HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY TO......KIDS DUBBA-DUBBA WB!
My all time favorite Saturday Morning block launched on this day 30 years ago, less than 2 weeks after I was born. "The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries", "Freakazoid," and "Earthworm Jim" all premiered as brand-new series on this day, as well as the premiere of the "Pinky and the Brain" standalone series. But the real headliners were the Warner Siblings, as "Animaniacs" had jumped ship to Kids' WB! after being on Fox Kids for two years....
While Kids' WB! was popular to start out with, the fledgling block would get a huge boost in 1999 when "Pokemon" began airing. From there, other action cartoons and anime followed such as "Batman Beyond," X-Men Evolution," "Yu-Gi-Oh!", "Cardcaptors," and even (one of) my personal favorites: "Static Shock"!
Kids' WB! Also had its own weekday afternoon and weekday morning blocks as well, but the weekday morning block ended in 2001, with the weekday afternoon block ending in 2005. With The WB becoming the CW in 2006, it wouldn't be much longer until Kids' WB! met its demise.
On May 17, 2008, Kids' WB! aired for the very last time, and it would be replaced by the CW4Kids, and later Vortexx, until 2014.
The era of Saturday Morning cartoons on broadcast television (well, if you're not counting MeTV Toons, which I consider to be a spiritual successor to Boomerang and the early years of Cartoon Network) might be a bygone era, but man, did we have it lucky with Kids' WB and other Saturday Morning blocks at the time....
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