ABC Kids (TV programming block)
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ABC Kids is a four-hour block of animated television series and live-action children's television series, broadcast on the ABC network in the U.S. and was broadcast on the CTV network in Canada on Saturday mornings until 2002. It was initiated in September 1997 as Disney's One Saturday Morning, taking on its current name on September 14, 2002. They used to air only new programs; then in 2001 reruns of Disney Channel originals started to air on the block. Since 2005, Disney Channel shows have taken up almost the entire block (excluding Power Rangers, which airs on Jetix).
It was created as a successor to the Disney Afternoon, and originally featured some of the shows that had been on it. A spin-off, Disney's One Too, aired on UPN and in syndication every weekday in the afternoon.
ABC Kids Line Up
Current as of March 2007:
Note: all times listed are Eastern.
- 8:00am Good Morning America Weekend Edition (Saturday) or local newscast
- 9:00am The Emperor's New School
- 9:30am The Replacements
- 10:00am That's So Raven (two episodes)
- 11:00am Hannah Montana
- 11:30am The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
- 12:00pm Power Rangers Operation Overdrive (two episodes)
- Note that this schedule varies by market, as some ABC affiliates may split the lineup to air on both Saturday and Sunday, due to extended local morning newscasts and/or other local/syndicated programming. Some stations (mostly the ABC O&Os) air the Power Rangers episodes from 12pm-1pm Satudays to have a local newscast lead into GMA, while several affiliates (like Milwaukee's WISN and Oklahoma City's KOCO) do not air Power Rangers at all, due to a lack of educational and informational content.
- The schedule also varies often in the months of September-December during college football season, where ABC and local affiliates move around the airing of the programs.
- The double airing of Power Rangers is to promote the Jetix block on Toon Disney.
Programs broadcast on ABC Kids
ABC Kids featured and still features some of the following series (in order of appearance):
- Fillmore! (2002-2005)
- Recess (2002-2004)
- Power Rangers (2002-present) 1, 3
- Lizzie McGuire (2001-2005) 2
- Even Stevens (2001-2005) 2
- Kim Possible (2002-TBA with a little cut in 2005) 2
- The Proud Family (2002-2006) 2
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series (2003-2006) 2
- That's So Raven (2003-present) 2
- Phil of the Future (2004-2006) 2
- W.I.T.C.H. (2005) 3
- The Buzz on Maggie (2005-2006) 2
- The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (2005-present) 2
- The Emperor's New School (2006-present) 2
- Hannah Montana (2006-present) 2
- The Replacements (2006-present) 2
1 - Originally on Fox Kids.
2 - Also on Disney Channel.
3 - Also on Jetix (on Toon Disney in the United States and Jetix channels worldwide).
Trivia
- W.I.T.C.H. replaced Kim Possible in January 2005, to only be replaced three months later with Kim Possible.
- In early 2006, the logo was moved to top right during E/I programs then the network logo used for the non-E/I programing.
- Power Rangers is, to this day since 2004, the longest running series and, as of 2007, also the only Jetix show to air on ABC Kids, even though the franchise began on Fox Kids in 1993.
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Programs broadcast on Disney's One Saturday Morning
Disney's One Saturday Morning featured the following series (in order of appearance):
- The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh
- Jungle Cubs
- Doug (as "Brand Spanking New Doug")
- 101 Dalmatians: The Series
- Recess
- Pepper Ann
- Hercules: The Animated Series
- Science Court, or Squigglevision
- The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
- Mickey MouseWorks
- Sabrina: The Animated Series
- The Weekenders
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
- Teacher's Pet
- Disney's House of Mouse
- Lloyd in Space
- Teamo Supremo
- Nightmare Ned
- Garfield & Friends
Disney's One Saturday Morning segments
- From 1997 to 2000, One Saturday Morning featured a wide variety of interstitial content that filled in the gaps between shows. During this period, the show was hosted from September 1997 to June 1998 by Charlie (played by Jessica Prunell) and Phil (played by Travis Wester) and was hosted from September 1998 to June 2000 by Meme (played by Valarie Rae Miller) and Jelly Roll (a talking elephant voiced by Brad Garrett). These included:
- Mrs. Munger's Class: A brief skit about a class featuring manipulated talking yearbook photographs. The Mrs. Munger's Class segments were later withdrawn from broadcast because the people (members of an actual middle school class in 1975) whose images were manipulated for use in this skit had not given permission, and several of them sued. [1] A similar skit titled Centerville, using authorized photographs, was later added in place of Mrs. Munger's Class.
- Manny the Uncanny: A live action skit in which the eccentric Manny (played by Paul Rugg) visits some real world location. Activities included taxiderming a carrot and playing with live bugs at a research lab.
- Tube Dwellers: A CGI segment about 2 guys named Bob who live in your TV and fix it as their job. Their adventures are usually amusing, since both of them are pretty dim-witted, resulting in many hilarious escapades.
- Great Minds Think For Themselves: A short animated segment featuring Genie from Aladdin (voiced by Robin Williams) in which he profiles a famous American, such as Benjamin Franklin or Albert Einstein.
- How Things Werk: A '50s style cartoon segment where Mr. Werks would explain to a kid named Billy how an ordinary item worked (such as an umbrella or chalkboard). The explanation was invariably not only wrong but ridiculously complicated, branching almost into the realm of conspiracy theory. This segment took place in a '50s style comic book.
- Flipbook: A small segment in which a Flipbook would be flipped, resulting in a funny animation. One of the shortest segments on Disney's One Saturday Morning.
- Flyndiggery Do!: A humorous live-action segment hosted by Alistair Flyndiggery, an Austalian nature show host, who talked about and showed different animals.
- Monkey Boys: The live-action shenanigans of two men, Buddy and Hodge-Podge, who almost always make a mess of things.
- Find Out Why: A short animated segment featuring Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King, in which they gave insteresting facts about science and nature. This segment was a counterpart to Great Minds Think for Themselves.
- What's The Diff?: A segment where two seemingly identical pictures would be shown, and the viewer would have 30 seconds to identify the six differences between the pictures.
- Disney's One Saturday Morning Building: Disney's One Saturday Morning took place in a giant building where Meme and Jelly Roll were the hosts of the program, and had some of their own segments, such as How Much Stuff Could An Elephant Crush? (Each week, Jelly Roll attempts to crush something, resulting in a funny outcome), Ask Derby (Meme asks her friend Derby, the geriatric mouse, a question, to which he responds with a ridiculous answer), Ms. Moose (Meme and her friends Jelly Roll and Derby visit Ms. Moose, a person in a large moose suit) and others.