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Originally Posted by BB Shockwave

In school? Like everyone?

I never understood why Sky One and other channels were showing cartoons in the weekday mornings, when kids were already going to school. Or does school only start at 10.00 AM for americans? Here in Europe, I only got to watch cartoons on weekday mornings when I was home sick or had a holiday.

Some of us had schools close enough to get to in time after the cartoons ended. In the US, cartoons started at 7am. I stopped watching at 8am and left for school. It was close enough for me to walk to before classes started at 8:30am. The kids would hang out in the schoolyard, discussing the latest episodes before the doors let the kids in. School ended at 3pm and then I had to dash home to see the cartoons.

This was FOX29 in the Philly area during 1984:

3:00pm Thundercats
3:30pm He-Man
4:00pm Transformers
4:30pm G.I. Joe

Cartoons did come on during Saturday mornings, but they were on all of the major stations (before Saved by the Bell and news took over) from 6am to 1pm.