SATURDAY MORNING SERIAL: 'BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES'

Earlier this week, Stay Tuned mentioned the release of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, a 1990 animated spin-off from the feature film, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The cartoon was an interesting venture because it retained the film's original actors to provide the voice work. Keanu Reeves voiced a toon? Who'da thunk it! The characters of Bill and Ted were riding the popularity tide and thanks to the film, every kid wanted to be some version of the laid back dudes.

Picking up where the movie left off, the animated Bill and Ted continued having time travel adventures and almost every week the pair traveled to certain period for help with their assignment and/or predicament. The cartoon only lasted for two seasons and all the original actors vacated their roles for the shortened second season. A live-action version of the film was scheduled to premiere after the animated show ended but production was delayed thanks to the underwhelming sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.

For today's Saturday Morning Serial, we present the first episode (One Sweet and Sour Chinese Adventure to Go) of the animated Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures. Enjoy!

SATURDAY MORNING SERIAL: 'SHIRT TA-TA-TA-ALES'!

This week's Saturday Morning Serial selection takes us back to the early 1980s on the NBC network. Shirt Tales was a cartoon that was originally created as a line of greeting cards. The popularity of the animal characters wearing t-shirts with different greetings piqued network interest (and of course the $$$ it could generate).

Shirt Tales followed the adventures of five animals who worked and lived in a tree in Oak Tree Park. Rick Raccoon, Pammy Panda, Tyg Tiger, Bogey Orangutan, and Digger Mole (Kip Kangaroo was added to the cast in the second season) always found themselves in some kind of kooky situation. They would solve crimes or sneak out of the park, and try to avoid alerting the park ranger, Mr. Dinkle, who was always two steps behind the fuzzy fivesome. The five animals wore shirts that would occasionally flash a message that reflected their thoughts. Thus the name Shirt Tales.

The cartoon was on network television until the mid-80s, on both NBC and CBS, and reruns have spotted most recently on Boomerang. Each episode consists of two 11-minute segments, and we have provided you with an episode that features the joys and pains of arcade video games, and discovering a spaceship.

Enjoy!

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SATURDAY MORNING SERIAL: I PITY THE FOOL 'MISTER T'

If you grew up in the 1980s then more than likely you remember the action series The A-Team, and in particular its big, bad star Mr. T. Well did you know that Mr. T had his own action cartoon on Saturday mornings?

From 1983 to 1986 Mister T was on NBC's Saturday morning cartoon line-up. In the toon, Mr. T coaches a gymnastics team that travels the world and, apparently, solve mysteries during the down time. Who doesn't like to solve mysteries in their spare time? Well we've provided an episode of the show for our Saturday Morning Serial.

The first season of Mister T is available through the Warner Archive Collection, the made-to-order library from Warner Bros. Though 13 of the 30 episodes are only included in this set, it hits the spot for any Mister T fan. You can purchase the set by clicking on the following link: Mister T: The Complete First Season (Animated Series) | Shop.WarnerArchive.com

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