ABC Saturday Morning Preview for 1969

 This next item was posted to Reddit's Vintage TV subreddit recently:

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir had moved from NBC to ABC, and ABC had asked the cast to host a preview of their Saturday morning block. You already know about the freshman series from that season:

The Hardy Boys.

Hot Wheels.

Skyhawks.

The Cattanooga Cats.

The Smokey Bear Show.

Charles Nelson Reilly, of course, would star in Lidsville two years later. That same year, Hope Lange co-starred in The New Dick Van Dyke Show for CBS. It would take Edward Mulhare until 1982 (Knight Rider) before he landed another series gig.

All five freshman series were in effect cancelled after 1 season, though Cattanooga Cats was split into two half-hours with Motormouse & Autocat headlining the other rerun package.

Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits: We Just Disagree (1977)

 I don't think that a day goes by without an oldies channel, or even a classic rock channel on FM, playing this classic from Dave Mason, "We Just Disagree". Guitarist Jim Kreuger co-wrote "Disagree", and sits in with Mason on The Midnight Special.

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: The Real Ghostbusters vs. The Boogieman (1986)

 From season 1 of The Real Ghostbusters:

The team is hired by a pair of African-American children being menaced by a Boogieman, who's created a portal into our world through the kids' closet.

Rating: A-.

Toon Rock: The Girl on The Billboard (2023)

 Former Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer is back with a brand new album, "The Devil Always Collects", due in September. The 1st single is a cover of Del Reeves' "The Girl on The Billboard". 40 years after the Stray Cats first broke through on the charts, Brian's still rockin'.

Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits (Revisited): The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1963-4)

 It was the last American Bandstand for the calendar year 1964. Host-producer Dick Clark brought in Bobby Vee, who had a huge top 5 hit a year earlier with "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes", as a headline act on the day after Christmas.

Toonfomercial: Remember Calo cat food? (1958)

 Here's a rarity.

Calo cat food was off the shelves by the time I first ventured into a supermarket. This simple ad, directed by the legendary Fred "Tex" Avery, has a tiger schooling a housecat on the virtues of the product. YouTube commentators have said either Daws Butler or Shep Menken, or both, handle the voices here.

ABC Saturday Morning Preview (1990)

 ABC had just 3 freshman cartoons in 1990, all of which we've previously reviewed: New Kids on The Block, Little Rosey, & The Wizard of Oz. Good enough for a half-hour primetime preview, hosted by Family Matters co-stars Reginald VelJohnson, Kellie Shangyne Williams, & Jaleel White. Sounds like Frank Welker (The Real Ghostbusters) is our announcer.

Didn't see this the first time. I think my folks & I were watching the Mets that night.