I was born in 1977, and I remember all of this. God, it sucks that we have get older. I would give anything to be 6 years old again watching bunnicula, the dukes of Hazzard, hearing the Dallas theme song from my bedroom, the incredible hulk, 3-2-1 contact.

I so wish it was 1985 again. Those of us who were kids then know exactly what that means

Miss all these commercials, PSA's, and of course the ABC Weekend Specials. Children these days have been so deprived of a childhood filled with these things and Saturday morning cartoons as well.

I was 11 in '85. Man how I miss papa smurfs special sauce.

Man! that song is just friggin fantastic!!!...Bowser and Captain OG Readmore have great chemistry 😆

I loved when we would get a book reAd to us at school and then it would come on the weekend special. Got more of a connection to the story.

I couldn't wait till Saturday morning.for a bowl of captain crunch.to sit down and watch all the cartoon I could.1985 I was 15.here I am middle age.and still love cartoons .it all went so fast

ABC owned Saturday mornings & Saturday nights back in the late 70s/early 80s with cartoons, ‘American Bandstand’, ‘ABC Weekend Specials,’ ‘ABC’s Wide World of Sports’, America’s Top Ten’, ‘The Love Boat,’ & ‘Fantasy Island.’ Chad Allen @ 0:03

Happy Saturday I got my cereal do you have yours? It Saturday morning cartoon time with commercials!! Those were the days!! Thanks again for all this nostalgia!!

EXCELLENT. And I never appreciated the Weekend Specials at the time. I'm rediscovering them now though!

I'm glad to know there are so many others out there that grew up with these great memories and still are kids at heart... forever stay that way

What an amazing feeling when you haven’t heard these songs in almost 40 years and they just spill out like they did every every Saturday back in the day !I had no idea that I knew every word to Don’t Drown Your Food!🥹

I miss watching the Weekend Special. Great memories!

Some of my best childhood memories were watching these weekend specials.

God I Miss Great Shows Like This one, God I Wish that There was a Reboot of this Awesome show, so that Kids Today Don't know what Great shows are these days.

Petition to bring Captain OG Readmore back!!😩 He really encouraged us 80s babies to read more (hence his name). This was the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons and educational programming. Today’s kids will never know. #Nostalgia

Don't drown your food! God I miss this era of Saturday morning cartoons, PSA's bumpers. Lord help us all!

The episode with the flying horse was awesome, would like to see that again

Velveteen Rabbit!!! Awesome. 👏

My main man!! You are killing it with these cartoons.

The specials I remember are The Bollo Caper, Miss Switch and The Secret World of Og.

I remember these times and shows well. It's a sign of a time that's now a happy memory to those of us fortunate enough to have lived it. Everyone on here sees how this country has deteriorated badly in many ways over the past 5 to 10 years especially. It seems hopeless to ever see it make the un-turn in the road before it's past all hope. There's an answer as to how the soul of this country can be saved......it's as simple as these shows right here that we remember. You'd be surprised at what affect it might have if ABC took a look at it... a long look at it and then did a reboot keeping the intro intact that worked well for 20 years. Most people consider the past useless and look at it and the things we left back there as yesterdays news now worthless in today's world, but when we can't see clearly what's lying out ahead of us as a country and have lost our direction, we have to look to the past and get back to come basic principles if there's to be any future worth having. These shows as simple as they are can be the beginning of the answer we've all been looking for. Just my thoughts.

I had an awesome childhood. So innocent.

Yae! Thank you. I love the commercials too. They remind me of when Booftywoof was alive and we were kids and the barbecue was on. She’d ask for the barbecue too, she’d go to the screen door and howl and Dad would go out and feed her her gizzard.

I wasn't born back then but these kind of shows is what we need today.

This takes me right back to my childhood. Thank you!

We have struck gold here now baby!!!

The ABC Weekend Special theme is arguably the one piece of Saturday morning music that we kids 😉 remember most because it was on consecutively every weekend FOR TWENTY YEARS, from 1977-97. That's why it brings a wistful tear to my eye every time I hear it here on KZfaq. The toy and cereal commercials as well. They're glorious times of fun and innocence that we'll NEVER get back. But we can revisit them here any time we want to. Preferably on Saturday mornings. 🤍

I want to go back and live it all over again. The 70’s and 80’s were the best years of my life. We had the best TV shows and Specials back then and lived in the last of the best decades in America..it was the party of a life time and we lived it well. We had great shows like, Falcon Crest, Dallas, Knots Landing, Dynasty,The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, The Six Million dollar man, The Dukes of Harzard, BJ and the Bear, Air Wolf, Battle Star Galactica! Knight Rider and for the first time ever the motion pictures of, Star Wars, Star Trek, Superman, Spider Man, Close Encounters of the third kind, E.T., Poltergeist, Jaws, Friday the 13th, Aliens, (No not the ones being aloud to just walk into our country right now in 2023), Predator and many more… We also celebrated the bicentennial in the 70’s when the entire country celebrated it from Apr 1, 1975 - Jul 4, 1976. It was like the 4th of July every day. It was fantastic!.…it was such a better time to be alive in this county. We never had the problems that are here today. It was unheard of for kids being shot and men walking around dressed as women. It was the last of America and we were lucky to have experienced it.

8:47, Now, back to our story. My absolute favorite part in the ABC weekend specials from the 80s!

Here’s some lost ABC Weekend Specials that need finding. The Return Of The Bunjee,the Sequel to The Bunjee Venture, The Hex Of Lulu, the ABC Weekend Special with The Land Of The Lost in it, and the full show of The Magic Factory.

They should bring them back there good tv series I remember the winged it colt it's about a horse with wings that was a good Episode.

KZfaq wise, this is the best thing to happen to me in a long time!

Omg! The way I only wanted Ovaltine because Noah Hathaway was in the commercial 😂❤❤

The last hour of the video is missing. Was there a problem with copyrights with the program at the end? Thanks for posting this. The first half was awesome and brought me much happiness.

Wow ! What an Excellent upload! Keep up the great work 😀♥️🤗🎉📼💓🧈🧈🧈🧈🏄🌊

Sugar Bear!!!!!! Oh golden crisp was the bomb back then!!

Abc weekend special scrappy was the best tv show of all time

The only one of these that I remember is The Velveteen Rabbit 🐇

Great upload..Mone Media thanks again for the memories...can you please make more of the chef Crow show. It's my favorite

25:20 what a great happy ending

That's Frank Welker as O.G. Readmore, the guy who played Duke on G.I. Joe as Bollo, and the original story is by Art Buchwald of all people.

21:50 Run Bollo Run!

I wish I could find the version of pippi longstocking that aired as one of things. I mostly remember that should could teleport around.

43:00 Melba Moore! 47:00 Lainie Kazan!

I was born in 1972, and I still want a Fright Zone!

I love The Bollo Caper almost looks like Disney done this 1

"The FRIGHT Zone!!!" Also known as Wal-Mart after midnight!

That was Atreyu in the Ovaltine commercial.

Two in one day!!!! Awesome!!!

Bash-a-saurus!!Bash-a-saurus!! Bash-a-saurus!!Bash-a-saurus!! Bash-a-saurus!!Bash-a-saurus!!

Does anyone remember one of these movies had a kid who collected straws and built things in his room with them?? Like a Ferris wheel. I can’t remember anything else.

I laughed way to hard at the extinct joke

😮😮😮🥲🥲🥲 I haven't seen this since I was six, and I can tell you how this story ends. The opening and everything O.G. Readmore. Hell even the dude from Sha Na Na Na Na!! I remember. Hell the voice actor is Prowl voice from Transformers!!

28:52 ABC should bring back

This video is why I am Patreon! I have things to do and it’s so much easier with awesome videos!

Love the 80s. These days can never compare.

Memories

Cool!

Today's children just don't know what real animation was like and great story telling. There is no place for Saturday morning cartoons. It's all about on demand pay tv now. Kids will never know what real tv time was like ...

I miss the abc weekend specials. Good times. Been looking for the winged colt, but can't find it anywhere

Nice. I like the Masters of the Universe.

Now I got the Ovaltine commercial stuck in my head....

...is that Frank Welker as Capt. OG Readmore?

I build Time machines for real. I’ll tell you how to do it. Anything you can create in the present time that will live in the future you get to go into the future by surviving like a tree, and I can go back in time by finding what is living that was planted along time ago … Pyramids crumble overtime, but living always stays fresh through duplication😊

maybe 'The Magic Pearl' too

My favorite one is how to eat fried worms

I wish it was 1980

Not feeling compilations,prefer in original format but love the memories, thanks

Anybody remember the one set in China or Japan and it had the angry ghost that wanted her stolen stuff back? Two brothers stole it, a girl goes to get the stuff back, there's a witch with a haunted house and she turns people into pigs.

Two errors here: the Bunjee cartoon you have here is not Return of Bunjee but the first two-part special The Bunjee Venture from 1984. And while The Velveteen Rabbit cartoon here was produced in 1985, it is not the one that aired on ABC Weekend Special. You have the one that was produced by Atkinson Arts Films for HBO and FHE. The one that aired on the Weekend Special was produced by Hanna-Barbera's Australia studio. The Hanna-Barbera one did get video releases through Kids Klassics and Anchor Bay, both licensed from ABC. That said, it's still a nice attempt at recreating the Weekend Special experience. The bumpers and commercials are a nice touch.

Nice - 1976 here

I love these shows so much thank you I talk bout you on my KZfaq Live stream #HashInfo

Don't drown your food!!

Hey! Is the volume gone? I'm excited for this but don't hear anything 🤔

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so the kids are old enough to be in school but can't figure out what batteries are?

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That was a lucky break for Bollo.

1:40:55 Hungry evil plant

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I wonder if you happen to have 'The Horse That Played Centerfield'

Do you happen to have a compilation of ABC Weekend Special 1984 year, because I believe ABC aired The Return of the Bunjee in 1984?

Weekend special guest stars Ricky UILMAN

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1:23:40, this is The Bunjee Venture not 'The Return of The Bunjee' , you'll need to change that and look over your sources

You are a saint doing gods work 😊...and i dont believe in god but sure love yiu man

...So all the criminals in the first one basically just get off scott free?

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Where the hell did you find these????😎

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Bill Clinton killed the Saturday Morning Cartoon by requiring new "educational" standards.

OMG that’s Chad Allen from Our House and Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman in the He-Man commercial.