To say that the back of CBS' Saturday lineup in 1981 was loaded would be an understatement.
During that final part of the schedule, CBS had The New Fat Albert Show, The Popeye & Olive Show, & The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour. It would be the last season for Popeye & Tarzan at CBS, after four and six years, respectively. We've previously talked about how Popeye's show had been reduced to a half-hour format.
To fit all three legendary heroes in a hour long anthology, CBS edited down the Tarzan repeats, deciding that only The Bugs Bunny-Road Runner Show merited being 90 minutes.
Anyway, here's the intro, narrated by Lou Scheimer:
CBS moved the Ranger & Zorro to Sundays the following season, and that would be it. They would've been better off leaving the Tarzan reruns intact, and dry-docking Popeye, seeing as how Olive Oyl's Army shorts were so bad.
Rating: A.
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