Information about Abc Kids (united States)

ABC Kids(ABC Block)
ABC Kids logo 2002-present
Launched	September 1997
Owned by	ABC, Inc. (The Walt Disney Company)
Formerly called	Disney's One Saturday Morning (1997-2002)

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.

History

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 afternoon.

ABC Kids

On September 14, 2002, the block was rebranded as ABC Kids, which's 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.

Since 2005, Disney Channel shows have taken up almost the entire block (excluding Power Rangers, which airs on Jetix).

Current line up

Note: all times listed are US ET.

9:00am The Emperor's New School

9:30am The Replacements

10:00am That's So Raven

10:30am That's So Raven

11:00am Hannah Montana

11:30am The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

12:00pm Power Rangers Operation Overdrive (two episodes)

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 seven 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.
• The double airing of Power Rangers is to promote the Jetix block on Toon Disney.
• The live-action sitcoms in this block has a film-like quality instead of video because of the framerate used for the block.

Programming

All programming past and present.

• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
• Disney's House of Mouse
• Doug
• Even Stevens
• Fillmore!
• Goof Troop
• Hannah Montana
• Jungle Cubs
• Kidd Video
• Kim Possible
• Lizzie McGuire
• Lloyd in Space
• Mickey MouseWorks
• Nightmare Ned
• Pepper Ann
• Phil of the Future
• Power Rangers
• Recess
• Science Court, or Squigglevision
• Teacher's Pet
• Teamo Supremo
• That's So Raven
• The Bugs Bunny Show
• The Buzz on Maggie
• The Emperor's New School
• The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh
• The Proud Family
• The Replacements
• The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
• The Weekenders
• W.I.T.C.H.

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 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 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.
• 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 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 the six 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 person in a large moose suit) and others.

External links

• ABC Kids official site
• Blast From The Past 1990s ABC