Talk:Saturday morning preview specials

Hi! My name is Tom, and I love the fact that there's a page on Saturday morning preview specials. I used to love watching those! I'm wondering about the 1984 NBC listing -- I think it should actually be for CBS. I don't remember the name of that special, but Ted Knight (who was on Too Close for Comfort, which I think was a CBS show) took Joyce DeWitt behind-the-scenes of Saturday morning cartoons. I remember distinctly that he showed her the animation of "moving eyes" of Q-Bert (from Saturday Supercade, again on CBS) and also showed the voice actors hard at work on Muppet Babies (again, CBS). Of course, I have no proof of this, and IMDB is notoriously bad about keeping track of things like this. Can anyone else confirm or deny what I'm saying? Also, I believe the 1984 NBC preview was some kind of spoof of "Ghost Busters." It was called "____ Busters" but I can't remember what. Does anyone else know? Please help. Thanks! -- Tom

I recall seeing this too. In fact, I naively believed at the time that the voice acting we saw on screen may have actually been the recording made for that episode of Muppet Babies. (not likely)

1988 NBC Special?
Maybe this is just one of those instances where I'm remembering something completely incorrectly, but I recall seeing a Saturday Morning Preview Special starring - Get This - the girls from Rags to Riches. The only problem is that Rags to Riches took place in the early '60's! (They musta had a TV with a flux capacitor.  If only they had watched PBS they coulda prevented both the Cuban Missile Crisis and JFK assassination!)

Anyway, a screwed up timeline notwithstanding, I recall not only thinking that the dating was odd, but that it was shot on video whereas the show was on film and the girls looked bored and delivered their dialog flatly compared to the enthusiasm they showed on Rags to Riches. From the article listing and RtR's seasons, this must have been the 1988 NBC special. If there was an IMDB listing, I couldn't find it and just about all my web surfing turned up almost nothing. The closest thing to a reference I could find was this dead YouTube link :, and this usenet post suggests I'm not crazy and this really did exist.

Is there more info out there and should the article include the special? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.115.219 (talk) 02:01, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Started IMDB ref links
Something I've meaning to do for awhile now is add IMDB links via refs for every special. Thus far I've only started picking at it (3 down, more to come), though I'm concerned that the "at the Internet Movie Database" bit might get a bit repetitive. Can the template be used without it? Eh, I'll have to experiment, but thus far it looks like the use of the template makes it mandatory.

Anyway, in time it should have a IMDB link for every special with a page there, so everybody, Please, Pitch In! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.87.87 (talk) 04:36, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Just now added several more with an admittedly crude search. This is a bit tricky as names of the specials can conflict with what the article lists and in the case of Alvin Goes Back to School, I skipped it altogether since I couldn't tell if the IMDB page was in reference to the special or not. (The year was different.) If there are more IMDB pages, the names are so different as to not come up in quick searches. I'm also sure there are plenty of non-IMDB refs out there, but haven't really looked much. (How about the specials themselves on YouTube?) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.81.32 (talk) 20:57, 24 May 2011 (UTC)