WGN Channel 9 - Cartoon Capers (Opening, 1978)
Here's the opening moments of "Cartoon Capers" on WGN Channel 9. Includes:
"Last Farewell" video animated station ID (voiceover by Bob Bell who also provides time check)
Brief shot of Cartoon Capers bumper slide - anyone remember this?
Accompanying music consisting of 1945-55 version of "Merrily We Roll Along" as heard on the opening of countless Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" cartoons - dissolving into opening title sequence and first moments of 1951 Porky Pig cartoon "Dog Collared" (albeit from a print of the 1957-58 "Blue Ribbon" reissue; this was one of 156 cartoons that comprised the 1969 syndicated "Porky Pig and Friends" package that also yielded the infamous hand-colored versions of 1936-43 "Looney Tunes" cartoons which were originally released in black-and-white)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, June 29th 1978 at 8:00am.
Date Uploaded: 06/11/2013
Tags: 1970s WGN Channel 9 Kids' Stuff
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GHilbrich 06/11/2013 Reply
I remember this based only on the caricature of the Frankenstein monster in the bottom right corner. I was a huge fan of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein at that time (had the 3 minute Castle Films 8mm version) and that caricature is the only reason this slide is familiar to me...but I have been mistakenly recalling this as "Cartoon Carnival" all these years.
ArmitageNLowell 06/11/2013 Reply
Wasn't Ray supposed to be on during this time?
ChitownTVFan 06/11/2013 Reply
Speaking of the redrawn Porky Pig Looney Tunes shorts, they were also shown during Bugs Bunny & Friends until 1990, because the last redrawn I saw was Daffy's Southern Exposure included the LT drumbox closing and around 1989, Chicken Jitters was one of the 2 redrawn cartoons in rotation left the drumbox closing intact.
Don't get me wrong, but I'm a huge fan of watching all 78 Porky Pig redrawn LT cartoons. :-)
Detroit4Chicago 06/11/2013 Reply
J.C Melendez: Wasn't he later Bill Melendez, the animator who worked with Charles Schulz's Peanuts Gang sketches and the voice of Snoopy for many years?
HUdson 3-2700 06/11/2013 Reply
JC (for Jose Cuauhtemoc) Melendez was Bill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Melendez