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Saved By The Bell, definitely. I also have memories of watching Double Dare on Nickelodeon in that time slot and dreaming of winning a spot on the show with a friend of mine. We would have dominated.

I don't remember watching TV after school. I mean, yeah, my parents were always working, and we were pretty much on our own most of the time, but I think I actually spent the time until they got home doing my homework. Now, before you accuse me of being the Queen of All Nerds, know that I had two reasons for getting my homework done immediately: 1)My dad demanded it, and he was one scary motherfucker back then, and 2)I realized pretty early on that I was smarter than my parents and waiting around for them to "help" with my homework just meant that I was waiting around just to do it myself anyway. I watched most of my TV in the early evenings - Jeopardy was on at 7:30 back then, and then we watched the 8 o'clock shows - Cosby, Family Ties, Growing Pains....

No joke here, my kids come home and watch:

1. Sponge Bob Squareohmyfuckingodwhatisthisshit pants

2. Fraggle Rock

3. The Smurfs

I'm so proud...wipes tear...except for that first piece of shit.

My Ukranian friend told me he learned English from Charles in Charge. Which I found hilarious. P.S. His English is really good.

DUCKTALES >
TALE SPIN >
DARKWING DUCK >
GARGOYLES

is a lineup that will never be beaten.

And afterthat, we could turn over to PBS and catch some Square One or Carmen Sandiego. Then Jeopardy.

NO!
How dare you try to do something on this site respectfully?!

1. Duck Tales

2. Tale Spin

3. Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers

4. Cosby Show

5. Hard Copy

I was partial to The Merv Griffin Show.

Bucko and MG I totally agree with you.

..add to that the Adventures of Batman, Adventures of Superman, X-MEN and you have happiness

We had a slighly different line up in Australia (although I'm glad to say that we didn't miss out on saved by the bell) but the greatest shows to come home and watch were Ship to Shore and Round the Twist.

I still know every word to Round the Twist. On a recent holiday I magically came across the place where it was filled. It was like coming home all over again.

"The Brady Bunch" and "Leave It to Beaver" were definitely part of my line-up. I also watched a lot of "You Can't Do That on Television" on Nickelodeon (Ahh, Alister was so dreamy in my little pre-pubescent mind), and way too much "Dance Party USA" on none other than USA Network. There was some regular who always wore dark sunglasses and acid washed jeans that I had the biggest crush on. Thankfully, I don't remember his name.

Australian person! Surely you watched: 'With children from all places, with all kinds of faces... the lost is-laaaaaand, the lost is-laaaaand', followed by: 'I know a valley, I know a valley, my secret valley the world likes to see' to the tune of Waltzing Matilda. At least that's the quality Australian drama we were stuck with in New Zealand in the 80s.

I remember watching my share of the Mike Douglas show, Merv Griffin and the John Davidson Show (even at 10 I knew he was a crap hack entertainer, plus I hated him just for leaving "That's Incredible" and striking out on his own.)

In the Bay Area we had "Captain Cosmic" with Bob Wilkins the "Creature Feature" guy dressed in a space/superhero suit and helmet showing all these wonderful Japanese shows like Ultraman and Goldar & Silvar. His robot sidekick was the thinly-veiled "Dialing for Dollars" machine.

But my favorite was the 3:30 movie on channel 7, before Oprah & Donohue took over the timeslot prior to the evening news. We watched it daily while doing our homework. While they showed their share of choppy versions of Beach Blanket movies, the Planet of the Apes series and Vincent Price films, they also had wonderfully bad movies like "Ants", "Killer Bees", "Food of the Gods", "Night of the Leper" and terrible melodramas. I had to wait for MST3K to see these again, and welcomed the commentary, as my brother & I had done as little kids when we saw them the first time.

One in particular stuck with me through the years, "Bad Ronald" about this kid who gets hidden away by his mother in a sealed room, only to have his mother die and another family move into his house with him still there in the walls. It was a twist on the typical Hhaunted house movie. I need to see that movie again.

I don't remember 'Lost Island, vab, but I have memories of something called 'Ocean Girl' about some chick who live on an island, and her best friend was a whale called Charlie, and everyone else lived in something resembling a space station which I think was actually underwater. And damn if we didn't all want to be her...

Other than that I distinctly remember watching what I assume were re-runs of Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. And Sesame Street.

There was a glorious window of my childhood where the tv-programming god smiled down on my schedule and gave me reruns of "Quantum Leap' that would start within 15 minutes of my return home from elementary school. How do I know it was the tv-programming god? The reruns stopped in middle school when I started playing soccer after school every day. Seriously, within a week of tryouts it war replaced by something else as the channel's 3-5pm programming block.

There is nothing, NOTHING, better than coming home from elementary school (where even at a private school, you were a big enough nerd to start a "mystery solving club") to be able to watch Dr. Sam Beckett (himself, a nerd) righting what once went wrong.

O.K. Canada. Help me out.

1. Beachcombers
2. The Kids of Degrassi
3. Degrassi Junior High (the original)
4. Fraggle Rock

Points to those who know the first one.

I remember coming home and eating lunch in front of the tv while watching bad teenage telenovelas with our nanny.

And then it was on...

1. Duck Tales
2. Chip and Dale
3. The Smurfs
4. My Little Pony (yeah, fuck you!)
5. JEM!

80s cartoons were the tits!

I was only seven, but I may have gotten my first erection whilst watching JEM.

I thought everyone engaged in the time-honored tradition of fighting with their siblings after school?

I know Beachcombers and Breaker High and both kinda sucked but i definitely watched them. Any old Degrassi is good TV. Was The Raccoons a Canadian show?

Carmen Sandiego was awesome. I liked Animaniacs too. Does anyone remember Freakazoid? I used to love that.

Sadly, I watched all these shows and more (except for the Canadian/Aussie specific ones)!

Darkwing, Talespin, Doug (oh doug how i loved thee!), sailor moon, dragonball z, animaniacs, the real ghostbusters, saved by the bell (all incarnations!), square one, carmen san diego, smurfs, rainbow brite, my little pony, care bears, duck tales, fraggle rock....

And we get a shout out to the tv shows you watched in the morning before school? My mom always had to drag me away from these shows:
Babar
Gummi Bears
Adventures of TinTin

Square One was amazing, I would totally watch that show now.

1. Animaniacs
2. Tiny Toons (Animaniacs was a lot smarter and a tad more twisted than Tiny Toons, but TT was still quality viewing)
3. The Dukes of Hazzard. Don't fight me on this one.
4. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (eventually, after I had watched the entire Dukes series)

So if there was a write in for the ab contest, I would have entered Scott Baio...cerca 1990.

My sister and I actually used to love reruns of The Scarecrow and Mrs. King after school

Robotech, muthafuckas!

1. Kate and Allie
2. Carol Burnett Show
3. You Can't Do That On Television
4. The Andy Griffith Show
5. Alice

Early to rise...early to bed...in and between I cooked and cleaned and went out of my head...

1. Square One
2. Carmen Sandiego
3. Wishbone
4. Darkwing Duck
5. Rescue Rangers

I gotta give you props on the Leave it to Beaver - my younger siblings actually watch it on DVD now. It's an unintentionally hilarious time capsule, but the big brother/kid brother dynamics still ring true.

Mo'fo's

GI Joe

Transformers

Masters of the Universe

Silverhawks

Voltron

Who's the Mofo Boss!

Hello, fellow Canadian, I watched the "Beachcombers", too! Jeez, on Halloween I could go as "Relic". All I would need is a blue toque, some beat-up denim, rubber boots and a boat for hauling logs.

Oh, and I also watched: Gilligan's Island, Mr. Dressup (or did that come on in the morning?), classic Looney Tunes cartoons (mixed with a little Tex Avery now and then), and some kind of cartoon where a group of teens turned into superhuman birds of prey.

Gilligan's Island, Hogan's Heroes, Brady Bunch, Bewitched, and a local show called Cousin Cliff's Clubhouse. Cousin Cliff just died recently. Another part of my childhood gone.*sniff*

Let's see, after school it was mainly Wishbone, Carmen Sandiego, Bill Nye the Science Guy and later after we got cable, State of Grace, Recess and So Weird if I got lucky. Early mornings before school was Woody Woodpecker, Gilligan's Island, M*A*S*H*, Brady Bunch and Bewitched depending on the day, which parent was waking me up and time of year (Indiana at that point was the only state in the damn union NOT to follow daylight savings which tended to screw with TV lineups).

The generation gap on this thread is nauseating me ever so slightly...erp. Saved by the Bell? I'd rather listen to their music than watch their TV.

I was a latchkey kid before the term had even been invented. I wore the key around my neck on a chain, and I walked four blocks home from third grade at GoodOldWhoTheFuck Elementary School in South San Francisco and watched TV for a couple of hours until one of my parents tore themselves away from their jobs. The local UHF station showed (what I later learned were) cheap Japanese cartoons: Speed Racer and Aquaman. Oh yeah! I used to doodle the Mach 5 over all my school books.

A few years later there was dinnertime TV, too. Match Game and The Muppet Show. We weren't allowed to eat in the living room, but my dad had a little yellow portable B&W TV in the kitchen, and he would turn it to face the dining room while we ate (if he was in a good mood). The weird thing is that while I have fond memories of those shows I absolutely cannot STAND to have the TV on during mealtime now, yet my wife and kids can't eat without the idiot box on. Drives me up the fucking wall...yeah, yeah, get off my lawn and all that shiz.

double dare
fun house
the wonder years
super mario bros
saved by the bell

We have TiVo. There are no time restrictions to what my daughter wants to watch after her homework is done.

Usually it's Scrubs, Malcolm in the Middle, or Project Runway/Top Chef (whatever is running at the time) from the night before. In her younger days, it was Dragon Tales. Good gravy, she loved that show.

I think I'm stricter about the amount of TV she watches than my own parents were. The TV doesn't go on until everything ELSE is done (and that includes extra algebra homework because she's struggling with it). And there's two weeknights when she doesn't get to see anything because we have other stuff going on.

She makes up for it when she visits her father. They watch cheesy '80s horror movies practically the entire weekend.

blacksred, this show where this old dr had 2 daughters and the one daughter had a real deep voice = Empty Nest, maybe?

Leigh, I totally remember Noozles! I always think of that show whenever someone tells me that I look like my dad because there was this episode in which someone told the main character of that show that she looked like her dad, and she got all freaked out about it (she was worried that it meant she would look manly and not pretty). Her koala friends arranged for her to see a picture of herself in the future and she discovered that she looked fine. I felt like someone finally understood me and the fear I felt about looking like my dad!

I watched a lot of TV back in the day (who am I kidding, I still watch a fuck ton of tv), so all of these shows are just making smile and clap happily, which is sort of awkward for my coworkers I think. Eh, they should've figured out that I'm a total weirdo before now.

Anyway, in my neck of the woods, Tiny Toon Adventures was on in the morning, so it was definitely part of my morning TV ritual along with Gargoyles and James Bond, Jr. depending on which one Fox aired. And then Power Rangers came along so that became a staple also. After school was Saved by the Bell, MMC, and Kids, Incorporated. As the years wore on, the lineup changed and I've watched many, many of the shows already mentioned. When and how did I watch all of these shows?!

meaux - YES !!

Denis Blunden & the genius of Head of the Class.

When I was a kid it was definitely Nickelodeon after school...Salute your Shorts, Hey Dude, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Double Dare...but Animaniacs was also a staple as I got a little older. I recall my parents also enjoying it, hee!

ph-I loved Danger Mouse! Though I watched it in the morning before school :)

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