Growing up with TV

What TV shows did you watch as a kid?

I grew up watching a lot of cartoons in the 90’s. Pokémon and Digimon were my primary shows of choice for a bit until the advent of Toonami on Cartoon Network, but I did watch a lot of the older Hanna-Barbera cartoons in that time as well. I’m not going to list them all, but I’ll at least throw out the ones I remember watching the most.

  • Johnny Quest
  • The Jetsons
  • The Flintstones
  • Lots of Scooby-Doo
  • The Smurfs
  • The Snorks
  • The Pirates of Dark Water (this one is probably part of what spurred me on to watch anime)
  • Captain Planet
  • SWAT Kats (another one that probably led me down the anime path)

So, lots of 60’s through 80’s cartoon reruns mixed with all the 90’s stuff (like Dexter’s Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls) that eventually led into the wonderful era of Toonami.

  • ThunderCats
  • Voltron
  • Dragonball Z
  • Outlaw Star (a personal favorite)
  • Gundam Wing

This is around the time I was in middle school and moving into high school, when the internet started to make it much easier to watch things online, so I stopped watching a lot of tv unless it was with other people or late at night as background noise while gaming (Food Network, anyone?)

I know I skipped over Nickelodeon and Disney, but I really don’t recall much of what shows were on which of those channels/networks. I was Cartoon Network all the way.