ABC Kids (United States)
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| Launched | September 1997 |
| Owned by | ABC, Inc. (The Walt Disney Company) |
| Formerly called | Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997-2002), ABC Kids (2002-2008) |
ABC Kids is a four-hour block of animated television series and live-action children's television series, broadcast on the ABC network in the U.S. and was broadcast on the CTV network and BBS in Canada on Saturday mornings until 2002.
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[edit] History
[edit] Disney's One Saturday Morning
In September 1997, Disney's One Saturday Morning was created as a successor to The Disney Afternoon, and originally featured some of the shows that had been on it. The block originally lasted five hours but has since been cut to four. A spin-off, Disney's One Too, aired on UPN and in syndication every weekday in the morning or afternoon. Disney's "One Saturday Morning" will be coming back to ABC on June 21, 2008 with a new kids' game show called "Wheel of Fortune Jr.," and a new kid's edition of "Family Feud" called "Classroom Feud". The teams will feature four students and the teacher.[citation needed]
[edit] ABC Kids
On September 14, 2002, the block was rebranded as ABC Kids, whose main target is children ages 10-15, while One Saturday Morning's was children ages 5-11.
They used to air only new programs; then in 2001 reruns of Disney Channel originals started to air on the block. The live-action sitcoms in this block has a film-like quality instead of video because of the framerate used for the block.
Since 2005, Disney Channel shows have taken up almost the entire block (excluding Power Rangers, which airs on Jetix).
Power Rangers was previously aired on Fox Kids until mid way through Wild Force. Then starting with the Power Rangers Wild Force episode "Unfinished Business", Power Rangers moved to ABC Kids for the 2002 Fall season and Power Rangers has since aired on ABC.
[edit] Current line up
| Mountain | Central & Pacific |
Eastern & Alaska |
Show Name | E/I | Rating |
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| 7:00am | 8:00am | 9:00am | The Emperor's New School | * | TV-Y7 |
| 7:30am | 8:30am | 9:30am | The Replacements | * | TV-Y7 |
| 8:00am | 9:00am | 10:00am | That's So Raven | * | TV-Y7 |
| 8:30am | 9:30am | 10:30am | That's So Raven | * | TV-Y7 |
| 9:00am | 10:00am | 11:00am | Hannah Montana | * | TV-Y7 |
| 9:30am | 10:30am | 11:30am | The Suite Life of Zack & Cody | * | TV-Y7 |
| 10:00am | 11:00am | 12:00pm | Power Rangers: Jungle Fury | TV-Y7 FV | |
| 10:30am | 11:30am | 12:30pm | Power Rangers: Jungle Fury | TV-Y7 FV |
[edit] Scheduling notes
- This schedule varies by market, as some ABC affiliates may split the lineup to air on both Saturday and Sunday, due to extended local morning newscasts and/or other local/syndicated programming. Some stations (mostly the ABC O&Os) air the Power Rangers episodes from 12 p.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays to have a local newscast lead into Good Morning America Saturday, while several affiliates (like Milwaukee's WISN, Oklahoma City's KOCO, Kansas City, Missouri's KMBC, Boston's WCVB, Omaha's KETV, and Honolulu's KITV, all owned by Hearst-Argyle Television, and Allbritton Communications' WJLA-TV in Washington, DC) do not air Power Rangers at all, due to a lack of educational and informational content.
- WJLA also airs the final two programs in the lineup first to lead off the lineup.
- The schedule also varies often in the months of September-December during college football season, where ABC and local affiliates move around the airing of the programs depending on either ABC's coverage or local pre-emption for another conference's package via ESPN + or another syndicator. Golf's British Open in July moves the lineup up on that Saturday morning to air in the afternoon.
- In Honolulu, Hawaii, KITV airs the ABC Kids lineup (except Power Rangers, as mentioned above) over three weekdays (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Two shows are aired each day from 11 a.m.-12 Noon, preceding ABC's soap opera lineup. This is because of ABC's Saturday afternoon sports coverage, which due to Hawaii-Aleutian Time, airs live five hours behind Eastern Time (six hours during Daylight Savings Time; Hawaii is on Standard Time year-round) in the late morning (for instance, a 3:30 p.m. EDT college football game kicking off at 9:30 a.m. HAST) and early afternoons for the primetime game, thus pre-empting ABC Kids and forcing the shows to air elsewhere on the schedule.
[edit] Programming
All programming past and present
[edit] Disney's One Saturday Morning segments
Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997- 2000) featured a wide variety of interstitial content that filled in the gaps between shows. During this period, the show was hosted from September 1997 to June 1998 by Charlie (played by Jessica Prunell) and Phil (played by Travis Wester) and was hosted from September 1998 to June 2000 by Meme (played by Valarie Rae Miller) and Jelly Roll (a talking elephant voiced by Brad Garrett). These included:
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- Mrs. Munger's Class: A brief skit about a class featuring manipulated talking yearbook photographs. The Mrs. Munger's Class segments were later withdrawn from broadcast because the people (members of an actual middle school class in 1975) whose images were manipulated for use in this skit had not given permission, and several of them sued. [1] A similar skit titled Centerville, using authorized photographs, was later added in place of Mrs. Munger's Class.
- Manny the Uncanny: A live action skit in which the eccentric Manny (played by Paul Rugg) visits some real world location. Activities included taxiderming a carrot and playing with live bugs at a research lab.
- Tube Dwellers: A CGI segment about 2 guys named Bob who live in your TV and fix it as their job. Their adventures are usually amusing, since both of them are pretty dim-witted, resulting in many hilarious escapades.
- Great Minds Think For Themselves: A short animated segment featuring Genie from Aladdin (voiced by Robin Williams) in which he profiles a famous American, such as Benjamin Franklin or Albert Einstein.
- How Things Werk: A '50s style cartoon segment where Mr. Werks would explain to a kid named Billy how an ordinary item worked (such as an umbrella or chalkboard). The explanation was invariably not only wrong but ridiculously complicated, branching almost into the realm of conspiracy theory. This segment took place in a '50s style comic book.
- Flipbook: A small segment in which a Flip book would be flipped, resulting in a funny animation. One of the shortest segments on Disney's One Saturday Morning.
- Flyndiggery Do!: A humorous live-action segment hosted by Alistair Flyndiggery, an Australian nature show host, who talked about and showed different animals.
- Monkey Boys: The live-action shenanigans of two men, Buddy and Hodge-Podge, who almost always make a mess of things.
- Find Out Why: A short animated segment featuring Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King, in which they gave interesting facts about science and nature. This segment was a counterpart to Great Minds Think for Themselves.
- What's The Diff?: A segment where two seemingly identical pictures would be shown, and the viewer would have 30 seconds to identify the six differences between the pictures.
- What's That Sound: An animated segment in which a sound is played and the viewers guess what it is. After the commercials, the two animated characters would try to guess behind game show booths. One of the characters would guess some ridiculous answer
- Disney's One Saturday Morning Building: Disney's One Saturday Morning took place in a giant building where Meme and Jelly Roll were the hosts of the program, and had some of their own segments, such as How Much Stuff Could An Elephant Crush? (Each week, Jelly Roll attempts to crush something, resulting in a funny outcome), Ask Derby (Meme asks her friend Derby, the geriatric mouse, a question, to which he responds with a ridiculous answer), Ms. Moose (Meme and her friends Jelly Roll and Derby visit Ms. Moose, a person in a large moose suit) and others.
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