Line
Opening for The Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show (the opening notes sounding like the 1969-71 Hanna-Barbera closing bumper music) and preview of coming episode
Commercial: Burger King (The King plays tennis with The Duke)
Little bit of the Plastic Man cartoon, since we couldn't post the whole thing; edited down for comedic (?) effect ("Ghostfinger" (originally part of December 1st 1979 episode "Ghostfinger"/"Dog Gone Days"/"The Count Draculon Caper"/"The Film Fiasco of Director Disastro"/"Highbrow"/"The Evil Evo-Ray")
This aired on local Dallas-Fort Worth TV on Saturday, July 12th 1980 during the 7:54am to 8:03am timeframe.
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[@carsonclarkwhnt]

It makes me sad watching this knowing that kids today will never know the pure joy that Saturday morning cartoons on the Big 3 networks used to be.

[@royalsfan]

I caught the tail end of that era; there were still a few good Saturday morning shows into the late 90s.

[@mage189]

To be fair there was a lot of it was that just for advertising so they're probably better off. ;)

[@royalsfan]

@@mage189 very true. Pokémon was one nail in the coffin

[@Acemechanicalservices]

@@mage189 That wasn’t the real days of Saturday cartoons. It was over by then. I think they’re referring to the 70s and early 80s.

[@noahpartic7586]

IKR. TV doesn't work the same way...anymore😭.

[@Caffeine_Club]

Aw man, we were glued to the tv set Saturday mornings. A full on blood bath between the big three networks for the kids' commercial attention.

[@janellirving4625]

Now that's the Schoolhouse Rock jingle that I remember!

[@RikkiSpanish]

Thank you for this and please keep more of these classics coming! ABC Saturday mornings were the best. 😊

[@chrisw6164]

The Superfriends music was epic.

[@Acemechanicalservices]

You knew you were up early when you caught superfriends!

[@noahpartic7586]

Thanks to syndication of the time, SuperFriends slipped into weekdays near the mid-80's which helped with catch up a lot.

[@Musicradio77Network]

WABC-TV (channel 7) in NYC was the station that carried these two shows on Saturday mornings like “Superfriends” and “Plastic Man” as well as “Schoolhouse Rock”.

[@wmbrown6]

Do you know who would have been "live" at the local WABC announcing booth in that time period - Ed Jordan, or one of the others?

[@RusstheTroubadour]

Long time character actor and voiceover artist Michael Bell was the voice of Plastic Man. Dick Gjonola was "The Marvelous Magical Burger King" for several years starting in 1976. Character actor Lennie Winerib was the voice of "Timer".

[@wmbrown6]

Lennie Weinrib. Now we know why Timer's voice sounded similar to Scrappy-Doo at the outset.

[@ajaugenti1976]

I remembered that back in the 80's.

[@Musicradio77Network]

“Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show” lasted only one season on ABC, but it later went into syndication in the 1980’s where it was revived and added “Heathcliff”, “Marmaduke”, “Rickety Rocket”, “Goldie Gold” and more, and a live action segment with Plastic Man.

[@NEPatriot]

Such memories for me back in the mid 1980's...especially Schoolhouse Rock. ABC recently did a sing-along special with a lot of the songs...perhaps including my pick for the #1 song in all Schoolhouse Rock...Conjunction Junction (What's Your Function?)

[@wmbrown6]

That and "I'm Just a Bill" are among my favorites of that whole set. R.I.P. Jack Sheldon.

[@pika23]

I never heard koolaid man go yeahhaa all falsetto like the stylistics, before!! That's hysterical!!!

[@sjdrifter72]

I remember that! In fact, that's the Kool-Aid jingle I most remember from my childhood in the 1970's. I loved drinking the orange flavored Kool-Aid, it was my favorite.

[@jasonbeard4713]

I do, and I was hoping to hear him sing that jingle again.

[@pamczech5984]

79 was the year my son was born

[@jasonbeard4713]

OH MY GAWD!! I saw that episode of Kids Are People, Too, with Ray Bolger when it first aired!! Ray said that he was going to donate his Scarecrow outfit to the Smithsonian. Hopefully, that episode will appear somewhere.

[@chemistryguy]

I can't help but think that chef dude wouldn't have burned his hand if messenger boy hadn't distracted him from his job.

[@ShermleyCollege]

If you have any "New Adventures of Mighty Mouse" stuff from 1979-1980 (aired on CBS) I would love to know. Been searching for the original opening and closing sequence to the hour-long version for up to six years now...

[@jimmyo1123]

I was 8yrs old thanks for the memories😊

[@StudioZ7]

5:31--"This is ABC" announcement at the end of Schoolhouse Rock signaled master control at the local affiliates to bump out of the network for local spots and station identification.

[@marcussmith4913]

give anything just to feel the way I did back then for one day.

[@kascnef]

The super friends end credits is rare as it’s in the same background as Laff a lympics and soon scooby doo

[@michaelbadger3021]

Pepermint Place was on WFHL TV channel 23 in Decatur, IL, for a season or two in the 1990's.

[@ricardohuff8774]

Why these are better than nowadays. They gmhsve the heart and soul for this big time

[@johnnychimpo3755]

Time for timer !

[@MMAfighter38113]

Cartoons followed by ‘ABC Weekend Special’.

[@LaDracul]

Shame Disney+ doesn't have the funky intro for "Schoolhouse Rock". Though why do I feel James Gunn is going to force some Plastic-Man project on us? (Also, I see no difference between Fangface and Crash Bandicoot.)

[@neftaliriverajr503]

Great song from my Sat Morning Past❤😂🎉

[@josselineribot4]

Merci très super 👍❤

[@rodneybuck5943]

SUPERFRIENDS!!!!!

[@TimBoyd2012]

It's Scarecrow, not Strawman

[@richardrykala925]

We had Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour here in Detroit, Scooby Do, Wacky Racers,Space Ghost,Johnny Quest,Abbot and Costello Cartoon, than later at around Noon,Sir Graves Ghastly than Creature Feature on Channel 50 at 3.30pm and either Outer Limits or Star Trek at 5pm

[@AngelMig]

Is there any missing persons sildes discovered on WMAQ TV NBC Channel 5 from the late 80's?

[@Dani-ICU-RN]

They have 3 am netflicks😢😢

[@MarkHolloway1972]

That "Sunshine on a Stick" crap never worked.

[@PinataTimeExtras]

Do you happen to have more ABC Saturday morning from around this time? I've been looking for a lost short that aired called "willie survive? What to do in a fire" thanks!

[@hammerhead222]

Gibby's ( Butthole Surfers) Dad!

[@donaldpresnall9316]

Can you upload the original Tarzan and the Super 7

[@scoobameru2458]

😃👍