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Saturday morning preview specials were aired on television annually to present previews of each network's fall lineup of

television networks in the United States and Canada
would film a preview special for the fall season. These would often air as part of the regular network schedule, or be made available to their affiliates for airing at any time, especially to fill timeslots which contained programming canceled months before.

Format

The Saturday morning previews were generally aired on the network in prime-time, usually the Friday night before the new schedule began. Specials were staggered between differing time slots and days in order to allow each network's show to stand out.

The preview specials are usually hosted by stars of one or more of the network's popular series and feature an array of special guests, with the continuity between each program preview being fictionalized with a small plot or theme to keep viewers interested. The previews were for new and returning series, with each preview featuring the show's opening credits and a scene from that program. They also unveiled a network's new imaging for Saturday morning programming.

History

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear. The first network preview special was The World of Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant
(1965), a 60-minute special airing on NBC in primetime to celebrate Hanna-Barbera's first animated series made for Saturday morning television.

Decline

Main article: Saturday-morning cartoon § Decline

CBS, which had only irregularly carried preview specials, aired its last in 1985. The other two

TGIF
block through the 1990s, finally ending the practice in 1999, TGIF's last year in its original form.

The CW4Kids. Neither Fox Kids nor Kids' WB
continued the practice as an annual tradition, though both had aired one-off preview specials in the 1990s.

Because the preview specials incorporated clips from a variety of sources with cross-platform licensing, it was legally impossible to sell them in

streaming services.[1]

Year-by-year guide

Syndication

ABC

CBS

NBC

FOX

The WB

The CW

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Mangels, Andy (August 2020). "Saturday Morning Preview Specials Part Two: 1978-1983". RetroFan (10). United States: TwoMorrows Publishing: 31–42.
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  5. ^ "Saturday Morning Video Fare To Be Previewed". The Rock Hill Herald. 1 September 1973.
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  11. ^ https://archive.org/details/G-Fan_060_Daikaiju_2003_WildBlueZero/page/n75 [dead link]
  12. ^ "'What's Inside the FOX BOX?' Find Out in the Half-hour Special Sunday, Sept. 1, On FOX". www.thefreelibrary.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-27.
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