Q: Okay, so if you were too old for MLP when it first came out, what kind of stuff did you watch when you were in MLP’s target demographic?

 

Oh dear. When I was that age… well, I was in Ontario, Canada, which had a very strange mix of British and American imports at the time, with a smattering of stuff that was uniquely Canadian. The import stuff was often several years behind, due to the way importing TV worked then, and syndication and reruns were… confusingly organized. The end result was that there wasn’t that much in the way of cartoons running. There were the old standbys of Looney Tunes and the like, of course, but most of the airways were filled with very strange Live-Action kids shows, most of them made by one production company: Sid and Marty Krofft.

 

So H.R. Puffenstuff,

, , and the (with Dr. Shrinker, Wonderbug, etc.) is mostly what I remember from that time.

 

For evening shows there was also

(with Jon Pertwee), , and (a uniquely Canadian bad sci-fi), and when I was a little bit older Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, and so on.