Sep. 1st, 2009

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My nostalgia trip down YouTube Avenue continues into the land of Saturday morning cartoons. Lots of old TV themes are there. All I had was a cassette recorder back then, so I have audio of some of the themes of the shows that aired back then, but no video.

I sometimes watch the stuff that's on now, and think to myself, "Are these better or worse than the shows I grew up with as a kid?" I look at the Doodlebops and think "escapees from a Sid & Marty Krofft theme park".

Some of the major networks have dispensed with Saturday morning cartoons hows altogether, choosing to go with news programming instead.

I know I watched a lot, but I can remember only a handful of them. Houndcats, Hong Kong Phooey, Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, the animated Star Trek, Sealab 2020, Lidsville, The Bugaloos, Big John Little Jon, Inch High Private Eye, Emergency +4, Storybook Squares, and of course, Scooby-Doo. And that's only the ones I can remember right now.

The sad part is, some of these shows probably got purged by the networks after they aired, in an effort to recycle tapes, not thinking there'd be a market for them years down the road.

What were your favorites growing up? And are todays kid shows better or worse than the ones we grew up with?
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26 years ago today (Sept. 1), a Soviet fighter jet shot down a civilian aircraft that inadvertently strayed too far into Soviet airspace. (Wikipedia article here.)

I knew one of the passengers on that flight: Woon Kwang Siow.

Woon was flying home to see his parents in Malaysia. He was a student at the University of Buffalo, and a student consultant. He also developed a Space Invaders game for the graphics terminals we had at the satellite computing site on the second floor of Furnas Hall. I still remember how he always greeted me: "Hi Jim! What's up?"

I still miss him.

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