The Disney Afternoon

Autumn has to be my favorite season of all. The weather gets cooler, the leaves turn brown and fall, and all of the cool holidays come with this season. It also doesn’t hurt that my birthday is in October. What I used to hate about the Fall was going back to school. However, one of the things I liked best about September was the new television shows and schedules. I was always psyched about new prime time shows that were starting up. But, the shows I looked forward to the most were Saturday morning and weekday afternoon cartoons. The summer would have previews that build excitement for the upcoming cartoons. A major change to the concept of weekday afternoon toons came in September, 1990. That year, Disney cleared a two hour block to showcase their own cartoons. It was called “The Disney Afternoon.”