MeTV Toons 2025 Schedule

[nysfboy328@aim.c]

Any chance that the MeTV Toons schedule will launch its 1st Quarter schedule of 2025 with Animation Antiques debuting?

[Charles Knox]

If I find any announcements or articles on the net, I will ither post it here or in the METV Toons post topic. Today there is a marathon of black and white cartoons, which would probably be similar to what Animation Antiques will like on METV Toons.

[cd637299]

Originally Posted by Charles Knox

If I find any announcements or articles on the net, I will ither post it here or in the METV Toons post topic. Today there is a marathon of black and white cartoons, which would probably be similar to what Animation Antiques will like on METV Toons.

“Animation Antiques”? Is that a firm go? Sounds great.

Frankly, looking at that B&W roster from last week (I was out of town, so I couldn’t see it), I wasn’t all that impressed.

It wouldn’t hurt to show some silent cartoons as well—they’re all PD now, right?

They didn’t show enough non-Porky WB stuff IMO. Merrie Melodies pre-1935 would be great to see, like Goopy Geer, Piggy, et al. Also Ted “Is Everybody Happy?” Lewis.

Even Nickelodeon ran Bosko Looney Tunes. We all know what he was supposed to be, but mehhh fhe character is innocuous. I personally never cared for Buddy, but they might as well run them.

IMO outside of “Plane Dippy,” I never felt Porky to be a strong character or even funny. But it is what it is!

cd

[stevea]

Originally Posted by cd637299

“Animation Antiques”? Is that a firm go? Sounds great.

Frankly, looking at that B&W roster from last week (I was out of town, so I couldn’t see it), I wasn’t all that impressed.

It wouldn’t hurt to show some silent cartoons as well—they’re all PD now, right?

They didn’t show enough non-Porky WB stuff IMO. Merrie Melodies pre-1935 would be great to see, like Goopy Geer, Piggy, et al. Also Ted “Is Everybody Happy?” Lewis.

Even Nickelodeon ran Bosko Looney Tunes. We all know what he was supposed to be, but mehhh fhe character is innocuous. I personally never cared for Buddy, but they might as well run them.

IMO outside of “Plane Dippy,” I never felt Porky to be a strong character or even funny. But it is what it is!

cd

I don't know if the Porky Pig show that ABC ran for a while in the 60s was successful, but it sure didn't have anywhere near the run the rest of the Looney Tunes had on CBS and ABC.

For the Black Friday stunt, they sure had a lot of other cartoons they could have chosen besides Porky. For that matter, there are a fair number of Porkys the MeTV networks haven't run, period.

I'd like to see the January schedule, too. We're overdue for getting the Hanna-Barbera cartoons (Huck/Yogi/Quick Draw and all their associated characters), in my view.

[cd637299]

The Porky Pig Show ran on ABC 1964-67, and I am not sure if it was even carried in Miami. I think I tuned to the West Palm Beach ABC station for it.

The P’Pig Show is known for having opening/closing NOT from WB, but rather Hal Seeger Productions (!!). I’m sure both are on YT. Barbara Cameron wrote the theme (as she did for The Road Runner Show).

I do have 1 ep of it from the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960’s Vol 2 IIRC. The original closing had an incorrect copyright date for “Scaredy Cat,” showing 1957 (in Roman numerals of course) and not the proper 1947. One bumper included a scene from “Dough for the Do-Do.”

As to running the old H-B Huck/Yogi/Quick Draw, Toons already shows the original Yogi in short clips; why it’s holding back from showing entire cartoons is anybody’s guess. Shrug.

cd

[stevea]

Thanks for the correction--I thought I had read somewhere it was on NBC.

If it was on at the same time as the CBS variously titled shows, I was watching those.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by cd637299

“Animation Antiques”? Is that a firm go? Sounds great.

Frankly, looking at that B&W roster from last week (I was out of town, so I couldn’t see it), I wasn’t all that impressed.

It wouldn’t hurt to show some silent cartoons as well—they’re all PD now, right?

They didn’t show enough non-Porky WB stuff IMO. Merrie Melodies pre-1935 would be great to see, like Goopy Geer, Piggy, et al. Also Ted “Is Everybody Happy?” Lewis.

Even Nickelodeon ran Bosko Looney Tunes. We all know what he was supposed to be, but mehhh fhe character is innocuous. I personally never cared for Buddy, but they might as well run them.

IMO outside of “Plane Dippy,” I never felt Porky to be a strong character or even funny. But it is what it is!

cd

Re Goopy Geer: curiously, MeTV has played at least one of the three Goopy Geer cartoons, probably two, but the debut cartoon, titled "Goopy Geer," is only on MeTV Toons.

The other two cartoons featuring Goopy are "Moonlight for Two" and "The Queen Was in the Parlor." A slightly earlier cartoon, "Freddy the Freshman" has Goopy's girlfriend and has never shown on the MeTV networks, probably due to stereotypes [it's available on Blu-Ray, on a Warner Archive 2024 release, "The Mask of Fu-Manchu" (along with "Queen...Parlor")]. All these cartoons are from 1932.

Unrelated to Goopy, another 30s cartoon, in early two-strip (red and green) Technicolor, "My Green Fedora," debuted on MeTV Toons this fall, never having been shown on MeTV. Unlike many of these very old Warner cartoons, this one actually had more of a story, rather than just hyping their movie music, making it a bit more enjoyable than some of the others (IMO). By the way, this one's not on any currently available home video source.

[24/7 reruns]

Recently on Boomerang's Looney Tunes they have run many non Porky Pig black and white cartoons as well as many two strip color cartoons.

With MeTV Toons showing more Hanna Barbera cartoon I hope they can do a similar setup as Boomerang did with Boomerang Zoo. Besides the Hanna Barbera animal characters the animal character shorts that ran on Underdog and Rocky & Bullwinkle. It would be hard to actually add Underdog and Rocky & Bullwinkle episodes since both use a continuation format with those cartoons.

Also, all of the other studios that have animal characters could be factored in. It's amazing to see how many cartoon characters are based on animals.

[nysfboy328@aim.c]

Any shows that are new, back and gone for January 2025?

[stevea]

Originally Posted by cd637299

The Porky Pig Show ran on ABC 1964-67, and I am not sure if it was even carried in Miami. I think I tuned to the West Palm Beach ABC station for it.

The P’Pig Show is known for having opening/closing NOT from WB, but rather Hal Seeger Productions (!!). I’m sure both are on YT. Barbara Cameron wrote the theme (as she did for The Road Runner Show).

I do have 1 ep of it from the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960’s Vol 2 IIRC. The original closing had an incorrect copyright date for “Scaredy Cat,” showing 1957 (in Roman numerals of course) and not the proper 1947. One bumper included a scene from “Dough for the Do-Do.”

As to running the old H-B Huck/Yogi/Quick Draw, Toons already shows the original Yogi in short clips; why it’s holding back from showing entire cartoons is anybody’s guess. Shrug.

cd

Supposedly, Warners is working on remastering all the old Huck/Yogi/ Quick Draw shows, and they're having a difficult time. That was brought up on one of the Warner Archive podcasts. Eventually, these are supposedly headed to MeTV Toons.

[24/7 reruns]

Originally Posted by stevea

Supposedly, Warners is working on remastering all the old Huck/Yogi/ Quick Draw shows, and they're having a difficult time. That was brought up on one of the Warner Archive podcasts. Eventually, these are supposedly headed to MeTV Toons.

Boomerang runs Yogi Bear cartoons and don't look bad. Some time ago they ran Wally Gator. Those cartoon did looked like they needed some restoration.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by 24/7 reruns

Boomerang runs Yogi Bear cartoons and don't look bad. Some time ago they ran Wally Gator. Those cartoon did looked like they needed some restoration.

I don't get Boomerang on Comcast, but I bought some DVDs of Quick Draw cartoons copied off that channel and they looked downright awful. But I don't know how old they are and whether they were copied originally on VHS.

[nysfboy328@aim.c]

The schedule for January 1, 2025 is on TV Insider. Hopefully, Animation Antiques will premiere that day.

[24/7 reruns]

Originally Posted by nysfboy328@aim.c

The schedule for January 1, 2025 is on TV Insider. Hopefully, Animation Antiques will premiere that day.

Can you send the link?

[nysfboy328@aim.c]

I will as soon as they send the full schedule.