Cartoons on Friday Morning the Day After Thanksgiving

As usual on the Friday morning after Thanksgiving, I am feeling a bit sluggish. It doesn't help that yesterday's Thanksgiving was a bit more exciting than usual. My brother is taking care of a cat for a friend and it was yesterday the cat decided to have her kittens under my desk. We got her moved to a much nicer box later.

Anyway, I was thinking about the day after Thanksgiving when I was a kid. In those days it was not commonly known as "Black Friday"yet, although a the day was counted as the start of the holiday shopping season and many people did holiday shopping that day. As a kid I primarily associated the day after Thanksgiving with cartoons that usually aired on Saturday morning airing on Friday morning. 

For some reason I remember CBS airing cartoons on the Friday morning after Thanksgiving, although internet searches reveals no evidence that they ever did. I even checked Newspapers.Com, but found nothing there either. It seems most newspaper TV listings back in the day tended to ignore the daytime television schedule. Anyway, while CBS may or may not have aired cartoons on the Friday after Thanksgiving, ABC apparently did. Dan Brady on his blog Brady's  Bunch of Lorain County Nostalgia has a post on the cartons aired by ABC on the Friday morning after Thanksgiving. TVParty also has an article on the cartons aired by ABC the day after Thanksgiving.

According to TVParty, ABC began the tradition of airing Saturday morning cartoons on the Friday after Thanksgiving around 1966. Among the cartoons that ABC aired on the Friday morning after Thanksgiving were such classics as Hoppity Hooper, The Beatles, The Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man. In 1966, we didn't have an ABC affiliate and I was a still a baby, so I wouldn't remember it anyway, but I do remember some of the cartoons that aired on ABC on the day after Thanksgiving in the Seventies, including Jackson 6, Kid Power, The Funky Phantom, Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape Show, and others. 

I am not sure when ABC stopped showing cartoons on the day after Thanksgiving, but I am thinking it was in the late Seventies or early Eighties. I don't remember them airing at all as an adult. Anyway, I guess I will have to continue searching old TV listings for them.