ABC Saturday Morning Line Up: December 24, 1983 (Christmas Eve)

[@jeannewynneherring]

I sure do appreciate you! Every Saturday morning I relive my childhood with a bowl of cereal! Makes me so happy!! Thanks a bunch!

[@MoneMedia]

You are so welcome!

[@tonyarceneaux286]

@@MoneMedia I am doing time stamps again

[@chrishambrick892]

Very cool Brother Thanks ❤

[@carolynadkins9311]

Honey combs was my favorite

[@jeannewynneherring]

@@carolynadkins9311that was my sister's favorite, too!😀

[@plmitch]

WOW...I watched the ABC cartoon lineup in '83 and I remember us being out of town @ Christmas time that year and I missed my toons!!! Who would've thought I would be watching them on a phone 40 years later!!! 😂😊❤ Thanks for the blast from the past ❤❤❤

[@MoneMedia]

You're welcome. 83 was a good year to be a kid

[@plmitch]

​@@eSh..❤❤❤❤

[@camoanddonuts7894]

Fellow Xers, that Happy Holidays McDonald's commercial really got me, I remember that like it was yesterday, how the little kid was feeling left out because he couldn't skate but Ronald helped him by taking him back to his friends, like you'll be big enough soon. We all know that feeling. Rest in peace my innocent childhood.

[@MoneMedia]

r.i.p

[@Dulcimerist]

I haven't gotten t that point in the video yet, but I know exactly the commercial you're talking about! I'm looking forward to seeing it again!

[@MystiKalRaven7]

@MoneMedia you know that's a very young Corey Feldman, right?? IIRC that's actually his first commercial. ❤

[@karenhall4645]

This was my Saturday morning! I had just turned 6 years old 23 days before. 😀 It's sad that kids today will never experience the joy of Saturday morning cartoons.

[@karlhelm875]

now we have cartoon network, boomerang, and disney channel. you can watch cartoons anytime. but some of the cartoons of today are boring.

[@MoneMedia]

Happy birthday!!

[@lovenhzwill831]

I was 10 yrs old watching these cartoons dec 1983..

[@StephanieVanes-qb7vp]

I had a red view master on Fair Field Missy and I both had one. We loved that toy.

[@sci-fifantasyguy1600]

Trip down memory lane. Thank you so much! 👍🏼👍🏼

[@MoneMedia]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sci-fifantasyguy1600]

😁😁

[@ginarosas2507]

Made my whole day!!! This is the best!! Christmas 1983 all I wanted was a Cabbage Patch KId. I watch your videos every Saturday morning. Thanks so much!!

[@MoneMedia]

Happy holidays!

[@Dulcimerist]

Those were so hard to find! I remember how those flew off the shelves. I was only 9 years old back then, so I wasn't the person doing the shopping. Did you get your Cabbage Patch Kid? My sister got one, but I can't remember if she got it for Christmas in 1983, or if she had to wait until later.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

​@@Dulcimeristthey sure did. I saw a commercial from back then the other day where they were offering Colecovisions if you bought a cabbage patch lol.

[@gimmethepinkelephant3685]

This was such an awesome time to have been growing up. I miss it a lot.

[@JunkParts75]

Talk about blast from the past! Oh I miss these days! Thank you! ❤

[@thomasbrassell8498]

I miss 1983

[@michelleparker6202]

Same! I wanna go back!!!!

[@commander1982]

@@michelleparker6202same!! Let’s go!

[@stickman1373]

I can remember i KNEW xmas was near from ONE specific commercial...The Fruity Pebbles commercial it seemed like when that commercial came on it made you high with happiness, God Saturday mornings seemed like a party for kids back then!

[@stillaboveground2470]

The most amazing thing about a Rubik's Cube is that they were able to make a cartoon out of it.

[@Playsinvain]

Hell, they sold millions of rocks to people.

[@tonyarceneaux286]

And another thing about a rubix cube too. How to solve it?

[@CairnTerrier69]

@@tonyarceneaux286 Take the sucker apart!

[@Dulcimerist]

That cartoon seemed weird to me when I was a kid of about 9 years old. I think I watched a different network channel during it, but I do remember watching it a few times, perhaps when my regular cartoon of that time slot hit reruns during the season.

[@atlsongbyrd6084]

I never knew they had a cartoon

[@TerrickTerran]

Lots of fun stuff to watch here and a simpler time in some ways.

[@commander1982]

Thank you so much for giving us the gift of our childhood again 🙏🏻

[@brianrunyon266]

Born in the late 80's, but, am interested to listen to what TV programs were like from before my time. Great work.

[@danielneal4249]

This was the Christmas I actually got Atari too. Bro I really appreciate you unlocking my fun moments of our past

[@Dulcimerist]

That's so cool! I never got an Atari, but I always wanted one. My family ended up getting one of those Sinclair systems that would load games via cassette tape. I wish we still had it.

[@profscarlett]

Greetings to all these children in their 50’s!

[@JNash317]

Richie Rich and his dog had the first smart phones back in 1983, Lol. Thank you for sharing these great memories.

[@machupikachu1085]

This is the greatest idea on KZbin! I actually choked up a little when the intro to Scooby Doo came on. If you can, please keep them coming. Instant sub!

[@MoneMedia]

check out the playlist and thanks

[@sharonjackson129]

It's fun how old cartoons can make you feel like a child again pretty amazing That's for Joy of being a kid back then ❤💯👏👍

[@KaosandRiot]

Wow that was a golden memory for me! Saturday mornings in the 80s were epic as it was, with the buffet of cartoons and sugar loaded cereals. Christmas Eve on a Saturday in the 80s was Nirvana!! Up early to feast on Captain Crunch and watch the Christmas themed cartoons, then we would prepare the house for all the friends and family that would come over that night to eat and trade gifts. I even recall there was a rare Christmas time snow in the area earlier in the week. Made it even more special. Those days of carefree excitement and anticipation especially being on break. This was a year ripe with toys ad the industry was really starting to roar on all cylinders. Thanks for posting this, going to share it with my kids and grandkids this year

[@Glenn-Rubenstein]

Thank you for posting this! It’s rare to see a complete ABC Saturday Morning Broadcast from this era with an entire Menudo on ABC. Please post more if you have them!

[@MoneMedia]

You bet!

[@mikepena9356]

Thank you ! So much for bringing the memories with the cartoons I was just 12 back in 1983 but like now theses kids are into electronics it is not the same but I still watch my favorite cartoons even though my wife says I need to grow up

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Mone the enjoyment I get from these is unending. Merry Christmas to you and everyone reading this! 💯

[@Dulcimerist]

2:02:07 - The Littles are my favorite cartoon of all of these! I loved this show so much, when I was in elementary school I wished The Littles were real. I made cool stuff that would be the right size for them, and the show even gave ideas for making stuff like that.

[@Dulcimerist]

I had a Monchichis umbrella. The handle had the head of one on it, wearing a football helmet. I was hoping for Legos this Christmas. I think this is the Christmas I got the huge yellow Lego castle.

[@camcordernonsense5264]

so cool to see the commercials now. the ones i couldnt wait to be over with, back then.

[@wedovatoloco4069]

LOVE IT! 1983 I MISS YOU! GREAT MEMORIES GROWING UP AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME. 👍👍🤘🤘🤘

[@Chuc_9600]

Salute!! This instantly took me back to Christmas '83 when I was 5 years old!! What a great time to be a kid!!

[@1906tpir]

The 1980s on Saturday Mornings were a great time to be a child in America!

[@tonyarceneaux286]

1983 Christmas Cartoon Lineup Time Stamps 0:00 opening and The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/ Richie Rich Show 1:06:06 Pac Man/the Amazing Rubix Cube Hour 2:02:10 The Littles 2:30:41 The Puppy's Further Adventures 2:58:37 ABC Weekend Specials 3:27:22 closing

[@retroguyretail1976]

also american bandstand's xmas eve show with the romantics and debarge

[@Trini4th]

I'm here watching on Saturday morning! Happy Saturday

[@MoneMedia]

Morning!

[@maverick744]

How you only have 23k subs blows my mind!! COME ON YOU ALL!! Spread the word and give this man some support!! I know our generation is t dead yet! We’re in our late 40’s and 50’s!! This is my Saturday ritual. We need to support this priceless channel!!!

[@MoneMedia]

thank you Maverick

[@ferocious78]

"All The Money In The World" is my second-most memorable Weekend Special! First is "COUGAR"!!! Thanks for uploading! Cheers

[@aestroai8012]

Ha, I'm first! Almost Christmas in July!!! Thanks! That is some ambitious early computer animation in that Littles opening. I used to love that cartoon. That was probably my favorite ABC cartoon next to Ghostbusters which would come a few years later!

[@MoneMedia]

Happy holidays!

[@Dulcimerist]

1:33:17 - Bonus song from Menudo! They sang the theme song for "Rubik, the Amazing Cube"!

[@valerieortiz9467]

Menudo❤️💕🇵🇷 on ABC was the best thing about Saturday morning back then besides American Bandstand.

[@Dulcimerist]

Was this one of the Ricky Martin years? I remember when they visited Sesame Street.

[@Dulcimerist]

I looked up the timeline, and this episode had Ricky Melendez, which is the member Ricky Martin took the place of in 1984.

[@neilrichardson7454]

No, he came in 84. At the, only one member could speak fluent English😊​@@Dulcimerist

[@carolynadkins9311]

Good old cartoons, they were the best 😊thanks for the upload ❤

[@reddhead2948]

Ah the early 80s a dang fine time to be a kid

[@MoneMedia]

yes

[@hollypierce3076]

Awe chistmas in june!! Thanks Mone!! I was 5 years old when this stuff aired!! And I totally remember some of it!! I'm so thankful that you put these up, (idk where you get them but thanks!!

[@hollypierce3076]

Omg I have been looking for Monchichi cartoons for so long!!! Now I can watch cartoons and have my cereal! !

[@MoneMedia]

Happy holidays!

[@MrWomenswrestlingfan]

I was also 5

[@jesusnodal8948]

Thank you so very much for this!!❤

[@laurasomerville6776]

Brings back my childhood memories 😊❤

[@jolindadavis2625]

This brings back memories I loved Saturday morning cartoons as a kid

[@ilovemypitty7102]

You are the greatest for having these memories for everyone to watch!!! Thank you!

[@MoneMedia]

You bet!

[@TheLoneStranger213]

Happy holidays

[@MoneMedia]

Happy holidays!

[@MrStayOnTop5683]

Very Nice! Great lineup! Have a great weekend

[@MyNameIsUnavailable]

2 days later in Madison Square Garden, Bob Backlund lost the World Wrestling Federation Championship to the Iron Sheik Khozrow Vaziri

[@450rjackson]

Oh my !! So many memories- thanks for these videos!

[@MoneMedia]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@athinadc]

this aired before i was born but i still love it retro cartoons are the best

[@GuillermoBasaca]

Love it and brings tons of great memories back. Love that I can watch them here, thanks thanks.

[@MoneMedia]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@MrDigitalman78]

I had a Rubik cube as a kid, spent many times playing with it

[@Dulcimerist]

The 1994 movie "Baby's Day Out" must have been inspired by this "Little Rascals" episode.

[@kengilreath1915]

Thanks this brings back great memories of my childhood on Saturday mornings

[@MoneMedia]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@derikdragon80]

Used to think Lots O was an original character in the Toy Story films.

[@DemarioSmith-st5se]

I was looking forward to watch Scooby - doo but these are great thanks

[@KeepinItRight]

I watched the whole video. Enjoyable! Thanks!

[@MoneMedia]

Awesome, thank you!

[@charlesmandus574]

I remember it well. I was 17 and a junior in high school. It was like 10 below that night in Pittsburgh and I drove over to my Dad's and Stepmom's place for the Christmas party. There was a fire in the neighborhood and my stepbrother and I went out to look in short shirt sleeves despite the cold. I had a 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix, fired right up, even with an old battery. Drove home late, past curfew for a 17 year old but it was fun. We had a school strike for 6 weeks total but we found things to do, it is easy when you have a car. B-)

[@MoneMedia]

so I take it you were too old for Santa.

[@Equint77]

Man i grew up in this era of cartoons but i didnt know the little rascals lived right next to richie rich. That should have been an amazing crossover. 😂😂

[@CairnTerrier69]

Childhood years were great. ABC always had the best cartoons! Dash the greyhound on “Puppy’s Adventures” was hilarious!!! Great supporting character. Loved those ABC Weekend Specials...last chance to see cartoons on Saturday mornings....then it was time to go outside.

[@MoneMedia]

The best!

[@Dulcimerist]

I wish I had watched that entire series. I always wondered if he ever found his way home.

[@CairnTerrier69]

@@DulcimeristYes he did reunite with his family. As I recall, the dogs caught up with the family in France only to discover they were being held captive by the week’s bad guys…who were forcing them into a private jet at the airport to take them back to New York.A runway chase took place with Petey nearly getting killed by a jetliner taking off with Dash saving him. For a moment the dogs feel defeated once again until they see a supersonic Concorde preparing for its own New York departure. Knowing that the plane will fly twice as fast as the one the captive family is aboard, the dogs stow away in the cargo hold and manage to arrive at JFK Airport several hours ahead of the others. They find the family and the criminals leaving the airport and a chaotic chase between the bad guys and family in a cab and the dogs in a horse buggy ensues…resulting in a crash and the bad guys getting pinned by the three big dogs until the cops arrive. Petey and Dolly tearfully and joyfully reunite with their humans, while Dash,Duke,and Lucky watch from the side. They are happy that they helped the little dogs on their adventures across the planet but now see that their work is done and it’s time to move on. As they quietly try to exit, Petey sighs at his family and motions towards the departing trio. The parents immediately invite the big dogs to “come home” as they are all a family. They accept, all embrace and the camera zooms out to show the NYC skyline. From that point on the new episodes feature the dogs traveling with the family around the country.

[@beauwalker9820]

It's kinda cool to see what Saturday Morning cartoons and Christmas commercials were like before I was born. I really miss Saturday Morning cartoon blocks on channels that didn't normally show cartoons. Made them somehow more special then ones on kid channels like Nickelodeon or Disney. Only cartoons I'm familiar with are Pac-Man, Richie Rich to some extent, and The Littles, which I liked as a kid, as I remember watching many reruns of 80s cartoons, as a 90s kid. It's funny how that Richie Rich "King Bee" villain looks more like a Space Ghost villain. Hanna Barbara had a distinctive style to it.

[@cfoster81]

I was 2 years old when this cartoon block originally aired on WJLA here in the DC area. It brings back a lot of good memories. Keep it coming.

[@MoneMedia]

every Saturday Chris, sub if you havent.

[@shelliclark9472]

🎀Thank you.🥰💌 🎅🎄🤶🦌

[@johnhenry8611]

Doing the Lords work. God bless ya, and may you continue to grow and be successful in your art. Thank You 😊

[@MoneMedia]

Thank you so much 😀

[@DAMN_ITS_GOT_SPOTS_ON_THE_TOP]

Nostalgia high to the Nth degree!

[@scrumbles]

Where do you get these recordings? I assume they are your own home vhs recordings. But the quality is absolutely astounding for a 40 year old VHS.

[@nicolechappell3780]

wow this brings so many memories

[@mikedski9698]

Ghosts Can Run, But They Can't Hide From Pac-Man!

[@MoneMedia]

thats right

[@karlhelm875]

or mezmoran.

[@johnmonty1976]

I felt like a millionaire when I was gifted the Mcdonalds gift certificate book.

[@enock-g3e]

This is really good 💯😊

[@MoneMedia]

@@enock-g3e thanks

[@ThrillingTwo]

22:12 Corey Feldman in a McDonald's commercial

[@jacobkusnerik8809]

Stinks that Scooby-Doo can't be included, but so many awesome episodes (first saw Monchichis on Saturday Morning Cartoons DVD.)

[@mstanley97]

Nov 2 2023! Getting my Gen X Christmas 🎄 on!!

[@christopherseat9871]

That was a special year and everyone was asking Santa for RETURN OF THE JEDI TOYS

[@MoneMedia]

I wanted Masters Of The Universe, but you are correct

[@jamieimai9328]

Wonderful, awesome, superb, amazing & great trip down memory lane back to Xmas 🤶 🎁 🎅 💝 🎄 1984 and besides, it’s almost Christmas in July! I said it before and I say it again: I just love 💗 your video because they’re 👍 😊 great! Keep up the good work! Cool audio & picture in this video includes 2 astounding intros for 2 Scooby-Doo programs made by Hanna-Barbera Productions: “The Best of: Scooby-Doo” & “The new Scooby & Scrappy Doo Show” & full length episodes of Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc., Ruby-Spears Enterprises, DIC Entertainment & ABC Television’s “The Richie Rich, Little Rascals & Monchichis Show”, “Time for Timer”, “Pac-Man”, “O. G. Readmore”, “Rubik The Amazing Cube”, “Willie Survived”, “The Littles”, “The ABC Bod Squad”, “Menudo On ABC” & “Petey The Puppy’s New Adventures” (originally aired on ABC before the live action/animated anthology series, “The Weekend Special” which also airs on said network. also, on this video) called: “Dueling Wizzars”/“Tiny Terror”/“King Bee”/“Image In Books”/“Stuck In A Pac-Jam”/“Rubik’s 1st Christmas”/“Oh, Que Ciudad”/“Lights, Camera, Littles”/“Lost In The City at Night”/“Timer In The Digestion System”/“Puppy & The Spies”/“Make A Sal-ur-day”/“Rich Mice”/“Around The World In 80 Chops”/“How To Build A Homemade Turtle”/“Tire Kicking”/“The Bionic Pac-Woman”/“Jewelry Nest”/“Chilly Dog” @ 0:24-2:58:55 & the live action “ABC Weekend Special” episode named: “All The Money In The World” based on the children’s novel written by: Bill Brittan @2:58:55.

[@MrStayOnTop5683]

Do you by chance remember the get-a-long gang? Haha! We were talking about that last night. Hell, I even had a toy of Montgomery Moose.

[@MoneMedia]

oh yea, mosdef remember get along game

[@MariselaR.da1daOnly]

I remember the Get Along Gang also!!! Awwee!

[@Dulcimerist]

Bingo the Beaver would mess stuff up all the time.

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

2:30:51 -This was my birthplace & my hometown 🗽 where I was born on the month of May 26, 1983.☺

[@80sdreamwave32]

Saturday morning Christmas cartoon nice way cool off🙂

[@MoneMedia]

Yeah thanks

[@ramonpuello4926]

👍👍wow thank you

[@MoneMedia]

No problem 👍

[@maverick744]

If I remember right this was Saturday Christmas Eve. Christmas fell on a Sunday that year..

[@ll7868]

That ATARI commercial right at the start, that was nostalgic. I had an ATARI since 1981 and throughout 1982 some of the games came with a card you signed and sent away for a limited edition ATARI Force (A.T.A.R.I. stood for Advanced Technology And Research Institute) comic book. Then in 1983, Dec 31st to be exact, DC Comics released issue 1 in a 20 issue Limited Series of ATARI Force comics as a sequel set 25 years later. I still have every issue of both series. They're not worth anything, just nostalgic value. I also have an ATARI Flashback, has all the games I played as a kid. I also just started taking drum lessons a few days before Dec. 23, 1983, I had to trade my 2 guitars (1981 Fender Strat & 1974 Les Paul) and gear for the drum lessons because I sucked at guitar and my dad had just bought Slayer's Show No Mercy, Dave Lombardo's double bass blew my 13 year old mind. March 23rd, 1984 I got my first drum kit as a 14th birdthday gift from my dad and grandparents, double bass Tama drums and Paiste cymbals just like Dave's kit. Yup, this video just flooded my skull with memories.

[@ll7868]

ATARI's Jungle Hunt and Kangaroo at 1hour 57min, I remember that commercial, I had to have Kangaroo because I was really good on the arcade version at the 7-11 by my school.

[@StephanieVanes-qb7vp]

The quaker oatmeal commercial has the little boy that is in the T.V. movie The night they saved Christmas with Jaquline Smith and Art Carney.

[@StephanieVanes-qb7vp]

Corey Feldman is so cute in his Pj's in the McDonald's commercial

[@gdupkwin9676]

Man I can't stress how much I love this channel I would love to see some thundar episodes but the service u provide is impeccable as is merry Christmas and happy holidays 2 all s.m.cartoon heads

[@MoneMedia]

Unfortunately Thundarr is heavy copyrighted

[@gdupkwin9676]

@@MoneMedia I be knowing brother believe me I know u go ALL OUT for us ,thank u blessings and happy holidays ✨️ 🙏

[@Mochahontas1154]

40 years ago

[@brandonrichardson8681]

Lmao!!! Was that an old school emergency broadcast ring during the little rascals. I haven't heard it years, so I can't remember.lol I didn't even notice it was going on until it stopped

[@MoneMedia]

Yes it was

[@hilarymorgan9301]

Even though I never got to see the Saturday morning lineup on December 24, 1983, I can confirm that some episodes in this compilation were not aired on that date. "The Little Rascals" cartoon that week was actually "Horse Sense", not "Tiny Terror" (the latter would be rebroadcast two weeks later, on January 7, 1984), and the Richie Rich cartoon episode that week was actually "Richie Hood". Plus the Richie Rich segments you posted were actually from Season 2 of "Richie Rich", originally aired two years before. And also, at that point in 1983, "The Monchhichis" aired after "The Little Rascals/Richie Rich", despite that the title of the show was "The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show". Trust me, I do vividly remember the Saturday morning lineup from that time, and I do know the episodes were aired in sequential order.

[@MoneMedia]

i guess I get an E for effort, happy holidays.

[@MariselaR.da1daOnly]

If you don't notice, this is shown beginning to end as it was aired on that day! Including the commercials!!! So you just might be wrong! This was the era of vhs or beta max for some. So if the tape was edited it was very easy to tell! This looks like it was recorded that day from the television and he is nice to put it out for us as is! I'm grateful for that!! Thanks so much by the way!!! I was 7 years when this aired and I was sitting there watching this in real time!!! Brought some tears to my eyes!! Thanks so much!!!!!

[@Dulcimerist]

16:00 - OG Readmore was the original OG!

[@tyronekiddjr4505]

Yeah this was a good Christmas eve.

[@MoneMedia]

yes it was...magical for me

[@gitana8281]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Can’t wait!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@SoshiTheYoshi]

1:10:23 Honestly one of my favorite moments in the entire show

[@MoneMedia]

lol

[@anthonyrowland9072]

I probably watched this 40 years ago.

[@TheBullshit2011]

I might get heat for this, but I remember the Superman Hot coco.and it was not good😅

[@MoneMedia]

lol

[@BubuBORG]

Nope, Ricky Martin wouldn’t join Menudo for another year after the ABC shorts.

[@Dulcimerist]

Ricky Melendez was the Ricky in this one, and is the member Ricky Martin took the place of. Interestingly enough, this video aired on Ricky Martin's 12th birthday.

[@Inziagold]

The kids today got robbed of an awesome childhood

[@MoneMedia]

damn right

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

☺Mone Media, I was 8 months old as an Infant.😊

[@CharlestonChica]

So was I!

[@jlassh]

Considering I was eight days old I remember this vividly just kidding

[@MoneMedia]

lol

[@StephanieVanes-qb7vp]

Menudo are in Spanish and English and the songs are always bubbly and fun.

[@ericrainey8224]

I was nine at the time. Didn't realize that the video game crash was just starting.

[@charlesp22]

LOL the Lotso Huggin bear commercial... that is fake made for Toy Story 3... NICE EASTER EGG!!