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Road Runner, that Coyote’s after you. Road Runner, whether he catches you your through. – Theme to The Road Runner Show, which premiered in the fall of 1966.

Showtime! After years of playing around on Saturday mornings to find the right mixture to bring in the young viewers, the networks took the bull by the horns in the fall of 1966 and ushered in the Golden Age of Saturday dawn cartoons. No less than 11 new cartoon series presented during the 1966-67 season. Many of them were action and superhero-oriented thanks to the popularity of ABC’s live-action Batman

The 1966 season plus began the domination of Saturday mornings by two animation studios — Hanna-Barbera and Filmation. For Hanna-Barbera that would be the moment year of original Saturday daylight programming. For Filmation that would be the first of many years producing fairly entertaining and slightly better lively fare that featured more action and adventure and less in the way of talking animals.

So, whether you have your bowl of Cocoa Puffs in front of you, let’s see what you were watching back in 1966.

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Original post by Richard Keller