Since my Arabic Cartoons from the 80s list did so well I wanted to put together a thorough 80s English Cartoons list. The whole weekend whenever I remembered any cartoon I wrote it down but it still feels like I’ve missed some. But the search did remind me of two very important TV channels growing up. Before satellite TV we only had access to Kuwait TV channels (KTV1 – Arabic, and KTV2 – English) but sometimes when the weather was humid we would pick up Saudi Channel 2 (English) and Dubai Channel 33 (also English).
Anyway here are some of the most memorable cartoons I used to watch in the 80s, if I’ve missed out anything let me know.
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Bionic Six
BraveStarr
Captain Planet
Care Bears
Centurions
Chip N Dale
Dangermouse
Dennis the Menace
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Dinosaucers
Duck Tales
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
G.I Joe
Gummi Bears
He-Man
Inspector Gadget
M.A.S.K
Mister T
Pole Position
Popeye And Son
Rainbow Brite
Scooby-Doo And Scrappy-Doo
She-Ra: Princess of Power
Silver Hawks
Speed Racer
Snorks
Tale Spin
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
The Real Ghostbusters
Thunder Cats
Transformers
Voltron
Yogi Bear
34 replies on “English Cartoons from the 80s”
Dude.. seriosuly? Where is Thundercats?
lol its there but was accidently stuck on same line as ghostbusters, just brought it down
Inspector Gadget
Rambo: The Force of Freedom
Battle of the Planets
Sport Billy
Dungeons & Dragons
Heathcliff
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
The Incredible Hulk
The Wuzzles
and so many more!
I wanted to put sport billy but I couldn’t remember if I ever watched it in English, I remember it as an Arabic cartoon
I LOVED Dungeons and Dragons when I was little!
hey man, in addition to Saudi & Dubai channels there was also Iraq TV, they used to show Adnan wa Lina ( عدنان و لينا ) on it early mornings.
How was the TV logo? I don’t remember ever watching Iraq TV I think 🤔
https://images.app.goo.gl/NdgFbAMfnPMyS2E1A
and here is a link to Adnan wa Lina theme song
https://youtu.be/oZ5F6C4tnso
yep.. thats where I watched it.. Adnan wa lina
ROBOTECH
https://youtu.be/VloMC21HIWo
My pet monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjPxE71gFVE
Also, I remember Hardees used to give Bionic 6 toys and cassettes on some meals. We had a nice collection thanks to those meals xD
I was born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s. So good to know you watch almost the same cartoons like us in the Philippines. Some of it is dubbed in our language as well. Those days were the best!. Specially weekends.
I used to watch Grendizer(Arabic) on an Egyptian channel that I used to get along with KTV1,2.
Meanwhile, would you know about a channel that used to give daily news, weather etc in text (white, yellow, cyan..) format on a black screen with good instrumental music in the background.
Teletext! I think that was also the Dubai CH33 station
Hi guys there was this cartoon not sure what it was, but the intro was like kri kri krii Kri kri kri then kids would sing la la la la la
Please help 🙁
Found it!!!?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXKVaURhiDv/?utm_medium=copy_link
Thunder cats, nostalgic!
Any idea where I can get the Voltron die-cast figure? I remember I had to beg and beg my parents over months because it cost an (at that time, 1989) unimaginable 18kd at my jamayya toy shop and I used to drool over it for hours 🤤
I know there’s a Lego Voltron out there but I’m looking for the classic original figure.
Ok… $300 on eBay 😭 😭 😭
I’ll be sending those eBay links to my parents.
Guess I should stick to visiting that museum in Rihab Complex for now!
You could spend that money on the Lego version instead, each part of the set even separates into each different Voltron lion.
Sylvanian Families
Jem and the Holograms
Josie and the Pussycats
The Archie Show
The Little Rascals
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Boy
As I’m rather older than probably everyone else reading this my era was the seventies and the above was my favourite. I hadn’t realised it was anime. Seems I was precociously eclectic even then!
Mighty Mouse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik,_the_Amazing_Cube
Some more that I can remember
Bucky O’ Hare and the Toad Wars (KTV2)
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs(Ch33)
The adventures of Blinky Bill(KTV2)
Biker Mice from Mars(KTV2)
Spiral Zone(Saudi Channel 2)
Bernstein Bears(KTV2)
Prince Valiant(Ch33)
Animaniacs(Ch33, KTV2)
Beetlejuice(Ch33)
Cro(Ch33)
Dink, the little dinosaur(Ch33)
Exosquad(Ch33)
Ironman(Ch33)
Police Academy(KTV2)
Swat Katz (Ch33)
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa(KTV2, Ch33)
Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?(KTV2)
Victor and Hugo(Ch33)
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show(Ch33)
Rupert(Ch33)
Thanks Mark! Miss Voltron and Thundercats. You’ve missed a few…
The Looney toons show
Bugs bunny
The Road runner show
Woody woodpecker
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Pink panther
Sesame Street
Tom and Jerry
SuperTed
Heathcliff
Turbo Teen
Back then Dubai Channel 33 was such a trailblazer. We used to also enjoy watching Channel 55 from Manama. Have always wondered why KTV-2 would be all stuck up and act hoity toity only allowing announcements in Arabic for a channel with exclusive English content.
Equally many of us would set our TV boosters every Thursday evening to Dubai TV and Bahrain TV for our weekly fix of Hindi cinema as KTV was rather averse to screening Hindi films other than the rare screening on a Friday afternoon.
Dubai Channel 33 was such a delight and quite the trailblazer. I particularly enjoyed it for the Kentucky Derby and the Royal Ascot. We used to also enjoy watching Channel 55 from Manama. Have always wondered why KTV-2 would be all stuck up and act hoity toity only allowing announcements in Arabic for a channel with exclusive English content.
Equally many of us would set our TV boosters every Thursday evening to Dubai TV and Bahrain TV for our weekly fix of Hindi cinema as KTV was rather averse to screening Hindi films other than the rare screening on a lazy Friday afternoon.
Scooby Do
Popeye The Sailor Man
Tom & Jerry
Rajul el Hadeedi
&
Zaina
For me
I miss the ads free KTV. What a luxury that was compared to most other TV channels of the day including Dubai’s Channel 33?!
That having said I miss not having such ads around as La vache kiri, Chai Wazzan, Joy by Jean Patou- the parfum ad, Christoffle and the one & only Samsung TV ad (Jasoo)….
Oh Mark that thing you do – taking us all back in time to an altogether beautiful time of our lives.
Ah good times, here in Egypt we had The Real Ghostbusters dubbed in Egyptian Arabic and it was the early seasons not the inferior post season 3 episodes that MBC 3 aired.
We also got Bionic Six, Dinosaucers, Transformers, Ducktales, The Raccoons, TMNT 80s, Popeye, Looney Tunes, Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry (that is particularly popular here), Tintin, Asterix, classic Pound Puppies (which was dubbed under the title Al Moghameron al Khamsa (the 5 Adventurers) even though that the same title of the popular Egyptian kids detective series), classic My Little Pony, Mr. Magoo, Maple Town, The Moomins.
Animated films like the Disney classics, the Last Unicorn and many more
Of course we also had ton of Arabic and English dubbed Anime shown here too like Grendizer, Mazinger Z, Speed Racer, Space Battleship Yamato aka. Star Blazers, Starship Sagitarius and severl others.
Hats off to Mark for creating this post.
And I thank the rest of the guys including Ahmed, Elizabeth etc. for the value additions.
I need our help here. I remember watching this Cartoon either on Dubai CH33 or on Abu Dhabi Ch2. This was a very short and interesting cartoon series where protagonists use humanoid mechas/ ships. There were multiple ships used but the only ones I remember were in the form of a Scorpio/ Lobster another one was a Frog. They used these humanoid mechas/ ships for time travelling or for travelling to a different part of the planet (using something similar to a black hole to travel). I am guessing the antagonist also used similar ships. Do any of you know which cartoon, I am talking about? I did very extensive research for years and couldnt find anything on this. I would appreciate if you could send the response to [email protected]. Just with the name please.
Any support will be greatly appreciated.