80 Best 80s Cartoons You Need to Watch
If you were born in the 80s, or late 70s, you have probably watched a lot of cartoons from the 80s. If you want to remember some, or watch some you have maybe skipped but heard of, don’t worry, as we have you covered in this article of the best 80s cartoons you and your kids just need to watch.
The 80s were an amazing time for animated works in Hollywood and our list below will prove it. We have made you the most comprehensive list of the best 80s cartoons you just need to watch, either for the first time, or to remember them again. So check them out.
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The Little Mermaid (1989)
In the underwater arena, in the depths of the sea, King Triton is waiting for the beginning of the Sebastian crab concert. The ceremony begins, and Triton’s youngest daughter, Ariela, has not been heard from.
Namely, for the 16-year-old princess Ariela, life at sea has become monotonous and she wants to find out how people live on land. With her best friend Flounder, Ariela collects the belongings of the people on the sunken ship and heads to the surface of the sea, where she is greeted by the seagull Scuttle, who misleads her about the items they found. Soon Ariela is staring at the man on the ship, Prince Eric. When a storm hits, the ship sinks, and Ariel saves Eric.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Gangster Acme is found dead and the prime suspect is Roger. The strange and power-hungry Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) wants to bring Roger to justice. Roger begs Valiant to find the real culprit. The tension builds as Eddie uncovers one scandal after another and learns that the city is about to be destroyed!
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
The fun and adventure begin when a lonely widow takes in an orphaned fox named Tod. A cheerful little boy meets Cooper, a puppy of the search dog, and under the watchful eye of a wise forest owl, the cheerful couple becomes friends, not knowing that their future holds life on opposite sides. A story about timeless values such as love, courage and the importance of friendship, in one of Disney’s favorite stories.
The Black Cauldron (1985)
Centuries ago, a young man, Taran, was tasked with protecting a magical prophetic pig that knows the location of the mystical Black Cauldron. It’s not an easy task because the evil Horned King will stop at nothing to get his hands on the cauldron.
Fantasy, magic and fun are mixed together in the legendary “Disney” adventure “The Black Cauldron”. Whoever unleashes the powers of the mysterious Black Cauldron will be invincible! The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but is challenged by an unlikely rival: a young swineherd assistant named Taran who dreams of heroic deeds.
With a mixed crew that includes the brave princess Eilonwy, the troubadour Fflewddur Fflam, and Hen Wen, an amazing pig who can predict the future, Taran begins a mission to stop the evil of the Black Cauldron once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?
Oliver & Company (1988)
Oliver, a beautiful young kitten, sets out to explore New York. Along with a whole pack of hilarious characters, Oliver learns how only the strongest survive who believe in their dreams. And when Jenny takes him in, Oliver realizes that he has gained a friend for life and his real home. This animated classic is inspired by Charles Dickens’ unforgettable novel, Oliver Twist, but this time the main characters are animals.
The Land Before Time (1988)
It is a time of drought and the dinosaurs are looking for an oasis known as the Great Valley, which will provide them with refreshment and a place to live. In search of the place from the story, the newly born brontosaur Little Paw will one day go.
Growing up, Little Paw plays with the triceratops Cera, a three-horned dinosaur, until her father interrupts the game. Later, the mother explains to Little Paw what kinds of dinosaurs there are and which ones should be avoided. Later that evening, Little Paw hangs out with Cera again, until they are attacked by a dinosaur with dangerous teeth, Rex.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1996)
They are Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello. They were ordinary turtles who lived in the sewers until one day a mutagenic mass turned them into mutant human-turtles. Their teacher Splinter taught them martial arts, so they, together with their friend April, embark on various adventures to save the world from evil.
An American Tail (1986)
The year is 1885. The Mousekewitzes, a Jewish family of mice, live in Russia in the house of the Moskowitz family. The mouse family is at a celebration when the head of the family tells his son Fievel about a wonderful place called America where there are no cats. But the celebration is interrupted when the Cossacks and their cats burst into the village and set it on fire.
After the attack, the Mousekewitzes decide to go to America and board a ship. In the middle of a storm, Fievel falls into the sea, and the family thinks he drowned. But the little mouse in the bottle manages to sail to America.
The Last Unicorn (1982)
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly’s words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983-1985)
The series takes place on Eternia, a planet of magic, myth and fantasy. Its lead character is Prince Adam, the young son of Eternia’s rulers, King Randor and Queen Marlena. Whenever Prince Adam holds the Sword of Power aloft and proclaims “By the Power of Grayskull!” he is endowed with “fabulous secret powers” and transformed into He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe.
Together with his close allies, Battle Cat (who undergoes a similar transformation from being Adam’s cowardly pet tiger Cringer), The Sorceress Teela, Man-At-Arms and Orko, He-Man uses his powers to defend Eternia from the evil forces of Skeletor. Skeletor’s main goal is to conquer the mysterious fortress of Castle Grayskull, from which He-Man draws his powers. If successful, Skeletor would have enough power to rule all of Eternia and possibly the entire universe.
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
In a small wooden cottage known as Peaceful Woodland Cottage, five members of a clan small electric appliances — a toaster, a radio, a lamp stand named “Lampy”, an electric blanket named “Blanky” and a vacuum cleaner named “Kirby” – await the return of a young boy named Rob (whom they refer to as the Master) who used to vacation at the cottage with his family, but the family has not come by in many years.
Then one day in July, upon seeing that the cottage is about to be sold, the appliances decide to venture out and find Rob themselves. They turn Kirby into a lawn tractor by attaching a rolling office chair, a power strip and a Junko car battery for a power source to him and travel via Kirby, and Radio serves as navigator by directing the group toward urban radio signals he picks up.
The Transformers (1984-1987)
At the time of the great Cybertronian War, two warring factions, the Autobots and the Decepticons, were forced to crash land on Earth. Millions of years later, geological activity revives longtime adversaries. The Decepticons have evil intentions that include draining Earth’s energy sources, while the Autobots want to protect Earthlings, and that’s where their battle begins again.
The Real Ghostbusters (1986-1991)
Animated cartoon series that followed the hit movie. Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddemore, Egon Spengler, and Ray Stantz are still hunting ghosts, but now with the friendly assistance of Slimer, who is no longer out to slime the good guys.
DuckTales (1987-1990)
When Donald Duck decides to join the Navy, he leaves his nephews, Hewey, Dewey and Louie, in the care of his cantankerous Uncle Scrooge. He is an eccentric and miserly billionaire who loves to literally swim in his money that is held in his corporate headquarters/vault known as the Money Bin.
While the initial meeting was less than pleasant, events soon have them, along with a newly hired nanny, her granddaughter and Scrooge’s stupid but skilled pilot, on countless adventures as the group goes around the world looking for treasure, or defending Scrooge’s current assets from enemies like the Beagle Boys or Magica De Spell.
Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers (1989-1990)
Chip and Dale are two special squirrels who have a ‘nose for danger’. The duo decide to found a detective agency they call “Rescue Rangers”, and their main assistants are their faithful friends Gadget, Monterey Jack and Zipper. Little detectives mostly solve cases that are not big enough for the police, and most of their clients are animals.
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
The story is set in 2005, 20 years after the TV series second season. After a Decepticon assault devastates Autobot City, Optimus Prime wins a deadly one-on-one duel with Megatron, but ultimately sustains fatal injuries in the encounter.
With Megatron gravely injured, the Decepticons are forced to retreat, saving the Autobots. The Autobots are hunted across the galaxy by Unicron, a planet-sized Transformer intending to consume Cybertron and who transfigures Megatron to become the enslaved Galvatron.
Thundercats (1985-1989)
A team of humanoid cats fight evil in their adopted home world.
Dungeons & Dragons (1983-1985)
The show focuses on a group of friends aged between 8 and 15 who are transported to the realm of Dungeons & Dragons by taking a magical dark ride on an amusement park roller coaster. Upon arriving in the realm they meet Dungeon Master (named for the referee in the role-playing game) who gives each child a magical item.
The children’s main goal is to find a way home, but they often take detours to help people or find that their fates are intertwined with that of others. The group comes across many different enemies, but their primary antagonist is Venger. He is a powerful wizard who wishes to rule the realm and believes the power from the children’s weapons will help him to do so. Another recurring villain is Tiamat, who is a five-headed dragon and the only creature that Venger fears.
The Smurfs (1981-1989)
Smurfs are little blue creatures with white caps and pants, who live peacefully in their village in mushroom houses. Each Smurf has one very pronounced feature, after which he got his name, and they are all led and protected from the evil Gargamel by the oldest and wisest Big Smurf.
Beetlejuice (1989-1991)
As a young married couple, Barbara and Adam Maitland enjoyed their home in rural New England. However, one day, while they were driving a car, they suddenly swerved to avoid running over a dog, but they fell off the bridge into the river. They found out that they had died when they returned home, where they were greeted by the book “Handbook for the recently deceased”. They are unable to leave the house because when they do, they find themselves in a sandy landscape inhabited by giant sandworms.
However, their house is sold and the new Deetz family from New York moves into it: father Charles, mother Delia and daughter Lydia, crazy about the Gothic style. When their new designer Otho announces that he is going to transform the house into some kind of modern art, Adam and Barbara decide to get rid of the Deetz family. They seek the help of a posthumous employee, Juno, but she informs them that they must stay in the house for 125 years.
Their plan is to scare away the new, antipathetic family, but the attempts are totally unsuccessful. Although they are invisible as ghosts, Lydia sees them and befriends them. In order to succeed in their plan, Barbara and Adam contact the disreputable and dissolute spirit Beetlejuice, who is an amateur “bio exorcism” and who can be summoned or driven away by saying his name out loud three times.
Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985-1991)
Adventures of the Gummi Bears takes place within a fantasy world of magic, monsters, and medieval living. 500 years before the events of the first episode, humans lived in peace alongside a race of beings known as Gummi bears – anthropomorphic bears with great skills in magic and technology. However, growing hostility from neighboring humans forced Gummi Bears to flee to safer lands across the sea, leaving small groups to mind their machinery, cities and ancient warrens in their absence.
Over the years that followed, humans began to forget their existence, with the few remaining bears opting to become hidden from the sight of humans for their safety, eventually leading humans to believing that Gummi Bears are merely legends and portraying them as characters in children’s fairy tales. For their part, the remaining Gummi Bears declined in population and technical expertise.
The Legend of Zelda (1989)
Based on the popular Nintendo game of the same name. Link and Princess Zelda protect the mystical artifact, the Triforce of Wisdom, from falling into the hands of the evil sorcerer Ganon.
Garfield and Friends (1988-1995)
Let’s remember: Garfield lives with his owner Jon and his dog Odie. He is usually bored, eating or sleeping. He loves his teddy bear Puck very much, and his favorite target is the bumbling Odie, who regularly falls for Garfield’s dogs. It often drives Jonah crazy. He hates Mondays because of his constant bad luck, he hates spiders, but he talks to them, as well as cats, mice, rats, dogs, people, trees, food and balls of wool.
She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1987)
Princess Adora raises her magic sword and becomes She-Ra, the most powerful woman in the universe, to aid her friends in defeating the Evil Horde so their planet Etheria can be free.
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)
Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy-Doo go to a school for girls, where they were employed as teachers of physical education and health. There they find out that it is actually a school for girls who are actually demons. The students are Sibella, daughter of Count Dracula; Elsa Frankenteen, daughter of Frankenstein Sr., Winnie, daughter of the Werewolf; Phantasma, daughter of the phantom; and Tanis, the mummy’s daughter.
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
A young Boston writer goes back in time into an era where wizards and dragons reign and science is just barely known.
Voltron: Defender of the Universe (1984-1985)
From days of long ago, from uncharted regions of the universe, comes a legend, the legend of Voltron, Defender of the Universe. A mighty robot, loved by good, feared by evil. As Voltron’s legend grew, peace settled across the galaxy. On planet Earth, a galaxy alliance was formed. Together with the good planets of the solar system, they maintained peace throughout the universe. Until a new horrible menace threatened the galaxy. Voltron was needed once more.
This is the story of the super force of space explorers, specially trained, and sent by the alliance, to bring back Voltron: Defender of the Universe.
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988-1991)
The series depicts the everyday lives of Christopher Robin and his companions Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga, Roo Rabbit, Owl and Gopher. Rather than a straightforward adaptation, the show was more Americanized than previous Pooh efforts. Episodes dealt with strong messages about honesty, responsibility, persistence, cooperative effort, friendship, and caring. Many stories are designed to help young children distinguish between fantasy and reality and overcome common childhood fears.
Jem (1985-1988)
The series revolves around Jerrica Benton, the owner and manager of Starlight Music, and her alter-ego Jem, lead singer of the rock group the Holograms. Jerrica adopts the persona of Jem with the help of a holographic computer, known as Synergy, which was built by Jerrica’s father to be “the ultimate audio-visual entertainment synthesizer” and is bequeathed to her after his death.
Jerrica is able to command Synergy to project the hologram of Jem over herself by means of the remote micro-projectors in her earrings, thus disguising her features and clothing, enabling her to assume the Jem persona. Jem, through the use of her earrings, is also able to project holograms around her and uses this ability throughout the series to avoid danger and provide special effects for the performances of her group.
Muppet Babies (1984-1991)
The Muppets, as babies, have adventures with their imaginations inside their nursery.
G.I. Joe (1985-1986)
The plot centers on the titular M.A.S.S. Device, a powerful matter-transporter, and G.I. Joe and Cobra’s race around the world to acquire the three catalytic elements which power the machine. A second five-part mini-series followed in 1984, G.I.Joe: The Revenge of Cobra (titled “The Weather Dominator” in later airings), with a similar plot that involved the Joes and Cobras traveling around the world to recover the scattered fragments of Cobra’s new weather-controlling weapon, the Weather Dominator.
Robotech (1985)
An alien spaceship crash lands on Earth and the technology and secrets she bears lead Earth into three destructive interplanetary wars.
MASK (1985-1986)
Matt Trakker leads a special team of masked crime fighters with a fleet of hidden function vehicles against Miles Mayhem and his criminal organization known as V.E.N.O.M.
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988-1991)
A pre-teen version of Scooby Doo, with a pint-sized version of the title character.
Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988)
Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it’s up to Scooby, Scrappy and his girlfriend to help him win the contest.
Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983-1990)
Three chipmunk brothers, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. The trio have been adopted by and are living with Dave (human). Each show finds the boys getting into trouble and new and unusual situations.
The Care Bears (1986-1988)
The Care Bears live in a faraway place up in the clouds called Care-a-Lot. They travel around the world on Missions in Caring, whilst evil villains such as Professor Coldheart and Lord No Heart, try to thwart their plans.
Ewoks (1985-1987)
A stand-alone collection of stories, Star Wars Ewoks focuses on the fur-balls from Return of the Jedi and their many misadventures into the unknown, the magical and downright absurd. So is the life of an Ewok.
The Wind in the Willows (1983)
One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance to his new car and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help in curbing Toad’s profligate habits.
But Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence from the magistrate for theft, reckless driving, and Gross Impertinence. While Toad works his wiles on the jailer’s daughter and escapes jail dressed as a washer woman, Badger tries to guard Toad Hall from the machinations of the Weasels and is badly beaten. And it requires a plan of attack and all four comrades to regain Toad Hall.
Thundarr the Barbarian (1980-1981)
Thundarr the Barbarian and his companions Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel wander a devastated future Earth and fight evil wherever they find it.
Centurions (1986)
The adventures of a unit of elite soldiers who wear special frames that accept various weapons and transportation equipment teleported from a space station.
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (1987)
The story is set on the fictional planet of Prysmos, a futuristic society where all technology and complex machinery suddenly cease functioning, and its citizens are forced to rely on ancient magic to survive.
This happens when the three suns of the planet align and their combined radiation emissions deactivate all technology on the planet, similar to an electromagnetic pulse effect. The titular Visionaries are knights who are split into two factions: the heroic Spectral Knights and the evil Darkling Lords. The Visionaries who wishes to gain the usage of magic is invited to a competition by the wizard Merklynn.
After surviving traps, dangerous creatures, and each other, survivors are rewarded with unique animal totems affixed to their armor chest plates; these talismans are based on the bearers’ individual attributes while allowing them to transform into their specific creatures.
BraveStarr (1987-1989)
A Native American marshal and his friends keep the peace on the frontier planet of New Texas.
The Littles (1983-1985)
Animated series about a 13-year-old boy named Henry Bigg who goes on vacation and finds mouse-like creatures in his suitcase called Littles. There’s a whole family of Littles. William and Lucy Little help raise their three children, 21-year-old Dinky, 13-year-old Tom and 10-year-old Lucy.
Dinky is the clumsy and goofy voiced pilot who is out of school and is 21 years old and is usually seen helping Grandpa Little out by doing a bunch of stuff while Mr. and Mrs. Little work during the day. Tom is the excited one and Lucy is the youngest and smallest and always ready to do something. In the second season, they adopted a girl named Ashley, who had short hair and wanted excitement always happen with The Littles.
The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (1980-1982)
It is about a cat who’s chasing a mouse …
Silverhawks (1986-)
A bionic policeman called Commander Stargazer recruited the SilverHawks, heroes who are “partly metal, partly real”, to fight the evil Mon*Star, an escaped alien mob boss who transforms into an enormous armor-plated creature with the help of Limbo’s Moonstar.
Joining Mon*Star in his villainy is an intergalactic mob: the snakelike Yes-Man, the blade-armed Buzz-Saw, the “bull”-headed Mumbo-Jumbo, a weather controller called Windhammer, a shapeshifter known as Mo-Lec-U-Lar, a robotic card shark called Poker-Face, the weapons-heavy Hardware, and “the musical madness of” Melodia who uses a “keytar” that fires musical notes.
My Little Pony (1986-1987)
The story of a human named Megan in a world of magical ponies and their adventures together in Pony Land.
Beverly Hills Teens (1987-)
The teens of Beverly Hills show us what is it like to live the life of spoiled rich teens.
My Little Pony Tales (1992-2001)
The adventures of a young girl living in a rural fantasy world with her friends, a gang of magical, rainbow-colored talking ponies.
The Wind in the Willows (1987)
Badger, Rat and Mole are trying to save Toad Hall and its owner, their rich irresponsible airhead playboy friend Toad, from himself, as well as financial ruin, the court and a gang of conspiratorial weasels who have their eye on the place.
Pound Puppies (1985-1988)
A girl named Holly, who lives with her piggish relatives, has a series of fun adventures with her friends, a group of zany talking dogs called the Pound Puppies.
RoboCop (1988)
Alex Murphy, a police officer, mortally wounded in the line of duty, is turned into a powerful cyborg and continues to serve the public trust, protect the innocent and uphold the law.
Denver, the Last Dinosaur (1988-1990)
When an unusually intelligent dinosaur unexpectedly hatches from a fossilized egg in 1980s California, a friendly group of human teenagers adopts him and teaches him how to hide from prying eyes and master skateboarding.
Captain N: The Game Master (1989-1991)
Kevin, a teenage gamer and his friends fight to save Videoland from the evil Mother Brain.
Police Academy: The Animated Series (1988-1989)
Based on the notoriously popular Police Academy movies, this show chronologically takes place between the fourth and fifth film. Twelve characters are re-created for this animated version, including a team of Academy graduates led by Carey Mahoney, a likable rogue bachelor boy, who unconsciously — and consistently — does his best to make life miserable for Captain Harris and his knucklehead assistant Sgt. Proctor.
Mahoney’s friends include the aptly named Moses Hightower, walking sound effects machine Larvell Jones, trigger-happy Eugene Tackleberry, sweet & timid Laverne Hooks, tough-as-nails Debbie Callahan, larger-than-life House, and the bread-&-butter duo of reformed gang member Zed and his best buddy, Sweetchuck.
Eric Lassard is the highly-respected (albeit dreamy) Commandant, and Academy newcomer The Professor is also on hand, stocking our crime-fighting heroes with an endless supply of wacky gadgets as they combat a motley crew of recurring villains such as Num.
Ulysse 31 (1981-1982)
To return home and restore his cursed crew, a great hero of space and his child companions must find the Kingdom of Hades against all evil opposition.
Defenders of the Earth (1986-1991)
Flash Gordon and his son Rick escape from Ming the Merciless, who has exhausted the natural resources of his home planet Mongo and desires to exploit Earth. Ming tries to brainwash Flash’s wife Dale Arden, but she resists until death, whereafter her psyche is later included in the Defenders’ supercomputer Dynac X.
To protect Earth from Ming’s invasion, among other threats, Flash joins forces with Mandrake, his assistant Lothar and The Phantom, alongside their children, to form the Defenders.
The Little Fox (1981)
The film tells the story of a little fox kit, Vic (Vuk in the original Hungarian version), who ventures away from his family’s den and, upon his return finds it empty. He concludes that his whole family left the den with the human hunter (called “Smoothskinner” in the cartoon) because he can smell him. His uncle Karak finds him, decides to keep Vic in this comforting thought instead of telling him the truth, then offers for Vic to stay with him, and Karak continues to raise him.
As Vic grows older, he develops much cunning and cleverness. Now a young adult fox, he even dares to infiltrate the hunter’s house, during which he finds a vixen, named Foxy, held captive in a cage. During a stormy night, he tricks the guard dogs and other animals, as well as the hunter himself, and eventually helps the vixen escape by smashing the cage open with a loaded wagon.
Foxy joins Vic and Karak in the woods, but when Autumn comes, Vic’s uncle is shot by the hunter during the seasonal hunt. Vic swears revenge on the hunter and finally accomplishes it: first by breaking into the food locker and eating up all the eggs, then taking away all the poultry from the cages while playing many jokes on the hunter’s stupid dogs (which results in the two dogs becoming strays at the end). Eventually, the hunter decides to set up bear traps around his house, luring Vic with goose roast; however, the two hunting dogs fall into said traps, and the third one seriously injures the hunter himself as well. At the end of the film, Vic and Foxy have cubs of their own.
Dino-Riders (1988)
Pursued by intergalactic warlord Krulos and his Rulons, human Valorians fly through a wormhole and end up on prehistoric Earth. Krulos follows and becomes stuck in prehistory as well. Both sides build dinosaur armies and engage.
Dinosaucers (1987)
Two factions of warriors from outer-space crash land on Earth; a good one in light blue armor and an evil one of red dinosaurs in dark blue armor. The good join forces with several Earth children to stop the evil from conquering this new world.
Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics (1987-1989)
An animated series retelling a different folk or fairy tale in each episode.
Galaxy High School (1986)
Two Earth teenagers are accepted into the intergalactic high school Galaxy High School on the fictional asteroid Flutor. The teenage boy, Doyle Cleverlobe, was a skilled athlete and popular, while the teenage girl Aimee Brighttower was shy and, as the theme song states, “the smartest girl in school, not very popular, not very cool.” But once in space, their roles are somewhat reversed.
The alien teenagers seem to accept the not-so-popular Aimee, while Doyle tends to rub the aliens the wrong way. Although Doyle finds himself an outcast and has difficulties adjusting, Aimee does not abandon him, and suggests he can make friends and bring glory to Galaxy High through his excellent sporting abilities, which he does by winning a championship in “psych-hockey”, which Galaxy High had always lost in the past. The show drops many hints of a budding romance between Doyle and Aimee, but it was never given time to grow as the show was not renewed for a second season.
The aliens in the school included Gilda Gossip, the girl with a big mouth (or rather mouths), Booey Bubblehead, an absent-minded girl with a bubble for a head, Milo de Venus, the six-armed class president, Beef and the Bonk Bunch who bully Doyle (and just about every student at Galaxy High), and the Creep, a small alien resembling something between a fat cherub and a yellow marshmallow who had a huge crush on Aimee, which often revealed itself as he serenaded like a Las Vegas lounge singer.
The teachers are even more unusual than the students: Ms. Biddy McBrain has a light bulb attached to her head, while Coach Frogface eats flies and Professor Icenstein has to keep his classroom cold to keep him from melting.
The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (1986)
Four elite Galaxy Rangers with unique abilities defend law & order among the space colonies and protect humanity from the evil Crown Empire.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (1985-1986)
A young man leads a small band in search of his father while fighting the forces of Sawboss using the various vehicles they carry with them.
Paddington Bear (1989-1990)
The adventures of a bear named Paddington (Charlie Adler) and his adoptive family, The Browns in London, along with their visiting American relative.
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
Elroy Jetson invents a time machine that takes his family back to prehistoric times, where they meet the Flintstone family.
Bionic Six (1987-)
In the near future (some unspecified decades after 1999), Professor Dr. Amadeus Sharp Ph.D., head of the Special Projects Labs (SPL), creates a new form of technology to augment humans through bionics. His first subject was Jack Bennett, a test pilot who secretly acted as Sharp’s field agent, Bionic-1. On a family ski vacation in the Himalayas, an alien spacecraft triggers an avalanche that buries the entire family, exposing them to the unusual radiation of a mysterious buried object.
Jack frees himself but discovers his family in a comatose state. Theorizing that Jack’s bionics protected him from the radiation, Professor Sharp implants bionic technology in the others, awakening them. Afterward, the family operates incognito as a publicly lauded team of adventuring superheroes, the Bionic Six.
The primary villain of the series is a mad scientist known as Doctor Scarab, along with his gang of henchmen – Glove, Madam-O, Chopper, Mechanic, and Klunk – accompanied by Scarab’s legion of drone robots called Cyphrons. Scarab is Professor Sharp’s brother. Obsessed with obtaining immortality and ruling the world, Scarab believes that the key to both goals lies in the secret bionic technology invented by his brother, ever plotting to possess it.
The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin (1987-1988)
Illiop Teddy Ruxpin (Illiops being bear-like creatures) leaves his homeland in Rillonia with his friend Grubby, an octopede, in search of adventure. They meet up with an inventor named Newton Gimmick who accompanies them on their quest for the Treasure of Grundo. What the Trio unexpectedly find are six crystals with different meanings and powers.
These crystals, however, also can enable the Monsters and Villains Organization (MAVO) to have absolute power over the land, and the leader, Quellor, wants to make sure that an Illiop never possesses the crystals. Elsewhere, a less pronounced threat also routinely besieges the Trio, which is the wannabe villain Jack W. Tweeg, a greedy Troll-half Grunge who has huge hopes for joining MAVO.
Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats (1984-1987)
The misadventures of the feline troublemaker while the Catillac Cats gang have adventures of their own.
Pryde of the X-Men (1989)
Just as teenage mutant Kitty Pryde is welcomed to the X-Men, the team of mutant heroes are called into battle to prevent Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from crashing a comet into the Earth.
Garfield in Disguise (1985)
When Garfield and Odie are out trick-or-treating, they end up at a haunted house.
A.L.F. (1987-1989)
The adventures and misadventures of ALF, under the real name Gordon Shumway, on his home planet of Melmac before he crashlanded on Earth.
Fraggle Rock (1987-1988)
An animated version of Jim Henson’s classic series.
The Wuzzles (1985)
This cartoon series followed the adventure of the Wuzzles, colorful and playful creatures that were part one animal, part another.
The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (1983-1985)
Every Saturday morning The Peanuts Gang does skits, mostly taken from newspaper strips.
Chip ‘n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers to the Rescue (1989)
Chip and Dale, Disney’s favorite chipmunk team, form their own protection agency for their fellow animals, where they seek to help the helpless and protect those in peril from those who would exploit them.
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs (1987-1988)
In the distant future, a team of four high-tech Star Sheriffs defends frontier space colony Yuma from outlaws, as well as Outriders, an army of humanoid alien beings called Vapors, led by mysterious Nemesis, who need Yuma’s resources.
Galtar and the Golden Lance (1985-1986)
Searching for the vile Tormak, the despot responsible for the deaths of his parents, Galtar aligned himself with beautiful princess Goleeta and her feisty younger telekinetic brother Zorn. Goleeta and Zorn also had a score to settle with Tormack, who’d stolen Goleeta’s magical golden shield. Tormak in turn coveted Galtar’s equally magical double-edged golden lance, for whosoever possessed both lance and shield would be all-powerful.
My Pet Monster (1987)
An ordinary monster doll comes to life when his shackles are released by a magic key.
Heathcliff (1980-1984)
Scruffy Alley cat rules his neighborhood. Rejected monsters drive about doing odd jobs. Clumsy, lovable great dane gets into mischief without meaning to.
