My top memory of Saturday mornings in the early 1980s is that I would often wake up before the stations signed on for the day. Of course, that was earlier than I would have to get up on a school day. On a school day it was hell to get out of bed, but somehow my sleeping brain understood that it was almost cartoon time and woke me up early on Saturdays.

I was awake before anyone else in the house. I'd turn on the TV and wait for the test pattern to cease, which I think was at 6 a.m. Then there was some kind of music and footage of the Statue of Liberty to announce the start of the broadcast day, if I remember correctly. I want to say Superfriends was the first thing on and Looney Tunes came later in the morning. There might have been a cartoon I didn't like much that was in the middle and I half paid attention to it while playing with Matchbox cars or something.

Although I watched many different cartoons, I think Looney Tunes was really the only one I truly enjoyed. Some of the others were OK, but Looney Tunes was easily the best. (They might have called it Bugs Bunny and Friends or something else instead of Looney Tunes, but whatever.)

In the non-animated category I liked Land of the Lost and just a few days ago I had a dream I was out in Downtown Duluth with a friend and we went to a bar on First Street that was actually more like a cave. All of the other patrons were Sleestaks, and we stayed and had drinks with them. It was a fantastic dream ... and was kind of similar to real-life experiences at the Shish Ka Bar back in the day.

Whenever Space Giants would get aired on WTBS I locked in on it, but that was kind of rare and not a Saturday morning thing. But it falls roughly into the same genre as Land of the Lost.