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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 in Canada on Saturday mornings until 2002. It was initiated in September 1997 as Disney's One Saturday Morning, taking on its current name on September 14, 2002.

It was created as a successor to the Disney Afternoon, and originally featured some of the shows that had been on it. A spin-off, Disney's One Too, aired on UPN and in syndication every weekday in the afternoon.

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[edit] ABC Kids Line Up

The fall schedule for ABC Kids as of November 2006:

Note: all times listed are EST.

  • 9:00 AM The Emperor's New School
  • 9:30 AM The Replacements
  • 10:00 AM That's So Raven
  • 10:30 AM That's So Raven
  • 11:00 AM Hannah Montana
  • 11:30 AM The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
  • 12:00 PM Power Rangers Mystic Force 1
  • 12:30 PM Power Rangers Mystic Force 1

1 = Power Rangers is on ABC Kids twice to promote JETIX which is exclusively shown on Toon Disney

[edit] Programs broadcast on Disney's One Saturday Morning

Disney's One Saturday Morning featured the following series (in order of appearance):

[edit] Programs broadcast on ABC Kids

ABC Kids featured and still features the following series (in order of appearance):

[edit] Disney's One Saturday Morning segments

  • From 1997 to 2000, One Saturday Morning 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:
    • Mrs. Munger's Class: A brief skit about a class featuring computer-animated 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 Munger's Class segments were later withdrawn from broadcast because the people (members of an actual middle school class in 1975) whose images were manipulated for use in this skit had not given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 Flipbook 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 Austalian nature show host, who talked about and showed different animals.
    • Find Out Why: A short animated segment featuring Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King, in which they gave insteresting 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 all the differences between the pictures.
    • 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 talking mounted taxidermy moose head) and others.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] External links

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