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Sylvester

and Tweety / CBS

The whole Warner Brothers gang was back for another year. 8:30

Bugs Bunny /

Road Runner Hour / CBS

So popular CBS leads with an hour and a half of old Warner Brothers cartoons. CBS shuffled the schedule mid-season, shortened this show to 30 minutes, and 'Clue Club' moved to this timeslot. Bugs' and Road Runner's show returned to an hour length in the summer. 9:30

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle / CBS

Edgar Rice Burrough's jungle character comes to Saturday mornings as a cartoon. For decades, you could always find the old 1940's Tarzan movies airing Saturday and Sunday afternoons on local stations. 10:00

Shazam / Isis / CBS

(debut)

Third year for teenager Billy Batson, who travels around in a van with his 'Mentor' and yells "Shazam" to turn into the mighty Captain Marvel. Starring John Davey , Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. Teen idol Michael Gray slid into obscurity and (briefly) drug addiction after 'Shazam' ended. He now owns a flower shop in LA. John Davey was the second actor to play the Captain, the first was Jackson Bostwick. CBS couldn't call the show 'Captain Marvel' because of possible trademark infringement with Marvel Comics - even though Captain Marvel was created decades before Marvel Comics came along. Created for television and seen in separate adventures and sometimes with Captain Marvel, mighty Isis was mild-mannered science teacher Andrea Thomas in her day gig. After finding a magic amulet on an archaeological dig, she takes on super powers when she utters the words, "Oh Mighty Isis!" and displays the golden amulet. Isis was played by the lovely Joanna Cameron, her pet crow was named Tut. Shazam/Isis was moved to 11:00 mid-season. Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle and The New Adventures of Batman filled this timeslot starting in February. The New Adventures of Batman featured the voices of Adam West and Burt Ward and ran until 1981. 11:00

Ark II / CBS

(debut)

Live action futuristic drama about a roving scientific team in the 25th century looking for lost civilizations in a souped-up mini-van after a great disaster has ravaged the Earth. Terry Lester as Noah, Jose Flores as Samuel, Jean Marie Hon as Ruth, along with Adam, the talking chimp. Very similar in concept to Gene Roddenberry's 'Earth II' TV-movie/pilot. Typical plots: The Ark II crew finds a village where old and sick people are left to survive on their own in the wilderness, three telepathic kids need rescuing, Geoffrey Lewis' spring water causes instant aging, Samuel creates a fumbling robot that saves them from a strange gas. An old con man (Jonathan Harris from 'Lost In Space') leads a band of marauding orphans. A drought has the team looking for a 20th century rain making machine. The 'Arkites' find a village where technology is considered evil and meet up with a futuristic 'Robin Hood'. Only one season's worth of episodes were filmed, Ark II moved to 12:30 in February. A second season of reruns were seen on Sundays in 1977.

Ark II now on DVD! 11:30 Clue Club / CBS

(debut)

Hanna-Barbera rips off their own Scooby-concept - only now it's two dogs and a group of teenagers out solving mysteries. Lasts just this season, but is brought back for reruns in 1978. 12:00

Fat Albert and the

Cosby Kids / CBS

This season's storylines: Wombly refuses to quit smoking until his dad has a coughing attack. A TV addict's habit interferes with his schoolwork. Rudy quits school because he hates his new teacher. Edward has trouble backing up his tall tales. The gang comes in contact with drugs. A handicapped boy thinks he won't be accepted because of his disability. A classmate's parents aren't getting along. A friend has personal hygiene problems. The guys get stage fright before a contest and homesick at camp. All of these problems are solved or at least resolved with the help of Bill this season. 12:30 Way Out Games / CBS Sonny Fox hosted this game show with young teams from all over the country competing in athletic feats. In the Fifties, Sonny Fox was the original host of Wonderama (still running on Sunday mornings in 1976 over on the Metromedia 'network' with host Bob McAllister). Both of CBS & ABC's attempts to revive Fifties' kid show hosts with Saturday morning game shows failed this year (Soupy Sales at noon was the other). Way Out Games moved to 1:00 mid-season, then to Sunday mornings but most local stations dropped it in favor of syndicated shows and sports. In 1977, Sonny Fox was made head of Saturday Morning programming for NBC. 1:00

The CBS Children's Film Festival / CBS

Another season hosted by Kukla, Fran and Ollie - also kid show hosts from the fifties. This anthology featured hour and half-hour films, like "Cold Pizza" from Canada.

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Tom and Jerry / Grape

Ape / Mumbley Show / ABC

The snickering dog from 'Wacky Races' joins his fellow Hanna-Barbera creations in an hour of empty-headed cartoons. The show was downgraded to a half-hour midseason. 9:00

Jabberjaw / ABC

(debut)

Now this was a good show! Jabberjaw was a shark with a big mouth, but I forget what the point of this cartoon was, solving undersea mysteries probably. JJ was also the drummer for his rock band, The Neptunes 9:30

The Scooby Doo

Dynamutt Hour / ABC

(debut)

A robotic version of Scooby joins the cowardly great Dane for a hour. Midseason, the show is lengthened to an hour and a half. 10:30



The Krofft

Supershow / ABC

(debut) Starring Captain Kool and the Kongs, a "rock group", t served as hosts for an orgy of Sid and Marty Krofft weirdness. This show was made up of a number of different segments, including: Wonderbug was a beach buggy that talked and got into all kinds of trouble with his teenage companions. Sort of a live action 'Speed Buggy'. Dr. Shrinker was an evil scientist who could shrink his unfortunate victims with his deadly shrink ray. A tiny group of his victims fight back. Billy Barty played Dr. Shrinker’s assistant. Electra Woman and Dynagirl, the darling duo of Saturday mornings, are reporters that fight crime as costumed daredolls. Diedre Hall stars as Superherionne Electra Woman with Judy Strangis as her sidekick Dynagirl. The Lost Saucer is seen in reruns from the previous season. Starring Jim Nabors and Ruth Buzzi as two aliens along with two Earthling companions lost in space. Both Nabors and Buzzi were srtarring in top rated prime time shows (Gomer Pyle USMC & Laugh-in) just a few years earlier. The Krofft Supershow started out at an hour and a half, but was trimmed to an hour midseason, and Superfriends returned for a long run. Are you worried about MB5-858 and HP2-Z07? Check out our latest resources like oracle 11g certification and N10-004 questions for practice with definite guarantee of 646-671 dumps. 12:00

Junior Almost

Anything Goes / ABC

(debut)

Based on a popular nighttime game show of the day. Legendary kid show host and TV pioneer Soupy Sales was the host, young people competed in wacky games for scholarships and merchandise. Celebrity guest-stars help out as coaches, including William Shatner, Marty Allen, Phyllis Diller, Jo Anne Worley, Abe Vigoda, Leslie Anne Warren, Avery Schieber, Don Knotts, Liz Torres, Jackie Cooper, Vicki Lawrence and Bill Dailey. Lasts only one year, moving to Sunday mornings in February. The show was replaced midseason by 'The Oddball Couple' reruns from 1975, a cartoon loosely based on 'The Odd Couple' sitcom that ran on ABC in primetime for 5 years. 12:30

American Bandstand / ABC Elton John and Kiki Dee appear on the season opener - performing their big hit song "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart". Also appearing on the season opener, Captain Kool and the Kongs and mime superstars Shields and Yarnell, a duo with their own variety show on CBS. Later episodes this season bring: Pointer Sisters, Rufus with Chaka Khan, Mellisa Manchester, Stephen Bishop, Deniece Williams, The Ritchie Family, The Sylvers, Bay City Rollers, Johnny Bristol, Four Tops, Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots (performing 'Disco Duck'), David Brenner, Walter Murphy, Rick Springfield and a computerized hand puppet named Rodney. Starring Dick Clark, AB was the longest-running network series in 1976. Clark was on the air 6 days a week on ABC in 1976, with '$25,000 Pyramid' seen Monday-Friday. A catalog of all

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