After the abysmal Yummy Awards in 1983, NBC tried another concept with their 1985 fall preview of their Saturday morning slate.
Back to Saturday is a parody of one of the year's big hits, "Back to The Future", the animated version of which would land at CBS a few years later. Lisa Whelchel (The Facts of Life) and Keisha Knight-Pulliam (The Cosby Show) star, along with Soleil Moon Frye as Punky Brewster, whose animated series was part of the 1985 freshman class, along with:
Adventures of The Gummi Bears
Snorks
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Speaking of Punky Brewster, her new alien pal, Glomer (Frank Welker), shows up, along with Allstar of the Snorks (Michael Bell) and Alvin of Alvin & The Chipmunks (Ross Bagdasarian, Jr.), plus clips from Mr. T and Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends.
The YouTube poster had apparently taped over the finals of the Wimbledon tennis tournament from the looks of things.
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Many of NBC's Saturday morning preview specials told a hastily thrown together 'story' loosely based on whatever hit summer movie was hot at the time (in this case, Back to the Future); see also "Laugh Busters" which aired 2 years prior and a later special, "Alvin Goes Back to School".
Funnily enough, we've been considering covering "Yummy Awards" on TV Special Showdown.
There is a video for the Yummy Awards on YouTube, but the poster attached some unrelated material (i.e. CBS' Saturday Supercade) to pad out the video to over 90 minutes. I will be commenting on the Yummy Awards another time. I have "Alf Loves a Mystery" from 1987 on the blog, too.
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