6 classic Saturday morning cartoons that you can't look anywhere now

These classic animated series of your childhood have practically disappeared.


If the Smash success Barbie You say anything, is that we are a culture obsessed with nostalgia. The toys of our childhood are transformed into films that become blockbusters , canceled The television series are relaunched Or restarted decades later, and we can now broadcast countless episodes of the cartoons that we woke up early to watch on Saturday morning.

But not all nostalgic favorites have reached Netflix, Hulu or Max. Whether for rights reasons or a simple indifference to rights holders, here are six classic animated programs that you cannot watch anywhere now.

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1
Outsider (1964-1967)

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NBC / CBS

This series on a puppy with Super Powers was one of the first cartoons on Saturday morning, with A theme song sufficiently memorable for having endured during the decades, even adapting to a Highly successful film moderately In 2007. However, for all this, the show is not available to broadcast today, despite the fact that the independent label is shouting! Factory released the complete series twice on DVD. If you want to look at the cartoon, you will have to take a copy. (Although you can broadcast the film on Disney +.)

2
Eyebrows (1984–1989)

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Nbc

If you don't know Eyebrows , Just imagine The Smurfs , but underwater. There is a reason why the emissions are so similar - a legal dispute between Peyo , the Belgian artist behind the original Failed comics, and Freddy Monnickendam , who first authorized the rights to the tiny blue creatures, prompted the latter to create another show on a breed of tiny colorful creatures to compete with the creation of Peyo. Although the two shows are produced by Hanna-Barbera, the Eyebrows has not proven almost as kind - while The Smurfs has become a brand of $ 4 billion And the original show is on A series of Smurfload streaming (and for sale digitally), the version linked to the sea cannot be broadcast anywhere.

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3
Muppet babies (1984-1991)

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CBS

Muppet babies started her life as a brief fantastic sequence in 1984 Muppets take Manhattan , while Kermit dreams of the origins of the famous puppet clan, with them all living together in a nursery. The idea turned out to be too good to waste, and a animated series quickly followed, taking place for eight seasons and more than 100 episodes. Unfortunately, you cannot broadcast them anywhere today, and only a few episodes have been published on DVD, according to Slate, because the series frequently included Live movie clips including Star wars , make licenses a headache. (A restart of the show is available on Disney +, but it is a very different animal ... so to speak.) AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

4
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N' Wrestling (1985-1986)

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CBS

This CBS cartoon of The Glory Days of Professional Wrestling presented stars of the popular era of WWF (now known as WWE), including Hulk Hogan ,, Andre the giant , And "Rowdy" Roddy Piper . Bad for two seasons from 1985 to 1986, she made a brief return to the WWE network, only to disappear in 2015 when the network fired Hogan and rubbed related content after a strip of him make racist remarks Surface, according to the Newsling News source.

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5
Puppies (1986–1987)

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ABC

Here is another series that was popular enough to be redone but apparently not popular enough to bother to stream the original. But in this case, the reason probably has little to do with the original series: 2010 Puppies is not a restart of the original 1986, but another attempt to create a television program based on a plush toy line.

The original plush puppies were published by Tonka and transformed into a spectacle in the middle of the gold of the 80s toys toys; The wandering brand was finally acquired by Hasbro, which produced another scope of episodes of decades later. The two shows follow the adventures of a bunch of dogs who live in a refuge dreaming of finding families, but only the more recent version was adopted by a streaming service, namely Tubi.

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6
Ninja Turtles mutant teenage (1987-1996)

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CBS

Ninja Turtles mutant teenage started like a bloody and black indie comic strip of underground artists Kevin Eastman And Peter Laird , but found the consumer call as a decidedly joyful animated series of 1987 which attenuated violence and underlined the humor in the adventures of the fight against the crime of the mutant warriors Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Rapheal. The franchise has endured decades and more than a dozen restarts and television films (including 2023 Ninja Turtles Mutant Teenage: mutant Mayhem ), yet the original series has never been available to broadcast on demand. However, you can watch "live" episodes on Pluto TV, which recently launched an entire chain It only shows.


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